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To be honest, that reminds me.

Why do sites use drop down menus for years like that?

I mean, in new browsers (or older ones with Javascript) you can add perfectly good calendars for things like date of birth, booking date, etc. In other ones, you can just let them type in the value in some restricted format. Who honestly cares if someone claims to be 150 years old?

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Moreover, if you want to be able to filter out bogus entries, you have to let users enter bogus info. If you put in too many constraints, you hamstring your ability to tell bogus from good. For instance if you reject 555-NNNN phone numbers because 555 is fake, the determined user will enter a more convincing fake phone number.

> Why do sites use drop down menus for years like that?

One reason is that it's a (extremely) lazy / dead simple way of getting around the need to do input validation on the year field.

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