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Timothy Berners Lee Invents the World Wide Web
John Serrano, Ciara Duarte

Timothy Berners-Lee wrote his proposal in March 1989 and, in 1990, for an idea of the web. It then was accepted by his manager, Mike Sendall. He used similar ideas to those underlying the ENQUIRE system to create the World Wide Web, for which he designed and built the first Web browser. This software also functioned as an editor I was determined that the name should not yet be taken from Greek mythology.

Despite this being an international organisation hosted by Switzerland, the office that Berners-Lee used was just across the border in France. It was put online on August 6 1991 for the first time. Companies and people created pages so they were able to place text and graphics to sell their products. You then were able to buy many different things online including airline tickets, hotel reservations, books, and even houses and cars. Soon even research was on the Internet so students could find answers to homework and assignments. Eventually, even people could even work from home.

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World Trade Center Bombing 1993
Brooklynn Keller, Alexis Valvo

On February 26, 1993, two men placed a van filled with bombs in the garage of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Ramzi Ahmed Yousef was the mastermind behind the bombing. His plan was to put some bombs in the trunk of large work vans and place these in the garage of the north World Trade Center tower. He thought that the bombs would blow up the bottom and the tower would fall onto the South Tower. The bombs themselves didn’t cause that much damage but did harmed thousands of people and killed six.

The same men who planned the bombing also wanted to blow up the George Washington Bridge, United Nations headquarters, and more important New York buildings. However all of the terrorist were captured before they could go through with the plans. Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the mastermind behind this, was arrested in 1995 in Pakistan.

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Oklahoma City Bombing 1995
Matthew Gerardo, Amber Solomko

On April 19, 1995, a truck-bomb explosion outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, left 168 people dead and hundreds more injured. The blast was set off by anti-government militant Timothy McVeigh, who in 2001 was executed for his crimes. His co-conspirator Terry Nichols received life in prison. Until September 11, 2001, the Oklahoma City bombing was the worst terrorist attack to take place on U.S. soil. On April 19, 1995, the two-year anniversary of the disastrous end to the Waco standoff, McVeigh parked a Ryder rental truck loaded with a diesel-fuel-fertilizer bomb outside the Murrah Building and fled. Minutes later, the massive bomb exploded.

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The Bill Clinton Impeachment
K’Lynn Thering

Bill Clinton the 42nd president of the United States was impeached on december, 19 1998 by the House of Representatives on two charges, one of perjury and one of obstruction of justice. These charges from a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against Clinton by Paula Jones. A second perjury charge and a charge of abuse of power – failed in the House.

Leading to the impeachment, Ken Starr Independent Counsel turned over documentation to the House Judiciary Committee. Chief Prosecutor David Schippers and his team reviewed the matter and decided there was enough evidence to impeach the president. As a result, four charges were considered by the full House of Representatives; only two passed, while still making Clinton the second president to be impeached, after Andrew Johnson in 1868. media type="custom" key="29404141"

Attack on the USS Cole
Tess Oldenborg Alonzo Rosado

On October 12, 2000, the USS Cole was attacked by a suicide bombers during a routine fueling stop in Aden, Yemen. The boat was attacked using a small boat filled with explosives. In the attack, 17 people were killed-including 15 sailors and two suicide bombers- and 39 people were injured. The terrorist attack was linked to the Al-Qaeda terrorist group, and later the Navy announced there was nothing they could have done to prevent the attack. Future 9/11 hijacker Khalid al-Mihdhar took part in the bombing of the USS Cole.

Citation: http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/18/world/meast/uss-cole-bombing-fast-facts/index.html

United States Presidential Election, 2000
Phillip Hauser, Izaac Erickson-Gordon

The United States presidential election of 2000 was a contest between Republican candidate George W. Bush and Al Gore, the Democratic nominee. Ralph Nader ran as the Green Party nominee. George W. Bush’s running mate was Dick Cheney. Al Gore’s running mate was Joe Lieberman. Ralph Nader’s running mate was Winona LaDuke. Republican candidates George W. Bush and Dick Cheney won the election with 271 Electoral votes and 50,456,062 in the popular vote. Al Gore lost with Electoral votes 266 and 50,996,582 of the popularity votes.

Gore’s loss is considered extremely controversial within the modern United States, as the 2000 election would be one of the many elections in which the electoral college system overruled the popular vote. It was one of the closest elections since 1876, when Rutherford B. Hayes, a Republican beat Samuel J. Tilden, a Democrat in the electoral college while losing the electoral vote.

Citations: https://www.270towin.com/2000_Election https://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_election.html media type="custom" key="29404177"

The First iPod, 2001
Ethan Sagler

On October 23, 2001, Apple lifted the curtain on the very first iPod, which packed 5GB of music storage into a white box no bigger than a deck of cards. Digital cameras, camcorders and organizers had good sales, but the company found existing digital music players with user subjects that were "awful," so Apple decided to develop its own. As ordered by CEO Steve Jobs, Apple's hardware engineering chief Jon Rubinstein made a team of engineers to design the iPod line, including hardware engineers Tony Fadell and Michael Dhuey, and design engineer Sir Jonathan Ive.

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9/11 Hijackings - World Trade Center
Emma Balistreri, Roger Riekkoff

On September, 11th 2001 four United States airplanes were hijacked by 19 men who were linked to Al Qaeda and flew the planes into the North Tower and South Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. One plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania after passengers stormed the cockpit. They hijacked the planes on Osama Bin Laden's orders.

All four of the planes were departing from northeastern airports, and they were destined for California. They decided to pick these planes to hijack because they had so much fuel. The frastructure and property damage.more fuel they had, the more fire and destruction. American Airlines flight 11 and United Airlines flight 175 were crashed into the North and South Trade towers. Within an hour and 42 minutes both 110 story buildings had collapsed.

The resulting debris and fire caused the collapse and destruction of other nearby buildings, including the 47 story 7 World Trade Center tower. These attacks resulted in the death of 2,996 people and the injury of over 6,000, and caused at least $10 billion in in

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Flight 93
Ann Navarre, Bridget Rakowski

Flight 93 was part of one of the worst terrorist attacks ever in history. Flight 93 was the only plane that didn’t go where it was intended to go. It flew right into the middle of Shanksville. Flight 93 struck the ground at a 40 degree angle almost upside down, hitting right wing and nose first, at a speed of between 563-580 miles per hour. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives during the 9/11 attacks, a number that would almost certainly have been significantly higher if not for the actions of those aboard Flight 93. At 10:02 a recorded voice from flight 93 said, “Yes, put it in it, and pull it down.” At the same time several other voices chanted “Allah is great”. Investigators were able to recover both the plane’s flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder at 25 feet below ground.

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The War In Afghanistan
Kyla Rossman, Marvon Lynch

The war of Afghanistan started in 2001 and continues today. The Afghanistan war is the longest war in U.S history. The U.S had troops from Canada and the U.K beside them as they began to invade Afghanistan. The Canadian, American and British troops invaded that particular country to dismantle al-Qaeda, and extremist, deadly terrorist group, and to remove power from Taliban. After the September 11 terrorist attacks that killed 2,996 Americans including the19 Islamic terrorists who committed the crime in the year of 2001 which started the war, George W. Bush, who was the president at the time, demanded that he wanted to have Taliban hand over Osama Bin Laden and to obliterate al-Qaeda for good. The United States used the Operation Enduring Freedom consisted of three steps. The first step, taking down Taliban, the second step, rebuilding core institutions and the third, was to increase troop presence in Afghanistan. Around 149,000 people have perished during this war in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster
Kaidan Beyer, Tristan Ellis

On February 1st, 2003, at 8:59 a.m. (EST) the Columbia Space Shuttle disintegrated after reentering the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven crew members aboard. The seven members aboard were Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, David Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon. When a piece of foam insulation broke off and hit the left wing of the orbiter, the atmospheric gases broke through the internal wing structure which made the shuttle break apart when it re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere. After this tragedy, NASA suspended shuttle flight operations for two years.

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2003 Invasion of Iraq
Nicholas

The 2003 invasion of Iraq lasted from 20 March to 1 May 2003 and signalled the start of the Iraq War, which was dubbed Operation Iraqi Freedom by the United States (prior to 19 March, the mission in Iraq was called Operation Enduring Freedom, a carryover from the War in Afghanistan). The invasion consisted of 21 days of major combat operations, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq and deposed the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein. The invasion phase consisted primarily of a conventionally fought war which included the capture of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad by American forces with the implicit assistance of the United Kingdom, alongside Australia and Poland. 177,194 thousand troops were sent by the coalition into iraq during the initial invasion phase which lasted from march 19 to april 9 2003 about 130,000 was sent from us media type="custom" key="29404175"

Indian Ocean Tsunami
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The United States Presidential Election, 2004
Alex Mueller

On November 2, 2004, George W. Bush won reelection for President of the United States by defeating John Kerry. George W. bush won 286 electoral votes and John kerry won 251 electoral votes. george w bush had 62,040,610 popular votes and john kerry won 59,028,444 popular votes. George W. Bush had 50.7% of the united states of america voting for him. John kerry had 48.3% of the united states of america voting for him. media type="custom" key="29404549"

Hurricane Katrina Strikes New Orleans
Carter Ellenson, Jaden Pascale

The tropical storm that became Hurricane Katrina formed on August 23, 2005 over the Bahamas. By August 28, 2005 evacuations we under way in the projected regions. New Orleans was at risk because its average elevation is six feet below sea level and it is completely surrounded by water. The day before Katrina hit, the mayor ordered a mandatory evacuation, and 80% of the city was evacuated. The Superdome held at least 10,000 people.The Superdome is a last resort evacuation site because it is on relatively high groundOthers decided to wait the storm out in their homes. The storm surge was nine meters in some places. Many people had to move to their roofs. The low land was completely under water.

Hurricane Katrina caused major damage to New Orleans. It killed nearly 2,000 people and affected some 90,000 square miles away. The coast guard rescued 34,000 people. Today, people are recovering and rebuilding houses, commercial buildings, factories, and other buildings. Hurricane Katrina was one of the five deadliest storms ever recorded.

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The Invention and Significance of Youtube
Augustina Voith

Youtube is a video making and sharing website. It was created in February, 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. The headquarters of Youtube is located in San Bruno, California. The site uses VP9, a coding format made by Google, and allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to favorites, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other Youtubers. People post a variety of videos, clips, and playlists consisting of movies, original content, educational videos, and video logs, or vlogs. Youtubers that consistently post content and garner a big enough group of followers will earn ad revenue from their videos. The idea of Youtube came to the creators when they couldn’t access or find videos on the internet and started sharing videos between them. They then put out a beta test for the public in May 2004 which quickly gained popularity. The site gained a $3.5 million investment from Sequoia Capital in November and launched officially on December 15, 2005. Since then, there have been 300 hours of video uploaded every minute and 1,300,000,000 using Youtube. Youtube made itself, with the help of the creators and the viewers, into a platform where people can express themselves creatively and freely. Youtube will likely be a well used and popular app for years to come, and it will hold documents of some of the most amazing (terrifying, crazy, heart warming, etc) moments on the internet.

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First iPhone 2007
Presley Pisarek

The first IPhone that was designed by Apple Inc. was in 2007. It was introduced in the United States on June 29, 2007. Since June 11, 2013, the original or first IPhone is now “vintage.” They do not have replacement parts for “vintage” IPhone products. The amount of units or devices sold is 6.1 billion smartphones.

When it came out, the price was $599 dollars and soon after it came out, the price dropped from $599 to $399 for the holidays coming up. When it came out, people waited outside of Apple and AT&T stores. Later on after the release they made it available in United Kingdom, France, Germany, Portugal, the Republic of Ireland and Austria.

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The Election of 2008
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Top Grossing Movies of 2010
Brennan Mason

Toy Story 3- In this movie Andy is leaving for college and woody and the rest of the gang are headed for the attic but then the gang has to go on a wild chase to save woody.

Alice in Wonderland- In Alice in wonder Alice is at a wedding but then goes wandering off to find a white rabbit and falls down a magical hole under a tree and begins a magical journey.

Iron Man 2- In Iron Man 2 the world knows that Tony Stark is iron man and he is afraid that if his technology falls in the wrong hands the world may come to an end.

Despicable Me- When Gru, an evil mastermind uses a trio of orphan girls as pawns for a grand scheme, he finds their love is profoundly changing him for the better.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows- As Harry races against time and evil to destroy the Horcruxes, he uncovers the existence of three most powerful objects in the wizarding world.

Twilight Saga- eclipse: s a string of mysterious killings in seattle Bella, is forced to choose between her love for vampire Edward and her friendship with werewolf Jacob.

Shrek Forever After- In shrek forever after shrek likes being a family man but misses being a real ogre so he signs a deal with rumpelstiltskin to become an ogre again.

Inception- Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a thief with the rare ability to enter people's dreams and steal their secrets from their subconscious.

How to Train Your Dragon- Hiccup is a Norse teenager from the island of Berk, where fighting dragons is a way of life.

Tangled- When the kingdom's most-wanted bandit, Flynn Rider (Zachary Levi), hides in a convenient tower, he immediately becomes a captive of Rapunzel (Mandy Moore), the spire's longtime resident. media type="custom" key="29404555"

Super Bowl XLV
Alec Arce

Super Bowl XLV (45) was an American football game between the Pittsburgh Steeler who were the American Football Conference champions and the Green Bay Packers who were the National Football Conference champions. The game was to decide the National football league champions for the 2010 season. The year was 2010. The Packers played the Eagles, won. They played the Falcons, won. They played the Bears, won. Then for the first time since 1997, the Green Bay Packers go to the Super Bowl. For weeks the Packers and the Steelers practice becoming the super bowl champions. The both practice hard, but know only one team will leave as champions. The day is finally here. It is February 6, 2011. Both the Packers and Steelers get to Dallas Cowboys (the packer rivals) stadium. Both teams get to the locker room and change into gear. Finally, it was 1:34, game time. The Packers started off the first quarter strong with 14 points, the Steelers had 0. The second quarter the Steelers scored 10 points, but that did not stop the Packers, they scored 7. Third quarter the Steelers scored 7 and the Packers scored 0. Then it was the final quarter…...the Packers enter the 4th quarter with 21 points and the Steelers enter with 17 points. It is a 2 possession game. Then the Steelers Score 8 points and the Packers score 10. The Packers have won it. The Vince Lombardi Trophy came home.

Citations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLV @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trjbUkBqM6o

The Rise of ISIS
Aaron

ISIS is an Islamic extremist organization devoted to making the entire world Muslim, mostly by ethnic cleansing of all non-Muslims. Compared to other Islamic terrorist groups, it is young-it started in 1999 and gained major acknowledgement in 2011-but it borrowed many of its beliefs from existing terrorists, such as Al-Qaeda, its precursor. I SIS’s control of the Middle East began almost immediately after the United States occupation of Iraq in 2011. Virtually all Al-Qaeda supporters had been driven out of the Middle East, but the most skilled and battle-hardened remained. These few soldiers, along with prisoners that were eventually released, were able to reforge their group in Iraq within a year. This was aided unintentionally by a major crackdown on Sunnis by the Iraqi government, sparking further hatred of Shias by extremists. Their money, however, came from stolen oil rigs. They also stole much of the Iraqi rebels’ weapons. It was then, in 2013, that Al-Qaeda had officially transformed into ISIS.

Citations Frontline (2014, October 28). The Rise of Isis. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rise-of-isis/ Cassis, Tewfik (2015, November 21). A brief history of ISIS. Retrieved from http://theweek.com/articles/589924/brief-history-isis media type="custom" key="29404561"

2011 Japanese Tsunami
Aiden Porter, Amara Santiago-Ignasiak

A 9.0 magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku in 2011 triggered a powerful tsunami with waves reaching heights up to 40.5 metres (133 feet). The surge traveled as far as 10 kilometers (6 miles) inland. Warnings were issued and evacuations were carried out in many countries bordering the Pacific. However, while the tsunami affected many of these places, the event was minor. Chile's Pacific coast, one of the furthest from Japan at about 17,000 km 11,000 mi distant, was struck by waves 2 m 6 ft high. The earthquake and tsunami caused extensive and severe structural damage in north-eastern Japan, including heavy damage to roads and railways as well as fires in many areas, and a dam collapse. On March 10, 2015, a Japanese National Police Agency report confirmed 15,894 deaths, 6,152 injured, and 2,562 people missing, as well as 228,863 people living away from their home in either temporary housing or due to permanent relocation.

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The Death of Osama Bin Laden
Nathan Marrero

Osama Bin Laden (Leader of Al Qaeda) was shot in the comfort of his household. Being the largest building amongst the others near by, it was relatively easy to figure out which house was his. That and that the CIA found out from a former intelligence officer of Pakistan, who was paid handsomely, with a whopping twenty five million dollars.

Osama’s household was a three story building, surrounded with an approximately 18 foot wall. The U.S Military swooped down from multiple locations around the house, burst in, and scattered, searching for Osama. Firing at some people associated with Osama, Bin Laden even started to fire back, himself, and then, he was shot in the head, and died that day. However, some soldiers grabbed papers and such, to be used to gather information, and use them for their own needs.

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Newtown Massacre
Mackenna Belter

On December 14, 2012, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,Connecticut 20 year old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 six and seven-year-old children as well as six adult staff members. Before he drove to the school, he also shot and killed his mother at their home. As the first responders had arrived at the scene, Lanza then committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.

Lanza first entered a first-grade classroom, where Lauren Rousseau, a substitute teacher, had told her first grade students to the back of the classroom, and was trying to hide them in a bathroom, when Adam then forced his way into the classroom. Rousseau, Rachel D'Avino, and fifteen students in Rousseau's class were all shot and killed. Fourteen of the children were dead at the scene,one child was injured and was taken to a hospital for treatment, but they were later declared dead. Most of the teachers and students were found crowded together in the bathroom. A six-year-old girl, the sole survivor. She was found by police in a classroom following by the shooting.The girl was hidden in one of the corners of the classroom's bathroom when the shooting was going on. Her family’s pastor said that she survived the mass shooting by remaining still, and playing dead. When she left the school and reached her mother, she said, "Mommy, I'm okay, but all my friends are dead." She described Adam as a very angry man. A girl hiding in a bathroom with two teachers told police that she heard a boy in the classroom screaming, "Help me! I don't want to be here!" to which Adam then responded by saying, "Well, you're here." Which then was followed by more hammering sounds.

Lanza next went to another first-grade classroom nearby. The classroom's teacher, Victoria Leigh Soto had concealed some of her students in a closet or in a bathroom, and some of her other students were hiding under their desks. Soto was walking back to her classroom door to lock it, when Lanza entered the classroom. Lanza then walked to the back of the classroom. He saw the children under the desks,and then shot them. A first grader named Jesse Lewis shouted at his classmates to run for safety. Several of them did. He was looking at Lanza when Lanza fatally shot him. Six of the children who escaped did so when Lanza stopped shooting, either because his weapon jammed or he erred in reloading it. Earlier reports said that, as Lanza entered her classroom, Soto told Lanza that the children were in the auditorium. When several of the children came out of their hiding places and tried to run for safety, Lanza fatally shot them. Six of the children who escaped did so when Lanza stopped shooting, either because his weapon jammed or he erred in reloading it. As Lanza entered Soto’s classroom, she told him that the children were in the auditorium. When several of the children came out of their hiding places and tried to run for safety, he fatally shot them.

A November 2013 report issued by the C.S.A office concluded that Lanza acted alone and planned his actions, but no evidence was collected provided any indication as to why he did so, or why he targeted the school. A report was issued by the Office of the Child Advocate in November of 2014 which said that Lanza had the developmental disorder of Asperger’s syndrome, and as a teenager, Adam suffered from depression,anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder, but it was never concluded that they had neither caused nor led to his murderous acts. His severe and deteriorating internalized mental health problems combined with an atypical preoccupation with violence and access to deadly weapons proved a recipe for mass murder.

This incident was the deadliest mass shooting either at a high school or at a grade school in the U.S. history and it was the fourth-deadliest mass shooting by a single person in U.S. history. The shooting prompted renewed debate about gun control in the United States, also including the proposals for making the background check system universal, and for the new federal state gun legislation banning in the sale and manufacture of certain types of semi-automatic firearms and the magazines with more than ten rounds of ammunition.

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Orlando Nightclub Shooting
Skye Jankowski, Riley Niemann

The Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, became the scene of a mass shooting in the early morning of June 12th, 2016. 49 people were killed and 58 wounded. This would be the deadliest act of violence against the LGBT people in America, and the deadliest act of terrorism since the September 11 attacks. Police received a call at 2:02 am that multiple shots had been fired. At 2:35 am, the shooter made one of many 911 calls, stating that he was the terrorist and that he would detonate explosives within the club. A SWAT team had arrived, and gunned down Mateen. No further incident was reported, and investigators found no evidence of bombs.

The shooter, Omar Mateen, claimed that the shooting was ISIS’s response to the U.S. killing Abu Waheeb the previous month, though there is no evidence to prove such. Others believe the shooting to be a hate crime against the LGBT community.

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Presidential Election of 2016
Zenona Jasso, Lily Sedlar

The United States presidential election of 2016 was on Tuesday, November 8th 2016. The candidates for the election where Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump's running mate was Mike Pence, and Hillary Clinton’s running mate was Tim Kaine. On that day voters elected the 48th vice president and the 45th president of the united states. Republican Donald John Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States, beating democrat Hillary Clinton. Donald had 304 electoral votes and Hillary had 227 electoral votes, though Clinton got 3,000,000 more popular votes. The election was a surprise victory for Trump.

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Fashion Of The 2000s
Olizah Cortez, Elizabeth powell

Fashion in the 2000s is described as being a global mashup. Trends were a mix of previous vintage styles, global and ethnic clothing, as well as the fashion of numerous music-based subcultures. A hip-hop style was the most popular among young people and so was a retro-inspired indie look later on in the decade. Friendly and ethical clothing such as recycled fashion and fake fur was also popular. Some very iconic trends include:

Sweatbands- Sweatbands was popular in hip-hop fashion but also could be a sports accessory but people starting rocking them in completely non-athletic contexts. Sweatbands was also popular in punk or emo circles so you could find them at a Hot Topic. Streaky Hair Highlights- Many boy bands started the trend of streaked hair. The look was pretty funky and obnoxious but at the time everyone wanted the look.

Tall Tees- The oversized white T-shirts became popular in hip-hop fashion. The trend started controversy. Some people saw the T-shirt as a sign of drug dealers and racial stereotypes came into play. Tall tees were banned in clubs, condemned in the press, and used as a tool to profile individuals.

Trucker Hats- Started by Ashton Kutcher and Britney Spears the Trucker Hats became an iconic fashion staple in the decade but gradually faded out.

Popped Collar Polos- The style is preppy and was worn by many teens. Stores like Abercrombie & Fitch and Hollister sold the polos. Kanye West even popped his collar for a cover of a mixtape of his.

V-Neck T-shirts- The low cut shirt was worn by men. The look was hipster and cool but by the end of the decade, more people were making fun of it than actually wearing it.

Hoodies Under Blazers- The look of formal and casual combined into one. It was commonly worn by guys.

Bowties- Geek chic was an invention of the 2000s. The look was nerdy and was worn with a dress shirt that was tucked into jeans or could also be paired with suspenders.

Cardigans- Also a geek chic look the cardigan was popular among emos but it was described as a look you stole from your grandpa.

Big Faced Digital Watches- The name says it all.

Shutter Shades- Worn in any and every public place from senior prom to the New Jersey boardwalk but you couldn’t really see when wearing them so the trend ended.

Bootcut Jeans- Fitted like a straight leg jean but with a wider opening at the base, the jeans saw an immense swell in availability in the 2000s. Halter tops- Type of sleeveless shirt similar to a tank top.With the straps being tied behind the neck. In another style of the halter top, there is only a narrow strap behind the neck and a narrow strap behind the middle of the back,it is mostly backless. Choker- A choker is a style of a necklace that you wear around your neck. media type="custom" key="29404581"