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200TH ISSUE | RETROSPECTIVE
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Olympic Games Great Britain won a number of gold medals at the 2004 games in Athens. Most notably, Dame Kelly Holmes won two golds for the 800m and 1500m; Sir Chris Hoy and Sir Bradley Wiggins won in cycling; the men’s four pipped Canada to the post in a memorable race in British rowing; and Leslie Law won our first gold medal of the games in equestrian.
We miss you, MySpace Tom MySpace, made by Tom Anderson (now a travel photographer), became the first social media site to reach a million monthly active users.
Euros 2004 England made it to the quarter-finals of the European Championships – with Sven-Göran Eriksson as manager, David Beckham as captain, and Michael Owen, Paul Scholes, Wayne Rooney and Sol Campbell on the squad. Sports Personality of the Year After a successful Olympics, Dame Kelly Holmes was awarded the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award.
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Facebook In January, Mark Zuckerberg coded a new website, known as ‘The Facebook’. Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard College and within a month, more than half the undergraduates had registered. Facebook soon became available to all Ivy League colleges and successively most universities in the US and Canada. Napster cofounder Sean Parker became company president and, in June, the company moved to Palo Alto, California, receiving its first investment later that month from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. As of 31 March 2021, Facebook has 2.85 billion monthly active users.
The early 2000s were all about ugg boots, tube tops, low-rise jeans, dresses over trousers, crop tops, trucker hats, skinny scarves and denim skirts. Before the days of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, we watched power couples of the time rocking the red carpets in what now seems to be a far more casual style. Baggy cargo pants, halter necks and three-quarter-length trousers were all the rage...
Bristol back in 2004
Mike Howard tightrope-walking between two hot air balloons. Photographer Paul Gillis was in a helicopter with no doors hovering at 4,000 feet above Bristol.
Lord Mayor of Bristol British television actor Simon Timothy Cook MBE served as Lord Mayor of Bristol from 2004 to 2005. Having trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Cook was best known for his role in Family Affairs – and there was that time he got chucked out of the Queen Vic by Shane Richie in Eastenders. He has been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Bristol Old Vic and spent 20 years working in theatre and television. Bristol on the big screen The comedy-drama series Teachers was filmed at the former Merrywood Grammar School for its first three seasons and at the former Lockleaze School in Bristol for its fourth. Starring Andrew Lincoln and a young James Corden, Teachers was nominated for six BAFTAs (2002-2004).
Credit: Paul Gillis; paulgillisphoto.com
Bristol Balloon Fiesta At the 2004 festival, Mike Howard, an airline pilot, tightrope-walked between two hot air balloons at a height of 4,000ft while blindfolded before parachuting away. Two years previously, in the year that the 20th Bond film, Die Another Day, was released, Mike – dressed as Bond – was flown up to 7,200ft while attached to 300 helium balloons. Once at the right height, he shot the balloons with a replica pistol and skydived back down to earth.
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