REDDIT EARLY 2000S NOSTALGIA TV

Nobody had tablets or iPhones or streaming subscriptions. Girls could still buy loose fitting, practical clothing on their side of the store. Kids played outside, went places unsupervised, and didn’t have phones. When you went home at the end of the day, the drama didn’t follow you. Blockbuster was still everywhere and was renting VHS alongside those newfangled DVDs, McDonald’s was kid-centric, the internet was anonymous and slow and almost nobody was on social media.

Video games were still blocky, jeans were still baggy, and youth fashion was still wacky and colorful.

REDDIT EARLY 2000S NOSTALGIA TV

Late 90s TV shows were still going strong. There was still new music from 90s pop stars, rappers, and nu metal bands. “Early 2000s” used to mean 2000 through 2003ish, which were the last years of the 90s in a way because of the significant cultural overlap. So, as the generation most nostalgic for it, can you all please shed some light on the nostalgia specifically for the early 2000s, and why some things are incorrectly labeled early 2000s even when they came out in the mid 2000s or late 2000s? Thank you! But I constantly hear people talk about the “early 2000s”, perhaps to a greater extent then the 2000s overall. I have never heard someone romanticize a specific part of the 90s, 80s, 70s, 60s (except a recent TikTok sound referring to the late 60s), 50s, 40s, 30s, 1920s, 1910s, or 1900s. I expect that by 2030, the nostalgia will be for the 2010s as a whole). This seems to be part of a larger cultural quirk, as the 2000s is the only decade where a specific part of it is romanticized, but not the rest of it (I am not counting the 2010s because even though the early 2010s has already become subject to nostalgia, it makes sense because the rest of the decade was recent, along with the early 2010s being the last time where smartphone use was not pervasive in the developed world. I have seen Keeping Up With The Kardashians (which started in 2007) being described as “early 2000s”, High School Musical being called “early 2000s” (the first film was in 2006 I have not seen it), and Lady Gaga (who debuted in 2008) being referred to as an artist who started in the “early 2000s” (and that person was explicitly referring to her music career). Now I am back with another question: why is everything from the 2000s called “early 2000s”? I wrote a post a few months ago about my dislike of the 2000s, as someone who cannot remember it (I was born in 2008), and it was… controversial.

Reddit early 2000s nostalgia