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25 years ago
...There were no video stores, no VCRs, no CDs, no portable phones and no personal computers.
...There was no cable TV and no internet.

50 years ago
...Canada had only nine provinces.
...There were no walkmans, no digital watches, no space ships and no credit cards.
...There was no rock music, no medicare and no TV.
...This means that there were no I Love Lucy reruns, but there were politicians.

100 years ago
...There were a few cars, but there were no airplanes and no movies.
...There was no plastic, no income tax and little knowledge of the atom.
...There were no antiobiotics, there was no cure for diabetes, there was no vaccine for measles, which killed thousands of people every year, and there were virtually no treatments for cancer, a relatively rare disease.
...There were no nuclear weapons, but there were still wars.

250 years ago
...There was no electricity and no telegraph.
...There were no self-propelled steel ships, no trains, no tape recorders, no cameras, no refrigerators, no canned food and very few examples of democracy.
...Canada did not exist, but there were people living here.
...Football, hockey, baseball and basketball had not yet been invented, but other sports were played.
...There were no machine guns, but there were still wars.

500 years ago
...There had been no industrial revolution, there was no knowledge of germs, and there was no cure for bubonic plague, but there were garbage dumps.
...No one had yet travelled around the world, but the world was still round. ...There were no guns, but there were still wars.
...There were no newspapers, and most people could not read, but there were still universities, governments, courts, laws and taxes.
...The printing press had just been invented, but a single book could cost a year's salary. The best selling book then, as now, was the Bible.

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