• Buffaloaf@lemmy.world
    164·
    11 months ago

    Looking at some of the headlines from 1992 is pretty interesting:

    • The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can’t ban abortions

    • there were the Rodney King riots

    • Billl Cosby won a kids choice award,

    • Jeffrey Dahmer was found sane and guilty of murder

    • John Gotti convicted of murder

    • Goosebumps by R.L. Stine is first published

    • Cartoon Network goes on air

    • Sinéad O’Connor rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on SNL

    • Rage Against the Machine releases their first album

    • Disney’s Aladdin is released and makes a fuck load of money

    • Billy Ray Cyrus’s daughter is born

    • Russian Federation is formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union

    • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      641·
      11 months ago

      Billy Ray Cyrus’s daughter is born

      She has a song out called “Used to be Young”. She was born in the 90s and has a song out about not being young and crazy any more. WT-actual-F

      • hydrospanner@lemmy.world
        58·
        11 months ago

        Everyone over the age of 20 thinks they’re old now.

        Everyone older than them responds with some variation of, “Just you wait!”

        Always been this way.

        • The Barto@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          11 months ago

          I go out of my way to let people in their late 20s how little time they have left with their body being nice to them.

          One day hangovers last 2 days, by 34 you’ll get to find out what part of your body is going to be your main ache, if your lucky like me, you’ll get 2.

          Then you’ll just shit yourself for no reason.

      • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
        24·
        11 months ago

        She’s 31. Which isn’t that old but older than the “young and crazy” phase I suppose

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Hey, I was born this year!

      Did you use a specific website to gather all this info?

      I remember someone mentioned a link to watch interesting stuff from the past here on Lemmy 🤔

      • Buffaloaf@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 months ago

        Nothing specific, just looked through different news sites and found some things I thought were interesting.

  • Pavidus@lemmy.world
    55·
    11 months ago

    We did one of these in elementary school. One day while I was back in my hometown, I remembered it and decided to swing by the school to see if they ever did anything with it.

    The school was bulldozed.

  • whatever@lemmy.world
    261·
    11 months ago

    You know what to do: drink water, eat healthy, lift weights, go swimming, quit social media, quit your stressfull job and find the little things that make you happy, you don’t need much.

  • tacosplease@lemmy.world
    15·
    11 months ago

    I still think about this capsule every few months. I remember when they sealed it. Items include a game boy and a cassette tape of music.

  • Toes♀@ani.social
    15·
    11 months ago

    The lost season 4 script for the Last Airbender. We get to find out that Toph’s kid is Sokkas

      • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        I mean outside of one flashback to Jacone blood bending during his trial is Sokka even mentioned at all?

        • Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.network
          6·
          11 months ago

          I genuinely can’t remember if he even had a speaking line in that flashback. They did Sokka sooooo dirty.

          I know there’s a lot of Korra enjoyers out there so I’ll admit there must be some appeal to it but their treatment of the original cast is near the top of my list of reasons I hated it.

          • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            I think he has one or two, but yeah basically just completely ignores him.

            That’s fair, it’s hard for a spin off series to capture the magic when a lot of the love comes from character chemistry. I personally grew up with Avatar on Nick and still found Korra to be enjoyable, but I didn’t have as much of an attachment to ATLA as some people so I didn’t really feel like it was missing that special something.

            I like the TLOK cast, minor characters included. The only thing that never sat well with me was the rushed Asami/Korra romance that wasn’t even really hinted at previously as more than a friendship, unless you consider her responding to letters as a specifically romantic situation. Obviously it would be difficult to get away with showing an openly bi/lesbian romance in a nickelodeon cartoon but it felt like they were just trying to imply it for tokenism instead of committing or just not having Korra end up with someone at all.

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      Some guy 13 years before ATLA was aired

      “Did you know Toph and Sokka hooked up?”

      “…wut?”

      “Yeah, after the fire lord is defeated and everything returns to normal, Toph admits to Sokka that she’s wanted him ever since the bull moose event in book 3.”

      “WUT”

    • Potatisen@lemmy.world
      231·
      11 months ago

      Here’s a list of everything inside the time capsule:

      Movies, including Home Alone and Back to the Future on VHS
CDs, including Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ’Em by MC Hammer and Michael Jackson's Dangerous album
A Nintendo Game Boy
Rollerblades
Reebok Pump sneakers
A jar of Gak, at the request of a Dr. Emmett Brown impersonator, who showed up in a real DeLorean and fake hair
One of Joey Lawrence’s “Whoa! ’92” hats, which he stopped by to present
News reports, including coverage of the AIDS crisis, Desert Storm, and the end of the Soviet Union
Books, including a world atlas, history book, comic book, phone book, the Orlando TV Guide for the week of April 30, 1992, and a copy of the Book of Endangered Species
An issue of Nickelodeon magazine
A Nicktoons t-shirt featuring Ren & Stimpy
A piece of the Berlin Wall
A Barbie doll
Pencils
A skateboard
A baseball
Twinkies
A stick of bubble gum (though no one seems to know which kind)
Photos of things too big (or alive) to fit inside, including bicycles, planes, trains, cars, politicians and celebrities
A videotape, which was a recording of the live ceremony, shot by a girl named Vicky who stood onstage to operate the Kid Cam
The camera recording the tape, which appears to have been unplanned—Mike O’Malley and Joey Lawrence both looked baffled about how to remove the tape from the camera, so the whole setup was tossed in at the last minute
      • algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org
        1·
        11 months ago

        I know we’re only a bit over halfway there, but it’s weird and slightly disappointing how a good portion of those things haven’t changed much. As if they expected the change from 1992 to 2042 to be as drastic as the change from 1942 to 1992.

        Bet those sneakers will sell for a fortune, if they don’t land in a museum