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Chris Higgins
Tweets of Old
by Chris Higgins - October 16, 2009 - 4:21 PM

If you’re on Twitter, you must follow this awesome Twitter account: TweetsofOld. What is it? Well, it’s actual headlines from historical newspapers, posted throughout the day. The headlines are often hilarious and bizarre, and they’re tagged with a year and location (”NY1919″ means New York, 1919). For example:

Tweets of Old - MEAT!

Here are a few more recent favorites:

Giants take 2-game lead over Phillies despite Hogg’s impressive hurling. (NY1919)

Frye calculates that he has eaten, in 39 years, pies equivalent to a strip 18 inches wide extending 27 miles. KS1908

Ducks belonging to Sam Hodgson froze to death from the inside by devouring hailstones they mistook for food.CO1905

The pet mongoose of 1st Officer O’Brien, killed every rat on board the ship. (NY1911)

I mean, come on. This is historical gold. Go follow TweetsofOld now, and get ready for fun treats…I mean tweets.

(Via Carl Alviani, finder of awesome things on the web.)

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Comments (3)

  1. I think it’s good idea for young people because they don’t know what happen many years ago ,we usually have these kind of program on Radio.thank you Chris

    posted by saeed on 10-16-2009 at 4:30 pm

  2. Neat – similar to the steampunk concept – bringing new and old together.

    posted by Ranger J on 10-18-2009 at 5:38 pm

  3. It’s funny because our slang is different, like “hurling” used to mean to throw something, now it means vommiting…

    It’s kind of like when my grandmother says something that is way out of line, but we just excuse her because she’s old and can’t change her ways.

    posted by graham on 10-19-2009 at 8:26 am

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