History lesson: What's changed since the Cowboys' last Super Bowl in 1996

When the Cowboys last won the Super Bowl in 1996, QB Dak Prescott was not yet 3 years old.

• Your favorite newsletter writers refuse to say how old they were.

Some curios from that year:

• 📬 First-class postage stamp: $.32
• ⛽️ A gallon of gas: $1.23
• 🎟 Regular season ticket at Texas Stadium: $32
• 🏠 Median house price in D-FW: $98,653

The most popular things in America the week of that game?

• 📺 TV show: "ER." (Followed by "Seinfeld" and "Friends.")
• 🎞 Movie: "Mr. Holland’s Opus."
• 📚 Books: Fiction: "Intensity" by Dean Koontz. Nonfiction: "The Road Ahead" by Bill Gates.
• 💻 Website: AOL. (Followed by Webcrawler and Netscape.)

What's happened since then:

• 🗳️ We’ve had six entire presidential terms.
• 📶 Modern WiFi was invented.
• 💰 If you invested $1,000 in Amazon stock, it would be worth $2 million now.
• 🙃 The Cowboys have had 25 different starting quarterbacks.