Stuff happened longer ago then you think...

Galwayguy35 · 02-04-2013 12:32am

Live Aid will be 28 years ago this summer, remember well watching it on the tele.

K-9 · 02-04-2013 12:32am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQFdz5rmlGM

A middle aged Jack Nicholson introducing Dylan, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood at Live Aid. Performance isn't that great actually, but Live Aid was cutting age technology at the time.

THall04 · 02-04-2013 12:34am

kwestfan08 wrote: »

If you take the year that "That 70's Show" was set in and it's original airdate and made it today it would be called "That 90's Show" and be set in 1991.

"That 90's Show".....it the most hateful piece of crap ever broadcasted

rannerap · 02-04-2013 12:50am

Remember the little kid from Jerry Maguire and Stuart Little? Hes 22 now and looks like this

Jonathan-Lipnicki2.jpeg

Jordan 199 · 02-04-2013 12:59am

Jordan Grand Prix won their first F1 race 15 years ago this August.

02-04-2013 1:01am

Scott and Charlene are celebrating their silver wedding anniversary this year!

Paully D · 02-04-2013 1:05am

12 years since 9/11

11 years since World Cup 2002 (Keane walking and the 1-1 draw with Germany before the heartbreaking defeat to Spain on penalties)

9 years since the Indian Ocean Tsunami

16 years since the death of Princess Diana

It really is unbelievable how quickly the years roll by.

Allyall · 02-04-2013 1:07am

Paully D wrote: »

12 years since 9/11

11 years since World Cup 2002 (Keane walking and the 1-1 draw with Germany before the heartbreaking defeat to Spain on penalties)

9 years since the Indian Ocean Tsunami
16 years since the death of Princess Diana
It really is unbelievable how quickly the years roll by.

:eek::eek::eek:
All of them, but that one really got me!

George Harrison died in 2001!

April O Neill · 02-04-2013 1:19am

Patser wrote: »

Outkast's 'Hey Ya!' is 10 years old.

Fúck off. :eek:

Paully D · 02-04-2013 1:22am

Patser wrote: »

Outkast's 'Hey Ya!' is 10 years old.

Ms. Jackson is over 12 years old :eek:

TeddyTedson · 02-04-2013 1:24am

April O Neill wrote: »

Fúck off. :eek:

I used to have a crush on you :-)
Which turtle did ya fancy the most?

wertyuiop · 02-04-2013 1:50am

20 years since playing Streets of Rage and eating push pops.

Solair · 02-04-2013 1:56am

First SMS message was sent 21 years ago.

Paully D · 02-04-2013 1:59am

Solair wrote: »

First SMS message was sent 21 years ago.

14 years since the Nokia 3210 was released :eek:

scotchy · 02-04-2013 2:01am

If “Back to the future” (the first one) was to be made today,

and Marty McFly was to travel back the same amount of time as he did in the original,

he would be in 1983. :eek:

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April O Neill · 02-04-2013 2:02am

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I used to have a crush on you :-)
Which turtle did ya fancy the most?

Leonardo, definitely Leonardo. Hawt.

TeddyTedson · 02-04-2013 2:06am

April O Neill wrote: »

Leonardo, definitely Leonardo. Hawt.

I think I fancied him a bit too. They were all hot though. Master splinter used to love having such hotties around the lair.

Solair · 02-04-2013 2:08am

Paully D wrote: »

14 years since the Nokia 3210 was released :eek:

I thought it was longer! That seems about right

Solair · 02-04-2013 2:10am

The financial crisis started 5 years ago!!

calanus · 02-04-2013 2:18am

I recently witnessed what kind of cartoons pass as Saturday morning entertainment these days

and went and found out that Animaniacs/Pink and the Brain both ended in 1998....almost 15 years ago.

MickFleetwood · 02-04-2013 2:18am

1ZRed wrote: »

I remember the first jak and daxter

Worse still I remember playing crash bandicoot when I was young which is 16 years old! That's nearly legal for sex! :eek:

Jak and Daxter, what a game! Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter, Crash Bandicoot and Spyro.

MickFleetwood · 02-04-2013 2:20am

I know this is fairly recent, but I'll put it out there anyway because it genuinely shocked me.

In just a few days, Grand Theft Auto IV will have been released five years ago. Jesus, doesn't seem that long at all!

B.A._Baracus · 02-04-2013 2:22am

(To continue on with the turtles references

)

I remember seeing the first teenage mutant ninja turtles movie in the Savoy Cinema as a kid. I always remember two things :P .... first coming out of the cinema and feeling it was cool because it was night time (It was one of the first times I was out at night lol) But the second is that some guy was selling turtles movie posters outside...

Times have changed indeed. If I was to camp outside the Savoy these days selling posters I would be quickly moved on by the guards.

Derpington95 · 02-04-2013 2:28am

MickFleetwood wrote: »

Jak and Daxter, what a game! Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter, Crash Bandicoot and Spyro.

Oh the nostalgia..

K-9 · 02-04-2013 2:30am

Jordan 191 wrote: »

Jordan Grand Prix won their first F1 race 15 years ago this August.

That seems completely wrong to me, my son will be 15 soon, I was sure Jordan winning was 95/96.

Ireland gave women the right to vote 91 years ago, the UK 6 years later.New Zealand was the first 120 years ago. 18 year old men were allowed to vote 95 years ago, it was 30 years or over before that. Major advancement was made in that period for universal suffrage.

Meanwhile, Northern Ireland went against the grain and re-inforced discrimination up until 40 years ago. You couldn't vote in local elections unless you owned a property, systemic religious discrimination, because who was far more likely to own property? Along with strategic re-drawings of Westminster boundaries if things got too close.

Owning a property gave you a vote and Catholics had a tiny chance of owning one.

Duggy747 · 02-04-2013 2:32am

Street Fighter 2 is 22 years old.

I remember you couldn't play those games in the arcades because of the massive queues and 20p coins lined along the screen.

Ruudi_Mentari · 02-04-2013 2:32am

TeddyTedson wrote: »

They were all hot though.

On the face of it...

they all looked the same, but it was fairly obvious Donatello had the longest pole... should this necaserrily interest a girl? No, so why me. Envy? Fascination. Seeing him wield it, with authority maybe...

Smidge · 02-04-2013 2:41am

"The Wizard of Oz" is 74 years old this year

"Dirty Dancing" is 26 years old

"Shawshank Redemption" is 19 years old

April O Neill · 02-04-2013 2:50am

K-9 wrote: »

Ireland gave women the right to vote 91 years ago, the UK 6 years later.New Zealand was the first 120 years ago. 18 year old men were allowed to vote 95 years ago, it was 30 years or over before that. Major advancement was made in that period for universal suffrage.

Switzerland gave women the vote only 42 years ago! :eek::mad:

02-04-2013 3:08am

K-9 wrote: »

That seems completely wrong to me, my son will be 15 soon, I was sure Jordan winning was 95/96.

Hill was gifted their first win, Spa 98.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0pfw5MWbSw

calanus · 02-04-2013 3:09am

K-9 wrote: »

That seems completely wrong to me, my son will be 15 soon, I was sure Jordan winning was 95/96.

Owning a property gave you a vote and Catholics had a tiny chance of owning one.

Nope, The first win for Jordan was a 1-2 in the famous 1998 Belgian grand prix at Spa. You know the one where the first start resulted in this v

RobbingBandit · 02-04-2013 4:50am

Who Framed Rodger Rabbit is 25 years old.

Galwayguy35 · 02-04-2013 5:17am

The first series of Glenroe was 30 years ago this year.

We all knew when it was starting that it was time to get the aul schoolbag ready for the dreaded monday morning:(

Ted_YNWA · 02-04-2013 6:05am

Damn you OP. I was happy living in my cocoon.. Why did you have to drill home the fact & encourage examples of how old i am . Was happy thinking in still in my 20's.

Irish Guitarist · 02-04-2013 6:13am

In my day we had proper wrestlers.

suicide_circus · 02-04-2013 6:15am

AnonoBoy wrote: »

14 years since Californication came out?

Wow!

Is it still sh*t?

It was never sh*t. An instant classic.

Solair · 02-04-2013 6:21am

Bart Simpson is 33 (aged ten for 23 years).

anna.fun · 02-04-2013 7:06am

14 years since the first american pie movie...

Three Seasons · 02-04-2013 7:12am

DazMarz wrote: »

Kids born in the year 2000 are either already in secondary school or will be going there this year... I remember my first day in secondary school... in the year 2000. Dear jesus.

The Matrix is 14 years old.

Terminator 2: Judgement Day is 22 years old (and still looks kick-ass to this day)

and other things that just remind me of how quickly time is marching on, and "recent" things are actually from a generation or two ago...

How long is a generation?

Gloomtastic! · 02-04-2013 7:41am

anna.fun wrote: »

14 years since the first american pie movie...

I saw the first American Pie movie when I was a teenager and that was a lot longer than 14 years ago, more like 34 years.....

Edit: Can't find any online reference to earlier Pie films. Scratching head here wondering if I was imagining it!!!!

Edit II: Found it. I was American Graffiti I was thinking of. Now I can't delete post. Sorry!

SEPT 23 1989 · 02-04-2013 8:13am

In my mind a "00" registration car is nearly new

not 13 years old

smash · 02-04-2013 8:31am

Here's one that made me feel old

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6uzg7ItdL1qkpcpdo1_500.jpg

coolhull · 02-04-2013 8:41am

Remember, entering the year 2,000, a lot of publicans were charging 10 to 20 pounds to get in to their premises on New Years Eve.
In other words, wanting your money before you went in to spend more of your money.
That was the night they sowed the seeds of their own destruction, and fcuk them!

Wibbs · 02-04-2013 8:42am

Maybe it's me now, but a lot of these media things seem like they were only yesterday because 1) much of the stuff is endlessly repeated, which didn't happen nearly so much 20 or 30 years ago so it seems more current and 2) a lot of the stuff that makes things look "older", fashion etc hasn't changed nearly as radically as in previous decades.

Take the series Friends as a good example of the above. Again it's endlessly repeated so is still "current" in our heads and while the very first series has something of an aged look to it, it's as much down to the video quality and look, fashion/style wise not that different to today and it's just about two decades old. Later series look even less "old". The last episode was ten tears ago and could have been shot yesterday.

Now imagine if this was say 1973, if we were watching a sitcom from 1953 it would look like a different universe. If it was 1983 imagine watching a 1963 sitcom, again it would look very "old". Hell watch a 1983 sitcom in 2003 and it looked old. The pace of change in tech has been very large with PC's and smartphones etc, but general fashion and the look of things hasn't to nearly the same degree as in previous decades.

Ash.J.Williams · 02-04-2013 8:48am

It's been 20.5 years since nirvana's nevermind. If you go back 20 years from then 1992 you get this sort of thing!!
http://www.bobborst.com/popculture/number-one-songs-by-year/?y=1972&chart=uk

Standard Toaster · 02-04-2013 8:55am

"Who loves orange soda? Kel loves orange soda. Is it true? Mm-hmm! I do, I do ,I do, I do, I do-ooh!") - 13 years ago.

Crazy Prices vanished from Ireland 16 years ago.

Sharon Curley's baby Georgina will be turning 20 this year.

GamesMaster first aired 21 years ago.

Sledge Hammer! was 25 years ago!

First time we seen Zig & Zag on TV was 26 years ago.

Same for BraveStarr.

Prisoner Cell Block H ended 27 years ago

This book is 29 years old

Bosco is 35

smash · 02-04-2013 9:09am

On Saturday I mentioned He-Man to someone and they'd never heard of him...

Solair · 02-04-2013 9:16am

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Prisoner Cell Block H ended 27 years ago

As recently as that?
It always looked like it was set in another era entirely.

antodeco · 02-04-2013 9:25am

The Nokia 3330 (white version of the blue 3310) which was the first popular “wap” phone, was released 13 years ago!

Solair · 02-04-2013 9:29am

antodeco wrote: »

The Nokia 3330 (white version of the blue 3310) which was the first popular “wap” phone, was released 13 years ago!

WAP and iMode were pretty dire. Remember when they used to try to charge you about €2.99 to access a single 'wap page' too.

Stuff happened longer ago then you think...

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