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25 Popular Things From 2000s That Aren't Used Anymore

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

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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

7.

“VCRs.” - Murtamatt

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

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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

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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

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17.

“Askjeeves/Lycos/Yahoo.” - spiraldinosaur

18.

“AOL.” - PacMan8122

19.

“The term “World Wide Web”.” - No-Sheepherder-2896

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20.

“Floppy disks.” - elika007

21.

“Winamp.” - Academic-Motor

22.

“Limewire.” - FRB2992

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23.

“The phase "W'zzzzzuppppp".” - TheKillersHand

24.

“Colored spikey hair gel.” - AdamoclesYT

25.

“Tamagotchis.” - Wonderful-Banana-201

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