I was going to complain that the 140-character excerpts give an inaccurate view of the period, which (according to olduse.net as well as my unreliable neurons) were fonder of multiparagraph discourse than our age...
...but the "sound bite" extraction was done on purpose. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
New window into an old room? Ripping the images from the site and making it scroll is interesting here too. It is an odd effect. Reminds me of listening to a digital audio recording of a wax cylinder or a card board record from World War I - it jogs the consciosness just that little bit extra.