Has early 2000s nostalgia already hit the internet?

I like the early 2000s so much I am writing a scenario for a project about it

I kinda miss the general atmosphere of the early 2000's (the decade). Probably just nostalgia, because I know things were worse back then with the wars and poverty, but I sometimes find it hard to relate to many mentalities nowadays.

Well, I was born in '94 and if anything I feel more nostalgic for the 2000s than the 90s, probably because... well, I was just 6 years old at the end of the 90s, I barely even remember anything from most of those years. Always feels weird to see people younger than me refer to themselves as "90s kids" because even if you were born during that time, how much do you even actually remember from it?

In my case... I'm definitely somewhat nostalgic for early/mid-00s internet, haha x3 I really miss forums (in general) being as big as they used to be... not everything can be done on social media

Born in late 1995 in France I have to admit I have no fondness for the early years of the millenium.

Is it because my life has been a string of shitholes until I hit 15 or something ?

Quite probably. But I can see this decade for what it really is worth : a very shitty time, because of the ever lingering effects of the attacks on the World Trade Center, a general sense that nothing will ever be improving, desperation about the rising costs in real estate, a new currency that puzzled everyone and allowed inflation to rise to unprecedented levels in recent history, the trauma of seeing an unapologetic Holocaust denier make it to the second round of the presidential elections, a sad period for pop-music ...

Do you want me to continue like this ?

But on the bright side we might finally be taking baby steps towards taking sexual harassment seriously.

I'm gonna have to ask you to elaborate on this. Because, in terms of popular music in general, it was an interesting period, now that we can look back on it and separate the wheat from the chaff.

@Nuup: A sad period for pop music? You may insult my favourite politicians all you want, but insulting the awesome music and style of the decade is simply unacceptable.

More seriously, the holocaust denier was overwhelmingly rejected and he only got to the 2nd round because of the way the French presidential system is designed, the Euro wasn't responsible for the inflation, and people were hopeful for a while until the economic crisis.

edited 19th Nov '17 10:21:20 AM by Grafite

I think it has actually hit pretty hard, but people especially young-to-mid twenties milleinals are conflating the mid-two thousands with the 90s. For example the early days of Spongebob and Ed Edd N Eddy both premeired in 99 but are thought of as quintessential 90s.

I think in the US, the relative stability of the Bush and Obama terms are also going to be looked more fondly on aside from cartoon, tv shows, videogames and music.

Granite : If you're French, do you want me to remind you the "tektonik" ?

No seriously, I don't remember any good pop music song from the 00ies : Last great pieces were in the nineties, and until a revival in the New Ten : Nothing. I can't even develop much about it because I was still very young and there is no great pop song that immediately comes to my mind when I think of the Turn of the Millennium .

Regarding inflation, I'm sorry but I'm formal : prices have gone up tremendously with the introduction of the new €uropean currency, including first and foremost in real estate .

PS : I'm pro-EU, voted Macron and I don't want to leave the €urozone for it would cost too much. But I insist inflation went terribly up after the introduction of the new currency.

So to get back to the initial question : No, I definitely don't regret the 2000's, apart from a few crucial personnal details of my private life. Apart from these points, I clearly much prefer, in every possible ways, the times we're living in right now.

edited 19th Nov '17 1:37:42 PM by Nuup-Kangerlua

Hmm, I'd suggest reading articles and books about music in those days (including music one may not like, but can see how important it was back then), and then listen to it with some curiosity. It's what I did.

Great popular tunes from the Turn of the Millenium? Let's see, "Get Your Freak On" ^note Missy Elliott, "Last Nite"^note  The Strokes, "One More Time" ^note  Daft Punk, "Stan" ^note Eminem , just for starters.

Gorillaz: anything. Sorted.

Geez, you lot must not know much about music history, because most pop music in any decade sucks; even pop music in the 60's sucked, remember Mac Arthur Park?

"Sugar, Sugar" went platinum. The 60's were weird.

most likely, mid 2000's nostalgia is starting to hit the internet as of recently.

Yes and no. There are definitely articles of pop culture from the early 2000s that are beginning to experience a Popularity Polynomial, and it that sense I would say that, yes, early 2000s nostalgia is happening. But the 1990s were— and continue to be— a singularly unique period in history defined by more than just its popular culture. They were the last time in history where there was no major international conflict. The Cold War was over, Germany was reunified, the economy was thriving, Israel and Palestine were taking steps toward coexistence, China had further opened its economy to America, Japan's meanwhile stopped growing and alleviated fears of Japan Takes Over the World while still remaining wealthy and friendly to the Western world, Apartheid ended in South Africa...It really did seem like the world was becoming a more peaceful place. That, combined with the pop culture of the time, created unique cultural atmosphere. And because of that, the 1990s are still by far the dominant "nostalgic time period" in pop culture today.

That is a good point. Things seem to be going brighter until 9/11 happened.

Edited by GAP on Sep 24th 2021 at 8:04:28 AM

Nostalgia — at least as far as the mainstream goes — typically operates Two Decades Behind as a generation grows out of childhood and becomes full-fledged adults. The late 2000s and early 2010s saw 1980s nostalgia reach a mainstream peak, and we are currently at a point where that 1980s nostalgia has given way to 1990s and early 2000s nostalgia, which currently appear to be mingling with each other.

The optimism of the 1990s is very Western-centered, cisnormative and heteronormative as well. I got a good screaming at by a LGBTQI+ person when I remarked how the world seemed more kinder back in the 1990s, and was told in no uncertain terms that the 1990s were not a nice decade for LGBTQI+ peoples and my remark was effectively spitting in their faces. Listening to people who lived in Russia and other former Soviet nations during that time, they had their own disparaging views of the 1990s as well. It was certainly a learning experience, that the nostalgic decade of one person is the nightmare decade of another, and a large reason why I have learned to be suspicious of nostalgia.

But nostalgia for the past only seems to be growing by the day. As suspicious as I can be about nostalgia, It is hard to blame any person for looking back fondly to earlier decades, what with the massive political, social, and economical instabilities wracking the entire world right now.

EDIT: Nothing to be sorry for. A good screaming at is the least I deserved for my remark.

Edited by BaronVonFistcrunch on Oct 1st 2021 at 12:05:07 PM

I'm terribly sorry that you got yelled at. :(

Though I think you're onto something with the "kindness" part. People certainly didn't treat being antisocial as something to brag about.