(Washington) Back to the Future. Calendars from 1996, reusable for the year 2024, are all the rage on the internet in the United States, with some selling for more than a hundred dollars.
The year 2024 and the year 1996 are both leap years, that is to say they have 366 days, and each begins on a Monday, according to the specialized site timeanddate.
And the similarities don’t end there: 1996 and 2024 are both years with Olympic Games (1996 in Atlanta and 2024 in Paris) and presidential election years in the United States.
The film MatildaTom Cruise in the first Impossible mission : jokes and references to the 90s are raining down on social networks, with some Internet users digging through their cellars to find nuggets from 1996.
A publication, viewed more than two million times on X, for example highlights a calendar with the actor Jonathan Taylor Thomas, who played when he was a teenager in the series Dad tinkeringvery popular in the United States in the 90s.
“FYI if you have this calendar from 1996 with Jonathan Taylor Thomas, the dates match those of 2024, so you can reuse it,” warns the SpaceMonkeyX account.
An Internet user dug up a calendar from the video rental company Blockbuster, which lists the hit films from 1995 soon to be available on VHS in 1996 like Pocahontas, Batman Forever or Casper.
On eBay, calendars from 1996 sell for prices ranging from around twenty to a hundred dollars.
The one with actress Pamela Anderson, starring in Dad tinkering but above allBaywatchthus costs at least 150 dollars on the sales site.
And we will have to wait until 2052 to use them again, just like those of 2024.