yesterday a man woke after being in a coma since 1984. the article said he "still believes Ronald Reagan is the president." that got me thinking about how different the world is now. it reminded me of shawshank redemption when red gets out of prison and finds that the world has changed dramatically. anyways...back to this guy... i was thinking about all the things he has missed while being out of it for the last 19 years. (this is assuming he was completely out of it and wasn't aware of much around him)

~he has never heard of monica lewinsky

~he doesn't know about 9-11

~he doesn't know about our wars with iraq

~he has probably never used a computer

~he's never heard of the windows OS, or maybe even DOS, for that matter (DOS was introduced in 1980, but i have no idea how popular it was)

~he doesn't know what a dell is and most likely hasn't heard of bill gates even microsoft

~he's never heard of the internet

~he thinks the USSR exists

~he has never heard of timothy mcveigh

~he doesn't know about the columbine shootings or any of the other school shootings

to get an idea of what society / the world was like when he went into the coma, i did a bit of research (yes, i was really bored)
...ghostbusters, footloose, gremlins, and star trek III were some of the top movies
...apple macintosh was introduced
...the olympic games were held in sarajevo and LA
...AIDS was discovered

it's so cool that he came out of the coma, but he has alot of adjusting to do...