All these things were true in 1999.

[Data Holmes]

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/12/29/food_for_thought


It's interesting to see just how much has changed in ten years.

 

[Roger Wilco]

Inktomi? I know for a fact I already used google in 1999.

This one was the most impressive in the list for me:

There were more than 2 million Christians living in Iraq.

 

[Amaris]

Inktomi? I know for a fact I already used google in 1999.

This one was the most impressive in the list for me:

There were more than 2 million Christians living in Iraq.

Inktomi would be better known as HotBot, as that was the most famous search engine to use it's software.

It was bought up in 2002 by Yahoo!.

J.

 

[The Cutest of Borg]

Can we have a do-over???

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Ya know, shit really went to hell when the Concordes were grounded for good.

The Concorde, the Columbia, 9/11...crash go the chariots.

 

[Starbreaker]

I need to go look some of this stuff up on Lycos.

 

[ThankQ]

Ten years ago, a money order was the #1 preferred method of payment on eBay, and you could pay your monthly auction fees by mailing in a check.

 

[T'Girl]

The United States had a record federal budget surplus.

In 1999 the United States had a five and a half trillion dollar nation debt.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Yeah, and now it's 12 trillion.

I remember one of the suggestions to do with the budget surplus (which was a record, although mostly just forecasted) was to use it to shrink the national debt.