what fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago? - eviltoast

Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.

  • raubarno@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    The storm of the U. S. Capitol would be the most shocking one, probably, as nobody dared to do that.

    Also, 9/11 events, nuclear/thermonuclear bombs, nuclear power plant disasters, many things.

    Technologically, the fact that an everyday laptop can deliver tens of billions of arithmetic instructions per second is still mind-boggling to me.