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by kylebyte
972 days ago
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It's weird to think that for people without clear memories of it, the 2000's might be imagined in the style of early digital photos the same way the 70's look like Super 8 footage or the early 20th century is sepia toned in my head. |
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From 1965–Present, the world is in color. The tone shifts a bit, but it's all in color.
1900–1964: Black and white. The world was actually black and white. Sometimes people moved around at a weird frame-rate :)
1800–1899: Color, but very much sepia toned. The whole world was slightly dirty and brownish, but the sky was still blue.
Big Bang–1799: Color, no sepia or nothing.
Of course this is all due to photography and movies. The general lack of both of those before the 20th Century (yeah, I know photography goes back further, but just barely. It wasn't widespread) means whatever images I get from that time period come from paintings and illustrations and written accounts. The sepia I perceive from the 1800s is basically thinking of them in terms of the railroads, westward expansion, etc.
So the result is that when I think about the Roman Empire—when was the last time you thought of that?—I see a richly-colored world like the one we have today. But when I think about WWII, it's all black and white. And the Civil War occurred in a vast, dusty, brownish field.