Google Ngram is an interesting tool that allows you to search over 5 million books and find the timeline of how a word was being used all the way back from the 1500s. The results are pretty interesting too, and in fact, shocking at some point.

1. “Comedy”

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2. “Hipster”

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3. “Crime”

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4. “Hawaii”

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5. “Cocaine”

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6. “Marriage”

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7. “Divorce”

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8. “Disco”

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9. “Cowboys”

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10. “Web”

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11. “Gay”

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12. “Porn”

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