Rewinding to Wednesday 7 December 1988…
Wednesday · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Emily, you arrived on 7 December 1988 in Melbourne.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 20°C in Melbourne.
20°C/ 68°F high
Low of 11°C · dry · wind up to 25 km/h
The sun rose at 5:51 am and set at 8:32 pm — 14h 41m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning crescent watched over you.
4% lit · 27.7 days into its cycle
Looking up from Melbourne that evening, you could have spotted Mars, Jupiter, Saturn without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 390,815 km away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley”
by Will To Power — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “Bad Medicine”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1988-12-07
BREAD COSTS 2.8× 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
1,978 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
37 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Sagittarius.
Star sign
Sagittarius
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Dragon
Earth Dragon
Birthstone
Turquoise
for your month
Birth flower
Narcissus
for your month
Generation
Millennials
1981–1996
Day of the week
Wednesday
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