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Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

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712 points trymas | 1 comments | 17 Apr 25 10:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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TrackerFF ◴[20 Apr 25 08:35 UTC] No.43742422[source]▶
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

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ksec ◴[20 Apr 25 12:52 UTC] No.43743458[source]▶
>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?

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1. incanus77 ◴[20 Apr 25 13:19 UTC] No.43743594[source]▶
Score 4722 Avg. Years Off 2.6 here. Spoilers: I got two exactly right (Arab Spring, Battle of Britain) and one off by a year (dancing). The two exacts were pretty obviously tied to specific dated events, and I both love history and have a pretty easy time remembering dates. I love this sort of game, as I do trivia, history trivia especially.