(Today: help your parents use spying apps from google, apple, facebook)
― wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 20:03 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
374a. used physical tickets to get into events
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 20:41 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
258. Yelled "Whazzup!" at each other
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 00:06 (three years ago) link
259. Yelled "Nice one Brova!" at each other
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 00:07 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
260. "Bud...Weis....ER!"
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 00:08 (three years ago) link
260b. worried that the frogs screensaver was a virus261. still used a screensaver
― wasdnuos (abanana), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 00:25 (three years ago) link
262 sent people links that hijacked their screensaver with pr0n/frightening old ladies/space invaders.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 20:37 (three years ago) link
― 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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
263. Crunk264. Melidramatic Popular Song
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 10 June 2021 23:58 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
267 said that it was “like buttah”
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 14 June 2021 17:11 (three years ago) link
from an snl sketch that ran from 1991-1994
― wasdnuos (abanana), Monday, 14 June 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
ok look my memory isn’t what it was
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 14 June 2021 17:37 (three years ago) link
269. Improv Everywhere
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 23:07 (three years ago) link
1. cut a hole in the box
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 00:45 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
272. Your mum
― hoos springsteen (qiqing), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 08:12 (three years ago) link
273. Adult kickball leagues
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 09:30 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
hahaha I did that a few times
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 14:04 (three years ago) link
275. Lost the connector dongle for their PCMCIA modem card
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 16 June 2021 14:12 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
278. Said "shit the bed" to express surprise
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 19:46 (two years ago) link
279. Were really impressed by street art
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 19:47 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
280. Finally accept that Marissa Nadler is the nu-gothique schnizzle
― ✖, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 19:50 (two years ago) link
282. Were Poxy Fules Who Turned Back
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 20:31 (two years ago) link
Chill down my spine from 282.
― chap, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 10:14 (two years ago) link
283. Were constantly anxious that a terrorist attack might happen.
― chap, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 10:15 (two years ago) link
^ 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 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
284. showed off their whale-tails
― peace, man, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
285. were clean shaven
― chap, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
286. Liked James Franco
― a hoy hoy, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 20:25 (two years ago) link
287. Took some things on the internet at face value.
― chap, Thursday, 1 July 2021 08:28 (two years ago) link
288. Vaguely assumed that at some point airport security would get back to normal.
― trishyb, Thursday, 1 July 2021 10:14 (two years ago) link
Definitely a conspiracy headed by Big Duty Free that we still can't take liquid on.
― chap, Thursday, 1 July 2021 10:35 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
I think maybe there'd be the occasional slightly jokey item about them on national news.
― chap, Thursday, 1 July 2021 16:44 (two years ago) link