How People In 1899 Imagined the Year 2000 (All Episodes.)

A lot of their predictions were absolutely spot on. Anything seemed possible in the 1890's and thankfully we still have a record of the future that they expected. This is how people in the 1890's imagined the future.

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[seemachakraborty]

Loved watching this video.
Truly very interesting
Thank you.

[elenasimon]

Imagine fighting a fire with very forceful water hoses with a jet pack keeping you in the air. Which force do you control first? Water pressure or gravity? I suppose someone could figure a way but I can’t see it.

[ThundaaStrack]

You’re almost at 100k. That’s pretty impressive for a new channel. Luv your content.

[MarcusZepeda]

I love this video. It was very entertaining and educational, Some of the predictions are very accurate but some of them are very imaginative and I honestly Love that. But I love that their clothing from the 19th century is still the some in 2000.' but they also got that right too. because some people still dress like that now in modern times

[Klaatu]

I especially love the hover capability the personal single seat air cars possess.
It’s ambitious to believe we could magically break the laws of gravity.

[susanfanning]

I'm really enjoying the videos. I am interested to see that apparently fashionable clothes weren't any different in 2000 than they were in 1899!

[wiljak_hakker]

I've listened one minute and i just want to say : thank you!!! i love you for doing this <3 makes life alot easier for ppl with video/photographic memory and for people who doesnt know how to use the searchfunction on youtube!! this is very kind of you <3 thank you!!

[karenakelly]

Thank you for this! It's both fascinating and fun. I came across it by happenstance, but I've now subscribed.

[pimpozza]

I love these prediction videos, Tez.. I wonder how people imagine things a hundred years from now.. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[leonerdo]

19:53 kinda like the bicycle craze a few years before

[jslb]

24:56 *Episode 3. Thanks. I've already seen the first two.*
36:11 *The tough treaty he pushed for helped cause WWII.*

[paulwood]

I love this channel but it's title is so unjustly self-effacing. You should call it, "Absolutely Fascinating" because it is 👍☺️👍

[Non-Doctors-Music]

Great video. However, just so you are aware speech to text has been available for 70 years. Dragon Dictate was developed in 1990 for the home user.

[witchqween]

I very much like ur professional manner of presenting these videos. its like a professional tv series, but I've got one suggestion which might be interesting, and that is of a figure the victorians believed in called springheeled jack, so perhaps you could make a video about that?

[bekanimal]

"We're underwater again!" 😅 ... but now that you mention the excitement over 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea, it makes so much more sense ... also, I am shocked that I never heard that anecdote about Mark Twain and Halley's comet (I also always heard it pronounced like "Hailey's comet" as a child, btw)

[Choppy]

Hiya Tez, I was laughing all the way through this vlog, why did them in the past think us in the future will be living underwater or flying about, I find it weird and funny both at the same time, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England

[ram]

@ 4:33, there are pipe organs that do just that. They are very old also dating back to the early 1900s There was one of the largest in existence in Springdale Ohio at a place called The Springdale Music Palace, a pizza place. Percussion, strings, horns, etc all played by one person at the main organ controls. I am not sure where that "Organ" set up was taken after the restaurant closed.

[davidseymour]

Looks like no one attempted to predict what year 2000 clothes fashion would be like.

[lourias]

Dude, I was using Dragon Dictate back in 1995. It was a Speech to Text program. It was invented before 1995!

[Tokinjester]

33:27 He might've been wrong with his prediction about there being no C, X or Q in the alphabet in the year 2000 but he was spot on with his prediction that there would be two M's in the year 2000 👍🤣