Rewinding to Saturday, January 1, 2000…

Saturday · New York, United States

The world on January 1, 2000 in New York.

Outside

49°F, overcast

Moon

waning crescent

#1 song

Smooth

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01The weather outside

It was overcast in New York.

49°F/ 10°C high

Low of 26°F · dry · wind up to 8 mph

The sun rose at 8:20 am and set at 5:38 pm — 9h 18m of daylight.

Reconstructed from the ERA5 climate reanalysis — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.

02The sky that night

A waning crescent watched over you.

19% lit · 25.4 days into its cycle

Looking up from New York that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter and Saturn without a telescope.

It was winter in your half of the world.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “Smooth”

by Santana Featuring Rob Thomas — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 12 weeks, taking over from “Heartbreaker”.

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04What a dollar bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

NEW YORK · 2000-01-01

ITEM2000TODAYLoaf of white breadper lb$0.91$1.83Dozen eggsgrade A large$0.97$2.27Gallon of milkwhole$2.79$4.11Gallon of gasregular unleaded$1.30$4.48Pound of coffeeground roast$3.54$9.33Minimum wagefederal, per hour$5.15$7.25Median new homeUS sale price$165,300$393,300Postage stampfirst-class letter$0.33$0.78

BREAD COSTS 2.0× 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

1,400 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

miles travelled

26 laps around the Sun

Mark your calendar: you’ll be 10,000 days old on May 19, 2027 — 199 days from now.

06Born under

A Saturday's child, under Capricorn.

Star sign

♑ Capricorn

Earth sign

Chinese zodiac

🐇 Rabbit

Earth Rabbit

Birthstone

Garnet

for your month

Birth flower

Carnation

for your month

Generation

Generation Z

1997–2012

Day of the week

Saturday

07 — 11 Still sealed

There’s more to your day.

5 more chapters are waiting, rebuilt from the same archives.

  • Your star

    A real star in Orion, 26.3 light-years away.

  • Birthday twins

    12 well-known people share your birthday.

  • If someone had invested

    The stock market has grown about 5× since you arrived.

  • NASA’s picture of your day

    NASA published a space photo on your exact birthday.

  • Who ran the country in 2000

    1 leaders were in office the day you arrived.

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