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 reason? The two years are both leap years, meaning they have 366 days, and each begins on a Monday, according to the specialized website timeanddate. And the similarities don't end there: 1996 and 2024 are both years with Olympics (1996 in Atlanta and 2024 in Paris) and presidential election years in the United States.
The movie "Matilda", Tom Cruise in the first "Mission Impossible": jokes and references to the 90s are raining down on social networks, some Internet users rummaging through their cellars to find nuggets from 1996. For example, a post, viewed more than two million times on X (formerly Twitter), highlights a calendar with actor Jonathan Taylor Thomas, who starred as a teenager in the series "Daddy Tinkers", which was very popular in the United States in the 90s. "FYI if you have this 1996 calendar with Jonathan Taylor Thomas, the dates are 2024, so you can reuse it," warns the SpaceMonkeyX account.
A netizen dug up a calendar from the video rental company, Blockbuster, which features the hit films of 1995 soon to be available on VHS in 1996 such as "Pocahontas", "Batman Forever" and "Casper".
On Ebay, calendars from 1996 sell for prices ranging from twenty to a hundred dollars. The one with actress Pamela Anderson, who starred in "Daddy Tinkers" but especially "Baywatch", costs at least $150 on the sales site. And we'll have to wait until 2052 to use them again, just like those in 2024.