tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post4039264323442998722..comments2023-11-03T04:29:29.498-04:00Comments on Paleo-Future: Postcards Show the Year 2000 (circa 1900)Matt Novakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09360406896692501416noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-12544376905343114722009-03-08T11:13:00.000-04:002009-03-08T11:13:00.000-04:00It's fascinating how many of these 100-year projec...It's fascinating how many of these 100-year projections are based on inventions and discoveries that were new or nearly <BR/><BR/><BR/>There's a tongue-in-cheek quality to many of these cards. For example, the "Schonwettermachine" (good weather machine) bears a label that say.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-39073184314552105412009-03-08T11:03:00.000-04:002009-03-08T11:03:00.000-04:00This is a very informative blog with great picture...This is a very informative blog with great pictures the quality is excelent good weather machine.<BR/><A HREF="http://motorcycle-helmet-lock.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">Motorcycle Helmet Lock </A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-37501622766642989742009-01-20T01:25:00.000-05:002009-01-20T01:25:00.000-05:00Here's a cache of the original page, with lots of ...Here's a cache of the original page, with lots of information: http://web.archive.org/web/20020206113530/http://www.cardmine.co.uk/Year2000.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-77066552935353137182008-12-26T02:38:00.000-05:002008-12-26T02:38:00.000-05:00Hi, Nice post.It would be great if their predict...Hi,<BR/> Nice post.It would be great if their predictions about the health of our society were correct.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-85200980190880830932008-06-05T14:48:00.000-04:002008-06-05T14:48:00.000-04:00Good Job! :)Good Job! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-91391996187519749502008-05-25T08:02:00.000-04:002008-05-25T08:02:00.000-04:00Feine SacheFeine SacheAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-4224725789780859632008-01-03T20:11:00.000-05:002008-01-03T20:11:00.000-05:00Wow, Lone_striker you are rather bright compared t...Wow, Lone_striker you are rather bright compared to most biased bloggers *COUamyGH*.. excuse me had something in my throat.. on the webernet.<BR/><BR/>I like to see people get so worked up about men womanizing and loose women. It doesnt matter, we are all the same. Both men and women in this world use sex like every other disposable commodity. Nothing is sacred anymore, not even children. "Yay freedom" right? At least the view of the future back then was romantic and optimistic.<BR/><BR/>Corinth, Soddom and Gomorrah, they had freedom didnt they? Yet we see their sexual exploitation of others as contrary to all we think is the standard to propriety.<BR/><BR/>There is nothing wrong with dresses since men used to wear skirts at one time. If we as a great futurama society are truly enlightened, shouldnt we be more concerned about more important dilemmas then whats on Maury or what video game is coming out next summer?<BR/><BR/>Yes, there is nothing new under the sun. Pants or no pants.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-62447967092334760872007-11-26T16:40:00.000-05:002007-11-26T16:40:00.000-05:00These are an absolute treasure. Thanks for postin...These are an absolute treasure. Thanks for posting them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-25347094704118261382007-10-31T02:24:00.000-04:002007-10-31T02:24:00.000-04:00Yeah, whatever will the future be like in 2100..?I...Yeah, whatever will the future be like in 2100..?<BR/><BR/>It's funny how since the 80's it seems as though these types of futuristic dreams have seemed to peter out some. <BR/><BR/>Personally, I don't really care. The romance is dead, really. As Ecclesiastes says "Nothing is new under the sun." I used to think that stupid, until I realized that he wasn't talking about the Space Shuttle or silicon implants.<BR/><BR/>That we think that there can be anything radically, sustainably new, will bring us- no has already brought us to a degree unacceptable - dystopia. Hitler, Pol Pot, Bush, blah, blah, all messianic insanity.<BR/><BR/><BR/>People (to include myself) are fools. We won't change. That's the only fact that matters. <BR/><BR/>And all the so called progressive ideas (natch including feminism and all the technological advances that make it all possible) draw us from the fundamental biological and spiritual realities that undergird us. Not to be Orwellian or a Luddite (I'm a fool, afterall) but I think we're losing it. <BR/><BR/>"It," to include or romanticism & imagination. <BR/><BR/>But like I say, whatever.fitzhamiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01852672798351791749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-36522944914821076622007-10-21T07:33:00.000-04:002007-10-21T07:33:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-55990836720832618742007-10-02T09:16:00.000-04:002007-10-02T09:16:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-17035228477650115992007-09-28T10:17:00.000-04:002007-09-28T10:17:00.000-04:00Living languages tend to add some fashionable loan...Living languages tend to add some fashionable loanwords to their dictionaries every now and then. This doesn't necessarily need close contact between speakers of different languages. Nationalist ideologies during the last decades of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century advocated some "clean-up" of what was then thought of as an aberration. <BR/><BR/>Sadly today's german language has a tendency of integrating loanwords made up by marketing and advertising divisions - if only it sounds American enough. Like "handy" for mobile phone. <BR/><BR/>Aaaaand there's a whole oktoberfest of germaniac words in English.<BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_expressions_in_English<BR/>(And sometimes german culture is loved and lived so much more intensely in America than in Germany itself)<BR/><BR/>Now for something completely different - the early 20th century was the time when women's rights movements all over the world (the north-western part of it, but that's what counts, doesn't it) gained momentum. <BR/><BR/>Let's just hope they enjoyed their "Hildebrands'" chocolate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-48765262298987788772007-09-11T03:47:00.000-04:002007-09-11T03:47:00.000-04:00Champagne and "Sekt" are two different things. For...Champagne and "Sekt" are two different things. For your information, Champagne is a kind of Sekt that comes from the Champagne. Sekt is basically just sparkling wine. And for the swiss using many french words, well, switzerland consists of french, italiens and germans (swiss germans). So the country has three native languages. Makes sense that they interact. The actual reason for German being influenced by the French language is far older. Back when the Huggenotten came to Germany because they were being hunted down in France. There are still many words in the german language: 'portemonai', 'necessaire', 'fissematenten' which actually is 'visitez ma tente', 'balkon', 'garage', 'etage', 'parterre', and many many more.<BR/>As for these pictures, they are a typical kind of advertisement that would be handed out and then be in your home! Quite clever back then already. I dont actually know as a fact, but I could imagine that these were also collecters cards, so kids would collect them, trade them, sell them. And I guess having the year 2000 the topic makes them so much more interesting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-87064196371717285132007-09-06T19:38:00.000-04:002007-09-06T19:38:00.000-04:002000 was a bad year2000 was a bad yearAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-70636658313642283932007-06-12T18:20:00.000-04:002007-06-12T18:20:00.000-04:00- Mobile "traffoire" in… (as far as I can read it....<I>- Mobile "traffoire" in… (as far as I can read it. Sorry but I can't make the letters out clearly. Also I don't know a word similar to that. I think it's french loanword)</I><BR/><BR/>it's trottoirAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-38636051830574657222007-05-18T05:47:00.000-04:002007-05-18T05:47:00.000-04:00Świetne... i część się nawet sprawdziła, ale reszt...Świetne... i część się nawet sprawdziła, ale reszta przez te koszty...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-24101423428918182492007-05-15T21:16:00.000-04:002007-05-15T21:16:00.000-04:00According to the CDC.gov site, the average life ex...According to the CDC.gov site, the average life expectancy at birth was 47 years. Wonder where the 35 years figure in that Ladies' Home Journal article comes from? Any why would they predict a lifespan of 50 years when they were almost at that point anyway? Weird.Staciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05250238254417726987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-49945966608453920492007-05-05T20:57:00.000-04:002007-05-05T20:57:00.000-04:00Thanks for the work you did on this post. SDA link...Thanks for the work you did on this post. SDA linked to it. WOW. Just another reminder for all of us that climate change has always been a concern but no society, except for today's liberal society, has ever threatened to push us back to the stone age to meet (or exceed) ridiculous kyoto targets.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-52345081852554142922007-05-04T13:18:00.000-04:002007-05-04T13:18:00.000-04:00I remember Career Day in High School in the late 6...I remember Career Day in High School in the late 60's. Hell, half the jobs available now didn't exist then, and many desirable jobs then don't exist ANYMORE.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-88117769687982999862007-05-01T18:26:00.000-04:002007-05-01T18:26:00.000-04:00According to Rebecca Read Shanor's The City that N...According to Rebecca Read Shanor's The City that Never Was (a delightful history of unbuilt projects in New York), the moving pavement idea was semi-seriously proposed as a replacement for the Times Square - Grand Central shuttle line. The scheme would have involved three belts at separate speeds (three, six, and nine m.p.h.), with the slowest to the outside - passengers could then just step onto the next faster belt.<BR/>==============================<BR/>That was the backdrop of Heinlein's "The Roads Must Roll"critterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14331359234846241164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-92223901548774228762007-05-01T16:02:00.000-04:002007-05-01T16:02:00.000-04:00It would be great if their predictions about the h...<I>It would be great if their predictions about the health of our society were correct. </I><BR/><BR/>They were, except that was in Afghanistan, under the Taliban.<BR/><BR/><I>That's true of almost any technological prognostication: it describes the present, with tailfins.</I><BR/><BR/>Perfect.<BR/><BR/>-JRAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-10015451974080111132007-05-01T14:27:00.000-04:002007-05-01T14:27:00.000-04:00My first reaction was to lauch - then I realized w...My first reaction was to lauch - then I realized we have most of them.<BR/><BR/>A Quick Stroll on the Water<BR/><BR/><BR/>The Moving Pavement (moving sidewalks are common in airports, malls)<BR/><BR/>House-Moving by Train (Ok we use big trucks most of the time)<BR/><BR/>Televised Outside Broadcasting ( oh yeah!!)<BR/>Undersea Tourist Boats (Yup)<BR/>Roofed Cities ( Mall of America? Galeria? -- hell skyscrapers!)<BR/><BR/>Personal Airships/Personal Flying Machines<BR/>( yup though they arn't at the flying car in every garage level)<BR/><BR/>Summer Holidays at the North Pole<BR/>( or ever other place you can think of - even in orbit!)<BR/><BR/>Police X-Ray Surveillance Machine<BR/>( Does infared count??)<BR/><BR/><BR/>Weather Control Machine ( well no)<BR/>Combined Ship and Railway Locomotive (?? what was the point? Perhaps in a non containerized cargo era)Kelly Starkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07859020384869273575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-59600145046827121822007-05-01T06:07:00.000-04:002007-05-01T06:07:00.000-04:00About "The Moving Pavement". The word is "trottoir...About "The Moving Pavement". The word is "trottoire" (not troffoire) and yes, it's a French loanword; in french is trottoir, actually. It means sidewalk (pavement or footpath if you prefer).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-89618633235367485882007-05-01T01:43:00.000-04:002007-05-01T01:43:00.000-04:00Yes men do it, and women do it.So I guess that mak...Yes men do it, and women do it.<BR/>So I guess that makes it ok and perfectly acceptable to the mental midgets that comprise modern day society.<BR/><BR/>Here's a quarter, buy a sense of humor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-78781096821032990802007-04-30T17:39:00.000-04:002007-04-30T17:39:00.000-04:00So what does it say about the men who sleep with ...So what does it say about the men who sleep with these women? Are they victims of the conniving women who duped them. Please, they want an easy lay, girls with low cut tops and uber short skirts and then they act SHOCKED when such women sleep around. Let's not even talk about the amount of men who go outside of their marriage or sleep around themselves. Just because there is no tangible evidence that they do it such as a child, doesn't mean they don't do the same thing. And were there ever an occasion to make you a sammich, it would likely be laced with Ex lax so your backside can spew something with more substance than your previous comments.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07887746932659988168noreply@blogger.com