Do you remember 1999? That year, Google officially launched. To celebrate a quarter century, Google Trends opened its time capsule to look at the world’s search history.
To explore our local time capsule, we used the 25-year-old search engine to take a glimpse at life in Austin at the turn of the millennium.
- Median family income: $55,400
- Austin’s population: 587,873
- Average cost to buy a home: $181,900
- Average cost of a gallon of gasoline in Texas: $0.718
- In the news: Austin-Bergstrom International Airport opened to replace Robert Mueller Municipal Airport + UT Austin professors warned of the possible risks of Y2K.
- Who was performing: Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock joined forces at City Coliseum, before it was demolished.
