Since I haven't had the luck to be born and to grow up in The United States of America, or any other western country, but rather an occupation-torn post-Soviet state that has just regained its freedom, I've never actually seen or touched half of the things on this list. And, yet, looking at all these Poo-chi dogs, Polly Pockets, and things like phone charms, I feel a massive wave of nostalgia! That's probably because we, as kids, were glued to our screens whenever they showed something like Dawson's Creek or even Hannah Montana, absorbing not only how the characters looked and talked but also the things they had. It was almost like having them yourself! Though speaking of series, we'd more often get something as old as The Little House On The Prairie or Doctor Quinn, rather than the newest episode of, say, Phineas & Ferb.
Nevertheless, I can definitely feel the importance and the impact of the 2000s on our lives. Things were changing ever so quickly. Straight from oblivion, we went to the Western civilization and its pop culture with half-naked ladies, boy bands, electronic toys, TV series, and even portable phones (those definitely came out of some witch's brew)! Also, the sense of liberation - both literal freedom regained by my homeland and the one given to us by the ever-expanding World Wide Web - was just overwhelming. So many new cultural experiences and opportunities were never present. Starting, of course, with toys and ending with poking someone on Facebook, this decade was moving into the future at a breakneck pace.
But, without any more of my essayistic babble, let's dive a few decades back and reminisce on the things that we all loved dearly when growing up. From Tamagotchis to pencils with cartridges, and from ye olde Cartoon Network to flare jeans, you'll find many things that'll remind you of your careless youth. So, share this list full of things from your 2000s childhood with someone susceptible to the same kind of nostalgia that you are, and tell us which of these items, pop stars, or games you miss the most!
#1 The Old Cartoon Network
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#2 Windows Pinball
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#3 Burning The Sickest CDs In The Neighborhood
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#4 These Are The Streets I Grew Up On
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#5 Pencils With Cartridges
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#6 Found An Old Polly Pocket While Cleaning My Mom’s Basement
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#7 The Family Computer
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#8 Flipping Through These As A Kid Trying To Find Your Favourite Bands Poster
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#9 Surreal Moment Today. I Went To Oaks, PA Too Many Video Games Expo. Found My Gameboy From Early 2000’s
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#10 The Ge Alarm Clock That Everyone Seemed To Have
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#11 The Magic That Was The Scholastic Book Fair
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#12 These Cereal Bowls I Used To Eat Out Of As A Kid
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#13 My Girlfriend Got Me The Evangelion Tamagotchi For My Birthday And I'm So Excited To See Which Angel I Get First
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#14 Nintendo DS Homescreen
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#15 When I Was 9 Years Old My Dad Was Deployed To Baghdad, Iraq. I Gave Him These Yu-Gi-Oh Cards To Keep Him Safe. They've Been In His Wallet For 12 Years
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#16 The Smell Of Opening A Brand New Can Of Play Doh
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#17 Wooden Playgrounds
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#18 Remember When You Didn’t Have To Enter Your Personal Info Online To Win A Soda?
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#19 Torture Device Known As The Sit And Reach Test
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#20 Starving Your Calculator To Death
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#21 The Last Blockbuster Was A Five Minute Walk From The Motel I Was Staying At
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#22 Can We Please Bring Back The Holes To Put Phone Charms On Our Phones?
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#23 Miniclip Games
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#24 My Xbox 360 Collection
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#25 Hefty ZooPal Plates
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#26 Mighty Beanz Were Pretty Cool. I Don’t Know Why Though
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#27 The Sims
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#28 Dragon Ball
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#29 Cereal Straws
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#30 The Force Awakens Vintage VHS Tape- Courtesy Of VCRworld
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#31 I Know You All Remember The Spacemaker Pencil Box
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#32 Today A 70th Years Old Ma'am Gave Me Her Nokia 3310 To Change The Battery. I Couldn't Resist
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#33 Did Anyone Else Have A Stage In The Cafeteria Of Their School?
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#34 Scary Movie
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#35 Me And My Best Friend In 1999/2000 Working On Our Donkey Kong/Banjo Kazooie Fan Website Titled "The Dk/Bk Jungle"
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#36 I Found An Old Pic Of Me Playing Computer Games. As It Turns Out I Haven't Changed Very Much
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#37 I Restored My 16 Year Old iPod Nano
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#38 When I Wear The Heelys, The Girls Get Feelies
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#39 Until Today I Actually Realised That The Simpsons Hit And Run Knows When It's Halloween And Changes The Start Screen
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#40 Magic Tree House Books
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#41 Farm Ville
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#42 My Favourite Bionicle
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#43 I Got My Switch Running On An Old Crt
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#44 Linkin Park
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#45 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, N64. The Warehouse
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#46 When You Wore Flare Jeans And It Rained
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#47 Yes No Rubber
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#48 The Simpsons: Hit And Run
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#49 20+ Years Of Lip Balm Pans. Who Remembers Lip Smackers And Lip Lix?
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#50 Who Else Remember The Beyblade Tazos Spinners Come With Lays & Cheetos Back In 2000's?
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#51 I Still Have A Stonecutter On My Old iPod Touch
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#52 The Erosion Of A Livestrong Bracelet After Wearing It Nonstop For 16 Years
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#53 Found My Old Nintendo DS And Nintendogs And I’ve Been Screaming At The Fake Dog To Sit For 15 Min
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#54 Pajama Sam
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#55 My 20 Year Old Toy Phone And My Daughters Brand New One! Both Fisher Price
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#56 Found My Old Playstation 2 Still In Pristine Condition
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#57 Eminem
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#58 This Movie Theater Carpeting
#59 The Devil Wears Prada
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#60 Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone
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#61 These TV Carts Always Meant Class Was Going To Be Fun When The Teacher Rolled One In
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#62 You Guys Remember Boondoggle? Anyone Know Any Other Cool Stitches?
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#63 Today Is The Greatest Day Of My Life (Dance Dance Revolution)
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#64 Twilight Books
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#65 I Have Way Too Many Silly Bandz
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#66 High School Musical
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#67 Friendship Bracelets - I Used To Love Making These
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#68 Watching The Simpsons
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#69 Re-Living My First Foray To Mobile Programming
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#70 Geomag
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#71 Limewire
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#72 Paper Toss - The First App I Downloaded On My iPod
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#73 Mean Girls
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#74 The Lord Of The Rings
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#75 Anyone Else Remember Club Penguin?
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#76 Remember When All You Had To Worry About Was Your Tamagotchi Pet?
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#77 Girlfriend Made Me The Chatterbox From The Opening Sequence For Our Anniversary
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#78 Crocs
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#79 My Spongebob DVD Collection So Far
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#80 Motorola Razr V3xx
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#81 Plastic Tube With Water And Plastic Fish Inside It, If You Try To Squeeze It It Just Rolls Itself
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#82 Knee-Length Rainbow Toe Socks
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#83 Making Melting Beads At Day Care
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#84 Bow Lingual: The Dog Translator. Yes, This Is A Real Thing
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#85 With 40 Second Esp And Digital Dynamic Bass Boost! Philips Clear Cd Player..15 Years Old And Still Rocking
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#86 Got Myself A Birthday Present. My First Ever Pro Fingerboard After Years Of Tech Decks. This Feels Insane
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#87 MSN Messenger! Playing With Emojis Over A Decade Before It Was Cool
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#88 Jelly Shoes
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#89 Good Charlotte
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#90 Destiny’s Child
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#91 Finally Found An Old Crt TV. Now To Relive My Childhood
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#92 Remember Watching The Pipes Screensaver?
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#93 Found This While Going Through Some Childhood Things. Put Some Batteries In And Powered It Up To Find That I Was Taking Selfies Way Before It Was Cool. I Was Probably 8 Or 9 Here
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#94 I Found One Of Those Magic Grow Animals From The 2000s That Had Continued To Expand Since My Childhood
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#95 Poo-Chi Dog
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#96 Finally Got A Complete Set Of The Original Bratz
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#97 Complete Watch Novice, But Just Bought This And I Love It
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#98 Buzzbee Chrono Velocity X
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#99 How The Grinch Stole Christmas
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#100 Guitar Hero
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#101 Bridget Jones's Diary
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#102 Only Fidget Spinner I Ever Owned
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#103 Just Found Unopened Pokemon Packs In The Attic From The Early 2000s. I Guess I Never Got Round To Opening These
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#104 Rainbow Magic Pens
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#105 My Nostalgic Squeeze Tube Lip Gloss Collection
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#106 Remember Playing This Game Late At Night Online
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#107 Cosmogirl Magazine February 2001
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#108 My Approach To Collecting MMPR: Quality Over Quantity
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#109 Mattel Superman DC Superheroes (2006)
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#110 Dreamcast
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#111 Turbo Twist Spelling. Just Found This From The 00s
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#112 First LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon Released In 2000
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#113 I Know I'm 31 And All, But I Still Get Excited About Scholastic Book Club Order Forms
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#114 Who Remembers This Ice Cream From School?
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#115 I Found A Coke Card From The Year 2000 That I Had Saved As A Kid
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