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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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S6E6 Sean Paul and the week nobody knew the lyrics
Send a textRewind to 5 – 11 March 2006 and the world is juggling human rights debates, dancehall domination and the Pope casually flexing a 2GB iPod Nano.💃 Sean Paul breaks the language barrier…
S6E6 Ne-Yo’s So Sick takes over 2006
Send a textRewind to 26 February – 4 Mar 2006💔 Ne-Yo owns every breakup In My Own Words drops and suddenly So Sick is playing in bedrooms, buses and badly lit school dances everywhere. Smooth vocals,…
S6E5 iTunes hits 1 billion downloads and your CD tower is suddenly obsolete
Send a text🎧 iTunes hits one billion downloads Apple celebrates its billionth song purchase, officially crowning digital downloads king. The lucky buyer scores iPods, an iMac and bragging rights…
S6E4 James Blunt’s You’re Beautiful = 2006 sad-boy anthem
Send a textRewind to 12 – 18 Feb 2006💔 James Blunt makes everyone emotional “You’re Beautiful” becomes unavoidable worldwide, fuelling bus-window daydreams and breakup playlists everywhere. Turns out…
S6E3 When Dick Cheney shot a guy and Britney became public enemy #1
Send a textRewind to 5 Feb 2006 to 11 Feb 2006🦆 Dick Cheney shoots a guy The Vice President accidentally shoots a man during a quail hunt and the White House somehow lets a local newspaper break the…
S6E2 2006 State of the Union: when terrorism, oil and marriage dominated politics
Send a textRewind to 29 Jan 2006 to 4 Feb 2006🇺🇸 State of the Union goes full time capsule George W. Bush lays out a world obsessed with terrorism, addicted to oil, anxious about immigration and…
S6E1 High School Musical debuts and accidentally launches a generation of theatre kids
Send a textRewind to 22 Jan 2006 to 28 Jan 2006🎤 High school musical rewires your personality Disney drops a made-for-TV movie and accidentally creates a global tween religion. Zac Efron becomes your…
S5E52 Summer programming: best bits of 2005 vol 5
Send a text🧻 Wikitorial wipeout. The LA Times tried letting the public edit their editorials. What they got instead? Porn, profanity and chaos in 36 hours. A short-lived democracy, quickly replaced…
S5E51 Summer programming: best bits of 2005 vol 4
Send a text🐶 Who’s a cloned boy? Snuppy the Afghan hound becomes the world’s first cloned dog, born after 1,000 embryos, 123 surrogates and more ethical debates than a philosophy major on Red Bull.🎤…
S5E50 Summer programming: best bits of 2005 vol 3
Send a text🧃 Belle Gibson enters Mel’s comments sectionIn one of the most unexpectedly cursed timeline moments of the year, Mel gets fact-checked by Belle Gibson — yes, that Belle Gibson — after she…
S5E49 Summer programming: best bits of 2005 vol 2
Send a text📹 A dating fail that created YouTubeBefore it hosted cat videos, K-pop fancams and the entire cultural output of Gen Z, YouTube began as… a dating site. In 2005 its founders uploaded a…
S5E48 Summer programming: best bits of 2005 vol 1
Send a text🌴 Summer mode, nostalgia maxed outWe’re hitting pause on the weekly time machine to bring you a sun-soaked sampler platter of the most unhinged, delightful and ‘I can’t believe that…
S5E47 Cronulla Riots 20 years on, through the eyes of someone who lived it
Send a textRewind to 11 December 2005 to 17 December 2005🏖️ Cronulla hits boiling pointThis week in 2005, Australia watches in shock as long-simmering tensions in Cronulla erupt into one of the…
S5E46 Two Aussies, one Nobel Prize and a wild self-experiment
Send a textRewind to 4 December 2005 to 10 December 2005🧪 Two Aussies, one Nobel and a beaker of bacteriaOn a snowy Stockholm night, Dr Robin Warren and Professor Barry Marshall rewrite medical…
S5E45 Cyber Monday: The Marketing Stunt That Actually Worked
Send a textRewind to 27 November 2005 to 3 December 2005🧬 A new face, a new futureIn France, surgeons pull off the world’s first partial face transplant on Isabelle Dinoire — a 15-hour medical…
S5E44 When the Xbox 360 took over the world… and overheated doing it
Send a text🇩🇪 Merkel makes historyAngela Merkel is sworn in as Germany’s first female chancellor and first from the former East. A grand coalition deal ends the election deadlock. Quiet power beats…
S5E43 Harry Potter: Goblet of Fire with a side of teen angst
Send a text🧬 The man who (maybe) cured HIV Before ‘manifesting’ was a TikTok buzzword, Andrew Stimpson from London apparently manifested the impossible — curing himself of HIV. After testing positive…
S5E42 When everyone thought they were a rock god: The Guitar Hero era begins!
Send a textRewind to 6 November 2005 to 12 November 2005🌠 Fireballs or flying saucers Europe looks up, panics, phones the cops. Slow, glowing Taurids put on a show that screams UFO vibes then science…
S5E41 The Birth of Pepe the Frog and the meme that broke the internet
Send a text🎧 Rewind to 30 October – 5 November 2005🎃 The great pumpkin arms race New England’s finest farmers flexed their green thumbs at the Topsfield Fair, where a 1,314-lb orange beast stole the…
S5E40 The King of cash: Elvis still owns the afterlife
Send a textRewind to 23–30 October 2005 🎸💀 The King still reigns Elvis may have left the building, but he sure didn’t leave the bank. Forbes crowned him the top-earning dead celebrity — again —…
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