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Tuesday, July 25, 1995

From the day

Perspective: The Anxious Local · Tactile

The July heat makes my plaid flannel shirt feel like lead, and my palms are sweating as I clutch a plastic tube of Pogs that cost far too many quarters. Everything is getting so expensive, from the bread at the deli to the theater tickets for *Waterworld*, and honestly, the news about the West Bank makes me want to just hide on the information superhighway forever. I adjust the thin satin straps of my slip dress, feeling the scratchy lace dig in as I worry if my boss will replace me with a computer. I’m just trying to keep my knee-high socks from slipping while I wonder how much more the price of gas can possibly climb before the world snaps.

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Waterfalls

TLC

The must-have

Pogs

On This Day

  • A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.

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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

buzzkillmy badsweetwhatever

Grunge

flannellameposerslacker

Hip Hop

blingboo-yacrunkphattrippin'

Tech

cyberspaceinformation superhighwayspamweb

Catchphrases of 1995

  • To infinity and beyond!
  • No soup for you!

Tech Check

Windows 95, DVD Format, Java & eBay.

Style of 1995

Silhouette: Preppy and minimalist (Clueless)

Material: Plaid and satin

  • Slip dresses
  • Knee-high socks
  • Tiny backpacks

Cost of Living (1995)

Loaf of Bread

$0.79

Gallon of Gas

$1.15

Average Home

$133,900

New Car

$18,200

Time Elapsed

11,273 days ago

(30 years, 323 days)