Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVThe year 2000 was a simpler time in so many ways. In the pre-Sept. 11 world, cell phones still had buttons, only featured one game and were actually used to make calls; Netflix was still known as a DVD-by-mail rental company, and the idea that someone was listening to your every word seemed to be the subject of fiction because Alexa had yet to be invented.But the latter certainly made for compelling television, as was evidenced when “Big Brother” launched July 5, 2000, on CBS.
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