Googlemania in 2005 was an actual thing. This episode of Background Briefing from ABC National in Australia was first broadcast on December 1, 2005; twenty years ago. Twenty years ago Background Briefing looked ahead some nine years to what the world was going to look like in 2014. And the
Since our own State Department decided not to observe it this year, December 1st is World AIDS Day – and this day in 2005 it was observed and spoken about and had some light shed on it, unlike World AIDS Day 2025. Here is the text of the printed excerpt
The B-52’s in concert for lunch today – recorded on November 17, 1979 at The Amsterdam Paradiso by VPRO in The Netherlands. In the midst of all the seriousness and high-octane rage the mid-70s signaled, the 70s also gave us a healthy dose of quirk, parody and downright goofiness. Thinking
– Cairo Conference – NBC Special News Report – December 1, 1943 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On this December 1st in 1943, word reached newsrooms that the Conference in Cairo had just concluded. The meeting between China’s Gen. Chiang kai-Shek, President Roosevelt and Britain’s Winston Churchill took place
