Looking Back, Then Back Some More

I read an amazing thing on Facebook the other day, which is an amazing thing in itself:

From where we sit now, in 2022, 1970 is 52 years in the past. If you go back another 52 years, you will hit 1918.

That is somewhat jolting, especially for us folks who remember 1970 and recall it as more or less civilized. I mean, we had an electric can opener and everything.

The rest of the population can only look upon that fact as a theoretical oddity. To my own children (now, of course, no longer...