Rewind to 6–12 August 2006, when airport security changed forever, Christina Aguilera went full Old Hollywood, Tiger Woods was collecting milestones like Pokémon cards and your AOL search history suddenly wasn't as private as you thought.

✈️ The plot that changed flying forever
A foiled terror plot targeting multiple transatlantic flights threw airports into chaos and introduced the liquid restrictions we're still dealing with today. If you've ever argued with security over a bottle of sunscreen, this is where it all began.

🐯 Tiger hits 50
Tiger Woods claimed his 50th PGA Tour victory while sitting firmly at the top of the sporting world. Before the scandals, before the comeback, this was Peak Tiger – so dominant that rappers were using his name as shorthand for being the best.

🔍 Oops... there goes your privacy
AOL accidentally released 20 million search queries from 500,000 users, proving that "anonymous" data wasn't nearly as anonymous as everyone thought. It became one of the internet's biggest privacy wake-up calls and still feels eerily relevant.

💋 Xtina goes Back to Basics
Christina Aguilera swapped the Dirrty era for jazz, soul and vintage Hollywood glamour. The result? One of the biggest pop reinventions of the decade, complete with Ain't No Other Man, Hurt and Candyman.

🐾 Blue finds one last clue
After ten years of Handy Dandy Notebooks and Thinking Chairs, Blue's Clues aired its final original episode. We look back at the show that quietly revolutionised children's TV and the emotional Steve Burns comeback that made millennials unexpectedly cry years later.

🏁 Shake and bake!
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby raced into cinemas, proving NASCAR, Will Ferrell and absurd one-liners were a winning combination. If you ain't first... well, you know the rest.

🎶 Don't loosen up those buttons just yet
The Pussycat Dolls' Buttons was climbing the charts, complete with the Snoop Dogg remix that became the version everyone remembers. It's pure mid-2000s pop perfection.

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