Amazon Prime whiteboard markers.

Sure. People couldn't afford glass or floors or running water or private rooms. But a 100 year old house looks a lot like a modern one, now that we can afford basic comforts.

The lodgings of rich people were more "modern" 1000 years ago, in regards to room shapes, fireplaces, windows. We added showers and toilets and better lighting, which will probably still be popular 1000 years from now.

Billionaires live in houses a lot like ours.

No books?

I have 100 year old books that work fine. I don't think an e-book will work 20 years from now.

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That is so funny on... well... only one level.

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I sent you a whiteboard marker link.

They call it dry erase.

I feel the same way about cemeteries. And cremation as well. So, I donated my body to science. I hope some part of it is useful.

Neither will I. I'm 80 years old.

Everybody has some use, at least as bad example..

You mean two years from now, not even 20.

I have some that are 250 years old, but they aren't paper.

The ones that are merely 100 years old are mostly ending up in a charity shop, and probably pulped. One I'm keeping is the Scientific American Cyclopedia of Formulas, 1100 pages of everything from many different types of solder, to orange bitters, salves, silk dying, pigeon food, ivory hardening, etc

The /information/ in the ebooks will still be around, assuming no apocalypse (and you haven't bought DRM'ed books where your rights have been removed by the server being disconnected).

So will that cyclopedia!

I've told my daughter to feed me to her dog. Illegality aside, I don't think she would, unfortunately.

100 is very different from 1000. 1000 years ago they didn't have windows, bedrooms, toilets, baths, the roofs were reeds, and the walls were made of wood, clay, sand, faeces mixed together. Bricks are a recent invention.

I've had to repair and I'm in the process of starting to flog a 180 year old house, so I have some concept of the similarities and differences! Let's start with the walls being 3ft thick at the base and 1ft thick at the top.

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Not really - bricks have been around for many thousands of years.

They became popular in England several hundred years ago but they were expensive to start with.

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Instead of an e-book just hunt up (track down?) and DL pdf versions of your favorite books and those will last forever from a PC POV.

You have a point!

In the UK the damp/rain meant that early weren't practical for large weight bearing structures. ISTR that one early use of them was for fireplaces and chimneys, where the extra cost was justified by fire-resistance.

That, 500 years ago, enabled the design of houses to be radically improved over those earlier times.