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Saturday, January 30, 1982
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The Headlines
G.M. TO CUT PRICES ON HALF ITS AUTOS TO BOLSTER SALES
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)
Daryl Hall and John Oates
#1 at the box office
On Golden Pond
$5,008,290
The must-have
My Little Pony
On This Day
Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882)
- Felipe VI (1968)
- Dick Cheney (1941)
- Abdullah II of Jordan (1962)
- Christian Bale (1974)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
awesomebodaciouscheesychill
Valley Girl
as ifbarf me outgag me with a spoongrodytotally
Hip Hop
baddefdopeflyfreshword
Yuppie
greed is goodpower lunchnetworking
Tech Check
Compact Disc (CD), Commodore 64 & Adobe PostScript.
Cost of Living (1980)
Loaf of Bread
$0.50
Gallon of Gas
$1.19
Average Home
$47,200
New Car
$7,200
Time Elapsed
16,197 days ago
(44 years, 137 days)