When does something become history?I mean the fall of the Soviet union was 23 years ago.

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Anonymous 01/08/16 (Fri) 19:49:16 23812c No.34185

When does something become history?

I mean the fall of the Soviet union was 23 years ago.

Anonymous 01/08/16 (Fri) 20:43:46 b8efa3 No.34186

I guess that whenever the political situation changes substantially, what was before becomes history. That's because anything that happened after last such event is still directly relevant for the current situation.

Anonymous 01/09/16 (Sat) 00:11:57 603cf6 No.34192

>>34185

Politics is about live people in power.

History is about dead people in power.

Anonymous 01/11/16 (Mon) 14:42:07 ec4b85 No.34251

>>34185

Anything in the past is History, you have modern History for things that have happened in the past hundred years.

BO has only set the collapse of the Soviet Union as the end of history to keep discussions from turning to /pol/.

Anonymous 01/11/16 (Mon) 20:42:33 72dc4c No.34253

History is the explanation of how we got here politically, socially, economically et cetera.

If you asked this because of the rules /his/ has is because the BO doesn't want this place to become a politics board.

Anonymous 01/12/16 (Tue) 20:53:03 d1159b No.34258

it becomes history when it becomes recorded literally.

With normal application, anything 1 second old is history.

Anonymous 01/12/16 (Tue) 23:16:13 dbc11c No.34263

>>34185

Does History Channel's premiere of Hitler during the 2002-2006 era have to do something with /pol/'s rising in popularity on chans?

Anonymous 01/14/16 (Thu) 19:02:10 36c96b No.34304

>>34186

I agree. The most popular cut-off event I've heard is September 11th, 2001. Before that it would have been the Soviet Union's fall, then maybe the end of WWII? Or maybe WWI since it represented the end of the Long 19th century.

>>34263

I'd say /pol/ started getting popular after 2008. The theory that makes most sense to me is the the switch from a Republican to a Democratic US President inverted what exactly being an edgy freethinker meant. Imageboards have a contrarian strain to them, it'll be interesting to see if the possible upcoming Trump administration changes the popular opinions here.