» OLD MESSAGE ARCHIVES «
The Pop Culture Information Society...
Messageboard Archive Index, In The 00s - The Pop Culture Information Society
Welcome to the archived messages from In The 00s. This archive stretches back to 1998 in some instances, and contains a nearly complete record of all the messages posted to inthe00s.com. You will also find an archive of the messages from inthe70s.com, inthe80s.com, inthe90s.com and amiright.com before they were combined to form the inthe00s.com messageboard.
If you are looking for the active messages, please click here. Otherwise, use the links below or on the right hand side of the page to navigate the archives.
This is a topic from the Before the 1970's forum on inthe00s.
Subject: When Did Historians really start Classifying Decades?
Written By: Trimac20 on 05/21/06 at 9:17 am
I thought the whole 'decade' thing was a 20th century thing, but when reading old books.etc, they always talk about the '60s' as in the 1860s. Do you think the decades in the 19th century were really very different to one another? I.e. was 1870 much of a change from 1860? (of course not as big as 1960-70). Just seemed interesting to me.
Subject: Re: When Did Historians really start Classifying Decades?
Written By: velvetoneo on 05/21/06 at 9:55 am
I thought the whole 'decade' thing was a 20th century thing, but when reading old books.etc, they always talk about the '60s' as in the 1860s. Do you think the decades in the 19th century were really very different to one another? I.e. was 1870 much of a change from 1860? (of course not as big as 1960-70). Just seemed interesting to me.
Oh yeah, every decade in the 19th century was sort of different.
Subject: Re: When Did Historians really start Classifying Decades?
Written By: Trimac20 on 05/21/06 at 10:00 am
Oh yeah, every decade in the 19th century was sort of different.
Yeah, I think the 19th century was the first century where world events/politics/religion/society.etc moved fast enough to change noticeably from decade to decade.
Subject: Re: When Did Historians really start Classifying Decades?
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/21/06 at 12:09 pm
Are there any hints from poetry from the past?
Subject: Re: When Did Historians really start Classifying Decades?
Written By: Trimac20 on 05/29/06 at 3:30 am
Are there any hints from poetry from the past?
I don't think you'll find much in old poets...poets speak another language from historians. Indeed, logic is a poor language to unravel the puzzles of the poets.
Subject: Re: When Did Historians really start Classifying Decades?
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/06 at 5:19 am
I don't think you'll find much in old poets...poets speak another language from historians. Indeed, logic is a poor language to unravel the puzzles of the poets.
I will go looking then.
Subject: Re: When Did Historians really start Classifying Decades?
Written By: Trimac20 on 05/29/06 at 5:39 am
I will go looking then.
Indeed, go forth my good man!
Subject: Re: When Did Historians really start Classifying Decades?
Written By: Donnie Darko on 06/02/06 at 9:50 pm
Would anyone say the 1800s were the first "modern" decade?
Subject: Re: When Did Historians really start Classifying Decades?
Written By: Trimac20 on 06/02/06 at 10:00 pm
Would anyone say the 1800s were the first "modern" decade?
The Industrial Revolution is considered the start of the 'modern' age.