1.Either loving or being indifferent to Britney Spears because she was the biggest pop star in the world — also not really getting what all the controversy was about over this cover:
5....and Old Navy commercials were ads you actually wanted to see (also, there was no skipping through commercials back then):
6.Thinking you were punk 'cause you owned this Blink-182 album:
7.Having your mind completely blown by the plot twist in the Sixth Sense — then having to fight the urge to not spoil it for anyone who hadn't seen it:
8.Hearing Cher's ICONIC "Believe"...
9.and Ricky Martin's "Livin' la Vida Loca" EVERYWHERE:
10.Hearing people talk about how The Sopranos was the most genius show ever:
11.Bawling your eyes out for the first time at a Pixar movie, during the "When She Loved Me" scene in Toy Story 2:
12.Having your mind absolutely blown when you saw The Matrix for the first time:
13.Yelling at the TV when people answered the question wrong on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?:
14.Buying or having your parents buy you millennium editions of EVERYTHING:
15.Downloading every single song you ever heard from Napster — even if it did take almost an entire day to get one song:
16.Singing along to "No Scrubs" and feeling like it was your anthem (LOL):
17.Getting excited every time the new issue of Teen People came in the mail:
18.Making sure you tuned into TRL every afternoon to see where your favorite video landed:
19.Also, getting into singers and bands you would have never listened to thanks to TRL (looking at you, Korn):
20.Owning a portable CD player that looked like a mini-UFO:
21.At some point trying to do the hand chroeo to Backstreet Boy's "I Want It That Way" (in the privacy of your own room of course):
22.Being in awe of Lil' Kim wearing this iconic look to VMAs:
23.Wanting a robot dog 'cause it seemed like the future:
24.Begging your parents for an iMac 'cause it was like the coolest designed thing you had ever laid your eyes on:
25.Treating your Beanie Baby collection with care 'cause you thought it would be worth sooooo much money in the future:
26.Seeing and hearing Y2K warnings everywhere:
27.And finally, watching Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace and convincing yourself that it was a good movie: