Calendar | 1998

is the month of the heatwave and the email. Email is not new, but in 1998, it becomes "normal." The sound of the dial-up handshake—the static screech connecting the household to the outside world—becomes the soundtrack of summer evenings.

Culturally, the 1998 calendar was a jumble of transitions. The winter months were dominated by the release of Titanic , which had opened in late 1997 but refused to leave the cultural iceberg through the spring of 1998. March saw the Academy Awards honoring that film, while the summer months carried the weight of two seismic events: the release of The Truman Show (questioning reality) and Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa’s home run chase (saving baseball). The calendar’s autumn squares hold the release of the first iMac—a translucent blue computer that looked like it arrived from the future. 1998 calendar