past perfect
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The Prefabbed Lustron House Is A Peep At Post-WWII America
Transitioning back to normal life after WWII had its fair share of challenges for soldiers, one of which was a housing shortage. Lustron houses — prefabricated enamel steel homes — were a direct response to the dearth.
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An In-Depth Look At The Mysterious Information Superhighway Care Of 1995
In 1995 episode of Computer Chronicles, Stewart Cheifet greets us from inside one of those fancy new cyber cafés you’ve undoubtedly been hearing so much about, asking “Who says online users are a bunch of antisocial geeks?” And a whole 13 years later, we can still pretty much respond with “Everyone, Stewart. Everyone does.”
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What 1988 Los Angeles Thought It’d Look Like In 2013
Everybody always imagines the future looking way cooler than it actually does. The Los Angeles Times just re-proved the point by republishing a 1988 issue in which it made a slew of guesses about 2013. Some of them were right, but unfortunately cars still don’t look that cool.
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Monster Machines: No ICBM Can Sneak Past This Radar Array
Death by ICBM was a near constant threat to both sides during the Cold War. The answer: a long-range, phased-array early warning system designed to find, identify and track these sea-launched ballistic missile threats. It worked so well the US Air Force still uses it.