What are your best memories from the 2000s?

I'm turning 25, so i'm young, but I can say I miss the period of 2006-2007

No social media, no high-fps-ultra-HD phone cameras (you could sing at the karaoke without finding your video somewhere the next day)... girls were less vulgar-dressed... I din't have the car during that time but her in Italy there were almost no autovelox ( = no risk of being fined for exceeding the speed limit of 5 km/h)

And yes, people were friendlier, and there were less laws and more freedom. Now let's say you want to organize an event for charity (like in my case for the association i'm in) - you can't. There are so many clearances to get that you even stop trying it

 

I suppose the good thing was that I earned more money back then and went out more. But I try not to dwell on the past and be present. The past is nothing but a memory and all we have right now is what is going on right now.

 

Music
Games
No social media bullshit
Less living in the virtual world
No chatting
Things being hard to access
Meeting people more often
Not seing all stuff on the internet
Almost No anonymous forums like this


Basically the internet went wrong

 

The worlds I would create.

 

I was only a wee lad, but upon reflection, there was something about 2007. There's a youtuber I'm fond of- "Regular Car reviews" and he talked briefly about the concept of these "once-in-a-decade" years, where the culture and the times congeal just right to create an embarrassment of riches. He used 1994 as his example, but I think 2007 had a great deal going for it.


Kanye West's Graduation

Daft Punk's Alive tour

Halo 3

Megadeth's United Abominations

Need for Speed: Prostreet

Skulduggery Pleasant

Custom Robo Arena

Nissan GTR and Mitsubishi Evo X

Lego's Bionicle Mahri Nui arc, Exo-Force, Tiny Turbos lines all on the shelves

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Michael Bay's Transformers

iphone 1

No More Heroes

Team Fortress 2/ Orange Box


Just all of these wonderful things in one year. Looking back, it would almost seem that we hit the apex.

 

My son being born and cutting the imbililical cord plus he urinated on my mother in-law best every memory
Ever !

 

In general I would say the music from the 2000s was awful, sometimes it can be fun to listen to some songs for nostalgia reasons but that music was awful really. There were lots of good music made before the 2000s and I like modern music also, like EDM, trap etc. After Avicii, pop music started becoming good again. But it was really awful in the 2000s, maybe it was because of MTV, music didn't have to be good, all that mattered was the softcore porn in the music videos...

Spoiler: How I would rank music decades, 1960s to now

1. 1970s
2. 1980s
3. 1960s
4. 2010s
5. 2020s (I would prefer only listening to music made in the last 2 years over only the music made in the 1990s or 2000s)
   
6. 1990s
7. 2000s

The Lord of the Ring movies though, they are amazing. And Madagascar.

YouTube was very fun in the second half of the 2000s. That started becoming really destructive for me though...

 

In 2000 I got my first personal computer with an Internet connection at home. So as far as I'm concerned that's the year my life basically ended. But to be a little less cynical and to answer the question more directly, regardless of my own Internet-related shortcomings, I do think civilization could have carried on in the post-Internet but pre-social media years, especially before smartphones became appendages. But Internet access per se was definitely bad for me.

 

Playing super smash bros melee with my cousins. Good times

 

I was young and life full of opportunity but i was too cowardly and self destructive to notice. Basically made friends with people that bullied me because being treated like that was all i knew, and spent my time trying to please them and moaning about it when i didnt work.
Also putting no effort into finding a decent relationship but moaning that i wasnt in one.
A great big selfish cycle of self inflicted misery.
I also discovered a lot of great music, built up a still impressive record collection, learned a LOT about myself (the hard way), and - despite everything i wrote above - i escaped relatively unscathed.

Having the internet on my computer and not in my povket definitely helped my addiction. Although i developed an addiction to phone chat lines instead, which shows what an idiot i was.