Rewinding to Wednesday, April 19, 1978…
Wednesday · Palo Alto, California, United States
James, you arrived on April 19, 1978 in Palo Alto.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 68°F in Palo Alto.
68°F/ 20°C high
Low of 46°F · dry
The sun rose at 5:28 am and set at 6:47 pm — 13h 19m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing gibbous watched over you.
90% lit · 11.7 days into its cycle
Looking up from Palo Alto that evening, you could have spotted Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 239,721 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Night Fever”
by Bee Gees — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 8 weeks, taking over from “(Love Is) Thicker Than Water”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PALO ALTO · 1978-04-19
BREAD COSTS 5.2× 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
2,533 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
48 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Aries.
Star sign
Aries
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Horse
Earth Horse
Birthstone
Diamond
for your month
Birth flower
Daisy
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Wednesday
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