SEPTEMBER 4, 2008
That ’70s Web tool
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Back to school. When are class pictures being taken? You simply must schedule a haircut accordingly. Otherwise
. . . let’s just say you can’t spell permanent record without p-e-r-m. Younger folks may not know this, but before MySpace or Facebook or YouTube, teens had only one chance to get their mugs out there for all to see, forever and ever: the yearbook photo. Say “Cheese,” indeed.
Let a goofy new Web tool called Yearbook Yourself fill you in, literally. All you need to do is upload a single, properly posed photo of yourself, and — ta-da — there you are, retro-styled as a teenager worried about the Cuban Missile Crisis, or about to attend a Grand Funk Railroad concert. Pick any moment between 1950 and 1990 and the site churns you out, a zeitgeist Zelig. In our minds we’ve been doing a lot of sartorial time traveling lately — every time we put ourselves in Don Draper’s shoes and gray flannel suit, or those snug jodhpurs that Betty rocks. Those were the days . . . we assume.
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