Yeah 2005 was good.

It felt like maybe the 2nd Gulf War was starting to wind down a bit, and there was some hope that maybe both the US and Al-Qaeda/Islamic State were going to chill their boots a little.

The internet was at its peak in terms of usefulness versus not having been taken over and enshittified by a tiny collection of megacorporations.

TV was getting pretty good as well.

Yeah, the 90s were still best, but 2005 was the best year since then.