They missed out on 25 years worth of events in the world:
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID;=634871
No first war in Iraq, no end of the Cold War, no Internet, no home computers for that matter. No Challenger disaster. No Columbia disaster. No Bill Clinton. No first Bush. No Twin Towers. Hmmm…hard to imagine…