Rewinding to Wednesday, August 3, 1977…
Wednesday · San Mateo, California, United States
The world on August 3, 1977 in San Mateo.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
It was overcast in San Mateo.
75°F/ 24°C high
Low of 58°F · dry · wind up to 6 mph
The sun rose at 5:14 am and set at 7:15 pm — 14h 0m of daylight.
Reconstructed from historical climate data — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
75% lit · 19.7 days into its cycle
No bright planets were above San Mateo's horizon that evening — the moon had the sky to itself.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 242,904 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “I Just Want To Be Your Everything”
by Andy Gibb — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks, taking over from “Looks Like We Made It”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
SAN MATEO · 1977-08-03
BREAD COSTS 5.5× WHAT IT DID
US national averages · ≈ = estimated from inflation
05Your life in numbers
Since that day, you have lived…
0
seconds
and counting, right now
0
heartbeats
at a resting average of 80 a minute
0
breaths
give or take a few yawns
0
sunrises
2,570 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles travelled
49 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Leo.
Star sign
Leo
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Snake
Fire Snake
Birthstone
Peridot
for your month
Birth flower
Gladiolus
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Wednesday
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