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Headlines that would make no sense twenty years ago

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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,087 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    "Something something President Trump"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭ Demi Lazy Backstroke


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 23,452 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 772 ✭✭✭FFred


    Freddie Starr ate my manbag.


  • Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭Aska


    Galway are Leinster champions


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Become friends online in a website


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,340 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭realmoonunit


    Selfie deaths now outnumber shark attack deaths.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Little boys become girls, and girls become boys


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    A Pope resigns


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,405 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    branie2 wrote: »
    Become friends online in a website

    Could and did happen 20 years ago.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


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

    Before Facebook?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,537 ✭✭✭ Warren Wonderful Bathhouse


    branie2 wrote: »
    Before Facebook?

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


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,405 ✭✭✭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'.


  • Registered Users Posts: 43,017 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 21,489 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    branie2 wrote: »
    Before Facebook?

    Is this taking the mick?


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


    branie2 wrote: »
    Before Facebook?

    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.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭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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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,586 ✭✭✭victor8600


    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/


  • Registered Users Posts: 21,489 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 30,020 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,087 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


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

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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,131 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    My Internet is down so I can't watch TV


    Or for newspapers...

    'Kids addicted to angry birds'

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,131 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    "Something something President Trump"

    Let's expand this to next week.

    President Trump tweets congratulations to Prime Minister Johnson.

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



  • Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Computers you can hold in your hands


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭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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