250. Consider 256mb mp3 players with LED displays serious cutting edge shit. More of a self-own here because I was well behind the curve on music players.
― calzino, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:05 (five years ago)
251. Shagged Ariane
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:10 (five years ago)
252. Laughed at cross-dressers. ("I'm a LADY!")
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:16 (five years ago)
Of course now all the disablist/anti-trans/racist blackfacing elements are indefensible now, but really they should have been at the time as well. Not that I'm getting on my high horse here. I only boycotted it on the grounds that Lucas/Williams are horribly unfunny performers and absolute despicable wankers to boot.
― calzino, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:27 (five years ago)
253. Not automatically lol when you thought about Joseph Kony and the Lords Resistance Army
― Fart low, sweet chariot, Coming for to carry me home (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:37 (five years ago)
lol @ 251, had completely forgotten about that particular gem
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:49 (five years ago)
254. Ran a spyware scan on your parents' computer and removed bonzibuddy.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 20:00 (five years ago)
(Today: help your parents use spying apps from google, apple, facebook)
― wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 20:03 (five years ago)
My in-laws once asked me, in the 2000s, to look at their computer because it was “going slow”. Literally a full half of their Internet Explorer window was bullshit toolbars, because they always clicked Yes to everything.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 20:31 (five years ago)
374a. used physical tickets to get into events
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 20:41 (five years ago)
471b. lots of fast food places didn't take debit cards yet (at least in the early 2000s)
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 20:46 (five years ago)
258. Yelled "Whazzup!" at each other
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 00:06 (five years ago)
259. Yelled "Nice one Brova!" at each other
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 00:07 (five years ago)
xpost I have a friend who said that to me a week ago, and she's only 25 - she woulda been like, a toddler when that came out.
but she didn't know it from the original commercial - did it appear somewhere else recently?
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 00:07 (five years ago)
260. "Bud...Weis....ER!"
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 00:08 (five years ago)
260b. worried that the frogs screensaver was a virus261. still used a screensaver
― wasdnuos (abanana), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 00:25 (five years ago)
262 sent people links that hijacked their screensaver with pr0n/frightening old ladies/space invaders.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 20:37 (five years ago)
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal)
In the UK there was still a smattering of smaller food outlets and shops that didn't until the pandemic!
― chap, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 20:39 (five years ago)
honestly I kinda wish nobody did, I'm more cognizant of how much money is leaving my bank account if I'm physically handing someone currency rather than a card.
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 21:07 (five years ago)
263. Crunk264. Melidramatic Popular Song
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 10 June 2021 23:58 (five years ago)
265. still waited for The Avalanches to release a new album266. gave up on waiting for My Bloody Valentine to release a new album
― scanner darkly, Sunday, 13 June 2021 18:45 (four years ago)
267 said that it was “like buttah”
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 14 June 2021 17:11 (four years ago)
from an snl sketch that ran from 1991-1994
― wasdnuos (abanana), Monday, 14 June 2021 17:20 (four years ago)
268 started threads with thread titles like
When will y'all realize that Marissa Nadler is the nu-gothique schnizzle?
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 14 June 2021 17:21 (four years ago)
ok look my memory isn’t what it was
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 14 June 2021 17:37 (four years ago)
269. Improv Everywhere
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 23:07 (four years ago)
1. cut a hole in the box
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 00:45 (four years ago)
271. This is the thread where you roll up the rim to win
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 07:55 (four years ago)
272. Your mum
― hoos springsteen (qiqing), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 08:12 (four years ago)
273. Adult kickball leagues
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 09:30 (four years ago)
274. Go to internet cafes while travelling.(boring option, but probably the most 00s thing for me)
― ed.b, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 14:03 (four years ago)
hahaha I did that a few times
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 14:04 (four years ago)
275. Lost the connector dongle for their PCMCIA modem card
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 14:12 (four years ago)
276. downloaded entire albums on their T1 connections, said it was ok as the 'artists make more money off of touring anyway'. had kids that now say the same thing in 2021.
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 14:50 (four years ago)
277. asked ilx what "GPRS connectivity" meant, feeling that it was somehow the future
New Apple Lust Objects
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 15:30 (four years ago)
274b and often spent half-hour waiting for the dial-up to connect and frequently lost long emails as the whole thing crashed.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 17 June 2021 13:37 (four years ago)
278. Said "shit the bed" to express surprise
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 19:46 (four years ago)
279. Were really impressed by street art
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 19:47 (four years ago)
280. Played electronic music shows with a desktop and CRT monitor
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 19:49 (four years ago)
280. Finally accept that Marissa Nadler is the nu-gothique schnizzle
― ✖, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 19:50 (four years ago)
282. Were Poxy Fules Who Turned Back
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 20:31 (four years ago)
Chill down my spine from 282.
― chap, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 10:14 (four years ago)
283. Were constantly anxious that a terrorist attack might happen.
― chap, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 10:15 (four 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)