On mastodon, Marius Gunderen, posted:
“It’s wild to think about how short human history is. For example, the iron age started approximately 1200BC, which means that if you are 32 years old you have been alive for 1% of the time humans have used iron. If you are 54 years old then you have lived through 1% of horses being domesticated, the wheel being used for transport, written language and living in towns.”
I thought it would be interesting educationally to do this with many events. Enter a human age in years below to do this, then click somewhere outside the box:
Been alive for what percentage of time since:
- Domestication of corn (6700 BCE): %
- Start of the iron age (1200 BCE): %
- Gutenberg printing press (1400 CE): %
- First usable light bulb (1879): %
- First flight (1903): %
- US women right to vote (1920): %
- Discovery of the structure of DNA (1953): %
- US banning of segregation (1964): %
- Widespread scientific acceptance of plate tectonics (1965): %
- First email (1971): %
- US discrimination in lending banned (1974): %
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author = {O’Meara, Brian},
title = {Fraction of History},
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