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The year 1905
This is just a forward I got from my mom, and I haven't done any fact checking (hey, I'm Dan Rather!) so I can't vouch for this stuff, but if it's true it's pretty interesting
Here are some of the U.S. statistics for the Year 1905:
Now I forwarded this from someone else without typing it myself, and sent it to you in a matter of seconds! Try to imagine what it may be like in another 100 years.
New icon, btw. I made it myself, but the subject is Sam from Day by Day.
Here are some of the U.S. statistics for the Year 1905:
- The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years.
- Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub.
- Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
- A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars.
- There were only 8,000 cars in the U.S., and only 144 miles of paved roads.
- The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
- Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California.
- With a mere 1.4 million people, California was only the 21st most populous state in the Union.
- The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower
- The average wage in the U.S. was 22 cents per hour.
- The average U.S. worker made between $200 and $400 per year.
- A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year, a dentist $2,500 per year, a veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 per year, and a mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.
- More than 95 percent of all births in the U.S. took place at home.
- Ninety percent of all U.S. doctors had no college education. Instead, they attended so-called medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press and by the government as "substandard."
- Sugar cost four cents a pound.
- Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.
- Coffee was fifteen cents a pound.
- Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
- Canada passed a law that prohibited poor people from entering into their country for any reason.
- Five leading causes of death in the U.S. were pneumonia and influenza, tuberculosis, diarrhea, heart disease and stroke
- The American flag had 45 stars.
- Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet.
- The population of Las Vegas, Nevada, was only 30
- Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and ice tea hadn't been invented yet.
- There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
- Two out of every 10 U.S. adults couldn't read or write.
- Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.
- Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at the local corner drugstores.
- Back then pharmacist said, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health."
- Eighteen percent of households in the U.S. had at least one full-time servant or domestic help.
- There were about 230 reported murders in the entire U.S.
Now I forwarded this from someone else without typing it myself, and sent it to you in a matter of seconds! Try to imagine what it may be like in another 100 years.
New icon, btw. I made it myself, but the subject is Sam from Day by Day.
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When I was 13, computers were the size of a person, and if you knew someone in a really big college, maybe you could get onto their bulletin board and write messages to other people. You could also buy pocket calculators that were about the size of a paperback book. Cameras came in pocket size and took 110 film. Telephones came in different shapes and colors.
When I was 23, computers could fit on a desk, and you could write stuff on them better than a typewriter. If you joined a service, you could send email to other people in that service. Pocket calculators were about the size of a deck of cards. "Good" 35mm cameras became point-and-shoot machines. Telephones could be put in a car if you were rich.
When I was 33, computer fit on a lap, do math, do text entry, do publishing, and play solitaire. You could email anyone, and a lot of people were starting to pay attention to this thing called the "World Wide Web" which had *pictures!* Pocket calculators were the size of a credit card. For the very rich, there were "digital cameras" that didn't need film. Portable telephones were the size of calculators when I was 3.
By the time I turn 43, handheld computers, pocket caculators, and digital cameras are all going to be part of your portable telephone, which is somewhere between the size of a credit card and a deck of cards.
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*ducks*
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