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The year is 2005... Anakin turns to the dark side, YouTube makes its debut and we’re all couch-jumping for Maria, McDreamy and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo…T minus 20, rewind to this week in history 20 years ago with Joe and Mel.
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iTunes hits 1 billion downloads and your CD tower is suddenly obsolete
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🎧 iTunes hits one billion downloads
Apple celebrates its billionth song purchase, officially crowning digital downloads king...
James Blunt’s You’re Beautiful = 2006 sad-boy anthem
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Rewind to 12 – 18 Feb 2006
💔 James Blunt makes everyone emotional
“You’re Beautiful” becomes unavoidable worldwide, fu...
When Dick Cheney shot a guy and Britney became public enemy #1
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Rewind to 5 Feb 2006 to 11 Feb 2006
🦆 Dick Cheney shoots a guy
The Vice President accidentally shoots a man during a q...
2006 State of the Union: when terrorism, oil and marriage dominated politics
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Rewind to 29 Jan 2006 to 4 Feb 2006
🇺🇸 State of the Union goes full time capsule
George W. Bush lays out a world obsess...
High School Musical debuts and accidentally launches a generation of theatre kids
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Rewind to 22 Jan 2006 to 28 Jan 2006
🎤 High school musical rewires your personality
Disney drops a made-for-TV movie a...
Summer programming: best bits of 2005 vol 5
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🧻 Wikitorial wipeout. The LA Times tried letting the public edit their editorials. What they got instead? Porn, profanity and chaos...
Summer programming: best bits of 2005 vol 4
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🐶 Who’s a cloned boy? Snuppy the Afghan hound becomes the world’s first cloned dog, born after 1,000 embryos, 123 surrogates and mo...
Summer programming: best bits of 2005 vol 3
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🧃 Belle Gibson enters Mel’s comments section
In one of the most unexpectedly cursed timeline moments of the year, Mel gets fa...
Summer programming: best bits of 2005 vol 2
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📹 A dating fail that created YouTube
Before it hosted cat videos, K-pop fancams and the entire cultural output of Gen Z, YouT...
Summer programming: best bits of 2005 vol 1
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🌴 Summer mode, nostalgia maxed out
We’re hitting pause on the weekly time machine to bring you a sun-soaked sampler platter o...
Cronulla Riots 20 years on, through the eyes of someone who lived it
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Rewind to 11 December 2005 to 17 December 2005
🏖️ Cronulla hits boiling point
This week in 2005, Australia watches in sh...
Two Aussies, one Nobel Prize and a wild self-experiment
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Rewind to 4 December 2005 to 10 December 2005
🧪 Two Aussies, one Nobel and a beaker of bacteria
On a snowy Stockholm ni...
Cyber Monday: The Marketing Stunt That Actually Worked
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Rewind to 27 November 2005 to 3 December 2005
🧬 A new face, a new future
In France, surgeons pull off the world’s first...
When the Xbox 360 took over the world… and overheated doing it
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🇩🇪 Merkel makes history
Angela Merkel is sworn in as Germany’s first female chancellor and first from the former East. A grand...
Harry Potter: Goblet of Fire with a side of teen angst
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🧬 The man who (maybe) cured HIV
Before ‘manifesting’ was a TikTok buzzword, Andrew Stimpson from London apparently manifeste...
When everyone thought they were a rock god: The Guitar Hero era begins!
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Rewind to 6 November 2005 to 12 November 2005
🌠 Fireballs or flying saucers
Europe looks up, panics, phones the cops....
The Birth of Pepe the Frog and the meme that broke the internet
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🎧 Rewind to 30 October – 5 November 2005
🎃 The great pumpkin arms race
New England’s finest farmers flexed their gree...
The King of cash: Elvis still owns the afterlife
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Rewind to 23–30 October 2005 🎸
💀 The King still reigns
Elvis may have left the building, but he sure didn’t leave the...
Ashlee vs Lindsay: The boyfriend battle that rocked 2005
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Rewind to 16 October 2005 to 22 October 2005
🕋 Million Man March 2.0
Louis Farrakhan’s Millions More rally hits D.C.,...
The iPod video era: when we watched Lost on a two-inch screen
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Rewind to 9 October 2005 to 15 October 2005
🚀 China goes full space cowboy
China’s Shenzhou 6 mission blasts off, send...
Spark-ula: Twilight hits bookstores and turns vampires dreamy
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🧑⚖️ Supreme Court Soap
Harriet Miers is tapped to replace Sandra Day O’Connor and America collectively Googles “Who?” A loy...
From MySpace to emo icons: Panic! at the Disco’s debut album
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Rewind to 25 September to 1 October 2005 — when emo kids were discovering top hats, Fergie was making “lady lumps” a phrase and Bali...
How I Met Your Mother hits screens & INXS finds a frontman
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Rewind to 18–24 September 2005
🌪️ Rita raises hell
Just three weeks after Katrina, Hurricane Rita stormed in as a Categ...
From pop princess to pop mama: Britney Spears gives birth
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Rewind to 11–18 September 2005
⚡ Lights out in LA
Millions of Angelenos suddenly found themselves trapped in elevators,...
When Steve Jobs pulled an iPod Nano out of his jeans’ tiny pocket
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Rewind to 4 September 2005 to 10 September 2005
🌀 Katrina fallout
The floodwaters were barely receding in New Orleans...
Hurricane Katrina: Category 5 storm, category 10 fail
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Rewind to 27 August – 3 September 2005 ⏪
🌪️ Katrina’s wrath
Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast with catastrophic for...
Six Feet Under finale: the ending that still wrecks us (20 years on)
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Rewind to 21–27 August 2005 🎙️
💊 (not so) model behaviour. Michelle Leslie went from catwalks to courtrooms when Bali...
From Motley to midterms: Tommy Lee goes to college
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Rewind to 14–20 August 2005 — the week where rockstars went back to school, storms turned Toronto into Waterworld and Kansas decided...
Inside the playboy mansion: The Girls Next Door premieres
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Rewind to 7 to 13 August 2005.It’s the week the UN got scandalous, Shane Warne made history and a Playboy Mansion reality show someh...
The girl with the dragon tattoo reinvents trauma-core bestsellers
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Rewind to 31 July to 6 August 2005
🛑 No smoking on the grid. The EU bans tobacco advertising across borders, sending Formula...
Pon de Replay: the birth of bad girl Riri
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Rewind to 24 July 2005 to 30 July 2005
This week in 2005, Rihanna made her Diwali riddim-fuelled debut, Hulk Hogan became the...
Pussycat Dolls, tramp stamps and Miami Ink
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Rewind to 17 to 23 July 2005, where tattoo regrets were permanent, burlesque entered the mainstream and Crazy Frog somehow got a rec...
Harry Potter leaks, lawsuits and late-night line ups
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Rewind to 10 July 2005 to 16 July 2005: the week NASA stalled, Potter fans sobbed, Johnny Depp traumatised children and WorldCom mad...
Terror on the Tube: London’s 7/7 Attacks Remembered
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Rewind to 3 July 2005 to 9 July 2005 and buckle in, because the chaos this week is coming at you from space, underground, and straig...
iTunes launches podcasts and Ned Kelly becomes Aussie merch royalty
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Rewind to 26 June 2005 to 2 July 2005
🎧 Podcasting goes mainstream. iTunes officially jumps on the podcast bandwagon a...
From fake news to digital cults: Reddit is born
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Rewind to 19 June to 25 June 2005
This week, we’re talking digital disasters, newspaper nightmares and sports meltdowns so epi...
Brangelina soft launches and Tyson taps out
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Rewind to 12 to 18 June 2005, when Mike Tyson retired mid-fight, Brangelina launches with explosives, Etsy was born and Florence Aub...
Ringtone royalty: the rise of the crazy frog
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Rewind to 5 to 11 June 2005 when Crazy Frogs topped the charts, Coldplay went full galaxy-brain and a Chinese spy scandal had Aussie...
Deep Throat unmasked and Gordon Ramsay unhinged
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Rewind to 29 May to 4 June 2005 — a week of anonymous sources, screaming chefs and beauties meeting geeks.
🕵️ Deep Thro...
Schapelle’s boogie board bombshell and Star Wars’ darkest chapter
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Rewind to 22 May to 28 May 2005 — the boogie board that broke Australia made headlines, Carrie Underwood hit her high note and Darth...