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He was killed two days later. In , a fisherman dredged up the bottle in the River Thames. Although Hughes' wife had died in , it was delivered to his year old daughter. Hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log into any Hotmail account using the password 'eh'. At the time it was called "the most widespread security incident in the history of the Web". In the movie The Matrix , Neo's passport expires on September 11, Matthew McConaughey was arrested after police allegedly found him dancing naked and playing bongo drums in his house.

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But back in , that wasn't exactly the case. The infamous " Hotmail hacking ," executed by a group known as "Hackers Unite," brought to light a major security flaw with Microsoft. Widely regarded as one of the largest widespread security incidents in history, the hackers exposed an estimated 50 million Hotmail accounts, revealing that anybody could log in to any Hotmail account using the password "eh.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Of course, classic TV game shows like Jeopardy! Two decades later, the show was finally canceled, but its legacy lives on. After all, you could argue that we'd never have met Meghan Markle if it wasn't for Millionaire. Before MacBooks were all the rage, Apple was gaining fame with its iBook line. The colorful, clamshell-style laptops, released in , were available in tangerine and blueberry, and nicknamed the "iMac to go.

These days, DVDs have lost traction as most people now watch their movies via online streaming services like Netflix. However, back in , Napster had just launched as the brainchild of Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker and was the only way to download music and file-share songs digitally. While it didn't take long for labels and musicians to sue and shut down Napster in , everyone who grew up in the s and early s remembers waiting patiently for that download to complete so you could make the ultimate Summer Jamz '99 mix CD.

Before April , Britney Spears was just another idolized teen pop star. But that year, she made her first move into provocateur territory with her Rolling Stone magazine cover and spread. The year-old entertainer posed scantily clad in her underwear, holding the purple Teletubby which had its own controversy , if you recall. But for Spears, that was just the beginning of decades of shock and scandal to come.

For tween and teens today, it's hard to remember a time before the Teen Choice Awards if not impossible. However, the surfboard-centric event only got its start in And just who was attending the inaugural TCAs?

Carson Daly is all over television screens these days, hosting shows like Today and The Voice. However, before he was the suit-wearing ringleader we know him as now, he was the less-refined host of MTV's Total Request Live in Back then, Daly was most often seen sporting faded baggy jeans, black T-shirts, and his iconic black nail polish on just two fingernails , as he introduced music videos featuring Backstreet Boys and Eminem.

What are you doing? It'll be one year, and then you'll be on a Noxzema commercial,'" he told the Los Angeles Times in Whether you're traveling to Spain, France, Ireland, or Italy today, you're using the same exact currency—the euro. But before , a standardized monetary system across Europe was just a utopian idea. In January , we had to get used to the idea that watching NBA basketball would no longer entail watching Air Jordan in action.

Funky design would become the hallmark of Apple computers, along with fast processing and quality architecture. Now the euro is the second-most traded currency and the second-largest reserve currency in the world. In November , the euro surpassed the U. In January , he was sworn into office as the 38th governor of Minnesota, electrifying the political scene and instantly becoming a Minnesota folk hero, proving that anything is possible.

The American Music Award, based on a public poll, made it decidedly so. They stopped recording in , but they have sold over 50 million albums so far, so I think they are all doing pretty well. One of his first guests, Michael J. One of the central topics of the night? You got it, the Senate impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. And the sexual tension between Tony and his psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi? The amount of cocaine captured by U. Texas had never had a larger drug bust.