Top Events of the Century so far

Ahem. The rest of the world also exists, OP.

in theory 😆

Just you wait.

Christmas Tsunami

Haiti earthquake

Brexit

Final two seasons of Game of Thrones

8. The IPhone 📱

Flicking my clit and it feels so good

Groundhog’s Day

The Real Housewives franchise premieres!

I sure hope OP isn't a historian.

earrings

Caftans!

January 6th. I know it’s part of the Trump era, but it’s a stand alone event that should always be remembered.

Celine’s triumphant appearance at the 2024 summer Olympics.

Someone uses a . and a ) after a number

It's the most visually pleasing way to present that, r14. I've always found something was missing whenever only one of each was used.

Climate change reaches the point where insurance premiums start to go haywire.

R5 is right for sure. It also seems incredible that the launch of Google only missed out by two years on being an event of this century. The whole world we live in now would have been unimaginable in 1997, before those two events.

The introduction of drones in warfare.

Let's all hope that the invasion of Ukraine doesn't end up making the list for the same reason the shooting of Franz-Ferdinand did last century.

QEII's death.

Rise of AI/ChatGPT

Will Smith slapping Chris Rock

2007-2008 financial crisis

Hurricane Katrina

Mariah Carey's New Year's Eve disaster

The invention of the Blockchain could turn out to be seismic if anyone ever works out how to utilize it for anything but cryptocurrency and crime. In theory it could put 90% of the world's accountants and financial auditors out of work. This may, of course, be why nobody has utilized it properly yet. That's a lot of White Guys who Know Where the Bodies are Buried we're talking about there.

The event with more impact in this century so far was the financial crisis of 2007/2008. It caused Trump, the rise of the far right, etc.

And, of course, Facebook.

The end of DADT.

USA legalization of gay marriage.

The murders of Trayvon Martin and George Floyd.

Crazy no one has listed the pandemic.

[quote] Crazy no one has listed the pandemic.

Um, check out OP's #3.

Bush v. Gore

I Quit Smoking

The problem with placing so much importance on the iPhone is that it is an incremental advance and if Apple didn’t make it someone else would have. We already had cellphones and Blackberries, digital cameras and the portable computers connected to the internet. Putting them together in an attractive package was a great product, but the underlying technologies already existed and they were what is important.

The cast of Harry Potter being trans free.

The South Park Worldwide Privacy Tour episode.

Female impersonator of the year 1985

R26 it’s kinda like when people had wheels and motors and seats and carriages- but someone turned it into a CAR ?

National Aerobics Championships presented by Crystal Light with Alan Thicke as host - 1984

[quote]Gaga being nominated for Best Actress Oscar

Hold my beer.

Covid pandemic

OnlyFans is founded

Daddy, would you like some sausage? released

Rona Barrett

[quote] [R26] it’s kinda like when people had wheels and motors and seats and carriages- but someone turned it into a CAR ?

No. Individual, self-directed motorized transportation was new and revolutionary. Carrying fewer gadgets was convenient.

Liza on HSN. There isn't a DLer alive who doesn't remember VIVIDLY where he was when a slurring, loopy Liza introduced The Boyfriend Blazer.

Boston Marathon Bombing

Anthrax terror

COVID

Barbra Streisand's Memoir

Biden announces he will not run for a second term.

Kamala Harris is the candidate.

School shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary.

Hands across America standing by Burt Convey

I listed Covid you dumb cunts.

DEI.

Hmmm.. Here's my list:

IN RANDOM ORDER

- Death of QE2 — whatever you thought of her, the woman was a monument

- The steady rise of the far right across the Western world

- Putin inadvertently making NATO closer than ever

- BREXIT

- Michael Jackson's death

- Smartphones

- Rise of AI

- Same-sex marriage making waves, yay!

- The 2004 Tsunami

- 11 September

- Pandemic

- Climate change

The Bionic Woman vs The Fembots

The Bionic Woman vs Bionic Bigfoot

Lindsay Wagner winning the prime time Emmy award for best actress in a drama series for The Bionic Woman

I enjoyed 11 inches of COCK in my colon.

Young people decide they Just Can’t.

Also gay marriage in America.

Covid had a profound emotional impact at the time, but except for changes in the work place such as WFH it has now seen very much of the past.

I'd say # 3 was a top event from last century. Rona Barrett was very popular in the 70s and 80s, but since 2000 ? No one's heard of her.

Faye pronouncing the wrong best picture Oscar winner

I almost rushed up there and slapped her r56. But you gotta pick your moments.

The most significant is COVID-19 which resulted in about 15 million deaths globally.

Followed by the Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami of of 12/26/2004. There was an estimated 227,000 deaths .

Giving up on trying to prevent climate change by limiting the burning of fossil fuels.

White Fragility grift

Sadly, that will probably be the one that matters 50 years from now r59.

Gadalfi murder and the rise of Middle East protests because of social media.

The Shelby and Dolly airport incident.

Ashlee Simpson caught lypsincing on SNL.

Janet Jackson's Super Bowl nip slip.

The landing of the Mayflower

Death of Luise Rainer

Death of Olivia de Havilland

The Destruction of Freewheeling Internet Pron

Injectable Fillers

Arrival of PrEP

The Re-Emergence of Dunkin

9/11 Jokes

Weight Loss Drugs

The Brutal Prison Murder of Do --- Oh, let's just wait for it.

Trump assassination attempt #97.

Terri Schiavo following the balloon with her eyes!

Solange kung-fu fighting Jay-Z in the elevator was this century, right?

Serving cod and prunes, together!

I wouldn't even put Gaga's Oscar nom in the top 100.

Streisand's scoring #1 albums in the 2000s and 2010s - making her THE ONLY ARTIST TO HAVE A #1 ALBUM in every decade since the 1960s. A number one album for six decades in a row, over two centuries. No one will ever match that achievement. No one.

R72 The Queen is almost there.

R73 The Queen is there, with a total of 54 albums which charted on the Billboard Hot 200 Albums since 1962.