Here is a Throw Back Thursday for ya.... No pictures but some fun. READ I promise you will love it!!!!!!!!!! ~Rob Callahan Jr. When I graduated High school in 1986 just a mere 28yrs ago – Average cost of a new house – $90K Average Rent per Mo. – $385 Average price for a new car – $9255 Ford Mustang - $7,452 Tandy 600 Computer - $1599 Average price for a gallon of gas - .89 5lbs of potatoes - $1 Jar of Skippy Peanut butter - $1.49 A Pound of Bacon $1.75 MSFT (Microsoft) stock was $21 Per share at the IPO on March 13th If you bought 1 share at that price There have been five 2 for 1 splits and two 3 for 2 splits So $21 dollars would be worth today $8K $10K would be worth $3Mill Minimum Wage - $3.35 per HR. Average Income per YR. $23K TOP MOVIES: The Karate kid, II Top Gun Aliens Crocodile Dundee The Color of Money Platoon TOP MUSIC: Van Halen The Police Debbie Harry The Bangles Madonna Prince Culture Club Pet Shop Boys Lionel Richie TOP TELEVISION: Magnum, PI Dynasty Hill Street Blues Family Ties Cheers Cosby The Twilight Zone Miami Vice EVENTS: Celebrated Martin Luther King Day for the first time Magic Johnson was a basketball player not a TV personality The Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster happened Ronald REAGAN was our president. Alf and Pee Wee’s Playhouse DJ Premier Out Of Africa won Best Picture Pixar Animation Studios opened Smoking on Public Transportation was banned Checkers Fast food was founded Top Gun was the highest grossing film of the year making $8 Million Rock Me Amadeus” by Falco was #1 song of the year Cosby took the #1 TV spot Christie Brinkley and Elle Macpherson were the Hottie’s of the moment Lindsay Lohan was born!!!!!! THE CHICAGO BEARS WON THE SUPERBOWL and sang the super bowl shuffle! The World Wide Web or WWW or The Web wasnt even invented until 89 and it was only a concept. in 90 the hypertext we know today as links was introduced. In 89 it was read only. That would be weird. Oh and Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg... (creator of FaceBook) was only 2yrs old. Nice. So. this column (that is what it would have been called) would have taken me. 5 days and two librarys to write or longer. Yes we had to go to the library for our information. I hope you had fun readying. Enjoy the technical world of 2014. I know I do. If not for it I wouldnt have a JOB!
Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2014 23:33:07 +0000
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