… London won the Olympics and got bombed the next day.
… an Icelandic volcano took all the planes out of the sky for a week.
… the US elected their first African-American President.
… we thought that the ‘Euro’ sounded like a silly name for a currency.
… Pluto was a planet.
… people used overhead projectors.
… recycling was a niche activity.
… school children got teased if they wore their bag on two shoulders.
… people actually bought CD singles.
… our family TV was black-and-white.
… there were no mobile phones.