Since I haven’t had the luck to be born and to grow up in The United States of America, or any other Western country, but rather an occupation-torn post-Soviet state that has just regained its freedom, I’ve never actually seen or touched half of the things on this list. And, yet, looking at all these Poo-chi dogs, Polly Pockets, and things like phone charms, I feel a massive wave of 2000s nostalgia!
That’s probably because we, as kids, were glued to our screens whenever they showed something like Dawson’s Creek or even Hannah Montana, absorbing not only how the characters looked and talked but also the things they had. It was almost like having them yourself! Though speaking of the nostalgic series we used to get during the early 2000s, we’d more often get something as old as The Little House On The Prairie or Doctor Quinn rather than the newest episode of, say, Phineas & Ferb.
Nevertheless, I can definitely feel the importance and the impact of the decade on our lives and the early 2000s nostalgia we all collectively feel. Things were changing ever so quickly. Straight from oblivion, we went to the Western civilization and its pop culture with half-naked ladies, boy bands, electronic toys, TV series, and even portable phones (those definitely came out of some witch’s brew)! Also, the sense of liberation – both literal freedom regained by my homeland and the one given to us by the ever-expanding World Wide Web – was just overwhelming. So many new cultural experiences and opportunities were never present. Starting, of course, with 2000s nostalgia toys and ending with poking someone on Facebook, this decade was moving into the future at a breakneck pace.
But, without any more of my essayistic babble, let’s dive a few decades back and reminisce on the things that we all loved dearly when growing up. From Tamagotchis to pencils with cartridges, and from the old Cartoon Network to flare jeans, you’ll find many things that’ll remind you of your careless youth. So, share these things from your childhood early 2000s nostalgia list with someone susceptible to the same kind of feelings that you are, and tell us which of these items, pop stars, or games you miss the most!
#1 Remember Watching The Pipes Screensaver?
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#2 Burning The Sickest CDs In The Neighborhood
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#3 Flipping Through These As A Kid Trying To Find Your Favourite Bands Poster
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#4 The Magic That Was The Scholastic Book Fair
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#5 When I Was 9 Years Old My Dad Was Deployed To Baghdad, Iraq. I Gave Him These Yu-Gi-Oh Cards To Keep Him Safe. They’ve Been In His Wallet For 12 Years
Yu-Gi-Oh!!! Buy on Amazon
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#6 The Smell Of Opening A Brand New Can Of Play Doh
Let’s smell it again! Buy on Amazon
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#7 These TV Carts Always Meant Class Was Going To Be Fun When The Teacher Rolled One In
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#8 I Found An Old Pic Of Me Playing Computer Games. As It Turns Out I Haven’t Changed Very Much
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#9 Pencils With Cartridges
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#10 Only Fidget Spinner I Ever Owned
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#11 These Are The Streets I Grew Up On
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#12 The Ge Alarm Clock That Everyone Seemed To Have
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#13 The Old Cartoon Network
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#14 Remember When You Didn’t Have To Enter Your Personal Info Online To Win A Soda?
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#15 Can We Please Bring Back The Holes To Put Phone Charms On Our Phones?
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#16 Wooden Playgrounds
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#17 Windows Pinball
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#18 Found An Old Polly Pocket While Cleaning My Mom’s Basement
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#19 Who Remembers This Ice Cream From School?
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#20 When You Wore Flare Jeans And It Rained
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#21 Starving Your Calculator To Death
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#22 The Family Computer
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#23 Surreal Moment Today. I Went To Oaks, PA Too Many Video Games Expo. Found My Gameboy From Early 2000’s
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#24 LimeWire
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#25 I Know I’m 31 And All, But I Still Get Excited About Scholastic Book Club Order Forms
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#26 Today A 70th Years Old Ma’am Gave Me Her Nokia 3310 To Change The Battery. I Couldn’t Resist
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#27 Msn Messenger! Playing With Emojis Over A Decade Before It Was Cool
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#28 Friendship Bracelets – I Used To Love Making These
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#29 Linkin Park
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#30 Did Anyone Else Have A Stage In The Cafeteria Of Their School?
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#31 Jelly Shoes
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#32 Motorola Razr V3xx
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#33 The Sims
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#34 My 20 Year Old Toy Phone And My Daughters Brand New One! Both Fisher Price
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#35 Knee-Length Rainbow Toe Socks
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#36 My Girlfriend Got Me The Evangelion Tamagotchi For My Birthday And I’m So Excited To See Which Angel I Get First
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#37 Girlfriend Made Me The Chatterbox From The Opening Sequence For Our Anniversary
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#38 The Last Blockbuster Was A Five Minute Walk From The Motel I Was Staying At
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#39 You Guys Remember Boondoggle? Anyone Know Any Other Cool Stitches?
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#40 I Restored My 16 Year Old iPod Nano
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#41 Farm Ville
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#42 Me And My Best Friend In 1999/2000 Working On Our Donkey Kong/Banjo Kazooie Fan Website Titled “The Dk/Bk Jungle”
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#43 These Cereal Bowls I Used To Eat Out Of As A Kid
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#44 Plastic Tube With Water And Plastic Fish Inside It, If You Try To Squeeze It It Just Rolls Itself
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#45 Found My Old Nintendo DS And Nintendogs And I’ve Been Screaming At The Fake Dog To Sit For 15 Min
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#46 20+ Years Of Lip Balm Pans. Who Remembers Lip Smackers And Lip Lix?
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#47 Eminem
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#48 Cereal Straws
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#49 I Know You All Remember The Spacemaker Pencil Box
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#50 Torture Device Known As The Sit And Reach Test
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