A decade of iTunes
As Apple’s online store hits the ripe old age of 10, we look back at the major milestones
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Rewind to 1985
We said goodbye to red phone boxes, but hello to the first autofocus SLR (thanks Minolta). It was Live Aid, the debut of WrestleMania and Coke changed
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Rewind to 1966
Step into the time tunnel for a glimpse into the futuristic stuff of yesteryear. This week, it’s 1966… the date of the first Notting Hill Carnival
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Rewind to 1998
Smoking was banned in California, Viagra was on the rise and the Galaxy IV satellite failed knocking out up to 90 per cent of the world’s pagers. But
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Rewind to 1981
Back in the early ‘80s, digital technology was starting to really find its feet. The revolution starts here
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Rewind to 1977
The first all-in-one PC launched and the bunting was out for the Queen’s silver jubilee. And it was a golden year for gadgetry...
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Rewind to 2003
The Human Genome Project was completed, the last Beetle rolled off the line and the Iraq war began...
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Rewind to 1995
Rewind to 1995Let’s take a journey back 15 years, slap bang into the middle of the 90s, when Britpop ruled the airwaves and people still watched their
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Rewind to 1984
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Rewind to 2007
2007 was a bizarre year for discoveries. Astronomers spotted a potentially habitable planet called Gliese 581c, while Japanese archaeologists dug up
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Rewind to 2001
Foot and mouth broke out in the UK, while George W Bush started putting his foot in it as US president. Tourists went to space, terrorists went to New
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Rewind to 1970
A man called Michael Eavis charged 1500 punters a quid each (including free milk) to come to his new festival in 1970. The Isle of Wight got the headl
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Rewind to 1986
Pixar opened its studios in 1986, Polaroid won a fight against Kodak, and the first computer virus – Brain – began to spread. Here’s what else
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Rewind to 2006
Remember what things were like when Germany hosted the last World Cup? In 2006 we saw Saddam Hussein brought to justice, Pluto lost its status as a pl
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Rewind to 1994
“No, I don’t have a gun.” Kurt Cobain, it turned out in 1994, had lied about that. And he wasn’t the only celebrity to shrug off his mortal coil – Lab
