What do you all remember most from the 00's?

[celticfan]

Discuss. I was a teenager during these years. what about you?

[Bynumite]

5>1

[The Reckoning]

9/11 defined the entire decade

[benefactor]

Best years of being a dad. My daughter was born in '99.

[Silver&Black]

9/11 defined the entire decade

[celticfan]

9/11 defined the entire decade
I would argue that it stalled the decade for a few years

[celticfan]

Best years of being a dad. My daughter was born in '99.
Somewhere in that joy you find the dread of growing old. I don't want to grow old.

[SnakeBoy]

Somewhere in that joy you find the dread of growing old. I don't want to grow old.

There's only one way to avoid it.

[King Emmanuel]

:lol baseball

[spurraider21]

my teen years

[sandman]

Best years of being a dad. My daughter was born in '99.

Yep. Mine just turned 16 last week. With my son turning 20, the 00's were all about being a dad. And I'm totally cool with that.

Now the 10's? It's all about being a walking ATM machine.

[Aztecfan03]

teen years, vacations, death of father/grandparents.

[Red Hawk #21]

I was 9 in 2000 so my memory of that time might be flawed but I seem to remember everything going really, really well until 9/11. It seems like after 9/11 things just were never the same again, even up till now.

[benefactor]

Somewhere in that joy you find the dread of growing old. I don't want to grow old.
I don't feel old physically(I'm easily in the best shape of my life), but seeing her get older definitely casts a bit of a shadow.

Yep. Mine just turned 16 last week. With my son turning 20, the 00's were all about being a dad. And I'm totally cool with that.

Now the 10's? It's all about being a walking ATM machine.
:lol...I hear ya. Thankfully mine doesn't ask for much money. She's got a job and is pretty good about taking care of the money she makes. Not really looking forward to buying the car though.

[cantthinkofanything]

Best years of being a dad. My daughter was born in '99.

ditto...daughter was born in 2000.

Both parents passed away. Had 3 friends also die in their 30's.

But yeah...raising my daughter overshadowed all of that (and all the negative world BS) and made it a great decade.

Spurs rings also.

[cantthinkofanything]

Somewhere in that joy you find the dread of growing old. I don't want to grow old.

What's hard to mentally get a hold of is that I always thought of my parents as old at this age but don't think of myself as such. And they were the same age difference between me and my daughter. Always thought of them as old and mature. Hard to imagine them being into music and looking forward to movies coming out or any of the other stuff that I enjoy. But I'm assuming they did all of that stuff.

Or...maybe technlogy has changed things so much that it's totally different.

[FkLA]

9/11 was horrible but it didn't really affect my life personally. Not sure how people that weren't in the middle of it (themselves or through family) can still be affected by it today.

00s were my teen years. Watched a lot of Spurs basketball, played a lot of basketball, played a lot of sports in general, nephews and nieces were added to the family. Great times and basically stuff/people I don't have as much time for unfortunately. :(

[DeadlyDynasty]

Wanderlust

[mrsmaalox]

Same for me with the kids. Stay at home mom with 3 school aged kids it was a whirlwind of laundry, after school sports, doctor's appts, teacher meetings, Scouts, volunteering, homework, whewwww!! I loved it :)

[JoeTait75]

Started the decade as basically a kid- single, living with a bunch of guys, working shit jobs- and ended it as a man- engaged, soon to be a father, with a career as opposed to a job.

[Clipper Nation]

I was 9 in 2000 so my memory of that time might be flawed but I seem to remember everything going really, really well until 9/11. It seems like after 9/11 things just were never the same again, even up till now.

Pretty much spot on, tbh. Foreign policy, politics, and even our culture changed overnight. Even the economic downturn brought on by the dot-com bust got worse after that.

[cantthinkofanything]

don't forget...we had....

2000 Olympics in Sydney ...Maurice Greene beating out Ato Bolden for the gold medal.
yep...Greene took home another gold in the 400x100 relay. Jamaica not doing so well that year.
Brazil won the silver and yep...those commies from Cuba got the bronze...

It was a good field...if I remember it went....

now...did lane assignments have anything to do with it????

let's see...

if I remember...we had...

Lane 1

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/22px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png Poland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland_at_the_2000_Summer_Olympics) Marcin Nowak (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcin_Nowak_%28athlete%29), Marcin Urbaś (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcin_Urba%C5%9B),
Piotr Balcerzak (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotr_Balcerzak), Ryszard Pilarczyk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard_Pilarczyk)






Lane 2
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/22px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png Japan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_at_the_2000_Summer_Olympics) Shigeyuki Kojima (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeyuki_Kojima), Koji Ito (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koji_Ito),
Shingo Suetsugu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingo_Suetsugu), Nobuharu Asahara (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuharu_Asahara)


Lane 3

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Flag_of_Cuba.svg/22px-Flag_of_Cuba.svg.png Cuba (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba_at_the_2000_Summer_Olympics) José Ángel César (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_%C3%81ngel_C%C3%A9sar), Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Alberto_P%C3%A9rez-Rionda),
Iván García (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iv%C3%A1n_Garc%C3%ADa_%28athlete%29), Freddy Mayola (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy_Mayola)

Lane 4

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png Brazil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_at_the_2000_Summer_Olympics) Vicente de Lima (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_de_Lima), Édson Ribeiro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89dson_Ribeiro),
André da Silva (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_da_Silva), Claudinei da Silva (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudinei_da_Silva)

Lane 5

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_at_the_2000_Summer_Olympics) Jon Drummond (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Drummond), Bernard Williams (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Williams_%28athletics%29),
Brian Lewis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_M._Lewis), Maurice Greene (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Greene_%28athlete%29)

Lane 6

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Jamaica.svg/22px-Flag_of_Jamaica.svg.png Jamaica (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_at_the_2000_Summer_Olympics) Lindel Frater (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindel_Frater), Dwight Thomas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Thomas),
Christopher Williams (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Williams_%28sprinter%29), Llewellyn Bredwood (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Llewellyn_Bredwood&action=edit&redlink=1)

Lane 7

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/22px-Flag_of_France.svg.png France (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_at_the_2000_Summer_Olympics) Frédéric Krantz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Krantz), David Patros (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Patros),
Christophe Cheval (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe_Cheval), Needy Guims (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needy_Guims)

Lanen 8

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/22px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png Italy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy_at_the_2000_Summer_Olympics) Francesco Scuderi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Scuderi), Alessandro Cavallaro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Cavallaro),
Maurizio Checcucci (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurizio_Checcucci), Andrea Colombo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Colombo)

[Floyd Pacquiao]

Bush jokes
Myspace
Baggy clothes
Chopped and screwed Houston hits
Most of my elementary through high school years :cry

[The Gemini Method]

If you cut coke with twice the baking soda...I got baking soda you earn more profits! Also, that if you fuck with Marlo Stansfield you get clipped by Partlow and Snoop.

[Infinite_limit]

Attended high school in the early 2000s

Mostly just social media: MySpace, AIM and hot or not. All 3 got me laid. The birth of the "reality star"

First cell phone

Socially it was just dominated by everyone getting Internet access. Online gaming - Playstation 2

Travelled to Germany (World Cup) for the first time in 2006 and it changed my outlook on life. [Returned 3 times since]

Overall less shitty than the current 2010's. But in general very little has changed since. 9/11 just coincided with the 90s (last great American decade) Ending. I don't believe it directly altered the water downing of culture.

[The Gemini Method]

Attended high school in the early 2000s

Mostly just social media: MySpace, AIM and hot or not. All 3 got me laid. The birth of the "reality star"

First cell phone

Socislly it was just dominated by everyone getting Internet access. Online gaming - Playstation 2

Travelled to Germany for the first time in 2006 and it changed my outlook on life.

Overall less shitty than the current 2010's. But in general very little has changed since. 9/11 just coincided with the 90s (last great American decade) ending) I don't believe it directly altered the water downing of culture.

AIM: The original Tinder...(AOL Chatrooms included)

[FkLA]

AIM: The original Tinder...(AOL Chatrooms included)

ASL?

I remember being like 13 and going into chat rooms looking for desperate women...lying that I was a grown man. :lol

[The Reckoning]

ICQ was where it's at suckas

[DMC]

Not a goddamn thing.

[spurraider21]

AIM: The original Tinder...(AOL Chatrooms included)
:lol AIM was hilarious in hindsight.... people had to make sure their away messages were creative and shit. your aim profile also had to be hilarious

then myspace replaced all that, before facebook. i never did the myspace thing tho, went straight from aim to fb

[Infinite_limit]

:lol AIM was hilarious in hindsight.... people had to make sure their away messages were creative and shit. your aim profile also had to be hilarious

then myspace replaced all that, before facebook. i never did the myspace thing tho, went straight from aim to fb
No myspace? My page with photos is still being held hostage by them, 10 years later.

People forget it was centered around music and advertising yourself. Once youTUBE started rolling, myspace took a big hit and then when Facebook gave up the University student angle, myspace was dead.

[Robz4000]

Did a lot of traveling in the 00s. Must've been to every state in the continental US.

[sandman]

I don't feel old physically(I'm easily in the best shape of my life), but seeing her get older definitely casts a bit of a shadow.

:lol...I hear ya. Thankfully mine doesn't ask for much money. She's got a job and is pretty good about taking care of the money she makes. Not really looking forward to buying the car though.

Yep, doesn't make me feel old, as I'll take current me up against the me from 10-15 years ago. People still get surprised when I show them pics of the kids, and I have a lot more financial security than I had back then.

We live in London so no working for her over here. And I don't have to worry about a car (or insurance) either because you have to be 17 to get a UK license here, and she isn't back in States for a long enough period at any given time to complete the Texas driver education requirements. I'll gladly be an ATM to avoid both of those!

[The Gemini Method]

ASL?

I remember being like 13 and going into chat rooms looking for desperate women...lying that I was a grown man. :lol


:lol AIM was hilarious in hindsight.... people had to make sure their away messages were creative and shit. your aim profile also had to be hilarious

then myspace replaced all that, before facebook. i never did the myspace thing tho, went straight from aim to fb

I ain't gonna lie--AIM/AOL Chatrooms were easy pickings. Be like girl come to my apt I got tacos and lube. Let's get this.

[Infinite_limit]

Yahoo chat rooms closed down in 2012 :depressed