29 Things That Put Time In Perspective
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In the original 'Back to the Future', Marty travels back 30 years from 1985 to 1955. If it were remade next year, he'd travel to 1985.
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This hard drive weighs over 26 pounds and stores a massive 20 MB of data, or around 10 HD photos. It's a fairly young 32 years old.
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VHS tapes were surpassed by DVDs as the preferred method of movie consumption 14 years ago. Now, services like Netflix are making the DVD obsolete.
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In 1980, A US Postage Stamp cost 15 cents. In 2014, one stamp reached an all-time high of 49 cents.
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If 'Friends' were still running, Monica and Chandler's twins would be 10 years old, Emma would be 12, the triplets would be 16 and Ben would be 19.
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If you bought the computing power found inside an iPhone 5 in 1991, it would have cost you $3.56 million. It makes $1,000 seem far more reasonable.
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'Beauty and the Beast' 1991 was released closer to the moon landing in 1969 than the modern day.
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If you were alive before 1969, landing on the moon was the stuff of science fiction. Now, it's ancient history.
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The first "original nine" Beanie Babies debuted 21 years ago in 1993, so they're old enough to drink too.
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In the '90s, Nick Nite showed vintage programs like I Love Lucy. Now it shows vintage programs like Friends.
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The Nokia 3310 was the best selling phone of 2000, 13 years later in 2013, the iPhone 5s was the best selling phone.
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This is what was being stolen in the first 'The Fast and The Furious' movie, released in 2001.
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