Events in my Lifetime:
1987 - Born, Year of the Rabbit
1987 - Black Monday Market Crash
1990 - I learn chess and fishing.
1990 - TMNT live action in theaters!
1991 - My Uncle dies in a motorcycle accident
1991 - Terminator 2 and Point Break release
1992 - Cartoon Network established
1993 - Tombstone and Jurassic Park release
1993 - Power Rangers released in the US
1993 - Magic the Gathering created
1994 - Shawshank, Forrest Gump release
1994 - Amazon Founded
1996 - Dragonball airs for first time in US
1996 - Pokemon Red and Blue release
1997 - I win my first city spelling bee.
1997 - Titanic, Good Will Hunting release
1997 - Star Wars Special Edition re-release
1997 - Spawn Movie Release
1998 - I win my 2nd city spelling bee.
1998 - I win junior city chess championship.
1998 - I take SAT's for the first time in 6th grade
1998 - My Grandfather dies of pneumonia
1998 - Y2K scare
1999 - Google Founded
2000 - Gladiator, Memento released
2001 - 9/11 - Watched during English class sophomore year of HS
2001 - Marvel Comics abandons the comic book code
2002 - LotR, HP, Spider-Man continue
2003 - Human Genome Project
2003 - Tesla founded
2004 - My Mom dies of cancer, brother gets hit by a car as a pedestrian, spends next 6 months in ICU
2004 - MA 1st state to allow gay marriage
2004 - Hurricane Katrina
2004 - House first airs on Fox
2005 - I graduate HS and enter college
2005 - YouTube launched
2005 - Supernatural first airs on the WB
2006 - Justin.tv (Twitch) founded
2007 - First iPhone released
2007 - Twitter grows rapidly
2008 - US Housing Market Collapses
2008 - Air BnB founded
2009 - I Graduate College with a BS in Financial Information Analysis, enter Grad School in Boston
2010 - I meet my wife in Accounting class
2010 - I get my Master's degree in Accounting and begin working for a Fortune 100 defense contractor
2011 - Occupy Wall Street protests
2013 - Boston Marathon Bombings - I lived in the town where Tsarnaev was caught
2013 - Edward Snowden NSA leaks
2014 - Justin.tv renamed to Twitch.tv
2014 - Amazon buys Twitch
2015 - Discord released
2015 - Snowpocalypse buries Boston
2016 - TikTok founded in China
2019 - Australia Bush Fires, Hong Kong extradition protests
2019 - Mandalorian releases
2020 - My Grandma dies of a brain hemorrhage
2020 - Covid-19, record unemployment
2020 - Black Lives Matter protests
2020 - Trump fails to be reelected