22 Photos That Defined "Coming Home From School In The 2000s" But Will Look Foreign To People Now
If you grew up in the 2000s, I hope you're ready for a hefty serving of sweet, sweet nostalgia. I have yet to discover a better feeling than coming home from school and chillaxing to the max, so here are 22 photos that will transport you riiiight back to your childhood:
1.The most important thing to do after a long day of school was grab your favorite CD (mine was Fergie Ferg) and pop it in the old school CD player:
If you were feelin' spicy that day, maybe you'd update your Myspace status to "xXx h3adph0n3s in xXx w0rld 0ut xXx."
2.Maybe you had the honor of upgrading your CD player for a colorful little iPod after the best Christmas of your young life and jammed to that instead (for 99 cents a song):
3.If you had siblings, maybe you were forced to share the family desktop computer to enjoy some (cherished) time online:
4.It was an especially good day when you'd log into Myspace and be greeted with a rainbow of notifications:
The way this still gives me instant serotonin to this day. It makes me feel something. Pc4pc, anyone?
5.Before there was Myspace or Facebook messenger, there was this yellow dude who is definitely the CEO of AOL:
6.No disrespect to the MSN messenger people, though:
7.If you were a 2000s kid on the desktop computer, of course you spent too much time on Club Penguin:
8.Or maybe you were a RuneScape kid:
9.Perhaps you were oddly soothed by planting virtual crops in FarmVille:
10.Once your turn on the desktop computer was over, you could totally shred on this bad boy:
11.Or you could *literally* shred some gnarly pipes in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater:
They just don't make graphics like this anymore.
12.You made sure to take care of your child, aka your Tamagotchi:
13.If we're talkin' handheld games, the purple Game Boy Advance was a symbol of power:
14.The only console that could dethrone it was the Game Boy Advance SP:
I got caught sooo many times trying to snap my SP shut and hide it under my pillow when my mom checked on me after bedtime. The backlight was a blessing and a snitch.
15.If you wanted to get your groove on, you could stomp to the sweet crinkle sounds of the Dance Dance Revolution party mat:
16.Maybe it was a Wii Bowling kinda night:
Remember when the Wii came out and people were furious because they would ignore the wrist strap, lose grip on the Wiimote, and send it FLYING through their TV? Good times.
17.If Wii Sports didn't have you sweating enough, you could go outside and obliterate your ankles with the Skip It:
18.I know I spent *many* hours after school with the Bop It until my parents sold it in a garage sale because they couldn't stand hearing "BOP IT. TWIST IT. PULL IT." ever again:
19.Streaming didn't exist yet, but there was plenty of classy and not at all trashy programming to choose from — like Room Raiders:
20.The best thing you could see on the TV guide was a marathon of Next — the most chaotic dating show in 2000s history:
21.If you were hungry for a lil' snack, you could slam three of these without a worry in the world:
22.And finally, the best part of coming home from school was a Scooby-Doo-themed gummy pack with *many* blue gummies:
H/T: r/nostalgia, r/2000snostalgia, and r/mid2000s
