29 Reminders Of Life In The Early 2000s
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29 Things That'll Remind Millennials Of What A Wonderfully Simple Time The Early 2000s Were
Man, those were the days.by
by Brian Galindo Staff, 
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1. Remember when you'd rush home from school just to jump on AIM to talk to your friends (from school) about everything that had happened that day...
2. ...when this was how you trolled people...
AIM 3. ...when there was no better way to spend an afternoon than flipping through the newest issue of Teen People...
ebay.com 4. ...when TRL was your must-see daily appointment TV...
Stephen Lovekin / FilmMagic / Getty Images 5. ...when you voted every week for your favorite American Idol contestants like your life depended on it...
Vince Bucci / Getty Images 6. ...when it felt like a little victory that your DVR didn't cut off taping the last few minutes of a show you liked...
Donnichols / Getty Images 7. ...when you had to worry about how many megapixels your digital camera had...
Nikon 8. ...when 90% of the time you spent playing The Sims went to making design changes to the house and making your Sims look like your friends and crushes...
reddit.com 9. ...when this was the most gourmet snack you could have...
selectoseasyshop.com 10. ...when the guy yelling "Coming soon..." at the beginning of a Disney video would give you a little startle (even though you knew it was coming)...
Disney / Roth7000 / Via youtube.com 11. ....when the biggest fights between you and your siblings were over who got to use the computer...
windows7delldimension2400.blogspot.com 12. ...when you had a 70% chance of having Internet Explorer crash on you while using it...
Internet Explorer 13. ...when Windows would shut down and restart on you for no reason — usually while you were in the middle of writing something on Word...
Windows 14. ...when you'd have to call yourself and enter your pin in order to listen to your voicemails...
Simplistically Digital / Via youtube.com 15. ...when there was no more embarrassing feeling than leaving an awkward voicemail on your friend's home answering machine...
Donnichols / Getty Images/iStockphoto 16. ...when going to the mall was an EVENT and not a chore...
Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images 17. ...when Sharper Image was a must-stop-at store whenever you visited the mall...
Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images 18. ...and it was 90% just to sit in their massage chairs...
Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images 19. ...when you had either a love or hate relationship with Abercrombie & Fitch...
Kathryn Scott Osler / Denver Post via Getty Images 20. ...when there was nothing more fun than going to Borders and sitting on the floor reading magazines...
Joe Raedle / Getty Images 21. ...when no stop to Tower Records or the Virgin Megastore would be complete without listening to an album in the kiosk (which is/was gross in retrospect)...
Spencer Platt / Getty Images 22. ...when the iTunes Free Download Single of the Week actually mattered...
iTunes / Via guidebookgallery.org 23. ...when you would load up your LimeWire download queue, go to bed, and pray that it didn’t time out by the morning...
Twitter: @denise8701 24. ...or when you were almost done downloading a song off LimeWire, only to have the other user sign off...
Aeneas @3neas #tbt that moment when you were downloading a song on #Limewire and the other user logs off at 50% completion.. how far music piracy has come 04:50 AM - 30 Jul 2015 Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @3neas 25. ...when you'd always make sure you had extra blank CDs at home...
amazon.ca 26. ...when there was no better feeling than making or getting a mix CD from a friend...
Tarzhanova / Getty Images/iStockphoto 27. ...when there was always a little fear that someone would walk in while a Girls Gone Wild commercial was playing and think you were watching porn...
Millennium VHS / Via youtube.com 28. ...when it was important to get to Blockbuster early on Fridays to make sure you could rent a copy of the newest release...
Getty Images 29. ....and lastly, when you'd fall asleep watching a DVD and be woken up by the blinking DVD screensaver:
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