Top 10 Things from the 2000s That Don't Exist Anymore
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- These items will supercharge your 2000s nostalgia. For this list, we’ll be looking at various objects, technologies, and basic concepts from the 2000s that have become obsolete. Our countdown includes Nintendo PictoChat, Sony Ericsson, MSN, and more! What items do you fondly look back on? Let us know in the comments below!
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number one should really be VIDEO RENTAL STORES haha
xanga? It was like a blog website
I still use dvd and cd binders (cd much less often though) as a 2000s kid
Sony Ericsson and Xperia actually overlapped for a short time. I mean it's still a thing of the past now, but my first smart phone was the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, which had a built in PlayStation controller and PS1 emulation.
You can buy CD binders on Amazon......
Limewire was absolutely legendary. RIP to a real one ☝️
I miss this
I destroyed so many computers with Limewire
RIP to my parents' home computer
Limewire and Frostwire Literally Fucked Up All My Desktop Nd My Laptop Lmaooo
@@poohlee2879 it was still worth it 😂
I will never forget MSN and the golden age of chatting with friends and strangers. RIP MSN!
Using MSN, giving missing calls and sending SMS to the girls I used to like, downloading everything you needed (music, movies, etc.), being reluctant to upload pictures of yourself to the internet (as it always should be)...I miss those days 😥
@@i.m.2377 I feel ya, friend! Seeing your crush online and hearing the *beep* when she wrote back; giving those weird wizz-buzzers to people who don't respond but must to; innocent time of UA-cam etc...
I'm still mad that MSN killed ICQ. I had a 7 digit ICQ number.
@@drfreud65 Was ICQ similar to IRC? Because that's the one I used to use.
@@i.m.2377 I never used IRC. ICQ was an instant messenger. I was using ICQ in 1996, well before MSN came out.
Full respect to whomever could jog with a Sony Discman without making the CD skip.
I know, right?? That was why I kept my Walkman and my cassettes!
Shock proof players.
Yeah, but what about those who could could skip without making the CD's jog?
I had the cassette adapter but every time you hit a bump. When MP3 players came out though these adapters still worked as they plugged into the headphone jack
In all honesty I really miss some of these things. They hold a certain amount of nostalgia to the simpler times.
The pinball game that was on every computer. Such good times playing it when I didn't had internet.
You can still find it to download for free in some places.
And minesweeper
Space cadet
Its on the google playstore
Aww, I remember that game.
Im 19 and I still buy cd’s and listen to them ain’t nothing more enjoyable to own physical music
Why don't you just go full Amish?
Rip those bastards onto an old android device for easy portability
I can say the same for DVDs. I don't like watching Netflix most of the time, I want to own the movies on DVD.
CDs and DVDs/BluRays are still a thing and many of us still prefer them. I definitely prefer owning the physical mediums. Streaming is convenient, but we've seen how volatile it can be and I'd just prefer to have my own library of music and film as at least an option. I admit that music is farther along than video on the ideal streaming path, but neither is really where I want them to be yet.
Portability may be an issue but there are no buffering delays and if the Wi-Fi goes out you still got music. I definitely see the appeal. But will you ever put all those CDs onto a portable device so you can take them with you? All my CDs are on an iPad.
2000s were awesome, I miss those days..
2000s isnt coming back either. Its about modern futurism now boohoo
And now Gen z is wearing these pop rock modern type of shit😅 clothing.
Modern world -> 2010s.
Dial-up is still a thing, mostly for rural areas that have yet to get better connections. And there is nothing wrong with sharing music, be it letting your friends copy your CDs, or letting strangers copy your shared files.
The 2000’s were the good old days. I grew up watching Noggin and those were the days you’d go play with your friends until the street lights came on. Social media wasn’t much of a thing at the time and people talked a lot nicer. I miss those days! 😢
In 1999 when Phantom Menace came out it took me three hours to download the preview on dial up. Now I can watch four and a half hour movies instantly. I am blown away.
Ahhh Limewire... when we gave our computers STD's just for free music... good times 🤣
I still own my 80gb 2nd generation Zune. Still works, too. Shame it never got popular because it's a well made piece of tech.
I'm suprised they didn't mention MySpace lol.
Mine bricked on that faithful day when they all crashed.
@@darkhandguy mine never crashed. I know they shut down their website and app to add music to it. But mine still works with the music I already had loaded on it.
I just used mine yesterday i found a program on here that let's you down load the old zone program
I had the Zune 120. I used it between 5 and 10 hours per day. It had survived falls onto concrete, asphalt, and tile from 5 feet up. The screen didn't crack until the 7th year I had it. And it finally died during the 9th year because the lithium battery failed. Meanwhile, I heard stories of ipods breaking all the time. I still resent apple to this day, and will do my best to avoid their products =P
I still have mine
MySpace is definitely one thing! Nobody this age uses MySpace and plus, looking back on MySpace stuff today is very cringe-worthy to look at!
Myspace is still around
Yep. Justin Timberlake owns it and it’s mostly for musicians to mingle kind of like how LinkedIn is for businesspeople. Of course, it isn’t nearly as big as it was in its heyday
The last time I saw MySpace (I just had permanently closed my Friendster account) it was "My [ _______ ] "
...and Tom being everyone's first friend.
@@lew8450 it's not what it was before Facebook.
The part with MSN hit extra hard, since me and my wife started talking through MSN in 2000-01.
Memories!
I used to like Limewire, it’s sad to see it gone for good.
I liked BearShare better.
Lime wire was the best
Nothing like getting computer aids 3 times a week lmao
To be honest, I remember my uncle burning CDs, but I wasn't aware it was Limewire.
I was a child during the 2000s.
I still have my physical media collection. No Internet connection needed just a blu ray player or a dvd player. Got over 2200 flims in most formats
I still use CD Binders to hold physical backups of important data and photos, just in case.
Limewire, FrostWire, Pirate Bay( Allegedly), Kazaa, Napster, Album Hunt. The good ole megabit download days.
that's right kazaa was before limewire
shit that was before the people that made the list lol
@@FunkMeister1901 yeah Kazaa, Napster, Pirate Bay( Allegedly), and Album Hunt are the og's
And bearshare
@@Grimrapingsyup I forgot to add
I still use my cd binders, since they still work for dvd and blu-ray.
Same. I also use them for my audiobooks
I forgot all about live journal till yesterday when I got a email from them thanking me for being with them for 18 years 😂
I still use cds/a cd binder! I keep my dvds and Blu-rays in one too. I prefer physical copies of my media, I feel like there’s always a chance digital version can be removed. I still have a stereo capable of playing cds too. And for those wondering, I’m in my 30s.
I am so glad I’m not the only one that likes CD binders! I actually still have the jewel cases to put the CDs back when somebody wants to borrow it for a while.
I still have physical CDs and a CD binder also! I still file my albums on CD because I like to have the physical copy.
And actually I still have many CDs that I burned after downloading the songs from LimeWire back in the day LOL
24 here and when I want to support a band I buy their CDs.
@@thatbitchnoemie im 35 and i like dvd and cds as well
Damn I haven’t thought about LimeWire in years. Got a lot of my anime openings and endings from there. 😊
Bruh facts. Use to get all my new songs loool. You can still download it though.
Man of culture
@@MangaSlayer102 Woman of culture. 😏😉
@@animechic420 my mistake apologies
Man, I still have most of my songs I downloaded from LimeWire on my classic iPod. Still listen to it almost every day! Blasts from the past that still exists in my world! lol
Those MSN sounds... Nostalgia 😌
Halo 2 still the best Halo game there is. I missed playing it online. This nostalgia brings back great memories
I remember LimeWire. I just realized that some of my MP3s turn 20 years old this year.
I’m an early 80’s baby, 90’s kid and teen. I still have my huge collection of CD’s (around 5000). I appreciate digital and streaming but I have a lot of music that can’t be found on Spotify or iTunes. Especially when artist chose to not to stream, or pull their music or if an artist gets “canceled”. My collection of VHS’s and DVD’s is just as big. I won’t stop buying in those forms. I can listen to or watch whatever I want and add or subtract whatever I want unto my iPhone or Nano… yes I still one of those too. 😂🤣😂🤣
Fvuck Spotify, long live CDs and Vinyls, the music sounds waaay better than on those sh1tty streamimg platforms
Yep, I just stopped using my iPod Touch 3 months ago cause the charger is loose and it won't charge anymore. Bought an new iPad but I have tons of CDs ripped into iTunes that are synced onto the Pad. Some of those CDs go back to the mid 90's. And like you said some of that music can't be found on Spotify or iTunes. I definitely understand your appeal for older electronics.
I enjoy CDs and DVD's too.
I had an iPod touch up until a few years ago. It was one of those that just sparkled, caught on fire and exploded. A spark went up the cord. I snatched it out of the wall before it could damage anything else. I was mad as hell. I don’t think devices explode by accident. It wasn’t even old. I bought a new one before they decided they weren’t going to make/cell them anymore or create an iOS that will support it. I don’t need iOS in order to listen to my music. I understand Apple wants us to buy new merch, but they don’t have destroy the old devices, especially in that manner. Dang this is long. I’m sorry. 🙂
MSN needs to come back as an app 😅
Fucken A RIGHT 💯🤘
My parents had two phone lines. One as a phone. The other for our dial up connection. When we got 2 computers we had to take turns.
LimeWire forever will be GOATed
Just to download what you thought was a song and turns out is was Bill Clinton promoting some website
Halo two definitely brings me back. I remember the good old days of coming home from school on a Friday night and playing with the boys for hours.
i use to download tons of songs from Limewire. Being a music lover there was no way I could've afforded to expand my collection as much as I did. After I downloaded the music I'd burn it to CD. I was even making CDs for family members, telling them how I could get them any song they wanted to hear and I did get them all the songs they requested.
AOL Instant Messenger was more popular than MSN Messenger around until the mid 2010!
And KaZaA lasted longer than Napster.
There is NOTHING fond to remember with fucking dial up internet!
Limewire was the shit! Most things on this list I never had, but personal CD players? Those were AWESOME!
I missed these CD binders.
The first dial-up I used (not the the internet), was in Jan 1971, at a screaming 11 chars per sec. The terminal was an ASR-33 Teletype machine connected via telephone handset in an acoustic coupler. Glad that's gone.
I still use my old CD binders. I like having my music separate from music sites so that even if they shut down, I still have my music.
I really miss the pinball computer game that used to come with every computer... and the wacky phones and beepers and minichatters that had fun colors and were see-through.
Suggestion: Top 10 famous comedians who are inspired by Richard Pryor.
My dad used to have 2 big cd binders filled with. Music and movie Cds that was our Netflix back in 2000s.
Between those and Napster, I've got a f**king library!
Man the 2000's were the good old days
I agree with you
Agreed.
Yup
I miss the 2000s
90s for me
I used Limewire so much back then, it put a virus on my old PC. Now I don't really need a laptop or desktop anymore, unless it is to print something.
Zune was cool, but the problem was Microsoft’s bad marketing and late entry to music players. Also my cousin used Limewire for mix CDs, and we both used MSN Messenger especially the online video chat and games!
Now I miss playinng V Rally 2 on my Ericsson
I'm 39 so yes, this all resonates with me to the core
One thing I certainly don't miss...
52 inch Tv's that are clunky and 400 lbs.
And the computers were clunky as well back then lol
There was also the Creative ZEN MP3 player. Apple stole the patent and idea from Creative Labs, who had pioneered the mp3 player with their ZEN player. Apple & Creative used each and Apple had to pay Creative Labs. The ZEN MP3 player is better the iPod. But Apple unfairly dominated the market.
Though Apple stole many, many ideas; they bought the MP3 software compression program from the guy who invented it, and the original use was in Apple's Quicktime media players.
I had a (my first and favorite) Creative Zen mp3 with the blue backlight but it was the size of a flash drive and it drained the AAA battery
How is MySpace not on this list? 🤦🏻♂️
Because it still exists
@@dread1262 a lot of this still exists. It’s obsolete, which is the point of this videos. CDs still exist too.
@@josweet3715 nuh uh
Suggestion: Top 20 most intelligent cartoon characters in 2000s & 2010s.
Well that sounds awful
I loved my Zune and used it for almost 15 years, I went through 3 charging/transfer cables
Had my Zune for 1 year and it stopped working. seen videos of refurbishing them.
I like having a backup - that is why I buy Blu-Ray + Digital for movies and CD's and then rip then to digital.
I had or used almost all of these. Damn, I'm old.
I still have my original Hotmail now outlook that I created back in 2004, I used as the login for my MSN Messenger, good times.
I still consider the og ICQ as the best messenger service of its era.
Yes! I had a 7 digit ICQ number. I was sooo angry that MSN killed ICQ! Do you remember a program that combined the different messaging services - AOL, ICQ and MSN? I have been trying to remember the name of that.
@@drfreud65 Oh i think it was called Trillian? Maybe but i totally remember that program. I used it for Yahoo messenger, ICQ , and MSN.
@@Xisle66 Yes! That's it!
Legitimately, I’m not sure why people hated the Zune. My mom had one and I got to use it a couple of times and it worked fine.
I still use mine found a video on here and got the program for it
Coming from the mid 2000s, I feel old now...
I love my Zune. Thing was a brick and still works to this day.
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Thank you for the update, WatchMojo..!! Wow, the beepers. We also called them 'pagers' back then. "Page me."
Please do a part 2....👍
Limewire ❤️ Rip to that and the CPUs it ruined lol
So much stuff I miss from the early 2000s.
- Limewire/Frostwire, Morpheus, Kazaa
- RuneScape Classic. I miss that game.
- Country-specific Habbo Hotels. Habbo Canada for the win!
- MSN Messenger and MSN Chat. Sadly MSN Chat got abused by child predators and shut down as a result. I still remember all the different chat rooms from MSN Chat. So many "18+ Pool Party" roleplaying channels.
As for pagers, we still use pagers today. I work with the elderly as a night watchman and their personal help buttons are tied to a pager system. So if a resident has a fall and hits their button, I get a page. We also have detectors on all the doors to outside on our building so if someone opens a door during the night, I get a page telling me which door is open so I can check and make sure everything is ok.
I've actually still got a vast collection of old mp3s of music I liked and downloaded during the days of Limewire on an external HDD.
Nice video, keep it up
I loved my zune, I still have it works great!
I still have my Zune, in perfect working order. The only problem is that the 80gb of music in it is stunted to pre 2009, so there's that...
Ohhhhh the pictochat days!!! I’m old it’s over
Anyone remember the MP3 players from different companies, with different designs, and different functions
Yes! I still have and regularly use a Walkman MP3 player! I prefer to use the storage in my phone for photos and don’t have much music on it, so my mp3 is the only way I get most of my music on the go
Livejournal also had its "darker little sister" DeadJournal
Limewire, Pirate bay, popcorn
CD/DVD binders are very much still widely available, don't exist indeed lol
BearShare was on of my favorite though
Yes I remember it
pagers are still used in a lot of hospitals
Yeah my Aunt worked as a driver for hospitals(not an ambulance but as a transporter for things like blood and donated organs). A few of transporters would need to be called in for emergency deliveries after hours so they would use the pager call for them. Certain organs only had 10 minutes of delivery time before expiring (becoming unsafe to use).
As mentioned in the video.
Does anyone remember.......?
At Next in the 2006 autumn/fall & winter season, there were these two pairs of slippers with a faux Burberry pattern that came in baby blue or pink.
As part of the 2007 Christmas gift range, at Debenhams there were these 3 Clarins palettes. Each palette was oval shaped, had either an amber orange, ruby red and deep purple coloured transparent oval on the top that had a slight domed effect and each compact had a different selection of eyeshadow & blusher colours.
In addition to the above paragraph, who else recalls a Markwins
(can't quite remember if it was from Colour Institute or Workshop) makeup gift set sold in Debenhams in Christmas 2007? Said set came with eight duo eyeshadows, one blusher, one bronzer and I think some applicators and brushes. I recall the box, the lid and the eyeshadows being a circle shape, hope that narrows it down.
In H&M during the 2005 Autum/Fall and Winter seasons, as part of the Christmas gift range a pink & white makeup set. The set came with a trio eyeshadow with an applicator, a lipgloss tube and I think some pink and white hair accessories or a pink nail varnish. The contents were completed in a clear plastic oval case with a pink bow.
In 2005 around Christmas time, a set from Color Workshop that had 3 eyeshadow palettes, a trio palette that consisted of 2 blushers and 1 bronzer, 2 compact mirrors with a space in each to put a palette of choice in them, 2 nail varnishes, 2 lipsticks, 2 applicatiors and 2 brushes, and I think also two mascaras and an eyeliner and lipliner pencils. I recall the casing of the palettes and compacts being sapphire blue coloured and on the box there was a blonde model looking upwards. Said model had a layered medium length bob hairstyle with side fringe/bangs, porcelain skin tone and light blue eyes.
In 2012 at Argos these 4 kettles that were clear but had a tint: one was red (ruby), one was green (emerald), one was purple (amethyst).
Too Faced cosmetics products from the mid 2000's that were based on confectionery. For example an eyeshadow palette called Thin Mints, another eyeshadow palette called Tropical Truffle, another called Black Liquorice and a toffee/chocolate themed one but can't recall it's name.
Fruity Beauty range from Mark's & Spencer's prior to 2010
Nirvana Spa products prior 2012
Watches from Mizz mags, Bliss mags, Fila, Bootleg at Clarks, FCUK, Identity London sold at Argos and Baby G
Claire's accessories products from 2013 and before aforementioned year.
In Woolworths, in the early 2000's these notepads that came in pink, blue, yellow, purple, green, orange and I think red and white/clear(?). Said notepads were lined and A4, with a silver spiral in each notepads' spines. Sorry if that sounds graphic in another context.
Superdrug in both 2006 & 2007 selling DVD players in pink and light purple with matching remote controls during Christmas period of those aforementioned years.
Gooze slimes
iPod socks
Bean shaped MP3 players
A couple of gift sets at Savers called Catwalk Colours that were there in 2011/2012 time
Image makeup sold at Savers in 2009 & 2010
The Garden Collection from Boots (often selling magnolia, rose and lavender scented bath & body stuff)
The daisy and rose themed ranges at The Body Shop in 2008 & 2009 respectively
When Mark Hill had blonde and brunette items and gift sets
Those John Frieda gift sets for blondes and brunettes in Christmas 2007?
Anything at Fenwick's from 2015 and prior
Spoilt Rotten gift sets sold at The Factory Shop in 2012
Trevor Sorbie hair stuff prior to 2012
Toni & Guy hair stuff prior to 2014
When Argos used to sell contact lenses
Colourworks products sold in Superdrug around the festive season, especially in 2010 those heart shaped compact mirrors that came in pink, purple, black and teal. Moreover, each compact had a matching coloured heart shaped faux gemstone on top. Hope that rings a bell.
Active, Stuf, Chilli Pepper, Jemma Kidd, Ruby & Millie, Playboy, 2true, MeMeMe, Hard Candy, Urban Retreat, Accessorize and Sue Moxley cosmetic ranges.
In Bluewater in 2007, an independent jewelry stall that sold these round jewel stud earrings that came in shades of pinks and reds (under the word Love), shades of greens and yellows (under the word Energy), shades of blues (under the word Tranquility) and shades of purples (under the word Elegance).
In one of the stationary stores at Ashford Outlet (I think it was paperchase) in 2005, I recall them selling mini bouquets of foam filled faux roses that came in deep pink, white, pastel yellow, pastel purple, pastel blue, deep blue, gold, silver and deep purple.
Also Jane Norman, Morgan, Glitterbabes from Boots and Punky Fish?
I seriously wish I had a photographic memory!
MSN messenger and MSN chat rooms was where I meet a few girlfriends in the 2000s.
Crazy thing is people were more social on MSN then they are now on social media. I miss it.
Ummm I believe Betty White should have made the list.
Dude... she would laugh at that.
I was a kid in the 2000s and my dad was in medical school and residency. He was ALWAYS wearing a pager, especially at home.
I don’t understand how they put MSN messenger in over AOL AIM. AIM was superior in every way.
I miss Myspace! You could talk to anyone in the world as long as they accepted your friend request and some, I still contact today . However, in 2004 people started "jumping ship" to go on Facebook instead.
Whatever about the 2000s i will always be a 90s kid.
Ok
I'm an 80s and 90s kid but also loved the 00s
Does being born in 97 count?
Limewire and Napster... but EVERYONE always forgets Kazaa!! lol
I used to have a Sony Ericsson flip phone. I think I still have it somewhere. Back in the early 00s when we had 56K dialup, my parents would only let me use the internet after 6pm as it was free for an hour after which then cost to use after that and then often would complain I had been on too long, my hour was up and or they needed to use the phone. While there are some aspects of the web back then I miss such as being able to have a lot of websites I would visit to find what I was looking for compared to just a handful now, I don't miss the slow speeds and not being able to use the phone when using dialup.
With LimeWire and Napster you could always tell certian MP3s came from those if their filename and or info wasn't changed when shared elsewhere and the MP3s had particular finenames. There were so many MP3 songs attributed to Weird Al Yankovic floating around, some not even by him that said "Yankovich" on the filename and or artist name and you could tell where they came from originally based on the wrong name and or wrong song entirely.
I didn't realize that either of these things didn't exist anymore. I always thought they were all still very much the rage. Hell, even my dial up internet line still works.
Most of these things do exist still. I bought a CD binder on Amazon
Me and my friends still use Pictochat at work
Sony Ericsson cellphones were ahead of their time, especially those last phones. I myself had K510 (my first cellphone ever), G502 and Zylo. Their design was so slick.
That's funny, I have all the halo's on my steam
I was born in 2001, and I haven't heard of most of those things.
Sucks to suck
I was around during the time and Never came in contact with items 7 to 10
I always looked forward after getting off work, then, checking out MSN.
Back in the 2000s, we all wondered what the future would hold.
Now that the future is here, we all wish we could go back to the 2000s.
I used my CD binder for music & video games (mainly PS1 because I had lost/broken so many of the PS1 game cases...)
Also, how about that PC pinball game?
My CD player, headphones and CD Binders used to take up all my room in my backpack during my high school years from 2002 - 2006. Lol it was more crucial to have that then my books.
5:25 I still use a few CD binders… to hold all my PS4 games, the entire series of the office on Blu ray, the series of Man men on CD, and more. I wouldn’t say they are DEAD. but I did ask my local store if they had any CD binders in the electronic department and they said no lol. But I was able to find a few somewhere.. maybe wal mart
Limewire AKA the surefire way for your PC to get infected.
Who remembers having your CD binder in the passenger seat and looking through them while driving? 🤦
My brother had a bulky CD binder filled with CDs as well as ripped CDs. He even brought it home (he didn't want to leave it in his car) 😆
I still have mine. I just haven't gone through it in years.
I'm the one in the passenger seat going through the binders I have, to change 1 cd in the player in my mom's car while she's driving. Been doing it for I don't even know how many years now, except more than 13.
do the same for the 2010s
I still have CD binders but rarely go into them!
11:20 ah yes the anticipation of possibly hearing those 3 magical words after - "welcome"
---- "you've got mail" --- lol 😂
We still have a CD binders that's filled with Concert Videos and Movies. Good times before the digital age expanded.
Back the CDs on a hard drive because CDs will go bad with time. I did the same before it was too late.
The problem with Zune wasn’t hardware… but marketing… Apple’s is just too good.
You could play MP4 movies, i converted tv shows and movie and put them on it.
I still have a CD binder in my house; my sister had a Zune, but she lost and didn't even care, I used to log in the MSN everyday to talk to my aunt, and a friend of mine had an Ericsson. That list made me feel so nostalgic
I used Limewire until it shut down. That was the main way I was able to put music on my Ipod. It took me such a long time to get into using Spotify. Before I discovered Limewire I used to use Kaaza for all of my music downloading needs, particularly in high school. Also, I think t hat the Zune would have become more popular and lasted longer than it did if it had been released within a year of the Ipod. The Ipod had been out there for around 4-5 years before the Zune. Apple did a fantastic job of making the Ipod essentially the only mp3 player anyone needed or wanted. Also Microsoft didn't do the best job in the world of advertising them. I used to see them at like Best Buy stores and no one was looking at them. They just took up valuable store space for other electronic devices. I do wish though that I still had my most recent Ipod. I used it for such a long time. It was the first or second generation Ipod touch. I used it all the time until I got my first iphone which was the Iphone 4 because if people remember, Apple had an exclusive deal with AT&T as the only cell carrier to sell the iphone until around 2011 or so.