Gregory DeVictor
This profile was updated in October 2024.
Gregory DeVictor is a freelance journalist and trivia enthusiast who loves to write articles about American nostalgia. His 101 nostalgia articles, organized by year, cover topics like history events, popular TV shows and movies, food and fashion trends, sports facts, pop music, famous birthdays, tech news, as well as unusual and sometimes scandalous news events.
For example, here are some fun facts and trivia from Gregory's 1998 American nostalgia article:
1. In 1998, Titanic won an Oscar for Best Picture, and the final two-part episode of Seinfeld aired to 76.3 million people.
2. Because one satellite malfunctioned, over 80 percent of the world's pagers stopped working.
3. The cost of a 30-second Super Bowl commercial was $1,600,000. (In 2024, a 30-second Super Bowl ad on CBS cost about $7,000,000.)
4. At age 77, astronaut John Glenn became the oldest man to fly in space. (In 1962, Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times.)
5. In 1998, popular tech terms were AOL dial-up, defraggong, information superhighway, netizen, palmtop, reboot, and screensaver. Tech terms that appeared in print for the first time that year included camgirl, cyberbullying, dark web, social networking, and webinar.
At HubPages, Gregory's American nostalgia articles appear on HobbyLark.com. To date, millions of visitors from over 150 countries have viewed his articles on the HobbyLark network site.
During his writing career, Gregory has also published hundreds of articles on Forex trading, online gaming, food and drink, budgeting, bargain shopping, free stuff, couponing, banking, credit cards, getting out of debt, life planning, retiring fiscally fit, algebra, plane and solid geometry, as well as general math.
Gregory's educational background, career-related achievements, and pastimes:
Gregory DeVictor graduated magna cum laude from Villanova University and also studied at the University of Grenoble in France. He was a math teacher with the School District of Philadelphia for many years, and also taught French to both secondary and adult students in Philadelphia's Foreign Language Magnet Program.
Gregory also taught freshman English courses at Villanova University and has tutored both secondary students and adults in math and French. He even worked as a credit card analyst for several years at a major American bank.
In his spare time, he enjoys speedwalking along with reading short stories, the Oaklandside, and the SF Mission Local.
