Janet Jackson had an unfortunate wardrobe malfunction at the Superbowl. The Nintendo DS was launched for all the gamers. Google launched Gmail, Zucker launched Facebook and a catastrophic tsunami occurred in the Indian Ocean, devastating the coastal areas in that part of the world.

Nemo got lost, the Matrix reloaded and Johnny Depp did that stupid Jack Sparrow run straight into hearts and souls forever! Scientists finally mapped the complete human genome (which I’m sure was fascinating for them), Myspace made it’s debut (remember that?) and Shania Twain performed at the Super Bowl, presumably…

The Osbournes changed the way reality tv was made. Everybody apparently bought ‘The Eminem Show” (I did not). Kelly Clarkson won American Idol and began her music career, topping the charts (yes, I did). Tobey Maguire literally became Spider-Man on the big screen, making a massive hit. On television, Ally…

Wikipedia, the saving grace to many a hungover student, launched. The iPod made an attempt to be the ‘in’ thing. Movie franchises Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings released their first instalments. In the real world, 9/11 changed the way everyone viewed the world, and we all turned…

The world celebrated the new millennium. The Playstation 2 was released and Big Brother launched in the UK. Erin Brockovitch made us think, Gladiator made us sweat and X-Men changed movies forever by making superhero films cool for the first time. There would be no need to any of that…

In the real world, we lost some greats: Dusty Springfield, Stanley Kubrick, Rod Hull, Ernie Wise. On television, The Sopranos and Oz went to dark places and the Y2K scare threatened to swallow the world. So naturally, with all this gloom as we ended the millennium, we could look to…

Google was launched. Nelson Mandela retired. The Good Friday Agreement. “I did not have sexual relations with that woman!” declared a lying President Clinton in front of his wife and his public. Britney Spears arrived and changed pop music forever.

Entertainment wise we were sorted in 1997! Will Smith returned to sci-fi and took on aliens in comedy Men in Black but the only thing we remember is the soundtrack and the dance. Celine Dion gifted us with ‘My Heart Will Go On’ as Titanic set sail (no sarcasm, I’m…

It’s the mid-Nineties. A new-fangled auction site is starting to take the world and the internet (whatever that is) by storm. It has a stupid name: eBay. Beef flavoured super-noodles and roast beef Monster Munch disappear from the shelves as herds of cows are burning up and down the country,…

Brad Pitt was the ‘Sexiest Man Alive’. Toy Story made waves at the movies. Frasier is hot on the airwaves. OJ Simpson is on trial for murder. Coolio told us about a Gangsta’s Paradise and Shaggy was Boombastic.