Using my 25-year-old Blockbuster card!!!

The Playstation 2 also sold for less than half the original launch price in the second half of its life cycle.

And the Dreamcast was €49 in its final year, but that's for different reasons. (I bought 2 lmao)

Had to be there

I’ll start

Sega Dreamcast: September 9, 1999
PlayStation 2: October 26, 2000
Nintendo GameCube: November 18, 2001
Microsoft Xbox: November 15, 2001

Disney cant delete this one ha.

Growing up, we had this thing called Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) where every day, our elementary school teachers would have us all sit at our desks, no talking, and read something (anything) for about thirty minutes from second grade until sixth grade.

I was telling this to my kid when he complained about having to read so much. I told him about how everyone always changed the abbreviation to mean "Sit down, Shut up, and Read" because that's essentially what they said for us to do.

But my husband, who was in the same school year as me but at a different school (he did elementary school in Germany and France), overheard and said that they didn't have that when he was in school and he's never heard anyone else mention it. Therefore, it was likely only a thing that my school's teachers did to shut us up for 30 minutes a day. And, as an adult, I wouldn't put it past them since 30 minutes of silence a day sounds amazing.

But this also got me wondering just how unique this actually was. So, was it only my school in South Central Pennsylvania? Was it just my state? Was it a country-wide thing? Was it a global thing that my husband ignored or repressed?

UPDATE: So it seems pretty international, but highly dependent on the school district or school itself. And it appears to have many acronyms or none at all. Thanks everyone!