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Sunday, September 19, 1982
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The Headlines
FOSSEL AND OTTINGER FACE FIRST DEBATE
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Abracadabra
Steve Miller Band
#1 at the box office
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial †
$4,261,887
The must-have
My Little Pony
On This Day
Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- William Golding (1911)
- Jeremy Irons (1948)
- Maroon 5 (1977)
- Henry III of France (1551)
- Masatoshi Koshiba (1926)
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
15,965 days ago
(43 years, 270 days)