Could you tell me what year this photo was taken? (Insane guesses on Chronophoto)
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2023
- I couldn't stay away. Chronophoto is back already and this time I'm determined to achieve the 4,000.
Guessing the age of an old photo is taking me on a learning journey that I can't seem to get enough of. Let me know if you guys think of any interesting ways we could take this, for now, enjoy some iconic snaps, including a terrifying Michelin man and such US presidents as Donald Trump and George W Bush. There are some corking guesses in here too.
*For those eager for episode #6 of HNTTA, it will most likely be with you on Sunday evening at 8pm GMT (with a small chance of a Monday release)
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Firstly I can confirm that I am back from my latest straight line mission, alive and well.
This is good news because I can now complete the editing for episode #6 of HNTTA, which will most likely be with you on Sunday evening at 8pm GMT (with a small chance of a Monday release)(day earlier on patreon as usual)
For now I hope you are enjoying the bubble of madness that is this game! please drop me a like if you are!
glad to hear you are infact alive 🤭
Congrats on living. Whether you succeeded or not, that is a huge success itself lil sis ❤
Good to hear it was successful and safe!
Congrats on surviving.
SURVIVE!
This game NEEDS to tell you about the image after you guess!! I feel like I'm missing out whenever you just have to move on from one image without even learning where it was, let alone what was going on in it.
Suchh a great idea for a game though!
At the very least it should credit the photographer. *Where known.
I can give you info on the first photo with Drumpf. In the US, it's been a long time tradition that college national championship teams get invited to the White House for tours and stuff, and then a nice 5-star dinner prepared by the White House staff.
Well, in 2019, the Idiot-In-Chief presented this team (can't remember the exact team, but pretty sure it was the national champ football team that year) with this disgusting spread of cold fast food. And he was soooo proud of himself, as you can see.
I feel a copycat of this game can be easily replicated and made even better with that additional info. Hopefully the creator will be able to make changes and turn it into the beast it can be. I'd be hooked if it became that immersive
@@bromwich13tgrubbs72 holy hell, hes letting politics getting to his head
Dating them correctly is already tremendous task. Finding history for at least hundreds of photos is ridiculous.
Tom, mate, I just wanted you to know that your videos, regardless of what it is... Straight line, detective, how not to travel... they all make my day. I sit down and watch it as if I was sitting down and watching an episode of a tv show.
Thank you mate, for all you do!
Same, I’d rather watch a straight line mission than any random high production adventure TV show
I think the exact same, he really makes some amazing content
Agreed
Same, I always save Tom's video for in the evening when I have enough time to watch them properly instead of just on the side
I love the irony of the Michelin tires cart being on metal wheels without tires lol
Can’t wait for this straight line mission, Also more geo detective! And more of this! And how not to travel America! You know I’m just stoked for it all! Keep up the good work!
Thanks man, I've definitely been putting the hours in in 2023. Comments like these make it worth while!
@@GeoWizard Yeah man, got a little worried not seeing #6! Can now wait in peace haha. Take care!
Straight line mission in winter sounds crazy. 😄
@@vaenii5056 Maybe it's in like Chile or something where it's summer
@@GeoWizard next mission has to be following the whole border of a country. San Marino is perfect for that
Tom calling the American lady “Lois Griffin who ate one too many burgers” and getting right in front of the webcam trying to read the menu had me spit out my food in laughter. Great video Tom
Lol exactly
7:56
Antiamericanism is fun isn it
And then "Hamburgers are from America!".
Nope! They're from Hamburg, Germany.
@@Tumbledweeb partially incorrect.
German immigrants brought the patty to America in the 19th century, where it was placed on a bun. American soldiers returned the hamburger sandwich to Europe during World War I.
The modern hamburger was developed in the United States
When that image of the kids at the computer came up, I screamed Kids Pix straight away! It is exactly the game you were thinking of where you can drag the butterflies, or create whatever art you wanted with stamps, and paint etc.
Kid pix is probably the number one most nostalgic thing in my life
I think I remember it but am not sure because the software looks 90's or very early 2000's and I only remember computers with CRT monitors like that before around 2003 or 04 when I moved primary schools (I am 26 turning 27 later this year and when I was like half way in year 2 we were told that our primary school was going to close down after a year and a bit when I would have finished year 3 and we had to move and when I was in my first primary school we had CRT monitors but when I started year 4 we in my new school they only had flat screen monitors from what I remember) well anyway I do remember something maybe like this but I was so young to even remember because I never used a CRT in my new primary school and in my old school I was 8 when I left and I dont think I used this software in year 3 maybe reception (reception is British version of kindergarten) or year 1
That is such a faint memory for me, wow I never remembered the existence of it. Also when looking for it, got reminded of “the incredible machine” which is super nostalgic too.
I was kinda shocked to hear you guess Hong Kong on the second image, since I was under the impression that you could easily identify Japanese writing.... I could have sworn I saw you do it in one of your GeoGuessr videos...
no. 1 thing to learn next
Same lol. Japanese, at least certain forms of Japanese, are super easy to decipher. Kanji still confuses me with forms of Chinese occasionally, but I'm getting the hang of it lol
Odds are he used to know but then forgot after not playing GeoGuessr for a while
My brain somehow only registered the blocky looking letters and not the Japanese looking ones 🤦🏻♂️
@@GeoWizard I immediately got a HK vibe as well, I'm with you there. SHocked to learn it's Japan.
At 7:22 I actually worked with the three guys standing on the right side about 5 years ago. Area code on the phone number confirmed I wasn't crazy. Food trucks have become a recent craze in Indianapolis for one reason or another, they'll pull up outside of office complexes at lunch time and make bank.
wow, small world
Please tell your mate that Tom disapproves of his 2017 clobber…
Personally I'd love to see you meticulously investigate every picture using the full might of modern technology at your disposal with the goal of achieving a perfect score
And after that figure out _where exactly_ the picture was taken, coming full circle on the Geowizard skillset
@@henningerhenningstone691 that would be so awesome
@@bencooper6983 indeed
You know a UA-camr is good when you want to watch their content all day, every day!
Love Chronophoto and your videos with it. I find that schools rarely have up-to-date computers so I'd always go a little later than when I think the computers were made.
Yeah, those appear to be Dell Optiplex GX240 (or newer), which would've been brand new and quite capable in 2002. Highly unlikely a school would have that many of them.
I used that exact version Kid Pix 3 around their age. Computers were running XP when we had Vista at home. 2009 was my guess.
So true, good tip.
The Renault 5 B&W picture was taken in Tel Aviv, Israel (not Spain as mentioned). The 2 last digits on the Renault's license plate were "87", which means the picture is at least from 1987. Israel had the year of make on license plates only in the 80's. Numbering changed in 1990.
Awesome Tom, and don't worry about the wait for the new video. You are out there busting a gut creating new stories for new amazing videos. A far cry from other geoguesser guys who tbh, don't leave their chair. We get the whole shabang and more.
GOAT
perfectly said
For anyone interested in the location of round 3 of the first game, the photo is taken at the Platte Stenenbrug in Alkmaar (Netherlands). It still looks very similar and even today it is still a very lively part of the town of Alkmaar!
Oh I once spent a week in and around Alkmaar. I thought it looked familiar!
Grappig! Ik heb een soortgelijke comment geplaatst, drink er regelmatig een biertje:)
Bedankt voor deze info, ik zag meteen dat het Nederland was en je kan zelfs zien dat er een gracht loopt. Vind het altijd fascinerend om zo'n oide foto te zien
Michelin was founded in 1889 by the Michelin brothers and started off by creating the removable bicycle tyre. Went on to develop by assisting in the first few Tour de France races.
I was shock when I read that, I had no idea it was so old
I feel like a fashion historian could absolutely ace this.
That GWB picture never fails to make me laugh. It was heavily mocked at the time because pretty much nothing had been accomplished in 2003.
For further context/reading:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Accomplished_speech
It was about 40 days into the war.
Yeah, I wanted to tell Tom that that famous event happened really early on in the war. Not after the mission was accomplished (which it never really was, since the mission was a "war on terror". Alternately, you could say that after only a few days the mission was accomplished, since it was a war.)
It makes me angry. I suppose laughing is a better way to handle it psychologically. It's just so upsetting that we could have officials sending young men and women to kill innocent men women and children somewhere across the globe and to die themselves over a lie.
@@NeonNijahn Would it have mattered if Iraq were building atomic bombs? I get ethnic and territorial disputes between neighbours, but attacking another country on the other side of the globe is always wrong.
@@pite9 it wouldn't have mattered, no. It would still be despicable.
For context the first photo was taken when the Clemson tigers football team visited the white house after winning the college football championship. The reason it’s fast food on the table is because of budget cuts that apparently meant all they could afford was fast food.
That's inaccurate. The reason for serving fast food was 1. Due to the government shutdown the White House kithcen staff was furloughed and couldn't make food, and 2. Trump prefers fast food to fancy catering, thinking it's "more American".
No, not quite 'budget cuts', it wasn't a lack of cash really. There was certainly the money there in the coffers for a single catering event, excluding the use of Trump's personal wealth here. (And also ordering that quantity of fast food isn't exactly going to be super cheap either!). It was due to a government shutdown, which is basically when the legislation for the budget isn't approved, so the whole government system (billions upon billions) shudders to a halt and a vast amount of government staff (Including White House caterers) are furloughed and can't work until the budget is agreed.
It was because there was a government shutdown which means that all non emergency government employees don't work. This happens when congress doesn't agree on the budget for the following year in time. Thr white house kitchen staff are also part of the employees who don't work during the shutdown so he had to buy the Fast Food. And yeah it was apparently all cold.
@@la_hanz no, they were furloughed, there was a partial government shutdown, hence budget cuts
How can you be so wrong? This was during the government shutdown.
Crazy...with the second picture after he mentioned it might be Belgium or Netherlands I immediately realised it was Alkmaar in the Netherlands, the place where I lived for 2 years. This spot is at the Platte Stenen Brug; the place where I would go out for a beer in the weekend haha
Ik woon er nog steeds, leuke plek voor weekenden!
If this game added context for the photos after the end of the game this would be bang on.
I really like this! But if the devs are reading, it would be a lot more fun with a bit of description of the photo on the results page!
I nailed that 1972 one on the nose. That was the best summer of my childhood (I was born in 1960) and the vibe I got from that photo was dead on. The clothes just looked right to me. I kinda enjoy particularly when the photos in this game are from the sixties and seventies because I can try to remember whether I was just a little kid (sixties) or a teenager (seventies). That's a big difference, unlike trying to differentiate between whether I was in my forties of fifties, which kinda all runs together in my head.
Yes, 1972 definitely had that transition year about it: still with a bit of 60s feel (flower power) but getting a proper 70s vibe. I guess you would expect the hair to be a bit longer for 72, especially on the guys but I think that was still mainly a British and American thing and this looks like Europe. I actually really like the fashion of the early 70s!
Im so happy to hear about another straight line mission. Genuinely a highlight of my year if a straight line mission comes out. Your work doesnt go unappreciated.
I love the fact that some of these photos are extremely significant.
That's one of the cool parts about Chronophoto: it challenges your history knowledge in many ways.
I instantly recognized the Christmas Armistice, while I didnt recognize a picture I got in a round that saw George Bush in a school (I later learned that it was taken in the very morning of 9/11).
7:57 "Her, that's basically Lois Griffin. Having had one too many burgers" 💀 never change, Tom 😂
Regarding the 2006 photograph of the kids in front of the computers, seeing those curvy grey Dell PCs under those monitors brought back a wave of nostalgia for me, since I remember those exact PC cases from my first few years of Primary School (2005 and 2006), so they probably came out around 2005.
And the game he's talking about is KidPix!!!
Bring back KidPix for smartphones I say
The computers are definately older than 2005 models. I would say that model is from 00-03. But school computers didn't get replaced very often, so it's reasonable that they stuck around for a few more years. Flat screens were already taking over in 2005, for new computers that is. It wasn't until the late 00's that crt's started to become rare.
It made me so relieved that someone pointed out the O.S. on the African computers from last episode. I was yelling at my screen a couple weeks ago haha.
and by the way- that game the kids were playing was in fact Kid Pix!
Photo 3 was taken in broad daylight, still you can see a person on the left that's moved in the picture. This means a long shutter time (probably half a second or so). We know two things: The camera stood on a tripod and B it was before 1910, when shutterspeeds of 1/100 of a second were introduced.
Glad to hear your alive your grind this year has been mad. Cant wait for all the new content always waiting for your posts w the bell on
That last round was elite. The one with the facebook poster, they were using a Wii. 2014 Definitely too late, I know people still use them but I’d say they were at the height of popularity around 2007-2010.
So excited for all of the upcoming projects Tom!! Best of luck with all of the editing
Absolutely loving these please never stop them Tom
Digging this series, fits perfectly into your channel. Keep em comin 🍻
Love the recent Chronophoto videos.
Can't wait for the next HNTTA video though (amazing abbreviation).
Tom I love this new series on your channel - it’s encouraged me to play this game too. Just want to point out those top hat (really, really old looking photos) are usually 1900 or 1-4 years later. Also, 19(oh)10 was great. Looking forward to HNTTA
Michelin in Texas 1904 ??? I'm blown away! The carriage and everything looks old but I would never think Michelin was in the US before 1930
Very nice mate, always good to watch those!
Tom it's obvious you're doing this youtube thing with great professionalism, How Not To Travel America hasn't been completely released and you're already on a new mission! Thanks for providing us the best videos! Cheers!
i absolutely love your videos, thank you so much 😭😭
Vividly remember that game 19:35 while in first grade in Kentucky, I thought 2006 immediately. We had a typing segment once or twice a week and there were typing mini games you had to complete. Once you were done, you got to mess around on this MS paint type game. If you did the best, they would allow you to print your art and bring it home. We had been given floppy disks aswell, which were quickly obsolete at my school the following year, 2007.
Do you remember its name?
@@namahecc the UI I remember was kid pix deluxe 4 but this seems to be an older version maybe kid pix deluxe 3
Loving these 'guess the year' vids. Great series.
The story behind the first picture is top tier if you ever can look into it
Cool video and some good guesses, had never heard of Chronophoto before - thanks!
Best channel on UA-cam 😀 always a good day when there a new video - missions, geoguesser...all of it!
Hi Tom :) There are 2 UA-camrs that I follow very intensely who do the most incredible things on their travels. One is you Tom, and the other is a Dutch woman "Itchy Boots" who travels alone around the world on her motorcycle. The two of you have the courage and sense of adventure in your blood that more young people should follow and do the same. It's experiences like these that are worth their weight in gold when you get old. :)
watch kurt caz, you will enjoy it
I’m a simple man, I see a new GeoWizard video, i’m as happy as can be!
Most overused comment since 2009
I have never been this early to a video. So glad you're doing more of Chronophoto!
Loving this game and your videos of it have given me the will to live
I love these photo guessing videos! Something I could do reasonably well.. Much better than geoguesser.
Episode 6, let's gooo! 😎
Loving this series please do more.
Hi Tom! I think you should for sure do an unlimited googling round! Fully enjoying this format. Keep it up lad.
Totally agree!
I agree because this will lead to a lot of juicy detective work!
Well, not image search though. So not totally unlimited Googling.
Straight line mission returns! I thought you weren't going to do them anymore 😂
Can't help yourself, you love it
Looking forward to so see you make the perfect score on this!
"I have kept you guys long enough for this video" ...yeah as if we couldn't watch you all day. Keep up the good work man!
19:25 Kid Pix Studio? Great video can't wait to see more!
The photo with the plane should be on 12. April 1914, Easter Sunday, at a stunt performance at Aspen Airfield. The aircraft was owned by aviators Alfred Lemoine and Jean Bourhis.
I think just keep getting on what you are doing, good stuff
I loved that Scottish “one year out” at the end 😆
Love this! You should do "Party Rounds" and put the code in the description, so we can play along. Looking forward to the Straight Line content!
i just love history and date guessing. Theres so much knowledge that can be used here. Pls more
4183 was my best after 4 games. Just went off gut instinct. Got a very nice one in the middle though, the very famous B&W photo of the American soldiers planting/hoisting the flag from the end of WW2... definitely helped things.
Can't wait for the new straight line mission videos been a while since Wales attempt 3 looking forward to it and some more geodetective please Tom...Thanks from haych in burntwood Walsall
had a crap day, but no matter what your videos can cheer me up right away.
Gave the like after 7:55 hahahah one of the best channels I’ve come across
Tom, not sure how up to date you on your shoes and sneaker knowledge, but for the more recent photos, I often found myself examining the shoes worn by the people in the photos. For example in the 2022 photo on that New York rooftop, the one gal was wearing white doc Martin boots which really only started popping up in fashion, at least in my opinion, in 2019 and later. Just a personal tip I thought I’d share for the detective work on each of these photos you come across. Cheers lad
Love it and can't wait to see more of the American series :)
another good tip for computer ones is seeing what’s downloaded i remember last episode minecraft was on one of the computers meaning post 2011 i’ve personally seen a cs one meaning post 2001 very intricate stuff keep up the good work tom!
Not that it probably would have helped guess the year, but in the second image, you can tell this is Japan because, in addition to the complex Chinese symbols, Japan also has two other alphabets which are considerably simpler (as in, fewer lines per character), a curvy one called hiragana and a blocky one called katakana. You can see the katakana ステーションビル in the middle of the image hinting that this is Japan and not a Chinese-speaking country.
I was shocked that he didn't recognize Katakana straight away
I knew it was Japan but would've guessed early 80s.
5:48 - Glanced away, glanced back and for a millisecond I honestly thought it was saying the photo was taken in the year 2139! 😂
really liking these
I love your channel man. From Syria
Very fun game! And also can't wait for the straight line mission!
Straight line mission?? AWESOME! You've been saying you were training for, and then on, a "mission" but now that we know it's another straight-liner, I can't wait!
Perfect timing! Just in time for my lunch! I hope your mission goes well!
Great video man
7:59 Lmao! I was hoping for your sake that you weren't going to go there, but you did! It is true though. 🤣🤣
Just tried out the game, right guess on the first 2 pics so I thought: Easy game.
Well after that it went downwards a lot.
Really funny game, thanks for sharing, and good luck on your mission.
Tom, that second photo is Japan! Remember: kanji -- the really complex characters -- are the only things you'll see in the writing when dealing with Chinese, be it Mandarin or Cantonese.
Moreover, the photo is of Tanashi Station in West Tokyo, which is utterly bizarre, as I used to work as an English teacher there! It's a very tiny, seemingly insignificant town -- the name "Tanashi" even translates to "No fields," so it's literally named after what it's lacking! So I'm not really sure why that photo in particular was chosen -- maybe I need to read up a bit on Tanashi's history and see what I'm missing!
(That said, for as sleepy as the town may have been, I quite liked Tanashi! It's a cute little town with a lot of suburban charm to it. Not a place I'd recommend as a tourist destination, exactly, but you could definitely do worse!)
It seems like some of the photos on there are historic, but a lot of them are just random. There may not be anything special about Tanashi...
I was kinda surprised to see @GeoWizard not knowing about at least something about the different writing systems in Japan, watching all the videos from before. To give you a quick brief: external-preview.redd.it/5E56z2aoA6M8rKLYBMuAyhPShVQ8MB2RUjj-HnXOaAQ.png?auto=webp&s=68263b6b46a3308a54e94764e0ab1ea204c2351a
@@ErikBlomqvistSwe Yeah, he's been pretty good about differentiating them in previous videos, so that surprised me as well. I think he wasn't really giving it 100%, since -- truthfully -- it didn't much matter if this photo were Japan or China, given the goal was simply to guess WHEN it was from, not where.
Of course, he undermined that a bit by tying the year he chose to an important event unrelated to Japan. ;)
For the record, Tanashi has incorporated with Hoya to form the city of Nishitokyo now. (I live there currently)
@@RazorBeamz Oh, yeah, that's why I said "Tanashi Station in West Tokyo." I really should start calling West Tokyo "Nishitokyo," but it just feels weird referring to it as anything other than West Tokyo in English discourse. ;)
I couldn't believe my eyes at the third picture. It was taken in my hometown, Alkmaar at the Vismarkt/Visbanken(Fish Market). Funny to randomly see it in a Geowizard video
the first photo from the last game is actually the city where I'm from its Eindhoven in the Netherlands :D great vid! ❤️
Oh wow, just casually watching a GeoWizard video and suddenly: your hometown Eindhoven as a guess. Nice and well done on that one!
I have to say without Google is the best, you will learn and get better! With Google I fear it wouldn't last as long and I really enjoy watching you play this game. Keep up the good work!
That Lois Griffin comment was hilarious 😂😊
2017 Clubba is the funniest thing I've heard this year!
Re: American clothes - my son was looking at a bunch of older pics and he said “dad, you still have that shirt! You wore it this week!” I told him half my clothes are older than he is - and he’s 15, so yeah… my casual attire hasn’t changed much in the last 20-30 years! And my car in from the early 90’s. 😂
yess! love this series
After the last video I had a go at this game. The very first photo I was able to pin point to within half a day ! (It was Gerry Garcia performing with the Grateful Dead at the 'Human Be In' event which was held on the Golden Gate Park Polo Fields, San Francisco on 14th January 1967). In the next round I got a photo of 'LBJ' being sworn in as the 36th president of USA (following the death of John F Kennedy on November 22nd 1963).
the 'mission accomplished' speech by Bush is famous for being 'too soon'.
Haha it's so funny that he brings up the location each picture even though it's all about the time. A Geowizard through and through :D
Although in fairness, a location can be very useful in determining a time. And vice-versa.
My idea for a version of this is, try to guess the place (or at least country) as well as the date, then reverse image search after each round to find the details about the photo. That way you also get to tap into the interesting background of each photo as well.
19:21 that’s Kid Pix! We used to have it on our computers when I was in elementary school (approx 2002-2007), one of my fave computer games at the time!
good luck with your mission- be careful and be safe!
Oh man, famous photo right off the bat, kinda makes me wish there was a special category for famous photos.
Yeah, one of the main criticisms of Bush's 'Mission accomplished' speech (given on an aircraft carrier) at the time was that it was historically premature!
Thanks for introducing me to this game! I've been playing with a friend the past couple days. My highest score is 3912.
I love you mate, but knowing Putin and not knowing The Don, makes me think you love Don and trying to hide it. I approve haha!
Sometimes I watch your channel and am in awe of the knowledge you have of geography and other esoteric subjects. Then I watch and, when faced with guessing a year for Donal Trump being in office, you ask "when was McDonald's invented?"
The CFB National Championship celebration dinner to open it up was hilarious.
Addicted to Chronophoto now