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How have things on the Earth changed since you were born?

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I spotted this nifty little personalized interactive thing, which tells you how many different things have changed in your lifetime:

BBC - Your Life on Earth

Apparently my heart has beaten approximately 1 billion times since I was born & the population of the Earth has increased by ~2.2 billion.

Not finished scrolling through all the changes yet but it's pretty fascinating.
 
Awh Chatty, this is deep for this time of the morning but HUGE *LIKE* love deep!!!!

Hmmm lets think

Being the fat, couch potato that I am, I'll start with the TV. First there was THREE channels; BBC 1 n 2 n central (3). Then on 2 November 1981 channel 4 was added to the TV giving us FOUR channels. TVs were big, heavy, bulky ones, now light, flat-screened things. Mine had a wooden front across it that you slid back to watch the TV. There was no remote. Nowadays we've the ultamate, couch-potato glory - the TV remote control lol.

Music has changed, the Internet became more user-friendly, addedvthe world-wide-web n became accessed n known by almost everyone.

I'll continue later. On the way out n this is long. Besides it should be similar for all of us really, eh?!

Evey
 
apparently ive missed 64 solar ecclipeses (ive seen one).
next one is due in 6 days!!! better get apacking


edit: bah, checked, its only a partial, and seen only in NW USA/Canada...
edit 2: but the NEXT one, TOTAL, is visible from europe (Norway) and is in March 2015
 
My heart has apparently beaten a billion times too. Obviously they can't get that 100% accurate. Interesting link though, if a little depressing to see the figures on extinctions, rising sea levels and so forth.

I guess it's BBC Earth, so there's nothing about world events which have occurred in your lifetime. Technological advances also.

I was born in a world where there was no internet whatsoever, black and white televisions were common, many houses were still heated by coal, there was heavy industry in Britain, there was a country called the USSR which was going to annihilate 'us' at any moment, Jimmy Carter was in the White House (albeit not for long), John Lennon was alive (ditto), people drove around in cars which were in some cases decades old but in fine working order, and the mobile phone had been invented but was both laughably impractical and unavailable to the general public.

Things were blissful. The summers were long and hot. Mars bars were fucking massive. If you weren't there, you missed out. So fuck you.
 
well if you put it that way i was born into a communist country, ruled by a dictator which was much hated during his reign but now looked upon with regret by peasant all over. the deutsch mark was solid currency and we were all waiting on "the americans" to come. why and what should they be doing I never found out but t'was the dream.
most people could afford to own a home, a car and a yearly vacation. 1 tv channel, only state sanctioned news and programmes. wanted a different channel? move to the south where you can get the next countries tv if you have a big enough aerial

computers were coming along but it would be years (decades almost) before theyd be ubiquitous. the internet came through the phoneline and to make a call to someone you had to put a line in your house. and dialing meant usually using a dial disc.

lets not forget tapes. the music ones, lovely to rewind using pencils. or the video kind, getting bootlegs with "Basic Instinct" or "Top Gun", but only after the revolution of course.
 
kingme said:
well if you put it that way i was born into a communist country, ruled by a dictator which was much hated during his reign but now looked upon with regret by peasant all over.
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I'm speculating over the dictator in question. Tito? He died just before I was born. Apologies if I have the wrong dictator entirely.

I hear the Deutschmark is still a solid underground currency in Germany to this day.

And yes, tapes. :)
 
FACT:
SMS messaging appears in 1992!

@Sammy - no, not tito. but close enough!
 
lets remember the 80s
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Yes let's briefly do that.The first ever fancy dress party I went to was when I was nine or ten.It was this girl Emma's party and there were about 40 girls there----39 dressed as Madonna (I shit you not) and one dressed as an amalgamation of Rose and Jill from Strawberry Switchblade...yep that would've been me =D

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Strawberry switchblade....saw them many times as a support band at Essex Uni which, unbeknown to me at the time, was largely a result of their Orange Juice/Bill Drummond/David Balfe (?) connections.

Ok yeah I fancied them.
 
inflorescence said:
Yes let's briefly do that.The first ever fancy dress party I went to was when I was nine or ten.It was this girl Emma's party and there were about 40 girls there----39 dressed as Madonna (I shit you not) and one dressed as an amalgamation of Rose and Jill from Strawberry Switchblade...yep that would've been me =D
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Class. :D

And thanks for being the only other person to post pics of Strawberry Switchblade on here. Rose. <3 :o

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The death of the cassette tape :( The death of songs about recording types of cassette-and yes many more groundbreaking and monumental things have happened on this earth too but right now....minor drug induced derailment.

Bow Wow Wow - C30 C60 C90 Go

Hmm OK better get a monumental image in quick..

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