this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2025
217 points (99.5% liked)

History Memes

1171 readers
1171 users here now

A place to share history memes!

Rules:

  1. No sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, assorted bigotry, etc.

  2. No fascism (including tankies/red fash), atrocity denial or apologia, etc.

  3. Tag NSFW pics as NSFW.

  4. Follow all Piefed.social rules.

Banner courtesy of @setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world

OTHER COMMS IN THE HISTORYVERSE:

founded 7 months ago
MODERATORS
PugJesus@piefed.social
Deceptichum@quokk.au
217
Historical fact (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 day ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/historymemes@piefed.social
3 comments fedilink hide all child comments
top 3 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Meanwhile, childhood was actually quite a recent invention. Previously, it was sort of like early adulthood.

[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 6 points 1 day ago

It’s been upgraded a few times and now last 38 years.

[–] Ininewcrow@piefed.ca 4 points 1 day ago

It took a long while to establish as previous childhoods didn't live long enough to be identified