1990 Season Chat

[RandyRocks77]

Cost of Living 1990
How Much things cost in 1990
Yearly Inflation Rate USA5.39%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 2633
Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve 10.00%
Average Cost of new house $123,000.00
Average Income per year $28,960.00
Average Monthly Rent $465.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas $1.34
Price for a new Isuzu Rodeo $12,4900.00
IBM PS1 Computer From $999.00 - $1,999.00

Technology

The Space Shuttle Discovery places the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit revolutionizing astronomy.
Tim Berners-Lee publishes a more formal proposal for the World Wide Web and the first web page is written
Microsoft Releases Windows 3.0
A 16 megabit chip is shown for the first time
The First Known Case of AIDS is traced back to 1959
The Space Probe Voyager launched in 1977 photographed the Solar System at a distance of 3.7 miles from the SUN
18 years after its launch the US Space Probe Pioneer reaches a distance of 46.5 billion miles beyond all planetary orbits
Depletion of the Ozone Layer is discovered above the North Pole
The First in-car Satellite Navigation System is sold by Pioneer

Popular Culture 1990
The Sci/Fi Channel on Cable TV starts transmitting
Twin Peaks premieres on ABC
The Milli Vanilli duo's producer reveals that the Grammy winning pop duo were lip synching in the songs on the album which gained them the award

Popular Films

Home Alone
Ghost
Dances with Wolves
Pretty Woman
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Hunt for Red October
Total Recall
Die Hard 2
Dick Tracy
Edward Scissorhands,
The Godfather Part III

[JDIsMyGod23]

I watched Dick Tracy like 100 times as a kid.

[sexicano31]

Still havent been born

[the_jon]

Still havent been born

I am born in about 1 month

EDIT: nvm thought we were still in november... I'm alive!

[RandyRocks77]

Guys we have 3 open teams in the NL I had ask 2 AL teams to watch over them, me and Az will handle the Expos..

we need to get these teams filled

[PhillyLuver]

hi everyone i'll be running the mets temporarily, i'm looking to trade guys like Gullickson and maybe even Grace and Denson. philliesfan678 is my AIM

[sexicano31]

Its going to make me cry when I actually have to pay barry bonds

[metsrock229]

Still havent been born

me neither.

Home Alone is older than me

Didn't even know that..

[sexicano31]

me neither.

Home Alone is older than me

Didn't even know that..

I never knew that. I used to always watch it, just assumed it was after my time

[tdog_forever]

Still havent been born

i was 7 years old and damn home alone has been out for 22 years already holy ****.

[sexicano31]

Hot damn, I wont manager of the year

[MHoover101709]

A good year for movies....Is that US Space Probe Pioneer still out there?

Home Alone and Pretty Woman and GF3 wow!!!

[ryanrich83]

damn you guys are young, I was 7 years old in 1990!

[zachstrange]

I was in 8th grade.

[azazel529]

I was in 8th grade.

Me too