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⢠Shrek
⢠Watching Pimp My Ride and Scarred on MTV and seeing actual music videos
⢠My older sisterâs Girl Scout troop performing a dance to a backstreet boys song at the mall
⢠Going to warped tour
⢠Cutting up my older sisterâs old Seventeen magazines to make collages
⢠The premiere of iCarly
⢠Having a family computer where youâd get on the internet and then get off and not think about it the rest of the day
⢠Waiting on each Harry Potter book to be written, and waiting on each movie to be made
⢠JLOâs butt was considered gigantic for some reason
⢠Bush administration
⢠Burning cds and decorating them with sharpies
⢠Seeing Panic! At The Disco in concert during their peak
⢠Spending bunch of time playing outside
⢠The world seemed less noisy and more optimistic back then. People just lived instead of performing life for social media.
⢠Watching Pimp My Ride and Scarred on MTV and seeing actual music videos
⢠My older sisterâs Girl Scout troop performing a dance to a backstreet boys song at the mall
⢠Going to warped tour
⢠Cutting up my older sisterâs old Seventeen magazines to make collages
⢠The premiere of iCarly
⢠Having a family computer where youâd get on the internet and then get off and not think about it the rest of the day
⢠Waiting on each Harry Potter book to be written, and waiting on each movie to be made
⢠JLOâs butt was considered gigantic for some reason
⢠Bush administration
⢠Burning cds and decorating them with sharpies
⢠Seeing Panic! At The Disco in concert during their peak
⢠Spending bunch of time playing outside
⢠The world seemed less noisy and more optimistic back then. People just lived instead of performing life for social media.
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đI saw somebody else respond in this format so Iâm going to provide my misc memories from being 6-16 in the 2000s:
⢠frying an egg on the sidewalk/asphalt/car hoods with kids from my apartment complex because we were convinced it was that hot out ⢠watching SpongeBob seasons 1-3 on repeat ⢠watching mtv after school and always having a talk show or pbs queued up on the âprevious channelâ button so if my mom came home I could quickly look like I was watching Ellen or Oprah or cyberspace all along (mtv shows were so raunchy) â˘you had to watch vh1 for anything music related ⢠catalogs!!! i would do all my âscrollingâ in limited too catalogs and then dig through racks at tj maxx to find similar things my mom could actually buy â˘teen mags for the quizzes ⢠driving around with my mom listening to her cds while she smoked and ran errands (honestly this still holds up today/ I keep it alive in my own ac-less suv) ⢠beanie babies and being called out if you had fakes ⢠listening to radio Disney on my boom box before bed â˘riding my bike aimlessly when I had nothing else to do â˘walking to the gas station with my $5 allowance and buying Sobe, now n later, tgi Friday potato skins, and cherry vanilla coke â˘I also got in trouble a lot for wandering off or smoking rolled up sticky notes or vandalizing storage units with âbrat girlâ or something so y2k â˘I remember my outfits so wellâŚ. Many cheeky graphic tees, ringer tees, layered tanks, peasant skirts, stripes, capris, platform sneakers, chokers â˘redesigning my MySpace every weekend â˘changing my aim screen name with the seasons â˘being bullied by boys in middle school, over aim or getting prank called â˘when I got a cell phone I never remember charging it, but I do remember trying to break my Nokia brick because I wanted a razr or a chocolate, but it was truly indestructible â˘listening to mix cds in friends cars as they began to drive because nobody had an aux cord or Bluetooth â˘2008-2010 weâre really dark so Iâll spare you more details
⢠frying an egg on the sidewalk/asphalt/car hoods with kids from my apartment complex because we were convinced it was that hot out ⢠watching SpongeBob seasons 1-3 on repeat ⢠watching mtv after school and always having a talk show or pbs queued up on the âprevious channelâ button so if my mom came home I could quickly look like I was watching Ellen or Oprah or cyberspace all along (mtv shows were so raunchy) â˘you had to watch vh1 for anything music related ⢠catalogs!!! i would do all my âscrollingâ in limited too catalogs and then dig through racks at tj maxx to find similar things my mom could actually buy â˘teen mags for the quizzes ⢠driving around with my mom listening to her cds while she smoked and ran errands (honestly this still holds up today/ I keep it alive in my own ac-less suv) ⢠beanie babies and being called out if you had fakes ⢠listening to radio Disney on my boom box before bed â˘riding my bike aimlessly when I had nothing else to do â˘walking to the gas station with my $5 allowance and buying Sobe, now n later, tgi Friday potato skins, and cherry vanilla coke â˘I also got in trouble a lot for wandering off or smoking rolled up sticky notes or vandalizing storage units with âbrat girlâ or something so y2k â˘I remember my outfits so wellâŚ. Many cheeky graphic tees, ringer tees, layered tanks, peasant skirts, stripes, capris, platform sneakers, chokers â˘redesigning my MySpace every weekend â˘changing my aim screen name with the seasons â˘being bullied by boys in middle school, over aim or getting prank called â˘when I got a cell phone I never remember charging it, but I do remember trying to break my Nokia brick because I wanted a razr or a chocolate, but it was truly indestructible â˘listening to mix cds in friends cars as they began to drive because nobody had an aux cord or Bluetooth â˘2008-2010 weâre really dark so Iâll spare you more details
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đśsome of my core memories:
- playing on webkinz or bearville with my cousin every night
- making random things out of duct tape (the wallets, the bows, omg) (definitely more late 2000s but still)
- the vibrant and fun patterns on everything (i loveeeeed lisa frank)
- being outside a lot more
- when I got a slide phone and I accidentally pressed the internet button and I had to viciously go back to the home screen or it would add a charge to the bill and my parents would get mad
- land lines, we still have ours, but I'm seeing less and less people have them now
- primarily listening to CD's (and not understanding pirating so I was amazed that my aunt could get me beatles CD's for free lol)
- having the computer in a different room and not being on it all the time besides when Id play games or watch cat video compilations on youtube
- speaking of games, the spongebob computer games were fire
- also speaking of games, playing my dad's ps1 (when we play them now we're like, how could we even play these?? the quality is so bad compared to what we're used to now lmao)
- then there were the unfortunate parts of it like the only jeans that you could find were low-mid rise, which Im pretty sure is why I hate them to this day đ love that other people love them again but I can barely do mid rise lol
- also 2000's clothing sizing was INSANE, even for children, I don't miss that at all
- but at least I was alive and conscious for when High School Musical was released
- also the shows were so good (at the time anyway, looking at certain nickelodeon shows as an adult gives me the ick) (you know the ones)
- also you got peak spongebob
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âď¸- running around outside spontaneously with neighborhood kids and siblings. once you agreed to be friends, you would just show up unannounced to their house and ask if they can play. No plan. No warning. Doorbell only. their family members would know who you are and when they opened the door would shout your friends name, then announce youâre her for them. Nowâthis is a terrifying scenario.
-would only go back home when my mom would yell for me from the porch or literally ring a bell or have to come find us. This usually happened around dinner time.
-Dial up internet, would only be able to use extremely slow internet or someone was using the line to be on the phone, couldnât be both.
-AIM, Xanga, GAIA online (cursed), MySpace eventually. low-poly video games I still like to play like FFVII.
-Exploring areas I wasnât supposed to like sheds, nearly-abandoned garages, small fields with random paths, and the woods without a sense of direction.
-Cool older friends and sisters had GARMINS to navigate them. Other than that, you had to ask for direction, write them down, MAPQUEST it, use a physical map, or just generally know where youâre going.
-Casettes, but mostly CDs for music. I did have a CD player for the bus in middle school. When iPods came out that was a game changer. Music was mostly pirated from limewire. Burning and making mixed CDs and playlists for people was a thing. New music was discovered on bandcamp, YouTube, and MTV.
When browsing for CDs at a physical store, there were CD players with headphones attached so you could listen to it before buying, otherwise you wouldnât know what the music was like and it was a blind purchase.
-Home videos were shot on cam-corders, photos taken from digital cameras or disposables. Polaroids were a treat.
-If there was snow, I would stay up watching the news with my mom watching the bottom of the screen to see if my school district was closed for a snow day the next day.
-I didnât have a smart phone until after I graduated high school, and only shared a flip phone with my brother the last few years of high school, so I missed out on that experience. it was a social handicap for sure.
-still needed to go to the school office or pay phone if I needed to call my mom. And I would need to have her number memorized.
-Cable TV was annoying So many commercials. So many reruns. you had to look up what was playing in a TV Guide: first a printed book, then a channel dedicated to it on Cable. Netflix started with mailing DVDsâI think 1 or 2 at a time. renting movies at blockbuster was still a thing, then Redbox. when DVR came around, it was HUGE. Finally could record a show to watch later, but only if the tv was on and it could only record one show at a time.
-midnight premiers at movie theatres
-game boy color and Nintendo DS were fun.
-2000s skinny culture was toxic af tho and there were many other not great things about 2000s but this was the WORST.
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Jun 23, 2025
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đLog off Amazon prime and step into the real world. Go to a local physical store in your community. Look your neighbor in the eye and put money in their hand.
Go to a local venue and hear what musicians in your community are creating. Talk to them about it afterwards. Buy a T-shirt or cd or whatever theyâre selling, theyâll make more money from that than from thousands of streams. Seriously, Spotify pays a fraction of a penny per stream.
Forget about Starbucks. Check out a local coffee shop instead. Learn your baristaâs name and tip them.
Go to your local book store and library. Look around and see what book covers catch your eye. Ask employees for recommendations instead of just reading whateverâs trending on #booktok.Â
Go to your local museums, farmers market, theaters, restaurants, whatever your community has going on.
When you go local, you see your community in a new way. You make friends and feel more connected to the people around you.
You will discover new things organically instead of relying on an algorithm. You keep your money circulating in your community instead of making billionaires richer. You will have a greater appreciation for where you live.
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Go to a local venue and hear what musicians in your community are creating. Talk to them about it afterwards. Buy a T-shirt or cd or whatever theyâre selling, theyâll make more money from that than from thousands of streams. Seriously, Spotify pays a fraction of a penny per stream.
Forget about Starbucks. Check out a local coffee shop instead. Learn your baristaâs name and tip them.
Go to your local book store and library. Look around and see what book covers catch your eye. Ask employees for recommendations instead of just reading whateverâs trending on #booktok.Â
Go to your local museums, farmers market, theaters, restaurants, whatever your community has going on.
When you go local, you see your community in a new way. You make friends and feel more connected to the people around you.
You will discover new things organically instead of relying on an algorithm. You keep your money circulating in your community instead of making billionaires richer. You will have a greater appreciation for where you live.
P.S. Pay In CashÂ
Jan 29, 2025