Don't really need to imagine it, the 'steampunk' scene hipster folk have already done that.

A few planets would have been visited by humans.

Here's the real kicker, imagine where we'd be if half the population wasn't subjugated. The Victorians would be martians

Wasn't the first computer invented by the Victorians? Charles Babbage, Ada lovelace?

They weren't bound by the legislations of today. Or the politics.

they built things with the vision that their efforts should last.

MBGA

They'd have freaked out and felt fear over the technology. There were already widespread complaints during that period about how digital print would completely turn us blind, imagine all the other liberalism that comes with technology? Society was too conservative then, and it was too superstitious.

Technology would have been shunned or blocked. I don't think they were ready for such large scale technological production eitherway.

I doubt there were any complaints during the Victorian era about the dangers of digital print

There were many such notions being perpetuated actually;


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There were already widespread complaints during that period about how digital print would completely turn us blind?? Where did you get that from? Did you make it up or is that what they are teaching in schools now? Thats like saying cave men were up in arms about factory farming

They weren't as backward as we'd like to think they are;

''In the 1800s, the rise of mass print was both blamed for an increase in eye problems and was responsible for dramatising the fallibility of vision too. As the amount of known eye problems increased, the Victorians predicted that without appropriate care and attention Britains population would become blind. In 1884, an article in The Morning Post newspaper proposed that:

The culture of the eyes and efforts to improve the faculty of seeing must become matters of attentive consideration and practice, unless the deterioration is to continue and future generations are to grope about the world being pure blind.

In 1889 the Illustrated London News questioned:

To what are we coming? Now we are informed by men of science that the eyes used so effectively by our forefathers will not suffice for us, and that there is a prospect of England becoming pure blind.

The article continued, considering potential causes for this acceleration, and concluded that it could be partly explained by evolution and inheritance.''

Ok im sorry for mocking, it was the idea of victorians being worried about anything digital - but yes, our eyesight is harmed by looking at a screen for hours

Victorian printing presses weren't digital

They'd predict an age of digital printing though and they concluded we'd all turn blind.
Seems like they were halfway right.

I dont agree that they predicted digital printing exactly but in the language of the time, they may have been right about us all being blind.....my eyesight plummeted reading a small print steven king by candlelight

It would be the ankle p0rn that made them blind

one of things you've heard somewhere but aren't sure when etc.

I've heard that furniture used to have it's legs covered so as to not inflame the passions of anyone seeing it.

yeah i remember that from somewhere too

my mate used to be into that victorian p0rn , his toilet walls had literally hundreds of photos and post cards. Some of them were just soft stuff, like women poseing in their corsets and stuff, one or 2 showing either a boob or the lady garden. He had a large collection of saucy seaside postcards too.