2004? 2024? Or Both?

Two decades ago, the EU handed down a good of implicit $600 cardinal for not offering versions of Windows that did not travel with Windows Media Player preinstalled. Microsoft inactive has antitrust problems successful Europe astatine the moment, and past year, the EU attempted to artifact the company’s acquisition of video crippled shaper Activision Blizzard. But Microsoft has paid nary fines this year… truthful far.

The precise archetypal Razr, called the Motorola Razr V3, was released successful November of 2004. At the time, it outgo $500 with a two-year contract. That was costly then, and it’s costly today. The existent exemplary of Motorola’s revival model, the Razr Plus, comes unlocked astatine astir the aforesaid price.

Steve Jobs introduced the company’s Cinema Display successful 2004 astatine WWDC. The terms of the 30-inch exemplary was $3,299 — adjusted for inflation, that’s implicit $5,400 today.

At the extremity of past year’s movie adaptation of the Mattel product, Barbie discovers her independence. But successful 2004, Mattel announced that the mates had split. Drama successful doll lore existed agelong earlier Greta Gerwig scripted it.

Google famously launched Gmail connected April Fools’ Day 2004 — astatine a clip erstwhile promising 1 gigabyte of escaped retention surely indispensable person been a joke. Google did present Inbox a decennary agone successful 2014 but shuttered that successful 2019.

The 2024 movie is really an adaptation of the 2017 signifier musical, which was adapted from the 2004 film, which was primitively adapted from a 2002 publication titled Queen Bees and Wannabes.

He hates Mondays but loves reboots. In 2004, it was called Garfield: The Movie; successful 2024, The Garfield Movie. How times person changed.

Spider-Man 2 opened connected June 30th, 2004, breaking the erstwhile opening-day container bureau grounds held by its predecessor. Though determination were Spider-Man sequels released successful 2019 and 2021, nary are slated for this calendar year. (We’re not counting Madame Web since it is not a nonstop sequel and besides hardly counts arsenic a movie.)

Microsoft released the SPOT ticker — abbreviated for “smart idiosyncratic entity technology.” Given that you don’t perceive that acronym overmuch anymore, you tin astir apt conjecture that the ticker ne'er took off, contempt the fanfare implicit the device’s quality to work headlines, nonstop instant messages, and springiness upwind forecasts. The SPOT ticker besides wasn’t adjacent the company’s archetypal effort astatine a smartwatch: arsenic aboriginal arsenic 1994, it partnered with Timex to merchandise the Datalink, arguably the world’s archetypal smartwatch. But present successful 2024, it’s been a portion since Microsoft tried to marque wristwear happen.

In 2004, Beyoncé won 5 Grammy Awards — her archetypal arsenic a solo artist. Though this year’s Cowboy Carter is simply a apt favourite travel awards season, she did not merchandise an medium successful 2023, which means thing that qualifies for this year’s Grammy Awards.

US consumers loved trucks successful 2004 and person continued to emotion them for the past 2 decades. Ford’s F-series remains the bestseller adjacent today, and it has small to bash with the summation of the electrical mentation — successful 2024 truthful far, the Lightning makes up little than 5 percent of full F-series sales.

First identified successful January 2004, Mydoom became the fastest-spreading email worm ever. As of 2024, its velocity grounds has not been surpassed, and its root is inactive unknown.

In June of 2004, the Supreme Court ruled that the Child Online Protection Act was unconstitutional, a usurpation of the First Amendment. Though it was designed to forestall minors from seeing pornography connected the internet, the Court ruled 5–4 that the instrumentality itself was excessively broad. Similar echoes are happening this year, though. Age-verification laws astatine the authorities level are blocking porn sites for minors or, successful immoderate states, blocking them entirely; and this July, the likewise named Kids Online Safety Act passed with bipartisan support.

The archetypal Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door was released for the GameCube successful 2004, and its remake was released for the Switch astir precisely 20 years later.

One of Hollywood’s biggest tabloid magnets, the mates called disconnected their engagement and broke up for the archetypal clip successful January 2004. Lopez and Affleck got backmost unneurotic galore years later, yet marrying successful 2022. That national officially ended again successful 2024.