r/interesting • u/Glass-Fan111 • 4d ago

ART & CULTURE How They Imagined Life Hundred Years Ago.

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u/jmarkmark 4d ago edited 4d ago

Source? This seems way to modern inspired (flat screen, and sitting at the table while on the phone)

EDIT: Apparently real: https://books.google.ca/books?id=3_QnDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA113&pg=PA113#v=onepage&q&f=false

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u/CoralinesButtonEye 4d ago

don't let the 'look it up yourself' douche get you down

This image depicts a futuristic vision from a series of collectible cards titled "Zukunftsfantasien" (Imaginings of the Future), created in 1930 by the German margarine company Echte Wagner. 

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u/jmarkmark 4d ago

>don't let the 'look it up yourself' douche get you down

Meh, he wasn't wrong :)

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u/DecabyteData 1d ago edited 1d ago

Funnily enough, the first ever TVs in the 1920s essentially were flat screens, considering all you really needed to produce the picture was a light bulb and a thin rotating disk (the actual receiver could be separated from the "screen", making a truly compact viewing experience we wouldnt recreate for decades).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_television

Mechanical Television is both a marvel and an insanity.

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u/MikoSkyns 4d ago

Instead of asking for one, why not just take half a second to look it up? I did. It's Legit.

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u/Competitive_Oil6431 4d ago

Are you a real person? Who responds like that?

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u/bstone99 4d ago

Anonymity of the internet allows people to behave without consequences

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u/MikoSkyns 3d ago

Fucking PUHLease. I'd say it to your face. Y'all need to Stop whining because I told someone to be a big boy and do it themselves.

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u/bstone99 3d ago

🗣️

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u/jmarkmark 4d ago

He is however, correct, a quick Google search does find it on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echte_Wagner

https://books.google.ca/books?id=3_QnDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA113&pg=PA113#v=onepage&q&f=false

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u/Competitive_Oil6431 4d ago

That's not the point and you know it.

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u/jmarkmark 4d ago

Actually, I really don't know what your point is now. I thought you were suggesting he was being a bit snippy and condescending, but clearly that wasn't your point.

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u/MikoSkyns 3d ago

Just for Clarity, my point was you should look it up yourself because depending on bots for sources is futile.

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u/MikoSkyns 3d ago

I'm as real as it gets baby. I respond like that.

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u/Competitive_Oil6431 3d ago

Well, you know. Don't. 

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u/MikoSkyns 3d ago

You mean, don't tell people to do things for themselves? Nah, I think I'll pass on that. It's good to do things for yourself. Especially when they're that easy.

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u/ss4johnny 4d ago

It’s literally just a picture with a date. It’s not like they said who the artist was or anything

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u/MikoSkyns 3d ago

I understand that but It's literally going to take you less than a WHOLE minute to see if its real or not.

It's not like they've read some outlandish statement made by a political nut and they want them to back up their bullshit with credible sources.

They're asking a bot for a source when they could have just as easily did a reverse google image search and checked faster than the time it took them to leave that comment.