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Re:After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking by CPLX on Thursday April 18, 2019 @10:59PM (#19696760)
I mean it existed before that of course. But it wasn’t widespread until the 1930s.
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Re:After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking by Gibbon1 on Thursday April 18, 2019 @11:41PM (#19696925)
Cities had indoor plumbing, electricity, and teliphones fairly early.

Isolated rural houses often much later.

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