BOULDER – Imagine for a moment, if you will, the world as it was on November 6, 2005.
George W. Bush was less than a year into his second term as president. Barack Obama was in his first year as an Illinois Senator. The housing bubble was still years away from collapsing. Same-sex marriage was legal in exactly one state. It would be more than a year before anyone would know what an iPhone was. The Colbert Report had been on the air for less than three weeks. YouTube was under a year old, and Facebook wasn’t open to the public.