100Years From Ago

[JackLuis]

The Fanciful, Chocolate-Filled World of 2012

For the Steampunkers out there.

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/files/2011/12/hello-my-child-we-send-your-chocolate-lombart-by-the-aircraft-of-the-voids-sm.jpg

 

[Stella_Omega]

Paleofuture, what a great word!

 

[3113]

I love how the luggage is tied to the roof of the flying machine on it's 8 hour trip to the moon

 

[Handley_Page]

I love how the luggage is tied to the roof of the flying machine on it's 8 hour trip to the moon

and that the "driver" is the only one wearing goggles.
And kept in a separate space !

 

[3113]

For the Steampunkers out there.

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/files/2011/12/hello-my-child-we-send-your-chocolate-lombart-by-the-aircraft-of-the-voids-sm.jpg

But look at how right their prediction was here. Mom & Dad video chatting with their son in Asia. How did they know?

 

[oggbashan]

But look at how right their prediction was here. Mom & Dad video chatting with their son in Asia. How did they know?

In 1912 there were telegraph and telephone connections to most countries in the world even if you had to wait hours for a scratchy connection. They could even send still pictures if the line would stay connected long enough.

You could also, in London, subscribe to live symphony concerts or opera played through your telephone.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

The Onion had a great little guest editorial by the late Pres. George Washington in which he talked about how different the world of today is from what he'd imagined. He thought we'd all have flying slaves by now.

 

[sr71plt]

My wife grumbles occasionally about how her Scholastic Magazine let her down by telling her she could put her car on a rail and zip out to California gasless by now.

 

[TE999]

For the Steampunkers out there.

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/files/2011/12/hello-my-child-we-send-your-chocolate-lombart-by-the-aircraft-of-the-voids-sm.jpg

Must be a one-way connection. How can he see them? That appears to be Skype's great-great-great-grandfather.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

I like that the only turning propeller is on the flying machine headed toward the moon.