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On the date

Thursday, April 23, 2009

From the day

Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sight

The viewfinder frames a neon-soaked sidewalk where skinny jeans and jagged, side-swept bangs define the local scene. A girl in a graphic tee leans against a newsstand, oblivious to the headlines about foreign cash flooding Lebanese polls, her thumb scrolling frantically on a new glass-screened phone. “Boom Boom Pow” thumps from a passing silver sedan, that digital beat vibrating the very asphalt beneath my boots. I click the shutter just as a streak of light hits her oversized shades, capturing the grit of a world turning tech-heavy and electric.

Memories from that day

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Boom Boom Pow"

The Black Eyed Peas

The must-have

Zhu Zhu Pets

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

sketchypeepsnewbie

Text Speak

brblolomgrofltmi

Emo

rawrsqueescene

Reality Tv

you're firedthe tribe has spoken

Catchphrases of 2009

  • Imma let you finish
  • There's an app for that

Tech Check

Bitcoin, WhatsApp, Uber & Windows 7.

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

6,252 days ago

(17 years, 47 days)