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HUMANS ARE NOTORIOUSLY bad at assessing risk. It’s why someone might light up a cigarette while talking about how worried they are about a terrorist attack.
And why so many of us drive to work every day but feel nervous getting on a plane.
To help make sense of all of this and put it into perspective, the UK’s National Health Service put together the Atlas of Risk.
So, here are the leading causes of death in the UK, with larger circles representing more common causes:
And the top risks leading to death:
The charts above are averaged among the population but on the NHS site you can tailor these charts to your sex and group. The main idea is to visually show that our fears are often misplaced and that most of us should worry more about quitting smoking and eating vegetables than dying in a murder freak accident.
“It’s easy to lose perspective and worry about small or insignificant risks while ignoring, or being unaware, of the major threats,” the NHS explains on its site. “The NHS Choices Atlas of Risk has been designed to help put health threats into perspective”.
In fairness Gav there still is an awful lot of porn on it.
I remember most of these alright… Just one thing about number 14 though… irlgov looks like it was just one image. must have taken forever to load on a 14.4k modem!
Lycos was the other search engine site.
No P45.net ?
For shame !!
Another was yahoos geocities sites everywhere!
Ah good old geocities, was far better before yahoo bought it and made shite of it
Ah good old geocities, was far better before yahoo bought it and made shite of it….
TheJournal.ie slide put the cherry on the cake :D
Now that’s the Apple I hate and remember well.
I have a hunch that you have an android phone.
Did you ever have to use their products in the 90s?
Indigo….sure wasn’t it better than robbing banks?
Nice little ad for Anglo Irish bank on the 7th picture. Whatever happened them I wonder? I’m sure it’s all swell!
Ask Jeeves was a popular one with me and my chums
Good to see the Irish Independent has decided to stay with the old look and spread it out over all the regional titles they have ruined
For people wanting to check out a few old versions of websites for themselves check out http://archive.org/. A great resource for seeing what it was like back then!
Coming in way late with these but one worth doing a comparison on is excite.com. No change at all. The other, hotwired.com, the old search engine is now wired.com. Hotwired was the business in the day.
Anyone know what happened to the people behind hell.com back in the 90′s? That site really pushed the boundaries of what was possible then.
Reminds you of how simple an idea Twitter was.
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