in the Middle Ages, this would have been a team of monks chanting your data in the form of zeroes and ones. Beautiful to listen to, but really time consuming when you're loading a web page.

In the days of King Arthur, this would have been a clever bard with a lute, wandering from town to town, singing the latest songs and telling of the latest news. Not quite as fast as just going on Reddit but possibly much more enjoyable than reading all the Reddit comments.

In the early 1900s this would have been a roving Vaudeville troupe, setting up somewhere outside of town and selling tickets to their entertaining humor and fun. Sort of like if you could only load YouTube once every six months.

In the 1930s this would have been a huge box-shaped radio in the living room, and you'd thrill to the adventures of your favorite super-heroes each week in audio form. You know, like podcasts?

In the 1950s this would have been in black and white, and a very serious man in a tie would have explained the many facets of the news to you while constantly smoking, like a father-figure who knew you'd make the right decision.

In the 1970s... well, you can go look at the 1970s entertainment even now. Pretty much they were in color. And a lot of them were really bad.

Today you're looking at a tiny monitor that can give you access to all of human history via a tiny cord that leads into the back of your computer. Isn't this just the best time to be alive?

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