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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 Malcolm Glazer bought Manchester United like it was a timeshare. Also: the Gorillaz went full apocalypse, Bush nearly got grenaded and 50 Cent whispered sweet nothings on the beach.

🎤 You can’t see this album.John Cena drops You Can’t See Me and somehow it slaps — from meme anthem “The Time Is Now” to his Beantown love letter, this was WWE’s most successful crossover since Hulk Hogan’s acting career (kidding, kinda).

📰 HuffPost starts the clickpocalypse.The Huffington Post launches and teaches the internet how to blend hot takes, news aggregation and Larry David blog posts into SEO gold. Journalism? Blogging? Who cares — it ranked first on Google.

💣 Bush dodges a literal grenade.While giving a speech in Georgia (the country, not Atlanta), someone throws a live grenade at President George W. Bush. It doesn’t go off, nobody panics and somehow this didn’t become a bigger headline?

⚽ Man U’s big sellout.American billionaire Malcolm Glazer takes over Manchester United, loads it with debt and kicks off the green-and-gold protest movement. Fans form their own team out of spite. Corporate football, activated.

🎶 50 Cent wants just a lil bit.Fiddy turns down the volume and ups the seduction with a whispery banger that defined the iPod Nano era. You weren’t allowed to play it loud, but you absolutely did.

🎧 Gorillaz go grimdark.Demon Days drops and we all pretend to understand the apocalypse. “Feel Good Inc.” spins nonstop while we wonder if cartoons are our new favourite band. (They are.)

🧼 Penthouse goes PG(ish).The raunchy mag decides it wants mainstream advertisers and less chaos, scrubbing the classifieds and aiming for respectable smut — a rebrand no one asked for but hey, good luck.

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