The last time someone other than Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France:
- Companies were using Windows NT, and home users were buying Packard Bells pre-installed with the new Windows 98. First Edition.
- Ken Starr was preparing a report that would lead to impeachment of President Clinton.
- Bill Clinton had not given the televised speech saying he might have inappropriate contact with an intern.
- NATO was threatening air strikes against Serbia for its continuing slaughter of Albanians.
- NASDAQ was almost to 2000, less than half of its peak in the dot-com bubble.
- Matthew Shepherd was an anonymous student in Wyoming.
- The Truman Show really creeped me out, so I saw it three times in theatres.
- I was four months into my first job in IT, and four months out of my last blue collar position. I had just moved out of my mother’s basement, rock on!, and was about five months ahead of my first IT layoff.
- I was a mere days away from proposing to my girlfriend, whom I had tricked into moving to St. Louis from Columbia by pretending I was pregnant.
- John Grisham had dominated the bestseller lists.
- When you said “Potter,” people thought of Sherman T., but that was about to change.
- More people still used Netscape Navigator than Internet Explorer.
- Feminism was in an uproar when Ally MacBeal appeared on Time as an icon of feminism.
