Current Events > Is there anything to be nostalgic about the 2000s?

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George W Bush was lame
War on Terror was lame
Shit economy was lame
Reality TV was lame

The music and games were cool at least.

Chatting on AIM mostly.

Still better than the 10s

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Ivynn posted...

Reality TV was lame

Nah, the best seasons of Survivor happened in the 2000's.

Um, there's so much nostalgia from that time. Like half the '90s Nickelodeon cartoons continued on to the 2000s. You have the sixth generation of consoles, Pokemon 2000, ipods, Motorola Razr, etc.

Also just because something is bad doesn't mean it can't be nostalgic imo.

-95-05 was peak video games.
-SSBB's hype train was legendary.
-Early TF2 and Gmod.
-Flash movies.
-Early Youtube and Machinima.
-YTP (Where there's smoke, they pinch back.)
-Ruthless Aggression wrestling had its moments
-Japanese internet was still mysterious.
-The last look at a pre-smartphone world.
-People were more fun on Xbox Live and weren't all drawing from the same shrinking pool of zingers and comebacks.
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World of Warcraft

Jackass era of MTV

The absence of social media and smartphones

The Golden Age of the Internet was the 2000s.

But the 2000s weren't a "feel good" decade like the 90s were.

I don't know, the sixth gen of gaming is pretty damn nolstalgic to me.

Very early 2000's had some great cartoons that came in from Cartoon Network and went on Adult Swim which started in 2001.

I loved stuff like Futurama and Family Guy that started in 1999. Then when Adult Swim hit there was stuff like Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law and new episodes of Space Ghost Coast to Coast plus all kinds of other good stuff.

I had just gotten home from the military in 1999 and that early 1999 to about 2002 had some killer cartoons.

archizzy posted...

Very early 2000's had some great cartoons that came in from Cartoon Network and went on Adult Swim which started in 2001.

I loved stuff like Futurama and Family Guy that started in 1999. Then when Adult Swim hit there was stuff like Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law and new episodes of Space Ghost Coast to Coast plus all kinds of other good stuff.

I had just gotten home from the military in 1999 and that early 1999 to about 2002 had some killer cartoons.

Yeah, the early 2000s were good. But the late 2000s, I'd say from 2005-2010 was an animation Dark Age. Other than Avatar TLA, it's hard to think of truly great cartoons from that era. (Western animation, anyway).

Also reminder that towards the end of the 2000s , Cartoon Network had that embarrassing CN Real period.

LordYeezus posted...

The absence of social media and smartphones

I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to go back to a time when you didn't have the internet in your pocket.

I don't care about social media, but it was beginning to take off in that decade.

The White Sox won it all in '05, and it coincided with my HS graduation. So for me there's that.

PS2, X-Box, GameCube games, peak Toonami, emo music, internet flash animation

The growing sense of apathy when society still had some semblance of optimism about the future whilst shit kept hitting the fan.

Battlestar Galactica

super_felicia posted...

Still better than the 10s

Seriously. What a shit decade

Spurner posted...

Battlestar Galactica

Oooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh

This, too. Did you hear that there's a remake in the works? I am unsure how to feel about it.

Xenogears15 posted...

Oooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh

This, too. Did you hear that there's a remake in the works? I am unsure how to feel about it.

Yeah. Still feeling a bit snake bit after Caprica. Fingers crossed, though.

Lord of the Rings

The music, the games, the cartoons, and way less social media are nostalgic. Actually calling your friends to talk to them and making plans. Having more hobbies like reading and going outside to play sports with friends.

It was less socially awkward back then, and there was less distraction from technology. Social media and smart phones killed it for a lot of people. Too much entertainment now. A lot of cancel culture and narcissism.

Politics was less radicalized in western countries. Now there's a huge divide between Democrats and Republicans. Twitter has made politics worse.

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Good Spongebob
Avatar TLA

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Thats a good one

Kids WB in Saturday mornings was peak in the early 2000's

Pokemon
Jackie Chan Adventures
Static Shock
X-Men Evolution
Yu-Gi-Oh
Xiaolin Showdown

And 2000 was also when the PS2 launched. So lots of fun times

I do kind of miss those days

Less social media, I guess? iPods?

ps2
dreamcast
Nelly
Nelly Furtado

For me it was no different than now or any other decade.

I just exist.

video games peaked in the 2000's

trivialbeing posted...

video games peaked in the 2000's

That's what I was going to say. Comedy movies, video games were on point from 2000-2010. So many OG's.

Also vehicles were still made to last and didn't cost as much as a house... well a house in that period.

Video game magazines were still huge in the early 2000s. Remember all the crazy ads in them?

MySpace and Invisionfree and Flash games and Livejournal

pretty much all of early 2000s internet ruled

I was a teenager for most of the decade and could not have given much less of a shit about any of those things.

acatar the last air bender

The last decade of non-pc culture being a thing, comedies were great because they were actually funny.

Chapelle Show
Rise of online gaming
Rise of nonstop reality tv

The net of the early 00's was alright. I'd take it in a heartbeat over what we have now.

Scene girls.

Politics being less of a shit show
Ben 10, Teen Titans, Generator Rex
Pokemon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum (yes yes long animations whatever)
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
Persona 4
Tumblr not existing yet

That was the peak era of cartoons tbh. Sure there are many then and now that could compete but those are few and far inbetween now.

When CE was actually funny and good.

Pre-9/11 America.

We're still dealing with patriot act bullshit from that.

OK, there was some great stuff in the 2000s and there will be nostalgia for that. It was a great time for the internet before normies took over and like I said before, it was also a great time for music and especially video games.

I just don't know if there will be cultural nostalgia for it, like there was from 90s, 80s, and 70s. I guess it could be seen like the 60s. Good stuff happened during it but there was also an air of uncertainty and turbulence.

Ivynn posted...

OK, there was some great stuff in the 2000s and there will be nostalgia for that. It was a great time for the internet before normies took over and like I said before, it was also a great time for music and especially video games.

I just don't know if there will be cultural nostalgia for it, like there was from 90s, 80s, and 70s. I guess it could be seen like the 60s. Good stuff happened during it but there was also an air of uncertainty and turbulence.

My man, there's gonna be genuine nostalgia for 2024 in the future. The present will always be someone's past.