Early-to-mid 2000s nostalgia.

[dindonker]

 

[fingercuffs]

Fuck. I shouldn't have visited this thread. It's too depressing because this is all stuff that my wife would talk to me about because she was still in high school when most of this stuff was popular. I don't remember a lot of it because I was in my late thirties working & raising three kids at the time. Hell, I can't even recall what I was listening to at the time but it wasn't this stuff. But she introduced me to her favorite stuff like Blink 182 & Weezer. And it all reminds me of her. It makes me realize even more how unfair it is that she's gone. I should've gone long before her. But somehow I'm still here & it sucks.

But whatever. I didn't come here to hijack or derail the thread with my misfortune. I was just taken off guard, that's all.

Wel you didn’t
Everything is going to be a trigger for years I’m afraid
California punk especially <3

 

[sweetviolenturg]

Wel you didn’t
Everything is going to be a trigger for years I’m afraid
California punk especially <3

That's for sure. I should have known better than to listen to some of those songs last night. They really made me miss her something fierce. Of course, it didn't help that I was already feeling out of sorts because it was the three-month anniversary of her death. But I got through it minus nothing more than some tears.

 

[fingercuffs]

That's for sure. I should have known better than to listen to some of those songs last night. They really made me miss her something fierce. Of course, it didn't help that I was already feeling out of sorts because it was the three-month anniversary of her death. But I got through it minus nothing more than some tears.

So many things I want to say, thankfully you know me better that.
Know always that you are loved. And likely the most appreciated guy on this site. And that was you, not just you and Jada.

Sounds so not heartfelt, but you know where my head's at, Buffona. You're can do it a little bit of nice things with that word I'm sure.

 

[MMAFAN2]

2000’s was one of the best decades in general imo,there was no outdated stuff like other decades,there was so much violence and edgy stuff on TV and none of the woke bs today was around

 

[My Spot]

 

[dildos]

BLINK 182!!!!

 

[John Mabrey]

BLINK 182!!!!

Also

 

[fingercuffs]

That's for sure. I should have known better than to listen to some of those songs last night. They really made me miss her something fierce. Of course, it didn't help that I was already feeling out of sorts because it was the three-month anniversary of her death. But I got through it minus nothing more than some tears.

I couldn't even listen to some albums if he went away for a week. I need your Spoitfy password. so I can sort you out.

 

[RollSonnenRoll]

“Staying up forever with RISE..We’re gonna stay up all night!”

 

[StoneColdSteveAustin]

Ecstasy was so good in the early 2000s. And so was hip hop

 

[Plissken]

The good stuff was more sporadic.

Music was shit barring the indie revival that really didn't get much airplay, the post punk+garage rock revival, and a lot of the melodic death and doom metal bands maturing to create metal outside of using death vocals. Cookie cutter pop music started becoming overwhelming at the end of the 90's and continued on in this era, hip/hop rap continued the decline from the late 90's as well. Country music continued to go full on pop, rock was played less on the radio, etc. Nu Metal also continued on from that late 90's start. A lot of cheese.

Videogames, started off with the N64/Game Boy Color/PS1/Saturn...um Dreamcast era, then came the Gamecube/Game Boy Advance/PS2/X-Box era. It was a pretty solid era. Videogames were one of the things that weren't bad in this era.

TV, well aside from CBS going to shit, MTV officially dying off, and the whole reality show explosion there was a bunch of good shows. Adult Swim came into being, more mature cable shows that took more risks started to pop up more, Fox was still a good network. We saw more shows in general that had serialized plots and less comedies that were laugh tracked which lead into a renaissance of sorts that came later, but it started becoming more of a thing in this era. The science and history based channels still showed science and history based shows. Mixed bag as this era started to lead towards so many channels dying and reality tv becoming so prevalent but other areas of tv started to get better.

Movies were a pretty mixed bag too. Remakes of Japanese horror movies then remakes in general started to trend. Lower budget or profile horror movies could be really damn good though and more risks were taken there. Marvel movies started up (post-Blade of course). There was a lot of cheesy stuff that echoed the music from this era (continuing on from the late 90's). the Harry Potter movies started up. The cheese started to wear off closer to the mid 2000's.

Fashion was terrible. I never really changed what I wore or my hair thankfully, but the whole frosted tips, baggy as hell clothes, etc. trend is just hilarious to look back at. It's like white trash and guido culture merged.

MMA was still in its' dark era at the beginning of the decade but got better over time and TUF came along in the mid-2000's and saw the sport get a massive popularity boost. Pride had the start of its' best years in this era as well and contained most of them save for its' very end.

Sports. The NBA started its' downward turn as defense became less and less of a thing but was still watchable for most. The NFL was good and we got to see the beginning of Brady, Brees, and Peyton's long and storied careers. The MLB was fine but you could see where money dominated, we got to see the Red Sox and White Sox finally get championships after close to 100 years without one. The NHL was fine outside of the lockout year.

Pro wrestling lost me in this era. Only sporadically watched it then quit as John Cena and Randy Orton started to become a thing (can't recall the years, it went from Stone Cold/The Rock/Mankind/HHH/The Undertaker to Brock/Angle/Guerrerro/Benoit/Mysterio and I think Cena and Orton started to show up somewhere in that era).

The internet was still a bit in wild west territory, it had shittier web design, worse speeds, and other negative aspects that come with weaker technology but otherwise was more interesting than it is now in a lot of respects and people weren't zombies as much.

Outside of the media we had the September 11th attacks and wars and politics really started to go to shit and become more fractured, plus we had the Patriot act, etc. This was what makes looking back to the early to mid 2000's so damn depressing in my opinion. This was the start of so much bs that still continues 20+ years later.

The end of the 90's and early 2000's sort of blended together. It wasn't until like 2003 that things started to differentiate.

 

[sweetviolenturg]

I couldn't even listen to some albums if he went away for a week. I need your Spoitfy password. so I can sort you out.

But I don't use Spotify. LOL.

It seems like everyone else does these days though, huh? I used to have an Amazon Music account but I stopped subscribing because I'd go months without listening to it. These days I listen to all my music while I'm on my laptop. So, I use Youtube Premium.

 

[HOLA]

AIM was alright. Good for group chats in high school so we could decide what to do at night.

Then MySpace started, and every girl I knew was taking pictures of themselves doing that stupid duckface. Social media has been all downhill since.

 

[HOLA]

Fashion was terrible. I never really changed what I wore or my hair thankfully, but the whole frosted tips, baggy as hell clothes, etc. trend is just hilarious to look back at. It's like white trash and guido culture merged.

Yeah, it really didn't age well.

Another thing that definitely didn't age well is all the girls who were into tanning. I graduated HS in 02. So I'm 36 now. Some girls you run into look like they've barely aged. The ones that were super into tanning...holy shit they look 60 already.

 

[John Mabrey]

But I don't use Spotify. LOL.

It seems like everyone else does these days though, huh? I used to have an Amazon Music account but I stopped subscribing because I'd go months without listening to it. These days I listen to all my music while I'm on my laptop. So, I use Youtube Premium.

Yea I think most ppl use Spotify now

 

[John Mabrey]

Yeah, it really didn't age well.

Another thing that definitely didn't age well is all the girls who were into tanning. I graduated HS in 02. So I'm 36 now. Some girls you run into look like they've barely aged. The ones that were super into tanning...holy shit they look 60 already.

Id still take the baggy shit over the skin tight shit men wear nowadays

 

[HOLA]

 

[gatchaman]

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[Drain Bamage]

When nostalgia creeps up, I usually try to find something completely new to disappear in. But, recently, I felt like I was just getting hammered by a relentless wave of early-to-mid 2000s nostalgia. So I buckled and went back to a lot of old stuff - this be everything from music, video games, movies, old sports broadcasts to real life locations - and I feel like I've kind of ruined a few cozy memories by revisiting the source (will say: TV show "The Shield" was one thing that held up and impressed me even more now).

So it's kind of a weird feeling where the current day seems lacking, but, ultimately, all I found at the end of that nostalgia rainbow of "good old days" was sense of waste, mistakes and regret. Not to be a downer, though, maybe a wrong approach on my part or just personal issues to hash out.

But that made think of how there's still this 80s craze in pop culture, 90s iconic stuff seems to slowly pop up here and there as well, but is anyone actually nostalgic for 2000s? If so, what are you nostalgic about from that time?

I thought the early 2000's was a pretty awesome time

We had great technology for entertainment purposes (gaming, movies, music, etc....)

And computers were still pretty much for nerds and geeks and serious people only

Technology hadn't infiltrated on the minutiae of our lives yet

Then that jerk Steve Jobs invented the iPhone and slowly but surely douchebags took over the internet