People Are Sharing The Best Parts Of Growing Up In The 2000s, And It’s Peak Nostalgia

Growing up successful the 2000s was genuinely a vibe. From the CD epoch to Friday nighttime trips to Blockbuster, beingness conscionable deed different. The manner was quirky but unique, and adjacent the commercials were iconic — hullo the aged iPod ads? Still iconic to this day.

People connected r/2000sNostalgia are sharing the implicit champion parts of increasing up successful the 2000s, and honestly, it's making maine consciousness soooo nostalgic. Here are immoderate of the apical responses:

1. "Definitely the quality to simply disconnect from the satellite by conscionable not sitting astatine the machine desk."

—cricket9818

"I retrieve erstwhile I would motion disconnected of AOL and beryllium perfectly contented to not person immoderate different stimulation occupying my time."

—Electrical_Layer_546

3. "The 2000s were the implicit sweet-spot betwixt aged carnal media and the internet. It was large going into municipality to bargain a large stack of DVDs and video games and past getting online connected the machine astatine location to sermon them with different radical later."

—Cold-Use-5814

4. "Home was a sanctuary wherever each your problems were extracurricular the beforehand door."

—naytreox

5. "Reading magazines. I cognize we inactive person them, and I bargain them each the time. But, I miss erstwhile that was wherever I got each of my personage news."

—lasagnaisgreat57

7. "When the telephone rang, it was amusive to contention my sister to the room antagonistic wherever our 'Caller ID' instrumentality sat, and past effort to beryllium the archetypal to outcry retired who was calling. It was besides amusive to surface calls and perceive your mom’s dependable signaling automatically footwear successful speakerphone mode. 'You’ve reached the location of the xyz’s! Please permission your name, number, and a abbreviated message, and we’ll get backmost to you arsenic soon arsenic we can! Thanks and buh-bye.' Then if idiosyncratic near a connection and you decided you really did privation to speech to them, you could prime up portion they were leaving a message."

—Auracorn

8. "Playing games similar tag, fell and question successful the woods, sneaking retired of the location astatine night, riding bikes, going to a performance and seeing radical unrecorded successful the moment."

—National-Word2230

9. "Friends would conscionable travel over. Cell phones and texting weren't arsenic communal arsenic they are present truthful you could conscionable telephone oregon amusement up and really bent retired successful person."

—wildflower_valley

10. "I could beryllium a dumbass and cipher had it recorded. And if they did it looked similar shit."

—UnenthusiasticZeeJ

11. "Going to the movie theatre with my friends each week! Starting each Friday nighttime sleepover astatine Hollywood Video to prime a title!"

—EvieDeisel

13. "In-game purchases were not a happening until that goddamn equine armour successful Oblivion became a thing. Before that, immoderate downloadable contented (DLCs) were much robust enlargement packs. So, the disc you bought had the implicit game. Requiring an net transportation for games was mostly conscionable for multiplayer connected PC and past aboriginal connected for Xbox Live."

—Sharpshooter188

14. "2000s hip-hop manner with agelong shirts and baggy pants."

—wingedhussar161

15. "Regular cablegram for watching shows and music. No streaming apps. It felt amusive and authentic."

—DajuanKev

16. "Learning to thrust successful the epoch of MapQuest: we didn’t person to larn full-fledged maps due to the fact that we could get turn-by-turn directions online. But we had to people retired the directions, and if you got lost, you inactive had to fig it retired unless you had a GPS device. I retrieve driving crossed municipality for a hairsbreadth assignment erstwhile I was 16, missing the interchange, and uncovering myself excessively acold southbound towards the authorities capital. I coiled up calling my dada connected my cellphone to inquire for directions home. 10 years later, I lived crossed the country, and a upwind tempest was causing compartment interference truthful I couldn’t get Google Maps to load. I didn’t cognize the country yet and didn’t cognize however to get location truthful called up my dada successful my hometown who looked up directions for me."

—Objective-Ad5620

17. "CDs. As a teen I was making $6 an hr and had to walk $12 to $15 connected a CD conscionable truthful that I could perceive to 1 oregon 2 songs connected it. My CD postulation astir apt outgo maine a month's worthy of paychecks from my occupation astatine a market store."

—NativityCrimeScene

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Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.