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My father, born in '35 in South Dakota, talked about as a child they plowed their farm with horses.


I mean, depends where on earth you are, but my parents born in yugoslavia in the late 50s remember plowing with oxen, the first bw TV sets appeared in their village in the 60s or early 70s, there was no indoor plumbing or electricity when they were very little, they were transporting water in buckets on donkeys etc.


I do hope people are documenting this while there are still chances!

Imagine finding a diary or account of some mundane life a few hundred years ago. This stuff is important to preserve for the future.


I visited Turkey in the early 2000s. It was not uncommon to be driving on a major, modern highway, crest a hill, and have to slam on the brakes because a donkey was pulling a farmer's cart in the middle of the road at 5 mph.

This was out in a rural area, but still. Major highway like an American interstate.




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