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Saturday, June 6, 1992

From the day

Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sound

The heavy thud of "Jump" by Kris Kross rattles the windows of a passing Geo Tracker, the bass vibrating right through my viewfinder as I frame a shot of a kid in oversized, backwards denim. I duck into the bodega, dropping **$0.70** for a loaf of white bread and grumbling that the price keeps climbing while the sidewalk just gets grittier. Some suit on the corner is ranting about Perot and "computer consensus" into a brick-sized cellphone, but honestly, whatever; I’m just trying to catch the way this harsh June sun hits the neon windbreakers before the light fades. It’s sweet to see the city pulsing like this, caught between the analog roar of the street and the digital static of the future.

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Jump

Kris Kross

The must-have

Barney the Dinosaur Plush

On This Day

  • Copa Airlines Flight 201 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes into the Darién Gap in Panama, killing all 47 aboard.

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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

buzzkillmy badsweetwhatever

Grunge

flannellameposerslacker

Hip Hop

blingboo-yacrunkphattrippin'

Tech

cyberspaceinformation superhighwayspamweb

Catchphrases of 1992

  • You can't handle the truth!
  • Not!

Tech Check

SMS Text Message, ThinkPad & JPEG Standard.

Cost of Living (1990)

Loaf of Bread

$0.70

Gallon of Gas

$1.16

Average Home

$123,000

New Car

$16,950

Time Elapsed

12,417 days ago

(34 years, 7 days)