It's the end of the world as we know it

It's the end of the 20th Century; a century that saw the invention of canned tuna fish (1907), the shopping cart (1937), panty hose (1959), and call waiting (1976). A thousand years ago, almost everyone on the planet lived the same life, year after year. Agrarian, rural, their lives controlled by the seasons and the weather. The way you lived was no different than the way people lived a hundred years before or after you. We stand on the precipice of of a New Millennium; you're reading this on your computer from hundreds of miles away from me. In the next hundred years, the changes and inventions will come so fast and furious that we will seem like primitives squatting in caves around a fire to our great-grandchildren. And so I bid goodbye to the 20th Century! Thanks for all the cool stuff like electric guitars and fiberglass surfboards!