‘What’s a problem humanity solved so well younger people don’t even realise it used to be an issue?’ – 23 incredible wins

13.

‘We used to have to chop firewood for heat. Everyone would go outside in the fall and chop firewood for the winter. You had to chop firewood for your grandparents who were too old to do it themselves.’
–Accidental_Aeon

14.

‘Being unreachable. We solved communication so hard that silence became suspicious.’
–alexsicart

15.

‘I’d have died when I was twelve before 1921 due to there being no treatments for Type One Diabetics outside of intensive dieting and eventually rotting away into a coma.’
–mostie2016

16.

‘Vaccines have been mentioned but I want to call out epidurals and all anaesthetics in general.’
–Wombat_Pixie

17.

‘Sanitation. Not just garbage but wastewater, indoor plumbing. Cholera was a real killer.’
–DueSouth9499

18.

‘I was a teen in the 90s and I remember HIV/AIDS being so scary. Amazing that there are so many treatments for it now.’
–Infamous-Dare6792

19.

‘The Y2K problem was a real problem that had the potential to cause massive disruption in all aspects of modern life. We freaked the f*** out about it, spent a ton of money and effort, and fixed it before the deadline.

It’s a lonely triumph in the modern age.’
–CaroCogitatus

20.

‘Digital storage. I am in my early 30s and I remember walking around with floppy disks, one video game being four CDs because it didn’t fit in one, and 5-10 Gb of storage on a desktop computer was the standard.

Now you have hundreds of Gb on a phone. We got so good at storing things on hard drives that we started profiting with “the cloud” now.’
–javier_aeoa

21.

‘Workplace safety – the kind when big project plans included a factor for expected worker deaths over its course, like the Hoover Dam.’
–Individual-Army811

22.

‘Dentistry. In the 17th century, dental complications were listed as one of the leading causes of death. Even as late as 1908, a tooth infection carried a fatality rate between 10% and 40%. Don’t forget to floss!’
–Halfsac2466

23.

‘My favourite stat is that at the dawn of human civilisation roughly half of all people were dead before age 30. At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution that had risen to roughly 35.

;All development up to that point gained us 5 years. Today, that number is up to roughly 79. In the 150-ish years since the Industrial Revolution we have done more to advance human survival than in the 15,000 years before it.’
–Stillwater215

It’s almost enough to restore your faith in humanity. Go homo sapiens!

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