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Old 05-06-2016, 07:26 PM
 
Location: Brooklyn NY
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Fugazi

Calling people on the phone (with a cord)

Scrappy hardcore in every town on the east coast

Being outside

Being outside

Being outside

 
Old 05-06-2016, 08:23 PM
 
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Being awoken only sit mezmorized watching the world trade centers, two buildings that i watched being constructed collapsed it is definitely the one thing from that era that I would gladly forget.
 
Old 05-06-2016, 08:30 PM
 
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Radio at least in my hometown most of it anyway were still locally owned and they were still staffed around the clock. Even Clear Channel ( now Iheart Media ) who had owned a few stations in my hometown back then still had staff 24/7 even though they were gone ( the night staff ) by 2002.

Cigarette billboards could still be seen in some places in 2000. In the summer of 2000 driving through Ohio I can remember seeing a billboard for Camel cigarettes showing a tattooed male skateboarder with a cigarette and the words "..Dude now this is a good smoke !!". Camel was clearly targeting the generation X crowd with that ad. Today such billboards are long gone.

TV Guide still had local listings.
 
Old 05-08-2016, 04:01 PM
 
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I think the turning point was in 2003 in terms of gay rights, and eventually, "marriage". That summer the Supreme Court in Lawrence v. Texas deemed all state sodomy laws as in violation of the constitution, the hugely popular TV series ***** Eye for the Straight Guy debuted, Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex "marriage", the "lipstick lesbian" fad came into vogue with Madonna kissing Britney Spears, and the "L Word" series debuted on Showtime (albeit 18 days after 2003). There was a huge backlash to all this at the state level in November 2004, with voters in many states that year passing ballot items banning same-sex marriage.
I believe it was 2003 when then President Bush had really wanted a nationwide constitutional amendment to ban same sex marriage. Looking back 2003 & 2004 were the peak of the backlash but the beginning of it I am pretty sure was some years earlier when Ellen DeGeneres had came out on her late 90s ABC-TV sitcom. Oh my there were a lot of many people upset about that. I believe that there was one ABC station who was even willing to break the contract with the network because they ( ABC/Disney ) had "too many gay people" involved. Going back to Ellen when she and Anne Heche had broken up and then Anne got involved and later married a man ( Coley Laffoon ..the couple have long since been divorced BTW ) our local newspaper at the time had ran the banner "EX GAY ANNE HECHE MARRIES A MAN". The article went on to say how someone who is gay can go back to being straight if they really wanted too and so forth. Apparently many other newspapers had more/less ran the same story since I remember when Heche appeared on some TV magazine show in 2001 the show had brought up the "ex-gay" thing only for her to say "Just because I married a man doesn't mean that I am straight" aka "bisexual" that more/less stopped the Anne Heche being an ex-gay thing. That and of course when 9/11 took place Anne Heche marrying a man being news became no longer news.

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Old 05-08-2016, 05:44 PM
 
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Ah yes, a time before GPS units. How did we survive? We spent A LOT of time lost. Traveling to any inner city, forget it. Marriages literally disintegrated in vehicles.


It was the wild west of the pop-ups. No blockers in that day. Any porn site had a million pop-ups, like screen after screen of donkey-love. Anti-virus protection? Pfff...you just deal with that virus pile-up crap until it got so bad you did an all day reload of the OS.


Day to day constant fear of felony downloading music. It was tough man.


Texting, 26 letter alphabet on 8 keys, yeah it was slow.


Around that time people could actually have lengthy conversation on their phone. In the 90s and before it was more of a brick used for emergencies only and brief conversations. You know dollar a minute worthy stuff.


Apple traded in the $1 to $1.50 range. Basically a dead company. When the dorky transparent colored monitors came out I remember thinking, yep, the nails are in the coffin.
 
Old 05-08-2016, 06:26 PM
 
Location: Type 0.73 Kardashev
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In the early 2000s?

I remember people polluting history forums with insipid threads with subjects like: what do you remember about the olden days of the early 1990s?
 
Old 05-08-2016, 06:51 PM
 
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In the early 2000s?

I remember people polluting history forums with insipid threads with subjects like: what do you remember about the olden days of the early 1990s?


The 90s?

It was a simpler time when I frolicked naked and free, wearing nothing but a snap bracelet and rewinding Acky Break Heart all day long.
 
Old 05-11-2016, 12:13 AM
 
Location: White House, TN
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Hmmm... I was born on Dec 25, 1992, so I was 7-10 then.

I got my first computer for my 10th birthday/Christmas. It was Windows ME and lasted 3 days. After that I got a hand me down box, I think it was Windows 2000. I got a Windows XP computer in February 2004, I remember it had a 40 gig hard drive and I wondered how I would ever need that much space! Now I take about 80 gigs worth of pictures on my iPhone in a year.

9/11... a lot has been said about that, it was awful and I both mourned for the 3,000 dead and feared that the USA would suffer another terrorist attack. There was a lot of patriotism following then - I remember it seemed like every other song on the radio was patriotic for a while in 2001-2002, and my 3rd grade yearbook had a flag motif. The '02 Winter Olympics, if I remember correctly had the NBC logo in red, white and blue.

Y2K, and thinking that something really bad might happen, even though all the adults around me said nothing would happen. Turns out they were right and I just had a really active 7 year old imagination.

Moving to my current house on February 17/18, 2001 - the first TV we watched in the new house was the 2001 Daytona 500 when Dale Earnhardt died. I watched a lot of NASCAR as a kid and that was really sad. Lived in a small grey house till then. Today it's been abandoned for 15 years and is in bad shape.

Really getting into the internet for the first time in 2002-2003. My 4th grade teacher played Neopets in class, and on January 17, 2003 I got a Neopets account; most of my class followed. I remember that maybe 10-15% of my class didn't have internet though. Neopets games took almost a minute to load (mind you these were simple early 2000s Flash games) until we got broadband on August 25 the same year.

I also remember getting mad a few times when I was on the Internet and someone called... dial-up went through the phone lines!

I remember boy bands were still big in 2000-2001 but not after that. I remember getting that song "Oh Aaron" by Aaron Carter stuck in my head. I haven't heard it in probably 14 years and still remember the chorus.

We still used CDs a lot. In 2003 or so when we got Napster (at my request), we burned CDs. Since the Napster was on my dad's computer (I think), I would listen to the CDs on my computer, the big mid-90s JVC home CD player, or my portable CD player. We only had one car with a CD player in it at the time.

Making the switch from VHS to DVD. If I recall correctly, we made the switch fairly early, I think in June 2002 when we got a PlayStation 2, which was our first DVD player.

We didn't get an HDTV until 7/7/2007, so it was all SDTV at that time. If I remember correctly, our main TV was a 27" set.

During the early 2000s, my mom had a 1994 Toyota Camry coupe (Sept 1, 1999 - Aug 13, 2001), then switched to a 1994 Mitsubishi Eclipse (Aug 13, 2001 - Mar 24, 2003) then she got a 2003 Toyota Corolla (Mar 24, 2003 - Dec 28, 2014). That Corolla lasted so long that when she got it, I had to ride in the back seat because of airbags. By the time she replaced it, I DROVE her down to the dealership!
My dad had a 1984 Lincoln Town Car (1998? - Aug 13, 2001), then he got the Camry which he drove until June 14, 2005.

I remember being really impressed with the Corolla when we got it.
 
Old 01-15-2017, 09:16 AM
 
Location: Bologna, Italy
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I was a university student

Cellphones were starting to be popular, but we typically had one or two for each family. We had one I used for when I was on weekend trips or vacations, but it wasn't really mine. Otherwise I used to call people on the home phone and set a meeting time / place. Around 2004 it became impossible to have normal appointments because people all became like "I call you when I arrive", so at that point the cellphone had become mandatory.

Internet was the wild west, forums like this already existed and everyone made its own personal HTML page. Internet was a lot more "free", I used to go to chatrooms and everyone had nicknames. Also, you needed a landline to connect to the internet, I only got DSL in like 2003, before that it was no more than one hour a day. Still, it was very exciting and new. E-mail was a new way to write to people.

Internet was quite static though, videos were inexistent and music was very limited until DSL came. I also started buying CDs online around 2000 on Amazon, and there were 30 second snippets of two tracks of every album for sale It wasn't super high quality mp3 yet.

I still bought CDs and taped songs off the radio, but when I started to download music in 2003 I used to burn CDs full of mp3s and bought a CD player that could play them as well as regular CDs. Still I used to play tapes in the car. When I heard about the Ipod in 2004 I thought it was a terrific idea but it was very expensive, and the other mp3 players were usually hard disk based and bulky, otherwise there were these tiny flash-drive players that still cost quite a bit for like 1 GB of music. I switched to Minidisc in 2004 because it was ending and much cheaper at the time than a mp3 player for larger capacities of music.

I think around 2005-2007 it became more similar to today with the advent of youtube, faster downloading, the first streaming sites, etc. Wi-fi was there but I don't think I used it until about 2008.
 
Old 01-17-2017, 01:42 PM
 
Location: Inland FL
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2000-2001 up until the 9/11 attack: things were pretty good. The economy was in decent shape and wages were up over the last five years. People were upbeat and future oriented. I remember school rules tightened after the Columbine shooting and child protection tightened. We never could have imagined what was to come. Fashion was very casual and laid back.

2002-2004: Things were shaky after the 9/11 attack. the country became reunited with a surge of patriotism but it was short lived. I remember we had the housing boom going on. Housing prices were going up like crazy and the population here in FL was exploding. Gas prices started going up to because we had the war on terrorism going on. It seemed like that was all the news ever talked about. the bird flu and anthrax were other hot topics of this period. It was fatiguing. I think that's why reality tv started to take off during this time. People became so obsessed with celebrities and what they do. Everyone was concerned with their own lives but the country was really starting to rot within. Things were looking up for the economy despite the war going on. There was increasing opposition to it. AOL was extremely popular during this time. I remember you couldn't talk on the phone when someone was online. You've got mail. Computers were HUGE then and so were cell phones.

2005-2007: I remember when FL got hit by about 5 storms in one season which caused insurance rates to balloon and brought a stop to the housing boom. People started moving away in record numbers. The future started to get darker. Housing prices were getting out of hand and people weren't able to afford them. Then around 2006 the housing market peaked and people became anxious. People during time were spending money like crazy, savings rates actually dipped below 0%, ridiculous. I remember when the first iPhones came out. IT was a huge deal. TVs thinned down big time and so did their prices. The internet was pretty much universal by this time as was cell phone usage.

2008-2009: stock market crash hit and things were in the crap hole. Obama was elected...
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