Vertigo_Warrior

How the world has changed over time. ~A Thread🧵

1. Dubai 1990 vs 2024 

2. Humans and Televisions over the Years. 

3. First rap song ever recorded, 1946

4. Hong Kong in 1964 and Now 

5. Hiroshima, Japan 

6. The Paghman Gardens in Afghanistan 1967 and almost 40 years later 

7. The Dubai coastline between 1984-2022

8. In April of 1897 this very rare footage of Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem was filmed, it shows Christians, Jews, and Muslims living in peace.

9.  In 1994, photojournalist Sebastião Salgado returned to his home in Minas Gerais, Brazil, only to find the lush forests of his childhood reduced to barren land. 

His wife, Lélia, proposed replanting the forest, and over the next 20 years, they planted 2.7 million trees. This effort restored 1,500 acres of rainforest, reviving 293 plant species, 172 bird species, and 33 animal species, some near extinction.

10. Footage of the 1908 London Olympics.

11. Wright Brothers taking off on the world's first airplane flight in 1903

12. Children have practivally stopped playing outdoor sports 

13. Kids on the streets of England, 123 years ago in the year 1901.

14. Paris in the 1920s

15. Houtouwan, an abandoned fishing village on Shengshan Island near Shanghai, was established in the 1950s and once housed over 2,000 fishermen. Nature quickly reclaims what we leave behind.

16. Snowball fight in Lyon, France, in 1896

17. Sad Picture 

18. Such an ironic photo 

19. Piccadilly Circus, London, 1949 - 2021 

20. The pyramids in their original form, covered in pristine white limestone with a pure gold peak. 

21. Kedarnath, India - 1880s to 2020s 

22. Where has the family bonding gone? 

23. Inside of an Airplane in 1930