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some 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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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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đĽ˛i was born in 97, so a lot of my formative memories occured between 2001-2008 - it was a really fun time and i have so much nostalgia for it. the town i grew up in was much smaller during that time and the things we had felt more fun and pure.
i was an only child so i spent a lot of time alone reading and drawing. i also loved cartoons of course, and would get small amounts of computer time that were mostly spent playing flash games. when i was 8 i got really into music and from that point i developed an interest in drumming and started collecting alternative emo rock cds you'd buy at hot topic, all thanks to my friend's older brother.
for years my best friends were the neighbor kids on my block. we'd walk to each others houses and yell over the fence or knock on the door to see if we could play. we'd ride bikes and play "ghost in the graveyard" (reverse hide and seek with a safe point, basically), and go to the pool during the summertime. we would use sticks as swords or lightsabers and bring our stuffed animals with us everywhere.
at my grandmas house in the mountains i would explore by myself as young as 7 or 8 years old.i remember many times being terrified i would get lost and die even though i could see her house. i would make kraft macaroni and cheese for lunch and read my dad's skateboarder and mad magazines from the 70s.
i'm thankful that the internet wasn't fully integrated into people's lives at that point, i know it's a common trope but having "the web" as they used to call it be a thing you could turn off/separate from was really underrated. the times you had to experience things like cartoonnetwork.com were really special and meant something. i'll never forget when my dad told me to fire it up after switching us to high speed internet from dial-up, that day forever changed my life (if you haven't heard the noise dial-up made when you'd log on - search it up that shit is bonkers). also seeing youtube get invented was crazy, before that we used to just watch flash videos on websites like newgrounds or albinoblacksheep, the original forms of brainrot
seeing technology advance was pretty crazy in general. we went from vhs tapes to dvds to on-demand all in the span of like 6 years. in that time we also went from cd players to ipods and saw the invention of the iphone.
cell phones used to be uncommon for people above a certain age and were actually quite devisive - my boomer ass parents had "no cell phones" stickers and i can still remember a time when i was out with my family around 2005 and my dad almost got an altercation with a random man for making a quip about him speaking on his cellphone as he walked past us (so out of pocket now that i look back on it jesus christ)
school was really weird because they were trying really hard to adapt to new technology and it was hard to keep up for a couple of years there - those who remember the transition from those 3M projector things to smartboards will understand
i obviously dont know what its like to be a kid now but it feels like it was easier then - i cant think of anyone who ever had "drip" before middle school, even rich kids - sometimes when i see kids wearing gucci im just like man what the fuck
also adults would hold your ass ACCOUNTABLE when you fucked up, no matter how little you were - i can remember being acosted by grown ass adults when i was maybe 4 or 5 years old and that was just totally normal. some adults were really nice and some were really fucking scary and that's just how it was.
mucho texto i know but man i miss it
i was an only child so i spent a lot of time alone reading and drawing. i also loved cartoons of course, and would get small amounts of computer time that were mostly spent playing flash games. when i was 8 i got really into music and from that point i developed an interest in drumming and started collecting alternative emo rock cds you'd buy at hot topic, all thanks to my friend's older brother.
for years my best friends were the neighbor kids on my block. we'd walk to each others houses and yell over the fence or knock on the door to see if we could play. we'd ride bikes and play "ghost in the graveyard" (reverse hide and seek with a safe point, basically), and go to the pool during the summertime. we would use sticks as swords or lightsabers and bring our stuffed animals with us everywhere.
at my grandmas house in the mountains i would explore by myself as young as 7 or 8 years old.i remember many times being terrified i would get lost and die even though i could see her house. i would make kraft macaroni and cheese for lunch and read my dad's skateboarder and mad magazines from the 70s.
i'm thankful that the internet wasn't fully integrated into people's lives at that point, i know it's a common trope but having "the web" as they used to call it be a thing you could turn off/separate from was really underrated. the times you had to experience things like cartoonnetwork.com were really special and meant something. i'll never forget when my dad told me to fire it up after switching us to high speed internet from dial-up, that day forever changed my life (if you haven't heard the noise dial-up made when you'd log on - search it up that shit is bonkers). also seeing youtube get invented was crazy, before that we used to just watch flash videos on websites like newgrounds or albinoblacksheep, the original forms of brainrot
seeing technology advance was pretty crazy in general. we went from vhs tapes to dvds to on-demand all in the span of like 6 years. in that time we also went from cd players to ipods and saw the invention of the iphone.
cell phones used to be uncommon for people above a certain age and were actually quite devisive - my boomer ass parents had "no cell phones" stickers and i can still remember a time when i was out with my family around 2005 and my dad almost got an altercation with a random man for making a quip about him speaking on his cellphone as he walked past us (so out of pocket now that i look back on it jesus christ)
school was really weird because they were trying really hard to adapt to new technology and it was hard to keep up for a couple of years there - those who remember the transition from those 3M projector things to smartboards will understand
i obviously dont know what its like to be a kid now but it feels like it was easier then - i cant think of anyone who ever had "drip" before middle school, even rich kids - sometimes when i see kids wearing gucci im just like man what the fuck
also adults would hold your ass ACCOUNTABLE when you fucked up, no matter how little you were - i can remember being acosted by grown ass adults when i was maybe 4 or 5 years old and that was just totally normal. some adults were really nice and some were really fucking scary and that's just how it was.
mucho texto i know but man i miss it
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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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đŠseriously though I don't know how to make the first step in making friends on here but my friends can attest that I'm cool đ I just need to get over my leaving comments anxiety but until then just know yall can message me if you're ever looking for someone to chat with đ
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