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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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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, s...
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...
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 B...
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 Ca...
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 elevato...
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 Orlea...
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...
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 Ba...
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 deci...
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 so...
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 Formu...
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 t...
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...
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...
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 str...
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 bandwago...
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...
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...
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 Aus...
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 T...
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 Da...
Kylie’s cancer shock and Britney’s chaotic reality debut
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Rewind to 15 May to 21 May 2005.From a Eurovision fever dream to a rollercoaster that needed its own weather forecast, this week...
From thuganomics to thinkpieces: Cena and HuffPost enter the chat
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Rewind to 8 May 2005 to 14 May 2005 — when HuffPost launched the comment section wars, John Cena dropped a platinum rap album and...
Fall Out Boy: from under cork trees to overdrawn guyliner
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Rewind to 1 May 2005 to 7 May 2005: Fall Out Boy drops From Under the Cork Tree straight into our black emo hearts, Lionel Messi...
This week is B-A-N-A-N-A-S: planes, trains and Hollaback Girls
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Rewind to 24 to 30 April 2005 — where a massive plane took flight, Gwen taught us how to spell bananas and Japan's rail system su...
Bali 9 busted and YouTube gets its first upload
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Rewind to 17 to 23 April 2005 – when the Bali 9 are busted with 8.3kg of heroin, a teenager drove a tram like a boss and YouTube...
Stormy seas & Mariah’s mic drop: Deadliest Catch premieres and Mimi reclaims her throne
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Rewind to 10 to 16 April 2005, when science cloned your dog, Mariah staged a mega comeback, and Pamela Anderson worked in a books...
Holy smokes, we’ve got a new pope! Rewind to 3 April to 9 April 2005 when the Vatican signalled smoke, Baghdad signalled fury and WrestleMania went full Hollywood.
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🕊 Farewell JP2. The world farewelled Pope John Paul II after 26 years in the top job. Cue one of the largest funerals in history...
Paging McDreamy: Grey’s Anatomy (feat TV’s hottest doctor) premieres. Rewind to 27 March to 2 April 2005 where tectonic plates shifted, hearts broke and McDreamy made his swoon-worthy entrance.
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🌊 Another quake, more heartbreak.Just months after the Boxing Day disaster, a massive 8.6 earthquake rocked Sumatra. Panic sprea...
Time lords, breakup anthems & the birth of an angry god. Rewind to 20 to 26 March 2005: Doctor Who regenerates for a whole new era, Kelly Clarkson gifts us the greatest pop-rock breakup anthem, Kratos unleashes mythological fury and BP faces disaster
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🌍 The Fukuoka earthquake shakes Japan—an unexpected 6.6 magnitude tremor devastates Genkai Island, leaving one dead and over 1,0...
13 to 19 March 2005: Did we almost create a black hole? Why was our Delta Goodrem being labelled as a home wrecker? And is this where the machines first rose up? Cause robots have taken over the workplace and the box office.
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⚛️ Did scientists almost create a black hole? Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider were smashing particles together...
The internet’s first viral hit: a croc named Schnappi
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⚖️ The U.S. Supreme Court makes a landmark ruling, banning the death penalty for crimes committed by minors.
♟️ The...
Around the world in 67 hours: Steve Fossett’s record-breaking flight
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🛫 Steve Fossett is at it again, this time flying solo around the world without stopping and making history.
🏒 Cana...
Where are you? Blink 182 confirm split
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Pop-punk fans everywhere are in emotional free fall—with Blink-182 confirming their split, leaving us all whisper-screaming Where...
The birth of YouTube: from dating fail to billion dollar baby
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Explosions, heists and YouTube’s awkward dating era? This week on T minus 20:
💣 Rafik Hariri was assassinated in Be...
Blair, Britpop and a Boulevard of Broken Dreams
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Tony Blair breaks records as the longest-serving Labour PM—but let’s be real, his coolest moment was inviting Oasis to Downing St...
BONUS! The full Ryan Cabrera interview
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We had such a great chat with Ryan Cabrera and he was so generous with his time that we pretty much had enough content for an ent...
Ryan Cabrera's reality revelations and the Royal Rumble fumble
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From Iraq’s first free elections 🇮🇶 to Canada paving the way for same-sex marriage rights 🌈, we’re unpacking the headlines that...
Prince Harry's facist gaffe!
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👑 Prince Harry’s Fashion Fiasco – A royal costume party goes awry, and the future Duke of Sussex learns a lesson in history—and...
Summer programming - Batman scales Buckingham, Saddam goes to court and more!
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We've saved some of the biggest stories of 2004 for our last week of summer programming.
Protesters, dressed as Batm...