What happaned in your birth year

[Klik]

Link
A pretty nifty site which gives you info about what happened in the year you were born.

[Boxxy]

Hey, it mentions newgrounds! Who made this?

[alfraydo]

In 1993, the world was a different place.

There was no Google yet. Or Yahoo. Or Newgrounds, for that matter.

In 1993, the year of your birth, the top selling movie was Jurassic Park. People buying the popcorn in the cinema lobby had glazing eyes when looking at the poster.

People were indeed watching movies in the cinema, and not downloading them online. Imagine the packed seats, the laughter, the excitement, the novelty.

Do you know who won the Oscars that year? The academy award for the best movie went to Schindler's List. The Oscar for best foreign movie that year went to Belle Époque. The top actor was Tom Hanks for his role as Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia. The top actress was Holly Hunter for her role as Ada McGrath in The Piano. The best director? Steven Spielberg for Schindler's List.

In the year 1993, 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. The number one US bestseller of the time was The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller. Oh, that's many years ago. Have you read that book? Have you heard of it? Look at the cover!

AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!

[Allele]

In 1993, the world was a different place.

There was no Google yet. Or Yahoo. Or Newgrounds, for that matter.

In 1993, the year of your birth, the top selling movie was Jurassic Park. People buying the popcorn in the cinema lobby had glazing eyes when looking at the poster.

People were indeed watching movies in the cinema, and not downloading them online. Imagine the packed seats, the laughter, the excitement, the novelty.

Do you know who won the Oscars that year? The academy award for the best movie went to Schindler's List. The Oscar for best foreign movie that year went to Belle Époque. The top actor was Tom Hanks for his role as Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia. The top actress was Holly Hunter for her role as Ada McGrath in The Piano. The best director? Steven Spielberg for Schindler's List.

In the year 1993, 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. The number one US bestseller of the time was The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller. Oh, that's many years ago. Have you read that book? Have you heard of it?

In 1993... The European Community eliminates trade barriers and creates a European single market. EuroNews is launched in Europe. Douglas Hurd is the first high-ranking British official to visit Argentina since the Falklands War. Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as 'The Beast', is arrested in Palermo, Sicily after 23 years as a fugitive. Janet Reno is selected by President Clinton as Attorney General of the United States. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, with a warrant to arrest leader David Koresh on federal firearms violations. Id Software releases Doom, a seminal first-person shooter that uses advanced 3D graphics for computer games. Jiang Zemin becomes President of the People's Republic of China. A nuclear accident occurs at Tomsk 7 in Russia. Laurence Powell and Stacey Koon are found guilty in the second Rodney King trial. Eritrea and Monaco gain entry to the United Nations. U.S. President Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters in the Al-Mansur District of Baghdad, in response to the attempted assassination of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush during his visit to Kuwait in mid-April. The Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform succeeds in having the Irish sodomy law reformed. Canadian software specialist Peter de Jager publishes in Computerworld U.S. weekly magazine an article Doomsday 2000, which is the first known reference to Y2K, the 2000 Year problem. The video game of the day was Virtua Fighter.

That was the world you were born into. Since then, you and others have changed it.

The Nobel prize for Literature that year went to Toni Morrison. The Nobel Peace prize went to Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk. The Nobel prize for physics went to Russell Alan Hulse and Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. from the United States for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation. The sensation this created was big. But it didn't stop the planets from spinning, on and on, year by year. Years in which you would grow bigger, older, smarter, and, if you were lucky, sometimes wiser. Years in which you also lost some things. Possessions got misplaced. Memories faded. Friends parted ways. The best friends, you tried to hold on. This is what counts in life, isn't it?

The 1990s were indeed a special decade. The Nineties saw the beginnings of the World Wide Web, originating at CERN. Email becomes popular. The Soviet Union dissolved. Living standards in East Asia and Europe generally improved. The Cold War ends. Iraqi forces invade Kuwait. A UN coalition force led by the US was sent to the Persian Gulf, and aerial bombing of Iraq began. The Kosovo War took place. The Ethiopian Civil War ends. Dolly, a sheep, is cloned. The Global Positioning System GPS becomes fully operational. Genetically engineered crops are developed for commercial use. Intel develops the Pentium processor. The Java programming language is created. Microsoft released Windows 95. In Los Angeles, riots occur after the police brutality case involving Rodney King. Great Britain hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to China. East Timor breaks away from Indonesian control. US president Bill Clinton was involved in the Lewinsky scandal. Dogme 95 becomes an important artistic movement in European film. Teen soap Beverly Hills 90210 has its long run. Baywatch becomes the most watched show in history. On MTV, reality television makes its beginning. Nelson Mandela is elected president of South Africa. Germany was reunified. The prediction of computer bug Y2K spreads fear.

Do you know what was on the cover of Life that year?

There's a kid outside, shouting, playing. It doesn't care about time. It doesn't know about time. It shouts and it plays and thinks time is forever. You were once that kid.

When you were 9, the movie Return to Never Land was playing. When you were 8, there was Cats and Dogs. When you were 7, there was a Disney movie out called Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Does this ring a bell?

6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... it's 1993. There's TV noise coming from the second floor. Someone turned up the volume way too high. The sun is burning from above. These were different times. The show playing on TV is Walker, Texas Ranger. The sun goes down. Someone switches channels. There's Beavis and Butt-Head on now. That's the world you were born in.

Progress, year after year. Do you wonder where the world is heading towards? The technology available today would have blown your mind in 1993. Do you know what was invented in the year you were born? The Global Positioning System. The Blue LED.

Is it June or late September?
Is it 1993?

tl;dr

[IAmCrystalHeights]

There was no Google yet. Or Yahoo. Or Newgrounds, for that matter.

In 1993, the year of your birth, the top selling movie was Jurassic Park. People buying the popcorn in the cinema lobby had glazing eyes when looking at the poster.

what's up with the NG stuff? did somebody from NG make this or did it know the site I was linked from to?

[Onepiece285]

The Soviet Union collapses 1 month after my birthday. I am proud to say that the USSR existed during a part of my lifetime.

Yet I mourn it's dissolution greatly.

[Klik]

At 7/7/11 08:15 PM, EddyFromEEnE wrote: what's up with the NG stuff? did somebody from NG make this or did it know the site I was linked from to?

Newgrounds basically started the flash gaming revolution, or the idea that flash could be used for something other than just menus for sites. Hell without newgrounds we might of not have youtube.

[Tony-DarkGrave]

llectively known as the Revolutions of 1989, they heralded the dissolution of the Soviet Union two years later and the beginning of the post-Cold War period which is characterized by the dominance by the United States in world affairs.

explains why im so anti communist.

January 24 - Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida's electric chair.
June 3 The Ayatollah Khomeini dies in Iran.\
December 17 The first full-length episode of The Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", is shown on Fox.
August 25 - Voyager II passes the planet Neptune and its moon Triton.
August 14 - The Sega Genesis is released in North America.
July 31 - Nintendo releases the Game Boy portable video game system in North America.
September 5 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush holds up a bag of cocaine purchased across the street at Lafayette Park, in his first televised speech to the nation.

[saqwert]

My whole year is about movies

[Bobbybroccoli]

Super Mario 64 fuck yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Pokemonpoeguygcn]

In 1996, the world was a different place.

There was no Google yet.

In 1996, the year of your birth, the top selling movie was Independence Day. People buying the popcorn in the cinema lobby had glazing eyes when looking at the poster.

People were indeed watching movies in the cinema, and not downloading them online. Imagine the packed seats, the laughter, the excitement, the novelty.

Do you know who won the Oscars that year? The academy award for the best movie went to The English Patient. The Oscar for best foreign movie that year went to Kolya. The top actor was Geoffrey Rush for his role as David Helfgott in Shine. The top actress was Frances McDormand for her role as Marge Olmstead-Gunderson in Fargo. The best director? Anthony Minghella for The English Patient.

There's more but I'm too lazy to wait

[Tateos]

Toy Story and Braveheart came out that year.

[Soapbubble]

That's... actually pretty interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[ThePhantomGamer]

Pretty cool.

[POTaTOS]

In 1984, the world was a different place.

There was no Google yet. Or Yahoo.

In 1984, the year of your birth, the top selling movie was Ghostbusters. People buying the popcorn in the cinema lobby had glazing eyes when looking at the poster.
Remember, that was before there were DVDs. People were indeed watching movies in the cinema, and not downloading them online. Imagine the packed seats, the laughter, the excitement, the novelty. And mostly all of that without 3D computer effects.

Do you know who won the Oscars that year? The academy award for the best movie went to Amadeus. The Oscar for best foreign movie that year went to Dangerous Moves. The top actor was F. Murray Abraham for his role as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus. The top actress was Sally Field for her role as Edna Spalding in Places in the Heart. The best director? Milos Forman for Amadeus.

In the year 1984, 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. The number one US bestseller of the time was The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub. Oh, that's many years ago. Have you read that book? Have you heard of it? Look at the cover!
In 1984... US Bell System is broken up. Brunei becomes a fully independent state. The Apple Macintosh is introduced. Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen gets in a serious car accident, severing his left arm. Medicare comes into effect in Australia. NASA crashes a remote controlled Boeing 720 in a Controlled Impact Demonstration. The Sandinista Front wins the Nicaraguan general elections. The popular Transformers toy and media franchise debuts. Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic, solo, in a hot air balloon. Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment. Michael Jackson won a record eight Grammy Awards. Iran accuses Iraq of using chemical weapons; the United Nations condemns their use on March 30. Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours. The Louisiana World's Fair opens. Beverly Lynn Burns becomes the first woman Boeing 747 captain in the world. The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage. The United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China sign the initial agreement to return Hong Kong to China in 1997. The Detroit Tigers defeat the San Diego Padres to win in 5 games. The British Telecom is privatised. A Soviet cruise missile plunges into Inarinjärvi lake in Finnish Lapland. The video game of the day was Paperboy.

That was the world you were born into. Since then, you and others have changed it.

The Nobel prize for Literature that year went to Jaroslav Seifert. The Nobel Peace prize went to Desmond Mpilo Tutu. The Nobel prize for physics went to Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer from Italy and Netherlands for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction. The sensation this created was big. But it didn't stop the planets from spinning, on and on, year by year. Years in which you would grow bigger, older, smarter, and, if you were lucky, sometimes wiser. Years in which you also lost some things. Possessions got misplaced. Memories faded. Friends parted ways. The best friends, you tried to hold on. This is what counts in life, isn't it?

The 1980s were indeed a special decade. The Soviet-Afghan war goes on. Eastern Europe sees the collapse of communism. Policies like Perestroika and Glasnost in the Soviet Union lead to a wave of reforms. Protests are crushed down on Tiananmen Square in China. Ethiopa witnesses widespread famine. Nicolae Ceausescu is overthrown. The AIDS pandemic begins. The role of women in the workplace increased greatly. MTV is launched in the US. There is opposition against Apartheid in South Africa as well as worldwide. Heavy Metal and Hard Rock bands are extremely popular. The rise of Techno music begins. Originally primarily played on campus radio stations, College Rock enters the scene with bands like the Pixies, REM and Sonic Youth. The Hip Hop scene continues to evolve. Teletext is introduced. Gay rights become more widely accepted in the world. Opposition to nuclear power plants grows. The A-Team and Seinfeld are popular on TV. US basketball player Michael Jordan bursts on the scene. Super Mario Bros, Zelda's Link, and Pac-Man gain fame in video games. People wear leggings, shoulder pads and Ray-Ban sunglasses.

Do you know what was on the cover of Life that year?
Do you remember the movie that was all the rage when you were 15? American Beauty. Do you still remember the songs playing on the radio when you were 15? Maybe it was Heartbreaker by Mariah Carey featuring Jay-Z. Were you in love? Who were you in love with, do you remember?

In 1984, 15 years earlier, a long time ago, the year when you were born, the song Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go by Wham topped the US charts. Do you know the lyrics? Do you know the tune? Sing along.

You put the boom boom into my heart,
You send my soul sky high when your lovin' starts.
Jitterbug into my brain,
Goes bang bang bang till my feet do the same.
...

There's a kid outside, shouting, playing. It doesn't care about time. It doesn't know about time. It shouts and it plays and thinks time is forever. You were once that kid.

When you were 9, the movie Last Action Hero was playing. When you were 8, there was Honey, I Blew Up the Kid. When you were 7, there was a Disney movie out called Aladdin. Does this ring a bell?
6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... it's 1984. There's TV noise coming from the second floor. Someone turned up the volume way too high. The sun is burning from above. These were different times. The show playing on TV is Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer. The sun goes down. Someone switches channels. There's Kate and Allie on now. That's the world you were born in.

Progress, year after year. Do you wonder where the world is heading towards? The technology available today would have blown your mind in 1984. Do you know what was invented in the year you were born? The Digital Synthesizer. The Portable CD Player. Phase Distortion Synthesis.

1984
Knockin' on your door
Will you let it come?
Will you let it run your life?
...

That's from the song 1984 by Spirit.

In 1984, a new character entered the world of comic books: Donatello from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Bang! Boom! But that's just fiction, right? In the real world, in 1984, Ashlee Simpson was born. And Avril Lavigne. Chiaki Kuriyama, too. And you, of course. Everyone an individual. Everyone special. Everyone taking a different path through life.
It's 2011.

The world is a different place.

What path have you taken?

[RydiaLockheart]

I was alive for Soviet Communism and the Cold War...but don't remember it. The previous poster makes me feel better. :P Cutting some of the repetitive stuff out.

In 1983, the world was a different place.

There was no Google yet. Or Yahoo. Or Newgrounds, for that matter.

In 1983, the year of your birth, the top selling movie was Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. People buying the popcorn in the cinema lobby had glazing eyes when looking at the poster.

Do you know who won the Oscars that year? The academy award for the best movie went to Terms of Endearment. The Oscar for best foreign movie that year went to Fanny & Alexander. The top actor was Robert Duvall for his role as Mac Sledge in Tender Mercies. The top actress was Shirley MacLaine for her role as Aurora Greenway in Terms of Endearment. The best director? James L. Brooks for Terms of Endearment.

In the year 1983, 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. The number one US bestseller of the time was Return of the Jedi by James Kahn. Oh, that's many years ago. Have you read that book? Have you heard of it? Look at the cover!

In 1983... The musical Annie is performed for the last time after 2,377 shows at the Alvin Theatre on Broadway, New York City. Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Aldo Moro. Lotus 1-2-3 is released for IBM-PC compatible computers. Seatbelt use for drivers and front seat passengers becomes mandatory in the United Kingdom. Failure of automatic shut-down at Salem Nuclear Power Plant, New Jersey, USA. The final episode of M*A*S*H is aired and the record of most watched episode is broken A reactor is shut-down due to failure of fuel rods at Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, Russia. India wins the Prudential Cricket World Cup. The Nintendo Entertainment System goes on sale in Japan. Australian Dick Smith completes his solo circumnavigation in a helicopter. Six men walk underwater across the Sydney Harbor -- 82.9 km in 48 hours. The Red Hot Chili Peppers launch their first, self-titled album. Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war. Many Soviet officials misinterpret the NATO exercise Able Archer 83 as a nuclear first strike, causing the last nuclear scare of the Cold War. The Reverend Jesse Jackson announces his candidacy for the 1984 Democratic Party presidential nomination. Michael Jackson's world famous music video for "Thriller" is broadcast for the first time. It becomes the most often repeated and famous music video of all time, increasing his own popularity and record sales of the album "Thriller". The video game of the day was Dragon's Lair.

Do you remember the movie that was all the rage when you were 15? There's Something About Mary. Do you still remember the songs playing on the radio when you were 15? Maybe it was The First Night by Monica. Were you in love? Who were you in love with, do you remember?

In 1983, 15 years earlier, a long time ago, the year when you were born, the song Down Under by Men at Work topped the US charts. Do you know the lyrics? Do you know the tune? Sing along.

Traveling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
And she said,
"Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?"
...

There's a kid outside, shouting, playing. It doesn't care about time. It doesn't know about time. It shouts and it plays and thinks time is forever. You were once that kid.

When you were 9, the movie Batman Returns was playing. When you were 8, there was The Addams Family. When you were 7, there was a Disney movie out called Beauty and the Beast. Does this ring a bell?

6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... it's 1983. There's TV noise coming from the second floor. Someone turned up the volume way too high. The sun is burning from above. These were different times. The show playing on TV is The A-Team. The sun goes down. Someone switches channels. There's Hardcastle and McCormick on now. That's the world you were born in.

Progress, year after year. Do you wonder where the world is heading towards? The technology available today would have blown your mind in 1983. Do you know what was invented in the year you were born? The Personal Digital Assistant. The First TCP/IP Network. Color LCD Television.

[poxpower]

Wow that was retarded.

Thanks for trying hard to make me feel bad about people downloading movies instead of watching them in theaters. BOOHOO, the box office record only gets broken every year, I guess people are really not into that whole "cinema" thing.

[SevenSeize]

At 7/7/11 09:34 PM, poxpower wrote: Wow that was retarded.

Thanks for trying hard to make me feel bad about people downloading movies instead of watching them in theaters. BOOHOO, the box office record only gets broken every year, I guess people are really not into that whole "cinema" thing.

Yeah and it took too damn long to load. I don't have that kinda patience. Give me my shit and give it to me now.

Here is the importance of what was said on mine before I got annoyed and closed it.

"In 1983, the year of your birth, the top selling movie was Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi."

And all you kids born in the mid/late 90s *angreh faic*

[SizzleBolt]

I was born the date Portal 2 came out.

[AceGrayson]

Batman Returns was released!

[gamejunkie]

Wow so much exciting stuff.

January 4 - The Doors' self-titled debut album is released.
January 6 - Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch Operation Deckhouse Five.
January 8 - Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts.
January 12 - Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved.
March 7 - Jimmy Hoffa begins his 8-year sentence for attempting to bribe a jury.
April 9 - The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) takes its maiden flight.
April 28 - In Houston, Texas, boxer Muhammad Ali refuses military service.
May 1 - Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas.
June 1 - The Beatles legendary release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
July 4 - The British Parliament decriminalizes homosexuality.
August 5 - Pink Floyd releases their debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn in the United Kingdom.
September 30 - BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 are all launched.
October 8 - Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
October 9 - Che Guevara is executed.
October 18 - Walt Disney's 19th full-length animated feature The Jungle Book, the last animated film personally supervised by Disney.
October 27 - Patterson-Gimlins famous film of an unidentified subject thought to be Bigfoot, is recorded.
December 11 - Supersonic airliner Concorde is unveiled in Toulouse, France.
December 17 - Harold Holt, Australian prime minister, disappears when swimming at a beach 60 km from Melbourne.
December 19 - Professor John Archibald Wheeler uses the term Black Hole for the first time.
Also a crap load of famous actors were born in 1967 too.

Seems like 1967 was quite a big year for world news. These were just a few of the more notable things.

[TrueLAD]

At 7/7/11 08:06 PM, Klik wrote: Link
A pretty nifty site which gives you info about what happened in the year you were born.

Haha, good find there. Some interesting stuff aswell.