Posted by deepsme
The year is 1906. One hundred years ago.
What a difference a century makes!
Here are some of the U.S. statistics for the Year 1906:
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 US. 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 the government as "substandard."
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:
1. Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. 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 pharmacists said, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health." ( Shocking? DUH! )
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.A. !
Just think - I read this another website and posted it without typing it myself, and people all over the world can read it in a matter of seconds... Just try to imagine what it will be like in another 100 years!
Posted by axxxr
The world won't be here in another 100 years...im sure of it..my educated guess is that we have reached the end times now.
Posted by kk.226
That was a bit of a downer axxxr
Posted by axxxr
I know im sorry but i was just thinking out loud there...but that is it basically.
Posted by kk.226
What reasons you have for thinking this?
(Just curious)
Posted by axxxr
Plenty, but its a very long discussion and rather off topic be honest...but in a nutshell its stuff i've read and things i've been told by people who know a lot...plus used a bit of my own research and combined everything,and everything ads up..im not a superstitious person or religious in anyway but just a lot of things made sense which drew me to this conclusion..call it gut feeling if you like..and my gut feelings have usually been right thats what worries me the most.
Posted by *Jojo*
Planet Earth . . . Human Race willl still be 'around' in the next million years . . . I'm very certain of that . . . . the END of the Human Race will start when scientists decides to 'clone' the - Dinosaurs ! That will be the Return of the Comeback !
Posted by axxxr
*Jojo* ...yep i knew you would come in and offer us your words of wisdom..you've been watching way too much jurassic park.
Posted by kk.226
The return of the come back?
When have they tried to have a come back before?
To keep this on topic i'd like to say it is impressive how much we've developed over the past 100 years, and would be interesting to see where we end up in another 100,
...if we get there that is
Posted by axxxr
Sorry but im still trying to work out what *Jojo* means by \"The return of the come back\" aswell?
On Topic:
In won't matter what will be around in the next hundred years because we won't be here to see it anyway.
Posted by *Jojo*
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. . . I guess, ESATO will !
I just used the same words (meaning) there dudes . . . as if I have said: \"The Start of the Begin !\" . . . .
Posted by djtwistter
lol u need to get updated
Posted by 02
its amazing ya... i think we are on a state of evolution.. from how we live our life and technology. Just looking back 10yrs ago.. and today.. tat already is amazing enough.
Todays latest goodies, is next month old sch stuff.. we are moving very fast compared to last time.
Posted by shaliron
And to think that we seem to be accelerating faster and faster every year. Who knows what we'll have in 100 years?
Posted by siamese plantpot
this topic sounds like my dad when he tells me to get up earlier as 'none of us will live forever'.
on the jurassic park thing though, theres always some people who hide and survive. that makes me think that when the human race comes to an end its going to take a really long time to get rid of us all. fairly stubbon lot, humans
Posted by fatreg
I don't know, i've always thought we are all going to get wiped out by some freak accident.. we maybe the "supreme" race but you sure as hell know there is a more "supreme" race out there somewhere..
just wait until they find us..
@ axxxr... i think we will ive past 100 years but i can't see us getting to 200...
were either going to have run our planet into the ground, all been nuked by another planet, all get consumed in a huge storm that brews due to the rise im temp over the world..
i'm dead optomistic me!!!!
fatreg
Posted by goldenface
The 'return of the comeback' is the funniest phrase I have heard in a while.
When did the comeback ever go away?
There will be no end of the Human Race but there will be an end to the World as We Know It.
Thats my tuppen'th.
Posted by siamese plantpot
haha! yea sure you are fatreg, a right depressing lot here but i have to agree that it will probably be humans who wipe out the human race/ the whole planet before any other lifeforms even get chance to find us and destroy us themselves.
Posted by Mulder7
Another mass extinction is already on its way, it’s inevitable that we will all die and another dominant species will evolve. Not before I get my K800i tho
Also this won’t happen for millions of years, or unless we get a Terminator/Matrix scenario where robots take over...