Wine, cheese and Anderson Cooper - are all things that get better with age - however with the immortalization of our words on the internet have shown, some things are far from aging gracefully. The Facebook page Posts that did not age well is dedicated to reposting quotes, news, social media posts, and comments shared on the internet that, as we can see now, did not stand the test of time and might make you cringe.
Our list is filled with newspaper headlines whose future predictions went wrong, to companies that couldn't anticipate what tomorrow would hold. Scroll down below to check out the best selections from this page that will make you say, "man that post did not age well." And don't forget to upvote your favorite fake news!
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While it's hard to predict the future, some people are exceptionally good at it. The so-called "super-forecasters" can predict the likelihood of future events with astonishing accuracy, often with no particular prior expertise. Historically, evidence suggests that they are mostly generalists who dabble in all sorts of fields. They're simply less beholden to their own biases. The same applies when reversed, people who have built up an impressive but narrowly-focused expertise are usually less-accurate with their future predictions because they're limited by their own worldviews more.
Surprisingly, this is also true with people who have dedicated their lives to one field of study when they're trying to guess where that field is going. And we have data on that, emerging after a 20-year experiment that began in 1984 at a meeting of a National Research Council committee on American-Soviet relations. At the time, the psychologist and political scientist Philip E. Tetlock was 30. After listening to other members discuss Soviet intentions and American policies, he was interested in the authoritative predictions delivered by renowned experts because many of them contradicted one another.
Soon after, he decided to put expert political and economic predictions to the test. Tetlock collected forecasts from 284 well-educated experts who averaged more than 12 years of experience in their fields. Ensuring that the predictions were concrete, experts had to give specific probabilities of future events. Tetlock wanted to collect enough predictions that he could separate lucky and unlucky streaks from true skill. The project lasted 20 years and comprised of 82,361 probability estimates about the future.
The result: the experts were, by and large, terrible at predicting the future. Surprisingly, their areas of specialty, years of experience, and (for some) access to classified information made no difference either. They were bad at both short-term forecasting and at long-term forecasting. They were simply bad at this.
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"Virtual unknowns"? That was just in the US. In Australia and the UK, respectively, both were bankable actors at this point in their careers.
I knew people who bulk stored food and water before that y2k new years eve. Haha.
I read that scammers were actually selling people medication to cure the Y2K virus. Don't know if it's true or not but knowing people I'm pretty sure it is.
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I was in the Marine Corps on an LHD as a Unix administrator when this was in full swing. I'll tell you that there are some systems that this was a real concern. All kinds of insanely sensitive software that was written before anyone was even thinking about Y2K was running on those systems. One of my jobs was to convert all our systems (my MEU) to not go haywire when the clock ticked over.
Where I worked our programmers worked on fixing the code 2 years before Y2K hit. I was on a team that worked on testing the programming. A lot of hard work went into it and we were all at work on January 1st 2000 to make sure it worked, all went well. I was glad that all the predictions of computer horrors never came true.
I was in a flight to japan from Tennessee during y2k. #yolo the flight was almost completely empty.
Omg the whole y2k thing gave me an anxiety complex, I was 12 and convinced we would live in a dystopic future. I recorded tv and radio as I thought the stations would soon stop forever :S not a fun time to be a kid
I was 15. Everyone around knew it was b******t at the time and talked about it. For me, it was interesting but not scary.
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I delivered a baby at midnight at that time. Afterwards I said "At least nothing happened in the middle of the delivery". Then someone pointed out to me that nothing had happened in New Zealand 3 hours before when it turned midnight. I guess I was a little too busy to notice.
I swear to God, my VCR actually broke after hat date. Kept switchig itself off, wouldn't accept date changes and after a few tries remained dead. I'm not sure if this happened to anybody else, but I have actually seen the millenial bug in action :-D
I remember a young engineer at work panicking because of Y2K, worrying that we'd lose the work. I told him "Relax. We did technical drawings with pencils and pens not that long ago, we can do it again."
What a joke that turned out to be. Our accounting system was DOS based, so on January 1 it would revert to 1900. No way to get around it. I worked through most of my Christmas vacation to make sure the new windows based system would be fully operational. One week after we started using the new owner tells me she wants us to hold off. I explained to her that we didn't have a choice and that's why I had gone to classes for a week to learn how it worked. She decided a month later that she could my job better than I could (she was a 5th grade teacher who wrested the company away from her soon to be ex. I had 20 years of accounting experience and was the Corporate Controller). Yeah, good luck with that Honey.
What a wonderful non-event it was. Y2K provided quite a financial boost to some highly skilled if underappreciated programmers.
We all sat up and laughed and laughed when nothing happened because we knew nothing would happen. Then we ate my friends stockpiled Cheetos.
Did they mean before midnight in Australia, or midnight in the USA? Because of the different time zones, which did they mean? Oh well, didn't matter, did it?
According to media reports at the time, you were supposed to shut down your PC before midnight in your own timezone supposedly because the system couldn't understand the new date and there was a lot of speculation over what would happen to machines that weren't programmed with a date that accounted for the turn of the century. It was mostly really effective fearmongering that had a lot of people in a panic. Back then, it was still not really the norm for everybody to have a computer at home, though the demand for PCs had been on the rise. Previously, it had mostly just been nerds who had computers, but now you have a lot of people who had never used a computer before in their lives going out and getting one and it was easy for them to think their PC could blow up or something because it couldn't understand a date.
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Remember: turn your pc off before 3:14 UTC on 19/01/2038. Google it...
I'm not concerned about any desktop in the world. Embedded building-control systems are cause for concern though, as many just churn away in a closet untouched for decades. They are the ones that won't have been patched.
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Not sure why people are downvoting, because you just got confused at the American System of writing dates...
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This is so sad... I lost a cousin I never even got to meet to this... I was named after her
Physicist Heinrich Hertz, upon proving the existence of radio waves, stated that “It’s of no use whatsoever.” When asked about the applications of his discovery: “Nothing, I guess.”
In their defense....WHO ON EARTH could have predicted the reality of MJ?! No one!
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FOr the record, Sir Isaac Newton didn't say that about walls and bridges. It's a paraphrase from a book by Joseph F. Newton, and the person at the Nobels who said Newton wrote it forgot to amend, "But not Sir Isaac". Just sayin'. We got 10 bonus points on an exam for knowing this in physics...
Nice! I tried entry level physics as I was interested in bio anth, and it was a requisite. Omg I passed but hardly Lol, physics makes my brain overload. So many variables and formulae!
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I would have appreciated some simple explanations for many of these. :/ Not everything is general knowledge (and nobody knows all general knowledge). I'll wait for all the lovely Panda Captain Obivouses.
1.Made fun of Walmart employees in 2013. Became Walmart employee in 2016 2.Donald Trump said the US needed a president that was not a laughing stock in 2014. Many feel he is a laughing stock as President in 2019. 3.Economist said the internet would have no impact on economy by 2005. Internet is how nearly everyone trades, shops, communicates in 2019. 4.Apple claimed their products cost less but do more. Apple released a $1000 display stand in 2019 and most of their other products cost much more than comparable products of other brands. 5. Bayer claimed Heroin was non-addictive. 6.Donald Trump tweeted quote about building too many walls and not enough bridges in 2013. Is attempting to build wall in US in 2019 7.Marvel cast two “unknown” actors in a big movie in 2009. Actors are some of the most well-known actors in 2019. 8.Facebook claimed it would never sell user’s information. In 2018 Facebook was caught selling personal data for political purposes.
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I wish this link was above this post and a little bit more visible. This way you scroll through the short list and have to scroll through the same list again toget to the new ones or even better, show the long list directly on bored panda and just give the short list to facebook under another link.
Agreed! Then again, they could just stop cutting these and those who are happy with best 30 can stop there.
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To be fair some of these are only ridiculous in hindsight. (Excluding the Trump c**p.) Most of us would have bought into it at the time. Which makes you wonder about the things we're believing now. Healthy skepticism is not a bad idea.
NOBODY with a brain bought into Trump's garbage, even at the time. Seriously. Everyone knew he was a lightweight from the instant he came on the scene.
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What about Ayds? The weight reducing "chocolate candy"? ayds-5d02f...6799ea.jpg 
The best part for me: realizing that doomsday prognosticators, particularly "experts" are as clueless as the rest of us.
Do you remember all the gurus that preached about the world ending in 2012 because the Mayas calendar said so? 😄😄😄😄
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You can access them all via the link at the end.
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I sincerely hope that everyone who voted #1 up and everyone who commented in #1's thread will have as much fun during the next five years as I've had during these past two-and-a-half years. ^_^ Man oh man, I can't WAIT for next November! The liberal tears will FLOW. XD
Why wouldn't someone be allowed to do that? If it's your birthday then wish yourself a happy birthday, who cares. I buy myself a birthday present every year!
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FOr the record, Sir Isaac Newton didn't say that about walls and bridges. It's a paraphrase from a book by Joseph F. Newton, and the person at the Nobels who said Newton wrote it forgot to amend, "But not Sir Isaac". Just sayin'. We got 10 bonus points on an exam for knowing this in physics...
Nice! I tried entry level physics as I was interested in bio anth, and it was a requisite. Omg I passed but hardly Lol, physics makes my brain overload. So many variables and formulae!
Load More Replies... I would have appreciated some simple explanations for many of these. :/ Not everything is general knowledge (and nobody knows all general knowledge). I'll wait for all the lovely Panda Captain Obivouses.
1.Made fun of Walmart employees in 2013. Became Walmart employee in 2016 2.Donald Trump said the US needed a president that was not a laughing stock in 2014. Many feel he is a laughing stock as President in 2019. 3.Economist said the internet would have no impact on economy by 2005. Internet is how nearly everyone trades, shops, communicates in 2019. 4.Apple claimed their products cost less but do more. Apple released a $1000 display stand in 2019 and most of their other products cost much more than comparable products of other brands. 5. Bayer claimed Heroin was non-addictive. 6.Donald Trump tweeted quote about building too many walls and not enough bridges in 2013. Is attempting to build wall in US in 2019 7.Marvel cast two “unknown” actors in a big movie in 2009. Actors are some of the most well-known actors in 2019. 8.Facebook claimed it would never sell user’s information. In 2018 Facebook was caught selling personal data for political purposes.
Load More Replies... I wish this link was above this post and a little bit more visible. This way you scroll through the short list and have to scroll through the same list again toget to the new ones or even better, show the long list directly on bored panda and just give the short list to facebook under another link.
Agreed! Then again, they could just stop cutting these and those who are happy with best 30 can stop there.
Load More Replies... To be fair some of these are only ridiculous in hindsight. (Excluding the Trump c**p.) Most of us would have bought into it at the time. Which makes you wonder about the things we're believing now. Healthy skepticism is not a bad idea.
NOBODY with a brain bought into Trump's garbage, even at the time. Seriously. Everyone knew he was a lightweight from the instant he came on the scene.
Load More Replies... What about Ayds? The weight reducing "chocolate candy"? ayds-5d02f...6799ea.jpg
The best part for me: realizing that doomsday prognosticators, particularly "experts" are as clueless as the rest of us.
Do you remember all the gurus that preached about the world ending in 2012 because the Mayas calendar said so? 😄😄😄😄
Load More Replies... You can access them all via the link at the end.
Load More Replies... I sincerely hope that everyone who voted #1 up and everyone who commented in #1's thread will have as much fun during the next five years as I've had during these past two-and-a-half years. ^_^ Man oh man, I can't WAIT for next November! The liberal tears will FLOW. XD
Why wouldn't someone be allowed to do that? If it's your birthday then wish yourself a happy birthday, who cares. I buy myself a birthday present every year!
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