Remember the 2000’s? Remember stuff? Remember stuff from the 2000’s?
I do. Kinda. Barely.
It’s not that I was too young then or that I’m too old now, it’s just that I’m really bad at remembering stuff on account’a I don’t brain so good. Which is why it’s genuinely refreshing and fun to scroll through lists like this and be reminded of all that weird stuff I forgot.
Here are fourteen random bits of 2000’s nostalgia to get your brain going.
14. Hot Topic
Hot Topic is still around but their inventory is no longer 95% Twilight.
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Via: Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images
13. John Edwards
My grandpa once asked for this guy’s book as a Christmas gift. He was a “psychic” who could “”cross over”” and “””””talk to the dead”””””, and for some reason we all knew about him for a while.
12. Hilary Duff’s Stuff
For the Disney-obsessed Target shopper in all of us.
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Via: Michael Caulfield Archive / WireImage
11. The Olsen Twins’ clothing line
I guess it’s pretty much mandatory for young starlets to put their name on some kind of clothing and/or perfume.
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Via: Tony Bock / Getty Images
10. Linens ‘n Things
You came for the linens, but you stayed for the things.
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Via: Brian Brainerd / Getty Images
9. Ruehl No. 925
A more expensive Abercrombie & Fitch whose strategy was apparently to keep the lights so low you couldn’t read the price tags.
8. Sarah Jessica Parker selling GAP
This was an era of pure color.
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Via: Gap Inc.
7. P. Diddy for Proactiv
The clearer the skin, the closer to God.
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Via: Guthy-Renker
6. Sudoku
Still a favorite pastime for many, of course, but there was a time when you couldn’t be caught NOT doing these.
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Via: Medlar / Getty Images
5. The DaVinci Code
If you happened to be a part of conservative Christian church when this book was big, you KNOW the meaning of controversy.
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Via: Tim Sloan / Getty Images
4. Real Kwik-E-Marts
When the Simpsons movie came out, 7-Elevens converted to Kwik-E-Marts to promote it. Now Apu has been removed as a character altogether. How quickly things change.
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Via: David Mcnew / Getty Images
3. Chef Emeril
Or as he’s better known to us Futurama fans, Chef Elzar.
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Via: Food Network
2. Blockbuster popcorn
I still have my name tag from when I worked at Blockbuster, which was in the era *just* before Netflix brought them down. Feel like that thing should be in a museum now.
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Via: Pippi3333 on Reddit
1. Livestrong Bracelets
Everybody who bought these things had a weird awkward moment when the doping scandals were revealed…
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Robbin Goddard / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
Now THAT’S the dopamine rush I was looking for. Come back, simpler times. Bring some Gigapets with you.
What was your favorite thing about the aughts?
Tell us in the comments.