10th December 2008, 06:05 PM
Aaaa. 1998 doesn't actually seem that long ago but reading the first issue does seem very, very familiar. We used to joke back then that all the people in charge had luckily been in their jobs just as pay became tolerable (you know, the kind of person who became a field officer after 6 weeks of supervising on a university dig)and then rapidly pulled the ladders up behind them. They're all still there. The main diffence between 1998 and now is that pretty soon they will be the only ones left.