# Why are most of 'Today's Question's from around 1999? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 2, 2015, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-of-todays-questions-from-around-1999/729676 "2015-09-02T04:01:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wisernow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@wisernow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wisernow)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-of-todays-questions-from-around-1999/729676/1 "2015-09-02T04:01:35Z")
I am not sure if my observation is valid, but it seems that most of the questions that appear under the ‘Today’s Question’ header on the home page of SDMB seem to be from around 1998 - 1999. I assume it is somehow related to the birth of the board since that is when the latter came into existence, but how? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-of-todays-questions-from-around-1999/729676/2 "2015-09-02T04:09:49Z")
This is better suited to About This Message Board than General Questions. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-of-todays-questions-from-around-1999/729676/3 "2015-09-02T04:10:28Z")
[Today’s question](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2341/do-egyptians-burn-mummies-as-fuel) is from 2002, as are several other recent additions. Three are from 1999, and none from 1998. I don’t know what determines which questions are picked for as Classics or from old Staff Reports. ---
**Author:** ![wisernow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@wisernow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wisernow)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-of-todays-questions-from-around-1999/729676/4 "2015-09-02T07:14:14Z")
You may be right about today’s question and some recent ones, and that is why I said that it is my impression over a long period of time. I could be wrong though. Is there a list of the questions that have appeared as ‘Today’s Question’ and can it be accessed? ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-of-todays-questions-from-around-1999/729676/5 "2015-09-02T12:06:51Z")
Oh No. Y2k has finally happened! ---
**Author:** ![tonyfop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/85f322/32.png) [@tonyfop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tonyfop)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-of-todays-questions-from-around-1999/729676/6 "2015-09-02T12:59:13Z")
There is only one new question answered every week, I think on Fridays. If you look under the question, it says either “A Straight Dope Classic” or “A Straight Dope Staff Report” if it is old. If it just says “by Cecil Adams” it is a newly answered question. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-of-todays-questions-from-around-1999/729676/7 "2015-09-02T15:05:03Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > This is better suited to About This Message Board than General Questions. I’d have actually thought this, being about the main site and not the message board, would go in CCCSR. Though I guess neither one actually mentions the website as a whole. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-of-todays-questions-from-around-1999/729676/8 "2015-09-02T16:59:52Z")
> [@tonyfop](#): > > There is only one new question answered every week, I think on Fridays. If you look under the question, it says either “A Straight Dope Classic” or “A Straight Dope Staff Report” if it is old. If it just says “by Cecil Adams” it is a newly answered question. “If you haven’t seen it, it’s new to you’” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-of-todays-questions-from-around-1999/729676/9 "2015-09-02T17:23:52Z")
Everybody’s got a bomb, we could all die any day. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-of-todays-questions-from-around-1999/729676/10 "2015-09-02T17:34:31Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I’d have actually thought this, being about the main site and not the message board, would go in CCCSR. I would have moved it to GQ since the OP is asking a question. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-of-todays-questions-from-around-1999/729676/11 "2015-09-02T17:36:23Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > I would have moved it to GQ since the OP is asking a question. I would’ve moved it to Cafe, since he sounds hungry. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-of-todays-questions-from-around-1999/729676/12 "2015-09-02T23:22:55Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I’d have actually thought this, being about the main site and not the message board, would go in CCCSR. > > Though I guess neither one actually mentions the website as a whole. > [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > I would have moved it to GQ since the OP is asking a question. -Questions that arise about the message board as a whole go in ATMB. Questions about a specific column by Cecil(\*praise be his name) or a staff member go in CCCSR. General Questions is for questions which have little to do with this Site. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-most-of-todays-questions-from-around-1999/729676/13 "2015-09-03T03:10:35Z")
I’ve noticed in the past that the questions all seem to come from one “time lump.” Right now they’re around 1999, give or take a year or two. At other times, they might all be from the mid-1980s.