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Tuesday, August 8, 2000

From the day

Perspective: The Anxious Local · Sight

The low-rise velour tracks are everywhere today, shimmering like oil slicks under the flickering drugstore neon while I wait for my prescription. I can’t help but stare at the headlines about this "alien virus" creeping through the city, my eyes darting between the sick and the kids zooming past on their silver metal scooters. I nearly dropped my Nokia when the cashier rang me up; paying **$1.03** for a single loaf of bread feels like a robbery, but I suppose all my peeps are feeling the pinch lately. Between the rising costs and the unseen fever floating in the air, the world feels as hollow as that invisible man on the movie posters.

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Incomplete

Sisqó

The must-have

Razor Scooter

On This Day

  • Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.

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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

sketchypeepsnewbie

Text Speak

brblolomgrofltmi

Emo

rawrsqueescene

Reality Tv

you're firedthe tribe has spoken

Catchphrases of 2000

  • Wassup?
  • Survivor

Tech Check

Broadband Adoption, Nokia 3310, PlayStation 2 & USB Drives.

Style of 2000

Silhouette: Low-rise and skin-baring (Y2K)

Material: Metallic and velour

  • Whale tails
  • Trucker hats
  • Juicy Couture tracks

Cost of Living (2000)

Loaf of Bread

$1.03

Gallon of Gas

$1.51

Average Home

$165,300

New Car

$21,850

Time Elapsed

9,432 days ago

(25 years, 307 days)