The Last Time Duke Wasn't Ranked

It's all anyone can talk about in college hoops.  Duke's slide of 4 straight losses in the ACC has left them outside the Top 25 for the first time in years.  Since about this time in 1996.  So, for some perspective, the last time Duke wasn't ranked...

- Duke Nukem 3D was released for the PC
- MLS had not played its first game
- Rent opened on Broadway
- ValuJet still existed
- Nintendo 64 was in late development
- The Ramones were still playing concerts
- Prince Charles & Diana were still married
- Kansas competed in the Big 8 conference; Texas in the SWC
- Tupac was alive
- The Dow was surging, and investors hoped it would hit 6000 soon
- Steve Jobs was running an outfit called NeXT
- The English Patient won the Best Picture Oscar
- Fox hoped to launch an all-news network later that year
- Suddenly Susan and Touched by an Angel were top 10 TV shows in
America
- You could not buy a DVD
- Phil Collins was still in Genesis
- Alanis Morissette cleaned up at the Grammys on the strength of her
Jagged Little Pill album
- Tiger Woods was an amateur
- Boris Becker won a major
- AOL was passing Prodigy & CompuServe in popularity
- If you discussed hoops on the web, you probably did it in a Usenet
group.