Also nailed 2 out of 5, but managed a 4154 on my first go :D
It's interesting to think about the epochal details our minds use to produce these guesses. Technology like the cars/cameras/phones present (or missing), the fashion styles on the people, the quality/sharpness of the image overall, face masks in post-2019 photos, etc.
This would be fun as a team or on a stream. Theres a lot to learn from the "speak aloud" aspect of the reasoning here. Film grain. Colour. Hair. Clothes. Cultural clues. Etcetc
The first photo I got was some guy in a cartoonish space suit talking with a kid at a festival. I guessed 1966 and got it on the nose. That heartened me.
It's tricky. I got one that was full bright standard colour... from 1912. Normal contrast and hue and saturation, no noise. I assume recoloured later?
There are bw photos from 70s and colour photos from 50s. Contrast and noise and hue can give clues, but nothing stops a photographer from using old film in new times. I ended up going for cars and styles more when possible.
Very fun, almost wish there were less overt cultural clues though. I got 3912 on the first go but it was mostly because I recognized Bowie and Le Corbusier, and got a theater marquee with Happy Gilmore playing.
I enjoyed the pics where you needed to analyze hair/clothing styles and car models more.
I'd love to see trends and stats on the photos across regions and collaboratively filtered (e.g., someone who accurately predicts photo XX is more likely to accurately predict photo YY).
Also, it's a super curious dataset, photos with year metadata.
Simple and fun game. I just wish the score was more forgiving the older the photo was. It’s a lot harder to tell 1905 and 1910 apart than 2015 and 2020, from the perspective of 2023.
Changes in consumer-grade photo quality between 70s/80s/90s are actually quite visible if you've looked at many of them. It's subtle, but e.g. newer ones have better range in brightness, i.e. less overly bright or dark areas in high-contrast images.
Actually I've been doing consistently worse in the years I lived through than the rest of the timeline. Apparently the older I get the more styles blur together. I tend to estimate ~5 years too early for the 1980-2000, and ~10 years too early for 2010 to present.
This is a fun little game. It is interesting to see what the tells are for the time periods. The reliable ones for me so far are military uniforms, cars, and computers. Hairstyles and clothes for some time periods are a give away, but some of those have thrown me off too.
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[ 2.2 ms ] story [ 151 ms ] threadI got 2827 as a score which isn't that great, but I nailed the year perfectly on 2/5. Super interesting!
It's interesting to think about the epochal details our minds use to produce these guesses. Technology like the cars/cameras/phones present (or missing), the fashion styles on the people, the quality/sharpness of the image overall, face masks in post-2019 photos, etc.
EDIT: oof, just got the Columbine High School class photo.
Got a perfect 1000 points on a pretty gruesome WW2 photo with jews around a train. Sort of a pyrrhic victory there... :|
~2200 on my first try, a lot obviously thanks to That Photo.
The first photo I got was some guy in a cartoonish space suit talking with a kid at a festival. I guessed 1966 and got it on the nose. That heartened me.
After 3 rounds my high score was 3154
There are bw photos from 70s and colour photos from 50s. Contrast and noise and hue can give clues, but nothing stops a photographer from using old film in new times. I ended up going for cars and styles more when possible.
Color capable film has been around since the late 19th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_color_film_systems
I enjoyed the pics where you needed to analyze hair/clothing styles and car models more.
Also, it's a super curious dataset, photos with year metadata.
it was only obvious it was 80s or 90s if something silly was going on.
my top score is 2900 right now
I think styles changed a lot from 1900—1970. After that, things are pretty hard to distinguish; retroactive clothing styles muddyvthe waters.
Thought often the pictures are not a great representation of the time they convey :/
Maybe full points for scoring within 5 years? Some photos are very hard to place in an exact year.
My first try gave me a score of 4125. I’m curious if I can replicate that result or if I just got lucky!
Edit: Nope… second try: 2728
Edit: 3rd round: 3823