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FSSA was established by the Indiana General Assembly in 1991 to consolidate and better integrate the delivery of human services by state government.  To help celebrate this occasion we want to hear from you! Please send in your stories of working at FSSA and how things have changed over that time to office.communications@fssa.in.gov and we’ll include them in a future Hub Hot Topic and FSSA Update.

Did you start off working on a typewriter? Have you moved buildings? Did you have to use a mimeograph to make copies? What’s changed? We want to know!

Other things from 1991

• Operation Desert Storm ended
• Collapse of the U.S.S.R.
• Songs: “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You” – Bryan Adams,  “Gonna Make Your Sweat (Everybody Dance Now” – C+C Music Factory,  “Motownphilly” – Boyz II Men and “Losing My Religion” – R.E.M.
• Movies: “Terminator 2: Judgement Day,” “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Silence of the Lambs”
• On April 1, the US minimum wage went from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour
• T.V. shows: “60 Minutes,” “Roseanne,” “Murphy Brown, “Cheers” and “Home Improvement”
• Price of a postage stamp was 29 cents
• Super Nintendo was released
• Rick Mears won the Indy 500
• Chicago Bulls win their first NBA championship
• New York Giants win the Superbowl
• Gas was $1.14 a gallon
• A man found a first printing of the Declaration of Independence, inside the frame of a $4 painting he’d bought at a flea market. It was later sold at auction for $2.4 million.
• SanDisk produced the first flash-based SSD in a 2.5-inch hard disk drive form factor for IBM with a 20 MB capacity priced at about $1000.
• PBS started producing the kid’s game show “Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?”