Anyone here old enough to remember most of the 2000s? What were those times like...

Anyone here old enough to remember most of the 2000s? What were those times like? (Am 18 year old Zoomer whose memory only goes as far back as 2008-2009)

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>Am 18 year old Zoomer
I believe you ;)

Most of the things in the photo you posted, I don't really remember other than short bits of memory. I was in second grade when 9/11 happened. I remember that we got out of school early that day and I remember being in the car with my mom on the way home and asking her why I was getting out early but I don't remember what she told me. I do remember seeing it on the news for weeks. I remember the Saddam statue falling, and I remember the night that Osama Bin Laden was killed (Though that was later and I was older).

I don't know. Mostly I was playing Halo and super smash brothers melee. I was on Yea Forums before your memory started.

also in the 2000-2005 time I was playing a lot of Diablo 2 and starcraft

Playing Halo online in pc was the best. Muslims destroyed stuff in New York that I didn't know existed (I was 9) Fat Nebraskans held up "Support the Troops" signs at football games and Vietnam 2 started. DVDs replaced VHS tapes and music was still cheesy, but in a less "oh, baby baby" kind of way.

same poster

Halo PC was crazy. and crazy fun. I had to buy a super shitty 3rd party controller for PC to play it because this was long before PC support for xbox controllers. Laggy as fuck sometimes, but still fun.

We were also playing Halo 1 online via xbox connect at the time, but I only got to play that when my older brother was home and would let me hang out with him.

Also websites like picrel, Ebaums World, miniclip, etc

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I remember getting commemorative euro sets for the euro coming out (American, but I collected coins as a kid). Don't really remember 9/11 but I remember the start of the Iraq war. Don't really remember the tsunami either, it was all blurred together with other aid/crisis coverage. I was in middle school during the foreclosure crisis and spent a lot of time breaking into and exploring abandoned buildings. I remember there being 8 abandoned houses in my neighborhood, 4 of which we got into. We also broke into a giant empty factory which was probably the first time I've peaked in life.

Fuck yeah, giant abandoned factories are fun as shit

I remember them well.

9/11 really got the decade off to a rough start. It felt, even at the time, like something was ending, even if we couldn't quite put it into words at the time. A bit like the end of the innocence, after the 90s.

George W. and the Iraq war took up so many of those years. Complete shitshow through and through, and everyone knew it. We don't talk about that war much anymore, and I guess that makes sense, given how it ended.

Even more than 9/11, the financial crisis in hit us hard. It's difficult to imagine now, but it really felt like everything was falling apart. People were losing their jobs, houses and sense of security. It really felt like we were starting a new Depression and no one knew where the bottom was.

The highlight of the decade was Obama getting elected. I know many on b/ will disagree, but when it happened, it felt like the impossible had happened, and that a younger generation was taking over, for the better, probably much like the people who voted for Kennedy felt back in the 60s. Looking back, that feeling was a mirage, of course, but it was pretty magical when it happened.

I left high school early in 2010. One of the stupidest things I did, no one wanted to hire a 16 year old with no experience when there was literally thousands of adults to choose from

samefag

I remember before Obama was elected, though I was in High school at the time. I wasn't old enough to vote but some of my friends were. The conservatives of the time called him the Anti-Christ and said that his getting elected would usher in the end of days.

Do you remember the OKC bombing?

It was so lame.
The music was fucking terrible compared to today.

Yeah i remember OKC, even though that was in the 90s. Especially that picture of the firefighter carrying the dead girl - very sad.

It was shocking when it happened. People had a hard time believing that an American was responsible

There was a lot of transparency in electronics for some reason. That was appealing to people I guess, to see the circuitry inside

Obama pretty much politicized all the positions within government that he had the power to fill. He helped seat much of the deep state that went after political opponents illegally with the power of the government.

Yeah haha
Also, kids these days have no idea what it's like to have so few multiplayer gaming options, videos which buffered, or buying a new game and attempting to play it on the old family computer

>videos that buffered
Videos weren't widespread online until the 2000s

this is still a thing, just not necessarily in consumer electronics. Look at people who build their PCs to have a big window with pretty lights inside showcasing all their hardware.

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my first MMO was star wars galaxies, i was in middle school

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That's not what I'm talking about.

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Born in 1987.

Life was much simpler in the 90's and early 2000's. Internet was available, but not really popular until the mid-2000's. People really didn't text until the mid-2000's. Social media did not largely exist, and the country was not as divided. It took less to make you happy, and people were not as fake as they are now. Compared to those years, people now are very sensitive and fragile.

back then people used phones to call, touchscreens hardly existed and mobile internet was a total shit show.

people could navigate without google maps

my parents would only let me have one game on the family computer at a time

> SWG

gave up my monthly allowance so my mom would pay the 15/mo SWG subscription

> was a total noob, didn't understand the game at all but loved it

So many porno flash games on newgrounds
Bit later 00s but i member getting a psp imported from Japan before they came out here and it was based and the circle button was select for everything instead of X
Also could buy cigarettes at age 16 here up until like 2006 so when I started school 2 all the oldest kids smoked
That fuckin Elvis remix and the Elton John one
The 60s was kind of in for a bit i remember seeing chads in flairs kek

I'm 44, I graduated from college in 2001.

For me, most of the 2000's doesn't even register in my memory, it's like
>oh yeah, that happened

9/11 was unfathomable, it was this gigantic WTF moment, but everybody came together because of it. Not like today. People rallied around NYC and the Police and especially the Fire departments.

Afghanistan was a hopeful Shitshow.
From the beginning we had to deal with Warlords and tribes that hated each other to try to put some kind of government together that would cooperate.
We made progress in the country, but we all know how that's turned out since we left.

The financial crisis wasn't really a thing that affected me. We've owned the home we're in since my grandparents bought it in the '40s, so there was no mortgage issues and we don't use a big national bank, so for me that was something that affected other people.

Obama getting elected was, for me at least, a big deal in that he was Black, but politically I would have voted for anyone with his platform.
I generally vote Democrat, but I'm receptive to voting Republican, and have.

I don't know if this helped, but contrasted against the 80's, (Fall of the Berlin Wall, Collapse of the Soviet Union, Chernobyl, Challenger explosion, AIDS epidemic) the 2000's didn't have as much of an impact on me.
Maybe because I was past my formative years, maybe because the 80's had such broad consequences, I'm not sure.

>FWIW, the 90's and 2010's barely register. I'm struggling to come up with anything beyond the British returning Hong Kong to China in '97 that hasn't gotten lost in my memory.

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Yeah, I remember the aughts. You would literally not believe how old I am.

Hint: I trolled Yea Forums on a dialup modem.

>star wars galaxies
> 2003
> year before WoW came out
> based on Everquest, blizzard hadn't changed the MMO scene forever yet
> be me
> 11 years old
> you can't be a jedi in this game wtf

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the internet from like 2006 to 2011 was literally the best shit in existence

lol, I played Starcraft on dial-up modem. Heck, I even remember having my dsl go down while I was helping WoW guildies run through latenight dungeons. I was able to use dial-up to finish it up (I was the only healer on), but I couldn't use vent and be in the game at the same time well enough. .

rose tinted glasses, though there were merits.

The pirate bay, for instance.

> Vent

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>Why the fuck would you use a controller for PC and not just a mouse and keyboard
You're only handicapping yourself by going that route.
I actually used to always been in the top 10 of any Xbox fps on Xbox Live because I just used a keyboard and mouse vs thier shitty controller

just use proxy scrub....

>1992
>Time to get on the Internet
>Send a mag tape to the University of Illinois for our copy of the Mosaic web browser source code.
>Oops - Mosaic is written for Sun workstations and we're a VAX shop.
>Rewrite parts of Mosaic so it runs on a VaxStation
>Go online. Check browser using the first webpage at CERN.
>Check AltaVista for more websites. There's more than 35,000 of them. none of them are Yea Forums.
>See the future.

I was born in 2000 and I feel like I was born at the very end of the good times.

there was no drive to be the best at halo PC because there was no ranked system, it was mostly fucking around in huge teams on massive sandbox maps that weren't even in the xbox version of Halo CE. this was before xbox live existed.

>The conservatives of the time called him the Anti-Christ and said that his getting elected would usher in the end of days.
And here we are.

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This game taught me how to speak english

They were good times but they were also just a dream.
A 50 year blip.

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It was better in a lot of ways, for example, nobody had smartphones and so there weren't as many unhinged and deranged all-or-nothing partisan faggots running around like today that are ruining society.

I was born in 1950.
>50's - OK
>60's - Hell yeah. Best decade ever.
>70's - Really and truly sucked.
>80's - OK. Great music BTW
>90's - OK.
>00's - Starting to slide downhill
>10's - Sort of OK maybe.

Things moved slower, it was pleasant to be alive. Less niggers and feminists. I miss it so bad.

>I was born in 1950.
>10's - Sort of OK maybe.

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what did you speak prior? wookiee?

Yes, it started with hanging chads cuz the Florida fools didn't clean out the hole punches on their ballots. Optic lines routed wall st. trades to off site data storage servers that EMC made for 19 million dollars for 9 terabytes and was able to open the NYSE 3 days after 9/11 which was a giants kick in the balls to moral...which was capped off with Obama burying Bin Laden within 24 hours in accordance with Islam... the rest you know...oh yea, the ipod was a 300 dollar pirate device and Steave Jobs killed music for an entire youth generation by turning off aspiring artists who would only make 5 cents a single instead of 50 for a hit. The rest you know

Gen X (1968) here.
I agree with you. Mind you I love current technology and would never want to go back to the days without smartphones. I just dislike the turbo tyrants that are running around trying to control and micromanage everyone these days.

My first memory related to technology: Watching president Eisenhower on a black and white tube TV. That only picked up one channel.

late millennial here (1992). why would you not want to ditch your smartphone? personally I'm considering getting rid of mine for a cheap burner phone that I only use to make and receive calls. I'm getting pretty sick of smartphones in general.

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Born in 90s. Alive at the time a home desktops started to become the norm. Caught the end of the analog era with the death of VHS and phasing in of DVD. Seems like my generation will be the last that remembers disappearing and playing outside with friends for hours or all day until the sun went down....and doing it again the next day. Remember myspace being dropped by people for Facebook. YouTube and other companies didn't censor so much and a lot of the power actually rested with the users of the platform. There were no cameras everywhere and people didn't record every moment of their lives. Distasteful things could be said among friends and in public without people giving a shit. (Goes with the previous point about everyone having a cellphone). People didn't have to work as much because things were cheaper. I remember when it was a travesty that gas went over $2 a gallon. Saw the emergence and disappearance of dubstep and other similar genres. Video games actually came out as a finished product and blew your mind as a kid. Live services didn't exist other than big names like world of warcraft. Etc. Etc. Etc. Simpler time to be alive, oh and the TSA didn't try to crawl up your ass for bringing in one ounce too much of hair product. And places like California and Paris weren't so overrun with illegals as democratic shitholes like they are today. There was no bullshit "woke" crowd and the anti-white agenda wasn't so in your face or didn't appear to exist outright.

Often thought I would have enjoyed life more if I was born in the 50s or 60s but I'd probably be more bitter than I already am about seeing the world go to shit.

>Born in 90s

>bunch of shit he wouldn't have known about

lmao fuck off troll

Troll? You must be a fucking retard.

Why should I give a fuck if he doesn't know about it? He asked and I answered. Even the captcha agrees. Now go fuck yourself.

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Agreed give med Cardi B!

I can remember watching TV which was a wooden box with 4 channels.

I had just got dial up around 2000 and I remember jacking off before work waiting for images to slowly download, from a thumbnail gallery poster. Went to work one day and everyone came in saying America was under attack, I was expecting WW3 with planes crashing everywhere, when I got home I found out it was only a dozen sand niggers.

The drive home was strange though, I have only seen roads as deserted when we had a covid lockdown.

Internet porn seemed better back then as it was more of an effort to download it. I would spend hours edging waiting for broken clips on Emule preview, you might get a few seconds before it fully downloaded, which could take weeks. Everything is too easy now.

Most things are better now to be honest, except for cars and music. Cars still had character, decent power and were individual. I could tell you the make of a car just by listening to it. Now most have evolved into 0.5 /cylinder pulse tuned vvt turbos which all sound the same. Most efficient but no sound character.
Music had the last nigger music that wasn't all about bling, and the dance music of the late 90's and early 2000's was excellent, raves , festivals, loads of clubs and all a weekly occurrence.

woooosh

Dialup

>be me, 29

> own a 1999 jeep grand cherokee, a 2006 subara forester, a 1970 1/2 for falcon, and a 1980 suzuki gs450s

what do my vehicles sound like lmao

>tries to talk about good music in the late 90s and early 2000s, but talks about dance music

lmao

>shoegaze, grunge, punk, pop punk, ska of the 90s and the emerging indie rock scene

Yeah, I didn't get too excited over 9/11. In 1962 I watched my parents stockpiling groceries in the basement because it looked like World War 3 was about to start. I did duck and cover in school. To this day, I feel an ice cold finger touch my heart when I hear a civil defense siren.

> jeep grand cherokee
How many times has your water pump gone out and transmission gone out?

The induction noise on a properly tuned celebrated vehicle sounds amazing; specifically thinking of the Rochester quadrajet or thermoquad.

Carbureted*

Fucking hell autocorrect.

I bought it from a helicopter mechanic in OK who worked on it himself and have owned it for 3 years. It's mostly just what I drive around the hills in Arkansas between NWA and Eureka Springs. If I start having problems with it I'll sell it for parts.