this is a blast from the past. It's funny how for folks who didn't live through it "web browsers" and "parachute pants" are contemporaneous, whereas having been there, parachute pants were more 1985 and browsers were 1994 (high school vs post-college, for me - different worlds!)https://twitter.com/_TamaraWinter/status/1060976661330620417 …
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I have students whose perspective of the Challenger and 9/11 is "contemporaneous". (That's elementary school vs. college for me). They're starting college next year.
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I'm sure I'm guilty of this too I'd have to do some work to order Korean War, Sputnik, Berlin Airlift, Marilyn Monroe's dress blowing around, Frank Sinatra stepping out of the helicopter, and Beatlemania
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, the Soviet Union was dissolving, Ross Perot was the populist threat to the establishment, web browsers were just being introduced, and inexplicably, parachute pants were a Thing.