Welcome!
Hello fellow time travelers. Here in Stuck10YearsBehind we are all roleplaying as if it is ten years ago to the date, and this is the front page of reddit.
This can be a fun trip down nostalgia lane. We have a few rules in order to keep the experience pure. Note to older users, Rule 2 is has been expanded and will be more strictly enforced.
Rules
Rule 1: Do Not Break Character.
This is the golden rule and all rules flow from it. You are posting as if it’s really ten years ago. You have no knowledge of the future. This means all your posts should be written from the point of view of someone in 2009.
If you must break character, use a spoiler tag. You can do that by typing >!!< around the content. Please use this sparingly.
The only exceptions to Rule 1 are as [META] posts. You do not need to stay in character on a [META] post, or in the comment replies to a [META] post. Please refrain from making [META] posts unless absolutely necessary.
Rule 2: No Future-telling, Ironic or Otherwise.
Do not make a post or comment that predicts the future. Examples include
- “This new Minecraft game will NEVER be popular."
- "Wouldn't it be weird if Donald Trump ran for President?"
- "Have you guys heard of Bitcoin? this thing will never catch on."
This rule is strictly enforced for posts. It is slightly relaxed for comments, but your predictions should be believable. A linked ten year old review of Minecraft as the basis for your comments will be significantly better than listing all the features it has now as what you hope to see.
If you’re trying to be funny, be subtle. An article about Donald Trump’s real estate ventures from ten years ago makes for great irony, any mention of him running for president breaks character, unless you really think his Reform Party run in 2000 is worth mentioning.
Rule 3: Stay on date.
Any posts or references from something in the future will be removed. However, if the original cannot be found, you may upload a modern mirror. Provide a spoiler explanation for why you are using a wrongly-dated mirror.
You should also focus on events current to ten years ago. A breaking news story from 2007 is not a good submission. A thoughtful opinion article from 2007 probably fine.
Posts and comments which do not stay on date will be removed.
Rule 4: Maintain the Charade
Yes, the BBC lists a ten year old story as 10 years ago. Yes, the sidebar stories are modern. You are not funny or clever if you point that out, and your comment will be removed.
If someone posts a modern mirror of old content, act like it’s old content. If someone makes a mistake or breaks character, do not double down on it and engage in character. Point out the mistake with a spoiler, and/or just report it.
Rule 5: Be Civil
Heated debates about Obama doing a good job and when Half Life 3 will be released are more than welcome. Ironic name-calling and hostility, however, tends to breed unironic name-calling and hostility. Be nice.
Resources
The best things to post on this sub are specific links. A vague comment about an even ten years ago isn’t as good as a news story. To find links, here are three useful sources.
http://tenyearsago.io/
This site was made for this sub. The premise is amazing — it’s literally the ten-years-old archive of every single website, including reddit itself. From this you can get a look at big news stories from exactly ten years ago. This is a good place to find topics that everyone remembers but aren’t still current.
The hardest part is turning these front page stories into links. CNN and Fox in particular seem to wipe their old stories, and the NYT paywalls them. Finding a web archive can help, as can doing a google search for the story title to find the reuters story.
Remember, it’s not a repost if its the first time you’re posting it to Stuck10YearsBehind.
Google Search
You can use Google’s advanced tools to look for content which is exactly ten years old. Example, here’s a search for Obama filtered from March 27, 2009 to April 1, 2009
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