If You Don't Recognize Any Of These 35 Things, Then You Weren't A Teen In 1999
♫I just wanna go back, back to 1999!♫
1. Thinking you were punk 'cause you owned this Blink-182 album...
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2. ...and because you listened to Limp Bizkit:
UMG
3. Being completely addicted to Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
Sony Television
4. ...and Angel (and also arguing with your friends over which series was better):
Warner Bros TV
5. Yelling at the TV when people answered the question wrong on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?:
ABC
6. Making sure you tuned into TRL every afternoon to see where your favorite video landed:
MTV
7. Sorta being in shock at all the raunchiness in American Pie...
Universal
8. ...and all the overtly sexual stuff in Cruel Intentions:
Columbia Pictures
9. Running home after school to immediately jump on AIM to talk with your friends:
10. Feeling so satisfied any time you had to clean your mouse:
11. Downloading every single song you ever heard from Napster — even if it did take almost an entire day to get one song:
Napster
12. Wanting all the songs used in Gap's "Everyone in..." commercials:
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13. Loving everything about Old Navy's commercials:
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14. Having your mind absolutely blown when you saw The Matrix for the first time:
Warner Bros.
15. Also 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:
Disney
16. Hearing Christina Aguilera's "Genie In A Bottle"...
Sony Music
17. ...and Ricky Martin's "Livin' la Vida Loca" EVERYWHERE:
Sony Music
18. Hearing people talk about how The Sopranos was the most genius show ever...
HBO
19. ...and how Sex and the City was the most real show:
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20. Thinking you were the shiz 'cause you owned a boombox like this:
21. Begging your parents for an iMac 'cause it was like the coolest designed thing you had ever laid your eyes on:
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22. Also begging your parents for a cell phone (even though you knew you couldn't really talk on it since it came with like barely any monthly minutes):
23. Bawling your eyes out for the first time at a Pixar movie, during the "When She Loved Me" scene in Toy Story 2:
Pixar
24. Being a little confused and thinking that The Blair Witch Project might be real:
Artisan Entertainment
25. Singing along to "No Scrubs" and feeling like it was your anthem (LOL):
Sony Music
26. Getting excited every time the new issue of Teen People came in the mail:
People, Inc.
27. At some point trying to do the hand choreo to Backstreet Boy's "I Want It That Way" (in the privacy of your own room of course):
Sony Music
28. Thinking Mariah Carey's video for "Heartbreaker" was genius (which it was and is):
Sony Music
29. Wanting a robot dog 'cause it seemed like the future:
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30. Treating your Beanie Baby collection with care 'cause you thought it would be worth sooooo much money in the future:
31. Arguing over who was better; NYSNC or Backstreet Boys:
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32. Doing your research for a report using Encarta:
33. Renting a movie meant actually calling the cable company to order Pay-Per-View...
34. ...or making a trip down to Blockbuster Video:
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35. And finally, seeing and hearing Y2K warnings everywhere and being a low-key freaked out about it:
