Another Day: Compare Your Birthday to Historical Events and Feel Very Old (Possibly)

I don’t need to be told that I’m getting on – my friends, family, colleagues and the mirror will all tell me (to varying degrees of truthfulness).  However, there’s nothing quite like a computer programme to really stick the dagger when it comes to brutal honesty.  So it is with Another Day, which asks you to enter your age so you can discover which historical events, going backwards historically from your birthday, are now closer to it chronologically than today. 

As you can see from the above, my grey hairs are definitely more than implied when I am told that the sinking of the Titanic is now closer to my birth date than the day today! If there is any real evidence that lying about your age is a good idea (if you want to escape the gasps that sharing this site will provoke when you type in your birth date), then this is it.

Here's another based on my birthday...

There’s more.  You can share this on social media, so not only can you share a plum fact about your own age, you can freely ridicule your aging (or already aged) friends by doing the same thing for them and gleefully pointing out the cold hard fact Another Day will come up with.

So, were my mother (who has yet to slip of her mortal coil despite in her own words feeling positively ancient) on social media, I could definitely annoy her by posting this…

If you want, you can compare one historical event to another.  There’s some “proper” history in here, as well as plenty of pop-culture references, so something to suit everyone.

So, for example – the release of Michael Jackson’s Thriller video is closer to the end of the Second World War than today.

Or, did you know that the release of Game Boy in the USA is now closer to Rosa Parks refusing to move on the bus than today?  There’s a host of fun facts to be found that will make you feel older than you are on the site.  Thanks to the folks on Neatorama for pointing out this little gem.