Article Age Confusion

Users repeatedly mistake the submitted article or content for something from the 1990s or 1980s, questioning its recency due to its dated style or references.

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Activity Over Time

2007
10
2008
34
2009
55
2010
80
2011
100
2012
112
2013
122
2014
124
2015
158
2016
186
2017
179
2018
211
2019
259
2020
314
2021
355
2022
383
2023
442
2024
362
2025
327
2026
28

Keywords

youtube.com ZIP wikipedia.org 1990 90s 1998 1995 logitech early 90 mid 1997 1999

Sample Comments

Has to be the early to mid 1990's?

lukevdp Jul 27, 2014 View on HN

Maybe this should be marked as from 1999!

BEEdwards Feb 27, 2016 View on HN

As it's talking about a time from 1985 to ~1995 does that matter?

sp332 Dec 3, 2023 View on HN

Are you sure it was recent and not from 1990?

bad_user Nov 16, 2017 View on HN

This must be a message from 1995 :-))

bluGill Dec 3, 2024 View on HN

That was late 80's and early 90's

buescher Mar 18, 2023 View on HN

This happened at some point in the nineties, right?

papersmith Oct 4, 2009 View on HN

I think that happened in the 90s. :)

mpk Sep 21, 2009 View on HN

Oh dear, looks like someone had a vivid flashback to 1998.

eterm Jan 4, 2016 View on HN

Is that a typo, did you mean late 90's?