Counting Thread

It seems as though democracy has prevailed… for now.

1988

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President Ronald Reagan exchange hopeful New Year’s greetings that they would reach an arms control treaty on strategic weapons within six months.

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1989

Fall of Berlin Wall
also something happened in China

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1990
I can’t wait for you guys to run out of history

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1991

Im waiting for a special day on September.

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  1. So I am going on hiatus again, for like 1 week though.
    This grainy text I get is hurting my vision, coupled with that the hover over bar thing in the bottom left when playing is smaller now cause I got a better graphics card.
    I literally almost can not see that text, and it is hurting my eyes. I got a new monitor coming at the end of this month, I will be back around then.
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The russian army shells the Russian white house in a self coup by boris yeltsin, Also the Battle of Mogadishu (1993) happens and here’s every event from 1950 to 1989:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g&ab_channel=billyjoelVEVO

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1994

The Scream is stolen

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1995
OJ Simpson is accused of the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goodman.
The Great Hanshin earthquake strikes Kobe, Japan, killing five to six thousand people.

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1996

Scientists clone a sheep and name it dolly after dolly parton.

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1997
Google.com was registered as a domain name.
Diana Princess of Wales was killed in a car crash in Paris.

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1998:

The Kosovo war begins.

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1999
Tiger Woods won his first PGA championship.
Wayne Gretzky was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Albert Einstein named ‘Person of the Century’ by Time.

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British intervene in the Sierra Leone war.

Also here’s a song for the previous year:

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2001
9/11 happened.
AOL announced that it had over 28 million members, and AOL.com was the most popular website.
A loaf of bread cost $1.82, a dozen eggs were 90 cents, and three pounds of bananas were $1.00.
The Mars Odyssey spacecraft was launched.

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2002
Goddamnit I was so close to saying nothing happened in 2001

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2003 WE ARE MAKING OUT OF THE 2000!! :speaking_head: :speaking_head: :speaking_head: :speaking_head: :speaking_head: :speaking_head: :speaking_head: :speaking_head: WE ARE AT DOORS OF 3000!!! :speaking_head: :speaking_head: :speaking_head: :speaking_head: :speaking_head: :speaking_head: :speaking_head: :speaking_head:

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2004
Just a bit more and we’ll be past current year and there’ll be no more history posting

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2005
2000 wasn’t as fun as 1000, we get to 10k or the thread dies.

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2006 I am not here to have fun, I Am here to COUNT :speaking_head: :speaking_head: :speaking_head: :speaking_head: :speaking_head: :speaking_head: :speaking_head: Also this year is when videogames peak, next year is also good :speaking_head: :speaking_head: :speaking_head:

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What if we just start to throw predictions around when we surpass 2024?

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