Things people did in the 2000s

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

49. Smell what bars really smell like for the first time

50. Could be reached at hax0rz✧✧✧@hotm✧✧✧.c✧✧

Phew, good thing it got censored straight away.

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.

52. Traipse around town with a discman in their oversized pocket.

53. watched seasons of a TV show one episode at a time, at one-week intervals, over a 6-8 month timespan

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, May 19, 2021 11:33 AM (six minutes ago)

still works better than Bluetooth!

lol i was using this method until 2014, when my car with a cassette deck died.

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.

fucking hated this decade

(forgot to include part of that description, should read "of a late, racist, possibly neo-Nazi, motorcycle mechanic and artist")

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

55. Unironically used the catchphrase, "that's hot".

56. Show some buttcrack

never out of style

nikka costa

57. WORLDSTAR!!!!!

58. rap was all like "plinkity plinkity"

59. EBaum's World

60. Thought "All your base" was the height of hilarity.

YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME.

All your base (are) belong to us 👾 https://t.co/brwNKJ8wrh

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 19, 2019

61. Instant messaging

62. Got a gmail address

63. Got a Facebook account

64. Thought George W. Bush was the worst

65. Read The Daily Kos

66. Dump Hotmail

67. Became HTML masters so they could sync up an animated background with their MySpace track

68. Clicked on links

64. Thought George W. Bush was the worst

― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, May 19, 2021 7:00 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

HASN'T CHANGED!

69. Spent £3.95 on a monophonic ringtone of the opening notes of their favourite song which they'd seen in a magazine, subsequently rendering it their least favourite song

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