![]() Other technologies that would later be typical of the 20th century and beyond, such as planes, telephones, and films, were also being developed around this time. In major cities, electric lights were replacing gas lamps and candles. Most people who lived in cities traveled around in horse-drawn hansom cabs, pedaled bicycles (built for two or otherwise, and often the kind with the enormous front wheel, called penny-farthings), and rode on trolleys, but most people still lived on the farm, and horse-drawn farm wagons were used as all-purpose transportation. The automobile was just barely invented, so new that people couldn't agree on what to call it ("Horseless carriage" is the memetic old-timey name, but that only scratches the surface). As such, it was the most orderly of such affairs in history and the legend of the Mounties was born. Thousands of prospectors headed north to strike it rich, and while the American town of Skagway, Alaska may have been wild, the prospectors in Canada quickly learned that they were in a very different gold rush, with the North West Mounted Police under the command of Sam Steele keeping a firm hand on their behavior. This was also the time of the last great gold rush in the Klondike region of the Yukon. Further, if you weren't part of your country's majority ethnicity, and/or if you were female, your rights were not anywhere close to those of the men who were. On the flip side, if you were born in this decade, you would most likely live long enough to see and probably be involved in the First World War, The Spanish Flu, The Great Depression, the rise of totalitarianism, wartime genocides, and the Second World War. Since this reckoning of time by decades was retroactive, it didn't catch on until The Roaring '20s and the Dirty Thirties, which is one reason why there is no widely-accepted term for either of the first two decades of the twentieth century - and thus why there wasn't for the first two decades of the twenty-first century, either.ĭuring this era, you were generally fortunate as long as you lived in wealthier countries of the world, as it was a time of relative peace (see below). This is the earliest decade which historiography regards as a distinct time period prior to this, history is generally divided into "ages" or "eras" which lasted for a generation, or for the reign of a monarch. It was where what we now recognize as "decade nostalgia" was born, and The Gay Nineties became a popular setting for films of the 1930s, the 1940s and, to a lesser degree, the 1950s and 1960s, by which time it was seen as that innocent age before World Wars and atomic bombs. You see, back in the earlier half of the twentieth century, people became enamored with the 1890s. ![]() This trope covers depictions of the 1890s, the realm of Oscar Wilde, William Jennings Bryan, Nikola Tesla, Arthur Conan Doyle and the Gibson Girl. ![]() Gayclips.xxx Gay XXX porngay.xxx Gay XXX gaymen.xxx NSFW SEX gayxxx.xxx GAY XXX NSFW SEX XXX porngay.xxx Gay XXX RedTube Gay gayclips.xxx Gay Porno Gay XXX iXXX.No, not the "gay" you were thinking of, nor The '90s you were thinking of, for that matter. ![]()
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