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# Yikes! I’m 40 today
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/2007726yikes-im-40-today-html/
- Published: 2007-07-26T12:27:12.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:32:38.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Life, #DashHouseCom, #wp

Today I can no longer deny that I’m middle aged. I was born in what they call the [summer of love](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer%5Fof%5FLove?ref=dashhouse.com), [a year that includes these events](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967?ref=dashhouse.com):

- 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](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%5FCortina?ref=dashhouse.com) 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.

![070726.jpg](https://www.dashhouse.com/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/070726.jpg)

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