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Kids these days have it easy with their movie credits. In my day, you had to pause the tape to work out what year the movie was copyrighted. Die Hard: MCMLXXXV
by function_seven 7y ago
Kids these days have it easy with their movie credits. In my day, you had to pause the tape to work out what year the movie was copyrighted.
Die Hard: MCMLXXXVIII
Avengers: Endgame: MMXIX
- tcbawo 7y agoRoman numerals remind me of that adage that obsolete technologies never really go away. There might be more people alive today that use Roman numerals than at the Roman empire's peak.
- interfixus 7y agoIn my day, you didn't have any tape, so you got frantic, working out the numeral before the memory faded. This was really the way I learned whatever meagre roman numerical skills I possess.
- mongol 7y agoWhy do movie credits use roman numerals for production year in the first place?
- dredmorbius 7y agoPossibly: "deception theory". https://web.archive.org/web/20120822041637/https://newsblaze.com/story/20120820063820ssid.nb/topstory.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120822041637/https://newsblaze... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1934990.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1934990.stm