Zeitgeist — guess the day from a Hacker News front page

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A snapshot of the Hacker News front page, from some day between February 2007 and today. Work out when.

  1. Read the board — the stories, the domains, the scores, the usernames.
  2. Slide the bar to the month you think it is.
  3. 8 boards per game, 90 seconds each — the clock keeps running if you switch tabs.
  4. Everyone playing game 1 gets the same boards.

Tell-tales: a dying domain, a framework everyone suddenly cares about, how many points it took to reach the front page.