When I was in high school, 80s fashions and 80s parties were a cool thing. In recent years, it’s been all about the 90s. But that hard-to-label decade from the turn of the millennium, at the height of teen pop/boy band mania, to 10 years later, when TRL was off the air and the hipster craze had come and, depending on who you talk to, went, and we had a black president, were some interesting cultural times. What will we remember from that time period? I checked out this Reddit thread to see what people are reminiscing about from that age of internet, *NSync, and flip phones.

1. parasuta

Internet instant messengers for chatting to friends after school

2. SirSvieldevitchen

Flip Phones.

3. CansOfKrylon

Printing out directions from Map Quest.

4. Ocean_Hair

The beginning of the internet viral video, or more specifically, “Numa Numa”.

5. orionsystems

DVD renting stores?

6. smaclver

Limewire

7. catch22milo

Kazaa.

8. keffle

Tony hawk pro skater

9. Chonzerfool

Guitar Hero and Rock Band.

10. agiolzet

Neopets! Which we all know was a secret scientific experiment to breed a generation of children who could teach themselves HTML, in order to create a race of Americans who speak computer languages.

11. cameltoast

Xanga… man, I posted some embarrassing things on there.

12. katm3s

Hey Ya, Mean Girls, Livejournal.

13. tritter211

Harry Potter books

14. Mc10v1n

Playstation 2.

15. Sharkyg

SpongeBob, Pirates of the Caribbean, Halo.

16. Poopiscomingoutnow

5% unemployment rates

17. Dasbaus

Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) I hated playing this game as I cannot dance or jump on squares so quickly but damn was it fun to watch and bet on when drinking.

18. jakes1mon

Mp3 players, Blackberries, flip phones, MySpace

19. Chop_Artista

GTA III and Vice City.

20. girlsloveattention

myspace. man, I’m getting nostalgic just thinking about it.

21. Elfinsocks

Cartoon network <3

22. spashedpotato

the early seasons of the office

23. slimkeyboard

The Strokes, White Stripes, Interpol. Low cost airlines. The Lord Of The Rings. (pre smart) Mobile phones. Blogs

24. youregunnagetitbobby

Get Low by Lil Jon. That song always reminds me of high school. It still makes me want to dance. I was at a bar last year and they played it and people went nuts.

25. GirlandtheRobot

World Of Warcraft

26. jessek

“I’m Rick James, bitch!”

27. Nooker

Sega dreamcast.

28. Mhaelful

Halo 2 Multiplayer. The hours! THE HOURS!

29. Katiepotatoes

Pop-Punk bands. Blink-182, Jimmy Eat World, Green Day, All American Rejects, etc…

30. GaRRbagio

Chappelle Show

31. MerryWalrus

Pokemon. Most young adults can still recite the majority of the original 151

32. radnutz

Ringtones

33. sir_dancealot

Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Matt Damon, DiCaprio in their prime.

34. butwhenidoiwin

Obviously homestar runner

35. ShamelessBeachBoner

Frosted tips. 1st gen iPods. Possibly Nu Metal.

36. hairypsalms

How has nobody mentioned Counter-Strike yet?

37. themetajon

Super! Smaaaaaaaaaash! Brrrrothers!

38. notonetojudge

Eminem.

39. greenroom628

When Lindsay Lohan used to be hot.

40. Halkadash

The OC on Fox (before it got shit)

41. Eddiemag247

Chappelle’s Show.

42. marmijar_soft

2 girls 1 cup

43. sgtwonka

Livestrong Bracelets, headbands, popped collars, grills, barack-mania, legos, fedoras shudders, combat boots, chain wallets, v-neck tshirts, flannels, beards, aviators, skinny ties, silly bandz, razor scooters, skinny jeans, dance dance revolution, the iphone/ipod in general ‘the rise of the apple empire’, shrek, family guy, bratz dolls, spongebob, the xbox, crocs, autotune, heelys, halo, uggs, bandanas, yeah.

44. munchypooh

How awesome Facebook was when you first got it…so many changes that it’s just not as much fun as it once was

45. SpunkingCorgi

Gas under $4.00/gal

46. kodachikuno

Flava/Rock of Love, Bad Girls Club, Bachelor/ette. All those amazing, horrible, entertaining, useless as fuck reality dating shows. And trapped in the closet!

47. my_third_account

Lizzie McGuire

48. lifeisrocknroll18

Sitting around at the lunch table making plans. Now everyone can just make plans by texting with their expensive phones they recieve in 6th grade.

49. harpyranchers

Jobs and money.

50. Madmanquail