I love the reverse line. Cool visual. Is that a native plot or did you design it?

If anyone is curious about the US, we are on average ~30:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/motherhood-deferred-us-median-age-giving-birth-hits-30-rcna27827

Up from 27 not that long ago:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db232.htm

Like in Europe there are big gaps between areas (this is outdated but the geo-patterns are still probably relevant):

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/04/upshot/up-birth-age-gap.html

I always find things like this fascinating... I was exactly the average age of a first-time mother in my county, when I had my first child.

Nope. In the 1600s marriage was in the mid-20s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_marriage_pattern

Thank you for reading the study and reporting back. That's interesting. I think you are right that they don't know what the words mean.

Re: punch cards: I bet they are thinking about loyalty card punch cards. Like this:

https://www.zazzle.com/travel_coffee_cup_loyalty_punch_card-240985880619572664

Some companies charge you for online transactions. Fuck them, I send a check. <3

You should always have a physical map for unfamiliar hikes. I think there are some niche applications that don't really show up in data like this.

No printing, all online.

I think this has to do with how many documents you have to wet sign...

The CD one surprises me. I was expecting a U shape because weirdly, the kids I know like CDs, whereas Millennials / Gen X are into vinyl, and then you get back to Boomers who sold all their vinyl and are basically stuck with Blu Ray forever because SSI won't cover an upgrade.

Bro I'm not angry but people over 40 know what TikTok is.

You remind me of those people in 2010 who claimed people over 30 couldn't use a smartphone. Or the same in 2000 for the Internet.

I'm.sure there are some slow learners out there but it's not like cloud computing or something. Most people know what TikTok is.

My mom is pushing 70. She knows what TikTok is.

I feel the title is a bit baity. Sure, dates add nothing to a culture when they obscure or de-prioritize the content that doesn't have dates. But they aren't suggesting that dates have no value to history at all, just that their history, which is largely undated, should not be lost to their culture.

And it's a valid point: the idea of "everywhen" fits nicely into a relativistic view of time as a dimension. We may not know where it lies, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

A linear sense of history based on dates will leave out dateless knowledge.

A good chunk of my cultural history is undated and lost to time, including European cultural history and women's history. It's great that some people have been keeping time on what they consider to be important, but we lose a massive amount of information when we only accept dated events as history.

To everyone saying Seattle has a real estate bubble... Ahem.