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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!

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.

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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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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What shock me the most isn't the fact he won a nobel prize but that he is an economist ! I mean they don't have to be right about everything but how could be so wrong about such a thing ? That isn't a small mistake ^^

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These are the people who thought selling mortgages to people with no income was going to work...err, not in 2008 it didn't. :)

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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No..... He just loved the irritating fax machine sounds, he didn't want it to go away, so he said this in desperate attempts to save the fax machines......

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Daniele Ribolla
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A Nobel Prize speech is always a Nobel Prize speech... well "Don" Paul, RESPECT. <;-D

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I first got online in '97, I knew it was going to be a game changer. It was so exciting.

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Brenda Swann
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now that is thinking progressively. Pay attention all academics.

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Trevor Hartley
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He just jumped in my estimation - bet he's the one laughing when we gave a 6 hour power outage and all the smartphones die.

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Louise Brigance
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When predicting the future, it may be best to keep your mouth shut than to prove you have no foresight or imagination, eh?

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Diane Brooks
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Right, just a bit more informative if you really pay attention

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow, I never knew there were people who doubted it would be a huge thing. I don't think you need to be a genius to know that it would be a hit ...

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wonder if he is reading this right now, you know on the internet lol

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*ends up on multiple social media's on the internet*

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can we hire a 'new' economist, and reclaim the Nobel?

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's really, really bad. When I first started using computers for more than just games in '95, I knew it was going to be huge and only get bigger as the information age progressed. Anyone on the internet at that time knew it. This guy must have had a blind spot.

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Tor Rolf Strøm
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, I mean, the fax changed everything! Not a day goes by I don't see a cat on my fax.

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Candice Ravel
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't remember Polaroid d**k pics but maybe I blocked them from memory.

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Trevor Hartley
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You were lucky! Except they only spread on the office noticeboard which was 1990s Facebook.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Was this answer helpful?" Answer NO cause the truth would be more helpful thank you very much.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Virtual unknowns"? That was just in the US. In Australia and the UK, respectively, both were bankable actors at this point in their careers.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I knew people who bulk stored food and water before that y2k new years eve. Haha.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well she sure showed them. Lady Gaga is likely more famous and richer than all them bitches bullying her.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can think of a few reasons someone might want a computer in their home

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is so sad... I lost a cousin I never even got to meet to this... I was named after her

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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was in mid. school and obsessed with video games, I was told "video games will give you no bread". Guess where I work now? And they give me both bread and brioche and even more! ♥

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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.”

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In their defense....WHO ON EARTH could have predicted the reality of MJ?! No one!

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After many unfortunate events brought a bad reputation to the name ISIS, the Immigrant Settlement & Integration Services (ISIS) has become the Immigration Services Association of Nova Scotia (ISANS)

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To be fair, Isis is also the name of an Egyptian Goddess, so the radical Muslims didn't come up with the name

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

From the author of "Asteroid collided with earth: all dinosaurs accounted for"

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