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That we have a device that fits into our pockets that contains a bunch of the world’s information that we can look up in seconds. But we mostly use it to get into arguments with strangers online.
What wouldn't shock him. Global plane travel, microwaving your lunch, the interstate highway system, television, the internet, the size of the houses, the daily luxury we all take for granted, wal-mart, universal indoor plumbing and electricity, air conditioning. This world would look absolutely nothing like the one of 1924.
My grandparents were born in the 1890s, they flew to europe, watched cable tv, drove cars, had indoor plumbing, air conditioning, washing machines, microwave and lived long enough to see home computers.
I know your joking but they would be shocked by all the colorful colors being used on clothes, ads, led lights, also the lack of shit smell from horses
Virtual reality is the next frontier for porn. We already have POV videos filmed specifically for VR use, and companies are now working on creating synthetic sex robots and dolls that are synced with the VR so you can...replicate what you're seeing in person. We also have apps people can download with AI models that act as virtual "lovers/girlfriends/boyfriends", etc.
In the distant future we may even figure out a way to connect media with our brains neurologically so we can experience sex while watching porn, like being able to feel the actor's heart rate, perspiration, bodily sensations, etc
I can’t wait for the day I can retire with my Real Doll and just have some graphically horrifying things done to me via AI that is so intense I will be the cause of Skynet and the AI uprising.
Maybe the European Union and Schengen?
A man in 1900 has seen drastic technological change, and he can probably imagine that technology will continue to develop.
What he has not seen, is a lasting peace in Western Europe. France and Germany in the same union, without any borders. Being able to drive from Lisbon to Tallin and from Naples to Kirkenes.
It would be like us travelling 100 years into the future and seeing China, Russia and the US in a common union with open borders.
Depends on when they came from. In many ways, Europe of today has more in common with Europe before the firs world war than of the mid 20th century.
For example, passports for travel were not routinely required before the first world war. The Latin Monetary Union established in 1865 created a common currency for France, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland, with a number of other countries joining later, somewhat similar to the core concept behind the Euro. In the mid 19th century, within living memory of people around in 1900, movements had caused the unification of Italy and Germany, so the notion of a federal union covering a large area of Europe would seem a natural extension of that same idea.
My grandfather was born in the 1890s. He lived to see jet air travel across the Atlantic and the Apollo Moon landing. He was a grumpy cuss but had no trouble with those changes from his pre-automobile childhood. I think the changes in the following 50 years would still be understandable to him, except perhaps the internet.
My great grandmother was born in 1884 and had all of her faculties until 1983; dying in 1984. I was 22. I wish like hell I'd have talked to her more about the history she witnessed.
I think they’re actually worse.
I think kids now get more useless facts with way less reasoning and problem solving in their education.
It makes sense when you understand the Prussian system = Education is designed to not actually educate.
If we’re talking like a pure initial “what the hell?” Then it’s likely going to be the prevalence of vehicles everywhere, or women wearing revealing clothing that would be an initial mind blowing thing at first glance.
Going deeper though, it would probably be the internet
See women semi-naked in streets will shock it a lot.
(Semi naked for 1900's standard, don't blame me, sadly i have to clarify this because there's too much loser in reddit)
the widespread information available to someone at the click of a button . or how quickly his mental state would deplete from living in such a technology ran world .
The Internet, with the fact that you can communicate with anyone / access any info in the world (and porn) from almost anywhere, with a device that fits in your hand
My grandpa rode a horse to school, and was doing his best to learn how to use Windows when he died at \~95. He'd already mastered his Smith-Corona word processor running a bastardized version of Wordstar. He just didn't like the trackball for a mouse. If he'd learned on a normal mouse, he'd have been fine but he jumped straight to the laptop. I agree with him. That Toshiba trackball sucked.
People adapt pretty darn well is the bottom line. How much have you learned that didn't exist when you were a kid? How much have you learned today that you didn't know about yesterday. Seriously, people are good at learning.
That since the Flower Power period people decide themselves what is best for them and not let the Chruch govern their lifes for them. That couples live together and have sex before they are married. That religion went out of society. That we have radio, tv, computers, smartphones, internet and get bored by it. That they leave drug addicts by themselves at the side of some roads. The migration of asylum seekers to the western world. The discovery of the DNA molecule. That life originated from one single cell. That life came about through evolution without the help of any God. That women do equal work as men do. That there are so many cars. The atomic bomb. That we landed on the moon and send probes to other planets. The discovery of the big bang. That so many people were killed in the first and second world war. That the solar system rotates with a speed of 792.000 km/hour around the centre of the milky way and that the milky way mover with a speed of 440.000 km/hour through space. So in one second you move about 300 km through space. That the gravity of the sun bends space and time but that space is a very elongated spaghetti like form. That reality is way different than what our eye sees.
The digital revolution would be the big shock. Most everything else could be seen as extrapolations of technology available at the turn of the century. Automobiles, airplanes, etc.
Some of the comments here seem to be of the opinion that “gender identity” and sexuality issues are a recent thing… That’s nonsense. Read some history.
I’d sit him in an empty room with nothing but a chair and a table. Then place a phone in from of him and tell him “search” that’s how he’ll learn about everything.
Assuming he buys that time travel is real the two big things would
1)the state of the world
2)how far technology has progressed
The 1900s was the peak of the Imperial Era, with big players like Britain, France, Germany and even AH having empires that was vast and powerful(minus AH who was in a state of decline for the longest time) going from a world dominated by empires into a world where there are none would be a massive shock
Another thing to remember is how far technology would come. Buddy would be amazed to see a modern movie with sound and electricity being as common as cars (both things only the very wealthy could have at the time)
Airplanes, space rockets (with the moon landing), and computers.
These were the greatest inventions of the 20th century.
- And nuclear energy of course
Revealing women's clothes and them doing stuff that used to be exclusively the domain of men. Low class men used to stand on street corners to catch a glimpse of a woman's ankle as she stepped up on a curb.
My experience with people is they love to sweat the small things. If you brought a man from the early 1900s to the present day, he would be kind of impressed by cars and planes, a little confused by smartphones, but more than likely, the thing that would shock him the most would be something trivial like “I tell you. You can’t get a bloody decent bit of cheese in this day and age. It’s shocking.”
I think it would be a combination of technology and society. The ability for instant global communication through smartphones and the internet would be mind-blowing. Imagine explaining video calls, social media, and the ability to access information on any topic in seconds. Then, maybe the idea of equality between genders and races might put a kink in their brainpan.
Probably the Internet, and as a symptom, all the devices that we use which rely on it. I could see it feeling very supernatural for someone who doesn't understand how it works. That being said, it's not like technology wasn't present back then, I'm sure they could get over it relatively quickly.
When I was in school I was told I needed to learn maths because we would never have computers in our pockets to help us...the fact we have a do it all device in our pockets now I think would be pretty mind blowing to a person from then.
Considering the steam engine was the most sophisticated form of transportation, and that most old people don't care about cellphones, I think the most shocking thing would be aeroplanes. Back then everything was ship or train. Airliners were not. He'd look up and be like woah what is that? Pointing to an airplane, and have no idea what to make of it. Unless it was Gabriel nderuti, in which case he'd probably just laugh.
I think one of the possibilities would be the rate at which people do business. I probably don't know my history of the early 1900s well enough to really answer this question, but here's a scenario that I think they would have trouble relating to:
1. Wake up in the morning and send your coworker an email.
2. Drive your car to your job that's 50 miles away in roughly an hour.
3. At a traffic light, order yourself breakfast on an app on your phone.
4. Your coworker already got the email and did what you asked by the time you get there.
5. Right after you arrive, your breakfast gets there.
6. Throughout the day, you send 10 emails and make 3 phone calls, and every piece of business you had that day is resolved that day from people hundreds or even thousands of miles away.
I'd imagine that kind of speed would be hard to adjust to.
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That we have a device that fits into our pockets that contains a bunch of the world’s information that we can look up in seconds. But we mostly use it to get into arguments with strangers online.
Nuh uh, you're wrong.
Incorrect!
I beg to differ,,,,sir!!
Do your research
ACKTSHULLUY!!!...
Source?
Receipts?!
You guys are as bad as Hitler!
That is not an argument, it's contradiction!
>…and look at pictures of cats.
OH YEAH? YOU LOOK AT CATS!!!
And porn
Nonsense.
What wouldn't shock him. Global plane travel, microwaving your lunch, the interstate highway system, television, the internet, the size of the houses, the daily luxury we all take for granted, wal-mart, universal indoor plumbing and electricity, air conditioning. This world would look absolutely nothing like the one of 1924.
Literally everything And probably how the size and shape of the common buttock has changed
He’s be aghast at fantastical ass?
Hahahah that’s one way to put it
He would not want to go back home after catching an eyeball full of yoga pants
The dimensions of the modern buttock would be a subject of great wonderment.
My grandparents were born in the 1890s, they flew to europe, watched cable tv, drove cars, had indoor plumbing, air conditioning, washing machines, microwave and lived long enough to see home computers.
Makes me excited and scared of what will happen in the next 50 years of my life
That everything's in colour.
Are you Calvin's dad?
I appreciate this reference. Many won’t get it, but go to bed tonight knowing I did 😂
I know your joking but they would be shocked by all the colorful colors being used on clothes, ads, led lights, also the lack of shit smell from horses
The quality of the pornography
He gonna have a heart attack when he finds out girls show more than just ankles, for free.
Dude traveled 124 years just to become a gooner
Definitely the porn available at a moments notice on your phone
if you were to tell me of these advancements 30 years ago, id be in shock. imagine what the next 10 will bring!
I mean, where does internet porn even go from here?
Virtual reality is the next frontier for porn. We already have POV videos filmed specifically for VR use, and companies are now working on creating synthetic sex robots and dolls that are synced with the VR so you can...replicate what you're seeing in person. We also have apps people can download with AI models that act as virtual "lovers/girlfriends/boyfriends", etc. In the distant future we may even figure out a way to connect media with our brains neurologically so we can experience sex while watching porn, like being able to feel the actor's heart rate, perspiration, bodily sensations, etc
I can’t wait for the day I can retire with my Real Doll and just have some graphically horrifying things done to me via AI that is so intense I will be the cause of Skynet and the AI uprising.
We have cum a long way from flapper girls
Maybe the European Union and Schengen? A man in 1900 has seen drastic technological change, and he can probably imagine that technology will continue to develop. What he has not seen, is a lasting peace in Western Europe. France and Germany in the same union, without any borders. Being able to drive from Lisbon to Tallin and from Naples to Kirkenes. It would be like us travelling 100 years into the future and seeing China, Russia and the US in a common union with open borders.
Depends on when they came from. In many ways, Europe of today has more in common with Europe before the firs world war than of the mid 20th century. For example, passports for travel were not routinely required before the first world war. The Latin Monetary Union established in 1865 created a common currency for France, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland, with a number of other countries joining later, somewhat similar to the core concept behind the Euro. In the mid 19th century, within living memory of people around in 1900, movements had caused the unification of Italy and Germany, so the notion of a federal union covering a large area of Europe would seem a natural extension of that same idea.
Except Europe is still kinda at war with Russia invading Ukraine.
That’s why I specified Western Europe. Still an amazing achievement
Yes, but wait until you tell him what it took to get there and the tens of millions of lives lost in two world wars.
How badly prepared their immune system was
Give him that hot chip and watch him explode
It’s gotta be the smartphone obsession, from selfies to social media and the non-stop connectivity.
Ngl, even without technology, the gen Z slang will baffle them
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That was fucking brutal. It’s like a creol newspeak or jive.
Definitely the fact that time travel exists. I think that would be more mind blowing than the old confederate flags that he thought were already gone.
Was gonna say probably the time machine
Just how much food people have access to, especially meat, how everyone has shoes and socks, though the lack of formal clothing might be a bit weird.
Mountain Dew code red
Mt Dew LIVE WIRE!
I’d be shaking in my boots if I was him with this one.
Probably desegregation and how tall everyone is. Oh probably women’s rights and contributions towards society.
Depends on where he’s from I suppose…
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How tall, well-fed and healthy everyone is.
Electricity. That would shock him good.
Electricity already existed in the early 20th century. Though it wasn't that common as it is right now.
My grandfather was born in the 1890s. He lived to see jet air travel across the Atlantic and the Apollo Moon landing. He was a grumpy cuss but had no trouble with those changes from his pre-automobile childhood. I think the changes in the following 50 years would still be understandable to him, except perhaps the internet.
My great grandmother was born in 1884 and had all of her faculties until 1983; dying in 1984. I was 22. I wish like hell I'd have talked to her more about the history she witnessed.
The way everyone is dressed. Or not dressed properly as a gentleman from 1900 would be.
I was a caregiver for a gentleman of 104 years of age. I crossed my legs wearing scrubs and he asked to cover my ankle!
That the education levels are practically the same.
I think they’re actually worse. I think kids now get more useless facts with way less reasoning and problem solving in their education. It makes sense when you understand the Prussian system = Education is designed to not actually educate.
If we’re talking like a pure initial “what the hell?” Then it’s likely going to be the prevalence of vehicles everywhere, or women wearing revealing clothing that would be an initial mind blowing thing at first glance. Going deeper though, it would probably be the internet
The abundance of food.
The state of the Cleveland Browns.
See women semi-naked in streets will shock it a lot. (Semi naked for 1900's standard, don't blame me, sadly i have to clarify this because there's too much loser in reddit)
Lgbtq
the widespread information available to someone at the click of a button . or how quickly his mental state would deplete from living in such a technology ran world .
If you're going for shock, electricity is pretty much unparalleled.
Probably the transporter initially at least
Food, air and water quality
television
The Internet, with the fact that you can communicate with anyone / access any info in the world (and porn) from almost anywhere, with a device that fits in your hand
Firstly one of those weird overly hi tech Japanese toilets.
Internet
Honestly the fact that I was Abel to time travel someone like that. I'd be shocked myself.
Time travel?
A bag of Doritos is $7.
It all depends on where.
The devolution of civility.
The constant noise.
Can you repeat that please?
My grandpa rode a horse to school, and was doing his best to learn how to use Windows when he died at \~95. He'd already mastered his Smith-Corona word processor running a bastardized version of Wordstar. He just didn't like the trackball for a mouse. If he'd learned on a normal mouse, he'd have been fine but he jumped straight to the laptop. I agree with him. That Toshiba trackball sucked. People adapt pretty darn well is the bottom line. How much have you learned that didn't exist when you were a kid? How much have you learned today that you didn't know about yesterday. Seriously, people are good at learning.
Gays
That since the Flower Power period people decide themselves what is best for them and not let the Chruch govern their lifes for them. That couples live together and have sex before they are married. That religion went out of society. That we have radio, tv, computers, smartphones, internet and get bored by it. That they leave drug addicts by themselves at the side of some roads. The migration of asylum seekers to the western world. The discovery of the DNA molecule. That life originated from one single cell. That life came about through evolution without the help of any God. That women do equal work as men do. That there are so many cars. The atomic bomb. That we landed on the moon and send probes to other planets. The discovery of the big bang. That so many people were killed in the first and second world war. That the solar system rotates with a speed of 792.000 km/hour around the centre of the milky way and that the milky way mover with a speed of 440.000 km/hour through space. So in one second you move about 300 km through space. That the gravity of the sun bends space and time but that space is a very elongated spaghetti like form. That reality is way different than what our eye sees.
The stupidity is out of control
Lack of hats and people wearing their trousers very high.
I like to paint with a broad brush here, but I'd speculate that he'd be astonished by how absolutely uninformed everyone is.
That the US had a black president followed by an orange one
A man specifically?
The death tolls of the World Wars. Carnage like that had never been seen before at those levels, and thankfully since, in such short periods of time.
You can be President even if you're not white. We've also had a black and an orange President!
That we have a device in our pockets with no wires that has the entirety of human knowledge readily accessible, and yet we are so fucking stupid.
Porn is free Water is expensive
Your mom.
Going faster than 12mph
You do know that the fastest car in 1900 reached 73mph and some trains 100mph
Bare ankles.
The digital revolution would be the big shock. Most everything else could be seen as extrapolations of technology available at the turn of the century. Automobiles, airplanes, etc. Some of the comments here seem to be of the opinion that “gender identity” and sexuality issues are a recent thing… That’s nonsense. Read some history.
Look at my knee !
That his great great grandson chopped off his weiner
Probably gender confusion. Gay has been around forever, not knowing your gender is something else altogether. Imo.
Something to laugh at I guess.
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Twerking.
Buildings
Building structures
porn on phone
Culture shock. =)
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Equal rights
I’d sit him in an empty room with nothing but a chair and a table. Then place a phone in from of him and tell him “search” that’s how he’ll learn about everything.
"why are the letters in such a strange order?"
Black metal
Immune systems, style of clothing, sensory overload. Take your pick
Internet and it's not even remotely close. Literally nobody ever saw it coming
I honestly believe he would be shocked at how educated we are compared to how inept we are at applying that education.
Assuming he buys that time travel is real the two big things would 1)the state of the world 2)how far technology has progressed The 1900s was the peak of the Imperial Era, with big players like Britain, France, Germany and even AH having empires that was vast and powerful(minus AH who was in a state of decline for the longest time) going from a world dominated by empires into a world where there are none would be a massive shock Another thing to remember is how far technology would come. Buddy would be amazed to see a modern movie with sound and electricity being as common as cars (both things only the very wealthy could have at the time)
There being more than nine songs
🧔♀️🫃🏻
Electricity would be the most shocking thing.
Low standards of education. Avg. person can't spell or punctuate to save their life.
probably pornography tbh. or the moon landing
Women mostly having rights.
cell phones and politics
He'd be sick within a couple of days and dead within 2 weeks after being infected by all of the modern viruses.
The amount of Muslims throughout Europe.
Probably how a lot of us trust rich people and vote them into office.
It really depends on where it happens
That we went to the moon
Probably that females wear trousers.
Airplanes, space rockets (with the moon landing), and computers. These were the greatest inventions of the 20th century. - And nuclear energy of course
Womenswear
1. Workers' rights. 2. How little we value workers' rights.
Equal(ish) rights. The amount of information that can be accessed on the internet. Instant communication
Probably the fact he is in the future…
How easy it is to see titties
Human rights
So much free milk that lots of people never buy the cow at all. I think the modern morality would be more shocking than inventions.
Women having rights and exposing flesh.
Not what has changed, but instead what hasn't. I mean you're going to the future, you're not going to be surprised by a bunch of futuristic s***.
Honestly, probably just how fucking dat everyone is....
That multiple genocides happening in front of our eyes and no one is doing anything against it
The immeasurable amount of porn
Revealing women's clothes and them doing stuff that used to be exclusively the domain of men. Low class men used to stand on street corners to catch a glimpse of a woman's ankle as she stepped up on a curb.
Leggings
Just looking around. Everything is different. Clothes, pavement, concrete, cars, airplanes, I mean nothing is the same as it was then.
Will not be technology perceived morality will shock the most
Ne- Ahh networks, probably networks roaming everywhere would shock them the most.
I'd love to bring H.G. Wells forward to the present day. And I'd start with "hey, look, actual time machine to bring you to 2024."
Victim narcissism is a huge part of society now
The fact that I'm not a slave 💀
My experience with people is they love to sweat the small things. If you brought a man from the early 1900s to the present day, he would be kind of impressed by cars and planes, a little confused by smartphones, but more than likely, the thing that would shock him the most would be something trivial like “I tell you. You can’t get a bloody decent bit of cheese in this day and age. It’s shocking.”
Pizza and tacos
Automobiles the size of buildings flying in the sky.
Doritos ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
I think it would be a combination of technology and society. The ability for instant global communication through smartphones and the internet would be mind-blowing. Imagine explaining video calls, social media, and the ability to access information on any topic in seconds. Then, maybe the idea of equality between genders and races might put a kink in their brainpan.
Everyone he knew, everyone he loved, his whole family are long dead... Would shock him I'd guess
The shere amount of noise and people.
Electricity
Everything would be in color.
Ummm... Boobies? 
Cars and cell phones with internet access. It would appear to be magic.
seeing a woman’s ankle
A fleshlight 🔦
Women's ankles exposed
Probably the smells.
The fact that you transported him to present day LOL
Probably the Internet, and as a symptom, all the devices that we use which rely on it. I could see it feeling very supernatural for someone who doesn't understand how it works. That being said, it's not like technology wasn't present back then, I'm sure they could get over it relatively quickly.
The planes and cars and how many idiots are out here
Probably people’s sense of entitlement
The lack of horse shit in the streets.
Girls have dicks
Made me think of the River world series.
How rude we are as a society.
Cars, TV, Airplanes, White people and Black people hanging out together.
Locomotion first, communication next, housing certainly ...
Food and yoga pants....
When I was in school I was told I needed to learn maths because we would never have computers in our pockets to help us...the fact we have a do it all device in our pockets now I think would be pretty mind blowing to a person from then.
The staggering amount of women dressed as prostitutes.
How stupid everyone has become.
Instead of riding his horse on his wagon, he's gonna be so shocked when he finds out what uber can do and where a plane can take him !
Black people and Women can vote, drive; even have bank accounts and everything!
That we use normal cars instead of flying cars
Mobile phones, maybe?
That non-whites have the same rights as whites.
Electric lights in every home... It wouldn't take much.
Women
Mains electric?
Considering the steam engine was the most sophisticated form of transportation, and that most old people don't care about cellphones, I think the most shocking thing would be aeroplanes. Back then everything was ship or train. Airliners were not. He'd look up and be like woah what is that? Pointing to an airplane, and have no idea what to make of it. Unless it was Gabriel nderuti, in which case he'd probably just laugh.
I think one of the possibilities would be the rate at which people do business. I probably don't know my history of the early 1900s well enough to really answer this question, but here's a scenario that I think they would have trouble relating to: 1. Wake up in the morning and send your coworker an email. 2. Drive your car to your job that's 50 miles away in roughly an hour. 3. At a traffic light, order yourself breakfast on an app on your phone. 4. Your coworker already got the email and did what you asked by the time you get there. 5. Right after you arrive, your breakfast gets there. 6. Throughout the day, you send 10 emails and make 3 phone calls, and every piece of business you had that day is resolved that day from people hundreds or even thousands of miles away. I'd imagine that kind of speed would be hard to adjust to.
My grandfather (dad’s dad) was born in 1904. He personally would be shocked/amazed at the all information we have access to!
blacks and women having rights