1. You owned a separate digital camera.
2. Your MP3 player looked like this:
3. Your first external hard drive was filled with TV shows, movies, and music.
4. You watched Scrubs all day long.
5. Lost was new and unbelievably different than anything you had ever seen before.
6. No matter what your opinion was about The O.C., you were always able to sing along to the theme song.
7. Suddenly, everyone was wearing arm and leg warmers.
8. And hats. Inside, outside... It didn't matter.
9. Being emo was a big thing.
10. The number of CD racks you had in your room kept growing and growing...
11. Mixtapes were taken to a whole new level thanks to CD players.
12. You had so many burned CDs that you were never able to decide which to play at any given moment.
13. You listened to Jack Johnson.
14. And watched Garden State.
15. Especially because of the soundtrack:
16. Everyone made Pimp My Ride jokes.
17. "Seven Nation Army" was played everywhere.
18. As was Christina Aguilera's "Dirrty."
19. And no one was able to escape from OutKast.
20. The sorting of your top MySpace friends was low-key political.
21. And nothing was more important than the selected song on your profile.
This post was translated from German.