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If you grew up successful the 2000s, you retrieve everything from T9 texting to the iconic manner moments. I precocious asked the BuzzFeed Community to stock things from the '00s that would beryllium considered suuuuper unusual today. Here are the responses guaranteed to bring connected immoderate superior nostalgia:
Note: Some submissions are from this Reddit thread.
1. "Taking your landline disconnected the hook oregon unplugging it to person immoderate bid and quiet."
2. "Infecting my machine with each microorganism imaginable conscionable to download a 'free' song."
3. "Printing disconnected MapQuest directions. We truly person travel truthful far."
4. "Just showing up to your friend's location unplanned to bent retired aft work. No telephone call. No gathering astatine a barroom oregon restaurant. Just showing up astatine their door."
—Anonymous, 40
5. "Waiting until immoderate arbitrary clip (usually 9 p.m.) to marque calls connected your cellphone truthful you wouldn't discarded minutes from your plan. Nothing similar the sweet, saccharine dependable of unlimited minutes from Verizon aft 9 p.m."
7. "Walking astir with nary phone."
9. "Texting. It utilized to beryllium that you had to hold till aft 9 p.m. to substance your friends due to the fact that it was truthful expensive. Now you tin substance each you want."
10. "From the aboriginal 2000s, having to get disconnected the dial-up net truthful your parents could marque a telephone call."
11. "Buying a blank VHS tape. Timing erstwhile you near the location to marque definite the portion had country to grounds your show, and that the TV didn't besides clip retired its grounds button, truthful the portion would person your amusement connected it. Then, getting location to rewind done each the other worldly connected the portion truthful that you could ticker your show. I did this with the Friends finale due to the fact that I had a hoops crippled that night."
12. "A Nextel chirping walkie-talkie call, wherever idiosyncratic conscionable starts talking connected your telephone unprompted."
—Anonymous, 38, NYC
13. "Looking for the telephone booth."
15. "Bumpits and Bop Its."
16. "Waiting successful enactment to wage the toll to thrust connected a road tollway. This outpouring break, I visited my member successful Houston, and his 24-year-old woman asked what the deserted toll booths were. Back erstwhile I was a kid, I retrieve waiting successful Houston postulation conscionable truthful my aunt could wage her toll fee. Nowadays, it's EZ TAG, and they instrumentality photos of license plates arsenic cars zoom by. Gen Z is truthful naive and wouldn't past a 2nd without tech! What's embarrassing is that helium had to explicate it to her. He's 33."
—Anonymous, 32, Texas
17. "Calling the movie theatre to perceive the showtimes."
19. "Bootleg DVDs earlier they came retired for regular purchase, earlier determination were downloads oregon streaming. Friends utilized to spell to New York City, China, oregon Mexico and travel backmost with dozens of amerciable bootlegs. Sometimes it was conscionable immoderate feline filming successful a theater, sometimes it was a legit ripoff from the accumulation company, sometimes it was successful a antithetic connection with English subtitles erstwhile it should person conscionable been successful English. You ne'er knew rather what you'd get, but for a fewer bucks it was the lone mode to spot a movie betwixt the movie screening and the at-home mentation being available."
20. "Calling Domino's to person pizza delivered. It's chaotic however online ordering has go the norm now."
21. "Coming up with a program for going retired with friends and sticking to the program due to the fact that you had nary mode of telling anyone if plans had to alteration erstwhile radical near their homes."
22. "Boredom. Pure, listless, unavoidably mundane boredom. I haven't heard a kid accidental 'I'm booooored' since the dawn of the iPod touch."
—Anonymous, 33, California
Share thing from the '00s that would beryllium truthful unusual successful 2026 successful the comments, oregon taxable anonymously utilizing the signifier below. Your effect mightiness beryllium featured successful an upcoming BuzzFeed Community post!
Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.
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