The Year 2005

So what kind of things are you going to have to deal with once you step out of that time machine we will put you inside after we drug you? Let's see! Saturday begins a year that sees such tragedies as Hurricane Katrina killing 1,836 people and severely damaging cities in the U.S. Gulf Coast. It also sees achievements like France conducting the world's first human face transplant. Technology enjoys the invention of Youtube.com, an event that really brings user-generated video into the mainstream. Citizen journalism, or journalism put together by your average people via blogs, becomes huge and Ebay buys Skype. Ipods start supporting video and HDTVs start to become noticed. Video Games are filled with controversy and new innovations including the GTA Hot Coffee mod and the releases of the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP. The first HD video game system comes in the form of the Xbox 360. Crash dominates the movie award scene while Christian Bale helps director Christopher Nolan reboot the Batman franchise.

 

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