In case you don't remember 1998, or in case you weren't around yet, that was a year President

Bill Clinton claimed he did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.

It was the year Google officially became a company.

In 1998, the founders of Google set up workspace in a garage in Menlo Park, California and became

incorporated. It was the year of the Good Friday Agreement which brought peace to Northern

Island.

After a generation of bloodshed and decades of division and acrimony, George Mitchell

usheres in what the whole island hopes will be a new era of peace.

Also in 1998, if you were anywhere near a radio, you would have heard this song.

The song is flagpole citta by a Seattle band called Harvey Danger.

There was a long period in my life where I had to sing that song like four or five times

a day.

Sean Nelson was the lead singer in Harvey Danger.

Their song was everywhere.

We went to see a Cubs game when we were in Chicago at one point.

They played the song during the seventh inning stretch and then said ladies and gentlemen,

the members of the band are here like we stood up at Riggley Field.

I don't know that we got much of a novation.

It wasn't our idea, but it was like that.

Like a lot of hit songs, this one endured.

It was played in the 1999 movie American Pie which itself was a huge hit.

It was used as the theme song of the long running British TV comedy peep show.

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