When users type "Normal 2007" into a search engine, they are often looking for the heavy hitters that defined their childhoods or teenage years. 2007 gave us Transformers (the first one, before the franchise became exhausting), Spider-Man 3 , Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End , and Ratatouille .

It represents a moment before the streaming giants homogenized the global experience. It represents a time when a teenager in Jakarta had the exact same crappy copy of Spider-Man 3 as a teenager in Surabaya, and they bonded over the same misplaced watermark.

A minor planet designation tracked by organizations like the Minor Planet Center .