Rewinding to Thursday, March 17, 1988…
Thursday · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The world on March 17, 1988 in Vancouver.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 10°C in Vancouver.
10°C/ 50°F high
Low of 5°C · dry · wind up to 11 km/h
The sun rose at 6:20 am and set at 6:21 pm — 12h 1m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A new moon watched over you.
0% lit · 0.1 days into its cycle
Looking up from Vancouver that evening, you could have spotted Venus without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 361,151 km away — closer than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Never Gonna Give You Up”
by Rick Astley — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “Father Figure”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
Canada’s shop prices from 1988 aren’t in the records we use, so here is what the same basket cost in the US that day.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1988-03-17
BREAD COSTS 3.1× 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
2,016 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
38 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Thursday's child, under Pisces.
Star sign
Pisces
Water sign
Chinese zodiac
Dragon
Earth Dragon
Birthstone
Aquamarine
for your month
Birth flower
Daffodil
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Thursday
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