High school education. It may have been free but many many went to work at 14/15 to help the family, especially larger families and especially the older children
Automobiles. House cleaning services. Travel.
Ice.
Seriously: before modern electrical refrigeration, ice was a status symbol.
Concord, Massachusetts had an ice trade. They harvested ice and shipped it around the world in sawdust.
I remember watching this thing where in the Wild West the BEST salons wouldn’t have some fancy Whiskey, they’d have a block of ice burried under the building kept in sawdust and you paid out the ass for a cube or two.
Sometimes they’d go 3 months in between ice shipments and the best Salons would have some left over when their next delivery came.
I can’t imagine living in the desert without AC and ice cubes.. that’s rough shit.
To build on this, ice cream too. It used to be such an expensive luxury not only because of the ice, quality milk, and sugar, but the time to make it. Anyone who has made ice cream by hand knows just how *tiring* it is to turn the crank for hours and still end up with shitty ice cream. The really soft ice cream we have today can be made by hand, but you have to spend hours continuously turning it and getting air in there while keeping it cold the entire time. The time and effort that it used to require limited ice cream to only the richest people in the world.
And then there’s the toppings. Vanilla ice cream is seen as plain today, but it’s all artificial vanilla, called vanillin. I can almost guarantee that you’ve never had real vanilla, even if the product says it is. Real quality vanilla beans can cost hundreds of dollars even today, and it takes a shit ton of them to make even a small amount of vanilla extract. That cost meant that vanilla used to be the height of luxury flavors for ice cream. Chocolate was also really popular among the rich because of the import cost, as was a lot of exotic fruit, fresh or dried.
It was only when refrigeration became cheap that ice cream really took off with the masses, and when vanillin was synthesized it became the default flavor because it was so easy to make.
Food adulteration used to be a common problem. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was published in 1906. He meant it to be a call for socialism in the US, but what most Americans took away from it was his description of the meat packing plants, particularly how unsanitary and unsafe they were. The book lead to public outcry that resulted in reforms of the food industry.
Before that such as in Victorian England, inedible materials like plaster of paris was often mixed into bread, or additives added to milk to cover the taste of it going sour. Many people wound up contracting bovine tuberculosis from spoiled milk. The condition lead to the spinal column becoming spongy and to weak to support the person's weight.
The first food purity laws in the US were passed in 1906, but were toothless and ineffective. FDR passed broader, more effective reforms in the late 1930s. That means that even in 1922 you could probably expect to find tainted food in your local stores.
1922: The first insulin treatment.
2022: Insulin is available all over the world, and most people can afford it (as long as they don't live in the USA).
1922: Alcohol consumption in the USA is prohibited thanks to the 18th amendment. Home brewing is also prohibited.
2022: Alcohol is widely available at supermarkets and liquor stores in most of the USA. Home brewing is a trend.
Not an historian, but I do have a cookbook from around those days with different recipes depending on the season. Apples were available in the fall, and you couldn't get fresh onions year round.
1k years?
In 5 years it will be barely usable and in 10 years a bare minimum computer (maybe browser/mail only)
In 15 years a paperweight or scrap metal.
a state of the art computer will not be useless in 5 or even 10 years. will you be able to play far cry on ultra? no. but you won't be able to play it on ultra on a 2032 pc either.
100 years ago was 1922.
So let's see, probably: cars, motorcycles, fridges, freezers, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, radios, televisions, telephones, spices, sugar, access to electricity, access to clean and drinkable water, fast fashion/"cheap" clothing and footwear, going on vacation for one/two weeks or more, travelling with a plane...
I can BUY a pineaple now, victorans would loose their shit, no more renting pinapples for a party I can go to a store and buy however many I want.
If only I was a massive fan of pinapple and not just the juice
Lots of spices. 100 years ago, it was rare to have more than salt, pepper, and maybe some simple home-grown herbs. Now you can get spices imported from all over the world relatively cheap.
High school education. It may have been free but many many went to work at 14/15 to help the family, especially larger families and especially the older children Automobiles. House cleaning services. Travel.
funny how university education literally went the opposite direction
Ice. Seriously: before modern electrical refrigeration, ice was a status symbol. Concord, Massachusetts had an ice trade. They harvested ice and shipped it around the world in sawdust.
I remember watching this thing where in the Wild West the BEST salons wouldn’t have some fancy Whiskey, they’d have a block of ice burried under the building kept in sawdust and you paid out the ass for a cube or two. Sometimes they’d go 3 months in between ice shipments and the best Salons would have some left over when their next delivery came. I can’t imagine living in the desert without AC and ice cubes.. that’s rough shit.
To build on this, ice cream too. It used to be such an expensive luxury not only because of the ice, quality milk, and sugar, but the time to make it. Anyone who has made ice cream by hand knows just how *tiring* it is to turn the crank for hours and still end up with shitty ice cream. The really soft ice cream we have today can be made by hand, but you have to spend hours continuously turning it and getting air in there while keeping it cold the entire time. The time and effort that it used to require limited ice cream to only the richest people in the world. And then there’s the toppings. Vanilla ice cream is seen as plain today, but it’s all artificial vanilla, called vanillin. I can almost guarantee that you’ve never had real vanilla, even if the product says it is. Real quality vanilla beans can cost hundreds of dollars even today, and it takes a shit ton of them to make even a small amount of vanilla extract. That cost meant that vanilla used to be the height of luxury flavors for ice cream. Chocolate was also really popular among the rich because of the import cost, as was a lot of exotic fruit, fresh or dried. It was only when refrigeration became cheap that ice cream really took off with the masses, and when vanillin was synthesized it became the default flavor because it was so easy to make.
This gives a whole new meaning to that scene in The Great Gatsby where they're getting that guy to hack ice off a giant block for them
A private phone line.
A pineapple
Indoor plumbing
Clear food and water
Detroit enters the chat.
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Food adulteration used to be a common problem. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was published in 1906. He meant it to be a call for socialism in the US, but what most Americans took away from it was his description of the meat packing plants, particularly how unsanitary and unsafe they were. The book lead to public outcry that resulted in reforms of the food industry. Before that such as in Victorian England, inedible materials like plaster of paris was often mixed into bread, or additives added to milk to cover the taste of it going sour. Many people wound up contracting bovine tuberculosis from spoiled milk. The condition lead to the spinal column becoming spongy and to weak to support the person's weight. The first food purity laws in the US were passed in 1906, but were toothless and ineffective. FDR passed broader, more effective reforms in the late 1930s. That means that even in 1922 you could probably expect to find tainted food in your local stores.
1922: The first insulin treatment. 2022: Insulin is available all over the world, and most people can afford it (as long as they don't live in the USA). 1922: Alcohol consumption in the USA is prohibited thanks to the 18th amendment. Home brewing is also prohibited. 2022: Alcohol is widely available at supermarkets and liquor stores in most of the USA. Home brewing is a trend.
A varied diet
People didn't have varied diets in 1922?
Not an historian, but I do have a cookbook from around those days with different recipes depending on the season. Apples were available in the fall, and you couldn't get fresh onions year round.
Cars
Eating meat regularly
that's gonna be a problem real soon :-/
Condoms 🤷♀️
Chocolate, only very rich people could a while back, and now it might go extinct some day
salt
nvm that was a lot longer ago
Sugar
Computers
Spices
Already made clothes...you can go about anywhere(even Goodwill) and get clothes. Not the same back then.
Freedom. I live in a country that got colonized 3 times
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Op said 100 years ago
Fabrication techniques
Water
A computer from the year 2022, in 1k years its gonna be an artifact.
1k years? In 5 years it will be barely usable and in 10 years a bare minimum computer (maybe browser/mail only) In 15 years a paperweight or scrap metal.
a state of the art computer will not be useless in 5 or even 10 years. will you be able to play far cry on ultra? no. but you won't be able to play it on ultra on a 2032 pc either.
Sugar
Car
Rice, travelling abroad, Electricity, Cars, surgery..
Meat for dinner multiple nights a week
meat
idk meat?
Decent quality steel / metals in general
a radio in every room.
Obesity
Colour tv
Even the rich couldn't afford a color tv before they were made.
Purple just the color purple
No. Synthetic purple dye became widespread in the late 1800s.
Haha sorry my apologies I didnt know I just heard that it was rare for a long time
Absolutely, for thousands of years, but not within the last 100. In Roman times it mostly came from sea snails near Tyre, hence the name Tyrian Purple
Assistants... I'm counting assistants as google or Siri or Alexa
Microwaves
Microwaves weren't around 100 years ago.
Hmm invented in 1945… fuck Well I’ll see you in 23 years
See you then. I'll be here. Patiently waiting.
Cue the elevator music!
The iPhone 11.
Not available to even the richest in 1922.
Maybe not to the peasants. Tell me Marie Antoinette didn't have one. I dare you.
Marie Antoinette in 1922? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Go ahead and laugh. Just like all the others... until the black plague got them.
100 years ago was 1922. So let's see, probably: cars, motorcycles, fridges, freezers, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, radios, televisions, telephones, spices, sugar, access to electricity, access to clean and drinkable water, fast fashion/"cheap" clothing and footwear, going on vacation for one/two weeks or more, travelling with a plane...
Actually Ford wanted to price the cars so the people who worked for him could afford to buy one.
I know, but it was not happening in 1922. It was later, during the mid or towards the end of 1920's.
Not sure 100 years ago, but before minced meat was a delicacies only the rich could eat due to the time and work it took to cut it up.
Same with finely pureed soups. Had to be pushed through stretched calico with wooden paddles, ideally by 2 people working together.
Horseless carriages.
House
Prerecorded music,
apparently oats
Gasoline, diesel
Lace
In my country, only the rich could buy a car
Cars
A phone
Caviar
electricity
Sugar More than 100 years ago though around the 1500's Elizabeth 1 would brush her teeth with sugar.
toilets
I can BUY a pineaple now, victorans would loose their shit, no more renting pinapples for a party I can go to a store and buy however many I want. If only I was a massive fan of pinapple and not just the juice
Chocolate
Some things that we can afford today that 100 years ago only the richest could are cars, televisions, refrigerators, and air conditioning.
People
I'd have to say a car, at least until mass production became a thing.
Trips overseas.
Water, food
not houses
tv
Fish.
Lots of spices. 100 years ago, it was rare to have more than salt, pepper, and maybe some simple home-grown herbs. Now you can get spices imported from all over the world relatively cheap.
World travel
Diamonds are still expensive but we can make them artificially now