30 Nostalgic Pics And Memes About The 2000s Today’s Kids Will Probably Never Understand

Y'all tried pushing down all the colors together, yea?

That pen is worth more than all of my lottery winnings combined.

No me literally sitting with one of these pens in my hand

Lots of my art students still use those!

When I left my toxic job, one of my lovely co-workers gave me a going away present with three different of these pens. *cue tears*

I have not yet reached that point! I burn CDs from my iTunes list to listen to in the car. Sometimes I do it by theme - like a certain artist, or all acoustic versions of songs. My car is old and I don't drive enough to justify paying for satellite radio.

I'm still burning CDs, except they are Dreamcast games, not music.

I have burned a CD during the pandemic. A few of them, actually. THAT was probably my actual last time though.

It was latina dance course I remember :-)

I bought a computer in 2000 with a CD-RW and downloaded songs off of Napster (60 minutes a song) and burned them on the CD. 10 songs - about 12 hours. I thought I was living in the future!

Shut down included waiting for the "It is now safe to turn off your computer" line to pop up on the monitor.

And for some bizarre reason, some computers let you switch between lower and higher megahertz processing speeds, like a car where you can switch the overdrive on and off.

In the 80s we had two buttons.. One was the turbo boost. Other was power.

I'm confused. This is how I do it now...

I… haven’t though about this in a while… Oh man.

Those speakers could preannounce incoming call! 🤙

I have some of those in a box at home

In the 80s you could buy a soundcard to allow speakers to be added. Otyerwise no go. And later on a CD drive. It cost hundreds or $1000+. Back then. Creative labs owned the market.

I went straight from the cheapest, nastiest $10 computer speakers to a fancy Logitech 5.1 setup with a subwoofer that was about an 18" cube and a bunch of satellites. Used it for awhile til the neighbour started bitching about counterstrike at 2am. Went to quality headphones and never changed back. In hindsight I should have sold the old speakers back in the day.

I still have a pair and a CRT monitor from 1996. Antiques now, but so am I!

This nostalgia is waaaayyyy older than the 2000's.

Fun fact - Play-Doh was originally invented as a wall cleaner (you would rub it on your walls to clean away the soot from your fires)

i took a small piece of each color and mixed them

Mmmmm, Play-Doh!

I always wondered, what actually caused that wonderful smell?

When i was dating my husband in 2002, we speent nights downloading songs to play to each other. 3-4 min listening, 20 min download time. We talked sooo much between songs, that was really the time we get to know each other. Sometimes i feel pitty for the younger people, who are used to faster times.

Limewire was the computer equivalent of having unprotected sex with millions of people.

OMG Lime Wire!! 🤯

or napster

I remember Napster

I feel old

I don't like how this makes me feel 😐

10 years ago was definitely the first one for me. I didn't get a smartphone until 2014, the last of my friends to do so! lol

I used to have the phone in the top picture, that's when I fell in love with texting instead of talking!

I remember when Motorola flip phones were the bomb…now they’re in a friggin’ museum 😖