T minus 20
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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When Steve Jobs pulled an iPod Nano out of his jeans’ tiny pocket
Rewind to 4 September 2005 to 10 September 2005
🌀 Katrina fallout
The floodwaters were barely receding in New Orleans and already the finger-pointing had begun. FEMA was roasted for its …
Hurricane Katrina: Category 5 storm, category 10 fail
Rewind to 27 August – 3 September 2005 ⏪
🌪️ Katrina’s wrath
Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast with catastrophic force, flooding 80% of New Orleans when levees failed. What followed wa…
Six Feet Under finale: the ending that still wrecks us (20 years on)
Rewind to 21–27 August 2005 🎙️
💊 (not so) model behaviour. Michelle Leslie went from catwalks to courtrooms when Bali police “found” two little pills in her Gucci bag. What followed? A m…
From Motley to midterms: Tommy Lee goes to college
Rewind to 14–20 August 2005 — the week where rockstars went back to school, storms turned Toronto into Waterworld and Kansas decided BTK’s future was forever in prison.
🪓 BTK gets the bo…
Inside the playboy mansion: The Girls Next Door premieres
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 somehow counted as TV. Plus: Jessica Simpson washes a car……
The girl with the dragon tattoo reinvents trauma-core bestsellers
Rewind to 31 July to 6 August 2005
🛑 No smoking on the grid. The EU bans tobacco advertising across borders, sending Formula 1 teams scrambling for cash and leaving Marlboro-branded Ferr…
Pon de Replay: the birth of bad girl Riri
Rewind to 24 July 2005 to 30 July 2005
This week in 2005, Rihanna made her Diwali riddim-fuelled debut, Hulk Hogan became the ultimate helicopter dad and Birmingham took a surprise spin …
Pussycat Dolls, tramp stamps and Miami Ink
Rewind to 17 to 23 July 2005, where tattoo regrets were permanent, burlesque entered the mainstream and Crazy Frog somehow got a record deal.
💣 Bombs fail, panic doesn’t. Two weeks after…
Harry Potter leaks, lawsuits and late-night line ups
Rewind to 10 July 2005 to 16 July 2005: the week NASA stalled, Potter fans sobbed, Johnny Depp traumatised children and WorldCom made Enron look like amateurs.
🚀 To infinity… or not quit…
Terror on the Tube: London’s 7/7 Attacks Remembered
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 straight out of the Hot 97 parking lot.
💥 NASA punches a com…
iTunes launches podcasts and Ned Kelly becomes Aussie merch royalty
Rewind to 26 June 2005 to 2 July 2005
🎧 Podcasting goes mainstream. iTunes officially jumps on the podcast bandwagon and suddenly your weird uncle with a headset mic thinks he’s the next…
From fake news to digital cults: Reddit is born
Rewind to 19 June to 25 June 2005
This week, we’re talking digital disasters, newspaper nightmares and sports meltdowns so epic they’re still rage-tweeted about today.
🧻 Wikitorial wipeou…
Brangelina soft launches and Tyson taps out
Rewind to 12 to 18 June 2005, when Mike Tyson retired mid-fight, Brangelina launches with explosives, Etsy was born and Florence Aubenas emerged from the shadows of war.
🧨 Mr. & Mrs. sc…
Ringtone royalty: the rise of the crazy frog
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 politicians sweating harder than a velour tracksuit …
Deep Throat unmasked and Gordon Ramsay unhinged
Rewind to 29 May to 4 June 2005 — a week of anonymous sources, screaming chefs and beauties meeting geeks.
🕵️ Deep Throat outs himself.After three decades of whispers, Watergate’s ultima…
Schapelle’s boogie board bombshell and Star Wars’ darkest chapter
Rewind to 22 May to 28 May 2005 — the boogie board that broke Australia made headlines, Carrie Underwood hit her high note and Darth Vader finally got his glow-up.
🧳 Schapelle sentenced.…
Kylie’s cancer shock and Britney’s chaotic reality debut
Rewind to 15 May to 21 May 2005.From a Eurovision fever dream to a rollercoaster that needed its own weather forecast, this week brought chaos, confessions and comeback queens. Kylie fa…
From thuganomics to thinkpieces: Cena and HuffPost enter the chat
Rewind to 8 May 2005 to 14 May 2005 — when HuffPost launched the comment section wars, John Cena dropped a platinum rap album and Malcolm Glazer bought Manchester United like it was a t…
Fall Out Boy: from under cork trees to overdrawn guyliner
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 scores his first ever goal and The Bold and the Beautifu…
This week is B-A-N-A-N-A-S: planes, trains and Hollaback Girls
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 suffered a shattering blow.
🚄 Speed kills in Amagasaki. Jap…