Quite obviously, back in those distant times, the people were quite aware that they were living in historical times and were therefore quite resigned to their lack of modern technology. This is why there is – to the modern reader – a rather puzzling lack of mention of things like mobile phones, computers and other wonders of the modern era - as well as the curses of our age like television - in the historical record. Because the people in those times, now known to modern historians as The Olden Days, knew some things had not yet been invented they – very wisely – did not mention those things at all.
Even though, for example, Victorian TV was some of the best the world has ever known, with some of the finest examples of the reality genre – such as Scullery Maid Factor, Know Your Place and other such jewels of the genre, the Victorians knew better than to make any mention of them in the historical record, less we – their descendants – come to realise we are not quite the know-it-all smart-arses we think we are.
This also explains why the Victorians also managed to keep their massive country-wide motorway network so secret from future generations by cunningly disguising it as a canal network, something they had learnt from the clever way the Stone Age people of this country had shrewdly disguised a Neolithic multi-story car park as Stonehenge many, many, centuries before.
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