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"Before 2019" seems like a safe bet for pre-LLM years.. but let's see.

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[โ€“] Weirdfish@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Don't know the details, but a baseball player was giving an interview, and at the last moment basically blind caught a ball about to wreck the interviewer.

Felix Baumgartner's freefall from the edge of space.

Edit: you asked for stories, read it as videos for some reason

[โ€“] lemuria@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Videos count too.

The nerve gas report used to justify the invasion of Iraq was ripped from a scene in the Nicholas cage/sean Connery movie The Rock.

90% of vine videos.

[โ€“] shweddy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Ufo kid spilling on his dad in an interview

[โ€“] spongebue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Remember that sign language interpreter for Nelson Mandela's funeral?

There was a video of an Howl/Eagle flying off with a baby, it was an hoax but it was watched all around the world

Now something like that would be laugh at and label AI generated

[โ€“] skvlp@feddit.nl 3 points 1 week ago

The moon landing already is already a conspiracy theory, so that? Or if reported from reputable sources it might just be the same conspiracy theorists dismissing it.

[โ€“] vrek@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let's see... The English army made blow up tanks to fake their power. The French made a second Paris to confuse pilots. The military were very upset when the first spam email was sent. This one is debated but the story is ibm choose ms-dos as their os because the owner of their first choice was out flying his plane when they went to make the deal so they went with their second choice bill gates. Apple was failing, they fired Steve jobs, Steve then made a different company, couple years later Steve was rehired by Apple and made the initial ipod.

[โ€“] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

ibm choose ms-dos as their os because the owner of their first choice was out flying his plane when they went to make the deal so they went with their second choice bill gates

And Gates set up the meeting with the first guy, and as likely as not misrepresented its importance.

Those clown sightings from 2016.

[โ€“] segfault11@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

guantanamo torture photos