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The word movie is probably only about 100 years old, yet incredibly ingrained into our culture.
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I mean virtually all the hardware our culture runs on is less than 100 years old.
And a good chunk of our buildings, as well.
Maybe in America. I live in the UK and my house is 150 years old. I grew up in one that's nearly 300 years old.
So am I!