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I genuinely don't understand the point of this website. Could someone explain?

• rgovostes 5y ago
  You enter a movie title, and it picks an even older movie such that your movie's release date is the midpoint. For example: Today <-- 22 years --> The Matrix (input) <-- 22 years --> Star Wars (output) In other words, today "The Matrix" is as old as "Star Wars" was when "The Matrix" came out.
  • sverhagen 5y ago
    Okay, I meant the point that is just one level deeper than the obvious (this) one.
• interestica 5y ago
  Seems to just highlight relative distances in time. In Back to the Future (85), he went back to a completely different world of 1955. Yet, Back to the Future is further in our past than that jump (yet many will say it doesn't seem that long ago.)
  • quicklime 5y ago
    I had the impression that it was like a dynamic version of https://xkcd.com/891/ https://xkcd.com/891/
    • jonny_eh 5y ago
      Yup, also this: https://twitter.com/DaveKingThing/status/1386722993196335106 https://twitter.com/DaveKingThing/status/1386722993196335106