Rewinding to Wednesday 12 August 1998…
Wednesday · Athens, Attica, Greece
The world on 12 August 1998 in Athens.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 29°C in Athens.
29°C/ 84°F high
Low of 22°C · dry · wind up to 40 km/h
The sun rose at 06:37 and set at 20:22 — 13h 45m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning gibbous watched over you.
73% lit · 19.9 days into its cycle
No bright planets were above Athens's horizon that evening — the moon had the sky to itself.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 367,202 km away — closer than usual.
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.
Greece’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. · 1998-08-12
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
1,473 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 Leo.
Star sign
Leo
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Tiger
Earth Tiger
Birthstone
Peridot
for your month
Birth flower
Gladiolus
for your month
Generation
Generation Z
1997–2012
Day of the week
Wednesday
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