Cool stuff we take for granted

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Originally Posted by Easy E

I also recall reading that a single issue of Wall St Journal today has more information than people who lived in 1900 would have received in their entire lifetime.

I think you should question your source on this one. Newspapers printed a lot of information in 1900 and books were common as rain. People had access to a lot of information back then, they just had to pick it up on their local street corner instead of on their phone.