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Remember Y2K?
We all thought computers would explode at midnight in the year 2000. Instead, the only meltdown I had was realizing I still had dial-up internet.
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MySpace was the king of social media
…until Facebook showed up and made Tom go from your first friend to your forgotten friend. Poor Tom, just sitting there, still smiling in that white T-shirt.
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In 2004, Pluto got kicked out of the planet club.
Pluto went from planet to “dwarf planet,” and honestly, same energy as being demoted from your work group chat. 😩
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“iPod” used to mean something.
If you didn’t have an iPod in the 2000s, how else were you supposed to show off your illegally downloaded music from LimeWire and crash your family’s computer at the same time?
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The Nokia 3310 was basically indestructible.
Dropped it, sat on it, ran it over with a car—still worked. Meanwhile, my current phone gets a scratch if I look at it wrong.
- Blockbuster had a chance to buy Netflix for $50 million in 2000.
They said no. Now, I get emotional just driving past the abandoned building that still smells like popcorn and poor decisions.
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Frosted tips were everywhere.
And somehow… I thought I looked like Justin Timberlake. In reality? I looked like a sentient Q-Tip.
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