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Headlines that would make no sense twenty years ago

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  • #2
    eviltimeban
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,194 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    "Something something President Trump"


  • #3
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    The talk of people with hundreds of thousands of followers probably would have been pretty alarming.


  • #4
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,439 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    take everything wrote: »
    Just reading the paper earlier and thought to myself this headline would make absolutely no sense to someone twenty years ago. Or even fifteen years ago.

    Any other similar headlines


    “Ireland becomes first country to legalise gay marriage by popular vote”


    Would be a whole lot of head scratching with that one :D


  • #5
    FFred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 763 ✭✭✭FFred


    Freddie Starr ate my manbag.


  • #6
    Aska
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭Aska


    Galway are Leinster champions


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  • #7
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Become friends online in a website


  • #8
    keano_afc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,713 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Women fight for their rightful place in their sport as men start to compete against them.


  • #9
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,537 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    ...... becomes a YouTube star
    Alphabet/Amazon continue their marches to world domination
    Fans utterly disappointed by GOT finale
    Avengers makes nearly $3 billion at box office


  • #10
    realmoonunit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86 ✭✭realmoonunit


    Selfie deaths now outnumber shark attack deaths.


  • #11
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Little boys become girls, and girls become boys


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  • #12
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    A Pope resigns


  • #13
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    branie2 wrote: »
    Become friends online in a website

    Could and did happen 20 years ago.


  • #14
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Tombo2001 wrote: »
    Could and did happen 20 years ago.

    Before Facebook?


  • #15
    ldy4mxonucwsq6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,537 ✭✭✭ldy4mxonucwsq6


    branie2 wrote: »
    Before Facebook?

    Yes believe it or not there were social networks and chat rooms around well before Facebook!


  • #16
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    branie2 wrote: »
    Before Facebook?

    Hard to believe.

    There were gazillions of chat forums around in 1999. Plenty of opportunity to find friends; though obviously not 'Facebook Friends'.


  • #17
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    if you kept tweeting the men in white coats would be summoned


  • #18
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,745 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    branie2 wrote: »
    Before Facebook?

    Is this taking the mick?


  • #19
    Autecher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,960 ✭✭✭Autecher


    branie2 wrote: »
    Before Facebook?

    Warren Wonderful Bathhouse wrote: »
    Yes believe it or not there were social networks and chat rooms around well before Facebook!



    Yep. My dear friend Tom was my first ever online friend. We talked a lot, got to know each other very well and even met up in real life a few times. Unfortunately we lost contact a few years ago, I'll put his picture up here. Please anybody if you see this man tell him to contact me. I miss him very much.


    5ac24ca5c9bf9ebf06847a1f?ops=max(650,0),quality(80)


  • #20
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    A country leaving the European Union, or at least trying to leave


  • #21
    skallywag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,096 ✭✭✭skallywag


    Tombo2001 wrote: »
    Hard to believe.

    There were gazillions of chat forums around in 1999. Plenty of opportunity to find friends; though obviously not 'Facebook Friends'.

    I recall using a simple Internet Relay Chat (IRC) program in 1995 to get chatting to people in North America, it blew me away to be able to chat in real time to someone so far away.

    a/s/l? :D


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  • #22
    Apiarist
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    Autecher wrote: »
    Yep. My dear friend Tom was my first ever online friend. ...[/IMG]

    For those who did not get the joke, the explanation is here: https://kiss108.iheart.com/content/2018-04-02-heres-what-happened-to-myspace-tom/

    Keep Boards alive, subscribe



  • #23
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,745 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    "The most powerful man in the world tweeted an invite to the Premier of North Korea"

    People would have been spitting out their coffee at that one.


  • #24
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,282 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Ireland's first openly gay Prime Minister/Taoiseach shows off his socks to other World leaders!


  • #25
    eviltimeban
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,194 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    I remember being on Usenet groups (rec.music.beatles was a favourite) in 1992, pre-Netscape / browsers. It was all done over a DOS prompt. I use to print the discussions out on a dot matrix printer.


  • #26
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Ireland's first openly gay Prime Minister/Taoiseach shows off his socks to other World leaders!

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  • #27
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    A short man playing a guy in films, who is blonde, tall and muscular in novels that the films are based on.


  • #28
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,777 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    My Internet is down so I can't watch TV


    Or for newspapers...

    'Kids addicted to angry birds'

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • #29
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,777 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    eviltimeban wrote: »
    "Something something President Trump"

    Let's expand this to next week.

    President Trump tweets congratulations to Prime Minister Johnson.

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • #30
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Computers you can hold in your hands


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  • #31
    Faith+1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,655 ✭✭✭Faith+1


    branie2 wrote: »
    A country leaving the European Union, or at least trying to leave

    Greenland did in the 80's


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