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I love these time travel pictures, I sort-of haphazardly collect them. I don't even need to them to be wallpaper-sized. My gratitude and appreciation to all who have contributed thus far ITT.

>>8120990
Wanted to look up more info about this one. For anybody else curious, it's New York City in summer of 1979, taken by Peter van Wijk. More here: https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2017/07/03/a-dutch-sailors-photos-of-the-new-york-of-1979

>>8120988
Peter van Wijk took this one, too. Meant to include it with that link post

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>>8117229
bruh, the building is at worst 12 years old...that is newcore architecture
the box you walk in.
newthink.

>>8121666
look at the vehicles, retard

>>8117230
i was curious so i did a bit of googling.
for those curious. (and not wanting to do googling). apparently this is Vancouver, British Columbia.

>this is what they took from you, the thread

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>>8122819
Sorry fren. We've got make our own future.

I can't imagine how lonely if must've be in those times before the internet, smartphones, and social media. A hobbyless shut-in might have just had television, newspapers/magazines/books, and later VHS and 900-number telephone services. At least we can shitpost and commiserate whenever we want. Imagine being in any of these photos and being lost. I wonder how easily people got lost just driving around if they didn't bring a map. Imagine how you really could just never see or hear from someone again without a phone number or address. Had a distant uncle that seemed kinda like that. Vietnam vet, never married.

never knew how much I liked these! great thread!

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>>8123092
What if...someone were to Time Travel, into the past, but no one was there? Just the person that time traveled...
Earth was there and existed, but no people...obviously if a person went far enough no people would exist. But what if they went to 1863, but Lincoln wasn't there. The fabric of time didn't allow for people to exist outside of moving forwar- I don't wanna think of that anymore :-(

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>>8124507
Unless we could travel through time and also the universe in seconds, and find our galaxy and land on earth, we would go back and be stranded in deep space. Anyway, why go to see lincoln?

>>8122819
It's a fine line to walk between being reminiscent of or fascinated by the past and some pathetic chudcore shit stemming from the inability to accept the passage of time.

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>>8117227
i rate wallpaper as 9 out of 11
never forget

>>8123439
Not sure if joking. Nobody responded, so I'll give some insight if this isn't a troll post. You are only looking backwards, with the advantage of hindsight and comparison, and without context. Give yourself these scenarios for contrast:

A person in 2125 looks back, thinking "dang, those poor people in 2025 before brain interfaces, and flying cars, and food generators... How did they manage to live with such primitive technology?"

A person in 1925 looks back, thinking "By george, those poor people in 1825 before cars and radio must have had it rough! How did they manage to live with such primitive technology?"

>A hobbyless shut-in might have just had television, newspapers/magazines/books, and later VHS and 900-number telephone services. At least we can shitpost and commiserate whenever we want.
-call friends, maybe go over and hang out. Calling people used to be a very real daily hobby.
-go in public, be in clubs, etc
-write friends and family - on paper, with a pen and envelope and stamps. People used to send cards, too.
-print media as you said. Libraries were basically the internet back then.
-radio
-television - probably the biggest pastime for lazies, basically like youtube now
-rent a movie on tape, watch any tape from your collection
-listen to your music collection on tape or record etc
-a billion hobbies that still exist but can now be shared with an international community instead of local. Sports, bowling, bars, biking, hiking, photography, model kits, pick up chicks, origami, learn language, instruments - literally anything people do for fun.

>I wonder how easily people got lost just driving around if they didn't bring a map.
If you live anywhere for a while, you get to know it. If you drive somewhere you don't know, you plan beforehand and bring a map, combined with the last resort of asking locals for directions. In general, as a driver you just get good at navigation the more you do it.

>>8125144
So, life was not lonely. I daresay it was less lonely, actually - the internet has stifled real life socialisation and online "social media" is not the same and had radically damaged people. No matter when or where you live, people live within their means. In 1825, people still had friends and family, and some were probably pretty psyched about books and their spergy hobbies, while others just drank beer and partied etc just like today.

>>8123895
Wanted to know if it was Portland, Oregon or Portland, Maine. It's Maine.

>>8124774
forget what?

>>8126577
forget DEEZ NUTS

>>8122004
Right in the feels, for some reason I can't explain.

>>8124778
(Their) favourite old chestnut

>>8124750
oh yeah, how you know?

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>>8127339
Love this one. Where could I find more of these photos?

>>8125144
>Libraries were basically the internet back then.
I imagine addictions in those times were much less destructive. Even an internet addiction before social media. I just wasted my whole day switching between tiktok, youtube and twitter. I learnt nothing. The days feel too short to learn anything.

>>8128598
>I learnt nothing
>learnt

you got that right :P

And it's not the days being too short, it's that you overload yourself with too much various information and switch it up rapidly. Your brain can't handle it so you develop an attention deficit disorder. Stick to 1 or 2 things and spend longer than an hour on it instead of watching 340 different things every day.

>>8128598
google "Crack epidemic in the United States"

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>>8128598
>The days feel too short
The days aren't shorter, life just forces us to move faster. This is compounded by the fact that you didn't do anything all day and don't remember doing anything all day, so the flow of time didn't appear to you.

As for life forcing us to move faster, the West (I assume you're from the West) is now in abject poverty, but the big numbers hide this from us. We are also unwilling to admit that we're poorer than all of our ancestors since and perhaps including the Great Depression, so we just work ourselves harder with side hustles and second jobs to make up for it. People become their own slave drivers, disallowing "slacking off during working hours" and never having time to relax.

If you want your days to be long again, turn your widgets off and do nothing for 15 minutes. Just sit somewhere and do literally nothing.

>>8125144
this.

and I think ultimately its even worse, because not even those with imagination like this anon can really imagine all the possibilities that life offered (and still offers).
in addition, daily tasks were more tightly knit, there was more to do.
if you conclude from this that life was more laborious, the answer is a yes and a no.
I dont think people saw every job as a chore, because it was also associated with entertainment.
you didnt have to go to the weekly market, you looked forward to it because you could meet other friends there.

no one rushed through their work; you could enjoy it as part of your life. I dont even think people were like 'oh man, here we go again.'
people devoted much more time to things, which we found pleasant as a way of slowing down. people simply lived and didnt ask questions.
why? this whole obsession with comparing yourself to others in todays dimension wasnt born.
you found out about the new fashion from the big city with a delay of one year.

also nature around us was completely different.
I cant even imagine the diversity of the insect world that we encountered every day.
even my view back into mid 80s makes me sad on that topic.
we act as if the changes have taken away a little fraction of that, but the opposite is true.
its a little fraction that is left from it.

even if we engage this very nice discussion throughout an entire thread, we will only be able to create a poor representation of what made life worth living back then.
was it better?
I would say it was different.
and as with everything, there are things that would mean nothing to us today, but also things that-if we had been able to get to know them-would make us very sad now that we can never have or experience them again.