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On top of that we have had since about that time a mindset of 'throw it away'. Before 1970 the idea was for machines to be as good as human creators where the word 'antique' used to mean specifically something that was not created by a machine in a factory as there were wars and debates about machines being able to match quality. Look up the REAL Oliver Twist.

Now antique simply has a meaning of 'old' without any real definition and not necessarily not done by machine.