This year's high school freshmen, the class of 2018, were born (for the most part) at the turn of the century.
Let's take a look at what the world was like back then. Back when the class of 2018 was born...
Eminem wore shirts like this and everyone understood what it meant:
The iPod was about to change the way we listen to music:
Lizzie McGuire had just begun and apparently showed us what "seriously cool" was:
Justin Timberlake was a marionette:
Hannah bought me a Justin Timberlake of N'Sync cerca 2000 marionette doll #sheknowsme #wouldiwantanythingelse
Wilson was Tom Hanks' best friend:
Sum 41 took middle schools by storm:
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And so did "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)," "Californication," "Adam's Song," BBMak, Creed, Macy Gray, Matchbox 20, Bon Jovi for some reason, 3 Doors Down, and Papa Roach, and the immortal Baha Men asked the question, "Who Let the Dogs Out?"
These sweet morsels still lived in our cereal bowls:
Darrin's grooves were the only grooves that mattered. The alpha and the omega of grooves:
The Nickelodeon daily schedule looked like this:
The world's most important cheerleading movie ever made had just been released:
The WWE was still the WWF:
The Rugrats visited Paris:
And if you watched it, hopefully you did on an orange tape:
The future of gaming was released:
SmarterChild got real as hell:
"Now That's What I Call Music" had just released its fourth edition...
And the track listing looked like this:
People thought it was OK to sit on inflatable furniture:
Destiny's Child still had four people in it:
Remember that tony Destiny's Child had four members...#IDont
Britney Spears was made out of clay:
And traveled to the moon:
Someone had just decided that these freaky little hell beasts were an OK toy:
The most important movie ever about a doll becoming real was made:
The Harry Potter cast all looked like this:
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Andre 3000 asked this important question:
Ben Affleck was on a "journey to manhood":
People somehow thought it was OK to go out in public like this:
Chicken Run was on the cover of Time:
The Cartoon Network schedule looked like this:
The Spy Kids made the world safe for spy kids...for now:
These jeans were inexplicably popular:
Sisqó held the world in his thong-covered hands:
Chances are you had to stare at this for about 10 to 15 minutes before using the 'net:
People listened to music like this for some reason:
Everyone just wanted a snow day:
Jason Biggs was allowed to be near women:
Linkin Park had just...burst...onto the scene:
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Someone thought it wise to put Eminem on the cover of Teen People:
Gwen Stefani had braces:
Oh, and gas prices looked a lot more like this:
