U remember 10 yrs ago...

Back on New Years 2000...


PRICES:

Bread: 0.93/loaf

Milk: 2.78/gal

Eggs: 1.25/doz

Car: 20,664

Gas: 1.57/gal

House: 206,400

Avg Income: 65,500/yr

Min Wage: 5.50/hr

ON TV:

X-Files

Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

ER

NYPD Blue

Frasier

Homicide: Life on the Street

Survivor

Friends

Law & Order

Beverly Hills 90210
The Simpsons

TOP SONGS:

Say My Name, Destiny's Child

Smooth, Santana

Amazed, Lonestar

Breathe, Faith Hill

I Wanna Know, Joe

He Wasn't Man Enough, Toni Braxton

Bent, Matchbox 20

I Knew I Loved You, Savage Garden

ACADEMY AWARDS 2000:

Best Picture: Gladiator

Best Actor: Russell Crowe, Gladiator

Best Actress: Julia Roberts, Erin Brockovich

NEWS HEADLINES:

"World Enters New Century Smoothly"

"Internet Thief Steals Credit Card Data"

"Elian Gonzalez Meets with his Grandmothers"

NEW TOYS:

Razor Scooter

Let's Pretend Elmo

Pokemon Gold

Playstation 2

Sega Dreamcast

Furby

Teletubbies

Other goings-on:

The prospect of achieving Middle East peace seemed imminent.

You could meet your loved ones at their arrival gate.

There were more than 2 million Christians living in Iraq.

Osama bin Laden was living with his family in a compound in Kandahar.

China's GDP was $1.4 trillion, half of Germany's.

Nobody had ever heard of Somali pirates.

Something called Inktomi was the world's largest search engine.

Everybody was clamoring for the new file-sharing program Napster.

We worried Y2K would bring the global banking infrastructure to its knees.

India had fewer than a billion citizens.

Strongman Slobodan Milosevic still ruled in Yugoslavia.

The human genome had not yet been mapped.

The Concorde flew between Paris and New York.

Boris Yeltsin was preparing to step down and make way for the young pragmatist Vladimir Putin.

The Dow Jones closed at 11,484. (Today, it's at 10,545.)

The United States had a record federal budget surplus.