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On the date

Friday, December 3, 1999

From the day

Perspective: The Teenager · Sight

I’m hunched over the computer waiting for a Santana track to finish downloading on Napster, watching the pixelated progress bar crawl past my neon-blue iMac. My mom’s shouting about $0.79 for a cheap loaf of bread like it’s some major crisis, but I’m just staring at my holographic Charizard and ignoring her. Tomorrow we’re hitting the theater for *Toy Story 2*, so I’ve gotta look fly in my baggy cargos and oversized fleece. If those pickup trucks actually start clogging the parkway, getting to the mall is gonna take forever, but *whatever*.

Memories from that day

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Smooth

Santana featuring Rob Thomas

The must-have

Pokémon Cards

On This Day

  • NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.

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  • In Worcester, Massachusetts, firefighters responded to a fire at the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. facility, which takes the lives of 6 firefighters.

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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

buzzkillmy badsweetwhatever

Grunge

flannellameposerslacker

Hip Hop

blingboo-yacrunkphattrippin'

Tech

cyberspaceinformation superhighwayspamweb

Catchphrases of 1999

  • I see dead people
  • The first rule of Fight Club

Tech Check

Napster, BlackBerry, Bluetooth & Wi-Fi (Apple AirPort).

Cost of Living (1995)

Loaf of Bread

$0.79

Gallon of Gas

$1.15

Average Home

$133,900

New Car

$18,200

Time Elapsed

9,681 days ago

(26 years, 191 days)