Yesterday, I turned twenty six years old. In other words, I am
over a quarter of a century. Since a lot of people I know are
reaching their mid-twenties as well, I decided to use my knowledge of
history and share some facts about the year we came into the world, 1988. It's amazing how
much has changed in two and a half decades.
(1) First, I was born when Ronald Reagan
was President of the United States.
(2) The current American President, Barack Obama, was
27 years old and had started his first year at Harvard Law School.
(3) Across the Atlantic, the USSR was still
holding itself together.
(4) So was Yugoslavia.
(6) These other countries didn't exist yet: South Sudan, East Timor, Eritrea, Djibouti, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia.
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| Sorry, couldn't resist. |
(7) Saddam Hussein was still President of
Iraq.
(8) The US government was still giving him
money...He was at war with Iran at the time, it was okay.
(9) A few countries over, Osama Bin Laden
was still fighting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
(10) So were the future Taliban and the CIA was
still giving them weapons.
(11) On the technology side of things, Adobe
Photoshop had been around for a year.
(12) Mobile phones had been commercially
available for five.
(13) The World Wide Web was one year and
three days away from being launched.
(14) And the first Die Hard movie was an
upcoming summer release.
(15) Rihanna was a month old.
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| She wouldn't look like this for another seven years. |
(16) Adele wasn't born yet.
(17) And these famous people who had been
around for a bit looked like this:
(18) Many of the cars looked something like this:
(19) You also had to pay an average of $1.75 a gallon to
keep them running
(20) And you could expect to see some people
dressed like this
or this
Man twas a crazy time.
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