Licenses are good for 10 yrs now. If your's lapsed, you have a 2 year grace period. Outside of that, gotta take the test again. Belive me it's a whole lot easier now, they did away with
the code up to general class.
I think i would have taken it back in late 1999 so it's LONG expired. Hell, I forget a lot of it now a days. Probably best to take the test and course again.