What Happened The Year You Were Born?

[knapplc]

Interesting site. Takes a while, but it has a lot of fun stuff:

http://whathappenedinmybirthyear.com/

[The Artful Dodger]

I wish the presentation was much better. Otherwise, I learned a couple of factoids I didn't know before. I had no idea Seinfeld was popular in 1982, for example.

[Metroid]

Pretty cool indeed. The first commercial concord flight was in 1976, Apple Computer Company was formed, and the Viking spacecraft landed on Mars. Man that did take a long time. I stopped once it started talking about when I was 15.

It was pretty funny how it started off telling me the "Fantasy Football Cafe didn't exist yet."

[scottaa1]

books were still popularly read on paper, the year I was born. Apparently I was the ultimate achievement of my birth year.

[shawngee03]

too slow, i quit. just give me the info. i dont need it to be typed out for me. and i dont need the cute little remarks. yes i knwo there was no internet, yes i know people watched movies in movie theaters.

[stomperrob]

What Happened The Year I Was Born...

..the world suddenly became a better place!

[scottaa1]

What Happened The Year I Was Born...

..the world suddenly became a better place!

Do historical records even go back that far?

[stomperrob]

What Happened The Year I Was Born...

..the world suddenly became a better place!

Do historical records even go back that far?

Sure:

[scottaa1]

is that your birth certificate stomper?

I shouldn't kid, mine was written on parchment with a feather pen.

[Munboy]

I'm surprised the US's bicentennial celebration isn't mentioned in mine. It got its own quarter and everything.