When most of your life occurred in the 20th century, it looks a lot different.
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Donkter@lemmy.world 12 hours agoHow so? I would certainly call something from 1894 to be from the "late 1800s’ or late 19th century. I mean, we’re a quarter of the way through this century, at some point it turns into history.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Saleh@feddit.org 2 hours ago
Because you still had to watch things from poor quality VHS tapes on cathode-ray tube monitors. Of course it looked different.
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Because people don’t use that terminology when referring to a time period within a majority of living people’s lifetime.
Donkter@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Sure they do. I’m sure the century cutoff helps too.
If someone one would refer to the 1920s as “the early 1900s” cause it’s over 100 years ago it follows logically to call other parts of the 1900s the mid and late period.
broken_chatbot@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
This may be a “loanword” from the student’s native language. In Swedish, they use “1900-talet” (1900s) instead of “twentieth century”
apostrofail@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
late 1800s*