2015

That was 2015. A strange, beautiful, slightly caffeinated year.

: World Bank Blogs looked back at the year’s major milestones, including historic drops in poverty and climate change agreements. That was 2015

: NASA’s New Horizons mission performed the first-ever flyby of : NASA’s New Horizons mission performed the first-ever

(Use this format if you are creating a poster or graphic) Google became absolute

In sports, gave us the "Phantom Point" in the Cricket World Cup, the rise of the Golden State Warriors (winning the NBA Finals and beginning the "small ball" revolution), and the Rugby World Cup victory for New Zealand's All Blacks.

If you were using a Windows Phone or a BlackBerry in , you were officially a digital fossil. This was the year the tech duopoly of Apple vs. Google became absolute.