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Teriyaki Hairpiece
Dec 29, 2006

I'm nae the voice o' the darkened thistle, but th' darkened thistle cannae bear the sight o' our Bonnie Prince Bernie nae mair.
Historians usually deal with written records and physical evidence, pots, journals, all that good stuff.

But sometimes they miss the things that aren't scratched on rocks or entered into ledgers. Also, sometimes they miss events that were very impactful in the moment, but didn't make a difference in the overall trends or the overall narrative.

What wacky off the wall things will they miss from our current era??

1. Easter Bunny
2. Santa
3. Vitamin C for colds
4. Knocking on wood
5. Chandler dying in a hot tub
6. Harambe

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Anderson Koopa
Jun 9, 2006

all is right with the world especially as I lay waste to my fellow IKs
Grimey Drawer
A poll would provide some useful background information. :colbert:

But Harambe gets my vote

Rubber Chicken
Mar 13, 2024

[IMG-CHICKEN]
Ape jpgs

5G

Brand name water

Panic! At The Tesco
Aug 19, 2005

FART


how difficult the work of future historians is hinges on whether the internet keeps going or gets destroyed at some point

it should be destroyed

Buttchocks
Oct 21, 2020

No, I like my hat, thanks.
Were Krispy Kreme donuts a fertility idol or a device for calculating astrological mechanics?

signalnoise
Mar 7, 2008
either star wars will be quaint or it will be prescient

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.
I've been planting handwritten documents and journals in various places around the nation that appear to passively corroborate the existence of fictional people, events, and cultural attitudes. the historians will struggle with whatever I want them to

Sash!
Mar 16, 2001


Buttchocks posted:

Were Krispy Kreme donuts a fertility idol or a device for calculating astrological mechanics?

"Ritual purposes."

GoonGPT
May 26, 2006

Posting for a better future, today!
The God Emperor's rumored origins as a failed steak salesman was a myth started by his rivals to discredit his memory

emSparkly
Nov 21, 2022

I'm open to eggterpretation!
We're gonna be the supposedly super advanced precursor civilization in the JRPG world of the future. They'll busy themselves studying our airship technology (airplanes) and uncover our terrible secret doomsday weapon (nukes) and a group of rainbow haired teenagers will go on a quest to defeat a madman bent on resurrecting the evil emperor who doomed our utopic civilization in the past (Elon Musk).

Mulaney Power Move
Dec 30, 2004

why did america's greatest hero join the nWo and betray the macho man

Sarah Cenia
Apr 2, 2008

Laying in the forest, by the water
Underneath these ferns
You'll never find me

emSparkly posted:

We're gonna be the supposedly super advanced precursor civilization in the JRPG world of the future. They'll busy themselves studying our airship technology (airplanes) and uncover our terrible secret doomsday weapon (nukes) and a group of rainbow haired teenagers will go on a quest to defeat a madman bent on resurrecting the evil emperor who doomed our utopic civilization in the past (Elon Musk).

the airship you get 2/3s into the game will be some abandoned mrbeast stunt vehicle

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005

:powercatte:
Deez nuts jokes because all nuts will have been banned due to allergies.

Mulaney Power Move
Dec 30, 2004

kid rock was neither a kid nor a rock

CEOofFART
Nov 24, 2024

No one will understand why, with the power of a global internet, hunams used it to create poo poo like this

Mulaney Power Move
Dec 30, 2004

there will be meme museums and goatse will be on display like the bayeux tapestry

CEOofFART
Nov 24, 2024

Mulaney Power Move posted:

there will be meme museums and goatse will be on display like the bayeux tapestry

I look forward to the TAOC THE WONDER DOUGH special exhibit of Flash animation

GoonGPT
May 26, 2006

Posting for a better future, today!
What is that man doing to his anus?

Teriyaki Hairpiece
Dec 29, 2006

I'm nae the voice o' the darkened thistle, but th' darkened thistle cannae bear the sight o' our Bonnie Prince Bernie nae mair.
There was a strange plague that spread around Europe 500 years ago that really messed things up and we have literally no idea why it happened or what it was

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweating_sickness

Similarly, 500 years from now, no one will have any clue what that man is doing to his anus

Kmount da Hood
Oct 18, 2024
Salad huh huh huh. What salad is?

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Historians of 2525?! Surely you jest!

lipid
Feb 21, 2001
They’ll struggle to translate the Chip and Dale’s MMORPG song. Particularly the line about “roxxoring your rear end”.

wesleywillis
Dec 30, 2016

SUCK A MALE CAMEL'S DICK WITH MIRACLE WHIP!
If man is still alive, and if woman can survive, they may find some things are quite different.

JonathonSpectre
Jul 23, 2003

I replaced the Shermatar and text with this because I don't wanna see racial slurs every time you post what the fuck

Soiled Meat
500 years from now is not long enough for a new intelligence to evolve after the coming plagues wipe the Earth clean of humans.

It's gonna be a double whammy! Measles is going to evolve just enough to slip past the current measles vaccine just as COVID-26 rears its ugly head and that's a wrap, folks. The historians of 100,025 will wonder what happened to the wealthiest, most comfortable human society in history that caused it to repeatedly choose self-annihilation. Considering it a warning from the past, this new intelligence will reject material hedonism and eventually create the USS Enterprise and achieve the destiny humanity rejected out of fear and superstition.

Don't be sad, it was a good run mostly. We invented Floam and shared cat pictures and made a turducken and got plastic surgery.

nullandvoid
Mar 7, 2006

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Head on, apply directly to the forehead

Tommah
Mar 29, 2003

goku

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
aliens dig up OP's posts in the tomb world sol-3 and then decide to crack the planet

free hubcaps
Oct 12, 2009

an insurmountable YouTube backlog

bossy lady
Jul 9, 1983

The great ozempic wars of 2068

Mulaney Power Move
Dec 30, 2004

Trump will be noted in the history books as an "ultra-analyst" face-ist, like "Missolini" but he'll only be in a footnote call-out box in the chapter on the great Twitch streamers of our generation and their contributions to society.

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005

:powercatte:

Mulaney Power Move posted:

Trump will be noted in the history books as an "ultra-analyst" face-ist, like "Missolini" but he'll only be in a footnote call-out box in the chapter on the great Twitch streamers of our generation and their contributions to society.

When wars are fought from home on your Xbox 12 by remote controlled drone soldiers, it will be the twitch streamers who save us all.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
"Chat" appears to be this fallen society's deity, often represented by an extinct feline of many popular image macros shared in recently unearthed forums.

Buttchocks
Oct 21, 2020

No, I like my hat, thanks.
It was written that a Doctor House, M.D., the most brilliant physician of the era, discovered a cure for the ailment known as 'sober' that caused the deaths of as much as 50% of the united states population by some estimates, yet the records of what this cure actually was were apparently lost during the dark ages of the 21st century.

Buttchocks
Oct 21, 2020

No, I like my hat, thanks.

Mulaney Power Move posted:

Trump will be noted in the history books as an "ultra-analyst" face-ist, like "Missolini" but he'll only be in a footnote call-out box in the chapter on the great Twitch streamers of our generation and their contributions to society.

Trump is now known to be a cautionary mythical figure based on archetypal legends that made their way to the continent through sea traders, for surely how could such a person have really existed, much less been elected President twice! Clearly that part was an adaptation of the ancient story of President Adams, who was said to have been elected twice, but was in fact two separate people both named Adam. The depiction of the orange skin in period artwork clearly heralds back to Colonial-era anti-native tropes, trying to literally paint him as a demonic figure. Perhaps the various men of a particular dynasty were amalgamated into one pseudo-historical fable by their political rivals. But we serious historians do not for a moment entertain the childish notion that fairy tales are real.

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003



trump is going to end up like akhenaten, mostly erased from history but for the connection to the tomb of his famous misshapen son eric leading to the discovery of an attempted reshaping of civilization that was ultimately violently rejected

Das Butterbrot
Dec 2, 2005
Lecker.
Doge having originally been the head of state of the Republic of Venice, now being a beloved funny little doggy, a currency and a reviled government organization at the same time.

Das Butterbrot fucked around with this message at 19:51 on May 10, 2025

Teriyaki Hairpiece
Dec 29, 2006

I'm nae the voice o' the darkened thistle, but th' darkened thistle cannae bear the sight o' our Bonnie Prince Bernie nae mair.

Das Butterbrot posted:

Doge having originally been the head of state of the Republic of Venice, now being a beloved funny little doggy, a currency and a reviled government organization at the same time.
This is what I'm talking about like this story is hard to parse even now while it's going on but it's going to be way more difficult to understand way in the future when records are spotty at best

And digital records are going to get messed up in all kinds of ways

iroguebot
Feb 15, 2001

Nerf this!

Grown men spending 100k on a Charizard card.

Defiance Industries
Jul 22, 2010

Hey buddy, wanna buy some robots?

They'll wonder why the gamers didn't rise up.

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BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 6 hours!

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

There was a strange plague that spread around Europe 500 years ago that really messed things up and we have literally no idea why it happened or what it was

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweating_sickness

Similarly, 500 years from now, no one will have any clue what that man is doing to his anus

Jfc, onset of symptoms to death in 3 hours :stare:

Good thing we’re prepared if something like that ever happens again.

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