Flashback Friday!

I thought it would be fun to take fun facts of 1981 and fun facts of now 2008 to compare what life was like for all of us at 2 1/2.

1981~

U.S. Postage Stamp $.20

Birth of MTV

Atari releases the home version of pac-man

1st IBM PC's begin to be sold

Endless Love is the #1 song

2 top grossing flims were~Raiders of the Lost Ark
& On Golden Pond

Best Picture: Chariots of Fire

The first DeLorean sports cars roll off the assembly line

Nutra Sweet hits the markets

Walter Cronkite steps down from CBS, Dan Rather takes over

Katherine Hepburn and Henry Fonda both win best actor awards for On Golden Pond

World Population: 4.529 billion

Space Shuttle Columbia 1st launches

Ronald Reagan becomes the 40th president

cost of milk $1.12

Cost of a new home: $83,000.00

Median Household Income: $19,074.00

Cost of Gas: $1.38

Top Cartoon: Smurfs

And Jon & I in 1981~

2008~

U.S. Postage Stamp $.41/.42

NASA's Phoenix Spacecraft will land on Mars

Median Household Income: $61,000.00

World Population: 6,602,224,175

Cost of gas: $3.87

Cost of milk: $3.87

BestPicture: No country for Old Men

Best Animated Movie: Ratatouille

Cost of a New Home: $225,000 (I wish)

Must awaited Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull comes out

And Ethan at 2 1/2 in 2008~