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Madonna was in the middle of her Ray of Light-era.
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Brandy and Monica's iconic duet, "The Boy Is Mine," spent the entire summer at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Shania Twain's "You're Still The One," Usher's "My Way," and Next's "Too Close" were also BIG hits that summer.
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Lauryn Hill released her seminal debut album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
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Sex and the City made its debut on HBO.
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While Family Matters aired its final episode on CBS (it had left its home on ABC's TGIF the previous year).
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MTV premiered its seventh season of The Real World, which was set in Seattle...
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...while Daria wrapped up its second season.
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The Bulls won game six of the NBA Finals, beating out the Utah Jazz. It also marked the Bulls' sixth NBA championship.
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Michael Jordan was voted MVP. It would also be the last game he would play with the Bulls.
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France beat out Brazil 3-0 to win the FIFA World Cup.
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Having the internet meant you were using dial-up and, also, you were most likely using AOL...
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...since Google was still a few months away from launching.
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If you owned a cellphone it most likely was a Nokia (who were the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones).
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Furbies were the biggest toy for kids.
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Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston began dating.
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Other big Hollywood couples were Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise, and Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger.
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While Bruce Willis and Demi Moore announced they were splitting after 11 years of marriage.
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Can't Hardly Wait was the teen comedy of the summer.
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Disney released its 36th animated feature, Mulan.
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Disney Channel aired its original movie, Brink!
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Amazon announced it would begin selling other things than books and CDs.
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Windows 98 was released.
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The revolutionary Apple iMac went on sale.
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The world remembered Princess Diana on the first anniversary of her death.
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In politics, President Bill Clinton was heavily embroiled in the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
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The biggest movies of the summer were Saving Private Ryan, Armageddon, and There's Something About Mary.
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And finally, the then-biggest movie of all-time, Titanic, was released on VHS.
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