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It was twenty years ago today…
No, this isn’t a thread about the Beatles. The thread about what thresholds we have crossed, along with the fact that my 20 year high school reunion is coming up in July got me thinking of all the things that have happened since then, of things that weren’t around back then, and of things that aren’t around anymore.
The Simpsons have been on a long, long time, but they were not around back in 1988. Correction. Upon looking it up, the shorts on Tracey Ullman’s show started in April of 1987. Still, they didn’t get their own show until December 1989.
There were no Star Wars prequels, or even Special Editions. Most of the EU did not yet exist, as Heir to the Empire was still three years away.
Star Trek The Next Generation was only a year old, and none of the other modern Star Trek series existed yet. There was no X-Files yet.
The internet as we know it did not exist. Colleges and the government had access to a primitive version, and a few people with modems could dial into online services or bulletin board sites. I was still using my original Macintosh computer, and would continue to do so until 1995. That was when I finally got online.
Nirvana had not yet released an album. It would be three more years before they would usher in a wave of alternative bands onto the mainstream.
Bellis Fair, the local mall, did not open until August of 1988. That also meant the end of the Viking Twin movie theater, as the six small theaters in the mall replaced the two bigger ones there. I started working at Wal-Mart when it opened in August of 1996. A lot of growth and change in this town in the past 20 years.
My high school was torn down and replaced with a new one sometime in the early 90’s. There’s also an Indian casino just down the road from it now.
There weren’t many cell phones back then, and they were not as small as they are now. People mainly used pagers if they needed to stay connected. However, just like BCJ said in the other thread, I still have yet to get one.
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