Rewinding to Sunday 11 February 1990…

Sunday · Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

The world on 11 February 1990 in Cape Town.

Outside

30°C, clear skies

Moon

waning gibbous

#1 song

Opposites Attract

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01The weather outside

It was clear skies in Cape Town.

30°C/ 86°F high

Low of 17°C · dry · wind up to 28 km/h

The sun rose at 06:17 and set at 19:43 — 13h 26m of daylight.

Reconstructed from the ERA5 climate reanalysis — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.

02The sky that night

A waning gibbous watched over you.

96% lit · 16.7 days into its cycle

Looking up from Cape Town that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter without a telescope.

It was summer in your half of the world.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “Opposites Attract”

by Paula Abdul (Duet With The Wild Pair) — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks, taking over from “How Am I Supposed To Live Without You”.

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04What a dollar bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1990-02-11

ITEM1990TODAYLoaf of white breadper lb$0.70$1.83Dozen eggsgrade A large$1.04$2.27Gallon of milkwhole≈$1.56$4.11Gallon of gasregular unleaded$1.04$4.48Pound of coffeeground roast$2.96$9.33Minimum wagefederal, per hour$3.35$7.25Median new homeUS sale price$123,900$393,300Postage stampfirst-class letter$0.25$0.78

BREAD COSTS 2.6× 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

1,916 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

km travelled

36 laps around the Sun

Mark your calendar: you’ll be 2,000 weeks old on June 11, 2028 — 588 days from now.

06Born under

A Sunday's child, under Aquarius.

Star sign

♒ Aquarius

Air sign

Chinese zodiac

🐎 Horse

Metal Horse

Birthstone

Amethyst

for your month

Birth flower

Violet

for your month

Generation

Millennials

1981–1996

Day of the week

Sunday

07 — 10 Still sealed

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