@boilerwash
i like to say that either the nanny did well on her job that her cutie mark was something bot invented at the time or equestrian’s invented modernist baby bottles earlier than humans

as for equestrian tech i say most tech is only for things that are necessary but they were in the 21st century since they have rave(?) parties with vinal scratch in manehatten due to it being a city, while places like ponyville don’t need so much of that kind of tech (maybe unless they have a lot of money and it really depends on the individual) but it’s ok because is not always necessary and sometimes certain old tech is just the best tech to use for a situation no matter how old the idea is and also they just like the look of the houses because that is just the style they like best so they keep it that way

as for the boddle, i read glass bottles were invented during the 1500BC and rubber was in South America in 1600 B.C.E (look it up because i only got info from the first thing i see so don’t quote me on this) so maybe it was the same for ponies but they came up with the idea that actually worked and it stayed popular so that’s what i think could be a good explanation to how can there be boddles like that 1000 years ago

@Ping_chan  
War Changes everything except itself. Cause, war never changes.

@boilerwash  
So what your say is that, war changes everything?

Buttton Mash’s (great) grandmother?

@boilerwash  
Not to mention how the Crusades helped European nations discover new commodities from the east, which inspired them to explore the world, eventually leading to the discovery of the Americas.

@Zincy
 
@Master Fox
 
Master Fox has a point there. If you look back on our own technology we never really make any real major jumps in technology until a big war breaks out. I.E. the USA was more or less the same from the Civil War until WWI broke out and then the status quo stayed again until technology got pushed foward by WWII. After that all of our technological advances were almost totally driven by the cold war until that ended and then “the war on terror” after that.
 
Since Equestria is more or less a peaceful nation they only come up with technology as needed hence the hodgepodge of 18th century (their housing), the 1920’s (trains and hydroelectricity), and the 1950’s (16mm film, rudimentary video games).

@Zincy  
It’s not that it’s stuck in a perpetual technological dark age. They just have no reason to advance too far. That and discord likes to fuck stuff up.

Milky Way’s great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great…….. Grandmother.

@Trickquestion
 
That Equestria is stuck in a perpetual technological dark age? I imagine it’s like the Imperium. They’re using ancient technology without any real idea as to how it works, or how to maintain it.

So, apparently plastic bottles and rubber nipples existed 1000 years ago.
 
I’m not even sure what kind of implications to draw from that.

Is that Madam Foster ponyized?

The sisters’ nanny?