What path have you taken.

[mindless_moder]

http://whathappenedinmybirthyear.com/

I'm sure you guys have seen sites like this before, but i thought this one was a littler different. Give it a go.

 

[MJ12]

Shame Stern won't get to try this out :/

 

[lame-o]

stuff like this just pisses me off.

"What path have you taken?" - what the **** are you talking about? We all basically react to our environments the only way we know how. I guess you could say that everything that owner did in his life led up to him making a stupid website with a script.

 

[Ravioli]

Typed in 2009 for fun measure, and it gave me incorrect data:

 

[Kinslayer]

Read the beginning of that paragraph again. It's talking about the decade, not the year.

 

[Acepilotf14]

1993

Spoiler

In 1993, the world was a different place.

There was no Google yet. Or Yahoo. Or Halflife2.net, 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!

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?

Holy shit, it's like instant nostalgia tailor made for your birthyear. Amazing site.

 

[Ravioli]

Read the beginning of that paragraph again. It's talking about the decade, not the year.

whoops. My bad lol

 

[Naph]

It's telling me what I could search on IMDB.

 

[Rizzo]

What? Why is it mentioning halflife2.net?

 

[Acepilotf14]

Might be some hyperlink technosorcery. It didn't mention it when I manually typed it in the URL bar.

 

[Vegeta897]

What? Why is it mentioning halflife2.net?

When you click the link in the OP, the site detects what site you came from. (Your 'referral', any website can do this. It's how stat trackers work)