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>>xd+(OP)
Born in April, 1926, it's crazy how much the world has changed in her lifetime. May she rest in peace.

>>faxmey+A2
Arguably the largest change in humanity in a ~100 year span? Especially if we go back to 1922. Mass communication, mass travel, etc. were all non existent.

Like the first radio stations had just started broadcasting when she was born, now we're all discussing her passing on a communications network that connects the entire globe. Possibly some of us while on flights from one side of the world to the other.

>>CSMast+64
> Arguably the largest change in humanity in a ~100 year span?

I don't think so. My grandmother was born in 1900 and died in 2003. Cars, airplanes, electricity, radio, TV, computers, space ships, etc..., all were invented or became commonplace in her lifetime. Queen Elizabeth was born between the birth years of my parents, who didn't remember the "horse and buggy days".

>>tgflyn+Q8
Agree with you. The world today is not much different from the world my grandmother left behind, born ~1900 died ~2000.

Arguably it's not particularly different now than, say, 1995 - 2000, which is the half decade of web search indexes (AltaVisa = 1995) and banner ads (1998 = DoubleClick IPO).

Travel, media, appliances, transportation, Internet, perhaps even music and fashion, haven't as fundamentally changed since then.

>>Terret+hc
I think a lot of this depends on where you are standing. In the West, 1900-1990 was a huge difference in life and how it was lived, and less so between 1990 and today.

In many other places of the world 1900-1990 had much less change in day to day life, whereas 1990-today has been a huge change.

The massive changes have just finally been getting spread around to everyone (still unevenly of course)