Rewinding to Friday, January 17, 1997…
Friday · Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Jake, you arrived on January 17, 1997 in Cleveland.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 8°F in Cleveland.
8°F/ -13°C high
Low of 4°F · 0.01 in of precipitation · wind up to 29 mph
The sun rose at 7:49 am and set at 5:24 pm — 9h 35m of daylight.
Daily estimates from NASA POWER on a regional grid, using local solar days. Sunrise and sunset are calculated for this city.
Reconstructed from historical climate data — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.
02The sky that night
A waxing gibbous watched over you.
73% lit · 9.6 days into its cycle
Looking up from Cleveland that evening, you could have spotted Saturn without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 241,749 miles away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Un-Break My Heart”
by Toni Braxton — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 11 weeks, taking over from “No Diggity”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
CLEVELAND · 1997-01-17
BREAD COSTS 2.1× 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
1,555 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
29 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Friday's child, under Capricorn.
Star sign
Capricorn
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Rat
Fire Rat
Birthstone
Garnet
for your month
Birth flower
Carnation
for your month
Generation
Generation Z
1997–2012
Day of the week
Friday
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