If you look at the Ravens Media Guide, you get the impression the franchise didn’t start until 2000. Many of the records and streaks in the weekly press packets have the tag “since 2000” included.
Fans who’ve been season ticket holders or glued to their TVs from the beginning can still evoke positive memories from the 4 years before the franchise emerged, but many of those memories have eroded with time, the relative success of the last 17 seasons, and advances in technology such as Game Pass which have made it easy to enjoy the Mile High Miracle again, but much more difficult to enjoy the standard definition broadcasts of the late 1990s.