How was the early 2000s?

[beh235]

 

How did people not know what she was spelling? Lol

Lack of lyric sites was another thing in the early 2000s. I remember buying CDs and being so happy when they insert had the lyrics for all the songs.

That's another thing I really miss actually. Buying a video game or CD and opening it up and checking out the insert with lyrics or the game manual and trying to memorize the controls before I even got home to play the game

Games don't even come with instructions or guides any more. It's just a single piece of paper asking you to spend $50 more on a season pass

Video games used to come with mini books sometimes or atleast a pamhplet looking thing. We get a SINGLE piece of paper now. C'mon

we say that NOW looking back, but whatever happened to listening to a song until you get it? I mean, that's how you got to learn the lyrics for the most part prior to the easy bake oven answers you have now. Besides, what else did you think she was saying? 

Ja: What's my mf name?

J Lo: Are you Ellie?

In what universe does that make sense? 

Even in that, it wasn't that hard to figure out. 

 

[Peep Game]

 

How did people not know what she was spelling? Lol

Lack of lyric sites was another thing in the early 2000s. I remember buying CDs and being so happy when they insert had the lyrics for all the songs.


That's another thing I really miss actually. Buying a video game or CD and opening it up and checking out the insert with lyrics or the game manual and trying to memorize the controls before I even got home to play the game


Games don't even come with instructions or guides any more. It's just a single piece of paper asking you to spend $50 more on a season pass Video games used to come with mini books sometimes or atleast a pamhplet looking thing. We get a SINGLE piece of paper now. C'mon

we say that NOW looking back, but whatever happened to listening to a song until you get it? I mean, that's how you got to learn the lyrics for the most part prior to the easy bake oven answers you have now. Besides, what else did you think she was saying? 

Ja: What's my mf name?
J Lo: Are you Ellie?

In what universe does that make sense? 

Even in that, it wasn't that hard to figure out. 

In the early-mid 90s, I was sitting by the radio rewinding and playing the song over and over again to write the lyrics a whole bunch of stuff between 94-98 is forever burned into my head because of that. I hadn't heard Mase's "24hrs To Live" in years, yet it popped on in the shuffle and I knew ever verse. Lyric sites really weren't the thing until 98, and was probably very popular between 98-2004.

 

[quise2024]

I'm 29 and I remember the following:


Phone conversations were had with females late at night via landline connection

Females used to take pictures at the mall with them sparkly backgrounds and hand out wallet sized photos with notes written on the back

Internet chat rooms were popular and friends would chat via Instant Messenger. It was common to group together in a private chatroom with friends to BS around

Customizing your MySpace (or equivalent social site) webpage required HTML coding, and people took the "Top 10" spots seriously

106 and Park, The Box, MTV, and MTV2 were popular as hell. Everyone was into music videos back then.

Air Force 1s were probably the most popular kicks to have. I still have plenty of AF1 lows when patent leather was the fuss

Everyone used to download music illegally via Limewire or Kazaa and use the .MP3 files to burn mixtape CDs. I remember I used to have ppl write playlists for me and I'd burn em for $5

Fashion was all over the place, but baggy jeans, oversized jerseys/tees, and no show socks were popular in my area (Dallas, TX)



All in all, it was a great time now that I look back. Technology was evolving, but had not yet got to the point where we lived on our phones.

Everything in this man good times. Im 29 as well from Georgia so everything was basically the same.

I didnt know about Myspace until i think my junior year of high school but they had it blocked at my school n i forgot about cpl days later. I dodnt have a myspace until late '05 freshman yr of college and by '06 facebook started to be real popular BUT at that time you still needed a school email to get in and we didnt have those at my juco. Fall of '06 facebook was wide open and myspace slowly fell off over the next few years.

Top 8 was so serious for some reason, then they opened it up to let you have 16, then 32. When they opened it up i dropped mine down to 4 and it was my boys cuz females were dissecting your top friends and pic comments to figure out who you talkin to besides them.

$5 mixtapes were clutch

 

[jaypesoz]

We just gonna act like this gem didn't exist?

 

[quise2024]

Man give me 98-07 > now

 

[mangudai954]

Man, this thread is nostalgia overload lol

 

[quise2024]

We just gonna act like this gen didn't exist?

i commented on that video about a month ago

I still dont know what the hell was going on .. i cant connect the video with the song

Classic song though will always bump that. Matter fact ...

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"I never really understood the cause, your friends were my friends my friends were your friends your doe was my doe my does was my doe mano y mano we fought this weather and everybody thays been thru it can sing it together"

 

[beacon ave south]

I'm 29 and I remember the following:

House parties in high school were circulated via flyers created on pen and paper with a map drawn on it because GPS wasn't around

Phone conversations were had with females late at night via landline connection

Females used to take pictures at the mall with them sparkly backgrounds and hand out wallet sized photos with notes written on the back

Internet chat rooms were popular and friends would chat via Instant Messenger. It was common to group together in a private chatroom with friends to BS around

Customizing your MySpace (or equivalent social site) webpage required HTML coding, and people took the "Top 10" spots seriously

106 and Park, The Box, MTV, and MTV2 were popular as hell. Everyone was into music videos back then.

Air Force 1s were probably the most popular kicks to have. I still have plenty of AF1 lows when patent leather was the fuss

Everyone used to download music illegally via Limewire or Kazaa and use the .MP3 files to burn mixtape CDs. I remember I used to have ppl write playlists for me and I'd burn em for $5

Fashion was all over the place, but baggy jeans, oversized jerseys/tees, and no show socks were popular in my area (Dallas, TX)



All in all, it was a great time now that I look back. Technology was evolving, but had not yet got to the point where we lived on our phones.

Also 29 from seattle, everything you mentioned was spot on, brought back hella memories of the good ol days.

"Asl?" Lol

 

[paulwest1985]

This was my joint in 01

 

And man, I miss the hell out of my fubu city jerseys. I used to rock them all the damn time. 

 

[quise2024]

 

[paulwest1985]

^^^ I remember watching all those vids like it was yesturday.

I'll take those and raise you Redman



Hands down one of the funniest music videos of the 2000's

 

[law3001]

Also 29 from seattle, everything you mentioned was spot on, brought back hella memories of the good ol days.

"Asl?" Lol

What high school you go too?

I remember getting in fights at the torchlight parade.

 

[jaypesoz]

Also 29 from seattle, everything you mentioned was spot on, brought back hella memories of the good ol days.

"Asl?" Lol

People don't remember that people only had a couple pictures on their profiles so if I wasn't sure, I'd hit them with the height/weight question after I was always able to take the convo from there depending what answers I got

 

[quise2024]

We cant forget about the '99/2000 Anthem!!!

 

[Peep Game]

Man give me 98- 0705 > now

fixed

 

[Tony $now]

Thank you OP for this thread. Class of 03 checking in. Needless to say this era shaped my life

 

[Grine]

Man give me 98-07 > now

 

[prolific]

We used to go on sites like cheat code central for video games

 

[paulwest1985]

Man yall got me looking at music vids from the early 2000's at work. That nostalgia hit me hard. 

This one here is a NOLA classic. 

 

 

[quise2024]

We used to go on sites like cheat code central for video games

Cheatcc.com yeah man especially when i need help on GTA3 then it had that infinite money cheat

Site still works actuallyand its updated with current systems and games

Man yall got me looking at music vids from the early 2000's at work. That nostalgia hit me hard. 
 

I do this almost daily at work for all music. My manager asked one time what was i doing that my phone screen was alwaya on and i had to let him know i go back down memory lane daily

 

[wavy daddy]

Girls wit name belts.

 

[beacon ave south]

What high school you go too?

I remember getting in fights at the torchlight parade.

West seattle. Man there would always be scraps last day of school at alki

People don't remember that people only had a couple pictures on their profiles so if I wasn't sure, I'd hit them with the height/weight question after I was always able to take the convo from there depending what answers I got

There was that rare occasion where you would get the dreadful _/m/_ and it was always a mutual misunderstanding and yall just go about your separate ways

 

[Sneaker P]

This screams early 2000s.

 

[FThe45th]

^WORD. Heard this and went to 5th period gym class pumped in 8th grade

 

[paulprince3730]

yea i was 12 in 2002 so i was doin regular ****, hoopin and tryin to lose my virginity

even still, myspace and facebook was good to a young guy 

bad females were actually bad and hardly hyped up

regional **** was regional, kids from minnesota didnt know what a thot was, less appropriation

im not about to make no blanket statements like everybody had more personality and people were smarter, but i kinda do feel like the first part is true