The pleasure of the fleeting year
According to a Google Search, installment 1
According to a Google search, to what person, story, or occurrence is each year in my lifetime most linked? The following is a list the top hits for Google searches done for each year from 1979 to 2008. I have two rules: the first is that I will not count links to websites that just contain a list of things that happened that year; the second, that I will count websites for people, stories, or occurrences that may not even have happened during the year in question.
2008 — US Presidential election
2007 — The 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering, in Istanbul
2006 — Where the Hell is Matt?
2005 — The UN Human Development Report
2002 — The Novel Prize in Chemistry
2000 — US Presidential election
1998 — The Nobel Prize in Physics
1995 — US Department of Health & Human Services’ 1995 press releases
1993 — The Nobel Prize in Physics
1992 — The US Presidential election
1991 — The Nobel Prize in Medicine
1989 — The Nobel Prize in Economics
1988 — The 1988 US Presidential debates between George Bush and Michael Dukakis
1987 — The Nobel Prize in Physics
1986 — The Nobel Prize in Economics
1985 — Bowling For Soup’s 1985
1984 — George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
1983 — US Code: Title 42, 1983. Civil action for deprivation of rights.
1982 — Entrez Gene: EIF4G2 eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4 gamma, 2 [Homo sapiens] GeneID: 1982
1981 — The Nobel Prize in Economics
1980 — 1980 games, “old online video and arcade games for free.”
1979 — The Smashing Pumpkins’ 1979
Solzhenitsyn’s Harvard Address wins for 1978, by the way.
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