'Professional historians spend their lives pursuing the meaning of the past for the present.' Everything that exists in today's world has some origin coming from the past. Everything that exists today and seems to be unique of its time has some basis from the past. It is a known fact that history has a tendency of repeating itself, and so to prepare us for the future we need to understand the past. History can …showed first 75 words of 781 total…

…showed last 75 words of 781 total…source I get some may be just exaggerating the facts to prove their point to the reader. This article also has shown me that even though it seems that the new technology has taken over the world, the past is also very present. The houses next to the highways are still around to remind us that there was not always the Internet for example available in almost every home nonetheless more than one television set.