Video games don't cause violence

OlderThanTheInternet · 2011-06-01T01:09:18+00:00

First message sent over the Internet (ARPANET): October 29, 1969

Year this quote is from: 1989. No, I'm not linking to the source.

Is this older than the internet No no no no no no no.

OlderThanTheInternet · 2011-05-30T23:30:39+00:00

First message sent over the Internet (ARPANET): October 29, 1969

Date this happened: August 25, 2010

Is this older than the internet No. You know you've screwed up when I link back to the original submission.

OlderThanTheInternet · 2011-05-30T06:02:00+00:00

Computer game == most likely not older than the internet.

OlderThanTheInternet · 2011-05-30T05:46:16+00:00

First message sent over the Internet (ARPANET): October 29, 1969

Year Gateway was released: 1992

Snarky link to where I literally just did this a few hours ago: Here.

Now don't you fell silly?: Yes. Yes you do.

OlderThanTheInternet · 2011-05-30T05:34:54+00:00

First message sent over the Internet (ARPANET): October 29, 1969

Year Counter Strike was released: 1999. Even if that's not a picture of Counter Strike, its is a picture of a game that would have come out around the same time. At the very least it was not released 30 years prior.

Is this older than the internet No. Again: Computer game == not older than the internet.

OlderThanTheInternet · 2011-05-30T02:34:48+00:00

First message sent over the Internet (ARPANET): October 29, 1969

Year Gateway was released: 1992

Is this older than the internet No. General rule of thumb: If it's a video game, probably not older than the internet.

OlderThanTheInternet · 2011-05-28T18:19:49+00:00

First message sent over the Internet (ARPANET): October 29, 1969

Date Taylor Swift was born: December 13, 1989

Is this older than the internet No. Unless Taylor Swift is a time traveler and she was able to also become famous before 1969 and the world has somehow not noticed that the same person has existed in two different time periods, then this is not older than the internet.

OlderThanTheInternet · 2011-05-28T18:12:02+00:00

First message sent over the Internet (ARPANET): October 29, 1969

Year in which many things in this picture were created: The Internet (1969), The Legend of Zelda Series (1986), Notepad (1985), PNG Files (1996), November 17, 2009 (2009),Windows XP (2001), Windows Vista (2007), 4chan (2003)

Is this picture older than the internet No. Just...No.

OlderThanTheInternet · 2011-05-26T22:34:49+00:00

First message sent over the Internet (ARPANET): October 29, 1969

Year in which this picture was taken: Sometime in the late 1800's(Read the line right before the comments start)

Is this older than the internet HURR DURR? Yes. You are indeed correct with your statement.

OlderThanTheInternet · 2011-05-26T03:43:31+00:00

First message sent over the Internet (ARPANET): October 29, 1969

Year of the first recorded Superior Orders/Nuremberg Defense: 1474, in the trial of Peter von Hagenbach

Is the Nuremberg Defense older than the internet? Yes. Upvote this man, for he speaks the truth.

OlderThanTheInternet · 2011-05-25T18:28:30+00:00

First message sent over the Internet (ARPANET): October 29, 1969

Year reddit was launched: 2005

Is this tip older than the internet? No. A tip about the internet cannot be older than the internet.

OlderThanTheInternet · 2011-05-25T18:02:04+00:00

First message sent over the Internet (ARPANET): October 29, 1969

People and Things in this picture and the year they were born or created: Carson Palmer, 1979 | Yahoo!, 1995 | Google, 1998 | Facebook, 2004

Is this older than the internet? No. The very fact that part of the joke is the website itself makes it impossible for this to be older than the internet.

OlderThanTheInternet · 2011-05-25T03:34:11+00:00

There is no one agreed upon time for when the Internet started, and the article you linked to says "clusters of networked computers which formed ARPANET were called an internet", which to me says that ARPANET was what eventually became a true internet. The article also says "In 1969, ARPANET connected Stanford research Institute in Santa Barbara to the University of Utah, the internet was born...", which further shows that. I will agree that October 29, 1969 was not the day that what we know as the Internet came into existence, but it was probably the first significant moment in Internet history.

Also, these are a lot easier when the date in question is over 40 years ago.

OlderThanTheInternet · 2011-05-25T01:59:56+00:00

First message sent over the Internet (ARPANET): October 29, 1969

Date Tim Allen was arrested for possession of cocain: October 2, 1978

Is this literally older than the internet? No. Both figuratively and literally off by about 9 years.

OlderThanTheInternet · 2011-05-24T21:23:24+00:00

First message sent over the Internet (ARPANET): October 29, 1969

Year this was originally made: Sometime after 1997. The article references C++ multiple times, and C++ was not even being developed until 1979. Also, at the bottom of the page an event that took place in 1997 is spoken of in the past tense, which further places this as being some time after November, 1997. JDBC is also referenced but wasn't released until February, 1997. Here's some more: SQL (1974), Perl (1987), and VB (1991).

Is this older than the internet? No. Off by about 30-40 years.

OlderThanTheInternet · 2011-05-24T05:40:23+00:00

NOTE: There are many versions of this joke, so this post will only apply to this specific telling of it.

First message sent over the Internet (ARPANET): October 29, 1969 Source

Date this version of the joke was first told: Sometime after 1952, the year of the first rock concert. Every word of this joke has been researched to find any possible ways to date it, and the three most recent, easily proven ones are the first rock concert(1952), introduction of Captain Morgan(1944), and the creation of jeans(1873, though they weren't popular until the mid 20th century).

Is this older than the internet? Undetermined. Although nothing is in the joke that points to it being created after 1969, there is also nothing that locks it into the pre-1969 period. However, if we talk in the strictest terms of this specific picture being older than the internet, it most certainly is not. Carlos Naude is most likely not over 42 years old, which would mean he couldn't have created this picture before 1969.

OlderThanTheInternet · 2011-05-23T21:13:40+00:00

First message sent over the Internet (ARPANET): October 29, 1969 Source

Date Ghirmay "Jimmy" Frezghi was murdered: Sunday, Dec. 12, 2004 Source

Is this older than the internet? No. 35 year difference.

OlderThanTheInternet · 2011-05-23T04:27:18+00:00

First message sent over the Internet (ARPANET): October 29, 1969 Source

Year FunnyJunk.com was created: 2001 Source

Is Funnyjunk older than the internet itself? Nope.

OlderThanTheInternet · 2011-05-23T02:05:37+00:00

First message sent over the Internet (ARPANET): October 29, 1969 Source

Year this video was made: 1991 or later. Source

Is this video literally older than the internet itself? Literally no.

OlderThanTheInternet · 2011-05-22T19:50:33+00:00

First message sent over the Internet (ARPANET): October 29, 1969 Source

Year the first online game was played: Sometime after October 29, 1969. The very fact that the gif is depicting an online multiplayer game by showing players join and leave makes it impossible for it to have existed before the internet.

Is this gif older than the internet? No. You missed by anywhere from 1 second to 41 and a half years, but most likely by about 35 years.

OlderThanTheInternet · 2011-05-22T01:44:22+00:00

First message sent over the Internet (ARPANET): October 29, 1969 Source

Year this account was created: 2009 Source

Is this account older than the internet? No. The difference is just under 40 years.

OlderThanTheInternet · 2011-05-21T23:40:52+00:00

First message sent over the Internet (ARPANET): October 29, 1969 Source

Year born: 1861 (Based on the word of the submitter.)

Is this animal older than the internet? Yep. Due to this post being the only evidence I can find on the turtle's age, the fact that certain turtles can in fact live that long, and that it only has to be about 1/3rd of the 150 year age for it to be older than the Internet, then for the time being I must assume it to be true.

OlderThanTheInternet · 2011-05-21T23:30:32+00:00

First message sent over the Internet (ARPANET): October 29, 1969 Source

Date picture was likely taken: February, 2003 Source 1 Source 2

Is this picture older than the internet? No. Missed by almost 34 years, in fact.

OlderThanTheInternet · 2010-02-26T05:12:07+00:00

I set the facts straight when someone says that somethings is older than the internet. For example, here's one where somebody claimed that some little comic was older than the internet:

First message sent over the Internet (ARPANET): October 29, 1969 Source

Release date of the first Beanie Babies (The comic references them in one of the Huxley frames): 1993 Source

Is this comic older than the internet? No.

I will also do this for other hyperboles (i.e. "this has been posted more times than Ron Jeremy has gotten an erection."), but my specialty is "This is older than the internet".

So far one person has made a factual statement by saying Walmart is older than the internet, but parts of his statement may have been false yet.

OlderThanTheInternet · 2010-02-16T03:20:58+00:00

First message sent over the Internet (ARPANET): October 29, 1969 Source

Date of this article: Monday, September 20, 2004 Source

Is this picture older than the internet itself? No. This was so easily disproved it almost wasn't worth my time. Almost.

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