Victorian visions of Y2K
- Posted by Kati on June 19th, 2003 filed in Lifeblog in english
Apparently, victorian postcard makers were a pretty creative bunch, they invented the moving walkways that we now use on every airport, and undersea tourist boats that take tourists’ hard earned holiday $$$ at every single one of the globe’s seaside resorts. Then there’re also the rather entertaining thoughts of moving entire blocks of houses on train tracks by a locomotive…
A very interesting and enjoyable journey back in time, and then forward by postcards:
Victorian Visions of the Year 2000