Topic: It's been ONE year since I quit smoking cigarettes

[Kaiaatzl]

He probably just looked it up.

[TechPro]

He probably just looked it up.

That's probably so.

WillyP was thinking of the time when he graduated high school (’79) and I graduated in '81 so...

In 1979...

• Cost of a first-class stamp:    $0.15 
• Cost of a gallon of regular gas:   $0.86 
• Cost of a gallon of Milk:   $1.62 
• President of the United States: Jimmy Carter
• The Three Mile Island incident had happened and anti-nuclear rallies were happening everywhere
• Mahammad Ali "officially" retires.
• Top movies that year included "The Amityville Horror", "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", "Apocalypse Now", and "The Muppet Movie"
• Voyager sends photos of Jupiter

In 1981 (just two years later)...

• Cost of a first-class stamp:    $0.15 ($0.18 as of 3/22/81; $0.20 as of 11/1/81) 
• Cost of a gallon of regular gas:  $1.38 
• Cost of a gallon of Milk:  $2.22 
• President of the United States: Ronald Reagan
• New games: Donkey Kong, Ms. Pac Man and Asteroids. 
• 288K memory chip is launched from IBM 
• "Raiders of the List Ark" and "On Golden Pond" are the top grossing movies

Those were the days...