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Warning: I Am Not An Expert In Anything.  I Am And Always Will Be A Student.My Payments Experience Is Completely And Utterly An Accident.  I know not how to say this in a few words but it may be an interesting journey to share with you.A Nerd, A Geek And The Dreams Of Being A ScientistIt was all an accident while I was on my way to becoming a scientist.  That dream got delayed. I was studying Quantum Physics and on the other end Astro Physics.  This started as a university level course while a sophomore in High School.  At the same time I was rather excited by electronics that start...

I read somewhere on quora last week that if we perform a task for 21 days in a row daily, then that becomes an habit and we would do that involuntarily. I was skeptical about the theory and did some research online. I found that not many people believed in the 21 day theory and there were enough proof to suggest that more effort was required for forming a lifelong habit.I anyhow decided to try it. I decided to get up at 7 in the morning. For me, it was one of the most difficult thing as I am not a morning person and I am used to getting up late (sometimes at 9 or 10). I have since been getting up at 7 for a week and today I was surprised that I got up 5 minutes before the alarm rang.I also listed down some habits which I have been following since some years now. I found that some of them like watching random shows on TV and going through facebook feed was getting tiresome and was no longer enjoyable. These were habits which I had started somehow and it had become involuntary to the extent that as soon I came back home from office, I immediately switched on the TV or went online. These habits were no longer useful nor enjoyable. So, I have desisted myself from these habits during the week. It was difficult to fight the temptation to take the remote into hand but I have found some alternate activity to do in my leisure time. I have started reading on my favorite topics - psychology and philosophy. I have had more time to sleep and exercise after removing the time-wasting habits from my daily routine.During this process, I have found that small habits which we form over a period of time affect our lives to a large extent and a small change in our daily routine can make our lives more satisfying. Whether the 21 day habit theory is true or not, I now feel happy that during the last week, I have learnt the importance of good habits and have changed my habits for the better.

Here’s a breakdown of some awesome Features Office 3651. Work Smarter, EverywhereAfter buying Office 365, you also gain access to its accompanying mobile apps and browser apps. This allows you to access their cloud service from any up to date web browser on your desktop or mobile device. Even better yet, you don’t have to install Office software on your computer to do this.The mobile app allows you to access all of your Office 365 subscriptions and Office products right from your smartphone or tablet; this includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Onenote, and more. Cut the cord and stop working on your PC only — download the Microsoft Office 365 mobile app to stay productive, even while on the go.2. Enjoy 50 GB of StorageEach Office 365 user receives a whopping 50 GB of storage with Exchange Online; this can be used to save emails, calendar events, task lists, meeting notes, contact information, and email attachments.You can save some more space in your mailbox by utilizing the OneDrive cloud storage feature to share attachments.Your OneDrive storage is also synced to your device, enabling you to work offline on files. As soon as you reconnect to the web, the newest versions of your documents will be automatically uploaded to your cloud storage. The new versions of your documents will also be sent to any other connected device, including your phone or tablet — nifty!3. Edit Documents with Real-Time Co-AuthoringCollaborate online and see changes your team makes to shared documents within your Office apps as they happen with the real-time co-authoring feature in Word. Save your file to OneDrive cloud storage or SharePoint so your team can access the document and make any necessary edits or updates. You can also share it directly from Word by utilizing a handily integrated sidebar. As the publisher and access-giver, you can edit accessibility settings at any time.With the improved version control that was rolled out with Office 2016 co-authoring, you can see which changes to the document were made by which contributor and when the update was made. You can also easily revert back to a previous version of the file whenever you need to.4. Connect with Co-WorkersYou may not have known this, but Office apps include a Skype in-app integration. You can use this feature to instant message your teammates, share your screen during meetings and have audio or visual conversations — without even exiting the Office apps you’re working in. You can continue Skype conversations even after you close your office apps via your desktop or mobile version of Skype. The best part? Your team will receive unlimited Skype minutes.Source: Microsoft5. Send Links, Not FilesIt’s time to move away from email attachments. It’s never been easier to share documents for co-authoring!Simply upload your file to Office 365’s cloud storage. Then, write your email via Outlook or the Outlook web app. Rather than attaching your document to the email, you can insert a link to the file on your cloud. Outlook will automatically allow email recipients to edit the document you wish to share. You can always change permissions on any document at your convenience.6. Convert OneNote Items into Outlook Calendar EventsEasily configure OneNote items to tasks within your Outlook calendar. You can also assign tasks to colleagues, complete with follow-up reminders and concise due dates. You can also transfer meeting notes taken in OneNote via email to your teammates, and add important details (date, location, and attendees) to their respective meeting.7. Use Your Mouse as a Laser Pointer during PowerPoint PresentationsWith only a simple keyboard shortcut (Ctrl + P), your mouse can be used as a laser pointer during your PowerPoint presentations. You can also use the “presenter mode” commands while using this feature.The laser pointer tool has been a nifty trick within older versions of the office apps for years; however, it was only recently integrated for touch-screen devices. All you have to do is hold down on your device’s screen, and the laser pointer will appear.8. Create a Power Map Using ExcelTurn data into a 3-D interactive map with Power Map, one of the many Power BI-enhanced data visualization features that Excel has to offer. It comes with three different filters: List, Range, or Advanced. The Power Map will help you not only convey your data more effectively, but also support your claims by creating a tangible story from the numbers.

Facebook & Instagram are excellent tools for real estate companies to use if they want to make the most of their social media strategy. If you want to promote real estate on Instagram, there are a few important things to consider.Using these social networks to collect leads well involves more than simply posting images regularly. You need to be able to plan and run the right, which means you need to know where to find your audience.Now let me give my personal suggestion on this matter, the best way to collect leads using Facebook & Instagram is the Facebook Lead Ads feature.Why the Facebook lead ads is so important for your brand?Here are the 4 core reasons for a business to choose Lead Ads as your advertising platform:1)It’s cheaper than the traditional types of ads. There’s no doubt that by using Lead Ads you can definitely save money of your advertising budget. Based on our experience we can confirm that using Facebook Lead ads reduces the costs per lead to less than a half of usual spend.2)It creates brand awareness. Facebook, currently the biggest social media platform is the right place to start to build your brand awareness, as makes the whole process of creating your audience and converting it into a lead, as easiest as it can be.3)It saves time. When Facebook presented Lead Ads, they announced it as tap tap done feature, and it literally is like that. It saves user’s time but also yours, as make it fast and easy for you, lead creator to prepare and manage your leads.4)It is a fully customizable tool. In fact, it is possible to customize the form with different fields like: size people business, field of study, etc…when creating an ads campaign.Don’t worry if it is your first time in the Lead Ads world I am happy to suggest to you this free guide, that will help you to learn more about this topic ;)Check out our video to discover 4 instagram tips to boos your real estate marketing strategy !

My interest in this issue derives from the fact that my parents studied in Göttingen and I spent my childhood there. The university was always a topic of conversation at the dining table. I will try to answer this question, but I apologize now if I do not convince you of my views.First, the Georg August University of Göttingen has been a source of inspiration for many very smart and talented scientists of different faculties in its 274 year history. The founding of the University of Göttingen in 1736 was performed by Georg II August, who was King George II of Great Britain and Ireland (since 1714), Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and prince-elector of Hanover. The first "Spiritus rectus" was the Hanoverian Minister, Baron von Münchausen, who with the Georgia Augusta University created a new type of college: it was used to further the aims of the Enlightenment. Therefore, scientific research was liberated from theological censorship and academic teaching produced great value. Münchausen created new professorships to the university, called distinguished scientists, that sponsored the establishment of a library that was unique at that time. The students were also able to access the library.Its importance and meaning in the 18th centuryAmong the great number of the sometimes famous scholars that were called to Göttingen include, for example, the Swiss physician, naturalist and poet Albrecht von Haller (whose period of teaching was 1736-1756), and who obtained his doctorate from the most signNow physician of the time, Herman Boerhaave in Leiden, Holland. (Institutiones medicae in usum annuae exercitationis, Leiden 1708)Herman Boerhaave Others were the theologian and orientalist Johann David Michaelis (1746-1791 periode of teaching), the ancient scientist and director of the University Library Christian Gottlob Heyne (1763-1812), the mathematics and astronomer Tobias Mayer (1723-1762), physicist, philosopher and writer Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1770-1799) and the publisher and historian August Ludwig von Schlötzer (1769-1809).A major reason for the success and advancement of Göttingen to a scientific center with European significance was the Acadamy of Science, whose guiding principle was 'Fecundat et ornat'. This academy was founded in 1751.While universities, which functioned as teaching institutions, generally remained strictly separate from colleges and research institutes, at Göttingen, the personnel from both institutions were closely linked from the beginning. Academic research and university teaching were integrated to enrich each other directly and immediately from the start.Albrecht von Haller led the Department of anatomy, surgery and botany at Göttingen. In his term, the botanical garden was created and he became the personal physician of King George II. His writings shaped the thought of his period into were influential in  the 19th century sustainable. Haller is the founder of modern experimental physiology. Primae lineae physiologiae. 1747; Opuscula sua anatomica: De respiratione de monstris aliaque minora. 1751; De partibus corporis humani sensilibus et irritabilibus. 1752; Icones anatomicae 1756; Elementa physiologiae corporis humani. 8 Volumes, 1757–1766 Onomatologia medica completa Frankfurt am Main & Leipzig 1758 Medicinisches Lexicon Albrecht von Haller was one of the most productive correspondents of the 18th century. He had more than 12,000 letters addressed to him and had 17,000 written by him. He was the founder of the Botanical Garden, the Anatomical Theatre, the Academy of Drawing and the Maternity School of the University of Göttingen.Tobias Mayer (1751-1762) chair of economy and mathematics was a astronomer famous for his studies of the Moon.His first important astronomical work was a careful investigation of the libration of the moon (Kosmographische Nachrichten, Nuremberg, 1750), and his chart of the full moon (published in 1775) was unsurpassed for half a century.But his fame rests chiefly on his lunar tables, communicated in 1752, with new solar tables to the Royal Society of Sciences and Humanities at Göttingen. In 1754 he became superintendent of the observatory, where he worked until his death in 1752.For his work (Theoria Lunae juxta systema Newtonianum 1767 published in London) the calculation of longitude, he received posthumously by the British  Parliament (Board of Longitude) a prize of £ 3,000. It was the dedication and superb contacts of the director Christoph Gottlob Hyne (1763-1812) that brought about the excellent reputation of the University Libary. In 1799 he bought the estate of Johann Georg Forster, who with his father had accompanied James Cook on his second circumnavigation (1772-1775). So, for example, the important anthropological collections gathered from the South Sea have been an attraction and resource for scholars and students since the end of the 18th century. The Göttingen Cook-Forster Collection is one of the most important collections of South Sea Enthographica found anywhere in the world.Worthy of mention George Christoph Lichtenberg. He studied from 1763-1766 at the University. After two study trips that took him to England and brought him in contact with George and Johann Reinhold Forster. In 1770, he became the first German professor of experimental physics and since 1793 he was a member of the Royal Society in London. His influence was great and sustainable. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo...)The prominent role of the Georgia Augusta University did not arise from the  particular geographical location (51° 32′ 2″ N, 9° 56′ 8″ E) of the city, located in the valley of the small river Leine and between the foothills of the Harz in the north-east and Solling in the west. Göttingen is a provincial town, with a rural population; the weekly market with the 'Gänsellieselbrunnen' at the center of the medieval town.Its importance and meaning in the 19th centuryThe time of the 19th century is closely associated with the name of Carl Friedrich Gauss. He was the outstanding mathematician and belonged to the university from 1807 until his death in 1855. Gauss created with his activities and studies the nucleus for the development of an astronomical and mathematical 'hot-spot' in Göttingen.'Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians of human history, was a professor in Göttingen astronomy. The far-flung investigations of Gauss determine in many ways the present. An example of this is the first working electromagnetic telegraph that he and Wilhelm Weber in 1833 installed by Paul's Church'-Göttingen-'to the observatory. This created a basis for electronic data transmission, which signNowly influenced in the form of fax, SMS and internet our lives today.''A highly evocative coincidence - it could be a coincidence? - was that in the same year 1833 a seventeen-year-old rabbi's son from Kassel went to Göttingen, just to start a bank training. This was Israel Beer Josephat (called Paul Julius Reuter) using the Gauss-Weber's invention, it receive worldwide glory when he built up a global news agency (Reuters), in London 1855.'Carl-Friedrich Gauss was an infant prodigy and an exceptionally gifted mathematician. At the age of just 21, he wrote a textbook of mathematics - 'Disquisittiones Arithmeticae' - published 1801. (http://www.math.uni-goettingen.d... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car...)His influence and impact was extraordinary and he himself answered the question posed above, regarding the importance of Göttingen. He was the fountain where a lot of students could satisfy their thirst for knowledge.In the middle of the 19th century, the railway network was installed (1854), which now connects the provincial town with the rest of the German Confederation (Deutscher Bund 1815-1866).The scientists Carl Friedrich Gauss, Wilhelm Weber, Bernhard Riemann and Friedrich Wöhler were the founders of the modern natural sciences. Ultimately, they established Göttingen's worldwide reputation as a mathematical and scientific center (1880-1933).Johan Rudolph Thorbecke (14 January 1798 – 4 June 1872) was a Dutch politician and statesman of Liberal signature, one of the most important Dutch politicians of the 19th century.In 1848 he virtually singlehandedly drafted the revision of the Constitutution of the Netherlands, giving less power to the king, and more to the States-General of the Netherlands. In 1823 -24 he became a lecturer at the University of Göttingen and published here his philosophy of history work "About the nature and the organic character of history".Its importance and meaning in the 20th centuryAt the end of the 19th century, with the establishment of the Prussian university system, the University of Göttingen developed into a center for mathematics and physics. Besides government initiatives, there were also private foundations, such as the "Göttingen Association for the Advancement of Applied Physics and Mathematics", which is founded in 1898.Emil Johann Wiechert (1861–1928) was a German geophysicist.In 1897 Emil Wiechert worked at the University of Göttingen, where he received in 1898 the reputation of the world's first Department of Geophysics. After completion of the newly established Institute of Geophysics at the grove hill above Göttingen Wiechert began in 1901 with the construction of the currently much in-use seismic observatory.1898 he was named professor of geophysics and Director of the Geophysical Laboratory at Göttingen. He became a full professor at the institution in 1905, and would remain there for the remainder of his career. Emil Wiecher founded the seismology and the earthquake observatory in Göttingen. Wiechert was discovered in 1899 the first horizontal seismograph. Göttingen also hosts today the oldest seismographic archive.1903 Emil Wiechert, a founder of the International Association of Seismology, emerged from today's International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI).Emil WiechertIn the first half of the century, no other university had as many Nobel prizes awarded (since 1901) as Göttingen: Robert Koch (1905 for Medici), Rudolf Eucken (1908 for Literature), Iljja Metschnikov and Paul Ehrlich (1908 for Medici), Otto Wallach (1910 for Chemistry), W.C.Werner Wien (1911 for Physic), Max von Laue (1914 for Physic).Robert KochPaul EhrlichIlja MetschnikovThe Göttingen Nobel Prize winners came mainly from the fields of physics and chemistry and to a lesser extent from medicine and other disciplines.In 1900 many new institutions were founded, such as the Institute of Physics, Applied Electrical Science, Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Physical Chemistry and Geophysics. With the new institutions established, the physical chemistry combined with the names of Walther Hermann Nernst (1929 for Chemistry), James Franck and Gustav Hertz (1925 for physic), Richard A.Zsigmondy (1925 for Chemestry) A.O.Reinhold Windaus (1928 for chemestry).Walther Herman NernstIn 1920 James Franck was appointed professor of experimental physics at the University of Göttingen, where he worked with his students, Max Born and Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Edward Condon, Fritz Houtermans, Hans Kopfermann, Kroebel Werner, Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, Robert Oppenheimer, and Friedrich Hund, Eugene Rabinowitch came into contact with him. One of his employees was the physicist Hertha Sponer. Franck in Göttingen was director of the Second Institute for Experimental Physics.James Franck From 1921 to 1933 Max Born was professor of theoretical physics in Göttingen. Here he developed among others, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Pascual Jordan, and Friedrich Hund large parts of modern quantum mechanicsMax Born (NP for physic 1954 Princeton)Max Born developed the school of theoretical physicists in Göttingen which was attended by many foreign travelers and physicist. His students include Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Victor Weisskopf, Robert Oppenheimer, Siegfried Flügge, Friedrich Hund, Pascual Jordan, Maurice Pryce (Princeton), Herbert Green (in Edinburgh).Robert OppenheimerThe time between the two world wars is described as the "Golden Age" of the mathematical and physical sciences in Göttingen. They are the leading figures in mathematics, physics, medicine and chemistry and justifies the international reputation of the university.This ended with the takeover of power by the National Socialists in 1933.Max Born, Georg Bothe, Richard Courant, James Franck, Victor Moritz Goldschmidt, Emmy Noether were forced to emigrate or were dismissed from the scientific community. For example Emmy Noether (modern algebra and Noether's theorem) was still the most signNow female mathematician, she received as a guest professorship at the Women's College Bryn Mawr in Pennsylvanian. Unfortunately, she died in 1935.http://www.math.uni-goettingen.d...http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/2...In the second half of the century,the university benefited from the fact that Göttingen was not destroyed by bombing the city. Göttingen became the first university in Germany, capable of delivering teaching after world war II. Max von Laue returned from exile and works with Otto Hahn (1944 NP for Chemistry), Max Planck (NP 1918 for physics) and Werner Heisenberg (NP 1932 for physics) at the University.In addition, the university 'is connected with the resumes of more than forty Nobel prize winners.Twelve of them have been awarded the Nobel prize for the very research conducted during their time in Göttingen.'Max von Laue 1959Otto Hahn 1965Werner HeisenbergReferring again to the question asked, many extraordinary smart inventors and scientist, as I have named, were included in the structure and the excellent facilities of teaching at the Georg Augusta University of Göttingen.Yet the list of outstanding scientists are not complete, some are even self still been unknown to me while writing the answer and thanks to an attentive reader (Joachim Pense) now listed with, such as @David Hilbert (1895-1930 Prof.of Mathematics, keep looking at the list of doctoral students !! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da...)http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wer...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ott...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emm...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3...Peter Aufgebauer: Die Anfänge der Sternkunde in GöttingenFinally,what is Göttingen's effect and influence? A master that binds his students, is revered by them, praised and cited. The sustainability of the impact is can only be detected over generations, as Herman Boerhaave, Carl-Friedrich Gauss and Werner Heisenberg have demonstrated. Her students determined the spirit and later the  research. What would be Princeton without Einstein?

Courtney and Michele and Brian covered most of it, and most of the difference between today and then was, of course, due to technology.  We had to use our brains in different ways. Just as human brains are believed to have changed when writing, and then printing became wide-spread, and we no longer had to remember every fact known to humanity as oral history, and instead could store it in books. So 1993 we didn't have much in the way of online databases. There was no Medscape. There was no Google, nor any other search engine of note, because there wasn't really enough stuff online to need something as strange as a search engine.Instead, the model from the BBS days was still in use - catalogs, both paper and on the internet, listed the contact info, as well as available modem speeds and settings for hundreds or thousands of sites.  Most sites didn't have much if any interaction with each other, as many of them were still basically BBS (bulletin board systems) that used internet protocol instead of direct modem dial-up.  When you wanted to find out something from a government department, you picked up your landline phone and - hey, we had crappy "please hold" music back then, too - or you got in your car, or on the bus, possibly taking a half day off work, and physically WENT to the particular government office.  If it was in your town. Otherwise, your options were landline telephone  or snail-mail... like, typed words on paper, inserted into an envelope, and mailed.... but you had to go to the post-office for the stamps.  Where I lived, satellite post offices in drug-stores and other retail establishments hadn't really caught on.  Speaking of mail... we got, and sent actual snail-mail letters and greeting cards.  We used snail-mail to pay bills, using paper cheques. Children with parents were a little less "wards of the state" than they are now. ATMs or ABMs existed, of course, but were not nearly as ubiquitous as they are today. The machines had not much more functionality than cash dispensers. The card that you used to identify yourself worked only with bank machines. You could not use them to buy stuff, and you could not get "cash back" from your grocery or other retail store. There were still full-service gas stations around. Self-serve gas bars still required you to go inside the store to pay for gas. The gas pump did not have a bank card reader.  The 1978 movie "Superman" with Christoper Reeve, had a sight gag that would still have made sense in 1993.  Way back in the early days, Clark Kent would learn of some crime or catastrophe in progress, and if he was out on the street, he would rush into the nearest phone booth to remove his street clothes and emerge in the Superman costume.   Those booths were fully enclosed and had hinged doors.  A bit cramped for a big guy, but a bit of privacy from bystander eyes.  In the movie, Clark hears some scream for help, looks around for a booth, and does a double take as he spots an open phone kiosk with just a chest-high clear plastic wind shield. No privacy there.   But in 1993, there were still landline phone booths, and you activated them by stuffing coins into them - people still carried paper money and actual coins in their pockets and purses. Vending machines accepted coins.  Some might accept paper money. I don't believe that any accepted magnetic-stripe cards, because there was not really a viable internet for connection to bank accounts.  It was routine to discover such vending machines with a red LED display flashing "exact change", as it had run out of enough coins to make change from paper bills. The stock market didn't fluctuate so rapidly, because most trades were done manually without the kind of automation that [over-] reacts instantly now. There was no such thing as making stock market transactions "online". In fact, the only people who did perform such transactions were brokers, and you dealt with them by phone or - wait for it.... wait for it.... - FAX (i.e., facsimile machines). Hell, real estate brokers and sales people and some lawyers and other businesses used FAX machines to send contracts back and forth to accumulate revisions, addenda, and signatures, though real estate people were still routinely doing that in the early part of this century.  I think it finally died out a few years ago. But back in 1993, your BBS or internet dial-up modem might have had (gasp!) FAX capability, and you could use WinFAX Pro to make use of that... along with WOW! actual voice mail. Many people were still using tape-recording answering machines to catch calls that came into their land-line phones when they were away from home.  It was routine to come home at the end of a day, come in the house, drop your coat and keys, put down the grocery bag, and press the Replay button on your answering machine to see what calls had come in.  You'd press the fast-forward button to skip through obvious "spam", but we didn't call it that.  Newspapers and magazines were paper-only.  None of them had any online presence... there wasn't even the notion of it.  There was no e-commerce to speak of - that was still years away.  About the only things you could buy "online" were software and computer peripherals.... like newer and better modems. If you needed to look stuff up, you got your ass out of your chair, hopped in the car and drove to the bricks-and-mortar public library, where you sat and perused periodicals that you weren't subscribed to at home, or you used a physical card catalog to look for physical books by title and author, and then you took the identifying number that you got from the card to go find the physical book in the "stacks".  If you saw immediately that it wasn't what you needed, you just put it back - it HAD to go in the correct slot on the shelf so the next seeker could find it. If it looked promising, you would take that book and maybe some others, to a table and sit there for a while.  Otherwise, you would take them to the borrowing desk, present your membership/ID card, and be allowed to take the book home for a couple of weeks... after the clerk took out the card from the pouch inside the cover, and recorded your particulars, and then stashed the card in a file, so the library could know who had that copy. The book would be stamped with the date  you withdrew it, so you'd remember when it was due back.  If you failed to return it at the appointed time, so other people could have a chance to read/borrow it, then fines of a few cents per day were assessed until you brought it back and paid up.  You could return a book, overnight by depositing it through a box/door in the wall, where it would be retrieved and processed next morning, but if you had outstanding fines, those would haunt you the next time you tried to withdraw anything.  I forget what car we had then. Might have been the second-hand Volvo 740 Turbo. Loved that car, until it spilled its transmission all over the road one night, and it wanted a couple of grand to repair. It gave us several good years before that happened.  In 1993, Montreal was feeling kind or worn around the edges, and "down at heels", but was still a nice city, and though the Francophone/Anglophone political friction was already in evidence, it hadn't signNowed the shrill and generally unpleasant levels that would drive us out of the province five years later. My wife and I were in the second year (or so) of flying our first zero-porosity parachutes, and _loving_ 'em.  Pets that you wanted back got tattoos in their ears - there were no injectable RF chips for that purpose. Doctor and dentist offices worked entirely with paper files.  There were no lasers around the dental chair.   Their X-ray machines were big, clunky affairs. Many dentists were still using mercury amalgam for fillings, but those who were switching to plastics, were using clumsy, hot, high-maintenance Tungsten halogen lights with noisy fans.  LED blue curing lights were still many years away. All orthodontic correction was done with metal braces, wires, and elastics. There was no such thing as graduated "Invisalign", discreet correction devices. Dentists rarely used cameras, and orthodontists might take one set of photos at the start of a treatment regime and another at the end, using (as other people said) film cameras.   Early consumer digital cameras were clunky, low-resolution, expensive, slow... so almost nobody had one in 1993.  Nobody you or I knew, anyway.  In Canada, where I'm from, food was rarely spicy.  Restaurants made a point of dumbing down Indian, Thai, Szechuan, and other normally spicy fare.  Even the fake-Mex joints had wimpy chilli flavours.   Most people had NOT heard of sriracha (now there's a bottle in every second desk drawer at my office... including mine, just in case lunch needs a little pick-me-up.  Nobody had heard of ghost peppers... there certainly weren't eye-wateringly-spicy potato-chip flavours back then.   In fact, where I shopped, there were only a few standard flavours of chips, that had been around for years, and they were all produced by the major chip/snack companies. There really weren't "boutique" brands of kettle-cooked chips, yet. Maybe you USians had it them all along, but we Canuckistanis didn't really have ready access to Minneola tangelos back then. Now there seem to be two crops per year.  There's also considerably more produce from far-flung quarters of the globe, giving us a wider array in what used to be the winter off-season.  In North America, in general, most people who ate "chocolate" thought that was milk chocolate. If they thought about dark chocolate at all, it was for cooking. There's been a tremendous increase in demand and appreciation for quality dark chocolate in the range of 85% cocoa and higher.  There were almost no boutique chocolate producers making such things as "raw" chocolate bars.  Whole Foods wasn't in Canada yet, but even in the States they would not have had the couple of dozen brands of chocolate back in '93.  There just wasn't the demand, and there certainly was no notion of dark chocolate as ... health food.  Cars were not computerized. They had some electronics, but most of that was individual, special-purpose controllers, not networked. Cars didn't even have HID headlights, never mind LEDs.  I better stop now.   My wife is getting annoyed at all the "Remember what year the..." questions.    :-)