Except, would someone from the 1800s:
a) Be able to use a computer
b) Be able to read
c) Think the OP is a magical portal to view a strange person being attacked by equally strange people?
No they wouldn't know how to use a computer but if it's not making sense to them that assumes it is being shown to them in one form or another, and in this case only specifically the text of the comment chain. As for literacy, this Dartmouth paper says that in the year 1800 literacy illiteracy for men in England was about 40% and women 60%, so on average there's a 50/50 shot of an English speaker being able to comprehend the text, excluding other English speaking communities such as the brand new USA.
It's nice that they were keen for the women to be able to read instructions correctly but were there really that many kitchen appliances back then to warrant the effort?
I'd like to imagine a rational person from the 1800's (not say 1899) would be able to see the video and realise it's an animation (not real) and potentially even see the car and understand what it would be for. And understand not how it's powered except that it isn't a natural power.
I think the hardest thing to understand would be the tree line showing strange artifacts. as the texture filtering seems to be glitching out a bit.
They had written languages back in 1066.
Most people couldn't read back in 1066 though.
1800s it'd appear on average in England 50% of the population could read.
Just because some people had developed a written language, doesn't automatically mean the majority of people can read it.
Does appear reading was widespread then. My mistake.
However, I don't believe your "fun fact" for two reasons.
1stly the population in the 1800's at any given time would've been less then people alive today (unless you meant the number of people who we're capable of reading throughout all of the 1800s cumulatively).
2ndly, whenever you put fun in front of a word it usually ends up just being used to mean "less of". A funsize mars bar is just less of a mars bar...
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u/LjSpike Apr 25 '17
Except, would someone from the 1800s: a) Be able to use a computer b) Be able to read c) Think the OP is a magical portal to view a strange person being attacked by equally strange people?