29 Things That Were Very Much "A Thing" In The 2000s For People Who Are Now Ages 27–36

    Remember when you had to upload your photos from your camera to your desktop, and then upload them from your desktop onto Photobucket?!

    1. Complaining about how you hated that TRL wouldn't play an entire music video (except for like the top three):

    Carson Daly on the set of "TRL" with kids applauding behind him.

    2. Making a mix CD for your BFF or crush:

    Three CD clear skinny jewel cases (one blue, hot pink, and yellow) with CDs inside them.

    3. Bragging about what movies you had on your Netflix DVD queue:

    A close up of a Netflix DVD queue page from 2010.

    4. Coming up with a clever and racy email address as your first "official" address:

    A cropped tweet from Harry Styles to Niall Horan saying: @NiallOfficial is your email still da_pimp_is_ere@dapimpmail.com?

    5. Taking a group selfie like this on a flip phone:

    6. Taking a mirror selfie like this — with the camera flash going off:

    A photo of Tom from Myspace taking a photo of himself in his bathroom mirror with a digital camera and the flash going off.

    7. Playing Cranium with your friends or family:

    A entire Cranium board game set up neatly on a white table.

    8. Emailing your friends a link to a viral video you found funny — usually with the subject line, "Watch this video!":

    Collection of nine different viral videos from the 2000s.

    9. Making sure you had your digital camera so that you could document everything (and be able to share the photos with your friends later):

    A hot pink Nikon Coolpix camera.

    10. Having a cool case for your camera:

    A hot pink Paul Frank camera case with the cartoon face of Julius the Monkey on it.

    11. Also having a cool case for your iPod:

    A gold case for a classic iPod.

    12. Creating Sims characters based on your friends and crushes:

    A screenshot of a house from the Sims.

    13. Composing a text — that included everything you wanted to say — in 160 characters or fewer:

    14. Shutting your flip phone hard and getting that satisfying noise and the "BITCH, BYE" feeling inside:

    15. Wearing pants that were super long and dragged all over the ground:

    A cropped image of the bottom of a man's jeans, who has a lots of extra jean length and ripped up hems.

    16. Going with your friends to Jamba Juice (or any juice bar) for smoothies:

    A close-up of the the Jamba Juice sign on a brick building.

    17. Calling any guy who was even vaguely into grooming a "metrosexual":

    A photo of David Beckham slightly pulling down his brown-tinted sunglasses, while wearing a distressed brown leather jacket and white T-shirt.

    18. Finding a good-quality MP3 (non-radio rip) of a new song you wanted on LimeWire:

    A cropped image of the LimeWire page downloading a bunch of MP3s.

    19. Buying studded belts from Hot Topic:

    A close-up photo of a bunch of belts hanging on a rack in a Hot Topic.

    20. Getting belt buckles with your name or phrases on it:

    A collection of nine sliver personalized belt buckles -- with the names on it being Damon, Patrice, Gina, Jadac, Eric, Karen, Ant, and King Shawn.

    21. Uploading photos and making a bunch of photo albums on Photobucket:

    The Photobucket logo in light blue with a white background.

    22. Being obsessed with doing Sudoku puzzles:

    A Sudoku puzzle

    23. Destroying someone in a poking war:

    24. Using the Photo Booth Warhol-esque photo filter to death:

    A photo of Taylor Swift and her mom using the Warhol-esque photo filter.

    25. Reading the LiveJournal of a classmate (whom you had a crush on or whom you hated) so that you could low-key snoop on their life:

    The LiveJournal logo on a light blue background with a drawing of a pencil on top.

    26. Hearing the squeaky-door-opening noise and seeing that your friend was logging on to AIM:

    An AIM conversation opened up on Windows XP.

    27. Going to Subway and making sure you collected your Sub Club sticker:

    A man holding a Subway Sub Club card, with seven of the eight stickers being filled.

    28. Getting free Pick of the Week cards from Starbucks:

    A Starbucks "Pick of the Week" card for John Legend's "Green Light" feat. André 3000/

    29. And finally, lying on Myspace and saying your age was 99 years old:

    A Myspace profile that says: Male, 99 years old, NY, Washington DC, United States.