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Do you think the year 1998 was a sad and depressing year? I was only 8 in that year so I would not remember a massive amount but you know with the whole aftermath of the death of princess diana and the 20th Century coming to an end ect....? In a way i think 98 was quite depressing would you agree?

my grandma died the year previously so for my family it would have been a sad year.

1999 is a different story because it was quite exciting the whole approaching the millenium feeling.

It was so depressing for me that sometimes I still wake up thoroughly convinced that the year is 1997 and I just went to see Titanic last week. Or Anastasia, whichever one I feel like just seeing last week. Then I realize the year is actually 2010 and my, how little has changed over so many years.

things have changed a bit since 98 although not a great deal.

I was talking about myself, not about the world.

The world has changed too much for my liking.

I don't remember much about what 1998 was like, though I do remember reading about Princess Diana's death on the cover of a magazine.

I don't remember anything particularly gloomy about 1998, but I was only seven years old that year. I vaguely remember hearing about Princess Diana's death on the news in 1997, but I doubt it had much of an impact on Americans.

1998 was definitely a scandalous year, because that's the year of Clinton's sex scandal being all over the news.

I have no strong feelings about the 1990s. Now that you mention her death, I do remember being moved by the masses of flowers thrown on Diana's hearse--it seemed a spontaneous reversion to some primitive rite. I also recall some trepidation in 1999 about computer crashes: my cousin went to celebrate the new year 2000 in Australia and I half expected he'd be stuck there, in the dark, for weeks.

David Beckham got sent off in the world cup that year. That's all I remember of it

Well in my opinion I think the whole of britian and a lot of the world were still kind of in mourning over the death of Diana during the course of 1998.

I think it only took a year and I think once 1999 came our way i think the anticipation of the millenimum kind of lifted our spiritis and got us all excited. Just my opinon of course.

So I think 1998 was kind of a recovery year for the world and things started moving again more faster and postivily by the time of 1999.

I was only six or seven. I remember Diana's death and that Titanic was a popular movie, but I didn't really care about either. I was too young to. 1998 is a fond memory for me because I was a happy little girl back then.

1998 was an overall good year for me. I graduated high school, got my first job in meat packing plant through manpower and I also started my broadcasting career working for comcast. I didn't have a car or my license so I rode a bike back and forth to work and I lost a ton of weight. I even had a friend I spent time with on a regular basis.

I was very immature though (in an aspie way) and I had my share of moments, but looking back on it I had a good year and I was happy to out of high school.

So many americans responden to my thread

Really i should have aimed this thread at older people who live in England and how the aftermath in the year 1998 affected them.

Politically, 1998 was okay. There was just some crap going on in the Balkans and Clinton got impeached and that was about it. For me I was in a severe state of depression and doing a bad job to hide it from everyone. It was a turning point for me where things started to get better.

I was diagnosed with Depression in 1998, so yeah.

6th grade sucked for me and that was back in 1997 and 1998. Very depressing year for me and I felt very suicidal and I was out of school for a few months and I got big boobs and all these ugly stretch marks and I got my period and then it got heavy and I had hormone issues and it was also the year I got diagnosed with AS.

Oh, only people from England were supposed to respond to this?

1998 was bad year for me. I had this awful piano teacher that was so mean and nasty to me that I almost quit music all together.