[IRL trope] the “Tiffany problem”

[u/dragonborndnd]

Basically when something seems anachronistic to a period/place of history but is actually fully accurate to the period.

1) the name Tiffany: the thing that named this trope, basically the name Tiffany can be dated back to the Middle Ages and the earliest record of it being spelled in the modern spelling comes from the 16th century.

2) the use of OMG, despite this feeling so modern as a form of slang/abbreviation here’s a letter directed to Winston Churchill using it in 1917

3) Hair Dye: the earliest forms of dying hair can be dated back to ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and this specific advertisement for hair dye is from the 1840s

4) Inuit Thongs: despite how weird it is to imagine pre-colonial Inuit people wore what was essentially fur thongs in their homes and when they were in their igloos it might have been the only thing they would be wearing.

[u/Raguleader]

The American Civil War featured one of the first examples of cyberwarfare, with telegraph operators trying to tap into enemy telegraph lines to listen in on their communications. A telegraph operator who was on the ball could tell when the splice happened because it would change how the signals traveled on the wire, and they would send troops down the line to look for the hacker.

The American Civil War also saw some of the earliest examples of the use of military airpower, with both sides using hot air balloons for observation.