Were you alive in the year 2000? What was that year like?
>>83457331same as every year, the patriarchy oppressed women. moids are so evil.
>>83457347slutwhores like you deserve to be oppressed
i was just hanging out with my friends and my dad a lot. noel had braces. in the summer we went to her house. there was a rumor that if you sleptover at her house she walked around in her lingerie. i had a black nike triax watch my dad bought me from nike town we had matching pairs but his was kinda different. wearing it made my wrist pale and kinda smelly. ali vegas had next. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEyHrHxW_m0
It was banging, everybody feared their computer systems would shit the bed on new year's eve and spent HUGE money getting their computers futureproofed for the millennium. Lots of boybands dominated the radio which was absolutely awful, stuff like Backstreet Boys and Westlife. We were talking about and anticipating the release of the PLAYSTATION 2 which was like the 2nd coming of Jesus in the gaming world, the graphics looked SO REAL. Most people had a 56k dial-up internet connection which would bloack their phone line when internet was in use so no-one could call you. Most people didn't even have internet. Downloading music from Napster and then burning the tracks on CD ROM was the alpha activity of the times, you could find FREE music on the internet. Shit was off the hook.
>>83457331My life sucked for reasons I don't wanna get into.The jews didn't go crazy yet, but at the same time we didn't have alt news. So I think things are a little better now because at least people are getting red pilled about jews being satanic pedos who rule the world now.
>>83457347Aren't you like 20?>>83457331I remember playing N64 but I don't remember what I was playing in 2000. I had a PC too and internet, lots of shareware games I can't remember.
>>83457498Oh, and you take these CD-R albums you just burned (like Limp Bizkit or Korn or Type O Negative) and play them in your PORTABLE CD PLAYER (discman) and bring it to school. You would have binders full of burned and legit bought music albums and people would flick through them to see what your taste was like, sometimes some low-life niggers would steal them when you were not looking.
>>83457498blueface vs your nigga baby thats like benz vs ford
>>83457331>1996 (((clinton))) telecom actimagine hearing this song on every single FUCKING radio station and every single FUCKING store music speaker every 20 minutes with nothing you can do to make it fucking stophttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mom2TLs3Fi0
>>83457331It was amazing. I knew it was never ever going to get that good ever again. And you know what? It never did. lol
>>83457331Hell yeah. Annoyed my brother for a turn with the gameboy until I got my own copy of Pokemon Gold. He won the coin toss and go to pick first between the two versions. Anyone else remember the transparent n64 controllers? I always wanted one.
>>83457698>Anyone else remember the transparent n64 controllers? I always wanted one.Of course. You also had transparent n64 consoles. Good times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aMX8xURgjgThis was also played a lot but iis actually a pretty great song.
>>83457738I had the purple transparent controllers and the same for the GBC. It was so cool to see the internals of the hardware. I wanted a transparent N64 but never got one.>>83457698I had Red and then Silver. Had a friend who had Green and I thought that was so insane, never saw it in stores didn't know where he got it. He never let me play it though, what a fuck. Found out later it was Japan exclusive, still no idea how he got it.
>>83457331Goo ga ga *dribbles*
>>83457698>>83457796Mom thought they were tacky. Why did she gatekeep my controller aesthetic frens?
>>83457796>I had the purple transparent controllers and the same for the GBCI had a regular green one because it's my favorite color and I just chose on impulse because I was paralyzed by choice as the entire wall was filled with GBCs. I miss those days.
>>83457331I cant remember shit I was like 5 years oldI think I have a vague memory of everyone panicking about y2k on new years eve 1999 but it might be fabricated
>>83457331Horrible personal situation, but that aside I have some nice memories of playing pokemon and watching anime. Sunrise produced a lot of localizations for different series we wouldn't have seen otherwise and they were all on YTV so accessible for a child
>>834573312000 especially was a great year. Technology was starting to get more advanced, but everything was simple enough that it just worked. If you got a new video game, you just popped in the CD/cartridge and it worked. You didn't have to download anything, you didn't have to sign up for anything, you didn't have to remember a thousand passwords. The game just worked. But I think the most important part of it was how optimistic everyone was. The 90s were great, and 911 hadn't happened yet. Everyone thought America's future was bright and we couldn't wait to see what the future held. The media wasn't full of racebaiting and D&C slop, media was allowed to be fun instead of a political soapbox. I wish I could go back.>>83457519I burned the best songs from every Weird Al CD onto my own "greatest hits" CD and gave them away to people for their birthdays. I think I even sold a few for $1.
>>83458691>Technology was starting to get more advanced, but everything was simple enough that it just workedDid you not have a PC? Drivers were a constant pain in the ass. God forbid you're missing a dll for whatever reason and if you are good luck finding it online.
>>83457604This song's good tho
>>83457852>YTVDangerously based. Wish every day we could go back.
pokemon and star wars episode 1 shit everywhere
>>83457331Cheap as fuck. Gas was $1.49/gal. A dozen eggs were like 99 cents.Also we had no concept of how shitty things were about to get, we were still living it up like it was the fucking 90s. Optimism can change your whole outlook even if things aren't amazing, the way you feel is different when the future looks bright.We all just assumed the 21st century would be as fun and cool as the second half of the 20th century.
>>83459093>Gas was $1.49/galGas is cheaper now adjusted for inflation
>>83459120sign says $1.39 but yes gas right now is very cheapthanks drumph
>>83457331I was 8 years old in 200 so it was just pokemon and skateboarding.
>>83459132I was quoting you on the price I didn't even look at the image
>>83457331It was amazing, and I don't think it's just nostalgia goggles. The world in the 2000s was a hopeful one. The internet was a place we went to and then logged off, the streets weren't full of hobos and criminals, the clothes and tech and games were weird and colorful. For the year 2000 especifically I was too young but I vividly remember my dad freaking out about the Y2K bug KEK
>>83458743Dude I was 10, I didn't know what any of that shit was. I just put in a disc and it worked and windows never asked for my credentials 10 times a day.
>>83457331idk I was like three
>>83459631Yeah I was like 10 too and my goddamn peripherals were constantly breaking because of no drivers and every other floppy I jammed in the computer didn't work because of missing files that I had to hunt down. Not to mention the constant blue screens, swapping in and out of dos to play shit. Oh my god. Flashbacks. I do miss win95/98 the aesthetics were great and no AI web integrated stupid shit in the start menu.
we were requesting music videos on that The Box tv station, back when you could have shit like that and everything wasn't extremely surgically controlled down to the minutiae. it got bought out by MTV and became MTV2? I dont even know wtf happened. Everything just gets bought out and disappears.The only brands that have remained the same are Pepsi and Coke and this ad free radio station I listen to and wiki. Basically everything that relied on donations didn't change, hmmmmm, very mysterious indeed.I had just got Starcraft. I think my 64 either got stolen or was about to be and thats when I became PC master race completely. I got a PS2 later on but had like 1 game and ended up pawning it later for a bag of weed LOL. Pawnshops are basically useless for the purposes of selling shit unless you like being scammed.
>>83457498>everybody feared their computer systems would shit the bed on new year's eve and spent HUGE money getting their computers futureproofed for the millenniumAnd unironically the closest to Y2K happened during the summer of 2024.Just in time for all zoomers to have a memory of it, unlike 9/11.>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike-related_IT_outages
>>83459700I don't know what to tell you. I never had that problem. I had a decent, older PC that ran 95, I think.
>>83457331yeah, it was chillin
>>83457331This is because I posted in that 'what age were you 12' thread, wasn't it?I noticed that shit kicked off a cascade of people talking about the pre-9/11 world.It was nice. If you really want to know, compare the way entertainment has changed - after all, it's a reflection of the society that made it. Pre 9/11 shit is all about adventure, fantastic new things we've never experienced before, and it's genuine. It often had something to say, and challenged our preconceived notions to broaden our horizons and get us to consider new ideas. Post 9/11 shit is the same comfort zone crap over and over and over on progressively greater levels of irony poisoning. It doesn't challenge us because we don't want to be challenged, it tells us exactly what we want to hear and tells us that we're right about everything.People changed in a lot of the same ways. They used to be genuine, open to new things. Now they are terrified to be authentic, and only want to hear that everything they think is right.
>>83461081>Movie came out just a few weeks before 9/11>Last snapshot of the pre-9/11 world is a Smash Mouth concert
>>83461202Considering that the way people view Smashmouth is in itself a microcosm of the way the world changed in that period, this seems oddly fitting.>1999>Hey that's a pretty catchy song.>2001>Wow le epic shrek song haha I love this song sarcastically isn't that hilarious?
>tfw sometimes surrounding myself with 90s and 00s stuff just to pretend it isn't the current year and I still have a future>tfw pic is literally me
>>83458806>This song's good thono offensebut you should kill yourself
>>83457331Loved it. >Parents were still together. Their combined income exceeded 250k, so we had everything.>My dad was a big nerd. Our game room had Mrs. Pac-Man, 1942 and Galaga. Console wise, we had 2x N64s, 3PCs, a huge projection tv and the ps2 on launch day. He also bought us every handheld. Do you remember that the Sega game gear ate 6xAA batteries? >Had a massive in-ground pool with heated jacuzzi and a diving board. A massive outdoor seating area, with palm trees. Our house was the party house. Every other weekend we'd have a cookout. Our birthday parties were absolutely massive. Common occurrence were inflatables, impersonators and even an NBA player appearance (wasn't anyone like Shaq or MJ, but it was still cool) >Had season tickets to everything. Went to events all the time.>Vacationed 5+ times a year>Laser tagged, arcaded and go carted regularlyFuck. Up until 12, my childhood was badass. Thats when I mom blindsided my day with a divorce. One day everything is great, happy as can be. The next they were filing for divorce. My dad soon lost his job and my mom got injured. We moved from a 5br/3br house to a double wide.
