Since there are fewer than 75 people in the whole world with hyperthinesia, that's the technical term for perfect memory, you probably don't remember what you were up to on Monday, November 24th, 1997.

I sure don't.

I'm all like, I don't know, something, something, spice girls, something, something, Nintendo 64,

something, something Clinton administration?

What if I told you that while we were all busy checking out cargo pants at this new store

called Old Navy that was suddenly everywhere, two human beings were rocketing through the vacuum of space,

more than 170 miles above our heads, moving at thousands of miles per hour. Oh yeah, and they

were not in a spacecraft. They were standing on a spacecraft, tethered to the surface of the ship by only their boots.

Their small, gloved human hands reaching out into the literal vastness of the entire freaking

universe to try to catch 3,000 pounds worth of metal, foil, and malfunctioning electronics?

Are you kidding me? This is real? This is real?

And they got a small beam of light against the air.

Real, real, wild.

No, no, no, no. No. No. No. It's weird weird stuff.

It's November 1997.

Allie McBeal was the most popular show on television. It's November 1997.

Allie McBeal was the most popular show on television.

Elton John's tribute to the recently deceased Princess Diana,

Candle in the Wind, 1997.

That was the number one song in the country.

More and more people were beginning to use email and websites, although dial-up connections

where all most of us had to work with.

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