As 2018 sees The Mailing Room celebrate two decades in the business, growing to become the largest independent supplier of franking technology in the UK, we thought we’d have a little look back on what was happening when we started out supplying ‘best-value’ mailing solutions to the public sector in 1998…
1 Google launches on the world wide web…
2 11 member states of the EU agree to the Euro
3 France host and win the World Cup
4 Furby was launched (causing security worries)
5 The Good Friday Agreement is signed
6 Titanic won 11 Oscars, but none for acting
7 All Saints have a Bootie Call and Oasis are All Around The World
8 Bill Clinton DID NOT have sexual relations with that woman
9 The FDA approves male impotence drug Viagra
10 Nokia sold 22 million 6120 phones
11 New Ford Focus is European car of the year
12 BMW bought Rolls-Royce Motor Cars
13 Frank Sinatra dies at the age of 82
14 Sex and The City launched and Seinfeld ended
15 We saved Private Ryan and watched The Truman Show
16 There’s Something About Mary redefines hair gel
17 Steve Jobs introduced the first Apple iMac
18 ‘Stephen’ blew in as the Great Boxing Day storm
19 The ‘temporary’ Millennium Dome started construction
20 We were told to prepare for the Y2K Disaster…that never was
Apparently in another 20 years we’ll have the Year 2038 problem for 32-bit systems, or maybe not…, though we’ll be looking forward to celebrating our 40th anniversary.