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Seriously. iphones? Macbooks? PS4 controller? 16 and Pregnant? Gagnam style?!

Why do people always forget what the 2000s was actually like? Who used an iphone or ipad in that decade let alone kids? The former was $700 when it debuted in the late 00s and the latter was not even invented until 2010 (same goes with the Macbook). Did they hook up their iphone to dial-up or something?

Who even knew about Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, HD in the early-mid 2000s(2005 was when Google became well known here in Toronto, before that we were always taught to write down urls on paper, then type it into the address bar). I remember the Vonage ads on TV in approximately 2006-7 advertising a brand new Wi-Fi service that emphasized being able to use the internet whilst someone was on the phone simultaneously, it compared itself to dial-up for its marketing and blew our minds. My childhood lasted until the mid 00s and was free from all the above mentioned stuff since most people were either ignorant to its existence or it wasn't invented yet, and even as late as 2008 I still saw kids playing outside in droves on bikes, using chalks on pavement, sports, etc.

The most advanced phone you could buy during that time period was the Motorola Razor/BB Bold, many movies still came out on VHS pretty late, most animation was hand-drawn(not adobe flash) and most people still got together and talked face-to-face.

Music was Ok throughout most of the decade(the late years were the worst, imo) and could stand up on its own with artists like Gym class heroes, Owl city, any Caribbean artist, Shiloh, Black Eyed Peas, Gwen Stefani. Mostly underground or obscure stuff was the best, now that not even the case anymore.
Even a couple influential movies came out of the decade like Mean Girls and Napoleon Dynamite. I remember kids films still being like Honey I shrunk the Kids, being all adventurous and such and having crazy ideas.

Something tells that because people hear the "two-thousand" in 2014, they their still in the 2000s decade and will associate 2010s things with the 2000s. The 90s is my favourite decade the best but we really need to start setting the record straight for decades more clearly.

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Seriously. iphones? Macbooks? PS4 controller? 16 and Pregnant? Gagnam style?!

Why do people always forget what the 2000s was actually like? Who used an iphone or ipad in that decade let alone kids? The former was $700 when it debuted in the late 00s and the latter was not even invented until 2010 (same goes with the Macbook). Did they hook up their iphone to dial-up or something?

Who even knew about Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, HD in the early-mid 2000s(2005 was when Google became well known here in Toronto, before that we were always taught to write down urls on paper, then type it into the address bar). I remember the Vonage ads on TV in approximately 2006-7 advertising a brand new Wi-Fi service that emphasized being able to use the internet whilst someone was on the phone simultaneously, it compared itself to dial-up for its marketing and blew our minds. My childhood lasted until the mid 00s and was free from all the above mentioned stuff since most people were either ignorant to its existence or it wasn't invented yet, and even as late as 2008 I still saw kids playing outside in droves on bikes, using chalks on pavement, sports, etc.

The most advanced phone you could buy during that time period was the Motorola Razor/BB Bold, many movies still came out on VHS pretty late, most animation was hand-drawn(not adobe flash) and most people still got together and talked face-to-face.

Music was Ok throughout most of the decade(the late years were the worst, imo) and could stand up on its own with artists like Gym class heroes, Owl city, any Caribbean artist, Shiloh, Black Eyed Peas, Gwen Stefani. Mostly underground or obscure stuff was the best, now that not even the case anymore.
Even a couple influential movies came out of the decade like Mean Girls and Napoleon Dynamite. I remember kids films still being like Honey I shrunk the Kids, being all adventurous and such and having crazy ideas.

Something tells that because people hear the "two-thousand" in 2014, they their still in the 2000s decade and will associate 2010s things with the 2000s. The 90s is my favourite decade the best but we really need to start setting the record straight for decades more clearly.
I've always wondered that too. First of all, some people in their videos have mistakenly said 2010s things being 2000s (especially late 00s). They have forgotten about that most of 2000s music was a lot better than today. People used flip phones for calling and texting. Social media was just beginning to rise starting with MySpace. Technology wasn't as advanced then because the internet was mostly dial-up and cable-broadband; people had more desktops than laptops; online gaming wasn't much of a thing; SD resolution was still on TV; more people used resources such as newspapers, books, magazines, and articles for their information. Cartoons had much more variety of animations. People weren't glued to phones all day long. Kids were outside more using their imagination, exploring, and gaining experience through their adventures with friends and family. Much of the fashion was baggy, loose, and comfortable. As someone who was a kid and a teen in the 2000s, I can definitely say that there are differences between the 2000s and today.

It may be because the 2000s century includes the 2010s, and it's the "two thousand" tens.

I think majority of people know the difference between 2000s and 2010s, it's just some people make videos in order to make a point by clumping them together. I do feel the 2000s is like a forgotten decade though. As an 00s kid there were so many cool stuff and nice memories that happened in the 00s and people are just fixated on the 80s and 90s. I'll give it more time though. Eventually 2000s nostalgia will kick in.  :P

I think majority of people know the difference between 2000s and 2010s, it's just some people make videos in order to make a point by clumping them together. I do feel the 2000s is like a forgotten decade though. As an 00s kid there were so many cool stuff and nice memories that happened in the 00s and people are just fixated on the 80s and 90s. I'll give it more time though. Eventually 2000s nostalgia will kick in.  :P


I'm sure it'll come by the twenties.

Eventually 2000s nostalgia will kick in.

Within another 10-15 years.

Because the 2000s set the basis for the next years to come as does every previous year.

I've always wondered that too. First of all, some people in their videos have mistakenly said 2010s things being 2000s (especially late 00s). They have forgotten about that most of 2000s music was a lot better than today. People used flip phones for calling and texting. Social media was just beginning to rise starting with MySpace. Technology wasn't as advanced then because the internet was mostly dial-up and cable-broadband; people had more desktops than laptops; online gaming wasn't much of a thing; SD resolution was still on TV; more people used resources such as newspapers, books, magazines, and articles for their information. Cartoons had much more variety of animations. People weren't glued to phones all day long. Kids were outside more using their imagination, exploring, and gaining experience through their adventures with friends and family. Much of the fashion was baggy, loose, and comfortable. As someone who was a kid and a teen in the 2000s, I can definitely say that there are differences between the 2000s and today.

There are some things that started in the 2000's that are still relevant now or more popular than before. YouTube, Google, smart phones and things like that got their start last decade, they just weren't HUGE then. Online gaming was definately a thing back then with Diablo and World of Warcraft and whatever else is similar to them. Last decade paved the way for what we have now. There is no denying the differences of course. Computers, tablets, phones, and gaming systems are all more advanced than back then and have some design improvements. Phones used to come in all sorts of colors and were relatively thick, now everything is a shiny black or metalic, thin and flat. Clothing for young people in the 2000's was all about letting the world know where you got it, now store names on shirts is seen as a little tacky. People still read books and magazines, holding a tablet isn't the same as turning pages and you can keep a book forever. If your device breaks you may lose what was saved on it. There was definately high speed internet in the 2000's, most people got away from dial up as soon as they could. Just wifi wasn't the thing and now it seems to dominate. The 10's is still early in this century, so we're not that far from the beginning enough yet.

Because the 2000s set the basis for the next years to come as does every previous year.

Still doesn't excuse lumping eras that share nothing in common. Thats like saying the 1860s set the basis for cars in the 20th century, therefore people drove cars in the 1860s.

There are some things that started in the 2000's that are still relevant now or more popular than before. YouTube, Google, smart phones and things like that got their start last decade, they just weren't HUGE then. Online gaming was definately a thing back then with Diablo and World of Warcraft and whatever else is similar to them. Last decade paved the way for what we have now. There is no denying the differences of course. Computers, tablets, phones, and gaming systems are all more advanced than back then and have some design improvements. Phones used to come in all sorts of colors and were relatively thick, now everything is a shiny black or metalic, thin and flat. Clothing for young people in the 2000's was all about letting the world know where you got it, now store names on shirts is seen as a little tacky. People still read books and magazines, holding a tablet isn't the same as turning pages and you can keep a book forever. If your device breaks you may lose what was saved on it. There was definately high speed internet in the 2000's, most people got away from dial up as soon as they could. Just wifi wasn't the thing and now it seems to dominate. The 10's is still early in this century, so we're not that far from the beginning enough yet.
Google got its start in 1998 but pretty much no-one knew about search engines until the mid 00s. Most of the decade was dominated by pocket computers/PDAs, the iphone was the 1st smartphone ever made that combined the two and didn't come until late 00s. Online gaming still was confined to the hardcore geeks that knew a thing or two about building rigs, most people still got together for local mutiplayer even after the PS360 came out pretty much until this decade hit. People moved from dial-up/broadband very late, as I said, I saw a commercial in the mid-late 2000s promoting Wi-Fi as revolutionary.

There are some things that started in the 2000's that are still relevant now or more popular than before. YouTube, Google, smart phones and things like that got their start last decade, they just weren't HUGE then. Online gaming was definately a thing back then with Diablo and World of Warcraft and whatever else is similar to them. Last decade paved the way for what we have now. There is no denying the differences of course. Computers, tablets, phones, and gaming systems are all more advanced than back then and have some design improvements. Phones used to come in all sorts of colors and were relatively thick, now everything is a shiny black or metalic, thin and flat. Clothing for young people in the 2000's was all about letting the world know where you got it, now store names on shirts is seen as a little tacky. People still read books and magazines, holding a tablet isn't the same as turning pages and you can keep a book forever. If your device breaks you may lose what was saved on it. There was definately high speed internet in the 2000's, most people got away from dial up as soon as they could. Just wifi wasn't the thing and now it seems to dominate. The 10's is still early in this century, so we're not that far from the beginning enough yet.
Shemp is right. Most people didn't have online gaming except for nerds and people with up to date technology at the time. Yes, i know WoW and Diablo were in existence for the online world; however,  a lot of people still had offline gaming. I do agree that technology is more advanced today but remember that during the 2000s, it was half analog and digital. The high speed Internet was cable/broadband which everyone switched to as soon as it was available. I believe everyone began getting it around 2005-06. Yes, there were lots of brand names to buy clothes from and wear it with style. Today, not so much. I know people still read, but what I meant was that more people read anything then than they do now.

Google got its start in 1998 but pretty much no-one knew about search engines until the mid 00s. Most of the decade was dominated by pocket computers/PDAs, the iphone was the 1st smartphone ever made that combined the two and didn't come until late 00s. Online gaming still was confined to the hardcore geeks that knew a thing or two about building rigs, most people still got together for local mutiplayer even after the PS360 came out pretty much until this decade hit. People moved from dial-up/broadband very late, as I said, I saw a commercial in the mid-late 2000s promoting Wi-Fi as revolutionary.


Actually Internet search engines have been around since at least 1990. Archie is the oldest known one, but I suspect someone may have written code for one even earlier than that to scour FTP files. They were quite well known and widely used by the late 90s. I've been an Internet user since 1999 and I remember using many search engines before Google became THE search engine. Yahoo, Excite, Webcrawler, etc.

Actually Internet search engines have been around since at least 1990. Archie is the oldest known one, but I suspect someone may have written code for one even earlier than that to scour FTP files. They were quite well known and widely used by the late 90s. I've been an Internet user since 1999 and I remember using many search engines before Google became THE search engine. Yahoo, Excite, Webcrawler, etc.

In the early 2000s I actually used Yahoo before I discovered Google. At the time I thought it was a superior search engine.

Archie is the oldest known one, but I suspect someone may have written code for one even earlier than that to scour FTP files.

Archie was an actual search engine?  ???

In the early 2000s I actually used Yahoo before I discovered Google. At the time I thought it was a superior search engine.

I used Yahoo too then I discovered MSN later on.

Archie was an actual search engine?  ???

Yeah with Veronica for gopher iirc

Actually Internet search engines have been around since at least 1990. Archie is the oldest known one, but I suspect someone may have written code for one even earlier than that to scour FTP files. They were quite well known and widely used by the late 90s. I've been an Internet user since 1999 and I remember using many search engines before Google became THE search engine. Yahoo, Excite, Webcrawler, etc.

I'm aware of that. But popularity is what counts here. The general public was not aware of most search engines until the mid-00s which is why it was common to manually type urls before then.

I'm aware of that. But popularity is what counts here. The general public was not aware of most search engines until the mid-00s which is why it was common to manually type urls before then.


That's not how I remember it at all. Pretty much anyone who used the internet knew what a search engine was by 2000. Ask Jeeves (now ask.com) was the first one I remember using, and that was in the late 90s (and I was still a kid at the time). Alta Vista and Dogpile were also popular. Google was basically just another search engine, not the huge corporation it is now.

And I wouldn't say online gaming was limited to nerds. Maybe in the early 00s, but it was rapidly gaining popularity by the late 00s. If you had a PS3/Xbox360, there was a good chance you played online.

I can see what you're saying with people focusing more on the late 00s, but that seems to happen with most decades. People associate the 50s with rock and roll, the 60s with hippies, the 70s with disco, and the 80s with big hair. The 90s is unique because it's basically two decades: the pre-internet 90s and the post-internet 90s (but again, most people seem to focus on the latter).

Google was definitely a household name in the U.S. by about 2002, popular even before that. Any internet user (which was most people) knew about search engines in the early 2000s and very late 90s.

I never heard of them until then. We we're never taught, where I live about search engines. Not, me, not my parents(or co-workers), not my teachers and not my friends. I still even have my Dads notebook full of mundane website urls that he used to use until about the mid-00s. I may have vaguely heard about Ask.com in around 2004 but most people I hear talking about it saw it as a fringe site that was never really going to gain popularity.
I Google was definitely not popular until 2005 because my news network was only just demonstrating to viewers how to use it back then.

Google was popular and Yahoo too. I think until 2004/5 people talked about other search engines as a reasonable alternative, but by then everyone knew that Google would have been the winner.

What about the time before YouTube? I remember looking up videos at google video, but did stop with that after I found youtube in 2006.

Honestly I haven't started using Google or knew what it really was until around 2004. The first time I've seen it was in computer class in Grade 3. I was using Yahoo a lot though but I haven't even started using Yahoo until around late 2002. And for those of you wondering why a seven year old was using search engines, I was a very curious and technology oriented child.  :P

If you had a PS3/Xbox360, there was a good chance you played online.
I have a PS3 and I played video games only.

Google was definitely a household name in the U.S. by about 2002, popular even before that. Any internet user (which was most people) knew about search engines in the early 2000s and very late 90s.


There was also AOL and Netscape.

What about the time before YouTube? I remember looking up videos at google video, but did stop with that after I found youtube in 2006.

I found YouTube and after that I became a part of it, now I have 200 music videos in my collection.

Google was popular and Yahoo too. I think until 2004/5 people talked about other search engines as a reasonable alternative, but by then everyone knew that Google would have been the winner.

What about the time before YouTube? I remember looking up videos at google video, but did stop with that after I found youtube in 2006.

I remember gettting a lot of my viral videos from Ebaumsworld, funnyjunk, and various video sites before Youtube

I remember gettting a lot of my viral videos from Ebaumsworld, funnyjunk, and various video sites before Youtube


before YouTube I used Dailymotion for watching my videos.

You see a lot of people, especially early '00s kids who associate early 2000s fads with the '90s.  I've seen things like Sponegbob, Hillary Duff, That's so Raven, etc named as '90s fads when they weren't.

It may be because the 2000s century includes the 2010s, and it's the "two thousand" tens.

Its the "twenty-tens", not "two-thousand tens". The century is the twenty-hundreds.

You see a lot of people, especially early '00s kids who associate early 2000s fads with the '90s.  I've seen things like Sponegbob, Hillary Duff, That's so Raven, etc named as '90s fads when they weren't.

Spongebob got a 90's start, and so did a few 2000's fads that spent more time in the 2000's than in the 90's.

Its the "twenty-tens", not "two-thousand tens". The century is the twenty-hundreds.


I always pronounced it "two-thousand fifteen"?

I always pronounced it "two-thousand fifteen"?

It's supposed to be pronounced "Twenty-Fifteen"  I do hear some people pronounce it two thousand but majority say it right. And the reason why it's supposed to be pronounced that way is because it's shorter and easier to say.

Did any one use HoffSpace back in 2008?

Probably because we haven't left the 2000s. Seriously, the entire first half of the 2010s just felt like a "2000s Part 2". So far, 2015 has been the same, but the year just started. I'm waiting for the day when the 2010s really kick off pop culturally.

Probably because we haven't left the 2000s. Seriously, the entire first half of the 2010s just felt like a "2000s Part 2". So far, 2015 has been the same, but the year just started. I'm waiting for the day when the 2010s really kick off pop culturally.

It's because the 2010s started pretty early around late 08/09.
The 00s as we know it lasted from late 2001- late 2008.

It's because the 2010s started pretty early around late 08/09.
The 00s as we know it lasted from late 2001- late 2008.


Not really, little has changed since 2006.

Not really, little has changed since 2006.

A LOT has changed since 2008 even..

It's because the 2010s started pretty early around late 08/09.
The 00s as we know it lasted from late 2001- late 2008.


Yes, 2008 felt like a time full of change.

I'm going to lump everything from 1998 until now as one big era.  >:(  >:(

Probably because we haven't left the 2000s. Seriously, the entire first half of the 2010s just felt like a "2000s Part 2". So far, 2015 has been the same, but the year just started. I'm waiting for the day when the 2010s really kick off pop culturally.


People on this forum around 2005 were saying to the same thing about the '00s being a '90s redux .

People on this forum around 2005 were saying to the same thing about the '00s being a '90s redux .


The 2000s were not a watered down '90s. The '90s were very different from the 2000s. 2014 feels like 2006 in most regards, whereas the differences between 1996 and 2004 were obvious. As a matter of fact, I can see the differences from the '90s and '00s as early as 2001. I also see 2001 as the year that pop culture took a turn for the worse. It sometimes was better, but the awesomeness of the '90s did not last.

No clue.

The 2000s is the decade of 9/11, sagging pants, ringtone rap, emo rock, and the rise of the internet - a far cry from the 2010s: the decade of 'cool nerds' (hipsters included), a terrible economy, EDM, indie rock, and the rise of intelligent mobile devices.

I'm going to lump everything from 1998 until now as one big era.  >:(  >:(


I lump everything from 1993 to now as the start of the 21st Century.  8-P

No clue.

The 2000s is the decade of 9/11, sagging pants, ringtone rap, emo rock, and the rise of the internet - a far cry from the 2010s: the decade of 'cool nerds' (hipsters included), a terrible economy, EDM, indie rock, and the rise of intelligent mobile devices.


That's only the first half - we have the entire second half of the decade left to determine what the 2010s will be known for. Who knows, maybe the second half will be what the 2010s will be associated with and everything that was popular in the first half will be completely forgotten.

I didn't enjoy the first half, but I have hope for the second half. It's time to give ourselves a fresh start and abandon the baggage that the hipsters and the LGBT community left behind for us to take care of. I didn't (and don't) like what they turned pop culture into, so now I just want them to go away. I want Black culture to come back! Where's my old school R&B and Hip-Hop Soul?!

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Seriously. iphones? Macbooks? PS4 controller? 16 and Pregnant? Gagnam style?!

Why do people always forget what the 2000s was actually like? Who used an iphone or ipad in that decade let alone kids? The former was $700 when it debuted in the late 00s and the latter was not even invented until 2010 (same goes with the Macbook). Did they hook up their iphone to dial-up or something?

Who even knew about Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, HD in the early-mid 2000s(2005 was when Google became well known here in Toronto, before that we were always taught to write down urls on paper, then type it into the address bar). I remember the Vonage ads on TV in approximately 2006-7 advertising a brand new Wi-Fi service that emphasized being able to use the internet whilst someone was on the phone simultaneously, it compared itself to dial-up for its marketing and blew our minds. My childhood lasted until the mid 00s and was free from all the above mentioned stuff since most people were either ignorant to its existence or it wasn't invented yet, and even as late as 2008 I still saw kids playing outside in droves on bikes, using chalks on pavement, sports, etc.

The most advanced phone you could buy during that time period was the Motorola Razor/BB Bold, many movies still came out on VHS pretty late, most animation was hand-drawn(not adobe flash) and most people still got together and talked face-to-face.

Music was Ok throughout most of the decade(the late years were the worst, imo) and could stand up on its own with artists like Gym class heroes, Owl city, any Caribbean artist, Shiloh, Black Eyed Peas, Gwen Stefani. Mostly underground or obscure stuff was the best, now that not even the case anymore.
Even a couple influential movies came out of the decade like Mean Girls and Napoleon Dynamite. I remember kids films still being like Honey I shrunk the Kids, being all adventurous and such and having crazy ideas.

Something tells that because people hear the "two-thousand" in 2014, they their still in the 2000s decade and will associate 2010s things with the 2000s. The 90s is my favourite decade the best but we really need to start setting the record straight for decades more clearly.


I see where you are coming from. You would be surprised how many people confuse 1994 for 1991. They assume that teenagers were wearing all flannel and grunge band shirts because Nirvana hit number one on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Track charts in late '91. That wasn't the case, my peers were wearing Guns N Roses "Use Your Illusion" concert shirts in the fall of 1991 into 1992. People wouldn't get into what I call "mid 90s mode" until the fall of 1992. There weren't as many Nirvana fans in late '92 as there were in 1994. They were few and far in between.

No clue.

The 2000s is the decade of 9/11, sagging pants, ringtone rap, emo rock, and the rise of the internet - a far cry from the 2010s: the decade of 'cool nerds' (hipsters included), a terrible economy, EDM, indie rock, and the rise of intelligent mobile devices.


The US economy has been getting fairlysince 2014.

I don't expect world events to be peaceful any time soon. At least music and TV are easy things to improve. They desperately need variety, not copy after copy of the same things. We'll just have to wait and see.

I don't expect world events to be peaceful any time soon.


Unfortunately, that's true.  :\'(

At least music and TV are easy things to improve. They desperately need variety, not copy after copy of the same things. We'll just have to wait and see.

Yes. The consumers can change music easily. The people have more power than they think. There are some songs that I like that are popular, but I am well aware that it could always be better. I vote with my wallet—if I don't like a song, I don't buy it. Unfortunately, my vote isn't enough.

It's up to the artist to convince the world to like a respective genre. It has to start with someone, but no record company wants to even try. I'm not sure if I even want a brand new genre to become popular. I just want something old to become new again. There's a reason why I pretty much only listen to '90s music.

I don't expect world events to be peaceful any time soon. At least music and TV are easy things to improve. They desperately need variety, not copy after copy of the same things. We'll just have to wait and see.


I definitely agree, we need more variety.

People on this forum around 2005 were saying to the same thing about the '00s being a '90s redux .


I wonder if people on this message board just have an unrealistic and silly expectation that a new decade means EVERYTHING will change. In fact, this was never true. The reality is bordering decades are still mostly the same culturally, it takes a lot longer than 10 years to totally shuffle things around. 2015 is mostly inhabited by the same individuals that lived in 2005 and 1995 so of course it's going to be broadly similar to recent decades. Even 1985 is not as different from today as a lot of people think.

I don't expect world events to be peaceful any time soon. At least music and TV are easy things to improve. They desperately need variety, not copy after copy of the same things. We'll just have to wait and see.


Violence in general has actually declined a lot in recent years, but considering Russia and ISIS both emerged as these new threats last year and global warming is becoming blatantly obvious I have my doubts these positive developments are permanent, unfortunately. As our environment continues to be damaged it will likely lead to more wars.

Violence in general has actually declined a lot in recent years, but considering Russia and ISIS both emerged as these new threats last year and global warming is becoming blatantly obvious I have my doubts these positive developments are permanent, unfortunately. As our environment continues to be damaged it will likely lead to more wars.
Global Warming-I live in the Northeast and the last 2 winters have been brutally cold.

I never heard of weather conditions causing a war.

Global Warming-I live in the Northeast and the last 2 winters have been brutally cold.

I never heard of weather conditions causing a war.

Global warming affects extremes of both hot and cold, so the fact that it was brutally cold means it's because of climate change.

Global Warming-I live in the Northeast and the last 2 winters have been brutally cold.

I never heard of weather conditions causing a war.


The eastern US is an odd exception to the rule. The western US is getting much hotter and drier, as is Australia and most other places.

Global warming affects extremes of both hot and cold, so the fact that it was brutally cold means it's because of climate change.
....or its winter so its supposed to be cold. It hasn't been this cold since 1993 till the past couple years.

Global Warming-I live in the Northeast and the last 2 winters have been brutally cold.

I never heard of weather conditions causing a war.


I live in New York and winters over here have been just as brutally cold as last year.

I live in New York and winters over here have been just as brutally cold as last year.
I live in New Jersey so I know what you are going through.

I live in New Jersey so I know what you are going through.


How much snow did you get?

How much snow did you get?

Where I live we have something called "chinooks" which are winds that melt the snow in the middle of winter and it can be a nice spring day 17c in January and the next day a freezing -40. We get lots of snow but not as much as other places.

Where I live we have something called "chinooks" which are winds that melt the snow in the middle of winter and it can be a nice spring day 17c in January and the next day a freezing -40. We get lots of snow but not as much as other places.


We're getting more snow tomorrow, it's like the winter that'll never quit.

We're getting more snow tomorrow, it's like the winter that'll never quit.

Funny how in this case U.S. is colder than Canada. XD We typically have terrible winters but this year we're lucky.

Not really, little has changed since 2006.


Wow I'm pretty damn shocked by your post we are around the same age and I couldn't disagree more with you. Obama, Blu Rays at their peak, iPhones, iPads, music,YouTube and Facebook changed, popular TV, PS4 and Xbox One, economy, society, were all much different from majority of 2006. Now if you are talking about late 06 I could see what you mean. But come on now you cannot say we are in the same era as before. I would expect this from older people. But a lot in my life has changed since then. Hell a lot has happened since 2008.

Not really, little has changed since 2006.


Also I Agree with unconventinal99 the current era did indeed start pretty friggin late 08-09. That's when music changed, society changed, from Bush to Obama, HD TV was the norm, from DVDs to Blu Rays,Social media really became popular.

Funny how in this case U.S. is colder than Canada. XD We typically have terrible winters but this year we're lucky.


and we're getting the brutal cold. :(

Still waiting for the winter in Northwestern Europe. Had one day snow in December. Today it felt like spring  :D

and we're getting the brutal cold. :(


In Missouri it is killer out here!! :-X This brotha can't handle the cold! lol

Unfortunately, that's true.  :\'(

Yes. The consumers can change music easily. The people have more power than they think. There are some songs that I like that are popular, but I am well aware that it could always be better. I vote with my wallet—if I don't like a song, I don't buy it. Unfortunately, my vote isn't enough.

It's up to the artist to convince the world to like a respective genre. It has to start with someone, but no record company wants to even try. I'm not sure if I even want a brand new genre to become popular. I just want something old to become new again. There's a reason why I pretty much only listen to '90s music.

The industry has the final decision, and music that's dumbed down, watered down, and all sounds the same has taken the place of true talent. I like when a singer has a unique sound, even something small like their voice or something instrumental that stands out to me.

How much snow did you get?
Not really that much snow maybe like 6 inches this whole entire winter. Its just been cold!

I see where you are coming from. You would be surprised how many people confuse 1994 for 1991. They assume that teenagers were wearing all flannel and grunge band shirts because Nirvana hit number one on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Track charts in late '91. That wasn't the case, my peers were wearing Guns N Roses "Use Your Illusion" concert shirts in the fall of 1991 into 1992. People wouldn't get into what I call "mid 90s mode" until the fall of 1992. There weren't as many Nirvana fans in late '92 as there were in 1994. They were few and far in between.
I remember a kid I grew up with(we were friends for awhile) he wore G'N'R shirts in 3rd or 4th grade which was 1989-1990 and 1990-1991.  Flannel I remember a girl she was into Paula Abdul in 6th grade(1991-1992) but by 7th or 8th grade she was talking about Grunge which was 1992-1993 and 1993-1994 school years. I really didn't know it was the 90's culture until I got into in High School in 1994-1995 everybody was wearing dark colors it seemed. It was kinda of a culture shock. Maybe because I was in middle school it didn't seem full blown 90's. I don't know for me I think I was still "in the in-between period" of the late 80's/early 90's when I entered High School and I was for like the whole 1994-1995 school year. I think it was in between the 1995-1996 school year(10th grade) I finally caught up on fashion.

In Missouri it is killer out here!! :-X This brotha can't handle the cold! lol


How cold has it been?

Not really that much snow maybe like 6 inches this whole entire winter. Its just been cold!


We got about 2-3 inches just the other day.

How cold has it been?


It's been 13 or even 10 degrees outside. Walking around campus has been horrific!! :\'(

I remember a kid I grew up with(we were friends for awhile) he wore G'N'R shirts in 3rd or 4th grade which was 1989-1990 and 1990-1991.  Flannel I remember a girl she was into Paula Abdul in 6th grade(1991-1992) but by 7th or 8th grade she was talking about Grunge which was 1992-1993 and 1993-1994 school years. I really didn't know it was the 90's culture until I got into in High School in 1994-1995 everybody was wearing dark colors it seemed. It was kinda of a culture shock. Maybe because I was in middle school it didn't seem full blown 90's. I don't know for me I think I was still "in the in-between period" of the late 80's/early 90's when I entered High School and I was for like the whole 1994-1995 school year. I think it was in between the 1995-1996 school year(10th grade) I finally caught up on fashion.


That sounds about right, based on TV shows I've watched from then.

It's been 13 or even 10 degrees outside. Walking around campus has been horrific!! :\'(


It was 19 today with a wind chill of 4. :o

Funny how in this case U.S. is colder than Canada. XD We typically have terrible winters but this year we're lucky.


Depends on where. Vancouver is actually warmer than most of the United States during the winter months.

Google got its start in 1998 but pretty much no-one knew about search engines until the mid 00s. Most of the decade was dominated by pocket computers/PDAs, the iphone was the 1st smartphone ever made that combined the two and didn't come until late 00s. Online gaming still was confined to the hardcore geeks that knew a thing or two about building rigs, most people still got together for local mutiplayer even after the PS360 came out pretty much until this decade hit. People moved from dial-up/broadband very late, as I said, I saw a commercial in the mid-late 2000s promoting Wi-Fi as revolutionary.

Uh...the Blackberry was the first to combine a pda and a phone, behind it was the Nokia Sidekick.

It's supposed to be pronounced "Twenty-Fifteen"  I do hear some people pronounce it two thousand but majority say it right. And the reason why it's supposed to be pronounced that way is because it's shorter and easier to say.

That doesn't make any effing sense, being a shortee way to say it doesn't make it the correct way, it's numbers for Goddess sake. One way to say has one less sylible, so it must be the right way....pfft...

I definitely agree, we need more variety.
yep, I've seen shows on Animal Planet, that don't have anything to do with animals.

Here in Kentucky, weather can change on a whim, ask anybody in the Ohio Valley, two years ago, in the middle of December, or Janurary there was a week straight between 20-40 degree weather, of about 80degrees. I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to find all the memes and jokes on Louisvilles weather, if you can't find somebody from here to talk to. We just got real winter about the start of Feburary, since November we were steadilly in the 30-40 area, few centimeters of snow here and there, some 50s here, but mostly 30s. Then November comes and ruins it all, supposed to go away by March 1.

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Depends on where. Vancouver is actually warmer than most of the United States during the winter months.

Where I live it's freezing cold, much colder. But this year we're lucky.

yep, I've seen shows on Animal Planet, that don't have anything to do with animals.


or The History Channel that doesn't have much to do with history.

or The History Channel that doesn't have much to do with history.

Or the learning channel that doesn't have a lot to do with learning. :P

I remember a kid I grew up with(we were friends for awhile) he wore G'N'R shirts in 3rd or 4th grade which was 1989-1990 and 1990-1991.  Flannel I remember a girl she was into Paula Abdul in 6th grade(1991-1992) but by 7th or 8th grade she was talking about Grunge which was 1992-1993 and 1993-1994 school years. I really didn't know it was the 90's culture until I got into in High School in 1994-1995 everybody was wearing dark colors it seemed. It was kinda of a culture shock. Maybe because I was in middle school it didn't seem full blown 90's. I don't know for me I think I was still "in the in-between period" of the late 80's/early 90's when I entered High School and I was for like the whole 1994-1995 school year. I think it was in between the 1995-1996 school year(10th grade) I finally caught up on fashion.


The core years of the early 90s were from late '89/1990 to around August of 1992. By the time Clinton was in office, the mid 90s atmosphere was already conceived. 1993 really brings a definite end to the whole Bush Senior era.

Uh...the Blackberry was the first to combine a pda and a phone, behind it was the Nokia Sidekick.

Actually it was the IBM Simon Personal Communicator from 1992.

The 2000s were not a watered down '90s. The '90s were very different from the 2000s. 2014 feels like 2006 in most regards, whereas the differences between 1996 and 2004 were obvious. As a matter of fact, I can see the differences from the '90s and '00s as early as 2001. I also see 2001 as the year that pop culture took a turn for the worse. It sometimes was better, but the awesomeness of the '90s did not last.

Hardly :o

Where I live we have something called "chinooks" which are winds that melt the snow in the middle of winter and it can be a nice spring day 17c in January and the next day a freezing -40. We get lots of snow but not as much as other places.

You live in Alberta? I'm in Ontario.

Also I Agree with unconventinal99 the current era did indeed start pretty friggin late 08-09. That's when music changed, society changed, from Bush to Obama, HD TV was the norm, from DVDs to Blu Rays,Social media really became popular.

I see these as more 09 than even 08. 2008 still had Myspace, CRT TV's and DVDs(Blue-ray never actually took off despite what marketing companies will lead you to believe)

You live in Alberta? I'm in Ontario.

Yeah in Calgary. I heard Ontario is having a tough winter this year.

Or the learning channel that doesn't have a lot to do with learning. :P


or MTV that has nothing to do with music
or VH1 that have no videos

How can 2000s be associated with 2010 things when back then the 2010s had not happened yet?

I see these as more 09 than even 08. 2008 still had Myspace, CRT TV's and DVDs(Blue-ray never actually took off despite what marketing companies will lead you to believe)


True.

MySpace was hugely popular still in 2008.  HDTVs were still pretty primitive back then compared to today.  I still had a CRT.  A lot of people don't think about this but a lot of businesses still used PCs with CRT monitors as recently as 08-09.

True.

MySpace was hugely popular still in 2008.  HDTVs were still pretty primitive back then compared to today.  I still had a CRT.  A lot of people don't think about this but a lot of businesses still used PCs with CRT monitors as recently as 08-09.

The place I work at still uses uses a white CRT monitor with Windows XP on it.

True.

MySpace was hugely popular still in 2008.  HDTVs were still pretty primitive back then compared to today.  I still had a CRT.  A lot of people don't think about this but a lot of businesses still used PCs with CRT monitors as recently as 08-09.


and YouTube was also popular.

How can 2000s be associated with 2010 things when back then the 2010s had not happened yet?

Exactly...

The place I work at still uses uses a white CRT monitor with Windows XP on it.

We still have CRT monitors at my school, just upgraded to Windows 7 from XP last year.

How can 2000s be associated with 2010 things when back then the 2010s had not happened yet?

We're in 2015 right? In the 2010s ?

What else were the 2000s but a transition from the Clinton 90s (2000 and early 2001) to the 2010s (Late 2007 to 2009)?

We still have CRT monitors at my school, just upgraded to Windows 7 from XP last year.


My vocational school got flat screens in the mid 00s (ca. 2006).

At high school in the early 2000s, if I remember correctly, we had CRT monitors and Windows 98, plus one digital dial up connection for 15 computers or so.

What else were the 2000s but a transition from the Clinton 90s (2000 and early 2001) to the 2010s (Late 2007 to 2009)?


I COMPLETELY agree, in the future the 00s might be seen as a transitional period or era.

I COMPLETELY agree, in the future the 00s might be seen as a transitional period or era.


You're right, the 2000s were more of a transitional period than any decade before them. They got off to a much slower start than the 80s and 90s too.

I remember thinking people would wear Old Navy for the remainder of the 2000s in the year 2000. Man, was I ever wrong.

At a technological level, the 80s and 90s were a transitional period between the real old world and the information society whe have now.

At a technological level, the 80s and 90s were a transitional period between the real old world and the information society whe have now.

The 20th century was a transitional period between the real old world and the new 21st century.  ;D

The 20th century was a transitional period between the real old world and the new 21st century.  ;D


Yes, that's true. At an industrial level, the 20th century was an important transitional period. But due to the importance of computers and the internet today, the 80s and 90s were another transitional era, especially for companies.