William Wilson While Tiger Woods was coming off an athlete's high from his first Masters win at age 21, everyone else was tuning into the Spice Girls who were at the start of their stardom in the USA with the release of "Wannabe".

While Tiger Woods was coming off an athlete's high from his first Masters win at age 21, everyone else was tuning into the Spice Girls who were at the start of their stardom in the USA with the release of "Wannabe".

We Love the 90s While Tiger Woods was coming off an athlete's high from his first Masters win at age 21, everyone else was tuning into the Spice Girls who were at the start of their stardom in the USA with the release of "Wannabe". On the tech side, only the wealthy could afford a DVD player with a starting cost of $500, and Dolly, the first cloned sheep, made her debut.



A Year of New Beginnings Fever swept the nation. With individuals waiting in line for hours to pick up their alien-looking fur toy flat screen wall mount installation service . Mark McGwire took on the baseball scene along with his record-breaking home runs. Our favourite tv show Seinfeld went off the air and the start of a brand new, life-changing era hit our computers when Google launched.



Party Like It's 1999 Gas prices were wallet-friendly, using a mean cost of $1.22 per gallon and in certain U.S. cities as low as 95 cents. Apple Inc. was taking over customer shelves when CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iMac in rad colors like blueberry, strawberry, tangerine, grape, and lime. On the big screen The Matrix fascinated the public with a SciFi twist onto a machine takeover and on a lighter side, The Adventures of SpongeBob SquarePants captured our hearts with a playful group of adventurous friends who live under the sea.



It's a New Millennium We survived Y2K! Fans of the heartthrob Backstreet Boys swooned over their Record of the Year "I Want It That Way", while 20 million music lovers felt the loss of Napster's shutdown. We're all winners when a carton of eggs marketed for 89 cents.



A Winning Combination A political change was coming into fruition when George W. Bush became the 43rd president of the USA. Even though the president settled in to office, everyone else had their sights set on buying an iPod to listen to Alicia Keys. The release of the Xbox gave gamers the ability to let loose space aliens from the futuristic Halo: Combat Evolved, and going back to the Roman empire, the play Gladiator won five Academy Awards, including best film and best leading actor for heartthrob Russell Crowe.



A Moment Like This The first period of American Idol grabbed our attention if Texas-born Kelly Clarkson rocketed to fame. A lively duo, Oscar-winning Denzel Washington took home the award for best actor in Training Day and Halle Berry won best actress for Monster's Ball. On the front, the cost of a Super Bowl XXXVI ad was a whopping $1.9 million and the Brazilian soccer star, Ronaldo, sported a wacky haircut at the World Cup.



Who wants to Party? Harley-Davidson celebrated being a motorcycle icon for 100 decades, while Arnold Schwarzenegger became the governator of California. After six months, Dawson's Creek came to a close, and   The O.C. captured a fresh teenaged audience with a narrative that showcased a close-knit set of upper-class friends in California. Rounding out the year on a high note, iTunes altered the music industry, one digital tune at a time.



A Totally Fetch Year When Facebook launched, college students united nationally and logged to find friends with similar interest. Napoleon Dynamite  illustrated that with the support of your friends you can do anything, even winning and dancing class president. On a trend front, bright yellow Livestrong bracelets were on each wrist, raising money and awareness for cancer research, and Ashlee Simpson's lip sync disaster on Saturday Night Live marked the beginning of the end of her singing career.



Turn On and Tune In Even though Heelys captivated every skater enthusiast, YouTube made it possible for anyone to become immediately famous. The very first video published on YouTube was entitled "Me at the Zoo", an 18 second clip of Jawed Karima hanging out with elephants, which has since been viewed over 27 million times. On the Subject of famous, Martha Stewart teamed up with Donald Trump to sponsor a spin-off of The Apprentice that aired one season, and Mariah Carey completed 2005 by performing her hit song "We Belong Together" at New Year's Eve in Times Square.



A Year of Champions Italy took home the World Cup in Germany, and Britney Spears was winning in the U.S. since the most searched term on Yahoo. Shooting for the stars, the first female space tourist had been Iranian Anousheh Ansari who paid $20 million to travel to the International Space Station. Just in time for the holidays, the Nintendo Wii hit stores with a unique concept of getting players off the couch and on their toes to socialize with all motion-tracking remotes.



Game-Changing Fun Revolutionizing the technology business, Apple Inc. brought us the first creation of this iPhone. The science fiction Transformers has been a box office hit with a captivating storyline of heroic Autobots defeting the villainous Decepticons. Going old school, we witnessed nerd legend Freddy Anderssom conquer Super Mario Brothers 3 in under 12 minutes, and the sad retirement of Bob Barker from The Price is Right marked the end of a 35-year era.    



Rise to Stardom It was a leap year with many exciting moments. On the political front, Senator Barack Obama began his rise to the presidency, as a famous red, white and blue campaign poster burned into the memory of Americans. A trending Saturday Night Live skit went viral if Tina Fey impersonated Governor Sarah Palin, and Amy Poehler was Senator Hillary Clinton. Michael Phelps brought home eight gold medals from Bejing, also Disney Pixar's WALL-E is known by TIME as one of the best movies of the decade.



A Year of Change and Farm Life Starting off the year with a new face in office, President Barack Obama became 44th president. A real-life cinderella story unfolded as Scottish singer Susan Boyle captured our focus on Britain's Got Talent  if she sang "I Dreamed a Dream". Everybody had a bizarre obsession with farm animals once the pet pig craze swept the country, and FarmVille inhabited our time as we shoveled hay on line.



Weird and Wild Taylor Swift handled the music scene as the youngest artist to acquire record of this year in the Grammy's, also The Social Network revealed us on the big screen how Facebook became a worldwide phenomenon. Topping $1,400 an ounce, gold buying and selling attained a hectic market and everyone checked their jewellery for profit choices.   In other strange news, Paul, the psychic octopus obtained his claim to fame when he accurately called the World Cup's winning group.



A World-Famous Event Prince William and Kate Middleton tied the knot and it was the most talked about wedding in decades. Everybody was mad about Angry Birds and British singer-songwriter Adele together with the launch of her hit single "Rolling in the Deep". We all went bankrupt at the gas station when gas was sold for about $3.50 a gallon.



Pop Culture at It's Best Gangnam Style took around the globe using a wacky dance everybody adored, also Minecraft was all the rage for video gamers, as users broke and built blocks into their heart's content. Luke Skywalker teamed up with Mickey Mouse when Disney bought Lucasfilm for $4 billion. In royal news, Prince William and Kate Middleton announced they were expecting a royal baby.



Dance Revolution Everybody was doing the Harlem Shake, but nobody was dancing when movie ticket prices were in an all-time high 10, compared to 4 in the 90s. Britney Spears handed the flashlight onto Miley Cyrus as the most searched term on Yahoo, and Beyonce "Runs the World" in the Super Bowl XLVII halftime show.



What's Awesome Jimmy Fallon taking over the helm of The Tonight Show, netted large amounts from millennial viewers. After the Lego Movie started in  theaters nationwide,  most of us joined from the animated search to take down Lord Business. The typical public college tuition climbed to $18,000 annually, while hig-tech, high-price Google glasses finally hit the market.



It's the Year Ever Comedian Amy Schumer had the best year ever with her Emmy-winning tv show and box office hit Trainwreck. History was made when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality and the popular show Total House created a comeback. We're all using the best year binge-watching Netflix with hit shows such as House of Cards and Orange is the New Black.