alt Hacker NewsWild to think there were people who as adults lived through all of the railroad buildout, WWI, the 20s, the depression, and then WWII. Complaining about AI buildouts causing electronics prices to regress by a decade or so begins to seem rather trite in comparison.
> Wild to think there were people who as adults lived through all of the railroad buildout, WWI, the 20s, the depression, and then WWII.
My great-grandmother was born in the late 1890s and lived until 99 years old. I knew her very well (she died when I was 17).
Her husband died in his sleep: they had a house built and it wasn't finished yet, but he was so excited he decided to sleep a first night in it, alone. Gas leak.
They had two daughters, 4 and 2 years old. My grandmother and my great-aunt, whom I both knew very well too.
I've got a letter signed by Eisenhower, before he was president, thanking my great-grandmother for her "galant service" during WWII: she was part of the resistance and hid, for months, a UK pilot that had been shot down by the nazis over Belgium. Before helping him regain the UK.
They were a though generation, really nothing like the little wussies [1] we see today and I mean it.
[1] the little snowflakes whose feelings shouldn't be hurt do comes to mind