“Kids today dont know the joy of getting a new CD on release day.”
So when Reddit useru/1dfk000asked: “Older millennials of Reddit: what was life like in the 2000s?”
so many people provided their perspectives.
Here’s what they said below:
1.
“We used to go over to someone’s house after school and just sit on the computer.
“16/f/cali u?”
u/Godzira-r32
“My whole life changed when I experienced MSN Messenger for the first time.
And getting the screen name from a girl youhad a crushon?
Man, there was nothing like it for 13-year-old me.”
u/istrx13
3.
“It was a simpler time.
We hung out at the mall and played video games like Halo and Grand Theft Auto.
Social media wasnt as big, so we actually called our friends on the phone to make plans.
Napster and LimeWire were the go-to for downloading music.”
“The push notification wasnt until 2009.
Before that, youd need to log on somewhere to see if you got a message from anyone.
No group chats, etc.
In many ways, thats when everything changed, in terms of communication, at least.”
u/cupan-tae
5.
“Music was huge.
We had pop-punk bands like Blink-182 and Green Day.
TV shows likeFriendsandThe Sopranoswere at their peak.
We didnt have YouTube yet, so wed watch music videos on MTV or VH1.
Kids today dont know the joy of getting a new CD on release day.”
“We had dial-up internet at first, which was super slow.
Kids today dont know the struggle of waiting for a page to load.
We used to rent movies from Blockbuster.
And if you missed an episode of your favorite show, youd have to wait for the rerun.”
u/pavelgavrilovd7til
7.
“I worked at a cellphone store from 2006-2008.
It was a wild time as we had like 60 different phone models with like 12 different operating systems.
It was actually a difficult job because you had to know a lot about each individual product.
Does anyone remember BlackBerry?
Those hundreds of similar candy bar phones?
When low-rez camera phones became a thing?
“As someone who has now lived through four decades, the 2000s by far had the worst fashion.
u/SPEK2120
9.
“Hip-hop, rap, and R&B all dominated popular culture for most of the decade.
It was a massive transition from the grunge styles of the ’90s.
There was a lot of color and a lot of very big collars on shirts.
I think because of the war on terror, there was a general weirdness with movies and TV.
Everything felt oddly sanitized but filled with little meta jokes.
I couldn’t call her until after 7 p.m. either because that’s when free minutes on Sprint started.
9/11 flipped the world upside down.
I graduated from high school into the 2008 Great Recession.
So a lot of people in our generation has become justifiably bitter and pessimistic.”
u/Descent900
11.
“Everyone had a fuck ton of DVDs, but people also burned music CDs.
If you had money, you had an iPod.
Cash for clunkers hadn’t happened yet, so cars were ridiculously cheap.
The Internet started off crappy but quickly got better.
As that happened, online gaming took off.
Teen movies glorified drinking and partying, so a lot of cheap beer was consumed.”
“Obama’s campaign is hard to describe.
People were so sick of Bush and so excited for Obama.
He was such an incredible, inspiring speaker, the prospect of a Black president was so thrilling.
In today’s cynical environment, it’s really hard to capture that feeling.”
u/roma258
13.
“MySpace was THE platform between 2005-2007, and then Facebook started taking over.
MySpace had a lot of bugs, and the fake profiles were overwhelming.
However, I loved how I could design my own MySpace page and got really into it.
Facebook didnt have those options.
