What do you remember the most about the '00s?

[Eris]

It -is-, after all, the end of the decade.

Lots of stuff has happened, some good, others not so good.

[miniPhil]

Its gotta be the Internet in my case. From AF to Youtube and everything in between. I suppose the whole recession thingy sticks out in my mind. As does secondary school and that whole teen period.

[Simon Phoenix]

9/11 done by Saudi Hi-jackers, war with Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Election of Barack Hussein Obama for President..........yea we have had a crazy decade.

[OtakuInu!!!]

I'll remember this decade for it is where my childhood-start of my teenage years took place.

[Dr. Hax]

I vomited on my cousin's best coffee table during my family's '06 Christmas party. Does that count?

[Aku no Hikari]

I vomited on my cousin's best coffee table during my family's '06 Christmas party. Does that count?

Well... If you vomited magma, maybe.

[Skylar1]

I will remember this decade as the one where the internet double in power each year. Thinking back, I remember in 2000 most people had dial-up, and the internet as a whole was far more a luxury than it is now.

[Miss Moonlight]

Probably about how many celebs died. This was a bad year for celebs.

Oh, and vampires. Good year for vampires.

[Diocletian]

World War III--I mean the World Trade Centers incidents. There's so many people that are under suspicion Jutes, remaining survivors of the Ottoman Empire, and Jewish folk as to who did it.

[~*Red*~]

9/11, The war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the capture of Saddam Hussein and Barack Obama becoming the first black President.

[Eris]

It was the decade they started letting normals onto the internet. A dark decade indeed.

[Dark Wolf 09]

9/11 mostly, and the capture of Sadaam Hussian, and that stupid bastard named Major. Nabil Malik Hasan who killed those poor soldiers in FT. Hood, and I think Hasan should die. Michael Jackson dying, Obama being elected first black president, who lied his way up in democracy full of propaganda. Rumors of Y2K (2012); Large Hadron Collider; Swine Flu; Zombie Outbreak; False Prophecies of End of the World; Pedo Bear; Raptor Jesus;

[Sr Machinehead]

the decade game consoles came edged ever closer to becoming computers.

[Diocletian]

I'm sad no one mentioned Kanye West. You know how Nostradamus predicted the coming of the King of Terror was supposed to be some Mongolian ruler in 1999? He sorta messed up. He meant an African American pop mogul who would release some music and take over around 2009, not 1999.

In short, watch out peons Kanye is gonna take over one city at a time.

[Nephthys]

9/11
Barrack Obama
History channel's obsession with the end of days.
Y2k
Advancement in computer technolgy and the development of androids.
My coming of age.
Birth of my kids.
My marrige.
The Iraqi/Afgani war.
Highschool
First job.
DFACS
the wide spread of conspiracy theary.
War on terrorism
War on drugs...(or was that the 90's?)
Family Guy.

[BestFly]

In the world
-9/11 was probably the most resounding event in the past decade, especially since I lived in NY.

On the Internet
-When Google took over youtube. All of a sudden I could not find my favorite videos, and other things like that. It was all so sudden. It was kind of similar to when Napster went down, but I didnt use napster that much.

In Hollywood
-Everyone dying. I mean seriouslyyyy.

[SigmaSD]

- 9/11
-The internet
-New game systems
-Making fun of Bush
-Celebrity deaths
-Going out of my teen years
-AF
-Youtube
-Abridged series

[Cobra Commander]

This decade I...

Became computer savvy
Got the internet
Began driving
Graduated high school and college
Moved across country and halfway back
Discovered black and death metal
Voted for the first time.

There's plenty to remember, both good and bad memories. Most of what I posted is what will stand out to me.

[wolfgirl90]

-AF
-9/11 (had visited the Pentagon no less than 2 weeks prior)
-The Segway (which did absolutely nothing)
-4chan (*chuckles*)
-Janet Jackson's boob during Super Bowl XXXVIII (I remembered the game but I couldn't tell you which teams were playing)
-Needless Disney sequels (Mulan II, Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning, Cinderella III, Bambi II, Fox and the Hound II, Tarzan II, etc)
-Running on the Daytona International Speedway (all 2.5 miles of it) with my AFROTC detachment

(Of course, I am one of those people who believes that 2010 is the last year of a decade, not the end of one)

[Wio]

(Of course, I am one of those people who believes that 2010 is the last year of a decade, not the end of one)

I too! I also thought 2000 was the last year of the millennium/century, not the first.

[Hideki Motosuwa.]

-Definitely 9/11(I was in the middle of class when they told us).
-I started training in martial arts.
-I watched my first animes.
-Read my first mangas.
-A lot of people died in my building.
-I got my cards stolen by two punks.
-I graduated middle school and high school.
-Got my first computer.

[Shinn Kamiyra]

It -is-, after all, the end of the decade.

Lots of stuff has happened, some good, others not so good.

Bad Stuff:

• 9/11
• War in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc
• Recession
• Celebrities' death (Perhaps not so many from a retrospective standpoint, but you've gotta admit that recent times have not been looking great.)
• EOW (End of the World) Prophecies
• Current Disney Channel (-Sigh-...)

Slightly better but still not all that great stuff:

• Obama elected as first black president (The guy gives a decent speech, but still hasn't backed it up to what people have expected.)
• Large Hadron Collider (I'd be happier with this were it not for all of the delays that have come up.)

Good Stuff:

• Graduating from High School and going to College
• Practicing my martial arts
• Playing the piano
• Breaking my 5,000+ goal on my iPod. (Aiming for well over 10,000 within the next decade .)

[Aleyna]

9/11
Global Warming Becoming More Aware
More Homosexual Celebrities
Epidemic Flus Spreading Around
Highlights In Hair Became Popular For Awhile
Barack Obama Becoming The First African American President In The U.S.
Crime Shows Becoming More Popular
People Going Crazy Over WoW and Halo
People Having Crushes On Johnny Depp & Orlando Bloom
People Making More Books Into Movies and Remaking Movies
Motivational Posters
AF

[TheAsterisk!]

Give it thirty years, come back with another generation, and then make a list. Otherwise, we'll be working with incomplete information, place greater emphasis on more recent/photogenic events, and be burdened by the fog of nostalgia.

Also,

World War III--I mean the World Trade Centers incidents. There's so many people that are under suspicion Jutes, remaining survivors of the Ottoman Empire, and Jewish folk as to who did it.

Wouldn't that be the Turks? To be fair, they can in fact be pretty nasty, but nobody seems to care about anything nasty when it's the Kurds getting maligned.

Re: Making fun of Bush: That's not special. Every president gets mocked. I particularly like Steve Martin's jokes about Nixon and Carter, with metal detectors at the beach and banjos, respectively.

Re: Epidemic Flu: That's not new either, and we haven't had a real, true epidemic in quite a while. It's just people in groups being led to panic by sloppy, sensationalist reporting. Heck, it was even the same "Swine flu? Oh noes!!" crap in the seventies.

Re: Apocalyptic Visions: There have always been "THE END IS NEAR!" types, but most media were too classy (or at least liked to think they were too classy) to indulge the lunatics until recently.
You can go back to the 1850s and find people who sold all their stuff and stood together in fields awaiting Armageddon, only to be sorely disappointed, and when the plague swept across Europe it was similar. People just like to panic and divine dates.

@Wio: For some reason, the calendar we almost all use counts from zero for years, so it's 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 instead of 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 like I was taught (and maybe others).
It's because, way back when, they decided to start the AD years at zero instead of at one, so 0 AD (or 0 CE, for you PC/pretentious types) is the first year, and consequently 1 AD is the second year.

Re: 9/11: I have the feeling the attack itself won't be so historically important as our reaction to it and how that slowly reshapes our society. The 3000 dead- and I don't mean to be callous or offensive- frankly, won't matter to history so much as the response it provoked.
I would think that stance is abundantly evident, but a lot of people still don't seem to agree.

Really, most of this decade is unremarkably similar to any other given period in human history.
Also very unremarkable, we've invented few brand new technologies in this decade, instead refining old ones.



But, what do I honestly remember? Janet Jackson at the Superbowl, as dumb a thing as that is to remember. Again, though, the actual baring isn't what I remember, because it wasn't much to talk about, but I remember how many people got their panties into a bunch and wouldn't shut up about it for months.

[Megamind's Minion]

.graduating from elementary..
becoming a teenager..
having a kid sister..
.knowing the net..
first love.
graduating from high school.
college...
AF..
Global Recession..
OIL Price Hike.
Wars in Iraq, Iran, the rest of the Middle East(some)
9/11 attack
Bin Laden
Saddam Hussein..
Tony Blair
Bush
Obama

Earthquakes in China..
Tidal Waves, Tsunamis..
MJ dying..
scandals of Britney, Paris, LiLo, Katrina Halili..

~hehe..
knowledge is power..