How amazingly fast the world is changing!

Looking at photos from the past and comparing them with modern images, we get an amazing opportunity to see the rapid progress of humanity…

The first official gay pride parade is moving through London in a police cordon: the guards were called to protect the participants of the action.

Nowadays, members of the LGBT community walk surrounded by their supporters and support groups.

The first international match at Wimbledon, held in 1883, gathered several dozen spectators — representatives of high society.

The 2014 games came to see... a slightly larger number of people.

The first Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center, installed in 1931 on a construction site.

A Christmas tree that pleases New Yorkers at the celebration of Christmas in our time.

In 1970, the first Glastonbury Music Festival was held, which was attended by 1,500 spectators, paying one pound for a ticket and receiving a free glass of milk.

In 2019, 135,000 people who attended the festival already gave 225 pounds for admission, and beer took the place of milk.

The first games of the baseball championship "World Series" in Pittsburgh in 1903: numerous spectators chaotically crowd around the playing field.

A match in our time.

The first photo taken from space. The camera was attached to a V2 rocket launched from Earth in a strictly vertical direction in 1946.

The second image shows the Aurora Australis Aurora Borealis, captured from the International Space Station in 2013.

The opening ceremony of the first official Paralympic Games, held in Rome in 1960. 400 athletes from 23 countries competed in eight disciplines.

In 2012, 4,300 athletes from 164 countries, who participated in competitions in 20 sports, are honoring their champions in London.

Sir Edmund Hillary was the first climber to climb Mount Everest in 1953.

In the 2013 image, you can observe a decent traffic jam of much better equipped people overcoming the same path up.

Aerial view of the football field where the final match of the 1930 World Cup took place in Montevideo (Uruguay). Only 13 teams had the opportunity to take part in the games, since it was very difficult to get to the South American continent at that time. Uruguay defeated Argentina 4-2.

In the 2014 championship in Brazil, teams from 209 countries were eligible to play.

The first photograph of the Moon, dated 1839.

The first photograph of the Earth taken from the lunar surface in 1969.

A view of the Earth and the Moon captured by the Chinese satellite Chang'e-5 in 2014.

1896: Three men participate in the marathon as part of the first modern Olympic Games.

At that time, only 16 countries were allowed to compete. Representatives of 206 countries competed in the 2012 marathon held in London.

The first neon sign installed in Las Vegas in 1941.

Now, traveling in the Nevada Desert area, you will surely feel a little blinded by the abundance of brightly shining neon.

The crowd of people who gathered at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 pales in comparison with the hordes of spectators who attended the 2012 Games in London.

Representatives of the upper class left the busy streets of the big city to try out the first New York subway, opened in 1904.

Currently, underground transport is no longer an attribute of the life of the rich and is loaded with passengers no less than cars and buses.

West Berliners are watching the start of work on the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961.

This year, residents of the united Berlin celebrated the anniversary of the fall of the Wall, noting its former outlines with illuminated balloons.

The organizers of the Boston Marathon are trying to stop Catherine Switzer, who dared to participate in the race, available in 1967 exclusively to men.

In 2014, approximately equal numbers of women and men ran the marathon.

In 1903, the Wright brothers took this picture, fearing that no one would believe in creating a machine capable of flying through the air for 59 seconds a distance of 260 meters.

In 2014, the probe traveled 6.5 billion kilometers, and then landed on a comet, and no one had any doubts about the truthfulness of this fact.

In 1918, a French soldier whose face was mutilated in During the First World War, he was equipped with a special orthopedic mask.

Less than a hundred years later, in 2011, doctors performed the first full face transplant on Dallas Vince.

Over time, of course, we become even more courageous. In 1894, Otto Lilienthal made his first glider flight.

In 1901, Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to survive after descending Niagara Falls in a barrel.

And now Felix Baumgartner is already making a jump from the stratosphere, from a height of 39 kilometers above the Earth's surface.