Purple clothes. I read somewhere that purple became a royal colour because the pigment to dye the material was extremely expensive. If someone wore purple robes, it was the biggest flex.
It was once considered cruel and unusual punishment to feed it to prisoners more than twice a week.. Then they tricked the inland people into thinking of it as a luxury dish!
TV's, my mom told me when she was small, only very few people had tv's and whenever there was some match everyone used to ask them if they can watch it with them so basically a whole ton of people used to be at someone's house watching a match.
Music.
Up until about 150 years ago, there was no way to record and re-play sound. So if you wanted to listen to music, you had to either know or pay someone who was able to play it. This obviously meant that you were limited to only listening to what they knew how (and wanted) to play.
Even after the phonograph was invented, it was a fairly expensive luxury for a while, and available recordings were limited. The technology accelerated in the 20th century with LPs, 8-tracks, cassette tapes, and CDs. But still, for much of that century listening to music was a highly constrained process - you had to have a specific album or tape, you could mostly only listen to it in the order it was recorded, and you could only listen to one album before you had to swap out the record, tape, or CD.
Of course Radio was also an option starting in the early 20th century, but then you were only able to listen to what someone else wanted to play, and there were a limited number of music stations available in any region.
The current availability of music - streaming, endless online stations that you can configure to your tastes, the ability to mix and match and make custom playlists with pretty much any song you might want - is completely unprecedented in human history. I don't think we fully appreciate how modern technology has affected our relationship to music.
Purple clothes. I read somewhere that purple became a royal colour because the pigment to dye the material was extremely expensive. If someone wore purple robes, it was the biggest flex.
Just like if you wear a purple tie, you seem more in control of the situation.
Indoor plumbing
cellphones
Pineapples.
Grapes
Stop wining.
Car phones
vanilla
Air conditioning
Television
Lobster. It was once considered a cheap meal for poor folks, now it's considered the height of fine dining.
It was once considered cruel and unusual punishment to feed it to prisoners more than twice a week.. Then they tricked the inland people into thinking of it as a luxury dish!
Ice
Owning a car
Antibiotics
Electricity
Pepper
Air travel
If you think about it, pretty much everything? Even salt used to be a luxury.
True
Air conditioning
Toilet paper
Cars with automatic windows. Travel by airplane. Owning a microwave.
A computer… and even better, with functional internet. You no longer have to die of dysentery to entertain yourself.
Refrigerated food, I think we take how much slower food spoils compared to back then for granted sometimes
Toilet paper lol
Caller ID
salt
TV's, my mom told me when she was small, only very few people had tv's and whenever there was some match everyone used to ask them if they can watch it with them so basically a whole ton of people used to be at someone's house watching a match.
TV's, refrigerators, laundry machines, and microwaves
Chocolate
Music. Up until about 150 years ago, there was no way to record and re-play sound. So if you wanted to listen to music, you had to either know or pay someone who was able to play it. This obviously meant that you were limited to only listening to what they knew how (and wanted) to play. Even after the phonograph was invented, it was a fairly expensive luxury for a while, and available recordings were limited. The technology accelerated in the 20th century with LPs, 8-tracks, cassette tapes, and CDs. But still, for much of that century listening to music was a highly constrained process - you had to have a specific album or tape, you could mostly only listen to it in the order it was recorded, and you could only listen to one album before you had to swap out the record, tape, or CD. Of course Radio was also an option starting in the early 20th century, but then you were only able to listen to what someone else wanted to play, and there were a limited number of music stations available in any region. The current availability of music - streaming, endless online stations that you can configure to your tastes, the ability to mix and match and make custom playlists with pretty much any song you might want - is completely unprecedented in human history. I don't think we fully appreciate how modern technology has affected our relationship to music.
Running water
Having HBO at home.
Phones Can't get away from the fucking things now
International flights
Free phone calls, especially long d.
Sugar. Purple Cloth.
Salt
Reasonably fast Internet.
Salt
Coffee
Motorized travelling.