What would you be doing 100 years ago?

[Spit]

Strange question I know but I was thinking about this. I got my first computer 30 years ago and it's been a big part of my life and other technology since. Fellow gadget fans will be able to relate I'm sure, mobile phones, computers, televisions, blu ray etc. I am an information junkie and read all sorts on the web, watch tv, play games etc. All the usual stuff.

So if I was about 100 years ago I would not have had a clue about any of that stuff as it didn't exist. What would I have done to fill my time? Travelled more? Messed about with early radio? Socialized in the flesh more? Been an inventor? Read masses of books? Mmmm

Like I said strange question but what do you reckon you would have been up to with your spare time?

 

[stulid]

smoking whacky backy

 

[Mobius 1]

probably fighting a war.

 

[Tom0]

Building steam trains or down the pit.

 

[Azza]

Getting ready for the war?

 

[Robbo]

Buried somewhere I suppose, or getting my headstone done

 

[Mobius 1]

if it was 1930's/40's i'd be occupied right now. by the Germans.

 

[Spektor]

With the medicine / quality of life of the day, like almost everyone, I probably wouldn't have made it past 10.

 

[Tom0]

lolwelsh

You'd be down the pit too Cornish boy. Hanging onto your pasty crust.

Lets face it, we all know you love a crusty pasty.

 

[QlimaxUK]

playing FPS for realzies!

 

[Uther]

100 years ago? Getting ready for my untimely death in the mud of the trenches!

 

[RedDanDoc]

I'd be in America staking my claim.

 

[Greenlizard0]

I'd be wondering what I'd be doing 100 years from now. Kind of makes it a loop or something.

 

[peterattheboro]

Slapping my wife and telling her to make the dinner. Good times.

 

[Mobius 1]

Slapping my wife and telling her to make the dinner. Good times.

i hope she hits you back, ****

 

[Andr3w]

i hope she hits you back, ****

She doesn't slap him back, she knows her place

 

[Mobius 1]

haha, only from GD why aren't my mates of similar personality.

 

[Fusion]

Building steam trains or down the pit.

A realistic prospect for many, particularly in the North of England. The railways were massive employers then, far more so than now as of course there wasn't an alternative- no flights, no true cars. If you were making a journey, whether it would be four miles or four hundred, chances are it would be on a steam train.

Other big employers would be cotton mills, textiles and hosiery, Iron and steelworks, shipping, shipbuilding. Pretty much anything that could be made was made here, on this island. Anybody attending university in 1910 could class themselves as fairly privledged. The armed forces were much bigger employers too- think of the overseas deployments at this time!

All in all, prospects were probably better then in many ways.

 

[SiD the Turtle]

Medically speaking, probably dead.

Morally speaking, probably lynched. I don't think mixed raced parentage was done back then.

So pretty much dead which ever way I look at it.

 

[V4NT0M]

A MINER