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Flip phones, 'Friends' and LeBron's debut: It's been 17 years since the Browns made playoffs

The last time the Cleveland Browns made the playoffs, coach Kevin Stefanski was in college and Baker Mayfield grade school.

Michael Jordan was still in the NBA, and LeBron James wasn't out of high school.

Mark Zuckerberg hadn't invented Facebook yet, while Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears had just broken up.

But at home on Sunday, against the rival Pittsburgh Steelers, the Browns can finally clinch a playoff berth for the first time in 17 seasons, while mercifully ending the NFL's longest postseason drought.

A drought that has felt like an eternity ago to Browns.