▸ the year you arrived
1978
🎉 Happy Birthday! 🎉
You will be 48 this year — a child of the '70s.
The song that ruled the year you arrived
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That's the chart #1 — but the card can be your song. Pick the one that raised you.
Top of your year, by vibe
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Top 10 of 1978
Your stats
Your generation
Xennial
1978 belonged to
Andy Gibb
3 year-end chart hits
🔙 The world you were born into
The world around the music — what was on screen, and what was on the shelf.
🎬 Set the scene
A wood-paneled-basement afternoon, 1978: the TV was playing Super Friends, a Slush Puppie was in the kitchen, and later you'd hang the drive-in speaker on the car window.
🎬 At the movies
📼 Saturday cartoons
- Scooby-Doo👕 tee →
- Super Friends👕 tee →
- Schoolhouse Rock!
- Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
- The Pink Panther Show
- Hong Kong Phooey
- The Jetsons
- The Flintstones
📰 Headlines
- Jonestown mass deaths
- Camp David Accords
- First 'test-tube baby' born
- Proposition 13 (California)
- Garfield comic debuts
💡 Tech & Firsts
- Space Invaders released
- Magnetic-stripe ATMs spread
- TI Speak & Spell
- Laserdisc (DiscoVision) launches
- First computer bulletin board (BBS)
🏆 Sports
- Yankees win the World Series
- Cowboys win Super Bowl XII
- Bullets win the NBA title
- Affirmed wins the Triple Crown
- Argentina wins the World Cup
🤪 Crazes & fads
- Disco peak (Saturday Night Fever)
- Space Invaders
- Roller disco
- Garfield merchandise
- Smile buttons
👖 Clothes
- Disco gold (Travolta white suit)
- Designer jeans rising
- Spandex / Lycra
- Wrap dresses
- Gold lamé
💵 What it cost
- Gas: 63¢/gal
- Stamp: 15¢
- Movie ticket: $2.34
- New car avg: ~$6,400
- Median home: ~$55,700
🧸 Toy chest
🍬 On the shelf
How well do you remember 1978?
7 quick questions — the songs, the artists, the year. No cheating. 😏
💬 Memories from 1978
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