Rewinding to Thursday 17 December 1998…
Thursday · Drammen, Buskerud, Norway
Martin, you arrived on 17 December 1998 in Drammen.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 2°C in Drammen.
2°C/ 36°F high
Low of 1°C · 0.4 mm of precipitation · wind up to 11 km/h
The sun rose at 09:15 and set at 15:14 — 5h 59m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning crescent watched over you.
1% lit · 28.5 days into its cycle
Looking up from Drammen that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter and Saturn without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 401,627 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “I'm Your Angel”
by R. Kelly & Celine Dion — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 6 weeks, taking over from “Lately”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1998-12-17
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
1,455 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
27 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Thursday's child, under Sagittarius.
Star sign
Sagittarius
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Tiger
Earth Tiger
Birthstone
Turquoise
for your month
Birth flower
Narcissus
for your month
Generation
Generation Z
1997–2012
Day of the week
Thursday
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