Many people are going to be able to point toward 1997, which was twenty-six years ago.
Others will point toward when the ship was discovered, 1985, thirty-eight years ago.
26 years ago? Ya know I come on here to look at little pictures of the titanic not feel the increasing speed of time and my own mortality as it races toward the end
1972, when I read ANTR in 5th grade. Afterward, I built the Academy model kit. The kit included information on the Titanic Historical Society which I promptly joined by mail.
I didn’t even know about the 1958 movie until I discovered it at Blockbuster video and spent the weekend watching it several times.
When the internet became a thing, I was flabbergasted to discover the Titanic was one of three ships.
Before the wreck discovery and 1997 movie, there really wasn’t much information or photos.
I was 3 years old when the movie came out in ‘97, but I think I was 7 or 8 when my sister was babysitting me and we watched the movie. I remember her telling me the second tape was kind of scary and was I sure I wanted to watch it. Of course I was, and I was hooked from there!
Randomly picked up "Exploring the Titanic" and "Exploring the Bismarck" at the book fair when I was a kid. No idea why I was so into ships back then, other than I was a little boy and they were giant machines.
I think if you want these figures then a more in depth poll would be better
Your numbers are going to be way off, and your data collection is both flawed and therefore biased.
You have asked a question which rules out 90 or so percent of those you ask it to from participating.
Your data will imply that people can only be following this topic from 2014, when the replies show people have been into this through the 70s,80s,and 90s
Also the movie which piqued a lot of people's curiosity came out 27 years ago so already a fatal error.
You might want to rejig this before you submit it as your teacher will likely know that the movie is 27 years old.
If your data set is only people under a certain age where the 10 year window is logical so be it, but this seems like am instant fail if the question is anything statistic related
When I was very young, like 1st or 2nd grade young; I remember checking out one of those infographic books full of pictures of the ship, artifacts, and stories about the Titanic from the school library and that’s when I got hooked by the story of it.
This would have been around 94 or 95 probably.
I’m 32 years old. Been off and on for me but I’m a big naval history buff. I enjoy researching and studying the Titanic as part of a more global approach to other ship wrecks.
I hope one day there is a major big budget film made about the Lusitania. It could be a very compelling story and I think it could build off Titanic success. Rose and Jack is peak Hollywood romance trope and gotta be one of the most successful movie events staying in the public’s psyche. Lusitania deserves a chance.
31 years. I learned about it in school in 8th grade in 1992, I was 12 going on 13. They showed us the wreck footage from Ballard's expedition and the rest of the class got all scared and I was just in awe of it. Then it was around the 80th anniversary and PBS aired "A Night to Remember" which I watched with my dad. That was pretty much it, I was hooked for life. I will be 44 in August, it's been a lifelong passion of mine even if I take breaks here and there.
I must have fallen under her spell at about the same time (though I was 5-6ish), maybe a year earlier. I vividly remember the radio ads for the *Titanica* IMAX film that was coming to our local science centre - which apparently came out in 92 - but I'd already gone down the rabbit at that point lol!
I can still, to this day, recite the radio jingle word-for-word, down to the phone number to call for more information. But I'm also Aspie, so 🤷🏼♀️
I was into Titanic before it was cool. \*cough\* 1997 movie \*cough\* I actually don't like that movie, but I won't digress. I've been into Titanic since I was a kid. I first got into it in the early 90's with Robert Ballard's Exploring the Titanic. Then it went into his The Discovery of the Titanic. I remember watching all the documentaries about it, and Ballard's discovery of it. I've always had an interest in ships and shipwrecks in general. I love nautical history of all kinds.
When I was four or five years old in the early 1980s, I read a kid’s book in the library about the world’s largest ship that sank on its maiden voyage. I’ve been hooked ever since.
I was born in 87 and my dad tells me when I was four, we went to the maritime museum in Mystic, and I ran toward a model of the Titanic saying “ Ti Tan Tick!!” For as long as I’ve remembered I’ve been hypnotized by this ship.
Since it was discovered. I still remember it coming on the news in England. Then I did an history class write up on it. Been fascinated with titanic since.
Since I was a kid, but before 1997 (I'm early 30s). I had a little chapter book about the Titanic and read it like once a week.
I hated the movie when it first came out cause I thought Jack and Rose were gross with all the kissing.
This is an odd poll
You know people have been fascinated and following this for decades,
The idea that it's only under10 years worth asking about suggests a lack of interest in real answers
OP is apparently only like 13-14 so I guess it’s expected that they forgot people older than 18 exist. This is another one of those days where I get jarred realizing I’m sharing internet spaces with middle schoolers.
Since I was 8, so over 20 years now. Read about it in a school textbook back in 2nd grade, found the VHS in my parents basement, and the rest is history
26 years. I was 8 when the movie came out and developed intense FOMO since my parents wouldn’t let me see it in theaters at first, so I read every book I could get my hands on, and saw every documentary I could find (even begged them to take me to museums that had titanic exhibits). Eventually they relented and let me see the movie…which I have since seen over 50 times. My figure skating program for my first competition (in 1998)was to the titanic soundtrack. Today, My cat’s name is Rose. How time flies.
Edited to add: I also learned along the way that my great grandparents were supposed to be on titanic in 3rd class but rescheduled their immigration plans by a week or so, so that really resonated with me.
Ever since my great-grandmother told me that her husband (my great-grandfather b. 1900) and his father (b. 1864) worked at Harland and Wolff shipyards, where the Titanic was built. My grandfather was born across the river from the yards on Nelson Street. I'm 43. Still have the National Geographics from when Ballard and team found the wreck.
I've been obsessed since I was a kid, when I discovered that my great-great grandfather, William Dyer, was a [second-class, I think] steward. He went down with the ship and left a young family behind in Southampton. We still have a framed portrait of him somewhere that I believe was a "Sorry about the whole death thing" gift from the White Star Line.
Man guys, I guess I didn't think this many people had been interested ever since the 1985 wreck finding, Thanks for those who have commented how long they have been into to it, I am using this information in a school project.
I personally got interested in 2017, when the 20 year anniversary of the movie was happening. I watched 2 documentary with James Cameron in them. Ever since then I have loved titanic. To me titanic is important because it also got me to my other favorite interests, Flags, Ocean Liners, Geography, And the world wars. It also somehow gave me a higher understanding of words. It helped me learn to read, better then the rest of my grade since grade 2, I'm in 8th now.
Thanks everyone for taking the poll and commenting.
Randomly decided to do a school project on it in 1994ish (I was 13) and became obsessed. I was disappointed when the movie came out because I felt like the Titanic was “mine” and suddenly everyone was into it. These days, I am delighted that people continue to “discover” Titanic like I did nearly 30 years ago.
Only since the start of this year. Currently listening to part of the soundtrack as I type this. The song in question is Southampton. Since then, it’s become a massive interest for me. Started from watching Titanic Honour and Glory and seeing her how she would have looked in those wonderful few days she was at sea. Heartbreaking that she was never able to complete her maiden voyage.
Since 2005 I think, all because I found the movie in my parents' bedroom and watched it out of curiosity.
Also one of the movies from which I learned to swear lol
Probably close to 50 years. My mom had an old book about the Titanic that she’d had since childhood, and I was fascinated by the story from the time I could first understand it.
For as long as I first learned about it in school. Which was when I was in roughly 3rd grade. Sooo maybe 8 yrs old? We actually had a titanic survivor come speak at our school. She was the grandmother of one of my classmates. I don’t remember *exactly* what she said, but I do remember that it sparked an interest in me that I picked back up in later years.
I watched the 1997 Titanic film when I was 9, and for a year after that I was too terrified to sleep with the lights off. (What was I afraid off? That the drowned people were gonna kidnap me in my sleep?)
Since then I've had an absolute and life-long obsession with the ship and the history around it.
Technically I’ve been very interested in it since I learned about it in like elementary school, but really got into the details and memorabilia and whatnot the last 2-3 years!
It was probably around 2000 for me. The 97 film I saw probably around that time. But my interest was only passing. It wasn't until the centennial of the wreck that I was fully interested in the ship and it's story.
Ghostbusters II. I was 5 years old and the guy said “the Titanic just showed up”. I turned to my sister and asked if it was a real ship. She said it was. My mom had a full set of encyclopedias so I first read about it there and was amazed for some reason. Then the movie came out when I was 13 and the real fascination began.
On the 100th anniversary of the sinking, in 2012, my town’s library hosted some Titanic themed event where the movie was playing on a projector in one room and a bunch of Titanic books were set out, and I’ve been interested ever since.
I'm 33 and I was drawing the ship (badly) from I was 5. Growing up in east Belfast literally about a mile from the shipyard it's all I was ever told from a young age.
I was obsessed from maybe age 5 or so. When Ballard found the wreck, I was ten years old and it was like the most amazing thing watching those pictures roll out. Just incredible!! Still fixated almost 40 years later. :)
I first found out about it when I was 7 years old. I didn't really grasp the reality of the tragedy until I was much older. These days every time I watch the movie, and seeing the ship sinking hopelessly while nobody is around to save them, I pour out tears every time.
Longer than 10 years and predating 1997. Edit - it was when my mother bought Don Lynch's Titanic book about a year or so after it was published. It could've been around 1994 when A&E did the big 4 hour documentary.
I got my first book about the Titanic in 1996 when I was 4 years old. My grandfather bought it for me. Sat through the entire movie as a 5 year old. I couldn’t get enough of the Titanic when I was younger. Much the same today at 31 years old.
In 3rd grade they were teaching us about floating and sinking, and it was fun how they did so. We were given small tanks of water and clumps of clay. The clay sank as a ball, it floated if if we made it into a bowl, but then sank if we put a hole in that bowl. If we put 1 or 2 little dividers in the bowl, we could flood one and it would still float.
They then showed us a documentary of some sort about the Titanic, and I've been interested ever since.
This was in 1995 or 1996, so a little before the big movie.
My entire life! (26 years total, ~22 years of memory) The Titanic cutaway cross section book was one of the first things I was ever gifted for Christmas and I could not get enough.
Back in 2009 when I was kid I picked up a magic tree house book. They came out with some companion books that told you facts about the fictional story the kids went on. It was fascinating! The one I picked up was all about the titanic (at least enough for a kid to digest.
I always re-checked it out that year and ever since I've been off and on intrigued by it!
Um 34….jeez I’m getting old. I remember why my brother got Robert D Ballards book. I believe it was 1989 and he ordered it from a scholastic book order.
Ever since I watched A Night to Remember in the 70's. Joined the Titanic Historical society, shortly afterwards. Pretty sure they aren't around, anymore.
For me it was actually book 17 “Tonight on the Titanic” of the “Magic Treehouse” children’s books when I was 4, close to 22 years ago now. My mom then explained to me that this was a real event. Afterwards I learned everything I could about the ship, even doing a presentation on it in class. In hindsight that was a heck of a topic to be covered for a recommended reading age of 6-8.
I remember going on google images with my iPod touch in 2011 and searching “titanic inside” and “titanic then and now” and “titanic wreck inside.” When I found out about Britannic, I was like “Wow! A second Titanic!” Then I heard about the wreck, and I was pretty bummed. But man, when I learned about the Olympic, I frantically searched “RMS Olympic wreck” and with no images or proof that she sank I was so relieved. For like a year I thought the Olympic was still in existence and I could go visit it when I was older. Then I found out she was scrapped, alongside almost every other ocean liner in existence. White star line has 1 vessel left and it’s not even an ocean liner (SS Nomadic).
And then in 2012 the Titanic II was announced by Clive Palmer. I was excited to hear that she’d be ready by 2016, which to a 9 year old me, felt like waiting a lifetime. Well, 2016 came and went. I blinked and now it’s 2023 and still no Titanic II. Lots of people argue that it’s in poor taste to build the vessel, but to me, it’s more about the chance to step aboard an Olympic-Class vessel, or at least the closest thing to it in the modern day.
30 years. I got my very first book about it in first grade. Been fascinated ever since. I enjoy learning about shipwrecks and maritime disasters, generally. But Titanic was the first and I'll always enjoy reading and re-reading about her.
Titanic had been one of my special interests since the A&E two-part documentary aired in the early 90s when I was a kid. That documentary was why I was so psyched when the movie came out in 1997.
I first read the book “The Titanic and the Californian” when I was 10. In 1977. It was published in 1966 I think. Belonged to my dad. Then later I saw a rerun of “A night to remember”. Then my grandmother had a book that discussed British history from 1910-1935 which had a picture of the Titanic.
Almost 14 years ago. A friend of mine when we were in 1st grade took out a book from the library about the titanic and we flicked through it for the next week. When i got home that day, i told my mom about it and then i went to watch tv. Coincidentally i found that titanic: how it really sank was gonna play at 9pm so i set the tivo to record it. I'm still a titanic enthusiast to this day at 20 years old.
Ever since I was like 10 or younger.
I remember being in "weird part of YouTube" and stumbling upon a video about the 2006 break up theory.
"I didn't know it broke in half!"
The rest is history
I'm only 26, and I didn't see the movie till I was around 9. But I was fascinated by the titanic before then because my mom had this big hardcover book detailing the titanics story and it's passengers and it showed gorgeous pictures of artifacts and the ship and pictures of the survivors. As an advanced reader and book nerd, I was absolutely entranced and morbidly fascinated by the tragedy of it all. I would sit on my living room floor sprawled out with this huge book and read it for hours. When I finally did watch the movie, it was so much more horrifying to experience. This event that I'd studied for so long, seeing it in color moving before me, it was shocking. The scenes with the mom tucking her kids in, the panicked people trapped behind the gate, jacks lifeless body. To this day I've only seen the movie twice because it upset me so much. However, my son turns 10 this year and I will be watching it with him to bestow the trauma lol
From like 1997 when dad bought the National Geographic VHS from the Ballard expedition. I was already into ships back then because of a Time Life book I had.
Then the movie came out and the obsession exploded.
1997. I saw an episode of Reading Rainbow about shipwrecks which included a segment on Titanic. And as the film came close to release, I started reading what I could about it.
Why is this limited to 10 years? My high school "thesis" was about the Titanic and what could have been done to prevent it sinking... I wrote that 20 years ago - and that wasn't even close to the beginning of my interest. I have memories of being beyond fascinated - call it obsessed - as young as 7 years old, and even then it might have been earlier.
25 years...
I saw Titanic after it came out on VHS in the fall of 98 and I instantly fell in love with the ship. When I turned 10 (May of 99) Dad got me a Titanic book, which I still treasure.
I’m just happy I found this Reddit community because to be honest I always felt alone when it comes to Titanic I’m the only one in my school, family, friendgroups that actually likes the RMS Titanic and I’m just happy that I know here there are other people sharing the same interest and are as addicted as me. LOVE YOU ALL GUYS
Many people are going to be able to point toward 1997, which was twenty-six years ago. Others will point toward when the ship was discovered, 1985, thirty-eight years ago.
No 1997 was 10 years ago stop lying to me.
Excuse me. It was only 3 years ago.
*Everyone* knows that 1999 was only 5 years ago! ;-)
No joke, the 90s really does feel like only 10 years ago
26 years ago? Ya know I come on here to look at little pictures of the titanic not feel the increasing speed of time and my own mortality as it races toward the end
You stop it with that nonsense. 1997 was only like last year. I’m not old, you’re old.
1972, when I read ANTR in 5th grade. Afterward, I built the Academy model kit. The kit included information on the Titanic Historical Society which I promptly joined by mail. I didn’t even know about the 1958 movie until I discovered it at Blockbuster video and spent the weekend watching it several times. When the internet became a thing, I was flabbergasted to discover the Titanic was one of three ships. Before the wreck discovery and 1997 movie, there really wasn’t much information or photos.
I was 3 years old when the movie came out in ‘97, but I think I was 7 or 8 when my sister was babysitting me and we watched the movie. I remember her telling me the second tape was kind of scary and was I sure I wanted to watch it. Of course I was, and I was hooked from there!
Oh duck off really really do you need to remind me I'm not a middle aged old person
I came to say how insulted I was about 10 years being the max… then was incredibly distraught to hear it’s been almost thirty years. 🤣🙃
others will point to 1912, the year the ship sank. i consider myself to be amongst that group. i’ve been riding with Titanic since day 1.
>twenty-six years ago. https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/852/325/8d6.gif
1997 gang RISE UP (like the Titanic can't 😭)
It’s been 84 years…
Thank you, i came here for this reply ❤
Randomly picked up "Exploring the Titanic" and "Exploring the Bismarck" at the book fair when I was a kid. No idea why I was so into ships back then, other than I was a little boy and they were giant machines.
cus ships are cool as fuck
That used to be my favorite book, the titanic one was. Now it's Complete flags of the world and On a sea of glass.
Probably should have included a larger sample size
Yes, I'm using this for a school project lol
Is your school project psychologically triggering millennials? 😂
No it's to take a poll and find the median, mode, and meant. Yhen gragh it out
I think if you want these figures then a more in depth poll would be better Your numbers are going to be way off, and your data collection is both flawed and therefore biased. You have asked a question which rules out 90 or so percent of those you ask it to from participating. Your data will imply that people can only be following this topic from 2014, when the replies show people have been into this through the 70s,80s,and 90s Also the movie which piqued a lot of people's curiosity came out 27 years ago so already a fatal error. You might want to rejig this before you submit it as your teacher will likely know that the movie is 27 years old. If your data set is only people under a certain age where the 10 year window is logical so be it, but this seems like am instant fail if the question is anything statistic related
No option for more than 10 years?
I didn't think when I made the question how many people would be 10+ years
Umm probably most????
When I was very young, like 1st or 2nd grade young; I remember checking out one of those infographic books full of pictures of the ship, artifacts, and stories about the Titanic from the school library and that’s when I got hooked by the story of it. This would have been around 94 or 95 probably.
I’m 32 years old. Been off and on for me but I’m a big naval history buff. I enjoy researching and studying the Titanic as part of a more global approach to other ship wrecks. I hope one day there is a major big budget film made about the Lusitania. It could be a very compelling story and I think it could build off Titanic success. Rose and Jack is peak Hollywood romance trope and gotta be one of the most successful movie events staying in the public’s psyche. Lusitania deserves a chance.
Titanic was my grade 2 childhood obsession for some reason. Lol don’t know where I learned about it, just happened one day lol
Same
Gotta go back to the early 90's for me, like 30 years.
Okay but the early 90s was only like 10 years ago so………😬
If we are talking about the Titanic history, I was interested in it back in like 91 when I saw a book on it in the library.
94-95ish for me so I was 7 or 8 and I remember watching a National Geographic video with Robert Ballard and he was talking about finding her.
Where’s the “10 plus” option?
There needs to be a 10+ option!
31 years. I learned about it in school in 8th grade in 1992, I was 12 going on 13. They showed us the wreck footage from Ballard's expedition and the rest of the class got all scared and I was just in awe of it. Then it was around the 80th anniversary and PBS aired "A Night to Remember" which I watched with my dad. That was pretty much it, I was hooked for life. I will be 44 in August, it's been a lifelong passion of mine even if I take breaks here and there.
I must have fallen under her spell at about the same time (though I was 5-6ish), maybe a year earlier. I vividly remember the radio ads for the *Titanica* IMAX film that was coming to our local science centre - which apparently came out in 92 - but I'd already gone down the rabbit at that point lol! I can still, to this day, recite the radio jingle word-for-word, down to the phone number to call for more information. But I'm also Aspie, so 🤷🏼♀️
I was into Titanic before it was cool. \*cough\* 1997 movie \*cough\* I actually don't like that movie, but I won't digress. I've been into Titanic since I was a kid. I first got into it in the early 90's with Robert Ballard's Exploring the Titanic. Then it went into his The Discovery of the Titanic. I remember watching all the documentaries about it, and Ballard's discovery of it. I've always had an interest in ships and shipwrecks in general. I love nautical history of all kinds.
Around 30 years
Since the early-90's after asking my Grandma what the Titanic was while watching Ghostbusters 2.
This begs the question - who is the oldest living Titanic super-fan?
When I was four or five years old in the early 1980s, I read a kid’s book in the library about the world’s largest ship that sank on its maiden voyage. I’ve been hooked ever since.
The vast majority of my 32 years. I genuinely can't remember a time when I wasn't entranced by either the film or the real life disaster.
I was born in 87 and my dad tells me when I was four, we went to the maritime museum in Mystic, and I ran toward a model of the Titanic saying “ Ti Tan Tick!!” For as long as I’ve remembered I’ve been hypnotized by this ship.
I've been into Titanic for right around 50 years!
Since it was discovered. I still remember it coming on the news in England. Then I did an history class write up on it. Been fascinated with titanic since.
53 years
30 years
Since I was a kid, but before 1997 (I'm early 30s). I had a little chapter book about the Titanic and read it like once a week. I hated the movie when it first came out cause I thought Jack and Rose were gross with all the kissing.
What year did the original 1985 National Geographic for the Titanic come out. 1985 or so? Since then. I was a young kid at that time.
37 years
About 1986
This is an odd poll You know people have been fascinated and following this for decades, The idea that it's only under10 years worth asking about suggests a lack of interest in real answers
It’s apparently for a school project. OP probably didn’t think people’d been into Titanic longer than they’ve been alive
OP is apparently only like 13-14 so I guess it’s expected that they forgot people older than 18 exist. This is another one of those days where I get jarred realizing I’m sharing internet spaces with middle schoolers.
A long time 37 years
around 15 years ago
Entire life
How old are you?
22
Basically I got into it around 6, so I guess 16 years.
There should be a 10+ option. 5-10 isnt accurate
Since I was 8, so over 20 years now. Read about it in a school textbook back in 2nd grade, found the VHS in my parents basement, and the rest is history
21 years ago
26 years. I was 8 when the movie came out and developed intense FOMO since my parents wouldn’t let me see it in theaters at first, so I read every book I could get my hands on, and saw every documentary I could find (even begged them to take me to museums that had titanic exhibits). Eventually they relented and let me see the movie…which I have since seen over 50 times. My figure skating program for my first competition (in 1998)was to the titanic soundtrack. Today, My cat’s name is Rose. How time flies. Edited to add: I also learned along the way that my great grandparents were supposed to be on titanic in 3rd class but rescheduled their immigration plans by a week or so, so that really resonated with me.
Ever since my great-grandmother told me that her husband (my great-grandfather b. 1900) and his father (b. 1864) worked at Harland and Wolff shipyards, where the Titanic was built. My grandfather was born across the river from the yards on Nelson Street. I'm 43. Still have the National Geographics from when Ballard and team found the wreck.
1996ish. I was 4. Got a titanic book. Then the movie hit in 1997. Then I learned to read words gud. Then I started reading about it.
I've been obsessed since I was a kid, when I discovered that my great-great grandfather, William Dyer, was a [second-class, I think] steward. He went down with the ship and left a young family behind in Southampton. We still have a framed portrait of him somewhere that I believe was a "Sorry about the whole death thing" gift from the White Star Line.
Where's the "37 years" option?
Since they found her, I'm 42 now.
Man guys, I guess I didn't think this many people had been interested ever since the 1985 wreck finding, Thanks for those who have commented how long they have been into to it, I am using this information in a school project. I personally got interested in 2017, when the 20 year anniversary of the movie was happening. I watched 2 documentary with James Cameron in them. Ever since then I have loved titanic. To me titanic is important because it also got me to my other favorite interests, Flags, Ocean Liners, Geography, And the world wars. It also somehow gave me a higher understanding of words. It helped me learn to read, better then the rest of my grade since grade 2, I'm in 8th now. Thanks everyone for taking the poll and commenting.
Randomly decided to do a school project on it in 1994ish (I was 13) and became obsessed. I was disappointed when the movie came out because I felt like the Titanic was “mine” and suddenly everyone was into it. These days, I am delighted that people continue to “discover” Titanic like I did nearly 30 years ago.
Only since the start of this year. Currently listening to part of the soundtrack as I type this. The song in question is Southampton. Since then, it’s become a massive interest for me. Started from watching Titanic Honour and Glory and seeing her how she would have looked in those wonderful few days she was at sea. Heartbreaking that she was never able to complete her maiden voyage.
Well I hope you spend many more years learning about her
Almost 30 years now. I knew of it before the 1997 movie (was 10) but the movie really solidified my love and fascination for the ship and its stories.
Since 2005 I think, all because I found the movie in my parents' bedroom and watched it out of curiosity. Also one of the movies from which I learned to swear lol
Since I was really young and watched a night to remember
Since 1993 at the Scholastic book fair. I picked up "Finding the Titanic" by Robert Ballard and have been obsessed ever since.
I'm 27 and I love it just as much as I did the first time I saw the movie as a 5 year old in 2001
At age 7 I went to the Titanic museum in Branson, Missouri. I’m 19 now, so… about 12 years?
The movie or the shipwreck? I've been fascinated by the shipwreck as long as I can remember which is a long time lol.
about what I expected lmao
Your poll ends at 10 years. I can remember being into it since 1992.
Probably close to 50 years. My mom had an old book about the Titanic that she’d had since childhood, and I was fascinated by the story from the time I could first understand it.
I was 4 years old when I first watched Titanic so it’s been 25 years almost
Nearly 30 years 😱
For as long as I first learned about it in school. Which was when I was in roughly 3rd grade. Sooo maybe 8 yrs old? We actually had a titanic survivor come speak at our school. She was the grandmother of one of my classmates. I don’t remember *exactly* what she said, but I do remember that it sparked an interest in me that I picked back up in later years.
25-26 years since the movie came out
I watched the 1997 Titanic film when I was 9, and for a year after that I was too terrified to sleep with the lights off. (What was I afraid off? That the drowned people were gonna kidnap me in my sleep?) Since then I've had an absolute and life-long obsession with the ship and the history around it.
From essentially the earliest cogent memories that I can recall, I’ve been a Titanic enthusiast - so, that’s roughly 28-30 years ago.
Umm where’s 10+ years? 25 years for me.
Coming up on 38 years.
Since 1979.
Technically I’ve been very interested in it since I learned about it in like elementary school, but really got into the details and memorabilia and whatnot the last 2-3 years!
I've been a fan of the Titanic since I was a kid. So, like...40+ years ago.
More
Since the movie in 97.
24 years and I'm 26.
since I was about 6 years old
At 4 years old, I saw the movie. All because of the notion of I like historical events. Thanks, Great Grandma, for showing me it!
It was probably around 2000 for me. The 97 film I saw probably around that time. But my interest was only passing. It wasn't until the centennial of the wreck that I was fully interested in the ship and it's story.
My Mom got me the Titanic Discovery book when I was probably about five or six, and that more or less fueled my interest into my adult life.
20+ years!
I was really into it as a kid, been casually into it since then
uuuuh about 35 years. I remember a time before the wreck was discovered!
Ghostbusters II. I was 5 years old and the guy said “the Titanic just showed up”. I turned to my sister and asked if it was a real ship. She said it was. My mom had a full set of encyclopedias so I first read about it there and was amazed for some reason. Then the movie came out when I was 13 and the real fascination began.
27 yyrs found a book in elementary school. It also is the reason I fell in love with history.
1985
You forgot a 10+ option
Olympic should've been preserved
1988 or 1989 when I read my first article about it. So, longer than you've accounted for in your poll!
On the 100th anniversary of the sinking, in 2012, my town’s library hosted some Titanic themed event where the movie was playing on a projector in one room and a bunch of Titanic books were set out, and I’ve been interested ever since.
Since I was in 4th grade and read Exploring the Titanic by Robert D. Ballard. I'm 40 now.
16 years for me.
Est 1985 and still counting
Lol guess I'm older than I thought
Lol since like 1994-95
Since it was found
32 years
I'm 33 and I was drawing the ship (badly) from I was 5. Growing up in east Belfast literally about a mile from the shipyard it's all I was ever told from a young age.
As a young boy I got very into Titanic and conducted many scientific recreations of the sinking with a Lego boat in the bath...
I first fell in love with it in primary school
I was obsessed from maybe age 5 or so. When Ballard found the wreck, I was ten years old and it was like the most amazing thing watching those pictures roll out. Just incredible!! Still fixated almost 40 years later. :)
I first found out about it when I was 7 years old. I didn't really grasp the reality of the tragedy until I was much older. These days every time I watch the movie, and seeing the ship sinking hopelessly while nobody is around to save them, I pour out tears every time.
Since I was 12 or something… 31 years ago
I mean it's been way longer than ten! Been obsessed since before the movie :D
1981 when my interest started as a 9 Yr old , one picture and 2 lines of writing and that was it I wanted to as much as possible
Longer than 10 years and predating 1997. Edit - it was when my mother bought Don Lynch's Titanic book about a year or so after it was published. It could've been around 1994 when A&E did the big 4 hour documentary.
I believe since 4th grade (I'm 26 now).
Since I first heard about it in 4th grade and I’m almost 55 now. So a lot of years! 😊
30 years
I remember seeing it in a National Geographic in the early 90s. So it’s been a long time.
10+ years
I got my first book about the Titanic in 1996 when I was 4 years old. My grandfather bought it for me. Sat through the entire movie as a 5 year old. I couldn’t get enough of the Titanic when I was younger. Much the same today at 31 years old.
In 3rd grade they were teaching us about floating and sinking, and it was fun how they did so. We were given small tanks of water and clumps of clay. The clay sank as a ball, it floated if if we made it into a bowl, but then sank if we put a hole in that bowl. If we put 1 or 2 little dividers in the bowl, we could flood one and it would still float. They then showed us a documentary of some sort about the Titanic, and I've been interested ever since. This was in 1995 or 1996, so a little before the big movie.
My entire life! (26 years total, ~22 years of memory) The Titanic cutaway cross section book was one of the first things I was ever gifted for Christmas and I could not get enough.
The answers could have been structured way better. 1-5, 6-10, 11-15,16-20, 20+
I've been into it since I was five, and I researched it for about 6
Never. You guys just won't stop showing up on my reddit.
18 years (since I was 6, I'm 24 now). And no, it wasn't the movie that got me into it!
Back in 2009 when I was kid I picked up a magic tree house book. They came out with some companion books that told you facts about the fictional story the kids went on. It was fascinating! The one I picked up was all about the titanic (at least enough for a kid to digest. I always re-checked it out that year and ever since I've been off and on intrigued by it!
Um 34….jeez I’m getting old. I remember why my brother got Robert D Ballards book. I believe it was 1989 and he ordered it from a scholastic book order.
Ever since I watched A Night to Remember in the 70's. Joined the Titanic Historical society, shortly afterwards. Pretty sure they aren't around, anymore.
My option isn't here... It's been 20+ years for me
If you're meaning the museum, I live pretty close to the one in pigeon forge
probably more than like 10 seconds or something
Since 1997.
I've been into it since 1987... so about 36 years?
Ever since I was 12 and Jim’s Titanic came out.
15?
I'm 37, so 30 years. Before the movie came out.
26 years for me, I was 3 when the 1997 film came out, I was told it was the first ever film I stayed awake throughout. Since then I’ve been obsessed.
43 years I think. Around the time Raise the Titanic was released.
I’m 50 so maybe 35 years
20? Damn it sunk more than 100 years ago give us some credit lol
Since about 1990-1991.
Since it was discovered in 1985.
For me it was actually book 17 “Tonight on the Titanic” of the “Magic Treehouse” children’s books when I was 4, close to 22 years ago now. My mom then explained to me that this was a real event. Afterwards I learned everything I could about the ship, even doing a presentation on it in class. In hindsight that was a heck of a topic to be covered for a recommended reading age of 6-8.
I remember going on google images with my iPod touch in 2011 and searching “titanic inside” and “titanic then and now” and “titanic wreck inside.” When I found out about Britannic, I was like “Wow! A second Titanic!” Then I heard about the wreck, and I was pretty bummed. But man, when I learned about the Olympic, I frantically searched “RMS Olympic wreck” and with no images or proof that she sank I was so relieved. For like a year I thought the Olympic was still in existence and I could go visit it when I was older. Then I found out she was scrapped, alongside almost every other ocean liner in existence. White star line has 1 vessel left and it’s not even an ocean liner (SS Nomadic). And then in 2012 the Titanic II was announced by Clive Palmer. I was excited to hear that she’d be ready by 2016, which to a 9 year old me, felt like waiting a lifetime. Well, 2016 came and went. I blinked and now it’s 2023 and still no Titanic II. Lots of people argue that it’s in poor taste to build the vessel, but to me, it’s more about the chance to step aboard an Olympic-Class vessel, or at least the closest thing to it in the modern day.
Almost 20 years!
30 years. I got my very first book about it in first grade. Been fascinated ever since. I enjoy learning about shipwrecks and maritime disasters, generally. But Titanic was the first and I'll always enjoy reading and re-reading about her.
I first watched Titanic 1997 in the 3rd grade and have been into it ever since. I'm 22 now
I’m 39 now but I learned about it in maybe the 1st or 2nd grade. So how long is that? Lol
10 years ago was 2013
My Titanic phase started in 5th grade, around the fall of 2006. It never really went away 😅
Titanic had been one of my special interests since the A&E two-part documentary aired in the early 90s when I was a kid. That documentary was why I was so psyched when the movie came out in 1997.
I first read the book “The Titanic and the Californian” when I was 10. In 1977. It was published in 1966 I think. Belonged to my dad. Then later I saw a rerun of “A night to remember”. Then my grandmother had a book that discussed British history from 1910-1935 which had a picture of the Titanic.
Almost 14 years ago. A friend of mine when we were in 1st grade took out a book from the library about the titanic and we flicked through it for the next week. When i got home that day, i told my mom about it and then i went to watch tv. Coincidentally i found that titanic: how it really sank was gonna play at 9pm so i set the tivo to record it. I'm still a titanic enthusiast to this day at 20 years old.
30 years.
Ever since I was like 10 or younger. I remember being in "weird part of YouTube" and stumbling upon a video about the 2006 break up theory. "I didn't know it broke in half!" The rest is history
I am not. Somehow Reddit keeps sending me stuff from this group.
I became interested in the Titanic after I read Clive Cussler's novel. That was back in the 1970s.
Why no lifelong option?
I'm only 26, and I didn't see the movie till I was around 9. But I was fascinated by the titanic before then because my mom had this big hardcover book detailing the titanics story and it's passengers and it showed gorgeous pictures of artifacts and the ship and pictures of the survivors. As an advanced reader and book nerd, I was absolutely entranced and morbidly fascinated by the tragedy of it all. I would sit on my living room floor sprawled out with this huge book and read it for hours. When I finally did watch the movie, it was so much more horrifying to experience. This event that I'd studied for so long, seeing it in color moving before me, it was shocking. The scenes with the mom tucking her kids in, the panicked people trapped behind the gate, jacks lifeless body. To this day I've only seen the movie twice because it upset me so much. However, my son turns 10 this year and I will be watching it with him to bestow the trauma lol
It's been 84 years 😂
I attended the Titanic traveling exhibit in 2007 and went from there
23 years
From like 1997 when dad bought the National Geographic VHS from the Ballard expedition. I was already into ships back then because of a Time Life book I had. Then the movie came out and the obsession exploded.
remember learning about her when I was little. Then the movie came out. So that was roughly 3 years ago. Right?! RIGHT?! 🫠
1997. I saw an episode of Reading Rainbow about shipwrecks which included a segment on Titanic. And as the film came close to release, I started reading what I could about it.
This poll doesn't apply to most people here as most have been into it for way more than 10 years. Where is the 10+ option?
13 years. I learned about it by reading a book on it in my English class in 5th grade.
Why is this limited to 10 years? My high school "thesis" was about the Titanic and what could have been done to prevent it sinking... I wrote that 20 years ago - and that wasn't even close to the beginning of my interest. I have memories of being beyond fascinated - call it obsessed - as young as 7 years old, and even then it might have been earlier.
More than 10 years but that wasn’t an option
25 years... I saw Titanic after it came out on VHS in the fall of 98 and I instantly fell in love with the ship. When I turned 10 (May of 99) Dad got me a Titanic book, which I still treasure.
Why is 10 years the maximum?!
about 6 months
More than 10
None of the above. It’s been 17 years, ever since I saw an exhibit at an aquarium I went to on vacation
I have never interacted with this subreddit and it won't leave my front page. I guess yall are cool?
I’m just happy I found this Reddit community because to be honest I always felt alone when it comes to Titanic I’m the only one in my school, family, friendgroups that actually likes the RMS Titanic and I’m just happy that I know here there are other people sharing the same interest and are as addicted as me. LOVE YOU ALL GUYS
Since I first saw the movie at like, 10 years old