Rewinding to Wednesday 23 January 2002…
Wednesday · Zagreb, Croatia
The world on 23 January 2002 in Zagreb.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 5°C in Zagreb.
5°C/ 41°F high
Low of 0°C · dry · wind up to 19 km/h
The sun rose at 07:27 and set at 16:48 — 9h 21m of daylight.
02The sky that night
A waxing gibbous watched over you.
70% lit · 9.3 days into its cycle
Looking up from Zagreb that evening, you could have spotted Mars, Jupiter, Saturn without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 388,172 km away, right about average.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “U Got It Bad”
by Usher — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 6 weeks, taking over from “How You Remind Me”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
Croatia’s shop prices from 2002 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. · 2002-01-23
BREAD COSTS 1.8× 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
1,293 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
24 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Wednesday's child, under Aquarius.
Star sign
Aquarius
Air sign
Chinese zodiac
Snake
Metal Snake
Birthstone
Garnet
for your month
Birth flower
Carnation
for your month
Generation
Generation Z
1997–2012
Day of the week
Wednesday
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