Rewinding to Wednesday 22 July 1998…
Wednesday · Alella, Catalonia, Spain
The world on 22 July 1998 in Alella.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 29°C in Alella.
29°C/ 85°F high
Low of 22°C · dry · wind up to 25 km/h
The sun rose at 06:35 and set at 21:18 — 14h 42m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A new moon watched over you.
1% lit · 28.7 days into its cycle
Looking up from Alella that evening, you could have spotted Mercury without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 380,664 km away, right about average.
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.
Spain’s shop prices from 1998 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. · 1998-07-22
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
1,476 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
28 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday'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
Wednesday
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