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I'd say the 1920s (so 100 years ago) is the earliest time someone from today could go back to and still be able to live more or less the life they have today. I

I'd say the 1920s (so 100 years ago) is the earliest time someone from today could go back to and still be able to live more or less the life they have today. In the 1920s, at least in urbanized areas in the developed world, you had access to electricity, indoor plumbing, the modern appliances (vacuum cleaners and refrigerators became common in this decade), cars had stopped being luxuries and were rapidly becoming essentials, movies (even with sound towards the end of the decade), and radio (which also served as a forerunner for TV as there were a lot of dramas in addition to music on it)

eru 2y ago
No computers though.
- cynicalsecurity 2y ago
  Perfect.
leobg 2y ago
True even for Tesla drivers. [0] [0] https://youtu.be/OhnjMdzGusc https://youtu.be/OhnjMdzGusc
ben_w 2y ago
You could if you were rich and urbanised (and didn't mind all those examples being much worse), but from what I heard, indoor plumbing was a luxury even in 1930. I also don't think many of us can even undo mobile phones and the internet, so even going back half that far to 1970, even with unlimited money, it would no longer be possible to have the life we have today. To be always connected to everyone; to be unable to get lost; to always have more than most libraries at your fingertips, able to show you the step-by-step basics of any task you've never seen before at any time… it's a very different way of living. I learned C and the basics of MacOS (classic) programming from books I took out of the library. I wasn't allowed to take out more than 4 at a time.