Rewinding to Sunday 12 July 1998…

Sunday · Paris, Île-de-France Region, France

The world on 12 July 1998 in Paris.

Outside

26°C, overcast

Moon

waning gibbous

#1 song

The Boy Is Mine

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01The weather outside

It was overcast in Paris.

26°C/ 78°F high

Low of 16°C · dry · wind up to 30 km/h

The sun rose at 05:00 and set at 20:52 — 15h 52m 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.

89% lit · 18 days into its cycle

Looking up from Paris that evening, you could have spotted Mercury without a telescope.

It was summer in your half of the world.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “The Boy Is Mine”

by Brandy & Monica — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 13 weeks, taking over from “Too Close”.

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04What a dollar bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1998-07-12

ITEM1998TODAYLoaf of white breadper lb$0.87$1.83Dozen eggsgrade A large$0.97$2.27Gallon of milkwhole$2.63$4.11Gallon of gasregular unleaded$1.08$4.48Pound of coffeeground roast$3.77$9.33Minimum wagefederal, per hour$5.15$7.25Median new homeUS sale price$153,000$393,300Postage stampfirst-class letter$0.32$0.78

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

1,477 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

km travelled

28 laps around the Sun

Mark your calendar: you’ll be 1 billion seconds old on March 20, 2030 — 1,235 days from now.

06Born under

A Sunday's child, under Cancer.

Star sign

♋ Cancer

Water sign

Chinese zodiac

🐅 Tiger

Earth Tiger

Birthstone

Ruby

for your month

Birth flower

Larkspur

for your month

Generation

Generation Z

1997–2012

Day of the week

Sunday

07 — 11 Still sealed

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