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The year is 2006. We head to the hills and learn reality is scripted. Your Sony cyber-shot uploads 462 blurry regrets. A Facebook poke makes everything 'complicated'. And Twitter's like, "Cool story. You've got 140 characters... Go!".T minus 20, rewind to this week in history 20...
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Natasha Bedingfield goes global with unwritten, fresh start vibes
Rewind to 30 April to 6 May 2006 — where billionaires are buying feelings in Cubist form, governments are controlling the weather (casual) and your ma...
Beaconsfield mine rescue - the week Australia couldn’t look away
Rewind to 23 April – 29 April 2006 — and Australia’s glued to a rescue, metalheads are doing emotional homework, Coachella quietly changes music histo...
SOS! Rihanna’s taking over
Rewind to 16 April to 22 April 2006 — and the internet is arguing about journalism, Rihanna’s quietly becoming a global takeover, parody movies are st...
Bad Day was everywhere and Crazy suddenly disappeared
Rewind to 9 April to 15 April 2006 — and somehow one of the biggest songs of the year is about having a terrible day, another song is so popular it ge...
So NoTORIous: Did Tori Spelling accidentally create influencer culture?
Rewind to 2 – 8 April 2006 — when reality TV got self-aware, club tracks got questionable and the weather channel was basically a thriller series 🌪️
From Girls Gone Wild to Stupid Girls: unpacking noughties sisterhood
Rewind to 26 March - 1 April 2006 — where Hollywood dreams, chaotic girlhood and peak mid-2000s culture collide in one very unfiltered episode.
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The week Hannah Montana arrived and the internet learned to Tweet
Rewind to 19 March 2006 – 25 March 2006 and the world serves up cyclones, the birth of Twitter, Disney Channel domination and reality TV chaos.
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Bird flu panic: rewinding to the H5N1 scare of 2006
Rewind to 12 – 18 March 2006
🦠 Bird flu panic enters the chat
The H5N1 avian influenza outbreak has governments quietly sweating. By ea...
Sean Paul and the week nobody knew the lyrics
Rewind to 5 – 11 March 2006 and the world is juggling human rights debates, dancehall domination and the Pope casually flexing a 2GB iPod Nano.
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Ne-Yo’s So Sick takes over 2006
Rewind 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 a...
iTunes hits 1 billion downloads and your CD tower is suddenly obsolete
🎧 iTunes hits one billion downloads
Apple celebrates its billionth song purchase, officially crowning digital downloads king. The lucky buyer...
James Blunt’s You’re Beautiful = 2006 sad-boy anthem
Rewind to 12 – 18 Feb 2006
💔 James Blunt makes everyone emotional
“You’re Beautiful” becomes unavoidable worldwide, fuelling bus-window...
When Dick Cheney shot a guy and Britney became public enemy #1
Rewind 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...
2006 State of the Union: when terrorism, oil and marriage dominated politics
Rewind 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,...
High School Musical debuts and accidentally launches a generation of theatre kids
Rewind to 22 Jan 2006 to 28 Jan 2006
🎤 High school musical rewires your personality
Disney drops a made-for-TV movie and accidentally cr...
Summer programming: best bits of 2005 vol 5
🧻 Wikitorial wipeout. The LA Times tried letting the public edit their editorials. What they got instead? Porn, profanity and chaos in 36 hours. A sh...
Summer programming: best bits of 2005 vol 4
🐶 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...
Summer programming: best bits of 2005 vol 3
🧃 Belle Gibson enters Mel’s comments section
In one of the most unexpectedly cursed timeline moments of the year, Mel gets fact-checked by Bell...
Summer programming: best bits of 2005 vol 2
📹 A dating fail that created YouTube
Before it hosted cat videos, K-pop fancams and the entire cultural output of Gen Z, YouTube began as… a da...
Summer programming: best bits of 2005 vol 1
🌴 Summer mode, nostalgia maxed out
We’re hitting pause on the weekly time machine to bring you a sun-soaked sampler platter of the most unhinge...
Cronulla Riots 20 years on, through the eyes of someone who lived it
Rewind to 11 December 2005 to 17 December 2005
🏖️ Cronulla hits boiling point
This week in 2005, Australia watches in shock as long-simmer...
Two Aussies, one Nobel Prize and a wild self-experiment
Rewind to 4 December 2005 to 10 December 2005
🧪 Two Aussies, one Nobel and a beaker of bacteria
On a snowy Stockholm night, Dr Robin Warr...
Cyber Monday: The Marketing Stunt That Actually Worked
Rewind to 27 November 2005 to 3 December 2005
🧬 A new face, a new future
In France, surgeons pull off the world’s first partial face tran...
When the Xbox 360 took over the world… and overheated doing it
🇩🇪 Merkel makes history
Angela Merkel is sworn in as Germany’s first female chancellor and first from the former East. A grand coalition deal en...
Harry Potter: Goblet of Fire with a side of teen angst
🧬 The man who (maybe) cured HIV
Before ‘manifesting’ was a TikTok buzzword, Andrew Stimpson from London apparently manifested the impossible —...
When everyone thought they were a rock god: The Guitar Hero era begins!
Rewind to 6 November 2005 to 12 November 2005
🌠 Fireballs or flying saucers
Europe looks up, panics, phones the cops. Slow, glowing Taur...
The Birth of Pepe the Frog and the meme that broke the internet
🎧 Rewind to 30 October – 5 November 2005
🎃 The great pumpkin arms race
New England’s finest farmers flexed their green thumbs at the To...
The King of cash: Elvis still owns the afterlife
Rewind to 23–30 October 2005 🎸
💀 The King still reigns
Elvis may have left the building, but he sure didn’t leave the bank. Forbes crow...
Ashlee vs Lindsay: The boyfriend battle that rocked 2005
Rewind to 16 October 2005 to 22 October 2005
🕋 Million Man March 2.0
Louis Farrakhan’s Millions More rally hits D.C., calling for unity...
The iPod video era: when we watched Lost on a two-inch screen
Rewind to 9 October 2005 to 15 October 2005
🚀 China goes full space cowboy
China’s Shenzhou 6 mission blasts off, sending two taikonauts...
Spark-ula: Twilight hits bookstores and turns vampires dreamy
🧑⚖️ Supreme Court Soap
Harriet Miers is tapped to replace Sandra Day O’Connor and America collectively Googles “Who?” A loyal Bush insider wi...
From MySpace to emo icons: Panic! at the Disco’s debut album
Rewind to 25 September to 1 October 2005 — when emo kids were discovering top hats, Fergie was making “lady lumps” a phrase and Bali gets hit by bombi...
How I Met Your Mother hits screens & INXS finds a frontman
Rewind to 18–24 September 2005
🌪️ Rita raises hell
Just three weeks after Katrina, Hurricane Rita stormed in as a Category 5 beast before...
From pop princess to pop mama: Britney Spears gives birth
Rewind to 11–18 September 2005
⚡ Lights out in LA
Millions of Angelenos suddenly found themselves trapped in elevators, stuck at dead tra...
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 fi...
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% o...
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...
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...
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....
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...