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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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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 7/7, four bombs fail to fully detona...
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Episode 26
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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 quite. NASA’s big “return to space” missi...
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Episode 26
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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 comet. Because smashing things is how sci...
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Season 5
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Episode 25
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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 Ira Glass. Everyone’s got a pod...
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Season 5
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Episode 24
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From fake news to digital cults: Reddit is born
Rewind to 19 June to 25 June 2005This week, we’re talking digital disasters, newspaper nightmares and sports meltdowns so epic they’re still rage-tweeted about today.🧻 Wikitorial wipeout. The LA Times tried letting the...
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Episode 23
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