It is quite impossible for us today to have any idea of how life was a hundred years ago, because there are many other factors than technological comforts that influence quality of life. History does not give much of a clue either, since it is a field that is always heavily propagandized by current rulers wanting to let the population know how they have saved them from the horrors of the past.
I wouldn't even trust old people too much on their accounts of life in the past. Their memories are influenced and sometimes replaced by media and current "truths". A person who lived through an important happening IRL once has after that seen the media account of that happening hundreds of times throughout the decades of their life. Talking to old people or reading interviews with them, it is rare to hear them tell any deeper account of their life in the past. Sadly.
I wonder if that will happen to me also, and what would be the solution? Keeping a diary?