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John Byrne
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Posted: 22 September 2021 at 5:49am | IP Logged | 1
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Today would have been my mother’s Centennial.* Hard to accept 1921 was one hundred years ago!———— *Birthday wishes will not be necessary, thank you.
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Darren Ashmore Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 30 April 2004 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 949
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Posted: 22 September 2021 at 5:56am | IP Logged | 2
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Not exactly the same, but I had a similar thought when I realised my late father would have been 90 on August 6th this year.
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Michael Hogan Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2052
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Posted: 22 September 2021 at 6:15am | IP Logged | 3
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I have an old wristwatch that belonged to my grandfather. He bought it in London at the end of the first World War after serving on a minesweeper in the North Sea (or North Atlantic) before heading home. It's not much to look at but keeps perfect time.
I marvel at the fact that it still functions despite being over 100 years old.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 22 September 2021 at 6:42am | IP Logged | 4
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Seeing my eclectic accumulation, in my house, people sometimes ask what is the oldest thing I own. I tell them I have a fragment of meteorite that's about 5,000,000,000 years old. Hard to beat that!
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Eric Sofer Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 31 January 2014 Location: United States Posts: 4789
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Posted: 22 September 2021 at 8:45am | IP Logged | 5
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Did Ramona Fradon work on that Mr. Byrne? Joe Sinnott? Maybe Larry Leiber? (Can't think of any older creators in comics, but BOY - are they old!)
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Paul Wills Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 18 August 2018 Location: United States Posts: 842
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Posted: 22 September 2021 at 8:46am | IP Logged | 6
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Wow the stories that meteorite could tell!
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John Byrne
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Posted: 22 September 2021 at 9:41am | IP Logged | 7
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Wow the stories that meteorite could tell!•• Yes, considering it is literally older than dirt!
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Peter Martin Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 March 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 15801
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Posted: 22 September 2021 at 2:03pm | IP Logged | 8
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It is hard to accept that a significant chunk of the 20th century is now over a hundred years ago. The entire Great War, for example. You can make your head spin just thinking about.
Tanks, aeroplanes, radios, air conditioners, neon light, the theory of relativity, cornflakes, pop-up toasters and the band-aid have all been with us for over a hundred years now and we are fast coming up on the 100th birthday of the fax machine and television!
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Matt Hawes Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 22 September 2021 at 4:31pm | IP Logged | 9
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I am a fan of silent films, primarily comedy and horror. While those films were always old to me, they were never THAT old in the way that hearing something was 100 years ago feels to me in younger years. It's crazy for me to think that now even the 1920s films are passing that centennial mark
For instance, next year will be the 100th anniversary of the first "Our Gang" (aka, "The Little Rascals") shorts. When I first learned about the beginnings of that long-running comedy series (1922-1944), I was still young enough that even some of the kids from the silent film era were still alive. And, as old as they were, I could still relate more with them than, say, something from the Victorian era, which was 100 years prior to when I first watched those "Our Gang" films. It's weird to think that 100 years no longer feels so long ago to me.
Edited by Matt Hawes on 22 September 2021 at 4:35pm
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Rebecca Jansen Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 12 February 2018 Location: Canada Posts: 4530
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Posted: 22 September 2021 at 5:15pm | IP Logged | 10
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I remember reading a biography of JFK around 1979 in elementary school and thinking how long ago 1963 felt. I was only 12. And yet... it would have only been as long ago then as 2005 would be now, which practically feels like yesterday. Einstein knew!
My grandfather had stories of the Spanish flu epidemic, Model-Ts, and seeing 'silent' movies in the theater (he saw 'Wings' when it was new in 1927). My great grandmother, whom I got to know, had stories from earlier, but she was out in the rural U.S. and then Canada; stuff pretty much along the lines of the Little House books, and they may even have crossed paths with the Ingalls or been within a long walk of them at some point.
Edited by Rebecca Jansen on 22 September 2021 at 5:19pm
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Michael Penn Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 22 September 2021 at 6:44pm | IP Logged | 11
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One of my father's cousins turned 102 this year, still relatively healthy too -- awfully hard to contemplate that she knew my great-great-grandfather, who was born in the 1840s...!
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Ted Pugliese Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 23 September 2021 at 3:49am | IP Logged | 12
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My dad was born in 1922, so I have already started thinking about his centennial next year too. Crazy to think about it. 100 years.
Anyway, talking about the oldest thing in John's house, this weekend we went to York, PA to visit my daughter at college. We found an antique/used book store that was more like a library. It was huge. Inside, I asked the owner what the oldest book he has was. He talked about some civil war era books he had, but right there on the counter were three Mark Twain first editions from the 1880s, so I bought one :-)
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