Here’s a quick recap of what was going on in the world in 1998, when we launched OtherSpace and embarked on the adventure of JointheSAGA.com:

• Google founded in Menlo Park, California.
• Voyager 1 overtook Pioneer 10 as farthest-traveled craft.
• First components of the International Space Station delivered to orbit.
• Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
• Titanic won best picture in the Academy Awards.
• Disney’s Animal Kingdom opens.
• Bear Grylls climbs Everest.
• Microsoft releases Windows 98.
• North Korea adopts a military dictatorship government.
• On TV: Friends, Dawson’s Creek, Charmed, Will & Grace, Sports Night, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
• Music: I Don’t Want to Wait by Paula Cole 

  Adia by Sarah McLachlan

  Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) by Backstreet Boys

• Books: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling, A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin, The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett, Bag of Bones by Stephen King
• Computer games: Half-Life, Grim Fandango, Fallout 2, Baldur’s Gate, Unreal, Starcraft: Brood War, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.