Early 2000s Struggles Worse Than Reaching The End Of Your Ring Pop
Move over 90s nostalgia, because now that it's 2020, the early 2000s nostalgia is coming in hot and heady and ready to make you reminisce about the good old days. We're going back to when it took a solid 40 minutes for you to load a YouTube video, and you only needed 15 cents to go to the convenience store to buy a sugar stick to get you through fourth period.
So buckle in for these serious struggles that made our lives harder than Ryan Sheckler's jawline. Because we're all totally not aging and deteriorating rapidly and missing these days.
The Microsoft Word Paper Clip That Never Let You Plagiarize An Essay For Geography Class In Peace
"Clippy," Bill Gates and Office Depot's demonic love child, was the helpful annoyance that always kept us in check. It never stopped you from failing the class you were in, but at least it made you spell "necessary" correctly.
Renting A Rush Hour 2 VHS From Blockbuster Only To Find Out It's Not Rewound So You Have To Do It Yourself
Betrayal looks like the end credits on the VHS you just picked up from Blockbuster that you now have to rewind yourself. I'm not saying that this gave us our trust issues... but it certainly didn't help.
Waiting For Your Mom To Pick You Up From The Mall And Trying To Look Busy, But Really Only Playing Snake On Your Nokia
We all want to look busy, but in the early 2000s, we definitely weren't making power moves other than meeting our friends at the Orange Julius in the mall. So we all pretended and Snake was there to help.
Feeling The Heat Of The FBI When Your Mom Got An Email Warning Her To Stop Downloading Limewire Songs On Her Computer (You Just Wanted Hillary Duff's Metamorphosis)
Limewire was a mixed bag of surprises for sure. You either got the song you asked for, got 16 viruses, or got a cease and desist email from the FBI saying that your IP address has downloaded over 5,000 songs illegally. Which is all super fun, of course.
Running Out Of Money To Text On Your $25 Phone Card And Having To Run To The Convenience Store To Buy One Just So You Can Make Plans With Your Friends
Your one friend had unlimited texting... but it wasn't you was it? It was never you. You were the one with the broke parents and zero incentive to go out and get a job so you could afford a phone with a phone plan. That was just another life.
Having A Bad Ringtone Because Your Friends Didn't Shut Up In The Car While You Were Trying To Record It From The Radio
There's nothing like asking the world to stand still just so you don't get any beeping or talking in your music video. But your friend with the deviated septum always breathes too loud and you can hear it faintly on the recording, so what are you gonna do?
In MASH Getting The Boy From Class You Hated, In A Shack, With A Horse And Buggy, And Ten Kids
Don't even act like MASH was a fun game. Sure, you laughed while you were playing the game, but you know that afterward you went home and stared at yourself in the mirror for 45 minutes asking what dark part of yourself will make you have 15 kids and live in a two-person tent in the future.
Burning So Many CDs For "Car Jamz" That You Needed A Literal 10 lbs Case For Them All
You know what else does the trick? Never throwing away any of the pine air fresheners that you've accumulated for over a decade that are hanging on the review mirror of your 2005 Ford Focus. And those are timeless past the early 2000s.
Figuring Out Which Bratz Doll Fit Your Personality Best And Then Trying To Dress Like Her (It Was Always Yasmin)
Bratz were the top tier doll that validated your emotions and the time when you told your mom to get out of your room. Barbie would never tell you to watch your tone.
When You Fell From Your Friend's MySpace Top 8 Who You Thought You Were Close With So You Had To Rethink The Friendship
It was a long walk from the bus stop to your desk in first period English where you knew Chelsey was sitting waiting for you to confront her about why you two weren't in each other's top eights anymore. You thought you guys were good, but since her internet went out at home last week things have just been different.
Watching The TV Guide Channel For Five Whole Minutes Because You Kept Missing What Was Coming Up On The Three That You Watch
Blink and it's gone baby. This must be some sort of scam because this was probably the top-watched channel on television just because you would sneeze and miss absolutely everything.
Forgetting To Set The Printer To Black And White And Having To Deal With Your Dad Getting So Angry Because "Ink Is Expensive"
Remember when we actually had to remember stuff before having it accessible on our phones? And by remembering stuff, I mean print out 16 pages of full-color maps on MapQuest and squint at them over the steering wheel like it's not dangerous at all.
Convincing Your English Teacher To Let You Make Your Project A "Film" Just So You Can Use Windows Movie Maker In The Computer Lab
MovieMaker, Paint, Math Circus, and All The Right Type were your four horsemen of educational success and if you had them you knew you were going to graduate the 7th grade just fine.
When You Had Planned For Your Sim To Level Up In Business Career Path, Marry Waylon Fairchild, And Have Twins By Eating Spaghetti, But They Get Abducted By Aliens And Impregnated
Playing the Game of Life was for kids that were complacent with a normal way of life. The only way to truly prepare for the curveballs life gave you was to enter into the insanity that was Sims 2, because in one day you could become a vampire and a gypsy and that's the kind of curveball you can't prepare for.
When Mom Vought The Cheerios That Didn't Come With Rollercoaster Tycoon
If you had the option of buying a normal cereal box and a cereal box with a computer game inside of it, why wouldn't you buy the one with the game? This is the question we all asked our moms when we opened up our Cheerios to yet again the absence of a game that consists of six pixels and three songs on repeat.
Having To Pop Off The MSN Group Chat Where You Were Discussing Which Girl Was Wearing The Wrong Color Foundation That Day At School So Your Mom Could Use The Phone
Dial-up internet sucked and it was a true test of patience that made us the strong people we are today. That's why we can wait two whole seconds for a webpage to load before we freak out and throw a phone through a window.
Losing The Mini Lip-gloss That Smelled Like Toilet Cleaner From Claire's Was A True Hardship
Sure, these things looked ridiculous in your jean pockets, they smelled like nail varnish, and they didn't moisturize your lips. But were you the baddest cat around when you had that sparkly petroleum jelly on your lips? Absolutely.
Accidentally Asphyxiating Yourself On One Of Those Skinny Scarves We All Had
Thank you, Disney channel, for marketing these scarves to us that gave us no warmth and always left us with a weird rash on our neck. Because thanks to them now we have rebelled by doubling down on blanket scarves that we could basically sleep in.
You Could Never Figure Out If You Loved Reboot Or Were Terrified Of It
There was no reason for this acid trip of a show to be as gripping as it was, but this was exactly how you spent every Saturday morning. Did you feel your psyche melting into your Wheaties? Did you get computer generated-themed nightmares for weeks? Was it worth it? Obviously.
Never Finding The Blair To Your Serena
Gossip Girl made every kid dream of a life on the Upper West Side in NYC that we'd never have. The closest we'd ever get to that is watching Blair and Serena and Chuck and Dan do their thing from the comfort of our bedroom.
