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Apr 2024

I’m reviewing US History Class all over again. I’m remembering the Chicago Meat Packing industry, immigrants going to the USA at the turn of the century.

I love how storytelling gets us into things, guys. lol

I've done a bit of reading into the 90s (USA) for my story. It was a very different time for tech, which is pervasive to how people interacted with each other, along with the cultural language of the time. (I was a little kid in the 90s, so I didn't have the teenage experience during that era. It's been a fun ride reading into stuff!) For fashion, the 90s were very much a revival of the 70s. Some parallels can be observed between the two eras. Also, the 90s were all about the rejection of the 80s... so there was a lot of want for "realness" and grit, rather than the excess and wastefulness of the previous decade. This emphasized denim, torn clothing, ill-fitting clothes (baggy or too tight), and reality television. lol

Neat little tidbits on tech:

  • Phones didn't have a vibrate function until 1996 with the Motorola StarTAC.
  • Text messaging was a thing in 1984, but it wasn't on mobile phones until 1992. (Not to mention, not everyone had a mobile phone. You most likely just had a landline house phone that your family used. And mobiles and cell phones weren't called "phones" because that'd be confusing it with house phones at the time... which were just called phones.)
  • There also wasn't cross-network texting until 1999.
  • Laptops were a thing since 1975, but they weren't really integrated into work culture until the 90s... they also weren't very affordable. Tech was insanely expensive during this era. So if you had a laptop, you most likely didn't have a desktop computer. (and if you had a game console or two, your family was most likely well off.)
  • For teens with mobiles (which wasn't super common), parents would buy a prepaid minute plan for it. Once you ran out of minutes, you couldn't text or call unless it was to 911. You'd have to ask your folks for more minutes. :>
  • DVDs weren't a thing until 1997.

Okay, I'll stop now. lolol :cry_swag:

:stars: Greetings!

My current research has lead me to a particular Hawaiian island:

Ni'ihau, aka the Forbidden Island.

Branton Inphernos, the main character in War of Neytives, is based off of Polynesian/Hawaiian descent. Three interesting things I learned about this island are:

  1. The population of Ni'ihau is around 84.
  2. It is considered forbidden to humans for almost 100 years.
  3. The only way to visit the island is by invitation.

Right now I’m looking up nomadic culture, I’ll probably look up ancient civilizations, a bit of Freud and Jung Psychology, different Gods from various pantheons , Greek, African,Norse,Celtic etc, ancient writing styles and languages.

9 days later

Oddly enough wood..

the most recent thing I looked up for my story was kinds of wood so I could choose what the wooden stairs of my MCs creepy old high school were made of