This was kinda fascinating

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https://www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/1947

For my birth year I was surprised bikini went that far back and also bank card

Some grim ....hydrogen bomb and final solution

Many reflective of the technological boom...flying saucer and swim fin ...radio nuclide and radio telescope

Swim fin coming out of the scuba invention and others reflecting the enormous step forward the war effort engendered with radar and jet engines.

Heave-ho I would have thought much older.

The English language just clanks along gaining vocabulary year after like a huge sponge.

Have fun

Macdoc wrote:

For my birth year I was surprised bikini went that far back and also bank card

First instance of Automatic Teller Machine in my birth year.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/1967

Have fun

Lol, TV Dinner.

If that doesn't sum up the 50s I don't know what does.

I stole that and facebooked it.

beatnik
cancer stick

Could explain a lot.
Ooh, there's more than I first thought:

nanosecond, software, tandoori.

My son said he looked up my year and found the word 'wheel'. I didn't believe him...

I replied that he missed 'stone axe'.

Alan B wrote:My son said he looked up my year and found the word 'wheel'. I didn't believe him...

I replied that he missed 'stone axe'.

My great great great son's birth year lists three words. One of them is 'firestick'. Mine lists just one: 'Ugh'.

hehe glad to see the "have fun" admonition alive and well....good chuckles on a cold wet Oct day.....carry on.

punk rock, lol

"anti-aliasing"

Also; MDMA.

Emo, telomerase, defrag and unibrow.

Explains a lot.

I've never even heard of defrag.

Let me guess. You're an Apple user.

Holmes, you're a wonder.

Oral sex, sock puppet, navel-gazing and zonked.

Good words.

Best new words of 1927:

algorithm, continental drift, ergodic, flat-earther, Kronecker delta, mojo, quickie, toilet training, whomp, zipper

Animavore wrote:"anti-aliasing"

Often (frequently) used in association with 'filter' - a filter that removes high frequency (fh) signals such that their Nyqvist folded frequency components at fh/2 do not get sampled.

The low frequency component is an alias of the high frequency signal. See, e.g. aliasing

Also; MDMA.

A selection from my birth year

The Good
Comfort food, hot pants, VO2 max, zip line, wish list


The Bad
Anxiety disorder, bad hair day, control freak, dorky,erectile dysfunction,


The ugly
White Nationalist

I got to clarify my address for the postman. Milky Way galaxy.

Quantum field theory. I actually know what it means now. Unless someone asks me......

The one that stood out for me was Punk Rock.

It would be a journalistic buzzword for a few years before there were any bands actually self-identifying as such, mind you.