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Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

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Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

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Post by thfuran »

simgt wrote: post #62
2mlWQbCK wrote: post #55

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Is that really true? It is true for me, but I always assumed that is just because I were younger last century. In 1990 I could easily tell if someone was looking like 1980, but today I could never guess if someone looked like 2015 or 2025. I would be happy to learn that this is because fashion actually slowed down, but until proven wrong I will just assume it is because I am older and not paying attention.

> I could never guess if someone looked like 2015 or 2025 It's the length of the socks

How long are socks supposed to be now?

Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

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Post by dgfitz »

numa7numa7 wrote: post #99
jillesvangurp wrote: post #68

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It's an interesting phenomenon that you can observe with other things as well like tastes in music. I think it has something to do with people having access to about sixty years of people trying out just about everything they could think off. It's all been done before at this point and it's all available in new and fresh forms. So, it's no longer about collectively picking something that is genuinely new but individu…

> It's all been done before Until something new is done ;) The sound pallette is just about infinite with what's possible.s. I think modern music has become homogenous because true art is risky and won't pass a modern focus group.

I keep waiting for inside-out clothes to be a thing. Hipsters were getting close at one point.

Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

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Post by furyofantares »

ksec wrote: post #102
TrackerFF wrote: post #39

One interesting observation is how much less variation there has been in clothes for the past 20 years or so. Someone from 2005 could look completely undisguisable from someone today, by just wearing regular non-fashion forward 2005 clothes. Same goes for haircuts. Same can't really said about someone from 1955 and 1975, 1980 - 2000, etc. edit: Score 4695 Avg. Years Off 3.0

>edit: Score 4695 Avg. Years Off 3.0 How is that even possible? Only three years off? I thought guessing it which tens would be good enough. Getting the last digit right is impossible without blind luck? Or am I missing something?

I got one off by 20 years, oops. But there's two where I think you can get exact or off by 1 with some knowledge of world events, maybe it's a 50/50 shot. And there's two where the half-decade is pretty clear.

Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

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Post by ksec »

lolinder wrote: post #113
ksec wrote: post #102

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>edit: Score 4695 Avg. Years Off 3.0 How is that even possible? Only three years off? I thought guessing it which tens would be good enough. Getting the last digit right is impossible without blind luck? Or am I missing something?

I got 3.2. Spoilers below. Round 1 I just guessed in the middle of the 70s. Round 2 I was 5 years off, but I should have been able to get closer if I'd slowed down. Someone with a better knowledge of modern Middle Eastern uprisings or Arabic could have read the signs, but also the tech in everyone's hands was pretty closely dated. Round 3 was pretty clearly the London Blitz—the uniform was WW2 era and people were pil…

Round 1 was the same.

Round 2 I guessed it was something to do with Arab Spring but without looking up the year of it happened I remember it was late 00s or early 10s so I put 2010.

Round 3

>and people were piled on top of each other in a London Tube station—which narrowed it down to basically a single year.

Not sure that is a knowledge I know but I only guess it was WWII, again without looking it up I only remember it as the 40s.

Round 4 I had the same thought so I guess something like 1960s because I thought it wasn't WWII.

Round 5, not from US so I only know / heard of Prop 8 when Mozilla fired their CTO Brendan Eich. I thought it happened in early to mid 2010s.

Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

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Post by slig »

brador wrote: post #120
goldfishgold wrote: post #110

I created a similar game a few years ago for guessing the year of an object in the Met’s collection. Would love any feedback if people want to try it.

What is Mets collection?

I'd guess The Met [1]

[1]: https://www.metmuseum.org/

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