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Things That Originally Looked Totally Different

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Be Amazed

History, Society & Culture, Leisure, Science, Documentary

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Let's revisit technologies, places, and everyday items we’re all familiar with, and see how they’ve transformed way beyond recognition over time. From the first telephones and headphones, to the bizarre original appearance of fruits. Here are things that originally looked totally different! 



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Transcript

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0:00.0

Edna Mode once said,

0:02.5

Never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.

0:07.0

However, we'll be doing just that.

0:09.2

Revisiting technologies, places, and everyday items that we're all familiar with,

0:14.1

and seeing how they've transformed way beyond recognition over time.

0:18.6

From the first telephones and headphones to the bizarre original appearance of fruits, here are things that originally look totally different.

0:40.3

Babies are expensive. $18,000 in the US, to be precise.

0:45.3

That is, hospital fees for delivering a baby, not to literally buy one.

0:50.3

Anyway, if you are in the market for a baby, chances are you'll need a stroller.

0:55.2

And while all types of hot rods are available now, the original concept was quite different.

1:01.3

Back in the days of your parents didn't have many options when it came to transporting their little terrors.

1:06.9

Besides carrying them, perhaps in a basket or using a sling.

1:14.6

Heck, even my home girl Mother Mary sported a sling with baby J-Dog,

1:18.1

at least according to a 1306 painting by Giotto.

1:24.4

However, a strange series of events would eventually see the unexpected invention of the stroller.

1:29.1

William Kent was an 18th century British architect and furniture designer.

1:31.7

Back in his day, he was kind of a big deal.

1:36.1

So much so, people often employed him to design all types of things.

1:42.3

In 1733, the Third Duke of Devonshire employed William to design a transportation device to amuse his kids while on the go.

1:45.2

To that, William whipped up a four-wheel cart hauled by a goat, no less.

1:49.3

You might call it a goat cart.

1:54.5

Shockingly, despite the precariousness of allowing a farm animal to trawl your children around,

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