Just started reading this:
Class of 92 by Jason Ayres
A guy from the 2050's goes back in time to 1992. He goes into a pub and it is £1.30 for a pint of "old peculiar". (As an aside, Old Peculiar is vile! I remember drinking a pint of it around 30 years ago -- never again. Not as bad as wine though. There's only one drink worse than wine, and that's non-alcoholic wine.). Anyway, at "Our Price" (does this shop still exist? I guess not) chart CD's were being advertised at "just" £9.99 each. CDs seven times the price of a pint? Guess the author has got these facts right. People trying to make a profit knowing that people are replacing their vinyls!
He says (or the time traveller says) there's no Internet in 1992? Pretty sure I referenced the Internet in this essay on the philosophy of science around that time. I paid someone to type it for me, and she put "Internat" by mistake, so I guess she hadn't heard of it though.
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