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Why isn't the World's Fair a thing anymore?
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Why isn't the World's Fair a thing anymore?
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>>521848
Europe still has plenty of annual expos.
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>>521848
>t. Friend
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>>521848
....it still fucking is?
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_2015

Its nothing novel anymore because we have instant mass media now to advertise shit as opposed to gathering in one place in the world every year to expose new commercial ideas.
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>>521848
Because the collapse of the wigsphere made insurance too expensive
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>>521848
Because New York started selling through colour magazines and television.
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It is.

Except they suck balls now, because they were supposed to be about nations displaying their achievements, but today nations no longer exist and neither do achievements. So now it's just galleries of hairy assholes.
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Internet.
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>>521851
which sucks balls. Major balls.
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>>522502
Because Europe sucks major balls.
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>>521848
Because the great powers don't try anymore to show off

Some one post the Paris world fair with the soviet and german expos facing each other
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>>521848
It is, China's one was a big deal, but most countries don't put such a show
It's a pity, much better to travel to see the achievements of a nation and technology, than shitty sports and divegrass.
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