Battle of the Decades – Fourth Round

As expected, the battle between the 1990s and the 1940s was a rough one. The 90s took the early lead but quickly lost that lead to the 40s, who looked like they were going to run away with it. But right near the end the 90s pulled back to … I hate to say this … I mean, it stinks when this happens … tie.

You can check my numbers if you’re really bored, but that was the end result. Well, not the END result. You can’t END a battle with a tie. So that means I was unfortunately forced to vote, which I only do in an “emergency”. Anyway, they were both great, nay, incredible decades, but what eventually tipped the scales for me was the invention of the World Wide Web. It is arguably as great of an invention as the printing press—bringing information to the masses. Plus, without it we wouldn’t have The Non-Review, and who can imagine a world without that. So the win goes to the 90s by one little vote (mine), but we have another battle upon us, and it won’t wait for me to shut up, so here it is:

1950s

Your proudest achievements:
I had lots of fun with things like opening Disneyland, inventing Legos, and throwing the first satellite into space. And, of course, I was also very busy medically, you know like with that DNA discovery thing, and beating the stuffings out of Polio with that vaccine of mine, plus, hey, no one had ever done an organ transplant before.
Things you don’t like to talk about:
Yes, yes, the Korean War was kind of my fault, but I didn’t necessarily ask Joseph McCarthy to start his stupid communist witch hunt, we just kind of did. Oh, yeah, and I made Castro the dictator of Cuba. Sue me.

1900s

Your proudest achievements:
Dude, I flew for the first time with those Wright bros! Then I sent the first radio signal across the Atlantic, you know, just to say “Hey.” And after I helped Einstein come up with his Theory of Relativity, I went and invented myself some plastic.
Things you don’t like to talk about:
Well, Queen Victoria died because of me, and President McKinley was assassinated because of me, and a whole lot of people died in the San Francisco Earthquake because of me, so I’ve got some skeletons in my closet. Literally. But I also unleashed Sigmund Freud’s crazy theories on the world. Sorry.

So which of these two is the greater decade? You tell us by casting your vote, for one or the other, in the comments section. On Tuesday we’ll announce the winner (so vote before then), and then throw two other decades up against each other, for round five.

Written by Reputation@Stake
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