Remember when?

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I'll start off this thread's "Marvin Davis Memorial Era" with the following "I'm So Old" post:
I'm so old, that when I was 5 years old in 1951, my 104 year old aunt, born in 1847 [[14 years before the start of The US Civil War), told me about her youth in Hungary, when she was 10 years old, and The Hungarian Government sent representatives to all the small towns and villages, to assign family [[last) names to families. Before that time almost everyone had NO last names. My fathers' parents were the first generation born having last names, and they also had a marriage arranged by their 2 families, and the district's official Jewish Matchmaker. My grandfather moved to Liege [[Luik) Belgium, in 1875, to work in the mines, and on to Antwerp, Belgium 2 years later, and on to Den Haag, Holland, in 1882, which is how my family ended up in The Netherlands. All true. People don't realise that our "modern World" is very, very recent.