Since the late 2000’s were 8-10 years ago, do you think it feels different from today? I was recently looking at a picture from early 2009 and everybody in the background was carrying a digital camera with them. The fashion was noticeably different. Most guys still wore long hair and emo was past it’s peak but still around. Music has definitely changed. Groups like the Black Eyed Peas that were popular in 2009 are hardly around anymore. I would consider the late 2000’s to be quite different from now and 2010 as the last year that feels dated to me.

Yes, they are. I was 8-10 years old in the Late 2000s and when I think back on the era, there are so many aspects to it which are now completed dated and irrelevant. Here are a few examples:

* Most TV channels were still broadcasting in 4:3 ratio until about 2008.
* Back in 2007, I used Limewire to search for new songs.
* Rock was still a dominant genre in the mainstream.
* Flip-phones.

I really miss the Late 2000s now, to be honest. :(

They're certainly dated. In the late 2000s, shaggy swoop hair, logo t-shirts, and pop punk-mascara looks were still really popular in fashion; YouTube videos was crude and SD, digital interfaces were desktop-oriented, metallic, and beveled; and "that's so gay" jokes were still tossed around without people regularly losing friends. Except for The Big Bang Theory, all of the most popular shows right now premiered after the late 2000s. As utterly futuristic as 2007 felt back when I first experienced it, it's definitely starting to develop a sort of retro vibe that's easily distinguishable from today.

Here's Smosh's decent, albeit Anthonyless summary of how 2007 has become dated:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUt5n84b7uc

They're certainly dated. In the late 2000s, shaggy swoop hair, logo t-shirts, and pop punk-mascara looks were still really popular in fashion; YouTube videos was crude and SD, digital interfaces were desktop-oriented, metallic, and beveled; and "that's so gay" jokes were still tossed around without people regularly losing friends. Except for The Big Bang Theory, all of the most popular shows right now premiered after the late 2000s. As utterly futuristic as 2007 felt back when I first experienced it, it's definitely starting to develop a sort of retro vibe that's easily distinguishable from today.

Here's Smosh's decent, albeit Anthonyless summary of how 2007 has become dated:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUt5n84b7uc


Great video.

I really miss the late '00s.  I came of age around that time so I'll probably always remember it as being one of the best times of my life.  2007 and 2008 seem like almost another world to me.  2009 still feels somewhat connect to today but it feels very distant.  I remember feeling quite anxious about the economy back then but I would take that fear any day over nuclear war.

There are some aspects about it I don't miss like all of the "that's so gay" insults and the fact that using "******" was acceptable.  Superbad was a great movie that has aged pretty well in most aspects but you can really tell it's age because of the homophobia.

I recently went searching through some old threads on this board from 2009.  As much as has changed, little has in other ways.  Back then, people are talking about the music and how it wasn't as good as the early '00s.  There are a lot of predictions for the '10s and arguing over where the mid '00s began and ended.  A lot of threads predicting where music was going to go.  Somebody actually asked if Asher Roth was going to be the next Eminem!!!  Most people today cringe at Asher Roth.  He was more Aaron Carter than Eminem.

Anyways, even though they were discussing many of the same things, there was a much more relaxed tone to the posts back then.  People weren't as angsty.  It really seems like it was a much more simple time to live, even though at the time we thought it was trying.  Maybe that's simply because we know the major issues back then ended up and we don't know how today's problems (like Trump and North Kórea) will end up.  Maybe however life really was more chill back then.

Needless to say, I miss it.

Anyways, even though they were discussing many of the same things, there was a much more relaxed tone to the posts back then.  People weren't as angsty.  It really seems like it was a much more simple time to live, even though at the time we thought it was trying.  Maybe that's simply because we know the major issues back then ended up and we don't know how today's problems (like Trump and North Kórea) will end up.  Maybe however life really was more chill back then.

Needless to say, I miss it.


It was a much simpler time, without a doubt. People were still genuinely optimistic as to what lay ahead in the future and pop culture was in a much healthier state. I think a lot of people are simply bitter as to how the 2010s panned out. I personally am, because I thought 2010 and 2011 showed a lot of promise and it seemed like things were heading in the right direction, but then pop culture and society literally fell of a cliff and now we're stuck in the horrible rut that we're in. I'm sure there are other people who feel the exact same way.

It was a much simpler time, without a doubt. People were still genuinely optimistic as to what lay ahead in the future and pop culture was in a much healthier state. I think a lot of people are simply bitter as to how the 2010s panned out. I personally am, because I thought 2010 and 2011 showed a lot of promise and it seemed like things were heading in the right direction, but then pop culture and society literally fell of a cliff and now we're stuck in the horrible rut that we're in. I'm sure there are other people who feel the exact same way.

Hmmm... the first year or so is full of promise but the other years were bitter and unpleasant? Sounds a lot like another decade. The 2000s. :P

Hmmm... the first year or so is full of promise but the other years were bitter and unpleasant? Sounds a lot like another decade. The 2000s. :P


Haha, you're not wrong. :P

They're certainly dated. In the late 2000s, shaggy swoop hair, logo t-shirts, and pop punk-mascara looks were still really popular in fashion; YouTube videos was crude and SD, digital interfaces were desktop-oriented, metallic, and beveled; and "that's so gay" jokes were still tossed around without people regularly losing friends. Except for The Big Bang Theory, all of the most popular shows right now premiered after the late 2000s. As utterly futuristic as 2007 felt back when I first experienced it, it's definitely starting to develop a sort of retro vibe that's easily distinguishable from today.

Here's Smosh's decent, albeit Anthonyless summary of how 2007 has become dated:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUt5n84b7uc

I miss those times. I was really hoping that now homophobia is now uncool that they would keep those or bring those back (the first two bolded points). I'm banking on the 2020s to bring back the 2000s since I've lost hope for this decade for it coming up with anything I'll like that isn't technology. Even despite the technological advances mobile interfaces still suck because, in part, due to the limited capabilities of mobile - I can't read the extras in Duolingo app that I could on the desktop website. I do find that the late 2000s UI design on desktop and mobile were a bit elitist, when you mentioned "metallic and beveled" - that made me fall in love with iOS briefly, but I welcome the flat design that's on our devices these days.

They're certainly dated. In the late 2000s, shaggy swoop hair, logo t-shirts, and pop punk-mascara looks were still really popular in fashion; YouTube videos was crude and SD, digital interfaces were desktop-oriented, metallic, and beveled; and "that's so gay" jokes were still tossed around without people regularly losing friends. Except for The Big Bang Theory, all of the most popular shows right now premiered after the late 2000s. As utterly futuristic as 2007 felt back when I first experienced it, it's definitely starting to develop a sort of retro vibe that's easily distinguishable from today.

Here's Smosh's decent, albeit Anthonyless summary of how 2007 has become dated:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUt5n84b7uc

Lmao! Look at all the kids in the comment section who were born in 2007. ;D

All I'm going to say is, 2007-2008 are long gone.

All I'm going to say is, 2007-2008 are long gone.

;(

Yeah, they are! Everything that was relevant then is irrelevant today. I have listened to songs and watched some shows from that time, and they would definitely look out of place today.

I saw a video of me at a birthday party in early 2009 and I didn’t see anyone who recorded with a smartphone. So probably XD

2007 is definetly dated, 2009 is getting there.

2007 is definetly dated, 2009 is getting there.

What about 2008?

What about 2008?


2008 is half classic core 2000s and half nu- 2000s/early 2010s

What about 2008?


2008 is quite dated, a lot more than '09 but not quite like '07.

2008 and 2009 are dated and 2007 is "old school". 2008 and 2009 aren't quite old school yet, doesn't feel like another world but 2007 does. 2007 is so dated that it's like an entirely different era at this point. The early 2010s are kind of dated to some extent now.

What about 2008?


next year will mark 10 years.

next year will mark 10 years.

That's insane. It doesn't feel that long ago.  :o

2006
yes


2007 yes


2008 yes


2009  no

2009  no

I kind of disagree tbh. Even 2009 is started to age a bit IMO. Maybe not another world but definitely some things that are different.

2008 is very much old like 2007. There is a very big difference between 2008 and 2009.

2008 is very much old like 2007. There is a very big difference between 2008 and 2009.

There's a bigger difference between 2007 and 2008. 2007 is another world, 2008 is not quite there yet.

There's a bigger difference between 2007 and 2008. 2007 is another world, 2008 is not quite there yet.


Once again, that's YOUR opinion. For me, most of 2008 was closer to 2007, with the exception of the final two months of the year (after Obama won the election).

2008 was a transitional year. The differences between 2009 and 2007 are huge.

2008 was a transitional year. The differences between 2009 and 2007 are huge.


it was, 2009 felt like a brand new start, while 2007 felt about 90% connected to the regular 2000s

2008 is the only year of the late '00s that is dated. '09 and 2010 are not, but they are getting there.

2008 is the only year of the late '00s that is dated. '09 and 2010 are not, but they are getting there.


2006 is a late 2000s year lol

well half of it

2006 is a late 2000s year lol

well half of it


'06 is the mid 2000s

2006 is a late 2000s year lol

well half of it

True. Technically 2006 is late '00s starting in September. The late part of the 7th year in September is always the start of the late portion of a decade.


'06 is the mid 2000s

Who says? It became late 2000s in September of 2006. So it wasn't just mid 2000s, even if the early part technically was.

2006 is a late 2000s year lol

well half of it


The 2000s

1999-2001 : Y2K era (very early 2000s)
2002-2004 : Post 9/11 early 2000s
2005-2007: Mid 2000s
2008-2010: Late 2000s

2006 is a late 2000s year lol

well half of it

More like 1/3rd of it.

January-August 2006 was mid 2000s.
September-December 2006 was late 2000s (the "late 2006 shift" changes that people talk about generally began here or in August, coincidentally enough).

Definitely dated in my opinion. Which makes the whole 2000's decade dated.

8 years is a relatively long time. Of course they're dated. It would be weirder if they weren't.

That’s a little while ago now. It’s at least somewhat dated even if it’s not that long ago.

I found this video of a texting competition from 2009. I remember watching this on TV. What a blast from the past!

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Also, this flash mob occurred in the same mall in 2010. For whatever reason, it does not look dated AT ALL compared to 2009, even though it's just one year later. :o

I do miss the neon early 2010s fashion though.  :\'(

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I found this video of a texting competition from 2009. I remember watching this on TV. What a blast from the past!

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Also, this flash mob occurred in the same mall in 2010. For whatever reason, it does not look dated AT ALL compared to 2009, even though it's just one year later. :o

I do miss the neon early 2010s fashion though.  :\'(

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2009 don't look dated at all despite it being almost 10 years, no matter how hard you try to fit it in,
it just does not look dated lol despite there being different style of music and VERY dated tech

Yeah people were still using digital cameras to take photos and videos at concerts in 2009. I had a recording of a concert from '09 and noticed this. Even some stuff from the early 2010s up until around 2012 is a little dated. Nothing too huge but you notice a couple differences especially in technology.

Yeah people were still using digital cameras to take photos and videos at concerts in 2009. I had a recording of a concert from '09 and noticed this. Even some stuff from the early 2010s up until around 2012 is a little dated. Nothing too huge but you notice a couple differences especially in technology.


Yeah I was looking at some pictures from around 2011 and I was surprised at how many people were still using digital cameras, I wasn't surprised however to see that most people still didn't use smartphones as that is what I remember, howver they were getting very popular at the time. These differences that I'm starting to notice in the early 2010s, mostly '10/11 arent huge but they're defenitly noticeable.

I was 4 years old in 2008. I was the flower girl at my aunts wedding. Everybody was carrying a digital camera with them as I was walking down the aisle. I don’t ever recall seeing anybody with the typical smartphone you see nowadays. Fast forward to 2016 and I visit another wedding, now everybody has a smartphone. It’s crazy to think it was less than a decade ago and yet things have changed very fast! :o

Yeah I was looking at some pictures from around 2011 and I was surprised at how many people were still using digital cameras, I wasn't surprised however to see that most people still didn't use smartphones as that is what I remember, howver they were getting very popular at the time. These differences that I'm starting to notice in the early 2010s, mostly '10/11 arent huge but they're defenitly noticeable.


I've been trying to convince people on this board of this for a long time.  People tend to remember '07-08 as being part of the smartphone era because the iPhone was around back then.  However, most people didn't have smartphones until at least the early '10s.  It was even later than that if we are talking about the older generation.

I had an iPhone in 2008 and what I really remember is how much of a conversation starter it was, despite the fact that it couldn't do much that today's smartphones do.

I was 4 years old in 2008. I was the flower girl at my aunts wedding. Everybody was carrying a digital camera with them as I was walking down the aisle. I don’t ever recall seeing anybody with the typical smartphone you see nowadays. Fast forward to 2016 and I visit another wedding, now everybody has a smartphone. It’s crazy to think it was less than a decade ago and yet things have changed very fast! :o

Welcome to the forums. So far, you're the youngest person here.

I was 4 years old in 2008. I was the flower girl at my aunts wedding. Everybody was carrying a digital camera with them as I was walking down the aisle. I don’t ever recall seeing anybody with the typical smartphone you see nowadays. Fast forward to 2016 and I visit another wedding, now everybody has a smartphone. It’s crazy to think it was less than a decade ago and yet things have changed very fast! :o

Hello and welcome to the forums!

Welcome to the forums. So far, you're the youngest person here.


There is 'Wobo' born 2004 as well.

It's insane to me that people that born in the mid-2000s are starting to join. I have two little sisters born 2005, you guys are around her age! I used to change her diapers, give her baths, feed her bottle, and rock her to sleep and I taught them how to walk, and I remember it all like it was yesterday. Now you guys are old enough to post on forums. Time moves fast. I feel like that was just 5 or 6 years ago, not almost 13! :o

That reminds me, I was around their age back then. 12/almost 13, and now I'm 24/almost 25. Wow, that was almost half my life ago! :o

I was 4 years old in 2008. I was the flower girl at my aunts wedding. Everybody was carrying a digital camera with them as I was walking down the aisle. I don’t ever recall seeing anybody with the typical smartphone you see nowadays. Fast forward to 2016 and I visit another wedding, now everybody has a smartphone. It’s crazy to think it was less than a decade ago and yet things have changed very fast! :o

The very first iPhone that came out couldn’t even record a video. I remember back in 2008 people said they prefer their digital cameras for taking photos and videos. Nowadays if you’re still taking pics with a digital camera then you’re unhip.

I miss those times. I was really hoping that now homophobia is now uncool that they would keep those or bring those back (the first two bolded points). I'm banking on the 2020s to bring back the 2000s since I've lost hope for this decade for it coming up with anything I'll like that isn't technology. Even despite the technological advances mobile interfaces still suck because, in part, due to the limited capabilities of mobile - I can't read the extras in Duolingo app that I could on the desktop website. I do find that the late 2000s UI design on desktop and mobile were a bit elitist, when you mentioned "metallic and beveled" - that made me fall in love with iOS briefly, but I welcome the flat design that's on our devices these days.

The 2000's revival I want to see is one where social networks are like an all in one like how Yahoo and MSN were, but with a modern twist. You know how there were a plethora of chat rooms, personal profiles, blogs, game rooms, and news all rolled into one? Now those are just news sites and not great ones at that. Apps are fine and good, they're convenient, but I don't see computers going away and let's face it, pictures and stories to read are better viewed on something larger. I hope something new comes about to be a better alternative to Facebook and Twitter.

The 2000's revival I want to see is one where social networks are like an all in one like how Yahoo and MSN were, but with a modern twist. You know how there were a plethora of chat rooms, personal profiles, blogs, game rooms, and news all rolled into one? Now those are just news sites and not great ones at that. Apps are fine and good, they're convenient, but I don't see computers going away and let's face it, pictures and stories to read are better viewed on something larger. I hope something new comes about to be a better alternative to Facebook and Twitter.


Maybe we'll finally get WeChat in the West. :D

I was just thinking about how less than 10 years ago, in addition to having my wallet, keys, and cell phone; I needed to bring my iPod if I wanted to listen to music, and a digital camera if wanted to take pictures. At the time I was thinking we've come along way from less than 10 years before that, when I was carrying around a backpack with a book of CD's and a diskman. Pretty soon we won't need a wallet or keys either. Actually those technologies are already around, but I think they will be more common in the near future. I've never used NFC payments as I prefer to use my credit card.

I was just thinking about how less than 10 years ago, in addition to having my wallet, keys, and cell phone; I needed to bring my iPod if I wanted to listen to music, and a digital camera if wanted to take pictures. At the time I was thinking we've come along way from less than 10 years before that, when I was carrying around a backpack with a book of CD's and a diskman. Pretty soon we won't need a wallet or keys either. Actually those technologies are already around, but I think they will be more common in the near future. I've never used NFC payments as I prefer to use my credit card.

I hope not. I hate mobile pay. But I always usually pay in cash anyway.

My credit card has NFC. They only let you use it for purchases under $100 though.

I WISH I could use my Android Wallet to pay. F*cking RBC.  8-P I need to switch banks. I do pay for my transit fare using my phone though, but that draws funds from my credit card to put into my transit card, which is now virtual on my phone, so it's the same as 2012 anyway.

Maybe we'll finally get WeChat in the West. :D

What is WeChat?


I was just thinking about how less than 10 years ago, in addition to having my wallet, keys, and cell phone; I needed to bring my iPod if I wanted to listen to music, and a digital camera if wanted to take pictures. At the time I was thinking we've come along way from less than 10 years before that, when I was carrying around a backpack with a book of CD's and a diskman. Pretty soon we won't need a wallet or keys either. Actually those technologies are already around, but I think they will be more common in the near future. I've never used NFC payments as I prefer to use my credit card.

Plenty of people still use iPods so as not to drain their phone's battery. Still, the mp3 players most people had were those battery kind or something that wasn't an iPod because those were expensive. People still bought CD's left and right, I still buy them to upload and transfer to my iPod. For the wallet and keys, I don't think it's a good thing to have everything be electronic because as you know, electronics break and malfunction and then what do you do?

What is WeChat?
Plenty of people still use iPods so as not to drain their phone's battery. Still, the mp3 players most people had were those battery kind or something that wasn't an iPod because those were expensive. People still bought CD's left and right, I still buy them to upload and transfer to my iPod. For the wallet and keys, I don't think it's a good thing to have everything be electronic because as you know, electronics break and malfunction and then what do you do?

No, nobody uses IPods anymore to be honest. They are very dead and it would be weird to find someone these days with one. The last time they were popular was in the early 2010s.

I was just thinking about how less than 10 years ago, in addition to having my wallet, keys, and cell phone; I needed to bring my iPod if I wanted to listen to music, and a digital camera if wanted to take pictures. At the time I was thinking we've come along way from less than 10 years before that, when I was carrying around a backpack with a book of CD's and a diskman. Pretty soon we won't need a wallet or keys either. Actually those technologies are already around, but I think they will be more common in the near future. I've never used NFC payments as I prefer to use my credit card.

Yeah I used to carry an IPod, phone, and digital camera and now everyone has phones and not the other things.

No, nobody uses IPods anymore to be honest. They are very dead and it would be weird to find someone these days with one. The last time they were popular was in the early 2010s.

I've actually seen someone in my class with an iPod nano last week lol

I've actually seen someone in my class with an iPod nano last week lol

Hm that's strange. I see them as so old school now. I know they still sell them though.

Hm that's strange. I see them as so old school now. I know they still sell them though.


I still use a IPod I had since 2010, touch screen. The IPods below might be dated but not the touch. Touch screen is still a thing today. Also, It'd be like a reverse thing. I wouldn't mind being one of the last few with a IPod.

I still use a IPod I had since 2010, touch screen. The IPods below might be dated but not the touch. Touch screen is still a thing today. Also, It'd be like a reverse thing. I wouldn't mind being one of the last few with a IPod.

But even the touch (although to a lesser extent). Because phones these days have enough storage for all the music you want, so it just looks dated having an IPod Touch these days to me. But I find a lot of stuff kind of dated including USB drives because of cloud computing. I just generally use more modern methods.

No, nobody uses IPods anymore to be honest. They are very dead and it would be weird to find someone these days with one. The last time they were popular was in the early 2010s.

Several people I see still do. I'm one of them. I'm not going to pay for Spotify, and I don't get good service to be listening on YouTube. My iPod I just put on what I've synced to it and never have to worry about it being uncooperative.

Several people I see still do. I'm one of them. I'm not going to pay for Spotify, and I don't get good service to be listening on YouTube. My iPod I just put on what I've synced to it and never have to worry about it being uncooperative.

I don't use Spotify either. It's not about that. I'm saying smartphones have replaced the need for IPods... Most people use smartphones to listen to their downloaded music over IPods these days, including me. Why carry two devices when you could just carry one? Smartphones these days have 64gb and even 128gb, plenty of room for music.

What is WeChat?


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I don't use Spotify either. It's not about that. I'm saying smartphones have replaced the need for IPods... Most people use smartphones to listen to their downloaded music over IPods these days, including me. Why carry two devices when you could just carry one? Smartphones these days have 64gb and even 128gb, plenty of room for music.


The IPod's less space is beneficial to me because Its just to collect nostalgia, most 2000s hits I have already collected.

Yes, they are.

Maybe we'll finally get WeChat in the West. :D

What's so great about that? I'm already happy enough with Discord (and where it's from).

What's so great about that? I'm already happy enough with Discord (and where it's from).


I like Discord too :)

WeChat lets you do so much more though. It's like Uber, Amazon, WhatsApp, Facebook, Yelp, Google Wallet, AirBnB all rolled into one :o I have huge privacy concerns, but I do feel a "Web 3.0" app like WeChat is the way of the future.

Who says? It became late 2000s in September of 2006. So it wasn't just mid 2000s, even if the early part technically was.


That would be me. I'm pretty sure I'm the only person on this site that does not use the word "decade".  ;D

Having said that, I still see 2008 as the first year of the late 2000s.

The late 2000's are definitely dated. 2007 feels like another world now. 2008 is extremely close to feeling like another world though. The 2000's as a whole are very dated by this point. Obviously, the year that came before will be more dated than the following, but each 2000's year is dated in a different kind of way.

If the 2000s aren't dated, you probably aren't born yet. Haha Had to say it.

If the 2000s aren't dated, you probably aren't born yet. Haha Had to say it.

Lol, it's actually always the opposite. A lot of people who see the 2000's as modern were mostly older back then.

Lol, it's actually always the opposite. A lot of people who see the 2000's as modern were mostly older back then.

My parents still see the 2000s as modern. They even see some part of the 1990s as modern. They are in their 50s and 60s. And my sister who is almost 30 thinks only the early 2000s are dated.

2011 and before I'd say is dated I'd say, because 2012 is when smartphone adoption rates hit 50%

2011 and before I'd say is dated I'd say, because 2012 is when smartphone adoption rates hit 50%

I thought you said on PerC on my thread that you definitely thought 2010-early 2013 was dated. ???

I thought you said on PerC on my thread that you definitely thought 2010-early 2013 was dated. ???


Forgot I said that.
I think 2012 and 2013 feels dated to me because my life was completely different back then, but I don't know if it is necessarily "dated" objectively.
If I were to break it down though, I guess it would be like this;

2014-2018 = Recent (0-4 years ago)

2009-2013 = Slightly Dated (5-9 years ago)

1999-2008 = Dated (10-19 years ago)

1969-1998 = Retro (20-49 years ago)

1919-1968 = Vintage (50-99 years ago)

1918 and before = Antique and beyond (100 or more years ago)

Forgot I said that.
I think 2012 and 2013 feels dated to me because my life was completely different back then, but I don't know if it is necessarily "dated" objectively.
If I were to break it down though, I guess it would be like this;

2014-2018 = Recent (0-4 years ago)

2009-2013 = Slightly Dated (5-9 years ago)

1999-2008 = Dated (10-19 years ago)

1969-1998 = Retro (20-49 years ago)

1919-1968 = Vintage (50-99 years ago)

1918 and before = Antique and beyond (100 or more years ago)

OK, I can agree with that.
By the way, did you get my message I sent?

OK, I can agree with that.
By the way, did you get my message I sent?


Yeah, I'm thinking about soon making a thread on Popedia about the issue.

Yeah, I'm thinking about soon making a thread on Popedia about the issue.

You should tell him the suggestion of breaking the music subforum into 4 subforums. He might go with the idea especially when the website still has time to grow bigger.

I'd say so. The late 00s had the first models of the PS3 and Xbox 360, which were crappy and were likely to break (Red Ring of Death & Yellow Light of Death). Windows Vista looks modern, but shows its age. Smartphones weren't mainstream yet. Cartoon Network, Disney, and Nick were completely different. YouTube's layout then looks completely dated. Widescreen was coming into the mainstream, but 4:3 users were still being catered to. We were transitioning from DVD to Blu-ray. PlayStation 2 was still relevant and were still being produced. Pokemon games were still 2D.

Yes they are definitely dated.

There are different levels of datedness, but definitely at this point the late 2000s can be considered dated.

Lol, it's actually always the opposite. A lot of people who see the 2000's as modern were mostly older back then.


As much as I hate to admit this, yes.

I used to see the mid-late 2000s as relatively modern, it is only now I am coming round to the idea of them being dated.

I am 28 now and it has hit me hard.

I was just too shy to really make anything of my youth and so my defence mechanism is to think of the 2000s as still current but in reality, it is old.

Even 2008 was 10 years ago now.

Crazy I know.

The late '90s by this time last decade seemed dated in a similar sense, in that dial-up Internet hadn't been popular for several years and Web 2.0 had recently reinvented its format as opposed to being tacky, text and cheesy image-based, VHS was a dead home video format, TV wasn't dominated by reality then, Nickelodeon was mostly pre-Spongebob, cellphones were a tool as opposed to a novelty with landlines quickly fading in popularity, and Millennials were no longer seen as kids like they were a decade earlier.

Of course, the difference is most notable now if you're in your late teens or 20s, but even as someone in my early-mid '30s I can notice quite a change, in that fashion is much more sleeker yet retaining the minimalist styles that were common back then, technology is much more ingrained in cars, video screens are not just LCD, but more ubiquitos (think video billboards on highways), and of course, trap music instead of snap.

The late '90s by this time last decade seemed dated in a similar sense, in that dial-up Internet hadn't been popular for several years and Web 2.0 had recently reinvented its format as opposed to being tacky, text and cheesy image-based, VHS was a dead home video format, TV wasn't dominated by reality then, Nickelodeon was mostly pre-Spongebob, cellphones were a tool as opposed to a novelty with landlines quickly fading in popularity, and Millennials were no longer seen as kids like they were a decade earlier.

Of course, the difference is most notable now if you're in your late teens or 20s, but even as someone in my early-mid '30s I can notice quite a change, in that fashion is much more sleeker yet retaining the minimalist styles that were common back then, technology is much more ingrained in cars, video screens are not just LCD, but more ubiquitos (think video billboards on highways), and of course, trap music instead of snap.

The late 1990s seemed more dated in 2008 than the late 2000s seem dated in 2018 for me. It could be my age but you have to admit the 2000s were a lot more changeful than the 2010s so that's probably why.

The late 1990s seemed more dated in 2008 than the late 2000s seem dated in 2018 for me. It could be my age but you have to admit the 2000s were a lot more changeful than the 2010s so that's probably why.


I 100% agree! I'd dare say that by 2008, the 1990s (especially the early-mid 90s) definitely seemed like another world away in a sense. I honestly don't get that vibe with the 2000s, with the exception of the early 00s. The mid &, especially, the late 00s still seem pretty connected to our current world. If anything the events during those years (Housing Bubble, Iraq War, Web 2.0, iPhone launch) are the catalysts to the modern world of today in many respects. Maybe when we inch closer and closer to 2020 the late 00s will start to feel immensely different. However, for now the late 00s don't seem as far away as the late 90s did a decade ago, but the late 00s are certainly dated.

I think I mentioned this anecdote before, but in 2009 in Economics class while we were doing some presentations, one kid's presentation used statistics from 1998/1999, and the teacher pointed out that the statistics were outdated by 10 years. This shocked everyone in my class. The '90s didn't feel like they were 10 years ago. In most our minds, if someone said "the '90s" they were referring to only a couple of years ago.

So I do think age has some role to play, not that we were old and wise in the '90s, but I strongly doubt you'd find a 40 year old in 2008 calling the '90s old. 1998 already had cellphones, Internet, nu-metal etc. And the many things that would go on to define the 2000s. :P

Btw, if you throw multiple hit songs from the mid-late 2000s into one vid, you can notice that the video clips are already starting to show their age :D

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And I agree that the late 90s didn't seem that dated in the late 2000s, might be because there was still plenty of old computers and toys (like Tamagotchi) of back then around. I even remember thinking songs like Barbie Girl, Tubthumping and All Star were only a couple of years old while they were already turning 8-10 ;D.

The late '90s by this time last decade seemed dated in a similar sense, in that dial-up Internet hadn't been popular for several years and Web 2.0 had recently reinvented its format as opposed to being tacky, text and cheesy image-based, VHS was a dead home video format, TV wasn't dominated by reality then, Nickelodeon was mostly pre-Spongebob, cellphones were a tool as opposed to a novelty with landlines quickly fading in popularity, and Millennials were no longer seen as kids like they were a decade earlier.

Plus Nickelodeon was eye-watering horrible trash by 2008 except Avatar, whereas it wasn't that way in 1998.