"Doomed to repeat it" - the History thread

I think a history thread is worth having, just like we do for other broad areas of interest.
Rather than starting with a single article of historical fact, I thought I’d kick it off with this daily game which is always good fun:

I did OK today, no bull’s eyes, but score points on all 5 guesses.
I got a score of 3830 on today’s Chronophoto: 8/14/2024
Round 1: 924
Round 2: 849
Round 3: 777
Round 4: 640
Round 5: 640

With the 3rd photo, it’s always an eye opener to see those days when cars were so few and far between (although still getting huge space allocated to them)

edit: I really should have done better with the 2nd photo. I mean the flag’s there in the shots and even though I would have got the actual year wrong, I shoulda been closer.

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I got a score of 1648 on today’s Chronophoto: 14/08/2024
Round 1: 0​:x:
Round 2: 575
Round 3: 196
Round 4: 849
Round 5: 28 Chronophoto - Daily

Seems fun.

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I got a score of 2779 on today’s Chronophoto: 14/8/2024
Round 1: 640
Round 2: 849
Round 3: 0​:x:
Round 4: 777
Round 5: 513

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I got a score of 948 on today’s Chronophoto: 8/14/2024
Round 1: 83
Round 2: 290
Round 3: 575
Round 4: 0​:x:
Round 5: 0​:x:

dammit… Although will definitely be going there often

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Im guessing a correct year is 1000 points and its scaled down from how many years out you are?

Yeah 1000 for bulls eye.

that’s pretty cool.

I got a score of 2242 on today’s Chronophoto: 14/08/2024
Round 1: 575
Round 2: 924
Round 3: 453
Round 4: 0​:x:
Round 5: 290

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I scored 3351, the most I was off was 10 years.

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I got a score of 4121 on today’s Chronophoto: 14/08/2024
Round 1: 575
Round 2: 849
Round 3: 924
Round 4: 924
Round 5: 849

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Happy to contribute before 1900.

Interested to see where this thread goes from here.

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I got a score of 2290 on today’s Chronophoto: 14/8/2024
Round 1: 777
Round 2: 1000​:white_check_mark:
Round 3: 0​:x:
Round 4: 0​:x:
Round 5: 513

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I got a score of 2787 on today’s Chronophoto: 14/08/2024
Round 1: 924
Round 2: 1000​:white_check_mark:
Round 3: 155
Round 4: 708
Round 5: 0​:x:

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I got a score of 1557 on today’s Chronophoto: 14/8/2024
Round 1: 777
Round 2: 342
Round 3: 196
Round 4: 242
Round 5: 0​:x:

Bit shit, but I made the rookie error of being fooled by colour. Some b&w photos I assumed were older, and some colour ones younger. Won’t make that mistake again.

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Horse and carriages have a large turning circle. Streets were large to accommodate this.

Hair style and clothing style. Look at the tech. The telly studio I initially went ten years earlier than looked at the hair, clothes and the tellys again and adjusted.

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The TV studio fooled me by decades

Must have missed the memo when building Sydney in the early days.

Hell, they still miss the bloody memo.

Same, plus the beers and bloke in glasses in the last one really threw me, I thought it seemed like it was late 50s except didn’t think women would be drinking bottles of Buds and that bloke looked like he could be straight out of 1988-92, there was already a 1950’s one too so guessed that it may have been some kind of dress up party

Today’s one

I got a score of 2757 on today’s Chronophoto: 8/15/2024
Round 1: 0​:x:
Round 2: 924
Round 3: 513
Round 4: 924
Round 5: 396

Really all at sea for the first one. Struggled between the fashions and hair cuts, and was ultimately over 20 years off.

Second one was initially quite confused until noticing that big fucking photo on the wall which really got things on track

New day, new game, getting better.

I got a score of 2326 on today’s Chronophoto: 15/08/2024
Round 1: 513
Round 2: 0​:x:
Round 3: 777
Round 4: 396
Round 5: 640 Chronophoto - Daily

D1: 1648
D2: 2326