Counting Thread

General Acid Goop
1992
  1. it has been 121 days since my discord ban.
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1993

ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED NINETY FIVE

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1994
  1. Meow.
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1995

  • the word computer is first used to refer to a mechanical calculation device

  • J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.

  • An earthquake of magnitude of 8.0 rocks Assam, India, killing over 1,500 people.

  • Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush, where he will write his first successful stories (He would go on to write “To Build a Fire” in 1902).

  • At the Bayer pharmaceutical company, pharmacist Felix Hoffmann successfully synthesizes acetylsalicylic acid, after isolating a compound from a plant of the Spiraea family; the company markets it under the brand name “Aspirin”.

  • Greco-Turkish War ends.

Not the most interesting year, so here’s “The Boulevard Montmartre at Night, 1897” by Camille Pissarro

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1996

1898
Be he?

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1997
  1. @dukeofcagliostro, get that 1900
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1998

1900
Sorry kids but this time its mine.

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1999

1901

Queen Victoria Dies.

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2000

1902,
You call this a real weapon?

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2001

1903
@eMiiX We need to cook once more.

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2002

Meaning the ban was 121 days too short…

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2003

with every number we are getting closer to the number

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2004

1906
Don’t worry biolock will lock this thread upon the number

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2005
  1. No clue what happened in this year
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2006

1908
Germany finishes exterminating the Herero people. Roughly 200,000 people: men, women, and children, had been forced into the Kalahari desert to die of dehydration and privation, any who tried to return to habitable lands were shot or driven back.

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2007
  1. The British Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, led by Ernest Shackleton, arrives at the farthest south reached by any prior expedition, at 88°23’ S, prior to turning back due to diminishing supplies
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2008
  1. In 1910 there was a minor economic depression known as the Panic of 1910–1911, which was followed by the enforcement of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

Also I got my new computer running, had some troubles but I am on it now. I will get on space game later in the week.

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2009

M1911.

We’re one year off of James Cameron’s favorite topic, the one that isn’t about Aliens or Robots. (Titanic)

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2010

1912
Shits about to go wild

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2011

1913,
The year Ludwig III of Bavaria became king.

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