5 ways the world changed since the Cubs' 1908 victory

The ultimate losing streak in sports began the day after the Cubs' last World Series victory in 1908, a year that most of us don't remember too clearly.

Let us put this drought in perspective. Here's how life was different 108 years go.

<h3 class="leadin">There was no Wrigley Field

The Cubs played in West Side Park the year they last won the World Series. The venue no longer exists.

Wrigley Field, first known has Weeghman Park, didn't open until a few years later, and the Cubs started playing there in 1916, already eight years into their historic streak.

<h3 class="leadin">Women couldn't vote

U.S. voters could in a few weeks elect a woman as president for the first time, an idea that might have seemed unthinkable in 1908.

The Cubs already hadn't won the World Series for 12 years by the time women won the right to vote in 1920.

That year, Republican William Taft was elected president, carrying Illinois for the GOP, a party that has its own presidential drought going here.

Taft didn't win Arizona, New Mexico, Alaska or Hawaii, though.

Because they weren't states yet.

<h3 class="leadin">Model T

Traffic outside Wrigley Field after Saturday night's clincher was no doubt a mess, thanks in part to Henry Ford's 1908 innovation.

That year saw the production of the first Model T, a car made possible and relatively cheap by Ford's assembly line.

Getting to a baseball game hasn't been the same since.

<h3 class="leadin">Sinking ship

Former Cubs ace Kerry Wood threw out the first pitch Saturday. His turn guiding the Cubs into the playoffs in 1998 came the same year Oscar voters handed “Titanic” the best-picture statue.

The real Titanic, though, hadn't been built in 1908. Construction started in 1909.

<h3 class="leadin">Da Staleys

The Chicago Bears didn't exist yet, nor did the Blackhawks.

The team now known as the Bears wouldn't be founded for more than 10 years after 1908 in Decatur, then known as the Staleys after a major company in the city.