{"id":17085,"date":"2017-05-22T09:18:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T16:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=17085"},"modified":"2017-05-22T18:51:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T01:51:49","slug":"what-1899-thought-the-year-200-would-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2017\/05\/22\/what-1899-thought-the-year-200-would-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What 1899 Imagined the Year 2000 Would Look Like!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From 1899 to 1910, Jean-Marc C\u00f4t\u00e9 and other French artists imagined what the future would look like in a series of postcards called, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:France_in_XXI_Century_(fiction)\">In the Year 2000<\/a><\/em>. They postcards were made for the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris and they are really something! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Take a look! These artists thought the future would have a lot more robots, flying contraptions, and that we&#8217;d be spending more time UNDERWATER!<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17087\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/a-tailor-of-the-latest-fashion.jpg\" alt=\"a-tailor-of-the-latest-fashion\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"417\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17086\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/a-race-in-the-pacific.jpg\" alt=\"a-race-in-the-pacific\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"417\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17105\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whale-bus.jpg\" alt=\"whale-bus\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"402\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17104\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/well-trained-orchestra.jpg\" alt=\"well-trained-orchestra\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"421\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17103\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-New-Fangled-Barber.jpg\" alt=\"The-New-Fangled-Barber\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"405\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17102\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rural-postman.jpg\" alt=\"Rural-postman\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"405\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17101\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/madame-at-the-toilette.jpg\" alt=\"madame-at-the-toilette\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"416\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17100\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/little-eagle-nest-robbers.jpg\" alt=\"little-eagle-nest-robbers\" \/>\n<p><strong>(Um, what?!)<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"410\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17099\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/house-rolling-through-the-countryside.jpg\" alt=\"house-rolling-through-the-countryside\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"402\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17098\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fishing-for-seagulls.jpg\" alt=\"fishing-for-seagulls\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"404\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17097\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Electric-Scrubbing.jpg\" alt=\"Electric-Scrubbing\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"414\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17096\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Divers-on-Horseback.jpg\" alt=\"Divers-on-Horseback\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"406\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17093\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Croquet-party.jpg\" alt=\"Croquet-party\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17092\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aviation-police.jpg\" alt=\"aviation-police\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"399\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17091\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/at-school.jpg\" alt=\"at-school\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17090\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/An-Aerial-Battle.jpg\" alt=\"An-Aerial-Battle\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"406\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17089\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Aero-Cab-Station.jpg\" alt=\"Aero-Cab-Station\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17088\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aerial-fireman.jpg\" alt=\"aerial-fireman\" \/>\n<p><strong>If you&#8217;d like to see more of these cool cards, <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:France_in_XXI_Century_(fiction)\">go check out them out\u00a0at Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 1899 to 1910, Jean-Marc C\u00f4t\u00e9 and other French artists imagined what the future would look like in a series of postcards called, In the Year 2000. 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