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[โ€“] nightlily@leminal.space 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My high school in NZ was pretty poor, so even in the early 00s, we still had Cold War-era maps of Europe in textbooks and on the wall, and no access to the internet (computers were taught to us as glorified typewriters). It took until I was older than I care to admit to learn that Czechoslovakia was no longer a thing.

[โ€“] Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

When I graduated HS, the map on the wall in our history class still had "French West Africa" on it (textbooks were at least more up to date :-)) "French West Africa" hadn't existed for . . . looks it up . . . about a quarter century before then.

Damn, before I was even born!