Rewinding to Saturday, August 7, 1999…
Saturday · New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Sydney, you arrived on August 7, 1999 in New Brunswick.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 88°F in New Brunswick.
88°F/ 31°C high
Low of 68°F · dry · wind up to 8 mph
The sun rose at 6:00 am and set at 8:06 pm — 14h 6m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waning crescent watched over you.
15% lit · 25.8 days into its cycle
Looking up from New Brunswick that evening, you could have spotted Mars without a telescope.
It was summer in your half of the world.
The Moon was 227,856 miles away — closer than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Genie In A Bottle”
by Christina Aguilera — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 5 weeks, taking over from “Wild Wild West”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
NEW BRUNSWICK · 1999-08-07
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
1,422 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
27 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Saturday's child, under Leo.
Star sign
Leo
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Rabbit
Earth Rabbit
Birthstone
Peridot
for your month
Birth flower
Gladiolus
for your month
Generation
Generation Z
1997–2012
Day of the week
Saturday
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