What happened onFebruary 24, 2004Tuesday Week 9

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The World in 2004 the year Facebook was born

When Gmail launched, it gave everyone 1GB of free storage. Hotmail offered 2MB. That is 500 times more space, enough that you never had to delete an email again.

Life back then

Flip phones ruled, and the slim Motorola Razr was the one everyone wanted. The iPod mini sold out, though plenty of people still carried a portable CD player. Sharing photos meant a brand new site called Flickr, and writing in public meant starting a blog. Friends ended after ten years, and The Da Vinci Code sat on bestseller lists in dozens of languages.

The year in 8 events

• 👤Feb 4 Mark Zuckerberg launches Thefacebook from his Harvard dorm room.
• 🕯️Mar 11 Bombs on Madrid commuter trains kill 191 people.
• 🗳️May 22 Manmohan Singh is sworn in as prime minister of India after a surprise election result.
• 🏅Aug 13 The Summer Olympics open in Athens, back in Greece after 108 years.
• 🕯️Sep 1 Gunmen seize a school in Beslan, Russia. More than 330 people die, about half of them children.
• ⚾Oct 27 The Boston Red Sox win the World Series, their first title since 1918.
• 🗳️Nov 2 George W. Bush wins a second term as US president, defeating John Kerry.
• 🕯️Dec 26 A huge earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean kill about 230,000 people in 14 countries.

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