Flashback to 1998: What The World Was Like the Year The Lewinsky Scandal Broke | Communications Major | Scoop.it

There's much online chatter this week about Monica Lewinsky, who 16 years ago was identified as "that woman" who gave President Bill Clinton a blow job. (There, we've sad it.) Ms. Lewinsky, a former White House intern is now 40 years old, and she's written a piece for Vanity Fair (which will hit the interwebs next week). In said piece, Lewinsky identifies herself as perhaps the first victim of Internet (or cyber-) bullying. And she may be right. The scandal, which got pretty heavy nonstop circulation back in the Web 1.0 day, is ripe for reexamination in how it would play out in our current social media-frenzied Web 2.0 world. Here's a look at the stories that were making headlines in 1998.