What do you miss from 1999/2000 +/- 2 years

[irax]

You can only talk about shit that happened between 1997/2002.
Specifically things you miss. I miss living in a world pre-9/11. I miss the IT job market not being flooded by underqualified over certified people thanks to MicroSkills. I miss drifting when no one knew about it. I miss hooking up with chicks on the internet back when there really were women on the internet. I miss my hotmail account spammed to death because of all the forums I was on that sold my information. I miss the world pre-world of warcraft. I miss making money on ebay selling Diablo2 items.

[ronmcdon]

idk, I'd say those were fairly non-memorable years.
it was around, or slightly after the time of the dot com bust.
the economy wasn't the best, iirc.
(but much better compared to today).

cars available at the time weren't really all that great (ppl drove suv's at the time).
when going car shopping at the time,
the 'Integra Type R' was about the most interesting affordable japanese car.
'02 or '01 did release the WRX and the S2k, so things were improving.

Good thing was that there weren't any scenester/emo chicks around with horrid overdone make-up.
You didn't have chicks wearing their hair swept to one side.

Pre-WoW (if you can even call WoW a good thing, I just think it was a huge waste of time),
was actually pretty buggy in the earlier years.
I actually preferred it with the expansions.

Music wasn't my favorite during the 97-00 years.
The 'rap-rock', pop-punk, & nu-metal groups were popular at the time.
indie rock was evolving but not exactly at a good point.

Was a forgettable period for me.
Wasn't the best of times, but not exactly the worst either.

[Enna]

I miss when being emo wasn't a way of life
When a pager was the norm.
Learning how to drift, and having noone know wtf I was doing

[S14_Kouki]

i miss living in a world pre-9/11.

^^ this ^^

[Mr.350Gt]

the cartoons!!! lol

[Touge Noob S13]

I remember back then ricers ruled the streets and I think Honda made a commercial about it too.

[1quk240]

i miss living with my parents with a job with no bills and going to Vegas with a pocket full of cash:cry:

[ronmcdon]

I remember back then ricers ruled the streets and I think Honda made a commercial about it too.

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[Touge Noob S13]

Damn ronmcdon, I haven't seen that commercial in years.

[Enna]

Now it all makes sense.

[1quk240]

Just when I started thinking of putting a spoiler on my car...I had to watch those videos

[BustedS13]

crappy cell phones that had a week of battery life, better music on the radio, and Tony Hawk 3

[HalveBlue]

Turn of the century was fucking awesome!

Nobody can deny this.

Maybe it was all the optimism accompanying the run up to the year 2000...I don't know.

Some random things I miss from back then:

- The rave scene.

- Good movies like Fight Club, Requiem for a Dream, and the first Matrix.

- cruising on State Street.

- No 9/11

Face it, when 9/11 happened and George Bush took over the fun died. :(

[theicecreamdan]

where's the politics?

I miss... being in high school? nah, bills and shit are awesome.

[DreamN]

Those where high school years for me. I miss not having all these damn responsibilities as I do now. I miss just cruising in my Town Car and not caring about gas because it was so damn cheap. I miss high school girls a lot :keke:

Good times.

[DALAZ_68]

I miss living in a world pre-9/11. I miss the IT job market not being flooded by underqualified over certified people thanks to MicroSkills. I miss drifting when no one knew about it. I miss hooking up with chicks on the internet back when there really were women on the internet. I miss my hotmail account spammed to death because of all the forums I was on that sold my information. I miss the world pre-world of warcraft. I miss making money on ebay selling Diablo2 items.

^^ this ^^


same here
the cartoons!!! lol

YES!

no bills and going to Vegas with a pocket full of cash:cry:

yup

crappy cell phones that had a week of battery life, better music on the radio,

yup

I miss high school girls a lot :keke:

Good times.

i wont tell Liz about that one, because i agree



I miss
summer vacation
my mongoose bike
T.v. show quality
carpentry class

[flip3d]

Text messaging and playing snake on my Nokia.

The Fast and the Furious.

America Online was still pretty popular in 1999.

[Walperstyle]

I miss being the first to have Cable internet, so I could laugh at everyone still on AOL

[demonspeed]

high school and having a perfect credit score lmao

[ronmcdon]

If you enjoyed traveling outside of the country,
this was a wonderful time.

The dollar was pretty strong.
Europe either didn't have the goddamn Euro, or it wasn't so expensive.
South American currencies were pretty weak.
Of course, it wasn't too expensive to fly either ($300 could get you a RT ticket to London).

I could afford to take 2-3 vacations a year, and not break the bank.
My company was pretty lax w/ vaction time too.
I spent approx 1 month abroad every year.

[dert420sx]

graduated in '98. moved from guam to l.a. in '99 for college and have lived here for 10 yrs independently.

what i miss most:

mom's home cooking, as well as real island food in general
family gatherings for the holidays. only been back a handful of times and never during peak holiday airfare rates.
the crystal-clear waters of the philippine sea on one side of the island, pacific ocean on the other.
the beach waters were 70-80 degrees
epic surfing just before a typhoon. lol
h.s. days cruising in my 85 s12 200sx, being revved at by ricer honda fools then laughing as i left them behind when they couldn't take a corner with their bouncy cut springs. lol

[tanks13]

i miss everything not having reponsibilities hustling little sixth graders for pokemon and yugioh card. not having to worry about gas money just worrie if my bearings were fast enough chillen with the homies drug free not needing to drink to have a fucken hella good time thinking you were the shit if you wrote on ur backpack with white out graduation from middle skool and moving up to high skool and seeing a gang of hot chicks and looking up to my pops likehe was the champ but always being mad at me cause he wouldnt buy me emericas hahaha i miss those good old day hahahah limp bizkit and ko(backwards)r n

[ThatGuy]

I miss punctuation.

That was still popular to use in 2000.

10 years later, not so much. :(

[ronmcdon]

Meh, it wasn't all that great back then.
I recall it was when acronyms went out of control.
People were writing like they were texting.

[BustedS13]

i miss having two VCR's and a video stabilizer. had racks of VHS.
i miss coding shitty little websites by hand just to try out HTML.
i miss opening Nerf guns in my parents' basement and modding the shit out of them, then taking them to nerf wars and bruising the shit out of my friends.
i miss hanging out on message boards with black backgrounds and animated fire gifs all over the place and stuff. and Angelfire, and Geocities, and Tripod.
i miss designing Doom levels with built in cheater walls and warps and shit, taking a copy to school on a floppy disc for my friends, and then wailing on them in direct-dial death matches after school.
oh, and new episodes of Futurama on tv, but that'll be back soon.

[mRclARK1]

Pre - 9/11.
High school sports. Probably the only thing I wholly enjoyed about it.
Getting excited about shit I just can't anymore as an adult. haha
Movies were better
My old dog. :(
Hip hop and music in general had not been entirely fucked and destroyed yet.

I could go on.

I miss punctuation.

That was still popular to use in 2000.

10 years later, not so much. :(

YES!

It's not that hard folks.

[VROOOM]

I miss the 240sx scene from back then.

[Siphter]

splinter cell 1, looking forward to turning 21 as every birthday before and after is a waste of time unless your 16 and on mtv, parties because you are not married yet or have kids, teaching a BBoy class at an alternative school, being skinny because of skateboarding even though you are on peanut butter and toast "diet", not having to stretch before gymnastics,

and of course 7 simple words, "you will not tried as an adult".

[HyperTek]

i miss those 56k dial up days with netzero and programs that hid the advertisements.. i miss reformating my computer every few months due to becoming corrupt *fuck windows 98 to xp era* . I miss playing counterstrike before it came trendy. I miss real hip hop music that was made with passion. I miss when the import scene was mostly azn and underground aNd aLl tHe giRlz tyPe lykE DiS oOoO. I miss when hondas where cool and not over-populated. When Honda CRX was kinda cool. superstreet, sport compact car, and turbo where magazines worth buying *yes superstreet was cool back than*

Highschool sports was cool too.

[BustedS13]

i have shelves of "golden age" SCC and Super Street.
and yeah, i had like five net zero and juno accounts so i could get on the internet with my Dreamcast.

[irritatedmax]

msn messenger

unreal tournament

the chronic 2001

[deolio]

mountain biking with my friends and my dad
terrorizing the neighborhood on the weekends
sneaking out
n64
getting head in the oval office

[DataXUnknown]

Starcraft (Personally I hate brood war), Warcraft 2 (the best warcraft of the series), Unreal Tournament (2003 in particular, which came out in 2002)

financial stability (i was young so I mean my parents)

People being less greedy than they are today

Hacking NetZero's advertisement banner off so I could play on Battle.net with free dial up.

The AOL commercials "new 'A.'O.'L.' versionn seven..point ohhhhhh"

the sound of a dial up connection

the chat rooms where everyone said asl, and on AOL you could type /s_windows and play different sounds by typing different things

DOS mode

thats all i got so far sorry for spacing everything out, it made it easier for me and im lazy right now

[HyperTek]

haha that reminds me , when chat rooms where cool. lol shit is boring/lame now imo
I miss findapix days too

[BustedS13]

battle.net reminds me how rad Heat.net was around '97 or so. CYBERBULLETS CAUSE NO PAIN

and yeah, chat rooms... i spent many a night just dicking around on IRC and watching late night tv.

[kikcaffine]

Diablo 2
Mountain Biking with friends
Golden Eye 64
Not seeing 1.3 million commercials about how to extend my vehicles warranty
.55 cent a gallon gas and bitching when it was .63 cents up the street
Huge SUV's that got horrid gas mileage and you didnt care
2000mah rc car batteries
Battle.net
Map hack!!!!!

[VROOOM]

damn, 55 cent gas? ive been driving for 15 years and never saw it that low.

[DreamN]

Seriously. Lowest I ever saw it was in the .80 cent range. That was in the late 80s, early 90s too.

[kikcaffine]

damn, 55 cent gas? ive been driving for 15 years and never saw it that low.

Seriously. Lowest I ever saw it was in the .80 cent range. That was in the late 80s, early 90s too.


I believe it was that range in atlanta in 98-99

[BustedS13]

damn, 55 cent gas? ive been driving for 15 years and never saw it that low.

a few months after 9/11 it dropped to 97 cents here.

[ronmcdon]

damn, 55 cent gas? ive been driving for 15 years and never saw it that low.

that's wonderful CA gas taxes for you.
even now, we pay a good deal more than other states.

[irax]

I miss quake3 tournaments, early cs when the guns had their real names.... findapix was cool but ravewithme was way better... fuckk you guys remember friendster? or how about early p2p software such as bearshare, morpheous, audiogalaxy. i used to host an ftp server with a shit ton of games. i miss not questioning porn for its legitimacy. i miss non-violent porn. i miss pornstars not having tattoos. early bang bus was great.

[ronmcdon]

tattoos were always around.
they were just more modest back then.
these days, everyone & their grandma has a sleeve done.

[VROOOM]

a few months after 9/11 it dropped to 97 cents here.

yeah, when i started driving it was about that. now i think $3 is a good deal.

[zylvia213]

1997

Year a graduated from high school.... i remember gas was still $1 and change... I miss that.

[BustedS13]

yeah, when i started driving it was about that. now i think $3 is a good deal.

really? i just filled up like an hour ago at 2.48

[Otto347]

The good ol days at the street races.
Knock off parts werent around that much "yet"

[HyperTek]

the good ol days before people let their car build their ego/cockiness lol

[crazymuppit]

hadnt had arrests yet lol

[SlideWell]

i miss AOL chatrooms and banging the random girls

[irax]

i miss Yahoo chatrooms and banging the random girls

same, more so that I miss it where there was just a little bit of innocence on the internet that girls trusted rando guys who invited them to parties....

[miucus]

counter-strike 1.0
dr dre chronic 2001

[fliprayzin240sx]

I miss driving an S14 that nobody knows what the fuck it is and people not asking me if I drift/do I have an SR in it. I can drive it to the mall, park it and expect it to be still there when I come out.

[kikcaffine]

I miss driving an S14 that nobody knows what the fuck it is and people not asking me if I drift/do I have an SR in it. I can drive it to the mall, park it and expect it to be still there when I come out.

THIS!

I also miss not hearing about cars getting stolen every 2 seconds. I miss hanging out with friends before they became cocky tool bags in the import world.

[theicecreamdan]

same, more so that I miss it where there was just a little bit of innocence on the internet that girls trusted rando guys who invited them to parties....

Ib, did you used to bang random girls?

[irax]

Ib, did you used to bang random girls?

no! party? YES!


I miss the old 240sx meets when everyone was chill and only a few people where elitist.

[Wake]

being out of high school in 99 when all my friends were still in until 00

[SimpleSexy180]

the innocence of the internet.