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Thursday, March 27, 2008

From the day

Perspective: The Future Historian · Sound

The rhythmic thump of Usher’s "Love in This Club" vibrates through the thin plastic of my earbuds, competing with the digital chirps of a Wall-E Animatronic rolling across the linoleum floor. I’m struggling to sync my new device to the PC, finding the data transfer speeds painfully archaic compared to the seamless neural uploads of my home era. The shopkeeper is oversharing about his divorce—it’s honestly tmi—while the scent of cheap $3 gas wafts in from the street side. I ignore him and focus on the primitive tactile click of the buttons, realizing this clunky synchronization is the messy caterpillar stage of the interconnected world I once took for granted.

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Love in This Club

Usher featuring Young Jeezy

The must-have

Wall-E Animatronic

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

sketchypeepsnewbie

Text Speak

brblolomgrofltmi

Emo

rawrsqueescene

Reality Tv

you're firedthe tribe has spoken

Catchphrases of 2008

  • Yes We Can
  • Why so serious?

Tech Check

App Store, Android (Release), Spotify & Chrome.

Cost of Living (2008)

Loaf of Bread

$1.37

Gallon of Gas

$3.27

Average Home

$229,600

New Car

$25,200

Meanwhile

  • The Great RecessionHousing market crash; Lehman Brothers collapse (2008-09-15).

Time Elapsed

6,644 days ago

(18 years, 74 days)