What Happened In My Birth Year?

I can't really catch the facts, because it's STILL typing and won't let me scroll back properly. But
for some reason, this site felt the need to remind me that there were no DVDs in 1958, either.

Holy crud is this thing patronizing. Also, this "slow typing" thing? Almost as annoying.

um... there's something to be said for simply displaying the entirety of the text in a straightforward fashion, rather than the painfully slow typed-out presentation used here. despite being interested in the content, i got bored about 2 sentences in, realizing that complaining about it would be a far better use of my time.

The reminder that there was no Google, Yahoo. or DVDs is silly. I obviously know that but I guess if I were seven it might be a revelation.

The teletype effect lost its novelty after a couple of minutes so I finally closed out the window.

C'mon guys. I am the only one who really liked the idea?! I really loved the way it showed me (slowly) those sentences, character by character.

I mean, the site was intended to be a remembering letter from the past and to get us thinking about the path we've been walking since. I think this is a brilliant idea and I thank Neatorama for posting it. It made me rethink the years that have gone by. 1984 was a heck of a year :D

"In 1966, the world was a different place. There was no Google yet. Or Yahoo. Or Neatorama, for that matter."

More significantly there was no internet, but the author of this site seems to have missed that. And that's not the only thing that got missed. The author clearly didn't think that there would be at least as many visitors from outside the US as inside it, and yet most of those facts are US centric.

"In the year 1966, the time when you arrived on this planet, books were still popularly read on paper, not on digital devices. Trees were felled to get the word out."

Er, well yes and in 2011 books are still popularly read on paper. Whoever authored this needs to realise that just because they have an ebook reader that doesn't mean that most of the rest of the world doesn't still read paper books.

3/10 Not a bad idea, but needs a lot more work. Start again with a clean sheet and see what you can do with a little effort.

@Manuel - Trust me, 1984 wasn't that good a year. I lived through it and not a whole lot significant happened.

It makes me angry when websites implement such an annoying, useless behavior.

Whew, I'm glad I'm the only one that didn't remember what movie, book, president, invention, Noble winner was around when I was BORN.

Would be way more interesting if they would list a few things from your birth year, and then move thru interesting stuff when you were 5, 10,15,20,30.....

Maybe then a few things would "click" and you'd actually remember some of them.

And kill the letter by letter crap - I'd prefer to get the info before I have another birthday.

Spending too much money to watch some crappy movie and eat overpriced junk food is hardly a novelty!

Lame. if you've ever been in a Bob Evans Restaurant, they sell cheap booklets about the year you were born with more engaging facts about your birth year. And you don't have to be spoon fed the words one....at....a....time.... And, dude, I'm 42, I'm well aware that there was no Internet in 1969.

pt64: Too bad it didn't sound like a TTY. Now that would have been great. Was way too fast for a TTY though.

ZS: Manuel probably thinks '84 was pretty significant.

What an enormous pile of pseudo-philosophical cack

I remember 1984. I can still hear the squealing of my 1200 baud modem connecting me to the BBS across town because there was NO INTERNET! Now that I think about it, I might just have tinnitus.