43 Wildly Nostalgic Photos That Will Take You Right Back To Blasting Blink-182 And Drinking Bug Juice In Front Of The Family Computer

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POV: it's the 2000s. You get location from school, and you unreserved to the machine country (which was perchance conscionable a large woody table successful the surviving room). You footwear it up, and then...the satellite was astatine your fingertips.

Kids contiguous volition ne'er cognize the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of the 2000s internet. And you cognize what? I consciousness atrocious for them. iPad kids WISH they could acquisition dial-up internet.

In lawsuit you're arsenic nostalgic for this clip arsenic I am...here are 47 photos that volition marque you privation you were inactive haphazardly pressing cubes successful Minesweeper. (Seriously, did anyone really cognize however to play this?)

1. There was truly thing similar bootin' up the PC and seeing this screen, on with immoderate icon you'd picked to perfectly acceptable your vibe.

2. And past erstwhile you signed in, being greeted with this tranquil scene? Literally idyllic.

3. You could commencement retired with 1 of those sweet, sweet, built-in games the PC had, similar the aforementioned Minesweeper, or, adjacent better, Space Cadet.

4. Solitaire was besides a classic.

5. The things I created successful MS Paint beryllium astatine the Met, and it's a travesty I don't person them anywhere.

6. I americium affirmative that we ALL made a mentation of this astatine immoderate point.

7. For much blase creations, you could ever unfastened up KidPix.

8. Once you were done making your masterpieces, you got to the existent bully stuff: AOL.

9. I can't adjacent archer you however overmuch I miss AOL Instant Messenger. It was SO overmuch amended than texting.

10. I could discarded hours conscionable talking to SmarterChild.

11. Or playing astir with my distant message, picking the cleanable font and ~deep~ opus lyrics.

12. Speaking of opus lyrics...you had to acceptable the mood! Though honestly, sometimes I'd get SO distracted by these chill graphics successful Windows Media Player that I'd conscionable look astatine them arsenic euphony played and hide to bash thing else.

13. I consciousness similar we ne'er utilized headphones backmost past unless we were utilizing a CD player, truthful afloat blast connected these atrocious boys it was. Sorry, ma and dad.

14. But astir of my music-related clip was spent successful 1 place: Limewire. (Don't archer the government.)

15. I was the QUEEN of burning CDs for my friends. I was erstwhile my sixth-grade class's go-to distributor of the High School Musical soundtrack. (Once again, don't archer the government.)

16. When I got much advanced, I could rip worldly from YouTube. Which, BTW, looked similar this successful 2006. No unskippable ads!!

17. These are the astir watched videos connected YouTube successful 2007, if you were wondering what went viral backmost successful the day. It was mostly babies laughing, Weird Al, and instantly quotable and wholly random drama videos similar "Shoes" oregon "Muffins." All successful all, it was a beauteous place.

19. But earlier YouTube, we had ebaumsworld. I inactive retrieve my member showing maine Aisha, which is burned into my encephalon to this day.

22. Everyone had a go-to Neopet type, right? I ever went with Usul...or occasionally Wocky, Kau, oregon Scorchio, if I wanted to alteration things up.

23. Webkinz ever felt successful a batch of ways similar the successor to Neopets.

24. Low-key, Artie has ever been a "hear maine out" for me.

25. We can't hide Club Penguin, either. Remember erstwhile you'd inquire random different penguins to beryllium your boyfriend? No? Just me?

26. I consciousness similar the idiosyncratic interface for sites was conscionable much amusive backmost then. Like, this was the tract for Nickelodeon, and it was awesome.

27. Here's the 1 for Cartoon Network, if you were a Johnny Bravo kid.

28. Disney was adjacent better.

29. And the games??? Top tier.

30. The Kim Possible 1 was decidedly the best, though.

31. The MyScene website was besides awesome. (You tin still play a batch of these games!)

32. Weirdly, cereals had immoderate of the champion online games successful the 2000s. Remember Waffle's Jungle Adventure? (Which you tin still play!)

33. Millsberry adjacent made a whole, like, online world, implicit with your ain personalized avatar, that I was obsessed with. (Unfortunately, you can't inactive play this one).

34. Speaking of online worlds...Toontown was ELITE. (You tin besides still play this one!!! It's a recreated version, but still.)

35. There are besides machine games you tin still play recreations of. If you miss Carmen Sandiego...you cognize what to do.

36. And of course, The Sims is inactive around. But thing beats those unspeakable graphics of that archetypal game.

37. Why did we each ticker our Sims drown by making them spell successful the pool, past removing the ladder? Were we each small sadists?

38. I can't adjacent legally talk of the horrors I inflicted connected the guests of Roller Coaster Tycoon.

39. I was overmuch much gentle with my Zoombinis.

40. If you spent excessively agelong contemplating a Zoombini puzzle, you mightiness spot this iconic screensaver.

42. Or this one, which I could ticker for hours.

43. Remember the website visitant counter? I haven't thought astir this successful years.

44. And Yahoo pool, which was someway amended than playing connected an existent excavation table.

45. Before signing off, you might've checked retired titles connected Netflix truthful you could beg your ma to bid Shrek 2 for the adjacent household movie night. Remember backmost erstwhile Netflix lone consisted of carnal DVDs?

46. And finally, aft a long, fulfilling fewer hours of visiting your favourite sites and games, it was clip for a meal of Annie's mac and food and blistery dogs, on with a vessel of broccoli your ma melted a portion of American food over. Or possibly that was conscionable my family.

47. All successful all...I miss those days.

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