A Listicle to Remind You That Time Waits for No One
1 min readMar 31, 2017
- Today is March 31, 2017. 90 days have already elapsed in the year.
- 1992, the year of the unstoppable “swoop kick” in the NES’ Mortal Kombat, was 25 years ago.
- 2002, a world in which Tracy McGrady was an MVP candidate and 50 Cent was topping Billboard, was 15 years ago
- The iPhone, and therefore the devolution of homo sapien attention span, came out in 2007, ten years ago.
- Osama Bin Laden has been dead (we hope) for more than five years, and President Obama is Barry again.
- The pandemic that affected all middle aged men and caused them to spuriously use the Walkie Talkie feature on their Nokia flip phone was 13 years ago.
- Strange creatures with birth dates beginning with ‘0' are rising to prominence all over the planet.
- What is a floppy disk? Skip resistant CD walkman?
- People used Sprint
- Stephen A. Smith’s nightly show Quite Frankly, has been forgotten.
- Elementary kids are learning about The Great Recession.
- America was post-racial just ten years ago.
