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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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The week Taylor Swift’s origin story began
Rewind to 18–24 June 2006, when Pluto got some new friends, a teenage country singer quietly launched a global empire and everyone suddenly learned wh...
The week Google became a verb
Rewind to 11–17 June 2006, when Google officially became a verb, Nelly Furtado completed her glow-up from folk-pop darling to dancefloor queen and Pix...
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Rewind to 4–10 June 2006…
💃 New era, who dis?
Nelly Furtado drops Loose and flips her entire brand overnight. Gone is the floaty ‘I’m Li...
The Hills: the era of scripted reality begins
Rewind to 28 May – 3 June 2006 and suddenly everyone wants to move to LA, start an online business and dramatically stare out a window while Natasha B...
Charmed signs off and nothing feels resolved
Rewind to 21–27 May 2006 — where chaos, culture and a whole lot of feelings collided.
🔮 The power of three… finally logs off
Charmed ends...
Firecrotch – the line got crossed and no one blinked
Rewind to 14 – 20 May 2006: it’s science breakthroughs, shiny new tech and tabloid culture at its absolute messiest.
🧬 The human blueprint… unl...
Before it was great: the PS3’s awkward debut
Rewind to 7 – 13 May 2006 — and it’s giving high-speed chaos, awkward tech flexes and absolute main character energy.
🚌 When public transport g...
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...