Back to the future. Calendars from 1996, which can be reused for 2024, are very popular online in the United States, with some selling for more than a hundred dollars.
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The year 2024 and 1996 are both leap years, meaning they are 366 days long, and each of them begins on Monday, according to the specialized time and date website.
The similarities don't end there: both 1996 and 2024 are years with the Olympic Games (1996 in Atlanta and 2024 in Paris) and a presidential election year in the United States.
Tom Cruise's “Matilda” in the first “Mission: Impossible”: Jokes and references to the 90s are flooding social networks, with some Internet users digging into their basements to find nuggets of 1996.
A post that was viewed more than two million times in the United States in the 1990s.
“FYI, if you have this calendar from 1996 with Jonathan Taylor Thomas, the dates match the dates for 2024, so you can reuse it,” the SpaceMonkeyX account warns.
An Internet user has dug up a calendar from video rental company Blockbuster, which shows hit movies from 1995 that soon became available on VHS in 1996 such as “Pocahontas,” “Batman Forever” and even “Casper.”
On eBay, calendars from 1996 sell for prices ranging from about twenty to one hundred dollars.
The film in which actress Pamela Anderson stars in “Papa Bricol” but especially “Baywatch”, costs at least $150 on the sales site.
We will have to wait until 2052 to use them again, just like the ones in 2024.
