# Ladies Home Journal, "Life in 2000." Legit?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-home-journal-life-in-2000-legit/429775>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 12, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-home-journal-life-in-2000-legit/429775 "2007-12-12T20:53:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-home-journal-life-in-2000-legit/429775/21 "2007-12-13T18:54:45Z")

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[QUOTE=Liberal]  
The thing about the telegraphed pictures with all the colors of nature was pretty good though.  
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I was surprised it said that even then photographs were being telegraphed short distances. Was that really being done as early as 1900?

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**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-home-journal-life-in-2000-legit/429775/22 "2007-12-13T19:13:32Z")

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[QUOTE=Laughing Lagomorph]  
I was surprised it said that even then photographs were being telegraphed short distances. Was that really being done as early as 1900?  
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[Ye olde faxe machine](http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=40). 🙂

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**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-home-journal-life-in-2000-legit/429775/23 "2007-12-13T20:09:27Z")

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[QUOTE=FlightlessBird]  
Maybe they assumed we would release an animal from the menagerie and then go hunt it.  
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Maybe the thought was that men would stand around a cage of birds and blast at them with shotguns. Obviously, a fantasy that will never come true.

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