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Chronophoto
- vander_elst 4y agoLove it! Nice job. It would be nice to have a link with more information about the single photos, at least the exact time and place where it was shot, i can then look for the related events myself.
- swalling 4y agoAddictively fun. I'd love to see a leaderboard for this or at least what the score distribution is.
- photoGrant 4y agoThis was ridiculously fun for me! I got 2827 as a score which isn't that great, but I nailed the year perfectly on 2/5. Super interesting!
- BHSPitMonkey 4y agoAlso nailed 2 out of 5, but managed a 4154 on my first go :D It's interesting to think about the epochal details our minds use to produce these guesses. Technology like the cars/cameras/phones present (or missing), the fashion styles on the people, the quality/sharpness of the image overall, face masks in post-2019 photos, etc.
- interestica 4y agoThis would be fun as a team or on a stream. Theres a lot to learn from the "speak aloud" aspect of the reasoning here. Film grain. Colour. Hair. Clothes. Cultural clues. Etcetc
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- ddejohn 4y agoAbsolutely love these types of games. Geoguessr is another classic. EDIT: oof, just got the Columbine High School class photo.
- pcthrowaway 4y agoI prefer Explordle to Geoguessr
- chairmanwow1 4y agoFun game! Wish the UI would stay static when going between rounds. The scroll down was jarring.
- ztratar 4y agoThis was a lot of fun. Very unique game. Congratulations on making it! :)
- graypegg 4y agoThis is really fun! Never really thought about how nice some very old film photos can look, took me by surprise on a few ones!
- fideli0 4y agoThat‘s fun :-) What‘s the source of the photos?
- jug 4y agoThis reminds me of some TV show games here in Sweden. :) Got a perfect 1000 points on a pretty gruesome WW2 photo with jews around a train. Sort of a pyrrhic victory there... :| ~2200 on my first try, a lot obviously thanks to That Photo.
- klabb3 4y agoPå spåret :)
- sdflhasjd 4y agoFun game. Does stutter a lot in Firefox on my phone for some reason.
- guilamu 4y agoNo problem here, latest ff, s10e.
- hammock 4y agoAwesome. The first photo I got was some guy in a cartoonish space suit talking with a kid at a festival. I guessed 1966 and got it on the nose. That heartened me. After 3 rounds my high score was 3154
- valdect 4y agoNice to see an unique game!
- softfalcon 4y agoWow… for the first time in my life, knowing intricate information about film development colouring paid off
- NikolaNovak 4y agoIt's tricky. I got one that was full bright standard colour... from 1912. Normal contrast and hue and saturation, no noise. I assume recoloured later? There are bw photos from 70s and colour photos from 50s. Contrast and noise and hue can give clues, but nothing stops a photographer from using old film in new times. I ended up going for cars and styles more when possible.
- softfalcon 4y agoFair point! Maybe I just got lucky and my 5 or so photos were all time accurate to their development methods!
- kxrm 4y ago> I assume recoloured later? Color capable film has been around since the late 19th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_color_film_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_color_film_systems
- function_seven 4y agoSure, but the character of the saturations and hues is different. I think that’s what parent is talking about.
- OtherwiseBenign 4y agoA bit like the car meta in Geoguessr
- amelius 4y agoPeople still use old film sometimes ...
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- cinntaile 4y agoThe slider was incredibly frustrating to use on (Android) mobile. The game itself was fun though.
- blinding-streak 4y agoWorks fine for me on Android. Perhaps a fix was made in the 4 hours since you posted your comment and me trying it.
- cinntaile 4y agoIt's fixed now. It wasnt't finely grained enough before, so you'd try to select 1978 and end up with e.g. 1979 or 1980.
- vagabund 4y agoVery fun, almost wish there were less overt cultural clues though. I got 3912 on the first go but it was mostly because I recognized Bowie and Le Corbusier, and got a theater marquee with Happy Gilmore playing. I enjoyed the pics where you needed to analyze hair/clothing styles and car models more.
- 13of40 4y agoOne of mine had a picture of JFK giving a speech.
- kowlo 4y agoIt said Clinton Shaking Kennedy's hand was 1962... thought it was 63
- kristopolous 4y agoWell it certainly wasn't 1964
- kortilla 4y agoDefinitely no later than 65
- NKosmatos 4y agoVery nice game, fast site, nice photos and likes the overall feel of it, well done!
- nickdothutton 4y ago3 rounds and 3502. Well done to the creator!
- chaboud 4y agoI'd love to see trends and stats on the photos across regions and collaboratively filtered (e.g., someone who accurately predicts photo XX is more likely to accurately predict photo YY). Also, it's a super curious dataset, photos with year metadata.
- tobr 4y agoSimple and fun game. I just wish the score was more forgiving the older the photo was. It’s a lot harder to tell 1905 and 1910 apart than 2015 and 2020, from the perspective of 2023.
- charles_f 4y agoInteresting, unless there was a major clue, I've had as much pain in both cases.
- moffkalast 4y agoI always got the most points when I just did a completely random guess haha. Taking the actively misleading part out of the equation.
- yieldcrv 4y agoI found 1973-1997 looking very similar in color film quality, and cars on the street. maybe if I was more familiar with models, maybe. it was only obvious it was 80s or 90s if something silly was going on. my top score is 2900 right now
- blauditore 4y agoChanges in consumer-grade photo quality between 70s/80s/90s are actually quite visible if you've looked at many of them. It's subtle, but e.g. newer ones have better range in brightness, i.e. less overly bright or dark areas in high-contrast images.
- ipaddr 4y agoFirst time 2200.. what a fun game. I'll use your 2900 as a goal
- thechao 4y agoI got a bunch of Edwardian—WW2 photos in one go, and netted 3190. I might be able to get higher than that, but only if the photos predate 2000. I think styles changed a lot from 1900—1970. After that, things are pretty hard to distinguish; retroactive clothing styles muddyvthe waters.
- Matheus28 4y agoI love this. The summary at the end could be a bit more compact. Scrolling all the way to the bottom to start a new page is a bit inconvenient. Maybe full points for scoring within 5 years? Some photos are very hard to place in an exact year.
- system2 4y agoUse stylebot (chrome) for these type of sites. 1 min or so the site would to your taste.
- dinkleberg 4y agoThis is a fun little game. It is interesting to see what the tells are for the time periods. The reliable ones for me so far are military uniforms, cars, and computers. Hairstyles and clothes for some time periods are a give away, but some of those have thrown me off too.
- ghayes 4y agoHelped for me that I am in one of the photos (NHL game played at Lake Tahoe during the pandemic).
- dinkleberg 4y agoThat is fantastic. Gotta wonder what the chance of that is.
- orlp 4y agoThis is very similar to Wikitrivia: https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/ https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/ , which asks you to place general historical concepts/events on a timeline.
- tasuki 4y agoNot sure how similar it is, but hey Wikitrivia is great!
- anigbrowl 4y agoAmusing. Summary screen is hard to read and kinda redundant, needs a leaderboard.
- netsharc 4y agoDon't these always end up getting spammed by script kiddies submitting the best scores?
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- wazzer 4y agoNice, I always thought I’m pretty good in guessing the production years of movies, photos, and music, so this game is a lot of fun for me. My first try gave me a score of 4125. I’m curious if I can replicate that result or if I just got lucky! Edit: Nope… second try: 2728 Edit: 3rd round: 3823
- klabb3 4y agoIt’s incredible to see how quickly things changed ~1910-1930 in terms of infrastructure and technology. You’re going from horses and cobblestone to almost modern cars and pavement, within just 20 years or so.
- stjo 4y agoSame thing with smartphones. If the photos is of a crowd, it is immediately obvious if it is after 2012 by the fact that everybody is watching their hands.
- wizofaus 4y agoI would say that change happened much earlier, and was almost complete by 1911 in many US cities. OTOH I had a hard time telling apart cars from 1910s vs 1930s. Around the early/mid 30s a much more modern style of car came on the scene (Ford Phaeton etc. I guess), but I suppose it took a while before the Model-T style vehicles were all replaced.
- dbosch 4y agoGreat game ! Thanks for sharing. Small suggestion: it would be great to get some information about the picture (location, context, people) in addition to the year, after we tried to guess the date.
- fceruti 4y agoI feel proud and eager to share my 3150 score point. PS: No such sharable gold nugget was presented.
- srcnkcl 4y agoThis is a AI training job gamified isnt it?
- system2 4y agoWhat would be the help of this game to ai?
- gojomo 4y agoPotentially, it might help find errors in the existing year-labeling - either via recognizing cases where guessers have wide divergences with a certain bias, or the explicit avenue via the about (email with errors). Or, help identify features of a photo that definitively place it at certain times, by human perception. That might help tune autogenerated content intended to reflect certain eras to avoid anachronisms, or more strongly hint specific years or vague ranges. Now, I don't think these are likely motivations for the game – the mere fun of playing seems enough to me. But it seems they could be.
- system2 4y agoPretty far fetched. The date of the photos are known so ai's only intention would be to find out if humans suck at guessing or not. Which would be a useless data to improve the systems.
- gojomo 4y agoBut some of the dates have errors, which one might, in some applications like to find. And alternatively, how well a scene matches the audience's clear indicators of era is valuable in entertainment – even moreso than accuracy, in some cases. Again, I don't think these are likely motivations for this particular system. But in a wide world of many aims, it's within the realm of possibiity that someone might try a system like this for such purposes.
- XCSme 4y agoI love how there are no instructions, and yet it's pretty obvious what the goal is and how to achieve it, good UX.
- intrasight 4y agoYes. Is a great example of "less is more"
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- kerryoco 4y agofor the first 30 seconds with the "Submit" button I thought it was a crowdsourced analytical thing though. Almost bounced. Might be worth changing the wording but otherwise agree
- dougdonohoe 4y agoReminds me of the Timeline (I think this is the name) card game where every player has a bunch of cards, each of which represents a historical event (e.g., moon landing, or sinking of Titanic, discovery of Radium, etc. Each player has to put down the card in the proper order, with respect to previous cards played. It gets harder as more cards are "on the timeline". Fun game.
- RicoElectrico 4y agoYeah, it's called Timeline. At work we took Armenian colleagues to a pub which had it available. It was funny to play with the Polish localization, they understood more than we assumed (Armenians know Russian). But the replay value is dubious. The guy who won turned out to have this game at home. Kinda cheating ;)
- macintux 4y agoIn the U.S. we have Chronology, sounds like the same game. This link (grabbed from another thread here) is similar. https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/ https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/
- Daegalus 4y agoTimeline is easily found in the US. I bought a copy a couple months ago.
- muglug 4y agoLove it! You can tell a crowd photo wasn't taken in the last 10 years because nobody's looking at their phones.
- paxys 4y agoLove it! I got some terrible scores but then realized a good strategy is to judge a photo by its quality and aesthetics rather than the content.
- jeremyis 4y ago3244! The first photo was hard because it was recent but had an old car in it.
- antihipocrat 4y agoThis is great! I'd love to see some stats on the distribution of all guesses for each photo
- grodin 4y agoIt's a shame, but its privacy policy[1] is pretty clearly contravening the GDPR. There's a link on the top of the privacy page which seems to be supposed to show you a consent modal, but it doesn't work on my Chromebook, and their claimed justifications for using the user's data are clearly not actually justified. [1]: https://www.chronophoto.app/privacy.html https://www.chronophoto.app/privacy.html
- pwenzel 4y agoThis is really fun. My only wish is that I could see some information about the photos in the summary screen. Maybe a photographer credit or link to a Wikipedia?
- basseed 4y agoit's fun! Would be good if each set had a unique id so that you coul send the same set to a friend and compare scores
- msurekci 4y agoFun game, thanks!
- tomcam 4y agoI fancy myself to be much more historically than most people and yeah… no. Consistently off by 5 years or so.
- Aeolun 4y agoIn a range of 120 years that’s pretty good I’d say. At least, I was pretty proud of myself for doing the same.
- airstrike 4y agoI feel like this would work even better as a daily game like Wordle with the same 5 pics for everyone to play so you can (lightly) compete with friends. And at the end, you could get some trivia for each of the photos
- IndySun 4y agoWhy would this work better as a daily game like wordle? I ask because I disagree. Visuals are far more infinite than guessing a 5 letter word with restricted choices. Chrono and Wordle are not comparable.
- gojomo 4y agoPeople like to compete: seeing the same questions makes the scores comparable. Having common context of the same "daily pics" also creates opportunities for discussion & debate which don't exist otherwise. Trickling out synchronized games may create more durable entertainment, because otherwise many tend to play intensely until they bore of it, considering it "done" – never checking back. Returning back each day may generate more 'fun' per game, as the satiation of repeated play is minimized. It also cultivates a reliable audience for incremental changes/experiments that take time to implement & evaluate – assiting iterative improvement.
- satvikpendem 4y agoIf it gets popular by going viral, the creator could sell it for 7 figures to the New York Times too.
- jayknight 4y agoFramed is pretty popular with some of my daily game friends, and it's visual. https://framed.wtf/ https://framed.wtf/
- dirtyid 4y agoThis is great
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- sammalloy 4y agoFinally! A game I enjoy and am somewhat good at.
- xoa 4y agoNeat simple little trivia thing, but fun to think about each one and any clues. I got 1969, 1968, 1971, 1906 and 1904, score of 3435. First two were war related, for 1000 and 777. First was b&w but obvious forest clearing mid Vietnam war, so bit of a guess but on the dot, then the second was a color picture of a bus with "Saigon" on it that I underestimated but again, era was clearly Vietnam. Second one showed people in front of cricket scoreboard and with all the batters names and that was pure luck for me because only one possible famous match featured those players! (test #679, Australia v Sydney 1971). Utterly bombed the next, 83 points, I agree with others that I found older photos tougher. Guess 1923, way off. Then I could guess at the final based on the period late 1800s/early 1900s dress at 1910 which was good for 575. Anyway, fun in terms of trying different strategies and it making one focus on the details whereas normally with photographs it's easy to just sort of look at it more abstractly without really thinking about it. Could be a neat party game even as-is, but I also agree with a sibling poster that it'd be easy to expand a touch to favor that (allow having n different guesses each with different colors, so everyone can take a shot for each image for some light competition maybe?).
- uptownfunk 4y agoWow cool idea, fun.
- pentagrama 4y agoSo fun! Have some friends courious about culture and history that will love this. I think the UX can improve a bit: - Would like that after a submit show both the correct date and the player guess, now only shows the correct date on screen (and the guess in the slider but not with numbers, just a visual gap) - The slider is a bit hard to interact on phones.
- intrasight 4y agoAlso, it should show public info about public photos. If you photo search, you can easily find - and see some interesting information that the app could include. Example: https://www.prints-online.com/cub-scouts-taking-operation-shoeshine-7246097.html https://www.prints-online.com/cub-scouts-taking-operation-sh...
- crossingTime 4y agoI got a 1976 and a 1992 correct on my only attempt. What are the odds of that? You can narrow a picture down to roughly a 20 yr span. Is that 1 in 400 for just those two? Worst case would be 100 x 100?
- WatchDog 4y agoAt least one of the photos is mislabeled. This one[0] shows time square with an ad for a UFC fight that happens in 2009, but it's labelled as 2007. [0]:https://i.imgur.com/9wJZhI0.png https://i.imgur.com/9wJZhI0.png
- snozolli 4y agoSo simple, yet a lot of fun! 2,889 on my first round, 4,4xx on my second. It's fun zooming in and looking for cars, logos, and clothing style for hints. It's also neat to see, say, a road with cars from Model T style through to swoopy 1930s sedans. Contrast that with most historical movies where, if it's set in 1955, every car is from 1950 - 1957.
- intrasight 4y agoI improved with each round, so is clearly educational.
- _HMCB_ 4y agoIs Top Score highest everyone has gotten because I just got 3063 which shows top.
- system2 4y agoThat's yours. I got 4500~. If you score 800ish every round you get around 4000 already.
- mbustamanter 4y ago4409. Amazing how can you tell the approximate year by how the women are dressed, an exercise I hadn't done conscientiously before. Thanks!
- ekianjo 4y agoA good game for kids to show them how to recognize different eras. Many clues in each pic, including the colors that are representative of the film/tech used.
- PerryCox 4y agoAs my last image in round 5 I got a photo of WWF where Mankind was on top of the hell in a cell. I guessed 1998 because of the meme and got it correct! It was the only image I hit dead on.
- imiric 4y agoSame for me with Musk on stage with the Cybertruck (2019). It would be more interesting if these popular photos were removed, and guessing would be based only on knowledge about clothing and hair styles, film type, car design, etc. Great game!
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- darkerside 4y ago4625! One was obvious (Biden inauguration), and another I got lucky with a dead on guess.
- bluSCALE4 4y agoI played this with my 8 y.o. son. I called it a social studies activity, was that accurate?
- macintux 4y agoAbsolutely. It would help if the results included some context for the photo, but that seems like a great way to spend educational & fun time with your son.
- peeters 4y agoJust beware there seems to be little content filtering, one of the images I got was pictures of war casualties tossed on the side of the road from 2015.
- Quarrelsome 4y agoExtremely enjoyable, thank you!
- zxexz 4y agoThis is very fun, but I'm wondering why you haven't included source or some context for the photos? Also, you've disabled right click so reverse image searching them is painful.
- atahanacar 4y ago>disabled right click Try Shift + Right click to bypass this.
- zxexz 4y agoUnfortunately, that's not working for me on mac or linux :(
- atahanacar 4y agoMaybe it is a Firefox only feature? Works fine for me on Linux.
- pricci 4y agoScreenshot
- zxexz 4y agoMy issue is there being no credits or sources for the image. Screenshot and reverse image search is certainly a solution on my end to get to that info, but it should be present on the website, probably at the round summary.
- Diapason 4y agoWas fun. Got 2 perfect out of the 5 on my first try :) Score 3098 total
- williamDafoe 4y agoScore: 2358. In general I was within 5 years except for the first one where I was off by 12.
- fsargent 4y agoI recently been going through all of my family photos. A lot of them are scanned and undated. I’ve been looking for some kind of machine learning library that will allow me to automatically date them. Approximates are fine, but an algorithm would do better than I would. Even just grouping photos of similar film stock and scene would be useful as they’re all completely jumbled. Does anyone know if there’s anything like that?
- graderjs 4y agoThat’s an awesome app, I love that!
- acyou 4y agoThese photos are gorgeous. Love the photos that were selected. Are you willing to share the source for the photos?
- achairapart 4y agoLike others, I wish there was some info about the photos like context, location or source (Wikipedia?). Anyway, here's the complete dataset (funny way to store it): https://www.chronophoto.app/badSneakers.txt https://www.chronophoto.app/badSneakers.txt Also, I couldn't resist and cheated a bit to see if you'ld get something special for 5000, but nothing :( https://imgur.com/a/aEUMZlJ https://imgur.com/a/aEUMZlJ
- EGreg 4y agoOoh I got the high score it seems! On the first try! First three I did exceptionally well: I said 1942 Photo was taken in 1943 924 points I said 1925 Photo was taken in 1927 849 points I said 1985 Photo was taken in 1986 924 points I said 1957 Photo was taken in 1942 117 points I said 1931 Photo was taken in 1923 453 points NYEH NYEH! Final Total: 3267 High Score: 3267
- jb1991 4y agoTrying to use this on mobile sure is frustrating. I pinch zoom to look at the photo and somehow I end up changing photos when I zoom back out to click the buttons.
- sheepscreek 4y agoMy scores are getting progressively better and I’ve reached 4481 by the 5th game! I guessed better with photos that had telling elements such as hair styles, clothing, cars, beards - and preferably more than one instance of them. Bigger samples got to better results. Fun game overall. OP, thanks for sharing the link.
- system2 4y agoI came back to play again after 10 hours and noticed some of the 1950's photos are fake colored and fooled me. I think those photos make this game less authentic.
- tcmb 4y agoWould be interesting if all pictures were black and white, irrespective of when they were taken. Or the other way round, have some AI colorize the older pictures.
- robertpohl 4y agoscore 3203!
- earthbee 4y agoI feel I'd be doing better at this game if I was a car person. The only time I've got the year spot on was with a photo of the toppling of a statue of Saddam Hussein. The worst I did was guess 1960 on a black and white photo taken almost directly above of some cars on a road, it was actually 1980. Fun but tricky
- anthomtb 4y agoI was a cat nut in middle school. The four photos with cars? All guessed within 5 years. The one without a car? Off by 30 years.
- darreninthenet 4y agoWould be interesting to train an AI on another dataset and then see how it does on this
- wizofaus 4y agoFirst two games I tried I did pretty well on (~3000 score?), then had some shockers (at least 2 or 3 I'd need some convincing on, photos dated in the 30s that were in full high resolution colour?), then got lucky with 3 photos clearly in the early 1900s, one with a cinema listing a film I knew the release year for and one with a somewhat iconic pre-war coca cola ad that I managed to pick the exact year for, scored just over 4400 (I guess 5k's the max?). Willing to bet a suitably trained AI would whoop any human's ass though, even ensuring none of the photos were explicitly part of the training data.
- PeterisP 4y agoWhy would photos dated in the 30s that were in full high resolution colour be surprising? Resolution has never been a problem for early color photos, the actual coloring was, and the expense/difficulty of the process. This - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#/media/File:Jewish_Children_with_their_Teacher_in_Samarkand.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#/media/... and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#/media/File:L.N.Tolstoy_Prokudin-Gorsky.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#/media/... - come from 1910s. And in 1935-1936 effectively modern color film was mass-released, so starting from late 30s nothing should be surprising.
- wizofaus 4y agoPerhaps, but this particular one (looked like some dignitary inspecting an army, assuming an Asian country but couldn't say which) was especially crisp with high colour saturation that didn't match that of other photos from that period, indeed I assumed it was from the 70s or 80s.
- wizofaus 4y agohttps://codepen.io/wizofaus/full/rNrPYZX https://codepen.io/wizofaus/full/rNrPYZX is another photo I would never have guessed the year of from the quality of the image. Even if the outfits/equipment are obviously from a particular period, I'd think it was a reenactment or a scene from a movie...
- maximumcomfy 4y ago3820 so far I like this
- Matheus28 4y agoMy best over probably 50 games was 4261. It's really fun to play with other people too and make guesses together.
- shthed 4y agofor (i=1;i<6;i++) console.log(i+' '+Math.round(sessionStorage.getItem("realDate"+i)/29.234));
- patrickwalton 4y agoIt would be interesting to see results around what styles and ages of photos people are worse at guess age for on average.
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