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What happened in the year you were born

  • 07-11-2010 5:35pm
    #1
    Otis Driftwood
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    I got this in an email recently and thought it pretty cool.It takes ages though.Some very interesting stuff in it.

    http://whathappenedinmybirthyear.com/

    Just click the link and enter the year you were born.Simples.


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  • #2
    Carpenter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,683 ✭✭✭Carpenter


    nedtheshed wrote: »
    I got this in an email recently and thought it pretty cool.It takes ages though.Some very interesting stuff in it.

    http://whathappenedinmybirthyear.com/

    Just click the link and enter the year you were born.Simples.

    Now that is cool


  • #3
    kelle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    Link won't work for me!


  • #4
    SadieSue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭SadieSue


    That is pretty cool. I feel old now though :pac:


  • #5
    Kippure
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    Very good


  • #6
    foxinsox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭foxinsox


    Mmmmh..

    It's told me that Google or Yahoo didn't exist..

    There were no computers..

    Books were still popular..
    Trees were felled to make these books...

    I kinda knew that stuff.. :)


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  • #7
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Much better way to find out just go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ and put the year of your birth at the end of it. e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986

    The other site is crap, it spends ages loading up stuff instead of just giving me all the info at once. I can't even let it autoload and come back to it later because it insists on auto scrolling to the bottom of the page. It doesn't seem to prioritise things very well for example the site has been loading **** for ages, it's told me the lyrics to rock me amadeus and told me what films were out when I was 9 and 8 and 7 but has still yet to tell me that Chernobyl disaster happened the year of my birth. That's a pretty major event. Stupid site.


  • #8
    Darksaga87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,990 ✭✭✭Darksaga87


    foxinsox wrote: »
    Mmmmh..

    It's told me that Google or Yahoo didn't exist..

    There were no computers..

    Books were still popular..
    Trees were felled to make these books...

    I kinda knew that stuff.. :)


    1987 was a good year. :D


  • #9
    shogunpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 279 ✭✭shogunpower


    In 1992... George H. W. Bush is televised falling violently ill at a state dinner in Japan, vomiting into the lap of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and fainting.

    microsoft 3.1 oohh yea...


  • #10
    keano_afc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Hmm, good idea for a television programme, I might call it Reeling in the Years or something similar...


  • #11
    Local-womanizer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Local-womanizer


    Germany was reunited,my birth took away from that sorry :o


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