Monday, March 06, 2017

How Will History Remember Your Lifetime?

Here's a little something to entertain and enlighten you.



The Atlantic magazine lets you explore your life in history.

Using their Time Lifeline, you enter the day, month and year of your birth.

Supposing you were born on January 1st, 1960. You've never lived in a world without Barbie dolls. At 9 years old, you were alive to behold people walking on the moon. Your life can be divided into two halves: before and after Shark Week. By the time you turn 70, humanity's water requirements will exceed its supplies by 40 percent.

Or suppose you were born just five years later on January 1st, 1965. You've never lived in a world without G.I. Joe action figures.  This is what Hollywood thought teenagers looked like the year you became one...

(Grease was released in 1978.) Your life can be divided into two halves: before and after websites. By the time you turn 60, the World Bank predicts that the U.S. dollar will lose its global dominance.

What's your life in history? Click here to find out.

19 comments:

  1. Well, that was fascinating. One tidbit I got was Your life can be divided into two halves: before and after Toy Story. Is that the cartoon or a story involving sex toys?

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    1. MISTRESS MADDIE: As your life story, it can only mean one thing.

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  2. Does this Wayback Machine go far enough back to cover The Mistress' birthday?

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    1. This is what Hollywood thought a typical teenager looked like the year you became ten .

      You do know LX we're going to be exiled for this.

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    2. *glares at LX & Mitzi*

      *prepares new order of Banned by Infomaniac stickers*

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  3. I remember the fall of the Berlin wall, the fall of the Iron Curtain, and the Arab Spring...

    But my life is perhaps best marked by when Taco Bell became my fave Mexican restaurant and then later on, when Taco Bell became one of the healthier dining options out there.

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    1. EROS: Thanks to Canadian ingenuity, Taco Bell is now a fashion statement.

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  4. Dull, dull, dull. How embarrassing to have such a mundane timeline. And, as usual, the striking thing about putting in my birthdate in one of those formats is how long it takes to scroll down to the year I was born. A few more clicks and the only option is "Ice Age."

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    1. I had the same thought as I scrolled and scrolled to get to my birth year.

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    2. PEENEE: By the time you turn 69, experts at the Pew Research Center warn that there will be no "surveillance-free spaces."

      So you can stand in the streets waving your cane in a menacing manner at the cameras.

      JEFFERY: The Mistress has taken the liberty of reserving a room for you in the Infomaniac Villa of Queens Old Homosexuals' Haven Retirement Home.

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  5. Winston Churchill left the building just as I entered.... and everything was still in black and white. Oh, and I was alive during the summer of 1976.... the only summer the UK ever had :-)
    Sx

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    1. MISS SCARLET: Speaking of when you entered this world, watch this space on Thursday.

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    1. me & oprah, we've lived the exact same life,
      except i've not lunched on gayle.

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    2. NORMA: But have you supped on Stedman?

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  7. My life can easily be divided in two halves : Before I opened the first cold beer, and the rest is history. Happened around 1976 I reckon.

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  8. "Around the time you were born, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 occurred in Haicheng, China, killing 2,041 people." Well, if that wasn't an omen, I don't know what was?!?
    Although, looking like this as a teenager (only with worse skin) comes close...

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    1. MR. DeVICE: if I’m not mistaken, you were born a couple of weeks after the U.N. proclaimed International Women’s Day.

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