The year 1990 is closer to the moon landing than it is to present day.Nintendo and Coca-Cola were founded in the same decade. (1880's)Galileo (died in 1642) could have visited Harvard (founded in 1636)First commercial fax service was in the same year the Civil War ended. Eleven years before the telephone.The Guillotine stopped being the official method of execution in France the same year that MS-DOS premiered. (1977)There were people born during Japan's Samurai era that saw the Atom bomb.Harriet Tubman was alive when Rosa Parks was born.Samuel J. Seymour, the last person alive to be present at Lincoln's assassination, died in 1956, a handful of months after appearing on a game show.The T-Rex lived closer in time to us than to the Stegosaurus.