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What events happened the year you were born.

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    #2
    Gilldog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭Gilldog


    The Terminator happened. Im so proud.


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    #3
    My name is URL
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    In 1983, the world was a different place.

    There was no Google yet. Or Yahoo. Or Stumbleupon, for that matter.

    In 1983, the year of your birth, the top selling movie was Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. People buying the popcorn in the cinema lobby had glazing eyes when looking at the poster.

    A seminal moment in the history of our world


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    mackg
    Registered Users Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    Main thing according to that was the release of Top Gun


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    Dotrel
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    Titanic hit an iceberg? :confused: Well that's news to me!


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    Kasabian
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    I already knew that a world war began that year.


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    Desire2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 155 ✭✭Desire2


    Dotrel wrote: »
    Titanic hit an iceberg? :confused: Well that's news to me!

    Did it sink can you remember?:p


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    Paulor94
    Registered Users Posts: 111 ✭✭Paulor94


    Thats cool! Here's a bit of mine

    The 1990s were indeed a special decade. The Nineties saw the beginnings of the World Wide Web, originating at CERN. Email becomes popular. The Soviet Union dissolved. Living standards in East Asia and Europe generally improved. The Cold War ends. Iraqi forces invade Kuwait. A UN coalition force led by the US was sent to the Persian Gulf, and aerial bombing of Iraq began. The Kosovo War took place. The Ethiopian Civil War ends. Dolly, a sheep, is cloned. The Global Positioning System GPS becomes fully operational. Genetically engineered crops are developed for commercial use. Intel develops the Pentium processor. The Java programming language is created. Microsoft released Windows 95. In Los Angeles, riots occur after the police brutality case involving Rodney King. Great Britain hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to China. East Timor breaks away from Indonesian control. US president Bill Clinton was involved in the Lewinsky scandal. Dogme 95 becomes an important artistic movement in European film. Teen soap Beverly Hills 90210 has its long run. Baywatch becomes the most watched show in history. On MTV, reality television makes its beginning. Nelson Mandela is elected president of South Africa. Germany was reunified. The prediction of computer bug Y2K spreads fear.

    Best bit? in 1994 there was no google or stumbleupon infact.


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    Dudess
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    94?! Sweet Jesus!
    Im biologically old enough to be your mother!

    In 1978 I don't think much happened. Bony M were in the charts.


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    stoneill
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    We stopped using bronze and started to use iron!


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    strobe
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    Paulor94 wrote: »
    Best bit? in 1994 there was no google or stumbleupon infact.

    :eek: Holy crap that makes me feel old.
    Dudess wrote: »

    In 1978 I don't think much happened. Bony M were in the charts.

    Ah, that's better. Sure I'm still just a young buck so.

    Thanks Dudess. :p


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    mackg
    Registered Users Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    My parents sex life deteriorated dramatically.


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    Balfie
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    I was born in 1988, it was the year of the Dublin Millennium. A 50p piece was made especially for the event. I had one, but lost it..


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    Benny_Cake
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    Ayatollahs in Iran,
    Russians in Afghanistan

    Got that awful song stuck in my head now..


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    paky
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    there was at total elcipse when i was born also a tornado, volcano eruption and tsunami all in one day


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    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,067 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    paky wrote: »
    there was at total elcipse when i was born also a tornado, volcano eruption and tsunami all in one day

    All normal parts of the birth process


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    Biggins
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    The wheel was invented.


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    Benny_Cake
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    paky wrote: »
    there was at total elcipse when i was born also a tornado, volcano eruption and tsunami all in one day

    Your name isn't Damien by any chance?


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    Paulor94
    Registered Users Posts: 111 ✭✭Paulor94


    Dudess wrote: »
    94?! Sweet Jesus!
    Im biologically old enough to be your mother!

    In 1978 I don't think much happened. Bony M were in the charts.

    If you where you'd be one of those teen moms :P


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    zenno
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    Desire2 wrote: »
    Just type in the year of birth,i found lots of stuff i did not know about mine even from those pay certificates.

    http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2gq2af/whathappenedinmybirthyear.com/

    as i was held screaming and spluttering some kind of words and crapping all over myself in 1969 while mother and father were trying to watch the moon landing live, this was 1 major event a couple of days after my birth.

    and it's now almost 2012 and i'm still screaming and spluttering and crapping all over myself, wow looking back it's amazing how things have changed.


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    paky
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭paky


    Benny_Cake wrote: »
    Your name isn't Damien by any chance?

    funny you should say that



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    Samich
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    My birth happened the year I was born.


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    Wetai
    Registered Users Posts: 773 ✭✭✭Wetai


    paky wrote: »
    there was at total elcipse when i was born also a tornado, volcano eruption and tsunami all in one day
    The day Goku went Super Saiyan? :pac:


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    Desire2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 155 ✭✭Desire2


    zenno wrote: »
    as i was held screaming and spluttering some kind of words and crapping all over myself in 1969 while mother and father were trying to watch the moon landing live,

    Did you give a small kick or a Giant kick to take your parents attention off the telly and on to you?


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    Skylinehead
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    Gilldog wrote: »
    The Terminator happened. Im so proud.
    Terminator 2 >
    :p


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    zenno
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    Desire2 wrote: »
    Did you give a small kick or a Giant kick to take your parents attention off the telly and on to you?

    I'm not sure but they said the effort i put into it was akin to a mobile phone vibration, i was that tiny i just vibrated all over them in many ways and they just said here here, heres another drop of whiskey on the sooder lol it done me the world of good.


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    hellboy99
    Registered Users Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭hellboy99


    Elvis died :(


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    44leto
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    I am Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod. I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel. And I am immortal.


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    John Doe1
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    Berlin wall fell down:)


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    Irish Guitarist
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    Apparently there was no Google or Yahoo in 1976. Rocky was on in the cinema and it caused peoples eyes to glaze over (or something). Books were still on paper rather than electronic devices. DVDs hadn't been invented either and people still went to the cinema. Just imagine. :eek:


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    phasers
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    6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... it's 1991. There's TV noise coming from the second floor. Someone turned up the volume way too high. The sun is burning from above. These were different times. The show playing on TV is Clarissa Explains it All. The sun goes down. Someone switches channels. There's The Red Green Show on now. That's the world you were born in.

    Progress, year after year. Do you wonder where the world is heading towards? The technology available today would have blown your mind in 1991. Do you know what was invented in the year you were born? The Memory Card.

    I was watching reruns of Clarissa until about 1997. Doesn't seem like I missed much.


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