I'm curious to know what life was like as a kid in the early 00s, since I was too young to experience it. (I wanna hear from mainly those born from like 90-93). What was culture like?  I was born in '97 and I'm 14 now. The most I remember is from 02-03, but it's not clear.  I'm an only child, so I have no bros and sisters to chat with. I always hear early 90s baby saying how fun the early 00s were. I got my first ipod in 07.  So yea,  I was born into tech stuff. I kinda wish I was born earlier to experience life before 9/11. It sucks that I was born at the worse time  :\'(

I'm curious to know what life was like as a kid in the early 00s, since I was too young to experience it. (I wanna hear from mainly those born from like 90-93). What was culture like?  I was born in '97 and I'm 14 now. The most I remember is from 02-03, but it's not clear.  I'm an only child, so I have no bros and sisters to chat with. I always hear early 90s baby saying how fun the early 00s were. I got my first ipod in 07.  So yea,  I was born into tech stuff. I kinda wish I was born earlier to experience life before 9/11. It sucks that I was born at the worse time   :\'(
I was born in 1995, but I would say kid culture in the early 00s were dominated by Nintendo 64, Playstation 1, Cartoons like Johnny Bravo and Rocko's Modern Life, and Pokemon.

When it came to pop culture in 2000, teen pop was extremely popular. Backstreet Boys, Nsync, Christina Aguilera. It was everywhere!! Pokemon was pretty popular in 2000 with those, I forgot what they're called, 'pokeballs?' with the pokemon in them.
McDonald's had those as happy meals.  ;D

DVD's was at its early years and some people were still watching video tapes.

There was a small recession about in 2001 and 2002. Bush was president.

Rap and R n b like Ja Rule and Nelly was popular. Eminem was at his peak in 2002 with his film 8 miles.

Crunk and even more rap became popular in 2003.

I'm curious to know what life was like as a kid in the early 00s, since I was too young to experience it. (I wanna hear from mainly those born from like 90-93). What was culture like?  I was born in '97 and I'm 14 now. The most I remember is from 02-03, but it's not clear.  I'm an only child, so I have no bros and sisters to chat with. I always hear early 90s baby saying how fun the early 00s were. I got my first ipod in 07.  So yea,  I was born into tech stuff. I kinda wish I was born earlier to experience life before 9/11. It sucks that I was born at the worse time   :\'(


Born in 96 here, my vivid memories start at around 2000, though I can vaguely remember 1999. The Early 2000s were hella fun for me. I always played nintendo 64 with my older brother and watching Cartoon Network and Nick alot back when they still showed many 90s cartoons and even some REALLY old school cartoons like Popeye the Sailor Man, Looney Toons, Alvin and the Chimpmunks etc. I also watched kids WB and it introduced me to an epic cartoon called Jackie Chan Adventures. Pop culture was mostly dominated by Britney Spears, Eminem, Nsynch, and Aaliah(They played her music alot after he death in 2001) as far as I remember. Don't fret though, because you experience parts of the early 2000s as well.

1991er here. Teen pop wasn't ALL we listened to in the early 00s...Pre-emo poppunk like Blink 182 and Simple plan and nu metal like Limp Bizkit were extremely popular too.

Also Skateboarding, BMXing and skater fashion (which at the time was a Hurley/Volcom/Emerica/etc Tshirt and baggy jeans or long baggy jean shorts) was really big.

Video game consoles were the Playstation 2, Nintendo 64 and then Gamecube, and the original Xbox.

Video game consoles were the Playstation 2, Nintendo 64 and then Gamecube, and the original Xbox.


And I still have my Playstation 2.

1989er here and graduated elementary school in 2001.  So I can at least talk about the "first half" of the early 00s (second half of 2001-2002 is junior high). 

Well, a lot of it has already been said so I'll try to add some  new stuff.  Wrestling was REALLY popular among a lot of kids.  The late 90s up until early 2001 were boom times for wrestling and pretty much every 11 year old boy knew about The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, etc.  It died out pretty quickly after mid-2001, when me and a lot of others just stopped watching.  Anime was also really popular too - so many people I knew were into stuff like Dragon Ball Z.  Harry Potter was also just starting to get popular.  The fourth book came out in 2000 and that was the first one to get lines of people at midnight waiting for release.  It was a pretty big deal for a lot of kids.

In sixth grade (2000-2001 school year for me), a lot of kids decided they wanted to appear more "mature" and apparently thought listening to Eminem, Limp Bizkit, etc. would do the job.  I blame puberty and, in retrospect, its a little ridiculous how such "edgy" groups were popular with sixth graders of all things.  I'm sure those born in 1991 or 1992 have a different perspective on the era than I do, but that's some of what characterized 5th-6th grade in 2000 and 2001.

Don't feel bad that were born in 1997, just be glad you're alive! :) I was born in  1991 and for me  personally, the early 00s were great for me. Lots of cartoons from the 90s carried into the 00s such as Hey Arnold and Rugrats. Teen pop  acts like Britney Spears, Nsync, A Teens,  and S Club 7  were very popular. I was a big fan of teen pop as a kid back then.  I didn't get internet until 2001. CD players were cool too.  I remember Bush getting elected in 2000. 2000 to like mid 2001 was all bubbly and cheery then after 9/11 everything started to change.  I enjoyed Nintendo 64 a lot. I stopped doing "kiddie" stuff around  mid 2002, pop culture was still interesting to me during that year.  Pop culturally speaking,  2003 was a good year for me mainly because I became a HUGE Beyonce fan back then when she first started her solo career.  The early 00s just had a different vibe.

I was born in 1993. I agree a lot with what people are saying about the music. Teen pop artists were huge for us back then. I remember having a N'Sync poster and my sister having a Britney Spears one. As a young kid(so the 90s) we had tons of Barney videotapes. I liked the music of the early 00s a lot. After teen pop became less popular in about 2001, artists like Michelle Branch, Avril Lavigne, Simple Plan, other pop-rock or pop-punk artists were really popular for my age group back then. Most of us remember where we were on 9/11 but I don't think it really affected us unless we knew someone going off to war. People born around my age were too young to fight in any war until at least the late 00s, so 9/11 didn't affect most kids childhoods that much. Most of us had cd players and we thought that alone was cool. Most people didn't have a computer in their home at our school because we were given a choice on wheter we wanted to type our papers or write them at times. And I (along with a lot of kids) didn't even know there was a short recession in 2001/02 because it wasn't that big of one. Someone else said there was a lot of skater fashion and that couldn't be more true for kids, especially as we entered middle-school around 2004. Most kids had skateboards, even if they didn't use them.

I'm curious to know what life was like as a kid in the early 00s, since I was too young to experience it. (I wanna hear from mainly those born from like 90-93). What was culture like?  I was born in '97 and I'm 14 now. The most I remember is from 02-03, but it's not clear.  I'm an only child, so I have no bros and sisters to chat with. I always hear early 90s baby saying how fun the early 00s were. I got my first ipod in 07.  So yea,  I was born into tech stuff. I kinda wish I was born earlier to experience life before 9/11. It sucks that I was born at the worse time   :\'(

Well I was born at the beginning of 1990, so...

Eminem was absolutely MAMMOTH when I got to Jr. high in '02. Linkin Park rivaled his popularity at the time too. Everyone was into them. My older cousins listened to a lot of late 90's alternative rock and some hip hop, and my mother was still into Shania Twain and Garth Brooks. This was around the time that my friends brother introduced us all to Tool as well (and Bill Hicks, who I really wouldn't get into until later  :)). Everyone was getting into (GTA) Vice City and proclaiming it to be the greatest game of all time (the PS2 was probably at the height of its popularity). My friends and I were playing Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Vice City a lot. We were really into Pokemon and Dragonball Z (the latter one I still like from time to time, albeit Japanese and uncensored  :P), and to a lesser degree some other shows like Gundam Wing, Reboot, and other stuff on Cartoon Network like Edd, Ed n' Eddy. We were pretty much all over the N64 and PS2 in the early 00's, but we still played outside a lot and went in the woods by my house. This was still relatively common at the time, and I don't really remember anyone mentioning childhood obesity (though I'm sure it was a moderate issue). The internet wasn't too important to us, we went on every now and again, but keep in mind I still had dial-up and Youtube, Facebook, etc. were still years from being created. However I do remember getting AIM in 2002 though and using it A LOT. Honestly the Y2K era was probably the last of its kind before the internet became omnipresent and everything was digital. Hell, I was still begging my parents to buy me the uncut Eminem Show and get me a decent CD player, who in their right mind would waste their time doing that now?

I didn't get my first MP3 Player until 2004 and didn't start using the internet outside of AIM really until Youtube and Myspace got big in 2006.

Ooh, what a fun topic!  :D

Anyway, as you can tell by my username, I was born in 1991.

Well, I dabbled in the Pokemon craze. I collected Pokemon cards (Jigglypuff was my first  ;D) and I watched it on television. Some of my favorite television channels at the time were Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and Disney Channel.

I particularly remember the teen pop/pop-rock craze of the early '00s. I was infatuated with the Disney Channel show Lizzie McGuire, and became a fan of Hilary Duff. Also, I remember listening to Radio Disney all the time and hearing all the new pop-rock songs being churned out by Avril Lavigne, Michelle Branch, and All-American Rejects, among others.

When I was in the third grade (2000-2001), I would always go to my aunt's house (who lived just down the street from my school) to wait for my parents to pick me up. I would hang out with my cousin and two other friends. I always had to watch Sailor Moon on Toonami as soon as I got back from school. Some of my male friends often teased me for liking that show, but I didn't care.

I remember very well when 9/11 happened. I was in the 4th grade, and I had been given an assignment by my social studies teacher to write down the weather forecast every afternoon. When I tuned in to the news that day, all they were talking about was some skyscraper in New York City that seemed to be on fire (that's the way I perceived it at the time). They were going on and on about the burning skyscraper, and I was getting impatient for them to get to the news. I don't quite remember when I learned about what happened, but I remember the next day at school, some firefighters put up some kind of patriotic thing on our flag pope while we students went outside to watch.

It was an interesting time for me, because while I was nervous about the terrorists, I was also fascinated over the prospect of going to war, because it was the first time I had been aware of a war going on.

Another thing about the early '00s was how my really good friends lived just behind me. We'd go to each other's houses all the time. Whenever they came to my house, we'd always play on my Nintendo 64 and on my computer. Whenever I went to their house, we'd sometimes watch movies or television, or play video games. Some of the games we'd play were Mario Kart 64, Mario Party, and Pokemon Stadium. I also remember my friends and I going to see The Lizzie McGuire Movie in 2003.

I remember when crunk was starting to get popular. I was in the 6th grade at the time, and I remember my classmates using lots of slang terms such as "yo." I also remember them repeating vulgar rap lyrics.  ::)

I was pretty much just a typical kid in the early '00s who did typical kid stuff. The pop culture at the time was definitely fun, especially considering that we had a decent economy and we weren't bombarded daily with overt pessimism. The only public anxieties at the time were over terrorism and war.

I was a teen in the early 2000s, almost 24 today. I've always been into technology so the advancement of technology is definitely notable. Browsing the full web on a phone like we can do today was simply a dream back in 2001. I remember my phone back then had the "wireless web" which meant you could get some basic data on your phone (like news, weather, sports) in big monochrome text but it was cool at the time. In the early 2000s there was AIM before facebook or myspace, chat rooms were popular too. Texting wasn't nearly as popular yet and cell phones were mostly very basic. Most people were still on dialup, on dialup downloading a single song took about 45 minutes. Burning a CD was cool back then, and MP3 players were new and really expensive with limited storage. I remember the Dreamcast, which came out in 1999 but was the first internet connectable game console, I remember playing NFL 2K1 on SegaNet back in the day. The fashion I would describe as more plain and on the punk side, a lot of the guys in had spiked up bleached blonde hair (I tried this once back in '02 and I ended up with orange hair lmao). The music was more toned down compared today and far less club/dance oriented, the pop rock like Michelle Branch, Creed, John Mayer, matchbox twenty, Lifehouse really defines the era best. That era was probably the most influential to me musically, there was actually quite a bit of variety compared to now and I like a variety. Basically I liked a mix of rhythmic pop (think Destiny's Child, J-Lo, Ashanti, Shaggy) and pop rock/post-grunge (matchbox twenty, avril lavigne, staind, nickelback) kind of stuff. After 9/11 there was a constant fear of terrorist attack for the next few years and lots of revengeful attitudes, but our nation was also very united for a while "united we stand" was the motto of the day. The early '00s was definitely an interesting time in my life, I was growing up and the world was changing a lot before my eyes, I saw the prosperous '90s end and the realities of this new century take hold, there's positives and negatives about the time though I like to think back to the positives most.

I had fun in the early 00s, but I was 15 years old at the start of the decade.  I still watched kid shows at the time, like Recess and Hey Arnold, and enjoyed listening to alternative music, particulary Nu-Metal and Post-Grunge.  I will say that the Sept 2001 was a huge event that shook the world.  sheesh hit the fan and we all were cheering for Bush to kill Osama Bin Laden.  Overall great time for technology, especially when MP3 players were coming out and most tv was good.  I personally think the three seasons of Family Guy were much more funny than the rest of series afterwards imo.  I think mid 1997 to mid 2003 was the best time for me(though the late 00s/early 10s era has been very kind to me :) )

1989er here and graduated elementary school in 2001.  So I can at least talk about the "first half" of the early 00s (second half of 2001-2002 is junior high). 

Well, a lot of it has already been said so I'll try to add some  new stuff.  Wrestling was REALLY popular among a lot of kids.  The late 90s up until early 2001 were boom times for wrestling and pretty much every 11 year old boy knew about The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, etc.  It died out pretty quickly after mid-2001, when me and a lot of others just stopped watching.  Anime was also really popular too - so many people I knew were into stuff like Dragon Ball Z.  Harry Potter was also just starting to get popular.  The fourth book came out in 2000 and that was the first one to get lines of people at midnight waiting for release.  It was a pretty big deal for a lot of kids.

In sixth grade (2000-2001 school year for me), a lot of kids decided they wanted to appear more "mature" and apparently thought listening to Eminem, Limp Bizkit, etc. would do the job.  I blame puberty and, in retrospect, its a little ridiculous how such "edgy" groups were popular with sixth graders of all things.  I'm sure those born in 1991 or 1992 have a different perspective on the era than I do, but that's some of what characterized 5th-6th grade in 2000 and 2001.


I remember this.  It seems wrestling started to lose popularity when WWF became WWE. 

I also remember the "maturity" craze among guys in their early teens.  Its ironic that a group of twentysomething guys today will go see Toy Story 3 but they wouldn't be caught dead at a Disney movie when they were 13, because of course they were too cool and too grown up for that.

I'm curious to know what life was like as a kid in the early 00s, since I was too young to experience it. (I wanna hear from mainly those born from like 90-93). What was culture like?  I was born in '97 and I'm 14 now. The most I remember is from 02-03, but it's not clear.  I'm an only child, so I have no bros and sisters to chat with. I always hear early 90s baby saying how fun the early 00s were. I got my first ipod in 07.  So yea,  I was born into tech stuff. I kinda wish I was born earlier to experience life before 9/11. It sucks that I was born at the worse time   :\'(


How can you not remember 2000?  According to research most teenagers and adults remember their earliest childhood at 3 years old, but I guess everbody is different.  If you were born in 1997, then that means that you were 5 in 2002, and you probably started kindergarten, and you barely remember that?  Well, I was in my mid 20s in the early 2000s, so there was a lot going on.  The death of Aailyah in 2001.  That teen pop mess was still popular.  September 11 thing was happening in 2001. 

I remember this.  It seems wrestling started to lose popularity when WWF became WWE. 

I also remember the "maturity" craze among guys in their early teens.  Its ironic that a group of twentysomething guys today will go see Toy Story 3 but they wouldn't be caught dead at a Disney movie when they were 13, because of course they were too cool and too grown up for that.


After The WWF went to WWE their motto was "Get The F Out"!  ::) I know wrestling hasn't been good as it once was but at least they're trying to gain some of it back.

After The WWF went to WWE their motto was "Get The F Out"!  ::) I know wrestling hasn't been good as it once was but at least they're trying to gain some of it back.
WWE died when it went PG imo. Kind of diminishes it.

WWE died when it went PG imo. Kind of diminishes it.


I've been watching wrestling for over 20 years now and I think the PG era does diminish it.

I was born LATE 89, so I'm only 1.5 months older than someone born in 1990. I even graduate in 2008 with the people born in 1990, so i think I'm young enough to answer this.
Honestly, I really liked the early 00s. I was 10 when it started, and mostly boy bands and stuff were popular around that time.

Brittney Spears was big. I wasn't THAT into music in 2000, but I remember kid rappers, like lil Bow Wow, and lil Romeo were becoming popular with the kids.  :) Pokemon was also popular, since coming out late 98. In 2000 "Pokemon 2000" came out in July, the sequel to "Pokemon: The First Movie" which came out November of 1999. I was really excited about seeing Pokemon 2000, and begged my dad to take me and my sister to see it. My sister wasn't THAT into Pokemon, but she watched up because i did. She is 2 years younger than me. It's actually my favorite Pokemon movie. They were giving out ancient Mew cards at the theaters with a screening of Pokemon 2000.

Cartoons like Spongebob, and Courage the Coawdly Dog were popular, which were released in 1999. Power Puff Girls was still popular, and even had a movie out in 2002, I believe. I remember being a little disappointed in the movie, though. Overall, in the early 00s, cartoons were still good. My favorites back then were X-Men: Evolution, Jackie Chan Adventures, Static Shock, Tarzan, Pokemon (till around 2004), and Batman Beyond. All epic shows. Kids WB was awesome, till around 2003/2004ish....
As far as video games, I still had a Playstation, until 2004. But the PS2 was pretty big with the kids...Dreamcast was also more popular then you'd think...I loved that thing....

I started middle school September of 2001, the same week of 9/11. I remember around that time, Eminem, Nelly, Nickelback, Brittney Spears, Ludachris, Missy Elliot, Eve, Christina Aguilera, Ja rule, and Ashanti were very popular. Especially Eminem. I started listening to rap late 98ish, but 2001, was around the time I really started getting into music. Eminem became an instant idol for me, and a lot of other kids where i used to live. Especially considering that Eminem is from my hometown, Detroit. 8 Mile was filming near where my school used to be, and was the hot topic in school.
Disney was still pretty good. Shows like Evan Stevens, and Lizzie McGuire were popular. Disney was around that time releasing the last batch of animated films. Lilo and Stich was a huge hit, but CGI animation has been gaining popularity since 1995, especially with hits like Shrek (2001), which was released by Dreamworks.

Politically, even though i was only 11 when 9/11 happened. I started becoming more aware of the world around that time. More of a false awareness, actually. Adults were panicky around that time, and when you're 11  you're starting to notice more of the world, and when something like 9/11 happens, it isn't exactly something that an easily impressionable kid who is starting to learn about the world to start off with. It's like, "son, here is the world....terrorist blow up sheesh, and people die...". So, a lot of kids were even more scared than the adults, because we were old enough to know about dying, but still to young to understand that terrorist weren't jumping out of the bushes....So, it was pretty scary around 2002

I was not a kid in the early 2000's (I turned 12 in 2000)... but the atmosphere after 9/11 was horrible. I think the early 00's really began after 9/11. 2000 and early 2001 were defined by the late 90's. Holdovers like pokemon and teen pop were very popular and the internet was slowly becoming predominant. They were still very kid-friendly years. Although the real early 00's (post-9/11 - 2003) were all about the attacks, Osama, Bush, hip hop, Irak, Saddam Hussein, reality tv, etc. They were pretty crappy IMO. Kids were forgotten and any kind of innocence disappeared.

For me the early 00s was definitely the 1999-2002 period. I was not a "kid" during this period(I was a teenager already by 1999), but never the less the early 00s was a half fun/half crappy time for me. I was heavily into Linkin Park, anime, and French house/electronica music(especially around 2001) 8), the early 00s were my high school years and I hated that part while I was going through it.

I was not a kid in the early 2000's (I turned 12 in 2000)... but the atmosphere after 9/11 was horrible. I think the early 00's really began after 9/11. 2000 and early 2001 were defined by the late 90's. Holdovers like pokemon and teen pop were very popular and the internet was slowly becoming predominant. They were still very kid-friendly years. Although the real early 00's (post-9/11 - 2003) were all about the attacks, Osama, Bush, hip hop, Irak, Saddam Hussein, reality tv, etc. They were pretty crappy IMO. Kids were forgotten and any kind of innocence disappeared.


Somewhat disagree.  After 9/11 our country was united and there was a spirit of American brotherhood not felt in this country since the height of the Cold War.  Its unfortunate it took something as tragic as 9/11 to unite our country but in my opinion the early '00s was one of those "it was the best of times and the worst of times" types of eras.  I remember the mood still generally optimistic even post 9/11.  Things didn't really turn to crap until around 2005ish.  By then Iraq had become a quaqmire, Katrina was catastrophically mishandled, gas prices were soaring, and a general feeling of pessimism about the future swept the nation.  This pessimism kept building and building until it reached its climax in 2008.  While the early '00s were rough, they were definitely the best part of the '00s. I guess that says a lot about the decade as a whole.

What were the early 2000s like?

There were rainbows and sunshine, lollipops, and farts!  ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_v468ptuXw

Having been born in 1989, I really got a feel for life in the early 00s.  While I was no longer a "little kid," I think my point of view is still relevant.  Pop-culture, politics, etc. were obviously all different 10 years ago, so I won't further discuss those things.  To me, the largest different in the way life was lived 10 years has to do with the internet.  The internet of 10 years ago was absolutely nowhere near its current incarnation in terms of what was available.  In the early 00s (and this feeling extended throughout the rest of the 00s to me), I felt an immense sense of amazement every time I experienced the next "big thing" for the first time.  I remember the first time I used ICQ back in the early 00s, I was blown away.  The same goes for the first time I stumbled upon YouTube a few years later.  Because such an absolutely RIDICULOUS amount of advances have been made on the internet during the last decade, I no longer feel such an immense sense of wonder (but I certainly still do to some extent). In conclusion, in terms of what being a kid was like 10 years ago, it's probably much the same as it is today, except for things like pop-culture and politics obviously.  What I do think very much separates me from my younger cohorts is the sense of wonder at the internet that I previously described.  I'd love to hear from some kids born between 1997 and 2001, give or take, have to say about their view of the internet.

Having been born in 1989, I really got a feel for life in the early 00s.  While I was no longer a "little kid," I think my point of view is still relevant.  Pop-culture, politics, etc. were obviously all different 10 years ago, so I won't further discuss those things.  To me, the largest different in the way life was lived 10 years has to do with the internet.  The internet of 10 years ago was absolutely nowhere near its current incarnation in terms of what was available.  In the early 00s (and this feeling extended throughout the rest of the 00s to me), I felt an immense sense of amazement every time I experienced the next "big thing" for the first time.  I remember the first time I used ICQ back in the early 00s, I was blown away.  The same goes for the first time I stumbled upon YouTube a few years later.  Because such an absolutely RIDICULOUS amount of advances have been made on the internet during the last decade, I no longer feel such an immense sense of wonder (but I certainly still do to some extent). In conclusion, in terms of what being a kid was like 10 years ago, it's probably much the same as it is today, except for things like pop-culture and politics obviously.  What I do think very much separates me from my younger cohorts is the sense of wonder at the internet that I previously described.  I'd love to hear from some kids born between 1997 and 2001, give or take, have to say about their view of the internet.


I miss when the Internet was a useful luxury but did not dominate our lives as it does today.  With more and more people working from home and brick-and-mortar retail closing up shop and moving business online, before long we will be a society that lives, works, and breaths on the Internet.  In my opinion that is not a good thing.

Actually, if you were born in 1997, you should be able to remember the early 2000s, like 2001. Some Born in 1997 actually started school in 01, if their parents and government let them at that age.
So that would mean you would of EXPERIENCED the early 2000s, and ps2 era, end of the ps1 era, and some pieces of early 90s stuff.
Unlike one of being born in 1998, which seems odd, but true, one born in 1998 would of not been able to experience the early 2000s, and the ps2 era, or to the least not that much.


I realized that in the shower :P

Actually, if you were born in 1997, you should be able to remember the early 2000s, like 2001. Some Born in 1997 actually started school in 01, if their parents and government let them at that age.
So that would mean you would of EXPERIENCED the early 2000s, and ps2 era, end of the ps1 era, and some pieces of early 90s stuff.
Unlike one of being born in 1998, which seems odd, but true, one born in 1998 would of not been able to experience the early 2000s, and the ps2 era, or to the least not that much.


I realized that in the shower :P


Yeah they'd remember something from the early 2000s. I was born in 1987 and I remember some things from the early '90s, seems very very distant now of course.

Yeah they'd remember something from the early 2000s. I was born in 1987 and I remember some things from the early '90s, seems very very distant now of course.


I was born in the mid 1970's so I can remember stuff from the mid 80's and beyond.

'88er. I entered sixth grade in 2000. I remember being in seventh grade when the World Trade Center was felled. We had some pretty big snowstorms in '00, with only one of those giving us the shaft and that was January 2000.

Born in 96 here, my vivid memories start at around 2000, though I can vaguely remember 1999. The Early 2000s were hella fun for me. I always played nintendo 64 with my older brother and watching Cartoon Network and Nick alot back when they still showed many 90s cartoons and even some REALLY old school cartoons like Popeye the Sailor Man, Looney Toons, Alvin and the Chimpmunks etc. I also watched kids WB and it introduced me to an epic cartoon called Jackie Chan Adventures. Pop culture was mostly dominated by Britney Spears, Eminem, Nsynch, and Aaliah(They played her music alot after he death in 2001) as far as I remember. Don't fret though, because you experience parts of the early 2000s as well.


As for me, I was also born in 1996, and my earliest memories were from 1997, and I started listening to music in 1999.  :)

Having been born in 1989, I really got a feel for life in the early 00s.  While I was no longer a "little kid," I think my point of view is still relevant.  Pop-culture, politics, etc. were obviously all different 10 years ago, so I won't further discuss those things.  To me, the largest different in the way life was lived 10 years has to do with the internet.  The internet of 10 years ago was absolutely nowhere near its current incarnation in terms of what was available.  In the early 00s (and this feeling extended throughout the rest of the 00s to me), I felt an immense sense of amazement every time I experienced the next "big thing" for the first time.  I remember the first time I used ICQ back in the early 00s, I was blown away.  The same goes for the first time I stumbled upon YouTube a few years later.  Because such an absolutely RIDICULOUS amount of advances have been made on the internet during the last decade, I no longer feel such an immense sense of wonder (but I certainly still do to some extent). In conclusion, in terms of what being a kid was like 10 years ago, it's probably much the same as it is today, except for things like pop-culture and politics obviously.  What I do think very much separates me from my younger cohorts is the sense of wonder at the internet that I previously described.  I'd love to hear from some kids born between 1997 and 2001, give or take, have to say about their view of the internet.


I was born in 1997, and I pretty much grew up using the internet due to having older siblings. I remember first using the computer in 2002, but we still had dial-up and I don't think we got broadband until around 2005-ish. This was around the time I started using the internet regularly, when i got Bebo and MSN and started listening to music on YouTube. I have to say though, I think the internet became significantly more advanced when people started using social networking sites a lot, mainly Bebo and Myspace and by the time Facebook hit its peak I believe that the internet had changed dramatically.  :)

Early 2000s were best time to be a kid I guess :p I was 6 in year 2000 and my childhood also ended in this decade... Mobile Phone just became popular, the rise of Computer use everywhere and my first encounter with computer was 2001/2 and I clearly remember playing the original "The Sims" back then!!! my first encounter with internet was 2003... internet wasn't widely used until then where i'm from

back then everyone seems to be optimist... despite the major events which wear us down later in the decade :)

Early 2000s were best time to be a kid I guess :p I was 6 in year 2000 and my childhood also ended in this decade... Mobile Phone just became popular, the rise of Computer use everywhere and my first encounter with computer was 2001/2 and I clearly remember playing the original "The Sims" back then!!! my first encounter with internet was 2003... internet wasn't widely used until then where i'm from

back then everyone seems to be optimist... despite the major events which wear us down later in the decade :)



Hey Fred,do you remember having a PS2? Those were popular during the early 2000's.

Hey Fred,do you remember having a PS2? Those were popular during the early 2000's.


I even still remember when PS1 was still popular... my first PS2 was in 2002

I even still remember when PS1 was still popular... my first PS2 was in 2002


Wanna buy some PS2 games from me? I'm upgrading to a PS3 by early next year.

back then everyone seems to be optimist... despite the major events which wear us down later in the decade :)



ABSOLUTELY NOT! The early 2000s gave us 9/11, and for people my age who completely lived through the '90s (great time to experience the final years before the Internet took over and was completely different than being an early '00s kid), there was definately a feeling of fear plus the economy had it's first recession since 1991. Early '00s kids had Internet, while early '90s kids like myself didn't. The period from 1993 to 2001 was such a sea change in technology with not just the Internet but with cellphones proliferating that it will be awhile to see such another advance; social media and smartphones are basically an extension of those big '90s revolutions. Honestly, we seem to be in a "remake" period currently in terms of kids favorites; Batman has a new series, My Little Pony seems to be bigger now than it was in the '80s, Spongebob continues to drag along like it already was doing in the early '00s, new Ninja Turtles cartoon comes out next year, Transformers and Smurfs recently had hit movies, the Lion King had a successful re-release, and it seems like this year's Christmas toys will be a more "traditional" one; no real "hot new kid craze" this year.

ABSOLUTELY NOT! The early 2000s gave us 9/11, and for people my age who completely lived through the '90s (great time to experience the final years before the Internet took over and was completely different than being an early '00s kid), there was definately a feeling of fear plus the economy had it's first recession since 1991. Early '00s kids had Internet, while early '90s kids like myself didn't. The period from 1993 to 2001 was such a sea change in technology with not just the Internet but with cellphones proliferating that it will be awhile to see such another advance; social media and smartphones are basically an extension of those big '90s revolutions. Honestly, we seem to be in a "remake" period currently in terms of kids favorites; Batman has a new series, My Little Pony seems to be bigger now than it was in the '80s, Spongebob continues to drag along like it already was doing in the early '00s, new Ninja Turtles cartoon comes out next year, Transformers and Smurfs recently had hit movies, the Lion King had a successful re-release, and it seems like this year's Christmas toys will be a more "traditional" one; no real "hot new kid craze" this year.

Actually the early 90s had Internet, same with 80s at one point. It just wasn't common, at all.

Actually the early 90s had Internet, same with 80s at one point. It just wasn't common, at all.


The 90's were the start of the internet boom, The 80's were more of the Atari, Gameboy and Nintendo era.

ABSOLUTELY NOT! The early 2000s gave us 9/11, and for people my age who completely lived through the '90s (great time to experience the final years before the Internet took over and was completely different than being an early '00s kid), there was definately a feeling of fear plus the economy had it's first recession since 1991. Early '00s kids had Internet, while early '90s kids like myself didn't. The period from 1993 to 2001 was such a sea change in technology with not just the Internet but with cellphones proliferating that it will be awhile to see such another advance; social media and smartphones are basically an extension of those big '90s revolutions. Honestly, we seem to be in a "remake" period currently in terms of kids favorites; Batman has a new series, My Little Pony seems to be bigger now than it was in the '80s, Spongebob continues to drag along like it already was doing in the early '00s, new Ninja Turtles cartoon comes out next year, Transformers and Smurfs recently had hit movies, the Lion King had a successful re-release, and it seems like this year's Christmas toys will be a more "traditional" one; no real "hot new kid craze" this year.


1990s weren't personally a great decade in my family's life and where i'm from Internet didn't came around much until 2002-3 so i do still remember lives without internet technically... and Asia (where i'm originally from) had financial crisis and some turbulance in the late 1990s but none the less it was culturally the best... despite the 9/11 the global atmosphere was still pretty optimistic until after 2004.... and yes today there's a rise in the 1990s revival :p

I hope they don't ruin the 1990s for that :D early 00s were still better times than today especially culturlly :)

I was born in 1998, so I could tell you alot.

As for shows I watched, I watched Dora The Explorer and Rugrats as a young kid. When I was older, I watched PBS Kids and the Saturday morning blocks Qubo and Kewlopolis, and CW4Kids later on. My favorite qubo shows were VeggieTales and 321 Penguins/Larryboy. I used to watch a couple of other qubo shows, too. On Kewlopolis, I liked the whole block, but mostly adored Care Bears and Trollz. On CW4Kids, I watched Sonic X and Magical DoReMi. I also liked Mew Mew Power, but I never got to see it when it was on (found about it two years after it got cancelled on the internet). I only saw the episode about Kiki finding out Zoey's secret. On PBS Kids, I liked Sid The Science Kid, Super Why, Arthur, Maya and Migel, etc. Also, there was this local station which played Peep and The Big Wide World and Seemore's Playhouse on Saturdays as well.  I also watched Pokemon (Diamond and Pearl). I also watched Disney Channel. My only favorite Nickelodeon cartoons other than Rugrats were Edgar and Ellen and Mr Meaty (although it's a puppet show). Also, I saw one episode of Popples online. All I could remember is Bonnie looking for something and the Popples kept saying, "Is this it?" I also watched an episode of Shizuku-Chan about Milk's preschool. Later on, I watched Maryoku Yummy.

Next, the video games I played. Neopets was one of my favorites when I was younger, and it still is today. Also, Roller Coaster Tycoon was one of my favorites. I also went on Hasbro's websites for their toys. I loved the Furby one! I loved watching the clips of Furby Island. Also, I went on the My Little Pony website. I was also on many other websites like YouTube, even message boards like TamaTalk (Tamagotchi website). I also went on many Furby fansites like Electronic Furby.

Next, the toys I had. I had 100 My Little Ponies. I even saw the live show, The World's Biggest Tea Party, and had almost all the DVDs!. I also had some Furbies. I had so many of the 2005 Furbies. I even begged my parents to go to Burger King to get the Furby toys they had! I was so excited when I got my first 90's Furby in fourth grade! His name was Toh-Dye. I also had a Furby Shelby when I was 10. A year after I found Furbies, I found out about Tamagotchis from the website Electronic Furby. I got one for Christmas Eve, but it broke when I left it in snow.  :\'( I even had some Tamagotchi plush toys and other Tamagotchi stuff! Also, I had the 2007 edition Popples. I had SecretPopp and KissyPopp.

And finally, the movies I saw. I saw many Pixar and animated movies. I also had many movies on DVD, such as the Tamagotchi movies. And that's my life in a nutshell.

The Internet was better before getting invaded by teens and kids. Just saying, I don't have the above posters in mind.
And it's not about the age -- even some adults are behaving like spoilt little brats on the www.
I think anonymity makes some people behave badly to others and insult them.
That's why I'll stop using the Internet at home. It was much better circa 2001-2005 when fewer people used to have it.
And it felt special. Now everyone and his grandma are on the web. ;D

I was 9 when 2000 hit. Cartoons were STILL great. It was pretty fun, it was just more colorful and teen pop and girl bands and boy bands were insanely popular, just a great time to be a kid.  It was fun listening to that type of cheesy music when you're a kid, only to realize years later that it had some sexual inuendo lol, but at least it was stil bubbly enough for kids to enjoy it. And wrestling was still awesome!

I was born in 1995 and I remember the early 00s well. I remember the late 90s too, in particular playing video games in '98 and '99 and when 2000 came around not much had changed culturally. I had a short hairstyle in 00-01 since it was popular at the time in the UK. I played a lot of video games in the early 00s, on PS1 and PC, and it was only in the mid-00s that I caught up to technology and got an Xbox, by which time the 360 would soon be released and render my new console obsolete. I remember that TV was great in the early 00s, we got saturday morning cartoons and no reality TV sheesh. Computers around that time were big, bulky machines and had a dial-up connection, and web-pages looked very different. This era certainly isn't retro yet, but it is definately dated, I mean, computers were owned by relatively few, video games consoles had corded controllers, and footage from that era looks old and grainy.

I mean, computers were owned by relatively few, video games consoles had corded controllers, and footage from that era looks old and grainy.


Are you really talking about the early 2000's? You're kidding, right - or am I just too old to realize that?  :o  8)

Lots of footage after the early 90's (ca. 1994) looks still pretty modern to me; considering the picture quality; not talking about fashion.

Are you really talking about the early 2000's? You're kidding, right - or am I just too old to realize that?  :o  8)

I just mean that compared to today where computers are owned by almost everyone, in around 2000 most families only had one desktop computer. And by the footage from that era looking old I just meant that if you watch news clips from the late 90s and early 00s, it isn't exactly in high definition, and I also meant people still used camcorders a lot then, which gave footage that grainy look.

From what I have experienced in the early 00's (2000-2002/03):
PCs in households were already considered 'standard' and I can't tell any classmate which hadn't one when I was in 8th-10th grade. Having no PC was already strange during that time - and I don't live in an upper class region (in Germany BTW). I agree with you about when we're talking about 'take away'-computers. It was still something special when somebody had a notebook during that time because they were very expensive in comparison to desktop pcs.

The internet was also not as common as it is today - that's true. Having internet in the early 00's was way more special than it is today... not every household had it for example in 2000/01. There was no common sentence like 'I'll send you that by email, gimme your address' ---- more like: 'Do you have internet access? I could send you that by mail'...  I was one of the earliest in my class when I got it in mid-2000.

About the HD thing - for me it's a late 00's thing. I know that the US started earlier to broadcast in HD but over here they started just in the very late '00's. And I still use a CRT TV, so I see no real difference between the shows of the early and the late 00's. But you're probably right.

The internet was also not as common as it is today - that's true. Having internet in the early 00's was way more special than it is today... not every household had it for example in 2000/01. There was no common sentence like 'I'll send you that by email, gimme your address' ---- more like: 'Do you have internet access? I could send you that by mail'...  I was one of the earliest in my class when I got it in mid-2000.



Back then people started to get an email address, now getting or having one is popular cause people have a computer now.

Back then people started to get an email address, now getting or having one is popular cause people have a computer now.


You mean getting an email-address without having a computer? I remember people having one without having internet access at home...

You mean getting an email-address without having a computer? I remember people having one without having internet access at home...


people just found out about one 10-15 years ago and this was Windows 95 at the time.

You mean getting an email-address without having a computer? I remember people having one without having internet access at home...


I definitely remember the time where computers just do not have interent access at home at all :p my sister use it only for doing her assignments and playing games (which i played games in too)

I didn't particularly pay too much about email stuff as I didn't know what internet clearly is until 2003 ish

I didn't particularly pay too much about email stuff as I didn't know what internet clearly is until 2003 ish


That shows even more that you're a 2000's kid and never a 90's kid.

From what I have experienced in the early 00's (2000-2002/03):
PCs in households were already considered 'standard' and I can't tell any classmate which hadn't one when I was in 8th-10th grade. Having no PC was already strange during that time - and I don't live in an upper class region (in Germany BTW). I agree with you about when we're talking about 'take away'-computers. It was still something special when somebody had a notebook during that time because they were very expensive in comparison to desktop pcs.

The internet was also not as common as it is today - that's true. Having internet in the early 00's was way more special than it is today... not every household had it for example in 2000/01. There was no common sentence like 'I'll send you that by email, gimme your address' ---- more like: 'Do you have internet access? I could send you that by mail'...  I was one of the earliest in my class when I got it in mid-2000.

About the HD thing - for me it's a late 00's thing. I know that the US started earlier to broadcast in HD but over here they started just in the very late '00's. And I still use a CRT TV, so I see no real difference between the shows of the early and the late 00's. But you're probably right.


As for HDTV in the early 2000s in the USA, it was like this. There were many HDTV "capable" tvs available, but none had HD tuners. Your typical electronics store circa 2001 was pretty much all CRT. Most were CRT or CRT projection for big sets. Plasma was around then too for premium big sets, at this time it was insanely expensive (think ~$5000 for 42"). There were VERY few LCD tvs in the early '00s, and the ones that existed were insanely expensive and very small (15" for $2000). I would say it was 2004-5 when HDTV really started taking off in popularity in the US, by this time CRT was dying as LCD was killing it in the smaller set category. But even in this time (2004) when I first got HDTV, there was what maybe 10-15 HD channels? Now everything's pretty much in HD, so big change there. In larger sets it was mainly DLP and LCD projection, which would later also die to LCD in the late '00s.

It was amazing! One of the best times of my life. I was very young but I have such great memories form the early 2000s. I was born in 1995. I wasn't a teen or anything back then (obviously) but I have a great memory and there were many great things I remember from the early 2000s. 2000 - 2001 i remember like other people were saying it was all about bubblegum pop mostly. I remember my sister loved Britney Spears then and she was big with her hit Oops I did it Again and all. 2002-2003, I remember great Disney shows that were big that I liked like, Even Stevens, Lizzie McGuire, That's So Raven, Proud Family, Weekenders, etc. Me and my friends were always obsessed with those shows! Haha I wanted to marry Hilary Duff! XD I liked her a lot back in 2002/2003. Oh and it was the birth of Windows XP around that time in 2001 so that's a big milestone. I sure wish I was born earlier so I could remember more of those great times.

It was amazing! One of the best times of my life. I was very young but I have such great memories form the early 2000s. I was born in 1995. I wasn't a teen or anything back then (obviously) but I have a great memory and there were many great things I remember from the early 2000s. 2000 - 2001 i remember like other people were saying it was all about bubblegum pop mostly. I remember my sister loved Britney Spears then and she was big with her hit Oops I did it Again and all. 2002-2003, I remember great Disney shows that were big that I liked like, Even Stevens, Lizzie McGuire, That's So Raven, Proud Family, Weekenders, etc. Me and my friends were always obsessed with those shows! Haha I wanted to marry Hilary Duff! XD I liked her a lot back in 2002/2003. Oh and it was the birth of Windows XP around that time in 2001 so that's a big milestone. I sure wish I was born earlier so I could remember more of those great times.


Yes indeed!!!! I'm only a year older than you too and yes!!!! early 2000s are definitely the best time to be a kid (since the 80s probably) with great shows like that and is still quite balanced between the outside real world and technology. It wasn't too much exposed with media forms of everywhere (that does become a concern towards middle of the decade)

Nickelodeon was actually fun and not overly wacky and tacky. Same case with cartoon network and such.... what happen to those shows now?? its a bit sad watching the new generation fading away into the high exposure of information everywhere. As if childhood is actually very much speeded up. You can definitely notice it with the kind of kids shows of today. Also considering their environment with constant exposure of tablets, laptops, internet phones.... these things did not exist in early 2000s, internet phone do exist around before mid 2000s but even then.. it's different from what it is today....which is why early 2000s seems to be the last era of the old world IMO

eversince that, world has change XD

Yes indeed!!!! I'm only a year older than you too and yes!!!! early 2000s are definitely the best time to be a kid (since the 80s probably) with great shows like that and is still quite balanced between the outside real world and technology. It wasn't too much exposed with media forms of everywhere (that does become a concern towards middle of the decade)

Nickelodeon was actually fun and not overly wacky and tacky. Same case with cartoon network and such.... what happen to those shows now?? its a bit sad watching the new generation fading away into the high exposure of information everywhere. As if childhood is actually very much speeded up. You can definitely notice it with the kind of kids shows of today. Also considering their environment with constant exposure of tablets, laptops, internet phones.... these things did not exist in early 2000s, internet phone do exist around before mid 2000s but even then.. it's different from what it is today....which is why early 2000s seems to be the last era of the old world IMO


You know what - I thought the same about media when my childhood was over. And that was in the late '90's++  ::) ;)

early 2000s are definitely the best time to be a kid (since the 80s probably)


early-mid '90's for me ;)

early-mid '90's for me ;)


well you had your time and you are 8 years senior of me :p

I was too young to experience most of 1990s so I didnt catch too much on the 1990s as a kid truly (only started to catch on things in 1999 which culturally is basically the same as early 00s)

I felt completely zoned out of todays shows for kids, it's very different and I can't follow it anymore

I didnt catch too much on the 1990s as a kid truly (only started to catch on things in 1999 which culturally is basically the same as early 00s)


Yeah, like it was often said on this forum. 1999 was definetly not like the 1993/1994-90's. At the actual time, yes, it felt 90's  but 13 years later... not really. But for some reason when the early 2000's hit, it felt definetly 2000's; even in 2000-2003. You see things differently when some years have passed since the period, like today.

I felt completely zoned out of todays shows for kids, it's very different and I can't follow it anymore

I agree with you Fred but I'm older than you and I feel what you're saying about today's kids shows, just not the same when I grew up in the 80's when you had those Saturday Morning cartoons I used to watch in front of the tv.

It was like 1999 part 2.....until mid 2001. then It was half 90's half 2000's By the mid 2ks it had it's own distant culture .....

It was like 1999 part 2.....until mid 2001. then It was half 90's half 2000's By the mid 2ks it had it's own distant culture .....


What I think of most when I think of early 2000s is mid 2001 - mid 2003 or so, basically my first 2 years of high school. This is when 9/11 happened, the wars were launched, the first '00s recession happened. In music this was before rap was completely dominant but post-teen pop, the heyday of artists like Eminem, Nelly, Ashanti, Avril Lavigne, Linkin Park, Michelle Branch, System of a Down.

What I think of most when I think of early 2000s is mid 2001 - mid 2003 or so, basically my first 2 years of high school. This is when 9/11 happened, the wars were launched, the first '00s recession happened. In music this was before rap was completely dominant but post-teen pop, the heyday of artists like Eminem, Nelly, Ashanti, Avril Lavigne, Linkin Park, Michelle Branch, System of a Down.


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It was like 1999 part 2.....until mid 2001. then It was half 90's half 2000's By the mid 2ks it had it's own distant culture .....


I agree with this completely. It seemed like the 2 halves of the 2000s are totally separated in 2 decades with it's own culture. Especially with music, you notice that pop music changes dramatically after 2005. 2004 music and 2006 music are distinctly different. Then, again in 2009 the culture and music changed again. and it will be the same cycle all over again through the 10s. XD

early 2000s up to 2001 is basically Y2K culture, 2002-2007 basicaly the true true 00's culture with the actual rapid change between 2004 and 2006 with the increased presence of personalisation webpages and the start of mass online video watching around 2005 ish :p

2008 however was the starting point of our electronic era and twitter was born. i can tell the difference between 2007 and 2008. Emo/scene culture was predominant in 2007 and 2008 was the beginning of te hpisters/indie breaking out big in the scene but the glamour electronic swiftly took over

To me, the early-2000s was a remarkable period for my childhood. Back then, I used to wear these strap or multiple-belt looking shoes/sandles back then during 3rd and 4th grade (don't remember if they were one of the latest fashion crazes at the time) and I also used to wear a couple of brightly-colored and beautifully well-patterned sweaters and winter hats that looked really similar to the coogi sweaters that Biggie Smalls sported back in the 90's. The music at the time was phenomenal as well! The early-2000's saw Teen Pop music at its peak (circa 2002) until it was resurrected at least two years before the end of the decade, Alternative, Pop-Punk, Underground, Metal, and Post-Grunge graced much of the Rock scene, and my most favorite two genres, Hip Hop/Rap and Urban Contemporary, was experiencing golden age that probably rivaled that of the late-80's in my personal opinion. Early-'00s Teen Pop had various talents such as Britney Spears, NSYNC, Christiana Aguilera, Backstreet, Nelly (he was phenomenon back then in Hip Hop and I'm still cool with his music, but he was pretty Pop as well), Avril Lavigne, Pink, Dream Street, Michelle Branch, Hilary Duff, and Ashlee Simpson. Early-'00s Rock music was represented by Puddle of Mudd (I LOVE Blurry btw, Thanx Ace Combat 5! And normally I'm not a big rock fan! lol), Kid Rock, Foo Fighters, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Linkin' Park, Evanescence, Creed, Nickelback, Simple Plan, Good Charlotte, Fall Out Boy, Sum 41, The All-American Rejects, Chemical Romance, The Strokes, and Blink-182. For Early-'00s Hip Hop/Rap, this massive genre was represented by Ja Rule, Nelly, Jay-Z, DMX, 50 Cent, Fat Joe, Lil Jon & the Eastside Boyz, the Ying Yang Twins, Erick Sermon, Chingy, Lil Bow Wow, Lil Romeo, Xzibit, Nas, Freeway, Cam'Ron, P. Diddy, Eminem, Lil Kim, Trina, Missy Elliott, Timbaland, Pharrell, Ludacris, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, The Neptunes, OutKast, Jacki-O, Juvenile, Ice Cube, LL Cool J, Petey Pablo, Fabolous, Mobb Deep, Big Pun, Common, Chamillionaire, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Eve, Wyclef Jean, and Twista. As for Urban Contemporary (fyi:this is a genre that is pre-dominantly R&B with some influences of Dance, Pop, Hip Hop, Soul, Quiet Storm, Gospel, Neo-Soul, Funk, and/or Reggae Fusion), this genre during the eary-2000's gave or saw the rise of Usher, Jill Scott, Ashanti, Amerie, Jennifer Lopez (she mostly went by the name J-Lo back in those days), The Black Eyed Peas, Shaggy, Janet Jackson, 3LW, 112, Next, Case, Alicia Keys, Beyonce, Destiny's Child, Brandy, Michael Jackson, Aaliyah, R. Kelly, B2K, Yolonda Adams, Erykah Badu, Mario, Ginuwine, Mya, Sisqo, Dru Hill, Lucy Pearl, and D'Angelo. Overall, the early-2000's (2000-2003) in music was a very intricate, unique, and golden period and I constantly look back on it with tremendous nostalgia! The early-'00s were also fertile ground for childhood development television-wise as well! Back then, I used to tune in on Kids WB to catch me some Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Mummy, Evolution, The Lost World, Beastmaster, Generation-O, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, etc. Then there was Fox Kids (later came the Fox Box sometime by 2003) and I used to watch Digimon, Sonic X, Kirby, Godzilla, TMNT, etc. Meanwhile on Cartoon Network, I always looked forward to Ed Edd n Eddy, Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls (even though I didn't liked them at the time despite the fact that I had a crush on Bubbles and I loved their 2002 movie), Cow and Chicken, Toonami, Cartoon Network Theater, Cartoon Cartoon Fridays, I Am Weasel, Johnny Bravo, Samurai Jack (one of THE most EPIC shows in the history of Cartoon Network), KND, Miguzi, Hamtaro, Duck Dodgers, Acme Hour, Mike Lu & Og, Courage the Cowardly Dog, BoomerRang, Times Squad, Justice League, and Sheep in the Big City. On Nick, we had... Spongebob, Cousin Skeeter, All That, Hey Arnold, Rugrats, All Grown Up, Jimmy Neutron, Rocko's Modern Life, The Wild Thornberrys (I was in LOVE with Eliza and the wildlife), The Butt Ugly Martians (I bet some of yall probably don't even remember them LOL), Rocket Power, CatDog, Eddie McDowl:100 Deeds, The Fairy OddParents, etc. While on Disney(including Toon Disney and Zoog Disney)...Lizzie McGuire, That's So Raven, The Proud Family, Even Stevens, Mike Super Short Show, Disney 411, Bug Juice, Lilo & Stitch, Honey, I Shrunk The Kids, Timon and Pumbaa, Hercules, Peper Ann, Doug, House of Mouse, Stanley, Rollie Pollie, Out of the Box, Kim Possible, Buzz Lightyear, etc. Jetix at the time had on Beyblade, Dragon Booster, Digimon (Season 4), and Tarzan. PBS Kids had on Redwall, Arthur, Reading Rainbow, Clifford, Dragon Tales, and The Berenstein Bears. My most favorite movies during this era were Pokemon the Movie 2000, Pokemon Movie 3:Spell of the Unown, Pokemon 4Ever, Pokemon Heroes, Jurassic Park 3, Country Bears, Brother Bear, Monsters, Inc., Lion King 1/2, Dinosaur, Cheaper by the Dozen, Kill Bill, Austin Powers in Goldmember, SwordFish, A.I., I.Robot, The Lord of the Rings (the final third one was probably the LONGEST movie I had ever seen in theaters until Avatar), Blade 2, Romeo Must Die, Rush Hour 2, Halloween:Resurrection, Digimon The Movie, Jimmy Neutron the Movie, Hey Arnold The Movie, The Wild ThornBerry Movie, Eight-Legged Freaks, Freaky Friday, Finding Nemo, The Powerpuff Girls Movie, Final Fantasy:The Spirits Within, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Treasure Planet, Titan A.E., Shrek, Rugrats in Paris, DrumLine, Resident Evil, Big Momma's House, and Like Mike. This was the era that got me really into the Anime phenomenon that was sweeping across the nation since 1998, here a just some of the Anime that grew up on (excluding the ones I already stated previously in order to avoid repititiveness)...Sailor Moon, Cardcaptors, Yu Yu Hakusho, Rurouni Kensin, Inuyasha, S-Cry-Ed, Blue Gender, DBZ, DBGT, Wolf's Rain, Cowboy Bebop, Big O, FLCL, and Case Closed. In relation to video games, everybody including myself were still playing with Gameboy Colors up until like 2002 and the N64 was still wide usage at the start of the decade. Despite its short lifespan, the Dreamcast was much more popular during the early-'00s than many people originally thought. The PS2 came on to the scene around 2000 (I got mine on Christmas of 2002) as well as the XBox, whose survival was owed in no small part by the almost mythical sucess and hyperstardom effect of Halo:Combat Evolved that helped to usurped several new rules in First-Person Shooter, Multiplayer, and gaming in general! Then later, we had the GameCube and the Gameboy Advance! Most people still used dial-up back in those days as well as a mixture of Windows 95 and/or Windows 2000, I didn't really cared that much for the Internet back then except when it came to playing games on Yahooligans, playing online UNO, or playing my Reader's Rabbit 3rd Grade Edition educational game.Trading, battling, and collecting both Pokemon, YuGiOh, and to a lesser extent Digimon cards was SOOOOOOOOOO common back then it would be easy to look back on it all and say that it one of the biggest trends of the era (The kids nowadays still play with both Pokecards and Yugicards, but not NEARLY as much as we used to do back in the early-'00s). School was great back then too, even though I only had few friends back then because of my Autism-related shyness, plus I was more of a Nature-lover than a People-person to be strictly honest. But either way, those were more innocent and youthful times! So there you have it, the early-2000s from my perspective as I growing up during that period! In September of 2000, I turned 8, by Sept. of 2003, I turned 11. My 11th birthday was probably the best B-Day so far because on the week of my B-Day, I went to New York City for the first time EVER traveling via travel bus here in D.C. 'cause you know, 9/11 was only two years ago at the time! Times Square was AMAZING! Planet Hollywood, The "Naked" Cowboy, the neonic lights from the screentrons and adveritsement-lit buildings, and the BIG-A** Toys 'R' Us up there too! Just when I thought things couldn't have gotten any better, we went to the Pokemon Center (now called the Nintendo Center) in nearby Rockefeller, I WAS IN COMPLETE HEAVEN!!!!!!!! THOSE WERE THE DAYS SON, I'M TELLING YOU! I AM PROUD TO BE A "HYBRID" (B.9/26/92, Childhood=1996-2004)! Enjoy your nostalgia and reminesences people! HYBRIDS ARE THE TRUEST! ;D  :D  ;)

Wowee Ta'Quan, that is some post.  When I got to the end and you mentioned your autism-related shyness I understood.  My son has autism, and there are a couple of posters here with autism.  :)

To me, the early-2000s was a remarkable period for my childhood. Back then, I used to wear these strap or multiple-belt looking shoes/sandles back then during 3rd and 4th grade (don't remember if they were one of the latest fashion crazes at the time) and I also used to wear a couple of brightly-colored and beautifully well-patterned sweaters and winter hats that looked really similar to the coogi sweaters that Biggie Smalls sported back in the 90's. The music at the time was phenomenal as well! The early-2000's saw Teen Pop music at its peak (circa 2002) until it was resurrected at least two years before the end of the decade, Alternative, Pop-Punk, Underground, Metal, and Post-Grunge graced much of the Rock scene, and my most favorite two genres, Hip Hop/Rap and Urban Contemporary, was experiencing golden age that probably rivaled that of the late-80's in my personal opinion. Early-'00s Teen Pop had various talents such as Britney Spears, NSYNC, Christiana Aguilera, Backstreet, Nelly (he was phenomenon back then in Hip Hop and I'm still cool with his music, but he was pretty Pop as well), Avril Lavigne, Pink, Dream Street, Michelle Branch, Hilary Duff, and Ashlee Simpson. Early-'00s Rock music was represented by Puddle of Mudd (I LOVE Blurry btw, Thanx Ace Combat 5! And normally I'm not a big rock fan! lol), Kid Rock, Foo Fighters, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Linkin' Park, Evanescence, Creed, Nickelback, Simple Plan, Good Charlotte, Fall Out Boy, Sum 41, The All-American Rejects, Chemical Romance, The Strokes, and Blink-182. For Early-'00s Hip Hop/Rap, this massive genre was represented by Ja Rule, Nelly, Jay-Z, DMX, 50 Cent, Fat Joe, Lil Jon & the Eastside Boyz, the Ying Yang Twins, Erick Sermon, Chingy, Lil Bow Wow, Lil Romeo, Xzibit, Nas, Freeway, Cam'Ron, P. Diddy, Eminem, Lil Kim, Trina, Missy Elliott, Timbaland, Pharrell, Ludacris, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, The Neptunes, OutKast, Jacki-O, Juvenile, Ice Cube, LL Cool J, Petey Pablo, Fabolous, Mobb Deep, Big Pun, Common, Chamillionaire, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Eve, Wyclef Jean, and Twista. As for Urban Contemporary (fyi:this is a genre that is pre-dominantly R&B with some influences of Dance, Pop, Hip Hop, Soul, Quiet Storm, Gospel, Neo-Soul, Funk, and/or Reggae Fusion), this genre during the eary-2000's gave or saw the rise of Usher, Jill Scott, Ashanti, Amerie, Jennifer Lopez (she mostly went by the name J-Lo back in those days), The Black Eyed Peas, Shaggy, Janet Jackson, 3LW, 112, Next, Case, Alicia Keys, Beyonce, Destiny's Child, Brandy, Michael Jackson, Aaliyah, R. Kelly, B2K, Yolonda Adams, Erykah Badu, Mario, Ginuwine, Mya, Sisqo, Dru Hill, Lucy Pearl, and D'Angelo. Overall, the early-2000's (2000-2003) in music was a very intricate, unique, and golden period and I constantly look back on it with tremendous nostalgia! The early-'00s were also fertile ground for childhood development television-wise as well! Back then, I used to tune in on Kids WB to catch me some Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Mummy, Evolution, The Lost World, Beastmaster, Generation-O, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, etc. Then there was Fox Kids (later came the Fox Box sometime by 2003) and I used to watch Digimon, Sonic X, Kirby, Godzilla, TMNT, etc. Meanwhile on Cartoon Network, I always looked forward to Ed Edd n Eddy, Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls (even though I didn't liked them at the time despite the fact that I had a crush on Bubbles and I loved their 2002 movie), Cow and Chicken, Toonami, Cartoon Network Theater, Cartoon Cartoon Fridays, I Am Weasel, Johnny Bravo, Samurai Jack (one of THE most EPIC shows in the history of Cartoon Network), KND, Miguzi, Hamtaro, Duck Dodgers, Acme Hour, Mike Lu & Og, Courage the Cowardly Dog, BoomerRang, Times Squad, Justice League, and Sheep in the Big City. On Nick, we had... Spongebob, Cousin Skeeter, All That, Hey Arnold, Rugrats, All Grown Up, Jimmy Neutron, Rocko's Modern Life, The Wild Thornberrys (I was in LOVE with Eliza and the wildlife), The Butt Ugly Martians (I bet some of yall probably don't even remember them LOL), Rocket Power, CatDog, Eddie McDowl:100 Deeds, The Fairy OddParents, etc. While on Disney(including Toon Disney and Zoog Disney)...Lizzie McGuire, That's So Raven, The Proud Family, Even Stevens, Mike Super Short Show, Disney 411, Bug Juice, Lilo & Stitch, Honey, I Shrunk The Kids, Timon and Pumbaa, Hercules, Peper Ann, Doug, House of Mouse, Stanley, Rollie Pollie, Out of the Box, Kim Possible, Buzz Lightyear, etc. Jetix at the time had on Beyblade, Dragon Booster, Digimon (Season 4), and Tarzan. PBS Kids had on Redwall, Arthur, Reading Rainbow, Clifford, Dragon Tales, and The Berenstein Bears. My most favorite movies during this era were Pokemon the Movie 2000, Pokemon Movie 3:Spell of the Unown, Pokemon 4Ever, Pokemon Heroes, Jurassic Park 3, Country Bears, Brother Bear, Monsters, Inc., Lion King 1/2, Dinosaur, Cheaper by the Dozen, Kill Bill, Austin Powers in Goldmember, SwordFish, A.I., I.Robot, The Lord of the Rings (the final third one was probably the LONGEST movie I had ever seen in theaters until Avatar), Blade 2, Romeo Must Die, Rush Hour 2, Halloween:Resurrection, Digimon The Movie, Jimmy Neutron the Movie, Hey Arnold The Movie, The Wild ThornBerry Movie, Eight-Legged Freaks, Freaky Friday, Finding Nemo, The Powerpuff Girls Movie, Final Fantasy:The Spirits Within, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Treasure Planet, Titan A.E., Shrek, Rugrats in Paris, DrumLine, Resident Evil, Big Momma's House, and Like Mike. This was the era that got me really into the Anime phenomenon that was sweeping across the nation since 1998, here a just some of the Anime that grew up on (excluding the ones I already stated previously in order to avoid repititiveness)...Sailor Moon, Cardcaptors, Yu Yu Hakusho, Rurouni Kensin, Inuyasha, S-Cry-Ed, Blue Gender, DBZ, DBGT, Wolf's Rain, Cowboy Bebop, Big O, FLCL, and Case Closed. In relation to video games, everybody including myself were still playing with Gameboy Colors up until like 2002 and the N64 was still wide usage at the start of the decade. Despite its short lifespan, the Dreamcast was much more popular during the early-'00s than many people originally thought. The PS2 came on to the scene around 2000 (I got mine on Christmas of 2002) as well as the XBox, whose survival was owed in no small part by the almost mythical sucess and hyperstardom effect of Halo:Combat Evolved that helped to usurped several new rules in First-Person Shooter, Multiplayer, and gaming in general! Then later, we had the GameCube and the Gameboy Advance! Most people still used dial-up back in those days as well as a mixture of Windows 95 and/or Windows 2000, I didn't really cared that much for the Internet back then except when it came to playing games on Yahooligans, playing online UNO, or playing my Reader's Rabbit 3rd Grade Edition educational game.Trading, battling, and collecting both Pokemon, YuGiOh, and to a lesser extent Digimon cards was SOOOOOOOOOO common back then it would be easy to look back on it all and say that it one of the biggest trends of the era (The kids nowadays still play with both Pokecards and Yugicards, but not NEARLY as much as we used to do back in the early-'00s). School was great back then too, even though I only had few friends back then because of my Autism-related shyness, plus I was more of a Nature-lover than a People-person to be strictly honest. But either way, those were more innocent and youthful times! So there you have it, the early-2000s from my perspective as I growing up during that period! In September of 2000, I turned 8, by Sept. of 2003, I turned 11. My 11th birthday was probably the best B-Day so far because on the week of my B-Day, I went to New York City for the first time EVER traveling via travel bus here in D.C. 'cause you know, 9/11 was only two years ago at the time! Times Square was AMAZING! Planet Hollywood, The "Naked" Cowboy, the neonic lights from the screentrons and adveritsement-lit buildings, and the BIG-A** Toys 'R' Us up there too! Just when I thought things couldn't have gotten any better, we went to the Pokemon Center (now called the Nintendo Center) in nearby Rockefeller, I WAS IN COMPLETE HEAVEN!!!!!!!! THOSE WERE THE DAYS SON, I'M TELLING YOU! I AM PROUD TO BE A "HYBRID" (B.9/26/92, Childhood=1996-2004)! Enjoy your nostalgia and reminesences people! HYBRIDS ARE THE TRUEST! ;D  :D  ;)

Well I was born in 1993 so I would have to say I came of age around 1996-2003.

I can tell you that it was such a hassle to get online because you needed to have the phone out of use for some reason lol

Apple made a comeback with their colorful iMac, perfect for kids in school

Bill Clinton brought the US out of the recession of the early 90s and we reached a heyday until a couple of years ago

TV was full of shows like Friends, Pokemon, Will and Grace, Courage the Cowardly Dog, CatDog, Seinfeld, Little Bear, Blue's Clues, Recess, Chalkzone, Spongebob and Buffy the Vampire Slayer among others

9/11 pretty much threw the country into a sort of cynical world view and thus changed our personalities

Music was actually good! Goo Goo Dolls, Natalie Imbruglia, Creed, Train, Britney Spears, Matchbox 20, Nelly Furtado, Jason Mraz, Maroon 5, Kylie Minogue, Alicia Keys, No Doubt and Coldplay had rose to fame around this time

The gaming systems of choice included the Gameboy Color and Advance, the Playstation 1, Sega Genesis, and Nintendo 64

CD players were very common while mp3 players were first being developed

"Be Kind, Rewind" was the unofficial motto of video stores that rented VHS tapes

You could fill a tank of gas for a bout a $1.50 a gallon!

An adult ticket to Disneyland would've cost around 30 to 40 bucks

Some kids thought that Gatorade really made you have colored sweat lol

Lunchables were a godsend at during lunch time a school

Hot Cheetos were "Dangerously Cheesy" not super creepy with today's Chester Cheetah

Email and chat rooms were the only social networking you can do until Myspace came out in 2003

Danimals had ALL the animals, not just Bongo the monkey

Disney Channel had mostly cartoons

Toys R Us was heaven for kids haha

That's about all I can remember right now lol I'm 18 by the way and super nostalgic haha

Well I was born in 1993 so I would have to say I came of age around 1996-2003.

You came of age at 10 years old?  Okay...

Anyway, I was in my early teens at the time so you could say I was somewhat of a kid.  For television, it was probably the height of anime in the US.  Pokemon was everywhere, although it was aimed at kids slightly younger than me, but some people my age were into it.  Spongebob, Catdog, and Rocket Power were the new Nicktoons, which was around the time I stopped watching Nick, but I caught a few episodes.  As a 13/14 year old, I thought Jackass was the funniest thing I had ever seen.

For music, there was a lot more variety (in popular music at least).  You had teen pop like Brittney Spears, NSYNC, etc., which was similar to today's pop but not as much hip hop/electro influenced... you could actually tell the difference between each genre.  For rap Nelly, Ludacris, Mystikal, Ja Rule, and of course Eminem were some of the big names.  The culture was also more vulgar than today's in my opinion.  Stuff like Limp Bizkit, System of a Down, Slipknot, ICP, was popular.

9/11 was obviously huge.  It pretty much dominated the headlines for the remainder of the early 00s.  But it was still a fun time though, for me at least.

You came of age at 10 years old?  Okay...


I was thinking something similar, actually he/she said they came of age in 1996, making them only 2/3 at the time. :o

Do you notice that you don't really hear anyone born in the '70s or '80s overcompensate their early experiences online, I never thought much about the late '80s/early '90s when I was Bamslam11's age(late teens), I only see this exaggeration in mid/late '90s born(1993-1999).

I was thinking something similar, actually he/she said they came of age in 1996, making them only 2/3 at the time. :o

Do you notice that you don't really hear anyone born in the '70s or '80s overcompensate their early experiences online, I never thought much about the late '80s/early '90s when I was Bamslam11's age(late teens), I only see this exaggeration in mid/late '90s born(1993-1999).


Yeah me either. It's like me saying I came of age in 1990...a year I can barely remember at best.  ;D

Yeah me either. It's like me saying I came of age in 1990...a year I can barely remember at best.  ;D


I think coming of age is a bad word that he uses.  Also early childhood isn't that influential at all, it is your early-mid 20s that is most important imo.

I think coming of age is a bad word that he uses.  Also early childhood isn't that influential at all, it is your early-mid 20s that is most important imo.


then comes your mid 30's which are more important than the 20's.

it is your early-mid 20s that is most important imo.


Agreed! The mid-late 2000's were the years that really defined me. The only interests which are leftovers from my childhood are geography and traveling. But going on my own travels was only possible from the mid-00's on, so these are the most influential years up till now.

Sorry I meant that instead of coming of age, I meant that those years were the best in my childhood lol the early 00s did influence. Sorry for the awkwardness lol ;)

Oh, and I nearly forgot, here are some of the video games and songs that I would say pretty much influenced my life one way or another during this time period. Btw, I was a PS2, GBColor, Dreamcast, and GBAdvance owner back then. Heck, I still got all of them! OLD SKOOL!  ;D

For games: Kingdom Hearts (2002), Turok:Evolution (2002) I used to go hard on this game, Lord of the Rings (2002 & 2003), Finding Nemo (2003), Pokemon Gold (2000), Dreamcast Generator (2000 Demo Edition), Crazy Taxi (2000) One of the GREATEST and funniest game I have ever played, Sly Cooper and the Theivius Raccoonis (2002), Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis (2003) I actually bought this game on my 12th B-Day in '04 but I did purchased the guidebook in '03 either at K-Mart or FuncoLand, Jurassic Park 3: Island Attack (2001), Ecco the Dolphin (2000?), and Final Fantasy X (2002) One of the most beautiful FF games in history and this back then before Square Enix (Square Soft back then) have gotten so...(sighs) Let's just say SE needs to step their game up! Get it! :D

For music: Ride Wit Me, Nelly (2001), Long Walk, Jill Scott (2000), The Light, Common (2000), The Real Slim Shady, Eminem (2000), Raise Up, Petey Pablo (2001), Ms. Jackson, Outkast (2001) THIS WAS THE SONG MAN!, Differences, Ginuwine (2002), Bow Wow (What's My Name), Bow Wow (2000) He was like one of the best rappers to me at the time! :), Always On Time, Ja Rule (2001), Music, Erick Sermon (2001), Loverboy, Mariah Carey (2001), Pokemon World (The 2000 Movie verison), Look Through My Eyes, Phil Collins (2003, Brother Bear), Just A Friend, Mario (2002), Thong Song, Sisqo (2000) Everybody used to went HARD on this joint, Oops, I Did It Again, Britney Spears (2000), Beautiful, Snoop Dogg (2003), Izzo Hova, Jay-Z (2001), 2nd Childhood, Nas (2002), E.I., Nelly (2000), All For You, Janet Jackson (2001) I was in love with this song, It Wasn't Me, Shaggy (2001) I'M SORRY BUT YOU MUST HAVE BEEN BORN AFTER LIKE 1994 OR 1995 IF YOU DIDN'T REMEMBER THIS SONG ON THE RADIO ALMOST EVERYDAY! :o, The Proud Family Theme Song (2001), That's So Raven Theme Song (2002?), Kim Possible Theme Song, Christina Milan (2002), Dance Wit Me, 112 (2001), Bad Boy For Life, P. Diddy (2001), In Da Club, 50 Cent (2003), Lose Yourself, Eminem (2002), Put It On Me, Ja Rule (2000), Aint It Funny Murder Remix, J. Lo (2002), Talkin' To Me, Amerie (2002), Work It, Missy Elliott (2002), ALL OF AALIYAH'S SONGS FROM THE ERA ESPECIALLY TRY AGAIN, No More Baby Im'a Do Right, 3LW (2000), You Don't Have To Call, Usher (2001), Party Up, DMX (2000), U Don't Know, Jay-Z (2001), Made You Look, Nas (2002), What's Your Fantasy, Ludacris (2000), It's So Hard, Big Pun (2000), Stutter, Joe (2001), Dance Tonight, Lucy Pearl (2000), Forgot About Dre, Dr. Dre (2000), Superman, Eminem (2003), Incomplete, Sisqo (2000), Country Grammer, Nelly (2000), Bounce Wit Me, Lil Bow Wow (2000), Whatchu Like, Da Brat (2000), Fallin', Alicia Keys (2001), It's Love, Jill Scott (2000), Air Force Ones, Nelly (2002), Milkshake, Kelis (2003), Girls Girls Girls, Jay-Z (2001), One Mic, Nas (2002), Oochie Wally, QB's Finest (2000), Guess Who's Back, Scarface (2002), Luv U Better, LL Cool J (2002) I used to love this song, Love Of My Life, Erykah Badu (2002), The Next Episode, Dr. Dre (2000), The Way You Move, Outkast (2003), Step In The Name Of Love, R. Kelly (2002) This song was like one of the greatest dancefloor tracks of the time especially at a party, Cha Cha Slide, Mr. C (2000) Another iconic dancefloor smash hit of the era, Livin' It Up, Ja Rule (2001), #1, Nelly (2001), Right Thurr, Chingy (2003), Move B***h, Ludacris (2002), Magic Stick, Lil Kim (2003) Relax ppl I didn't even knew what a "Magic Stick" really was back then ;), A World Without Fences (The Lady and the Tramp 2: Scamp's Adventure) My 3rd Grade used to play this song over and over and just kind of stuck LOL, Independent Woman Pt.1, Destiny's Child (2000), Crazy In Love, Beyonce (2003), What We Do, Freeway (2003), Oh Boy, Cam'Ron (2003), Excuse Me Miss, Jay-Z (2003), Hey Arnold the Movie's version of It Takes Two by Lil Romeo, You Remind Me, Usher (2001), Get Ur Freak On, Missy Elliott (2001), Let Me Blow Ya Mind, Eve (2001), Shake Ya Azz, Mystikal (2000) This was perhaps my most favorite song on the radio back in '00, You Don't Know My Name, Alicia Keys (2003), Hot In Herre, Nelly (2002), ALL OF ASHANTI'S SONGS BACK THEN, Gossip Folks, Missy Elliott (2002), and Get Low, Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz (2002). This list of songs could actually be even LONGER, but I decided to stop here in order to save up space. So here are some of the songs and games that influenced my childhood. WHAT YALL KNOW ABOUT THAT!  ;D

HOLY CRAP

all the things you mentioned I can remember every single one of them

(except some games that weren't available in my country at all)

I'm curious to know what life was like as a kid in the early 00s, since I was too young to experience it. (I wanna hear from mainly those born from like 90-93). What was culture like?  I was born in '97 and I'm 14 now. The most I remember is from 02-03, but it's not clear.  I'm an only child, so I have no bros and sisters to chat with. I always hear early 90s baby saying how fun the early 00s were. I got my first ipod in 07.  So yea,  I was born into tech stuff. I kinda wish I was born earlier to experience life before 9/11. It sucks that I was born at the worse time  :\'(



I was born in 1992.
All of my childhood music was still on cassette tapes. CD's didn't really come in to being the norm until at least 2001. I remember we had walkmans that I would listen to on the bus. A walkman was a portable CD player (everyone had one, it is kind of like an iPod now) My families first computer was probably purchased in 2000. It was HUGE! It was a dial up computer too, so you couldn't be on the phone at the same time as being on the computer. We had instant messenger which was a huge deal. The only other people we knew with computers were my cousins, so they were the only people I would chat with. I wasn't aloud to get a cell phone until I was 13, before that only my mom had one. The cell phone was huge and chunky, and it couldn't take pictures, and you couldn't text (texting wasn't even around then) As for pop culture, I actually watched the premiere of Spongebob on Nick. My mom thought it was "inappropriate" haha. On Nick was Spongebob Squarepants, Cat and Dog, and Hey Arnold! On Disney (which back then was actually aimed twords an older audience, mostly teens, now it is for little kids) Lizzie McGuire, Even Stevens (where Shia Labouf got his start), So Weird, In a Heart Beat, That's So Raven, Movie Surfers, The Proud Family, The Famous Jet Jackson, The Jersey, Bug Juice, and Phil Of The Future (can you tell I watched Disney a lot!) As for Disney Channel Origional Movies, The Luck of The Irish, Susie Q, Wish Apon a Star,  The Paper Brigade, Under Wraps, Halloween Town (the first) Zenon, girl of the 21st Century (1999, it wasn't the 21st century yet) The Color of Friendship

Britney, Nsync, and Backstreet boys were HUGE. Pokemon was the thing, Nintendos were big (especially when they came out with colored screens) I remember when Harry Potter came out, everyone was obsessed and waiting for the next ones.

I remember when 9-11 happened. I remember before that you could bring knives on planes (my mother used to be able to bring her army knife on vacation) All you had to do at the airport was walk through a metal detector (with your shoes on and all!) I also remember when gas was below 2 dollars.

I didn't get my first iPod until I was 13 (same with a cell phone) And it was one of the first iPods (really chunky, before they came out with anything like the touch or even the nano, they were still making iPod minis which they don't anymore)

Overall life was a lot simpler.

I was born in 1992.
All of my childhood music was still on cassette tapes. CD's didn't really come in to being the norm until at least 2001. I remember we had walkmans that I would listen to on the bus. A walkman was a portable CD player (everyone had one, it is kind of like an iPod now) My families first computer was probably purchased in 2000. It was HUGE! It was a dial up computer too, so you couldn't be on the phone at the same time as being on the computer. We had instant messenger which was a huge deal. The only other people we knew with computers were my cousins, so they were the only people I would chat with. I wasn't aloud to get a cell phone until I was 13, before that only my mom had one. The cell phone was huge and chunky, and it couldn't take pictures, and you couldn't text (texting wasn't even around then) As for pop culture, I actually watched the premiere of Spongebob on Nick. My mom thought it was "inappropriate" haha. On Nick was Spongebob Squarepants, Cat and Dog, and Hey Arnold! On Disney (which back then was actually aimed twords an older audience, mostly teens, now it is for little kids) Lizzie McGuire, Even Stevens (where Shia Labouf got his start), So Weird, In a Heart Beat, That's So Raven, Movie Surfers, The Proud Family, The Famous Jet Jackson, The Jersey, Bug Juice, and Phil Of The Future (can you tell I watched Disney a lot!) As for Disney Channel Origional Movies, The Luck of The Irish, Susie Q, Wish Apon a Star,  The Paper Brigade, Under Wraps, Halloween Town (the first) Zenon, girl of the 21st Century (1999, it wasn't the 21st century yet) The Color of Friendship

Britney, Nsync, and Backstreet boys were HUGE. Pokemon was the thing, Nintendos were big (especially when they came out with colored screens) I remember when Harry Potter came out, everyone was obsessed and waiting for the next ones.

I remember when 9-11 happened. I remember before that you could bring knives on planes (my mother used to be able to bring her army knife on vacation) All you had to do at the airport was walk through a metal detector (with your shoes on and all!) I also remember when gas was below 2 dollars.

I didn't get my first iPod until I was 13 (same with a cell phone) And it was one of the first iPods (really chunky, before they came out with anything like the touch or even the nano, they were still making iPod minis which they don't anymore)

Overall life was a lot simpler.


This Applied to me too!!!! I'm a 1994 born and we have a very similar experience with the exception of me receiving those technologies few years earlier according to my age at the similar time you received your cellphones, internet and stuff

I was Amazed by the technology when we can watch VCD's/DVD's on our computer from PC and yes we use cassetes often and hell yes I remember cellphones without sms and those other features

CD's didn't really come in to being the norm until at least 2001.


In what relation? CD's became mainstream already in the 80's and were the norm in the early 90's.  :o

In what relation? CD's became mainstream already in the 80's and were the norm in the early 90's.  :o


I think that's when cassette tapes were starting to fade away.

In what relation? CD's became mainstream already in the 80's and were the norm in the early 90's.  :o


I started buying CD's in 1990 or '91.

Hey people, it just so happens that some of the "best" and "worst" fashion trends and fads of the 90s, mainly the early-90s, appear to be making a strong comeback! For me, I'm sporting the plaid flannel shirts that were so popular back then within the Hip Hop and Grunge communities and a pair of Steve Madden leather boots. I'm also interested in trying out Converse shoes for the first time and MAYBE a neon-colored shirt/sweater (hopefully it won't look awkward on a guy like me lol) and perhaps even try out a denim jean jacket. So going through all of this just gave me an idea. What kind of fashion trends and fads of the early-2000s would love (or not) to see make a major comeback sometime next decade (2020s)? Oh, and feel free to comment about what kind of retro trends from the early-90s are yall sporting as of 2012. :) I am fairly curious. ;)

Hey people, it just so happens that some of the "best" and "worst" fashion trends and fads of the 90s, mainly the early-90s, appear to be making a strong comeback! For me, I'm sporting the plaid flannel shirts that were so popular back then within the Hip Hop and Grunge communities and a pair of Steve Madden leather boots. I'm also interested in trying out Converse shoes for the first time and MAYBE a neon-colored shirt/sweater (hopefully it won't look awkward on a guy like me lol) and perhaps even try out a denim jean jacket. So going through all of this just gave me an idea. What kind of fashion trends and fads of the early-2000s would love (or not) to see make a major comeback sometime next decade (2020s)? Oh, and feel free to comment about what kind of retro trends from the early-90s are yall sporting as of 2012. :) I am fairly curious. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4VbOHvaPRc&feature=fvst

Hey people, it just so happens that some of the "best" and "worst" fashion trends and fads of the 90s, mainly the early-90s, appear to be making a strong comeback! For me, I'm sporting the plaid flannel shirts that were so popular back then within the Hip Hop and Grunge communities and a pair of Steve Madden leather boots. I'm also interested in trying out Converse shoes for the first time and MAYBE a neon-colored shirt/sweater (hopefully it won't look awkward on a guy like me lol) and perhaps even try out a denim jean jacket. So going through all of this just gave me an idea. What kind of fashion trends and fads of the early-2000s would love (or not) to see make a major comeback sometime next decade (2020s)? Oh, and feel free to comment about what kind of retro trends from the early-90s are yall sporting as of 2012. :) I am fairly curious. ;)


is ironic because grunge and gansta rap isnt popular right now and today music is very anti 1990s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4VbOHvaPRc&feature=fvst
SO ANGRY jk LOL. I LMFAO at that video link! That was pure genius! But here is an update. My fellow early-2000s kids, in case yall haven't found out (which I bet yall did), our old friend from our childhood has been resurrected from the dead. Our hardcore counterpart to the more "family-friendly" Saturday Morning cartoons on Disney, Cartoon Network, Kids WB, and Fox Kids. TOONAMI IS BACK BITCHES! Coming to Adult Swim on May 26, 2012 @ midnight! Jog down a list of some of the shows you will love to see back on Toonami.

I would love to see...Sailor Moon (IDGAF if it was primarily a girly anime, I still love it), DBZ Uncut (duh), One Piece, Zatch Bell, Reboot, Gundam Wing, Samurai Jack, Neon Evangelion Genesis, .Hack//Sign, Transformers: Beast Wars, Transformers: Armada, Gundam SEED, Justice League, G Gundam, Astro Boy, Tenchi Muyo!, Tenchi Universe, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, Jackie Chan Adventures (HYFR!), Megas XLR (I am soooo there! lls), and MAYBE Naruto or Shippuden. And there you have it. ;D

I was between the ages of 11 – 14 during the years of 2000-2003. I wasn’t a little kid, but regardless, I can still answer this question.

In the early 2000’s:

Pop icons dominated the music scene.  However, rap was also popular.

9/11 changed the way the world felt and ended the feelings of innocence and blithe upheld by the 20th century.

DVD’s started to become the common form of media used instead of VHS.

George Bush became president. I wanted Al Gore to win.

Iraq War began in 2003. >>;

Fashion became important. I remember if you weren’t wearing name brand clothes in my middle school, people teased you for it.

Cartoons included shows like Invader Zim.

Anime was popular. Toonami was the cool thing to watch after school.

Everyone raved about the graphic capabilities on the Playstation 2.

The space shuttle Columbia disaster occurred.

I really do find the early 2000s and the 2000s overall as two different and distinct decades. I mean so much change has happened with Social Media and the Internet and all in the 2000s that did not even exist in the early 2000s. I am a early 2000s kid distinctly.  :) Back in the early 2000s, Only parents had cell phones. There was no social media like YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc. Life was completely different. No Iphones, IPads, etc. VHS was still widely used. CD's were very common and used and they were definitely popular. No Itunes or IPods. Walkmans were used back then but think the early 2000s definitely saw a transition to Mp3 Players but Walkmans were still popular. Video games were more in fashion. MSN and Hotmail were huge on the Internet at that time. The Internet was very innocent and mainly used for research and entertainment once in a while. It was all about Rap and the Gangster style. It was much more "baggie" in terms of fashion with clothes, and people wore lots of gangster clothing. Urban music was huge! Teen pop was there, but only bits of it were passed on from the late 90s. Music was nothing like it is today. None of the songs you hear today, with Autotune and Electro Pop were popular before. It was all Hip Hop/pop and some nice early 2000s rock songs. Eminem was very popular then and he released some good rap songs. Game Cubes, Play Stations and Gameboys were big. Shows like Friends, Gilmore Girls, Lizzie McGuire and Even Stevens were popular. If found the Peace Out sign and the Devil sign used a lot and more often than today in the early 2000s.  :P Also Chat Rooms on the Internet were very popular.  8)

I really do find the early 2000s and the 2000s overall as two different and distinct decades. I mean so much change has happened with Social Media and the Internet and all in the 2000s that did not even exist in the early 2000s.


The 'old school'-part of the 2000s belongs to the 2000's decade as much as the 'social media'-part does. It's not that people thought back in 2003 that it's still the 90s.  ::)

The 'old school'-part of the 2000s belongs to the 2000's decade as much as the 'social media'-part does. It's not that people thought back in 2003 that it's still the 90s.  ::)

I agree but many people do though. They act like the early 2000s have nothing to do with the decade (with the exception of 9/11) They always mix the early 2000s with the 90s and say it's part of the 90s culture. Which I don't think is fair because the 2000s should be remembered for all those things. But when people think of the 2000s, they usually don't think of Walkman's, CD's, VHS, etc. They think of Autotune, IPod's, Facebook and Social Media, Lady Gaga, etc. which is really unfortunate because people really forget the good parts of the 2000s usually. A lot of people think even now, in the 2010s, we are still living in the 2000s culture era and that the 2000s were a horrible decade.

Oh how I miss the pre-social media, pre-autotune 2003-2004. IMO, everything was better then.

these two songs bring back a lotta memories for me of 2001. I keep getting the feeling that back then (before 9/11, if thaat even had an effect on me), there might've been an atmosphere of a "fresh start" with the new millenium and all that. season 1 of futurama usually gives me slight nostalgia sometimes, but it might just be referring to 90's culture slightly instead?
musically I can't say much, since I was young I only really knew what was on the radio (which certainly doesn't make up the entirety of a musical picture). pretty sure that pop music for some artists was just as autotuned and commercial as it is now, but people didn't seem to try and defend it/ attack it as much? oh and in the Uk we didn't have the horde of music contests like pop idol and x factor shovelling more rubbish into the music industry.
to me, it seems like a completely different time to the late 00's, but with similar technlogy.

these two songs bring back a lotta memories for me of 2001. I keep getting the feeling that back then (before 9/11, if thaat even had an effect on me), there might've been an atmosphere of a "fresh start" with the new millenium and all that. season 1 of futurama usually gives me slight nostalgia sometimes, but it might just be referring to 90's culture slightly instead?
musically I can't say much, since I was young I only really knew what was on the radio (which certainly doesn't make up the entirety of a musical picture). pretty sure that pop music for some artists was just as autotuned and commercial as it is now, but people didn't seem to try and defend it/ attack it as much? oh and in the Uk we didn't have the horde of music contests like pop idol and x factor shovelling more rubbish into the music industry.
to me, it seems like a completely different time to the late 00's, but with similar technlogy.




There was barely, barely any autotune back in the early 2000s. At least not in mainstream music. Music was very, very different. Not at all similar to today. It's pretty much a totally different decade. The culture is opposite of today and couldn't be any further apart. Think of it this way, The Katy Perry and Rihanna you hear on the radio often today was Eminem and Nelly of back then. Which I must say I preferred much more.

I really do find the early 2000s and the 2000s overall as two different and distinct decades. I mean so much change has happened with Social Media and the Internet and all in the 2000s that did not even exist in the early 2000s. I am a early 2000s kid distinctly.  :) Back in the early 2000s, Only parents had cell phones. There was no social media like YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc. Life was completely different. No Iphones, IPads, etc. VHS was still widely used. CD's were very common and used and they were definitely popular. No Itunes or IPods. Walkmans were used back then but think the early 2000s definitely saw a transition to Mp3 Players but Walkmans were still popular. Video games were more in fashion. MSN and Hotmail were huge on the Internet at that time. The Internet was very innocent and mainly used for research and entertainment once in a while. It was all about Rap and the Gangster style. It was much more "baggie" in terms of fashion with clothes, and people wore lots of gangster clothing. Urban music was huge! Teen pop was there, but only bits of it were passed on from the late 90s. Music was nothing like it is today. None of the songs you hear today, with Autotune and Electro Pop were popular before. It was all Hip Hop/pop and some nice early 2000s rock songs. Eminem was very popular then and he released some good rap songs. Game Cubes, Play Stations and Gameboys were big. Shows like Friends, Gilmore Girls, Lizzie McGuire and Even Stevens were popular. If found the Peace Out sign and the Devil sign used a lot and more often than today in the early 2000s.  :P Also Chat Rooms on the Internet were very popular.  8)


I agree with alot of this. I was in high school in the early 00's, and in college later on in the decade, so I know first hand that the vibe was quite different. The majority of the students at my high school didn't own cell phones yet, so IM'ing wasn't all that ubiquitous, and frankly neither was the internet. We finally got the net in '99, but except for chatting and reading e-mails, I don't really remember getting online much until I got caught up in the YouTube hype back in '05. The iPod wasn't even out until late 2001, so CD's and even cassette tapes were the mediums of choice at the time. I don't think DVD had overtaken VHS as of '01 either, but I could be wrong.

Music was different too. The Backstreet Boys, Creed, Limp Bizkit, *NSYNC, etc. were all huge in the early 00's, but had basically vanished by like 2005.

I agree with alot of this. I was in high school in the early 00's, and in college later on in the decade, so I know first hand that the vibe was quite different.


This is the case with nearly any decade since everything developes. 2000-2004 is technically closer to the 90s than to the 2010s and 2005-2009 is closer to the 2010s than to the 90s. It is still the same decade.

This is the case with nearly any decade since everything developes. 2000-2004 is technically closer to the 90s than to the 2010s and 2005-2009 is closer to the 2010s than to the 90s. It is still the same decade.


Oh yeah, I don't deny that at all. In fact, musically I think there are some early 2000's songs (like Coldplay, and Southern Rap like Master P and Mystikal) that sound very 00's.

Oh yeah, I don't deny that at all. In fact, musically I think there are some early 2000's songs (like Coldplay, and Southern Rap like Master P and Mystikal) that sound very 00's.


Most rap/R&B music starting around '99 but especially from '02-'07 has a distinct sound/vibe, like the heavy trunk rattling bass, crunk synths, southern accents, fast 808 drums, and later on autotune.

Born in 1990.

Things I remember about the early 2000's
-Pokemon was at the height of it's popularity at the beginning of 2000
-I remember being really into Legos during this period. The new Knights Kingdom series, Life on Mars, and Bionicle sets were all coming out when I was in 4th grade.
-The new generation of game systems (PS2, XBox, GameCube) started coming out around November '01 (PS2 was a little earlier I think), replacing N64 as the dominant system.
-Michelle Branch was popular music-wise...not sure why I remember her music specifically above others.
-khaki shorts replaced "jorts"

Biggest difference between the early 00's and the late 00's/early 10's is that kids didn't have their own cellphones and ipads. I didn't get a cellphone until the summer of 2005 when I was going into high school. Then when I worked at a day camp while in high school, I noticed some of the 10 and 11 year olds had cellphones. Also social networking wasn't around yet. All we had was AOL Instant Messenger (aka "AIM").

Born in 1990.

Things I remember about the early 2000's
-Pokemon was at the height of it's popularity at the beginning of 2000
-I remember being really into Legos during this period. The new Knights Kingdom series, Life on Mars, and Bionicle sets were all coming out when I was in 4th grade.
-The new generation of game systems (PS2, XBox, GameCube) started coming out around November '01 (PS2 was a little earlier I think), replacing N64 as the dominant system.
-Michelle Branch was popular music-wise...not sure why I remember her music specifically above others.
-khaki shorts replaced "jorts"

Biggest difference between the early 00's and the late 00's/early 10's is that kids didn't have their own cellphones and ipads. I didn't get a cellphone until the summer of 2005 when I was going into high school. Then when I worked at a day camp while in high school, I noticed some of the 10 and 11 year olds had cellphones. Also social networking wasn't around yet. All we had was AOL Instant Messenger (aka "AIM").


Yep, AIM was still huge back then. I think I'd even throw in MSN Messenger (though I didn't really start using that til the mid-00s). Also didn't get a cellphone til I was a teen about to start high school. I miss the pre-social media/texting days. I remember talking on the phone with friends for hours on a landline. I just feel like most people my age don't even call people anymore. They just prefer texting. I'm really starting to get sick of it.

Yeah, I think it might have depended on where you lived as to whether AIM or MSN was the more popular IM service. Where I'm from (Chicago area) everyone had AIM and no one I knew had MSN. I started using MSN around '06/'07 because people I knew from forums who lived all around the country/world used it. It's kind of sad about AIM though, isn't it? I remember junior high ('03/'04ish) when like 50 people would always be on AIM at once. Then maybe around '08/'09 I noticed literally only myself, maybe one or two other humans, and some robots were the only ones signed in and it had been like that for a while (my AIM used to sign me in automatically and I would just have it off to the side). I didn't even bother downloading it on my new laptop.

It's ironic that texting became the preferred method of communicating through a phone considering it's much easier to talk than text. I guess texting is just seen as more casual, so now it's gotten to the point where calling/receiving a call from a friend instead of a text is almost "awkwardly formal"

I was born in 1989 and here is what I remember about being a kid in the early 00s:

- 9/11 and terrorism being HUGE.
- Music was mainly very late 90s teen pop such as Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, S Club 7, NSYNC, BSB etc, but some newer artists were also emerging such as Dido and Craig David.
- Computers were not as commonplace as they are now (I didn't get a computer until 2006)

I think the main difference between the early 00s and the rest of the decade is that the early 00s wasn't dominated by as much technology as the rest of the decade. I think 2000-2002 was still part of the late 90s culturally. I would say 2003 is when it started to feel more like the rest of the 00s as 2003 was when myspace came along and the whole social networking era truly started.

I think 2000-2002 was still part of the late 90s culturally. I would say 2003 is when it started to feel more like the rest of the 00s as 2003 was when myspace came along and the whole social networking era truly started.


Same arguments as always and wrong.


- Computers were not as commonplace as they are now (I didn't get a computer until 2006)


They were.

What's wrong with that argument? I think it's fair to say the early part of any decade is always culturally similar to the previous decade. For example I'm not really noticing much difference in the early 10s to distinguish them from the 00s yet. I was born in 1990, and when I look at photos and videos from when I was baby, things still look like the 80s until we get to about 1992 or 93.

What's wrong with that argument?


The 00's/90's transition was special because it was around 2000 when the internet really took off. Late 90's is still kind of Pre-Internet (dial-up), while from 2000-on it was the real .com-era; also highspeed internet was beginning to become common.

The 00's/90's transition was special because it was around 2000 when the internet really took off. Late 90's is still kind of Pre-Internet (dial-up), while from 2000-on it was the real .com-era; also highspeed internet was beginning to become common.



And that's when you had stuff like AIM, AOL and the start of Windows 95.

To the OP I grew up in the early 00s from ages 9-12 (2000-2003)

2000 was cool I have no issue with it, 2001 was cool until 9/11, I was still playing with my PS1, Nickelodeon was starting to get bad for me because shows like Taina, As Told By Ginger, and Brothers Garcia came along...2002 was ok as a whole, the summer of '02 was awesome Lilo and Stitch was really big at that time and PS2 was getting real popular. 2003, IMO, sucked and it was around the time I was feeling that transition in whih the decade was forming its own identity, which wasn't all that great, Nickelodeon had almost none of their shows of the 90s on their channel, Crunk music was plaguing the radio, everything about that time sucked to me, it was so gimmicky and corny.

The 00's/90's transition was special because it was around 2000 when the internet really took off. Late 90's is still kind of Pre-Internet (dial-up), while from 2000-on it was the real .com-era; also highspeed internet was beginning to become common.


Technically, the "Dot Com" boom lasted from about 1997, until the bubble burst in March 2000. The absolute peak was probably January 2000 with the AOL/Time Warner merger, and Super Bowl 34 (called the "Dot Com Bowl" because just about every other ad was from a dot com startup). Based on my own personal experiences, most average people began to become aware of the internet around 1995, and had internet access by the end of 1999.

However, there is a big difference between the pre 2004 internet experience (Web 1.0) and the post 2004 internet experience (Web 2.0). Today, you have instant access to almost any song, movie or television show at the touch of a button. None of that was possible for the average person in the early 00's.

Technically, the "Dot Com" boom lasted from about 1997, until the bubble burst in March 2000. The absolute peak was probably January 2000 with the AOL/Time Warner merger, and Super Bowl 34 (called the "Dot Com Bowl" because just about every other ad was from a dot com startup). Based on my own personal experiences, most average people began to become aware of the internet around 1995, and had internet access by the end of 1999.

However, there is a big difference between the pre 2004 internet experience (Web 1.0) and the post 2004 internet experience (Web 2.0). Today, you have instant access to almost any song, movie or television show at the touch of a button. None of that was possible for the average person in the early 00's.


Yeah I remember how big the internet was in the early '00s, I remember when AOL used to mail people CDs for 1000 hours of dial-up  ;D
I didn't get a computer until late '99 and even then I had no real clue how to use it, I just thought you only play games on it. LOL.
The early '00 was when I really felt like a big kid.  :)

One thing I noticed is some kids born in the mid/late 90s tend to mix the late 90s up with the early 00s. I remember on Facebook two years ago, there was a discussion about Stuff from the 90s and kids were naming sheesh like Lizzie McGuire and Samurai Jack, I was going...  :o

One thing I noticed is some kids born in the mid/late 90s tend to mix the late 90s up with the early 00s. I remember on Facebook two years ago, there was a discussion about Stuff from the 90s and kids were naming sheesh like Lizzie McGuire and Samurai Jack, I was going...  :o

I hate when people do that.

Yeah I remember how big the internet was in the early '00s, I remember when AOL used to mail people CDs for 1000 hours of dial-up  ;D


http://theculturecreature.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/diskz.jpg

LOL.  Yeah, that actually happened.  744 hours in a month, at best, but by Glub, if you can get 1000 hours of time (1025!  1045!) in there, you can have 'em!

http://theculturecreature.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/diskz.jpg

LOL.  Yeah, that actually happened.  744 hours in a month, at best, but by Glub, if you can get 1000 hours of time (1025!  1045!) in there, you can have 'em!


LOL Yep Thanks. It's crazy LOL. free internet!  :P It's so weird because it really wasn't that long ago.

That revels that im America everything is bigger. I also had those AOL CDs but all we got over here in Germany was about 30 free hours, sometimes maybe 120. That was in 2000/01. I registered under different names of my family so I could 'test' AOL longer.

Yeah I remember how big the internet was in the early '00s, I remember when AOL used to mail people CDs for 1000 hours of dial-up  ;D
I didn't get a computer until late '99 and even then I had no real clue how to use it, I just thought you only play games on it. LOL.
The early '00 was when I really felt like a big kid.  :)

One thing I noticed is some kids born in the mid/late 90s tend to mix the late 90s up with the early 00s. I remember on Facebook two years ago, there was a discussion about Stuff from the 90s and kids were naming sheesh like Lizzie McGuire and Samurai Jack, I was going...  :o


I remember when the internet was huge in the mid 2000's, AOL Dial Up as so annoying. ::)

LOL Yep Thanks. It's crazy LOL. free internet!  :P It's so weird because it really wasn't that long ago.


12 years ago.

12 years ago.


True, but it doesn't feel like it was 12 years ago.

^^ you were 9 and today you are 21, how can't that feel long ago to you?  ;)

I hate when people do that.


Okay? I was like going what the hell?  ;D Those shows came out in 2001.

^^ you were 9 and today you are 21, how can't that feel long ago to you?  ;)


IDK maybe because I was a child not too long ago.  :)

IDK maybe because I was a child not too long ago.  :)


When I was only 14, being 10 felt already very distant, even if it were just four years. So once you hit a certain age - probably your teens, childhood must feel a bit distant.

When I was only 14, being 10 felt already very distant, even if it were just four years. So once you hit a certain age - probably your teens, childhood must feel a bit distant.


I mean my early childhood I had in the 90s is distant to me, but for the 00s only ended in like 2 years ago. When I was a teen I missed being a little kid on occasions but  generally speaking I didn't dwell too much on stuff like that.

True, but it doesn't feel like it was 12 years ago.


feels like yesterday.

One thing I noticed is some kids born in the mid/late 90s tend to mix the late 90s up with the early 00s. I remember on Facebook two years ago, there was a discussion about Stuff from the 90s and kids were naming sheesh like Lizzie McGuire and Samurai Jack, I was going...  :o


Yeah, I saw something similar on facebook about a month or so ago. Some girl shared a photo of like a chart contrasting the 90s and today with pictures of stuff...but everything in the 90s column was from the early 2000s. It said like "before you had Hannah Montana, we had Lizzie McGuire" for one of them. I wanted to post saying that all that stuff wasn't actually 90s, but I don't know her that well and didn't want to embarrass her.

Yeah, I saw something similar on facebook about a month or so ago. Some girl shared a photo of like a chart contrasting the 90s and today with pictures of stuff...but everything in the 90s column was from the early 2000s. It said like "before you had Hannah Montana, we had Lizzie McGuire" for one of them. I wanted to post saying that all that stuff wasn't actually 90s, but I don't know her that well and didn't want to embarrass her.


whats worse is when ppl call 90s things  80s

Yeah, I saw something similar on facebook about a month or so ago. Some girl shared a photo of like a chart contrasting the 90s and today with pictures of stuff...but everything in the 90s column was from the early 2000s. It said like "before you had Hannah Montana, we had Lizzie McGuire" for one of them. I wanted to post saying that all that stuff wasn't actually 90s, but I don't know her that well and didn't want to embarrass her.


You should have embarrassed her.

whats worse is when ppl call 90s things  80s


If people say that the early 90's were part of the 80's, what's so wrong about it?

Same goes to early 2000's stuff...

Yeah, I saw something similar on facebook about a month or so ago. Some girl shared a photo of like a chart contrasting the 90s and today with pictures of stuff...but everything in the 90s column was from the early 2000s. It said like "before you had Hannah Montana, we had Lizzie McGuire" for one of them. I wanted to post saying that all that stuff wasn't actually 90s, but I don't know her that well and didn't want to embarrass her.


Ha, yeah I've seen alot of that too, especially on YouTube. Mostly among the later '90s born set you'll notice the "back in my day we had Danny Phantom" type comments.

Ha, yeah I've seen alot of that too, especially on YouTube. Mostly among the later '90s born set you'll notice the "back in my day we had Danny Phantom" type comments.


That show came out in 2004, that don't see that as being back in the day...  ;D

Sadly pretty much the same. Especially after 2001, I would say up to about the summer of 2001 it was similar to a 90s childhood, but overall it was more or less like a childhood in the early 2010s.

Spongebob, Pokemon, that was already big. I would say Disney Channel in the early 00s was different though. Lizzie McGuire, Even Stevens, those kinda shows had a 90s vibe to them much different from say Hannah Montana. Nickelodeon was still sorta old school in the early 2000s too, like The Wild Thornberries and Rocket Power.

Kids used computers, though very few of them had their own cellphones.

Sadly pretty much the same. Especially after 2001, I would say up to about the summer of 2001 it was similar to a 90s childhood, but overall it was more or less like a childhood in the early 2010s.

Spongebob, Pokemon, that was already big. I would say Disney Channel in the early 00s was different though. Lizzie McGuire, Even Stevens, those kinda shows had a 90s vibe to them much different from say Hannah Montana. Nickelodeon was still sorta old school in the early 2000s too, like The Wild Thornberries and Rocket Power.

Kids used computers, though very few of them had their own cellphones.

I disagree. While the early 2000s and 2010s have some similar qualities it was still a very different time in my opinion. Music was completely different. The lifestyle was different without social media like Facebook and YouTube. MSN Messaging was popular. Video game's were different. Show's were different. There were no IPad's and Cellphones were not common for kids to have. Early 2000s kind of have it's own identity so it's not really like the 90s. Fashion is similar but still different and more baggy and gangster like. If you think about it, it's pretty much the total opposite of today.

There are a lot of similarities with it today no doubt. But it still had a significant difference and unique culture to it.

being a kid with ages ranging from 3 in 2000 to 12 in 2009 had many experiences, im 15 now and id like to share some of the worlds stories year by year

2000 in world news

1. January 1st 2000: Y2K hoax

2. June 28 2000: Elian Gonzalez being returned to cuba: 

3. september 15-october 6 2000: the sydney olympics

4. october 30 the first crew of the international space station takes off for space

5. december 13 2000: bush v gore


2001

1. febuary 18: dale earnheart dies in crash at daytona 500

2. june 11 timothy mcvage excutued in terre haute indiana for the oaklaholma city bombings

3. 9/11

4. october 23 the ipod is introduced by apple

5. november 29 george harrison dies


2002

1. january 8 the no child left behind act is signed into law

2 march 12 andrea yates is found guilty of drowning her 5 children, given life in prision

3 march 30 the queen mother of england dies at 101

4 june 5 elizbeth smart is kidnapped

5 november 25 homeland security act is signed into law, dept of homeland security established



2003

1. march 12 the sars epidemic starts

2. march 19 bush invades iraq with the intention of finding "weapons of mass destruction"

3. may 1 president bush appears on a ship with a banner saying "mission acomplished"

4. august 14 new england-canadian maritimes power outage occurs

5. november 24 the lockerbee bomber is sentenced to 27 years


2004:

1. febuary 4: mark zuckerberg creates the world's largest social media website: facebook.com

2. september 16: hurricane ivan makes landfall in florida

3. october 27:  the boston red sox break the most infamous sports curse in america, by beating the st.louis cardnials to win their first championship since 1918

4. november 2 george w. bush is reelected as president of the united states of america

5. december 26: the christmas earthquake destroys indonesia

6. 2004 athens olympics

2005

1. april 2 pope john paul dies

2. july 7  4 die in terror attacks on london underground

3. july 28 ira abandoning mission that has carried out since1969

4. august 29 hurricane katrina batters new orleans

5.  october 19 the trials of saddam hussien begin


2006:

1. january 27 austria celebrates mozart's 250th birthday

2. febuary 10 winter olympics begin in turin italy

3. june 28 operation summer rain begins, with isreal invading gaza

4. july 15 twitter is created

5. november 5 saddam hussein is excuted


2007

1. january 9 apple announces the iphone

2. april 16 virgina tech massacure

3. july 21 the final book in the harry potter series is released

4. november 5 the writers guild of america goes on stike

5. december 24 nepal abolishes its monarchy


2008:

1. febuary 19 fedel castro resigns as president of cuba

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3. august 8 2008 bejing olympics begin

4. september 15 2008 leman brothers files for chapter 11 bankruptsy, thus starting the ressison of 2008

5. november 4 barrack obama is elected president of the united states of america, setting off nation-wide riots causing millions in damage

2009

1. june 21 greenland is given control of law enforcement, is allowed to create its own judical system and is given control of its nautral resorses by the kingdom of denmark

2. june 24 micheal jackson dies in los angeles california

3. august 3 boliva becomes the first south american nation to allow self governing amongst its citizens

4. september 26 typhoon ketsna pumbles the phillipines

5. december 1 treaty of libason went in effect


i hopeyou enjoyed this journey throughout the 2000's

I disagree. While the early 2000s and 2010s have some similar qualities it was still a very different time in my opinion. Music was completely different. The lifestyle was different without social media like Facebook and YouTube. MSN Messaging was popular. Video game's were different. Show's were different. There were no IPad's and Cellphones were not common for kids to have. Early 2000s kind of have it's own identity so it's not really like the 90s. Fashion is similar but still different and more baggy and gangster like. If you think about it, it's pretty much the total opposite of today.

I agree. But to be honest I don't think the early 2010's are too different than 2007-2009. In 2007-2008 Facebook got big, YouTube was big by 2006-7, current music stars debuted in 2007-2009. I think as a whole the early-mid 00's had a different vibe than the 90's while 2010-2012 for me is almost the same as 2008-2009. I want some big changes, I cannot stand that cultural stagnation we are in now! :-[

Sadly pretty much the same. Especially after 2001, I would say up to about the summer of 2001 it was similar to a 90s childhood, but overall it was more or less like a childhood in the early 2010s.

Spongebob, Pokemon, that was already big. I would say Disney Channel in the early 00s was different though. Lizzie McGuire, Even Stevens, those kinda shows had a 90s vibe to them much different from say Hannah Montana. Nickelodeon was still sorta old school in the early 2000s too, like The Wild Thornberries and Rocket Power.

Kids used computers, though very few of them had their own cellphones.


What is it with you and your inconsistency, in one thread you were arguing the early 2010s were distinct from the late '90s fashion wise, do you literally change your mind every five seconds or something?

I know this is Donnie Darko/callmemaybe

What is it with you and your inconsistency, in one thread you were arguing the early 2010s were distinct from the late '90s fashion wise, do you literally change your mind every five seconds or something?

I know this is Donnie Darko/callmemaybe


This thread is about childhood of the early 2000s. I wouldn't say that 'fashion' is a thing that influences your childhood that much. It's more about toys, books, kid's TV or board games - and I would agree... in this case the early 2000's weren't that different.

What is it with you and your inconsistency, in one thread you were arguing the early 2010s were distinct from the late '90s fashion wise, do you literally change your mind every five seconds or something?

I know this is Donnie Darko/callmemaybe


they're distinct from the late 90s, not so much from the early 00s.

I think the early 00s were similar to the late 90s just like the beginning of every decade seems to contain the leftovers of the decade before it.

Musically, it all changed in late 2002. By 2003, it was the 00s culturally. The early 2000s (2000-mid 2002) was all about Boybands (BSB, NSYNC), Britney Spears etc (late 90s teen pop). Late 2002 is when it all changed with Christina Aguilera's new image, Good Charlotte's new album, Busted, Avril Lavigne etc. I felt the 2001-2002 academic year was still like the 90s. The 2002-2003 academic year felt very different to me, since the tide's started changing at that time and the true 00s started. The rest is history.

From my childhood in the early 00s, I remember Pokemon and Digimon being popular. WWF was really popular, with guys like Stone Cold and The Rock. A lot of girls at my school fancied Gareth Gates and Lee Ryan from blue. Eminem was popular as well. I remember playing on the Playstation 2. Ipods were popular. CD's were being used more than casettes. I think it was a great time to be a kid.

The early 00s were different to the rest of the 00s as social media hadn't taken over in the early 00s - no facebook, You Tube etc.

Sadly pretty much the same. Especially after 2001, I would say up to about the summer of 2001 it was similar to a 90s childhood, but overall it was more or less like a childhood in the early 2010s.

Spongebob, Pokemon, that was already big. I would say Disney Channel in the early 00s was different though. Lizzie McGuire, Even Stevens, those kinda shows had a 90s vibe to them much different from say Hannah Montana. Nickelodeon was still sorta old school in the early 2000s too, like The Wild Thornberries and Rocket Power.

Kids used computers, though very few of them had their own cellphones.


I agree with this somewhat. I was an "old kid" in the early '00s (starting high school in '01) so maybe my views are a bit skewed, but I had mostly stopped watching Nickelodeon by the end of 2000 due to a rise in new shows (like Spongebob, As Told By Ginger, etc.) that I really didn't like. But the one big difference between the two is that Nickelodeon (much like The Disney Channel) is way more reliant today on sitcoms created for the sole purpose of cultivating a new teen pop star. Cartoons are seemingly dying out on both networks.

I do think that the early '00s and the early '10s are quite a bit different from a technological standpoint though. Yes, it is true that most people had a computer with internet access by the early '00s, but the truth is that looking back now, despite all the "dot com" hype at the time, nobody that I knew actually got online all that much because it was such a pain in the ass. I had a 28k modem back then and trying to download just one song off a P2P service would sometimes literally take all day!

Fads for kids of the early 00s that I remember:

Pokemon
WWF
Eminem
Britney Spears
Bubblegum Pop
Hip Hop Culture
Physical CD's
Walkman's
Cassette Tapes (weren't exactly rare)
"Out now on DVD and Video" Both VHS Tapes  and DVD in Video Stores
VHS was still in and widely used
Gameboy Systems
Windows 2000
Windows XP
MSN Messaging
Hanging out in the mall
Laid  back feel/atmosphere
Friends (TV Show)
Skateboarding
Harry Potter Books
Original Spiderman
Vanilla Coke
Livestromg Bracelets
Talking to friends at home with cordless phone
Today's Music on the radio was pretty much underground and unheard of then (Autotune was pretty underground and electro music was pretty uncool, you weren't "cool"  unless you listened to rap mostly)

Fads for kids of the early 00s that I remember:

Pokemon
WWF
Eminem
Britney Spears
Bubblegum Pop
Hip Hop Culture
Physical CD's
Walkman's
Cassette Tapes (weren't exactly rare)
"Out now on DVD and Video" Both VHS Tapes  and DVD in Video Stores
VHS was still in and widely used
Gameboy Systems
Windows 2000
Windows XP
MSN Messaging
Hanging out in the mall
Laid  back feel/atmosphere
Friends (TV Show)
Skateboarding
Harry Potter Books
Original Spiderman
Vanilla Coke
Livestromg Bracelets
Talking to friends at home with cordless phone
Today's Music on the radio was pretty much underground and unheard of then (Autotune was pretty underground and electro music was pretty uncool, you weren't "cool"  unless you listened to rap mostly)


Pretty concise list. The only major thing I'd add is the Toonami/DBZ/Anime fad which was, to my memory, every bit as big as Pokemon was up until about 2002. I think you could also throw the PlayStation 2 in there as well. I know that, as a console, it was popular throughout the '00s, but the absolute peak of it's cultural impact was around 2000 and 2001. Agreed on VHS as well. People forget that it was still a bigger format than DVD well into the early '00s; so much so that I actually went out and got a new VCR in 2001 when my old one stopped working.

People forget that it was still a bigger format than DVD well into the early '00s; so much so that I actually went out and got a new VCR in 2001 when my old one stopped working.


Yes, since VHS was still the best option to record from TV during that time. Even after I had my first DVD player in 2003, I was still not able to use it as a recorder, so I stuck with VHS. Those DVD recorders which came out in the first half of the 2000's however were very bad. Recording was not possible very spontanously, deleting movies was a cradle and the recording time was also not longer than a VHS tape. Those HDD-recorders however changed everything.

Yes, since VHS was still the best option to record from TV during that time. Even after I had my first DVD player in 2003, I was still not able to use it as a recorder, so I stuck with VHS. Those DVD recorders which came out in the first half of the 2000's however were very bad. Recording was not possible very spontanously, deleting movies was a cradle and the recording time was also not longer than a VHS tape. Those HDD-recorders however changed everything.


Then I think VHS faded out.

Fads for kids of the early 00s that I remember:

Pokemon
WWF
Eminem
Britney Spears
Bubblegum Pop
Hip Hop Culture
Physical CD's
Walkman's
Cassette Tapes (weren't exactly rare)
"Out now on DVD and Video" Both VHS Tapes  and DVD in Video Stores
VHS was still in and widely used
Gameboy Systems
Windows 2000
Windows XP
MSN Messaging
Hanging out in the mall
Laid  back feel/atmosphere
Friends (TV Show)
Skateboarding
Harry Potter Books
Original Spiderman
Vanilla Coke
Livestromg Bracelets
Talking to friends at home with cordless phone
Today's Music on the radio was pretty much underground and unheard of then (Autotune was pretty underground and electro music was pretty uncool, you weren't "cool"  unless you listened to rap mostly)


You basically summed it right there. Even though i thought live strong bracelets were a mid 00s fad. I loved vanilla coke though. 8)

they're distinct from the late 90s, not so much from the early 00s.


I have a very strong feeling you're the one behind those absolutely retarded wikipedia articles on 2010s music too, it's like you have an almost OCD obsession with asking variations of the same question and then constantly contradicting yourself all over the place, this is a pattern I've noticed of almost all your posts and threads(I have been visiting this forum since 2006).

As a decade, the 2010s continue an ongoing trend of atemporality in pop music. Whilst music in previous decades had a defined sound, the 2000s produced no epoch defining genres, and genres remain little changed from where they were in the 1990s.
While stylistically music is essentially stuck in the same style it has been in since about 1995, the musical paradigm shifts in the previous decade regarding how people obtain and listen to music including the rise of the MP3 format, televised national musical contests, and the declining influence of the recording industry have had major effects on the state of music globally in a relatively short time. According to a Nielsen and Billboard report, in 2012 digital music sales topped the physical sale of music.
In terms of popular music, the heavy use of Auto-Tune has dramatically changed the landscape of the Top-40 charts. At the same time, electronic dance music and electropop have gained significant popularity; autotune became widespread during the late 2000s and early-2010s, making a sound that differentiates 2010s music from the popular music styles of the early 2000s. Another noticeable trend that began late in the 2000s and is continuing into this decade is the prevalence of dance and pop music. Dubstep, originating in the United Kingdom, is rising in popularity globally, and is a style that mirrors the electronic-leaning musical trends elsewhere. Heavy Metal and Hard Rock still are a big part of music in the 2010's. ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)

How the heck can those BOTH those statements be true, popular music has been essentially "stuck" since 1995 even though 2010s music already differentiates itself from the early '00s, who ever wrote that lacks basic logic for crying out loud.

And the '00s DID produce defining sounds/scenes(like crunk, emo, reggaeton, ect), blatantly ignoring most of black pop culture(which has never engaged in retro too much and continues to evolve) that was dominant for most of the '00s anyways.