Wes

Because Wes was last IN THE REAL WORLD around 1912, he predates a lot of things other characters may take for granted. This means inventions, laws, historical events, wars, etc.

With that in mind, here is a HANDY DANDY LIST to help you understand where Wes stands in relation to things!

BEFORE:

World War I (by only a couple years--he doesn't know about Nazis, the Nazi occupation of France, or the Resistance)
Decolonisation of France (France was still an Empire in Wes' time)
Audio radio broadcasts (8 years)
Women's Suffrage in the United States (8 years)
Flappers/Women in trousers (8 years)
Prohibition (8 years)
Marcel Marceau (10 years before Marceau was even BORN)
Modern Communism/Soviet Union (15 years)
The Great Depression (20 years)
ENIAC - aka the first real computer (32 years)
Two-piece swimwear (just a couple years... but the bikini didn't happen until 1946!)
Polio vaccine (45 years--but it wasn't licensed until about 50 years after Wes' time)
Most other vaccines (including tuberculosis)
First successful limb reattachment surgery (52 years)
Second Vatican Council/20th Century Church Reforms (50 years)
Abolishment of Jim Crow (about 52 years)

AFTER:

Rotary phones
Flush toilets
Typewriters
X-Rays
Soda pop
The Model T
Electric lighting
The teddy bear
SOME organ transplants
Smallpox vaccine
Chinese Exclusion Act
Statue of Liberty