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dating myself

The Internet offers so many great ways to procrastinate.

I plugged my birthdate into Boy the Bear’s Age Gauge and got a list of the following age-related factoids:

You are 26 years old and about:

62 years 9 months younger than Walter Cronkite, age 89
58 years 1 month younger than Nancy Reagan, age 85
55 years 2 months younger than George Herbert Bush, age 82
47 years 10 months younger than Barbara Walters, age 74
45 years 9 months younger than Larry King, age 72
39 years 6 months younger than Ted Koppel, age 66
36 years 1 month younger than Geraldo Rivera, age 63
33 years 1 month younger than George W. Bush, age 60
28 years 1 month younger than Jesse Ventura, age 55
23 years 9 months younger than Bill Gates, age 50
18 years 11 months younger than Cal Ripken Jr., age 45
13 years 1 month younger than Mike Tyson, age 40
9 years 0 months younger than Jennifer Lopez, age 35
3 years 7 months younger than Tiger Woods, age 30
2 years 10 months older than Prince William, age 24

and that you were:

22 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America
20 years old on the first day of Y2K
18 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash
15 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
14 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
13 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center
11 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
10 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
6 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
4 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
3 years old during Sally Ride’s travel in space
a 1 year old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
not yet 1 year old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began

There are similar lookups for comparing your age against Top 40 music, television and movies.

(Link found via Al’s Morning Meeting.)