WELCOME TO THE WORLD WIDE WOW

YOU HAVE ARRIVED IN2005

Glossy buttons. Infinite possibilities.

Flash portals, MP3 players, message boards, and a desktop full of beautiful clutter.

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Material palette: Aqua glass · blue sky · glossy chrome

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REWIND ORIGINALS · 2000s

Away Message at 2 AM

Glossy keys · dance-pop pulse

Original instrumental · made for this time machine

Press play. Your decade has a soundtrack.

Rewind passport · 2000s

One hundred ways to leave a mark.

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THE 2000s MEMORY LANES

The decade everything got an upload button.

Flip phones to iPhones, TRL to YouTube — the glossy, optimistic years when the internet moved in for good.

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Regis Philbin — Regis Philbin at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival — Later context image · Regis Philbin · 2009
Image credit & date
Regis Philbin at the Vanity Fair kickoff party for the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.
2009-04-21 · David Shankbone
Image source · CC BY 3.0 License terms

TV moments2000

Is that your final answer?

Millionaire mania peaks and Survivor lights the reality fuse

Regis ran prime time four nights a week while Richard Hatch's win pulled 51 million viewers — television's unscripted decade had begun.

Big events2001

A clear Tuesday morning

September 11 attacks kill 2,977 people

Four hijacked aircraft, four crash sites, and a morning that closed American airspace entirely. Every decade after this one begins here.Open this memory

Big events2001

A thousand songs in your pocket

The iPod puts the record store in a shirt pocket

The click wheel, the white earbuds, the silhouette ads — carrying every album you owned stopped being science fiction.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring trailer still — Same-year context image · The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring · 2001
Image credit & date
Still from the sourced The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring trailer. The video is supplied by Movieclips.
2001 · Movieclips
Image source · YouTube trailer thumbnail

Celebrity & culture2001

One does not simply walk into Mordor

The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter open the franchise era

Within one December, Middle-earth and Hogwarts both arrived — and the movie event became a multi-year commitment.

Kelly Clarkson — Kelly Clarkson 2018 DoD Warrior Games Opening Ceremony 14 - Cropped 01 — Later context image · Kelly Clarkson · 2018
Image credit & date
Kelly Clarkson poses for a photo with U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Lauren Montoya of Team SOCOM at the DoD Warrior Games, June 2, 2018, at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Warrior Games are an annual event, established in 2010, to introduce wounded, ill and injured service members to adaptive sports as a way to enhance their recovery and rehabilitation. (DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Carlin Leslie)
2018-06-03 00:38:14 · Stephen Schester/Carlin Leslie
Image source · Public domain

TV moments2002

The country becomes a judging panel

American Idol turns voting into family sport

Kelly Clarkson's confetti moment created the blueprint: home audiences, text votes, and a new star manufactured live every spring.

Same-year context image · Beyoncé · 2003
Image credit & date
Beyoncé performing in 2003; context image from the year Crazy in Love was released.
2003-11-16 · Roger Woolman
Image source · CC BY 3.0 License terms

Music moments2003

Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh

Crazy in Love crowns pop's next era

Beyoncé's solo debut single owned the summer of 2003 and picked up two Grammys — the opening statement of a two-decade reign.

Big events2004

Two golf carts conquer a planet

Spirit and Opportunity outlive every expectation on Mars

Designed for ninety days, the twin rovers worked for years — Opportunity for fifteen — and made Mars a place with weather reports.

Mark Zuckerberg — F20250904AH-2824 (54778373111) (3x4 cropped on Zuckerberg following the rule of thirds) — Later context image · Mark Zuckerberg · 2025
Image credit & date
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump host business and technology leaders for a dinner in State Dining Room at the White House, Thursday, September 4, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)
2025-09-04 19:31:08 · The White House
Image source · Public domain

Big events2004

From dorm room to directory of everyone

Facebook launches at Harvard

What began as a campus face book would, by decade's end, hold half a billion profiles and change the word 'friend' into a verb.

Big events2005

Me at the zoo, 19 seconds

YouTube uploads its first video

An elephant enclosure clip started the platform where home video, music, and tutorials merged into a bottomless global archive.

TV moments2005

Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.

The Office (US) reinvents the workplace sitcom

Scranton's paper company survived a rocky first season to become the mockumentary every group chat still quotes daily.

Wii — Wii-Console — Later context image · Wii · 2010
Image credit & date
A re-upload of the file I had originally done, but higher quality
2010-08-28 · Evan-Amos
Image source · Public domain

Celebrity & culture2006

Grandma's got a mean backhand

The Wii gets the whole family off the couch

Motion controls turned bowling night into a living-room sport and put a game console in houses that had never owned one.

Big events2007

Three things: a phone, an iPod, an internet communicator

The iPhone collapses the gadget drawer

Steve Jobs' keynote demo drew gasps for pinch-to-zoom; within a decade the rectangle in your pocket was the whole toolbox.

Big events2008

Eight races, eight golds

Michael Phelps rewrites the Olympic record book in Beijing

The hundredth-of-a-second butterfly finish, the relay comeback — a single Games delivered a highlight reel for the ages.

Celebrity & culture2008

I am Iron Man — and stay after the credits

Iron Man launches the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Robert Downey Jr.'s comeback and a post-credits cameo wired every superhero movie into one continuing story.

Big events2008

Grant Park on a November night

Barack Obama is elected the first Black president

Whatever their politics, Americans knew they were watching history — a milestone moment shared on cable news and, newly, on social feeds.

Big events2001

A clear Tuesday morning

September 11 attacks kill 2,977 people

Four hijacked aircraft, four crash sites, and a morning that closed American airspace entirely. Every decade after this one begins here.

This one is not a fond memory. Leave it blank if you would rather.

Read the full story

Verify with The 9/11 Commission Report

Guess the year0 right

Is that your final answer?

Millionaire mania peaks and Survivor lights the reality fuse

Pick the year before opening another tab. No cheating.

My capsule0 saved

Keep the version you remember.

Save any moment above and it will appear here. Your capsule stays in this browser.

What do you remember that the timeline missed?

In memoriam

The names that made the decade stop.

Kept out of the game and shuffle—this lane is for remembrance, legacy, and primary-source tributes.

2001Aaliyah

R&B's coolest innovator at twenty-two; her sound echoes through two decades of pop.

Encyclopaedia Britannica 2003Fred Rogers

Television's kindest neighbor; the cardigan hangs in the Smithsonian.

Fred Rogers Institute 2003Johnny Cash

The Man in Black closed with the Hurt video — a farewell as honest as his catalog.

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2004Ray Charles

The Genius fused gospel, blues, and country into soul itself.

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2004Christopher Reeve

Superman on screen; off screen, a tireless advocate for spinal-cord research.

Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation 2005Rosa Parks

Her refusal in Montgomery moved a nation; she lay in honor at the U.S. Capitol.

National Park Service 2006Steve Irwin

The Crocodile Hunter's contagious wonder made conservation a family topic.

Australia Zoo 2009Michael Jackson

The King of Pop; the memorial broadcast became one of the most-watched events ever.

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

THE FLASH LOUNGE · 00s

Loading your next very bad time-management decision.

Three instant-play originals, plus a historical classic. Pick a game and make yourself at home.

00sGAME VAULT

Download Dash

Stop each download in the gold zone. Five files to save the night.

SCORE 00/5 ROUNDS · BEST 0

Press start, then stop. Space or Enter works too.

A Rewind original · touch, mouse & keyboard

PICTURE DESK 108 SOURCED MOMENTS

The decade, frame by frame.

Open a photograph to see its full caption, credit, rights, and original collection record.

Showing 6 of 108Every subject

102 still waiting in this view

THE REWIND TEN · 2000s

Tonight, make it a movie night.

Our ten essential picks: a mix of great cinema and decade-defining favorites. An editorial selection, not a universal ranking.

Watch trailer

Swipe to browse all ten · Trailers stream from YouTube · Some contain mature scenes or spoilers

Watch the actual record

The signal is real.

Every tile names its source. Playable videos stream from their named host; documents open at their holding archive.

PRIMARY SOURCES · OPEN WITH CONTEXT

September 11, 2001: oral histories

Firsthand testimony preserved by the Library of Congress. These records are separated from entertainment, excluded from random discovery, and presented with content notices.

The original layouts

Don’t crop the decade. Turn its pages.

Period typography, photography, diagrams, and print texture survive together in complete issues. The reader opens the official scan in place.

Keep falling

A commercial becomes a film becomes a magazine.

This is the continuous loop: start with a thirty-second pitch, drift into a classroom film, then open a full issue from the same visual world.

VICTIMS FIRST · NON-GRAPHIC · SEPARATE FROM ENTERTAINMENT

Remember the lives. Refuse the spectacle.

A solemn record of major fatal U.S. school shootings since Columbine, built around community remembrance—not the people who caused the harm.

No offender portraits or names.If an essential historical reference ever requires one, only initials may appear.

Defined scopeU.S. K–12 and higher-education shootings from April 20, 1999 onward in which at least four victims died at the school. Offenders are never counted; directly connected later or off-campus deaths appear only when the card explains them. Other databases use different definitions.

Image standardMemorial, campus, or labeled community context only. Every photograph includes its source and rights.

CONTENT NOTE

This timeline discusses fatal school violence without graphic imagery or mechanical detail.

It contains 15 verified remembrance records and honors 173 lives within the stated scope.

04 SOURCE LEDGER

Where this came from.

Old does not mean free. Each item carries a source, a rights label, and an attribution.

29 records checkedMetadata or official-source verification

14 named channels and collectionsSource links and host-provided playback

Playback stays with its hostThird-party upload channels are identified on their items

WELCOME TO THE WORLD WIDE WOW

YOU HAVE ARRIVED IN2005

Glossy buttons. Infinite possibilities.

Flash portals, MP3 players, message boards, and a desktop full of beautiful clutter.

Browse the archive

Visual language: Frutiger Aero
Material palette: Aqua glass · blue sky · glossy chrome

SCROLL THE DIAL

REWIND ORIGINALS · 2000s

Away Message at 2 AM

Glossy keys · dance-pop pulse

Original instrumental · made for this time machine

Press play. Your decade has a soundtrack.

Rewind passport · 2000s

One hundred ways to leave a mark.

—/100

Drawn missionFirst pass — Trust the surprise buttonDo it anywhere on this page.

01Surprise 0/4
02Era TV 0/4
03Archive 0/4
04Tune in 0/4
05Sign off 0/4
06Photo 0/4
07Filter 0/4
08Order 0/4
09More photos 0/4
10Memory 0/4
11Year dial 0/4
12Lane 0/4
13Mood 0/4
14Remember 0/4
15Capsule 0/4
16Share 0/4
17Guess 0/4
18Nailed it 0/4
19Next quiz 0/4
20Write 0/4
21Copy 0/4
22Trailer 0/4
23Movie shelf 0/4
24Game swap 0/4
25Load game 0/4

Your stamps stay in this browser. Every mission has four levels, and a stamp only lands after you actually do the thing.

THE 2000s MEMORY LANES

The decade everything got an upload button.

Flip phones to iPhones, TRL to YouTube — the glossy, optimistic years when the internet moved in for good.

10: ways to play
15: sourced moments
1: named source per moment

Pick a year

Choose a lane

What are you in the mood for?Pick a feeling. We’ll pick the memory.

15 memories on this channel

Swipe or scroll the deck →

TV moments2000

Is that your final answer?

Millionaire mania peaks and Survivor lights the reality fuse

Regis ran prime time four nights a week while Richard Hatch's win pulled 51 million viewers — television's unscripted decade had begun.

Big events2001

A clear Tuesday morning

September 11 attacks kill 2,977 people

Four hijacked aircraft, four crash sites, and a morning that closed American airspace entirely. Every decade after this one begins here.Open this memory

Big events2001

A thousand songs in your pocket

The iPod puts the record store in a shirt pocket

The click wheel, the white earbuds, the silhouette ads — carrying every album you owned stopped being science fiction.

Celebrity & culture2001

One does not simply walk into Mordor

The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter open the franchise era

Within one December, Middle-earth and Hogwarts both arrived — and the movie event became a multi-year commitment.

TV moments2002

The country becomes a judging panel

American Idol turns voting into family sport

Kelly Clarkson's confetti moment created the blueprint: home audiences, text votes, and a new star manufactured live every spring.

Music moments2003

Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh

Crazy in Love crowns pop's next era

Beyoncé's solo debut single owned the summer of 2003 and picked up two Grammys — the opening statement of a two-decade reign.

Big events2004

Two golf carts conquer a planet

Spirit and Opportunity outlive every expectation on Mars

Designed for ninety days, the twin rovers worked for years — Opportunity for fifteen — and made Mars a place with weather reports.

Big events2004

From dorm room to directory of everyone

Facebook launches at Harvard

What began as a campus face book would, by decade's end, hold half a billion profiles and change the word 'friend' into a verb.

Big events2005

Me at the zoo, 19 seconds

YouTube uploads its first video

An elephant enclosure clip started the platform where home video, music, and tutorials merged into a bottomless global archive.

TV moments2005

Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.

The Office (US) reinvents the workplace sitcom

Scranton's paper company survived a rocky first season to become the mockumentary every group chat still quotes daily.

Celebrity & culture2006

Grandma's got a mean backhand

The Wii gets the whole family off the couch

Motion controls turned bowling night into a living-room sport and put a game console in houses that had never owned one.

Big events2007

Three things: a phone, an iPod, an internet communicator

The iPhone collapses the gadget drawer

Steve Jobs' keynote demo drew gasps for pinch-to-zoom; within a decade the rectangle in your pocket was the whole toolbox.

Big events2008

Eight races, eight golds

Michael Phelps rewrites the Olympic record book in Beijing

The hundredth-of-a-second butterfly finish, the relay comeback — a single Games delivered a highlight reel for the ages.

Celebrity & culture2008

I am Iron Man — and stay after the credits

Iron Man launches the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Robert Downey Jr.'s comeback and a post-credits cameo wired every superhero movie into one continuing story.

Big events2008

Grant Park on a November night

Barack Obama is elected the first Black president

Whatever their politics, Americans knew they were watching history — a milestone moment shared on cable news and, newly, on social feeds.

Big events2001

A clear Tuesday morning

September 11 attacks kill 2,977 people

Four hijacked aircraft, four crash sites, and a morning that closed American airspace entirely. Every decade after this one begins here.

This one is not a fond memory. Leave it blank if you would rather.

Read the full story

Verify with The 9/11 Commission Report

Guess the year0 right

Is that your final answer?

Millionaire mania peaks and Survivor lights the reality fuse

Pick the year before opening another tab. No cheating.

My capsule0 saved

Keep the version you remember.

Save any moment above and it will appear here. Your capsule stays in this browser.

What do you remember that the timeline missed?

In memoriam

The names that made the decade stop.

Kept out of the game and shuffle—this lane is for remembrance, legacy, and primary-source tributes.

2001Aaliyah

R&B's coolest innovator at twenty-two; her sound echoes through two decades of pop.

Encyclopaedia Britannica 2003Fred Rogers

Television's kindest neighbor; the cardigan hangs in the Smithsonian.

Fred Rogers Institute 2003Johnny Cash

The Man in Black closed with the Hurt video — a farewell as honest as his catalog.

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2004Ray Charles

The Genius fused gospel, blues, and country into soul itself.

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2004Christopher Reeve

Superman on screen; off screen, a tireless advocate for spinal-cord research.

Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation 2005Rosa Parks

Her refusal in Montgomery moved a nation; she lay in honor at the U.S. Capitol.

National Park Service 2006Steve Irwin

The Crocodile Hunter's contagious wonder made conservation a family topic.

Australia Zoo 2009Michael Jackson

The King of Pop; the memorial broadcast became one of the most-watched events ever.

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

THE FLASH LOUNGE · 00s

Loading your next very bad time-management decision.

Three instant-play originals, plus a historical classic. Pick a game and make yourself at home.

00sGAME VAULT

Download Dash

Stop each download in the gold zone. Five files to save the night.

SCORE 00/5 ROUNDS · BEST 0

Press start, then stop. Space or Enter works too.

A Rewind original · touch, mouse & keyboard

PICTURE DESK 108 SOURCED MOMENTS

The decade, frame by frame.

Open a photograph to see its full caption, credit, rights, and original collection record.

Showing 6 of 108Every subject

102 still waiting in this view

THE REWIND TEN · 2000s

Tonight, make it a movie night.

Our ten essential picks: a mix of great cinema and decade-defining favorites. An editorial selection, not a universal ranking.

Watch trailer

Swipe to browse all ten · Trailers stream from YouTube · Some contain mature scenes or spoilers

Watch the actual record

The signal is real.

Every tile names its source. Playable videos stream from their named host; documents open at their holding archive.

PRIMARY SOURCES · OPEN WITH CONTEXT

September 11, 2001: oral histories

Firsthand testimony preserved by the Library of Congress. These records are separated from entertainment, excluded from random discovery, and presented with content notices.

The original layouts

Don’t crop the decade. Turn its pages.

Period typography, photography, diagrams, and print texture survive together in complete issues. The reader opens the official scan in place.

Keep falling

A commercial becomes a film becomes a magazine.

This is the continuous loop: start with a thirty-second pitch, drift into a classroom film, then open a full issue from the same visual world.

VICTIMS FIRST · NON-GRAPHIC · SEPARATE FROM ENTERTAINMENT

Remember the lives. Refuse the spectacle.

A solemn record of major fatal U.S. school shootings since Columbine, built around community remembrance—not the people who caused the harm.

No offender portraits or names.If an essential historical reference ever requires one, only initials may appear.

Image standardMemorial, campus, or labeled community context only. Every photograph includes its source and rights.

CONTENT NOTE

This timeline discusses fatal school violence without graphic imagery or mechanical detail.

It contains 15 verified remembrance records and honors 173 lives within the stated scope.

04 SOURCE LEDGER

Where this came from.

Old does not mean free. Each item carries a source, a rights label, and an attribution.

29 records checkedMetadata or official-source verification

14 named channels and collectionsSource links and host-provided playback

Playback stays with its hostThird-party upload channels are identified on their items

YOU HAVE ARRIVED IN2005

Glossy buttons. Infinite possibilities.

Away Message at 2 AM

Millionaire mania peaks and Survivor lights the reality fuse

September 11 attacks kill 2,977 people

The iPod puts the record store in a shirt pocket

The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter open the franchise era

American Idol turns voting into family sport

Crazy in Love crowns pop's next era

Spirit and Opportunity outlive every expectation on Mars

Facebook launches at Harvard

YouTube uploads its first video

The Office (US) reinvents the workplace sitcom

The Wii gets the whole family off the couch

The iPhone collapses the gadget drawer

Michael Phelps rewrites the Olympic record book in Beijing

Iron Man launches the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Barack Obama is elected the first Black president

September 11 attacks kill 2,977 people

Millionaire mania peaks and Survivor lights the reality fuse

Keep the version you remember.

Download Dash

Spirited Away

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Finding Nemo

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

The Incredibles

Pan's Labyrinth

No Country for Old Men

WALL-E

The Dark Knight

Don’t crop the decade. Turn its pages.

A commercial becomes a film becomes a magazine.

This timeline discusses fatal school violence without graphic imagery or mechanical detail.

YOU HAVE ARRIVED IN2005

Glossy buttons. Infinite possibilities.

Away Message at 2 AM

Millionaire mania peaks and Survivor lights the reality fuse

September 11 attacks kill 2,977 people

The iPod puts the record store in a shirt pocket

The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter open the franchise era

American Idol turns voting into family sport

Crazy in Love crowns pop's next era

Spirit and Opportunity outlive every expectation on Mars

Facebook launches at Harvard

YouTube uploads its first video

The Office (US) reinvents the workplace sitcom

The Wii gets the whole family off the couch

The iPhone collapses the gadget drawer

Michael Phelps rewrites the Olympic record book in Beijing

Iron Man launches the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Barack Obama is elected the first Black president

September 11 attacks kill 2,977 people

Millionaire mania peaks and Survivor lights the reality fuse

Keep the version you remember.

Download Dash

Spirited Away

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Finding Nemo

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

The Incredibles

Pan's Labyrinth

No Country for Old Men

WALL-E

The Dark Knight

Don’t crop the decade. Turn its pages.

A commercial becomes a film becomes a magazine.

This timeline discusses fatal school violence without graphic imagery or mechanical detail.