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• gavran@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you subscribe to the notion that Middle Earth is our world, it did!

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  • nonfuinoncuro@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    um lotr was published in my 50s my dudes

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    • gavran@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I miss old school trolling. Shine on, you crazy diamond.

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• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It did though? The Lord of the Rings was written in the 1930s and 1940’s, the moon landings took place in 1969-1972.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They just said “Trilogy,” so it’s unclear if they meant the movies or books. But video calls were definitely after the moon landing.

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The first two-way video call was demonstrated in 1930.

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      • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And the first message sent over the internet was in 1969. They’re clearly referring to when it became easily accessible to the masses.

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  • JacksonLamb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Good point. I assumed they meant the films because the books were not any kind of technogical innovation.

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