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  My great uncle was born in 1896 and passed in 1994 when I was 14. Radio had just been invented, automobiles were a curiosity, it'd be almost a decade before the Wright brothers made their first flight and television was several decades beyond that. By the time he passed he'd been through two world wars, helped wire our town for electricity and phones, seen planes evolve into 747s and horse-less carriages become luxury cars. In his lifetime we went from "man could never fly" to the space race and using Morse code on telegraphs to the nascent days of the internet. Blows my mind whenever I think about him and the fact I grew up around someone from the 19th century.
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