What's the latest news on Ben Affleck and Gwyneth Paltrow? Will Mark McGwire hit 62 homeruns?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

How will 98 Degrees' "98 Degrees and Rising" album measure up to recent output from The Backstreet Boys and N'Sync? How will AOL's acquisition of Netscape change the computing landscape?

Why am I asking all these questions?

I'm sorry, I thought we were all suddenly supposed to be obsessed and fixated about things that happened in 1998.

My bad.

[lapfog_1]

1. 1998... we didn't start the fire.

Sudan
Official famine Southern Sudan declared with estimates that over 1 million people could die from starvation

Iceland
Free Willy star Keiko goes to Iceland for eventual release back into the wild.

U.S.
James Byrd Jr, a 49-year-old African-American man is dragged to his death behind a pickup truck

New Zealand
66-day blackout begins in Auckland, New Zealand.

U.S.
Dow Jones drops over 500 points on August 31st on the New York Stock Exchange

U.S.
US Announces first budget surplus in 30 years

United States - Google Founded
The search engine Google is incorporated as a private company in Menlo Park, California by Larry Page and Sergey Brin during September. Page and Brin were still Ph.D students at Stanford University and had previously created the website as a research project starting in 1996. The company grew rapidly and received investments early on from the co-founder of Sun Microsystems and the founder of Amazon. It was successful due to its unique algorithm that calculated a website’s relevance to a search by analyzing links back to the site rather than connections to the search terms, producing higher quality results.


Space - International Space Station
Assembly of the International Space Station (ISS) begins during December 4th when NASA sends a six person crew on the Space Shuttle Endeavour to attach the American Unity node to the Russian Zarya module (also known as the Functional Cargo Block or FGB). The mission, known as STS-88, carried the node up to Zarya module which had already been launched. The crew completed three spacewalks to connect the first two building blocks of the ISS. The final pressurized module of the space station was attached in 2011. It is primarily used for scientific research, has hosted visitors from 17 different countries, and has been continually manned since November 2nd, 2000.

Papua New Guinea
A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys 10 villages in Papua New Guinea killing an estimated 1,500

China
In China the Yangtze River breaks through the main bank. The death toll was more than 12,000 injuring many thousands more.

Russia
Devaluation of the rouble. The ruble lost 70% of its value against US dollar in 6 months . Several of the largest Russians banks collapsed, and millions of people lost their savings.

Russia
IMF offers $22bn loan to Russia to stabilize economy with strict conditions

Honduras
Hurricane Mitch makes landfall in Central America on October 26th killing an estimated 18,000 people

Japan
The Japanese economy enters a recession due to the collapse of land and property prices

Japan
The Japanese government implements a rescue package for Japanese banks following the collapse of the property market and $500bn in bad debts

just some of the headlines.

[BannonsLiver]

2. I just got done listening to some Marcy Playground and Candlebox!

Headed out to shop for a new desktop computer at Circuit City later!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Ah.....college.

Good times, good times, good times.

[Corgigal]

4. Just a theory..

but I think the Backstreet Boys and N'Sync are the same band. I'm just saying.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. Everyone knows they just change out wigs and outfits. nt

[unblock]

5. what will the computers do on january 1, 2000???

[Bleacher Creature]

7. I have mixed feelings about the Seinfeld finale. NT