Things people did in the 2000s

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

70. went to the cinema to watch a film set in a phone booth

71. Log on to Friends Reunited

spend a week downloading Finding Nemo on WinMx

72

73. Flew from one bit of Europe to another for under £50 total

74. Had strong feelings about Pitchfork

75. Were part of a Street Team to rep their favorite band or label

76. Complain about top-posting

77. Covered furniture in silver paint

78. Assumed all conflict everywhere was ultimately about religion

79. Wrote essays to justify why it was OK to listen to pop music

80. Rated poo

81. Googled miserable failure

82. Labeled MP3s incorrectly
83. Download incorrectly labeled MP3s

82. Went to see acclaimed movies like "Juno" and "Little Miss Sunshine" and realized they actually sucked.

85. Play games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero and think that they have musical talent

Teenage dirtbags

300. Googlewhacked