Yikes! I’m 40 today

Today I can no longer deny that I’m middle aged. I was born in what they call the summer of love, a year that includes these events:

• Canada turned 100
• Charlie Chaplin opened his last film
• Martin Luther King Jr. condemned the Vietnam war
• Expo 67 took place in Montreal
• Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu got married
• The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
• The Rolling Stones appeared on the Ed Sullivan show
• The Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup (and haven’t won since)
• The world’s first heart transplant took place

A brand new MK II Ford Cortina would set you back $749 and a new home would have been $24,600. You’d bring home some $7,000 a year, pay 5¢ for a stamp, and pay 33¢ a gallon (9¢ a liter) at the pump.

This is what a computer looked like in those days. Of course, that computer didn’t connect to the Internet because there was no Internet.

Man am I old. Oh well. Happy birthday to me.