24. Join ILX
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 16:45 (five years ago)
25. Download and hoard thousands of MP3s
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 16:45 (five years ago)
26. Be racist, except ‘ironically’.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 16:46 (five years ago)
27. Buy a map
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 16:53 (five years ago)
28. Had their Nextel phones loudly chirp and someone start talking in the middle of a meeting.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 16:56 (five years ago)
29. Wear novelty eyeglasses on New Years Eve that spell out what year is coming next
― Josefa, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 17:00 (five years ago)
30. Called things "gay"
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 17:06 (five years ago)
31. Pollstar.com to look up upcoming concerts
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 17:07 (five years ago)
32. Have kids, get married
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 17:08 (five years ago)
33. Buy shitty "tie-in" DVDs that took place between the first and second films in a series as a cash-grab
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 17:08 (five years ago)
34. Tubgirl
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 17:10 (five years ago)
35. argued about when centuries begin
― rob, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 17:16 (five years ago)
36. Homemade episodes of Jackass on someone’s dad’s video recorder
― a hoy hoy, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 17:47 (five years ago)
37. Enjoy the novelty of setting up a digital queue to be sent DVDs by mail.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 17:48 (five years ago)
38. Jenny McCarthy's flatulence
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 17:48 (five years ago)
Print out directions for long journeys on Google Maps
― (the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 17:54 (five years ago)
(39.)
― (the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 17:55 (five years ago)
40. Read Slashdot
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 17:57 (five years ago)
41. Be born without their prior consent, to parents they didn't choose, into a world that was totally fucked up before they arrived, so it's clearly not their fault, and it's all just so unfair!!
― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:04 (five years ago)
42. Make a phone call when a simple text message would have sufficed.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:10 (five years ago)
42. Spend 5 minutes composing a relatively short text message via T9
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:12 (five years ago)
44. take a picture with your phone, which looks a bit like you took it while on a rollercoaster
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:13 (five years ago)
45. Had utopian ideals about the internet.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:20 (five years ago)
46. While still using the work intranet.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:21 (five years ago)
47. Get their news from Comedy Central
― Øystein, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:27 (five years ago)
T9 was faster than touchscreens :(
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:28 (five years ago)
48. Watched dvd extras, including entire directory's commentary audio
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:29 (five years ago)
49. Smell what bars really smell like for the first time
― Josefa, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:30 (five years ago)
50. Could be reached at hax0rz✧✧✧@hotm✧✧✧.c✧✧
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:31 (five years ago)
Phew, good thing it got censored straight away.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:32 (five years ago)
51. buy a cassette tape with a headphone wire hanging out of it so they could trick their car's tape deck into playing an ipod.
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:33 (five years ago)
52. Traipse around town with a discman in their oversized pocket.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:36 (five years ago)
53. watched seasons of a TV show one episode at a time, at one-week intervals, over a 6-8 month timespan
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:39 (five years ago)
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Wednesday, May 19, 2021 11:33 AM (six minutes ago)
still works better than Bluetooth!
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:40 (five years ago)
lol i was using this method until 2014, when my car with a cassette deck died.
― treeship., Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:43 (five years ago)
54. Spending insane amounts of money to buy cheap trucker hats that looked exactly like every other trucker hat except they had the name of a late motorcycle mechanic and artist on the front.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:46 (five years ago)
fucking hated this decade
― brimstead, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:51 (five years ago)
(forgot to include part of that description, should read "of a late, racist, possibly neo-Nazi, motorcycle mechanic and artist")
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:51 (five years ago)
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:52 (five years ago)
55. Unironically used the catchphrase, "that's hot".
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:56 (five years ago)
56. Show some buttcrack
― Josefa, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 19:18 (five years ago)
never out of style
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 19:20 (five years ago)
nikka costa
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 20:04 (five years ago)
57. WORLDSTAR!!!!!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 20:05 (five years ago)
58. rap was all like "plinkity plinkity"
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 20:06 (five years ago)
59. EBaum's World
60. Thought "All your base" was the height of hilarity.
― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 22:42 (five years ago)
YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 22:45 (five years ago)
All your base (are) belong to us 👾 https://t.co/brwNKJ8wrh— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 19, 2019
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 22:49 (five years ago)
61. Instant messaging
― visiting, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 22:52 (five years ago)
^ i was thinking abt this yesterday with the florida condo collapse, when i realized that none of the media coverage i've seen included the phrase "the authorities have ruled out terrorism as a likely cause" which was standard boilerplate for so long, even when completely obvious and unnecessary, and i had a vivid feeling of the W years being well & truly over
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 12:39 (four years ago)
Huh I only just noticed that now after you pointed it out.
― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 16:18 (four years ago)
284. showed off their whale-tails
― peace, man, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:18 (four years ago)
285. were clean shaven
― chap, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:30 (four years ago)
286. Liked James Franco
― a hoy hoy, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 20:25 (four years ago)
287. Took some things on the internet at face value.
― chap, Thursday, 1 July 2021 08:28 (four years ago)
288. Vaguely assumed that at some point airport security would get back to normal.
― trishyb, Thursday, 1 July 2021 10:14 (four years ago)
Definitely a conspiracy headed by Big Duty Free that we still can't take liquid on.
― chap, Thursday, 1 July 2021 10:35 (four years ago)
Has someone already identified flashmobs? I do remember them as a depressing content-free 2000s phenomenon.
Thinking about them now, I think the single most irritating thing was participants' self-satisfaction - as if they were doing something significant
― Luna Schlosser, Thursday, 1 July 2021 13:35 (four years ago)
that continued into the 10s as well.
the Harlem Shake was the first one that actually pissed me off.
― not up to Aerosmith standards (Neanderthal), Thursday, 1 July 2021 13:36 (four years ago)
Ha, I was actually talked into participating in one in the very early 00s near Liverpool St maybe where we all had to wear cricket whites for whatever reason. It was insanely boring.
― chap, Thursday, 1 July 2021 13:49 (four years ago)
looking back now its weird to realize that it peaked as a fad so long before the era of widespread smartphones and video-based social media. i remember hating flashmobs, but cant recall how i actually saw them. pictures on flickr? clips on local news?
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 1 July 2021 15:50 (four years ago)
Yeah that is odd - in my head they're linked to Facebook but actually a few years too early to have been in reality.
― chap, Thursday, 1 July 2021 16:43 (four years ago)
I think maybe there'd be the occasional slightly jokey item about them on national news.
― chap, Thursday, 1 July 2021 16:44 (four years ago)
I remember reading about them on cnn.com
― peace, man, Thursday, 1 July 2021 17:36 (four years ago)
289. Vonage
― not up to Aerosmith standards (Neanderthal), Saturday, 3 July 2021 19:59 (four years ago)
290. Listened to mashups
― Kim, Saturday, 3 July 2021 20:42 (four years ago)
291. Say "Bunch of arse"
― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Thursday, 25 May 2023 10:06 (three years ago)
292. Said, out loud, things like “that’s teh cool”.
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 25 May 2023 12:55 (three years ago)
293. Maintained profiles on both Friendster and MySpace until it was clear which one was gonna really take off.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Thursday, 25 May 2023 13:04 (three years ago)
294. Got knocked for a loop when thefacebook.com showed up to the party.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Thursday, 25 May 2023 13:05 (three years ago)
295. Had no idea what 90% of the electronic music producers your record collection looked like, or had any knowledge of their views / breakfast that day / hot takes on current affairs etc.
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Thursday, 25 May 2023 14:57 (three years ago)
*in your record collection even
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Thursday, 25 May 2023 14:58 (three years ago)
reaction videos are the flash mobs of the 2020s
― budo jeru, Thursday, 25 May 2023 16:29 (three years ago)
298. A young generation moved into adulthood, boldly declaring their key tenet: ‘We eat ass’
― But who are we doing it versus? (sunny successor), Friday, 26 May 2023 07:32 (three years ago)
Teenage dirtbags
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Friday, 26 May 2023 07:42 (three years ago)
300. Googlewhacked
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 26 May 2023 18:11 (three years ago)