Headlines that would make no sense twenty years ago

Irish Guitarist

"Here's a List of 58 Gender Options for Facebook Users"

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/02/heres-a-list-of-58-gender-options-for-facebook-users/

Hobosan

"Scientists Estimate the Age of the Universe is 13 Billion and 20 Years Old."

RobbingBandit

The Simpsons hasn't been funny or relevant for quite some time,

Harvey Weinstein is a very bad man.

America on permanent terror alert

glaswegian

Man takes photograph with telephone.

is_that_so

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'.

That was the true wild west. Mad places! ASL! :P

is_that_so

Warren Wonderful Bathhouse wrote: »

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

Friends Reunited was created in 1999 and went live in 2000.

mikemac2

Child diagnosed with ODD "oppositional defiant disorder"

20 years ago you said "little bollix"

Blaizes

10,000 homeless in Ireland

Sheridan81

Sheridan81 wrote: »

Messi criticizes VAR

Messi leaves the world of football and enters the world of javascript.

Ted_YNWA

Snowflakes get offended that there is no vegetarian sausage rolls at music festival.

Ted_YNWA

glaswegian wrote: »

Man takes photograph with telephone.

And goes to prison for taking NSFW ones.

is_that_so

Students spend too much time on Facetime!

Beasty

"It's 50 years since the Moon landing"

gammygils

Australia wins Eurovision

Ten of Swords

Anything relating to the recession

20 years ago the sky was the limit!!! Possibly also before the original dot com bubble too (not sure!)

Autecher

Demi Lazy Backstroke wrote: »

"Brand new mint condition kettle gets absolutely rammed by HUGE red toaster"

"Filthy extension board takes FIVE plugs at once!"

I’ve been giggling about this one since I read it. I love when that happens in life! I’m just back from a walk and four different times I walked by people fighting the urge to laugh so they wouldn’t think I was laughing at them or that I was a loony. It didn’t work, it never does, laughter cannot be suppressed.

feargale

People peppering their tv and radio speech and their newspaper columns with the word "fcuk"

feargale

Offaly hurlers relegated to the third "division" in both league and championship.

Sheridan81

230 school shootings in America since Columbine

Laphroaig52

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

Humanity has been crossed

That still doesn't make sense.

branie2

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

And goes to prison for taking NSFW ones.

or given the sack

Victor

branie2 wrote: »

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

Both Algeria and Greenland have left the EU.

MOH

"<anything> influencer <anything>"

Odyssey 2005

"Sorry bud no smoking "


'What do you mean ? This is a pub isn't it?'

ILoveYourVibes

POLITICIAN HAS NO COMMENT ON DICK PICK.

ILoveYourVibes

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

POLITICIAN HAS NO COMMENT ON DICK PICK.

That extra K really makes it.

Lewis_Benson

[Deleted User] wrote: »

That extra K really makes it.

Dick Spring!

L1011

Blaizes wrote: »

10,000 homeless in Ireland

This isn't even the worst housing crisis we've had (yet). 60s one had people importing touring caravans to live in along roads in to Dublin, trailer parks as a thing and even longer queues for rental viewings. Just nobody was keeping count to the same extent as now

Pinch Flat

Twitter outage causes disruption for millions of users

foxy farmer

And here's your host Ryan Tubridy.

branie2

foxy farmer wrote: »

And here's your host Ryan Tubridy.

Who's Ryan Tubridy?

A lot of people would have been thinking that 20 years ago

L1011

branie2 wrote: »

Who's Ryan Tubridy?

A lot of people would have been thinking that 20 years ago

Tubridy was already on Radio 1 20 years ago


This thread is full of people who seem to think that 35 years ago is 20 years ago. It isn't. We're all ancient.

Mad_maxx

Aska wrote: »

Galway are Leinster champions

Dublin aiming for five in a row

jim salter

eviltimeban wrote: »

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.

I still use Usenet

Bigbagofcans

Demi Lazy Backstroke wrote: »

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

Jesus the Influencer?

Standman

Tell me how wrote: »

Is this taking the mick?

Remember, you could be talking to someone who was born after Facebook was founded. I know, ouch...

PinotNero

Manchester City win back to back Premier Leagues

LordBasil

'British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn blasts government's Brexit strategy'

goose2005

Sheridan81 wrote: »

230 school shootings in America since Columbine

only if you use the most incredibly broad definition (Janitor shoots himself in his car in the carpark? School shooting. Gangland shooting, a stray bullet falls in a playground? School shooting.)

Sheridan81

What is your definition of a school shooting? I didn't make the headline up.

kowloon

branie2 wrote: »

Little boys become girls, and girls become boys

Girls who are boys
Who like boys to be girls
Who do boys like they're girls
Who do girls like they're boys
Always should be someone you really love

antodeco

House fire increase due to over-charging of books

Sheridan81

Jimmy Savile's grave becomes twisted tourist attraction

Rolf Harris's Two Little Boys banned from radio

Gary Glitter booed off stage in tears for jail karaoke performance

freshpopcorn

Queues of young people to buy designer gin!

Sheridan81

Irish anti-vaping sentiment needs to be stubbed out

kowloon

Standman wrote: »

Remember, you could be talking to someone who was born after Facebook was founded. I know, ouch...

Don't say that, I'm still trying to get my head around adults born after the Millenium.

branie2

A one-way trip to Mars

harry Bailey esq

freshpopcorn wrote: »

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

I'm no blueshirt, but have no beef with leo but sweet Jesus that was embarrassing for us all.

Charmeleon

“Single sentence opinions from seven random people about a program that was on TV last night. See pg. 5,6 and 7 for full details”

riclad

Every week theres an article celeb x gets insulted on social media .
or celeb x posted a photo that has been photoshopped to look more attractive .
News at 11 ,on a service with a billion users ,some people will be rude ,stupid ,sexist and ignorant .
It seems every week theres a headline ,website x has been hacked ,
millions of users data is exposed .
And user data credit card no,s social security no,s etc are exposed,
is it not time there were basic security standards required for any company
that has a million users or more .
Governments and companys with millions of users seem to be awful at basic online security.
Every 2 months theres some article about the awful things the catholic church did, babys been given up for adoption etc