Remember when...
...LiveJournal gave angsty teenagers a worldwide audience for angsty teenage poetry?
...The Matrix was an okay movie that looked really cool and OOPS I DROPPED* MY NOKIA AND IT BROKE, CAN I GET A FLIP PHONE NOW?
...Jerry Falwell declared that Tinky Winky the Teletubby was gay?
Happy 2019, AskHistorians! Here's to another brilliant, beautiful year of questions about whether people got PTSD from trimming their nails before the invention of scissors, what Hitler thought about static electricity, if there's any evidence that the works of Shakespeare were written by the historical Jesus...and of course, all things 1999!
Who did Hitler think shot first?
We also can talk about Bill Clinton’s impeachment TRIAL!
Is the Y2K bug fair game now?
Here's to another year of people asking questions without doing the slightest bit of research and the constant stream of "Is dat troo"? posts. Happy New Year to all the mods and experts that keep me subscribed to this sub.
What was Jiang Zemin's reaction to Neo defeating Agent Smith?
Yayyy now we can finally find out how that whole Lewinski thing turned out for ol' Willie Cee!
Can't wait for all the questions about how the Mayans predicted Y2K!
Someone was going to post this.
That said...the X-Files took a real nosedive in 1999.
if there's any evidence that the works of Shakespeare were written by the historical Jesus
That's impossible. Sure, there might have been a 'Historical Jesus', but the sayings attributed to him in the Gospels were almost entirely the work of Francis Bacon.
Ahem Happy new year! Now to another year of questions about whether people engaged in oral sex before the invention of Listerine.
Everyone should ask 13th Warrior questions, like if they too can learn Old Norse just by staring at native speakers long enough without saying anything until they become fluent.
"In the documentary Cruel Intentions, we learn that it's a Bittersweet Symphony that's life. Did the average person in 1999 really just try to make ends meet, get some money and then die?"
TWO THOUSAND ZERO ZERO BABY OOPS PARTY OVER
Prequel memes are now, technically, historiography.
Technically, they're just history. They're only historiography if they are memes that themselves discuss the history of prequel memes.
1999 in New Zealand! (Bit of a boring year, to be honest)
Livin la vida loca.....
Happy New year you wonderful people! I can't wait for the Y2K panic to run its course again, not to mention prequel's and who knows what else that happened in 99.
Here's to a year where hopefully some questions I can answer get fielded ;).
And of course, I look forward to all of the other awesome questions and answers!
Can you cite a source on your Nokia breaking because you dropped it? Those things were sturdy little workhorses!
Happy New Year, everyone! :)
What did sun tzu think of 300
I'm just excited to be able to snark about how "midichlorians are the powerhouse of the cell" and talk about the amazing political intrigue in the prequels, y'all.
In other news, we can talk about Harry Potter up to the Prisoner of Azkaban now, which is pretty sweet. Bring on the children's/YA lit questions!
So can we talk about millennium parties now or do we have to wait for next year?