WHERE ARE THEY Now? The star-studded 1998 World Cup Winning France Team

Stu Forster/Getty Images On Sunday, when France goes for international soccer glory against Croatia in the World Cup final, they will do so nearly 20 years to the day from when the country first won a World Cup.  France, playing on home soil, was an extraordinary collection of talent, boasting one of the greatest attacking midfielders […]

Junkyard Gem: 1998 Plymouth Breeze Expresso

When the last of the Chrysler K-Car variants and descendants finally went away after the 1994 model year, they were replaced by the Cloud Cars: the Chrysler Cirrus, Dodge Stratus, and Plymouth Breeze. These cars had the “cab-forward” design introduced by the radical-looking Chrysler LH series a few years earlier, sold acceptably well, and then […]

Junkyard Gem: 1998 Mercedes-Benz S500 Sedan

The Mercedes-Benz S-Class name has been with us since the early 1970s, and the W140 version was the first to be switched to the model-naming system those fun-loving Stuttgarters use on S-Classes to this day. Here we have a second-from-top-of-the-line S-Class from the final model year of the W140, photographed in a self-service wrecking yard […]

1998 attack that messes with sites’ secret crypto keys is back in a big way

(credit: Yuri Samoilov/Flickr) A surprisingly big number of top-name websites—Facebook and PayPal among them—recently tested positive for a critical, 19-year-old vulnerability that allowed attackers to decrypt encrypted data and sign communications using the sites’ secret encryption key. The vulnerability in the transport layer security protocol for Web encryption was disclosed in 1998 when researcher Daniel […]

“Change is Good” Book Excerpt: WIRED Cofounder Louis Rossetto’s New Novel Parties Like It’s 1998

WIRED cofounder Louis Rossetto has written a novel, “Change Is Good,” that captures the optimism, greed, fervor, and madness of the dotcom era. An excerpt. https://media.wired.com/photos/59979af3867aa129e951d3e1/master/pass/59979adbce119c4acfa5af30_Party_main_autoxauto_00003.jpg Feed: All Latest

Junkyard Gem: 1998 Audi A4 1.8T

Filed under: Etc. A solid-looking Audi A4 with all-wheel-drive, 5-speed, and the turbocharged 1.8 engine shows up at a San Francisco Bay Area self-service wrecking yard. Continue reading Junkyard Gem: 1998 Audi A4 1.8T Junkyard Gem: 1998 Audi A4 1.8T originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 27 Jan 2017 09:47:00 EST. Please see our terms […]