Name something that was around in 1914 that isn't in 2014.
Name something that is around in 2014 that wasn't around in 1914.
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crazyheart
Posted on: 12/27/2013 18:47
1914 - cotton stockings
2014- colour television
This is harder than it looks
mrs.anteater
Posted on: 12/27/2013 20:12
My grandmother was 13.
I.
somegalfromcan
Posted on: 12/27/2013 20:28
1914 - Silent Movies
2014 - the internet
chemgal
Posted on: 12/27/2013 20:34
Milk service with the glass milk containers.
My inhaler.
Tabitha
Posted on: 12/27/2013 21:16
1914 butter churns (as working tools not decorations)
2014 plastic bags
somegalfromcan
Posted on: 12/27/2013 21:20
1914 - The Methodist Church in Canada
2014 - Wondercafe (until June)
redbaron338
Posted on: 12/27/2013 21:30
1914 recorded music on wax cylanders
2014 MP3 format
Beloved
Posted on: 12/28/2013 00:44
1914 - dial phones
2014 - push button phones
chansen
Posted on: 12/28/2013 03:55
1914 - The Wright Brothers
2014 - The Kardashian Sisters
/now I has a sad
crazyheart
Posted on: 12/28/2013 10:39
1914 - washboard and line
2014 - washer and dryer
seeler
Posted on: 12/28/2013 11:23
horse and buggy
multi-car families
seeler
Posted on: 12/28/2013 11:23
trains
superhighways
Mendalla
Posted on: 12/28/2013 11:29
1914 - The Austro-Hungarian Empire (disintegrated into several smaller nations after WWI)
2014 - Hungary, Slovakia, The Czech Republic, Austria (ultimately products of that breakup)
Mendalla
seeler
Posted on: 12/28/2013 18:25
door to door postal service (for pennies)
reduced postal service (for almost a dollar)
kaythecurler
Posted on: 12/28/2013 20:46
Healthy fresh fish from shops specialising in seafood
Unhealthy battered frozen fish from grocery stores
redbaron338
Posted on: 12/28/2013 22:39
1914 British Empire
2014 Duck Dynasty
MikeBPaterson
Posted on: 12/29/2013 00:43
1. My grandfather… killed at Paschendaele.
2. Me… a grandfather already!
ninjafaery
Posted on: 12/29/2013 03:27
1914 Shinplasters
2014 Toonies
somegalfromcan
Posted on: 12/29/2013 04:24
1914 - Sir Robert Borden
2014 - Stephen Harper
seeler
Posted on: 12/29/2013 08:28
A new born baby girl - who became my mother
Me - a mother and grandmother
Mendalla
Posted on: 12/29/2013 16:44
* double post *
Mendalla
Posted on: 12/29/2013 09:24
1914 - Lord Bertrand Russell, - outspoken atheist and critic of religion
2014 - RIchard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and chansen - ditto
crazyheart
Posted on: 12/29/2013 12:01
1914- letters mailed
2014- e-mail - letters not so much
seeler
Posted on: 12/29/2013 16:49
1914 - flat irons - the kind you heated on the stove
2014 - very little ironing of any kind
seeler
Posted on: 12/29/2013 16:52
1914 - clothes dryer - fifty feet long, strung between the house and shed, worked by sun and breeze
2014 - clothes dryer - steel drum inside a square box, powered by electricity
crazyheart
Posted on: 12/29/2013 16:58
1914 - ice house
2014- a button on refrigerator or 711
Beloved
Posted on: 12/29/2013 19:14
1914 - most women wore dresses
2014 - most women wear slacks
somegalfromcan
Posted on: 12/29/2013 20:25
1914 - a loaf of bread cost 6 cents.
2014 - a loaf of bread costs 3 dollars (or more).
crazyheart
Posted on: 12/30/2013 17:55
milk- plain - 1914
Milk homogenized and pasturised - 2014
seeler
Posted on: 12/30/2013 21:21
1914 - Kids did chores as part of the family and got a rare treat when Dad went to town
2013 - kids make their bed and receive an allowance
seeler
Posted on: 12/30/2013 21:23
1914 - ice cream was made in a churn and eaten immediately before it melted
2014 - ice cream comes from the store and keeps in the freezer untll you want to eat it
chemgal
Posted on: 12/30/2013 21:33
1914 - ice cream was made in a churn and eaten immediately before it melted
2014 - ice cream comes from the store and keeps in the freezer untll you want to eat it
Or made with an electric ice cream maker.
InannaWhimsey
Posted on: 12/30/2013 22:14
Urjanchai Republic
Quantum Computers (the first ones Canadian, dontchaknow?)
waterfall
Posted on: 12/30/2013 22:26
1914 Incandescent lightbulbs
2014 Flourescent lightbulbs
crazyheart
Posted on: 12/30/2013 22:49
1914 - tea leaves
2014 - teabags