Things people did in the 2000s

1. Put phone in an empty pint glass to amplify the music

2. 9/11

3. Insert a memory card into their gaming console that would invariably fail early on

4. Watch "The King of Queens"

5. play Dance Dance Revolution

6. Listen to The Strokes

7. Buy music for the last time

8. Got away with murder

9. Dane Cook

10. Salvia

11. drink Zima

12. say "wow, the 80s were 20 years ago" unironically

13. share music on KaZaA

Watch flash videos.
Invade Iraq.

yeah the flash videos have not aged well

16. Visit homestarrunner dot com.

17. Start posting on "I Love Everything"

18. collapse housing bubble

19. Read web comics

20. Listen to punk rock compilation albums about how much George W. Bush sucked.

21. let their Tamaguchis die

22. Fight in the great hipster wars

23. Get new music recommendations from Ultragrrrl.

24. Join ILX

25. Download and hoard thousands of MP3s

26. Be racist, except ‘ironically’.

27. Buy a map

28. Had their Nextel phones loudly chirp and someone start talking in the middle of a meeting.

29. Wear novelty eyeglasses on New Years Eve that spell out what year is coming next

30. Called things "gay"

31. Pollstar.com to look up upcoming concerts

32. Have kids, get married

33. Buy shitty "tie-in" DVDs that took place between the first and second films in a series as a cash-grab

34. Tubgirl

35. argued about when centuries begin

36. Homemade episodes of Jackass on someone’s dad’s video recorder

37. Enjoy the novelty of setting up a digital queue to be sent DVDs by mail.

38. Jenny McCarthy's flatulence

Print out directions for long journeys on Google Maps

(39.)

40. Read Slashdot

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!!

42. Make a phone call when a simple text message would have sufficed.

42. Spend 5 minutes composing a relatively short text message via T9

44. take a picture with your phone, which looks a bit like you took it while on a rollercoaster

45. Had utopian ideals about the internet.

46. While still using the work intranet.

47. Get their news from Comedy Central

42. Spend 5 minutes composing a relatively short text message via T9

T9 was faster than touchscreens :(

48. Watched dvd extras, including entire directory's commentary audio

265. still waited for The Avalanches to release a new album
266. gave up on waiting for My Bloody Valentine to release a new album

267 said that it was “like buttah”

from an snl sketch that ran from 1991-1994

268 started threads with thread titles like

When will y'all realize that Marissa Nadler is the nu-gothique schnizzle?

ok look my memory isn’t what it was

269. Improv Everywhere

1. cut a hole in the box

271. This is the thread where you roll up the rim to win

272. Your mum

273. Adult kickball leagues

274. Go to internet cafes while travelling.
(boring option, but probably the most 00s thing for me)

hahaha I did that a few times

275. Lost the connector dongle for their PCMCIA modem card

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.

277. asked ilx what "GPRS connectivity" meant, feeling that it was somehow the future

New Apple Lust Objects

274b and often spent half-hour waiting for the dial-up to connect and frequently lost long emails as the whole thing crashed.

278. Said "shit the bed" to express surprise

279. Were really impressed by street art

280. Played electronic music shows with a desktop and CRT monitor

280. Finally accept that Marissa Nadler is the nu-gothique schnizzle

282. Were Poxy Fules Who Turned Back

Chill down my spine from 282.

283. Were constantly anxious that a terrorist attack might happen.

^ 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

Huh I only just noticed that now after you pointed it out.

284. showed off their whale-tails

285. were clean shaven

286. Liked James Franco

287. Took some things on the internet at face value.

288. Vaguely assumed that at some point airport security would get back to normal.

Definitely a conspiracy headed by Big Duty Free that we still can't take liquid on.

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

that continued into the 10s as well.

the Harlem Shake was the first one that actually pissed me off.

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.

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?

Yeah that is odd - in my head they're linked to Facebook but actually a few years too early to have been in reality.

I think maybe there'd be the occasional slightly jokey item about them on national news.

I remember reading about them on cnn.com

289. Vonage

290. Listened to mashups

291. Say "Bunch of arse"

292. Said, out loud, things like “that’s teh cool”.

293. Maintained profiles on both Friendster and MySpace until it was clear which one was gonna really take off.

294. Got knocked for a loop when thefacebook.com showed up to the party.

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.

*in your record collection even

reaction videos are the flash mobs of the 2020s

298. A young generation moved into adulthood, boldly declaring their key tenet: ‘We eat ass’

Teenage dirtbags

300. Googlewhacked