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On the date

Friday, March 2, 1990

From the day

Perspective: The Teenager · Sight

I’m slouching catch-side at the mall, my oversized flannel snagging on my choker while Janet Jackson’s "Escapade" echoes off the neon-lit food court tiles. Through the window of the tech shop, I can see some geek on a monitor manipulating a photo of the new Hubble Telescope using that trippy Photoshop 1.0 program. It’s wild to think all that data is zipping across the information superhighway while some suit in the news is droning on about bank pacts. I just want to kick off my Docs, ignore the HTML coding manuals, and get lost in a movie theater screening of *The Hunt for Red October*.

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Escapade

Janet Jackson

The must-have

Super Nintendo (SNES)

On This Day

  • Nelson Mandela is elected deputy president of the African National Congress.

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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

buzzkillmy badsweetwhatever

Grunge

flannellameposerslacker

Hip Hop

blingboo-yacrunkphattrippin'

Tech

cyberspaceinformation superhighwayspamweb

Catchphrases of 1990

  • Cowabunga!
  • Home Alone

Tech Check

Hubble Telescope, Photoshop 1.0 & HTML.

Style of 1990

Silhouette: Unkempt and layered (Grunge)

Material: Flannel and thermal knit

  • Doc Martens
  • Ripped jeans
  • Chokers

Cost of Living (1990)

Loaf of Bread

$0.70

Gallon of Gas

$1.16

Average Home

$123,000

New Car

$16,950

Time Elapsed

13,244 days ago

(36 years, 104 days)