Who would've thought that some of the most exciting things from the early 2000s wouldn't even last a decade?
It's sad, but true. Thanks to Reddit we've collected a list of extremely popular things that disappeared a few years later.
1
“Blue eyeshadow. You could always tell when a junior high school aged girl finally got the okay from her parents to start wearing makeup. She'd show up at school everyday for the next month looking like a blue panda.” - blickyjayy
2
“Dial-Up. weeeeeeeee WOOOOOO_OOOOOO_ E E E E E E E EEEEEeeeeee eee eee URRRRRRRRR BEDULUDOLEDULUDOLEEPEEPEEP R R R R R R R R R R R R R UMMMMMMMMMMMM” - Martini_Man_
3
“Re-writable CDs. I used to burn so many mix cds after downloading from napster, bearshare, limewire, frostwire. Then my mother would call, disconnecting the internet and I would have to start the download all over again. Except one file wasnt an mp3, but a virus. I would just reinstall windows before my mom got home as we saved every picture and document on a zip drive.....then those fancy jaz drives.” - Shittinwithmykitten
4
“Calculators; teachers kept saying “you won’t have one with you all the time”, look who’s stupid now, b*ch?! Both of us…” - VICARD0
5
“Download Managers Start the download right after Mom goes to bed, wake up before her to pause the download and disconnect the dial-up connection, resume tomorrow night. Repeat… A week later, you're playing Counter-Strike. - u/deleted
6
“Any sort of dedicated music-playing device, before that just became a part of your phone.” - Confusionator5000
8
“Computer mice with a ball: My friend had one of the first Microsoft IntelliMouse, which did not use a ball. As I recall, it was the first mouse without a ball that was commercialized in a popular way. It was released in October 1999. So in 2000, most mice were with a ball, and slowly faded away.” - fmaz008
9
“Geocities, neopets, livejournal, kazaa” - papaweir
10
“Spinning under construction gifs on websites.” - BigBump
11
“Also Adobe without a subscription.” - Shittinwithmykitten
12
“PDAs Personal Digital Assistants.” - hellobyethanks
13
“Phone books.” - Murtamatt
14
“Indoor smoking. My young-ish kids marvel at the fact that people used to sit in restaurants and smoke.” - TurdFergDSF
15
“Zip Disks.” - brokenturle
16
“Maps or Mapquest.” - Ocean927
17
“Askjeeves/Lycos/Yahoo.” - spiraldinosaur
19
“The term “World Wide Web”.” - No-Sheepherder-2896
20
“Floppy disks.” - elika007
21
“Winamp.” - Academic-Motor
23
“The phase "W'zzzzzuppppp".” - TheKillersHand
24
“Colored spikey hair gel.” - AdamoclesYT
25
“Tamagotchis.” - Wonderful-Banana-201
