38 Things That Were Thought Of As Normal In 2000 But Look Weird In 2020

There are no objective criteria that separate normal and abnormal. I mean, for some, eating dinner past 10 pm is totally fine, while for others, it’s all about putting cereal before adding the milk. Are you about to say that’s totally not okay? There you go. There is a yin and yang to any normalcy, and as long as we have people whose experiences are fully subjective, we will have both sides.

Except we’re talking the year 2000. When someone asked on r/AskReddit “What was normal in 2000, but strange in 2020?” it surely hit close to home for many. 41.1k upvotes later, the illuminating answers are in.

And on this one, we may once and for all come to an agreement on millennium things that look really heckin' odd today. Like saying dot com out loud ‘cause it felt like the cool thing to do, or burning a bunch of CDs, we've already started...

#1

2000: Your parents telling you not to believe everything you read on the internet.

2020: Your parents believing every post they see on Facebook.

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#2

Printing out your route from Mapquest before leaving the house

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#3

I remember 25 years ago getting on a plane and realized I forgot some important paperwork in the car. The flight attendant let me get off the plane and I ran through the terminal and out to the parking lot to my car to retrieve it. Then quickly ran back in, zipped past the security screener, out onto the tarmac and climbed up the stairs to the plane. It was a rather small airport so it took less than 5 minutes. But I doubt I’d be allowed to do that today.

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2000, which feels like a whole eternity away, was one hell of a year. Do you remember the millennium bug, for example? It was supposedly going to cause global chaos, like planes falling out of the sky, missiles firing by accident, all simply because the dates on computers had to be reset at midnight on January 1, 2000.

Nothing happened and we’re still rolling in 2020. However, from how the world has been doing so far, it seems this time, we're gonna need some more luck.

#4

Buying a stack of blank Cd’s so you can make your own custom mixes

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#5

Switching to channel 3 to play video games

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#6

Not freaking out when someone calls you out of nowhere

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The same year was a golden age for retro mobile phones and marked the rise of the legendary Nokia 3310. Everyone at the time was either playing Snake on their phone, or Solitaire on the computer. We lived in the world of phone calls and SMS messages, and no one was frightened to death by a random call like we are now.

2000 was also the time when reality TV changed television for good. It was the year when Big Brother aired on screens, gaining worldwide popularity. According to Esquire, the allure of it was that “it could 'turn your life around.'” You could win £100,000 and leave your life behind while 10 million people would watch their idols on eviction nights.

#7

MTV music videos actually had videos

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#8

T9 texting

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#9

Blowing into video games to fix them

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#10

Rewinding movies when you’re done watching them

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#11

Memorizing a phone number.

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#12

Watching a show weekly at the same time to catch new episodes

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#13

Recording songs off the radio to make a personal mix tape. Always got annoyed at the DJ for talking over the end of the song

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#14

Pay phones. If you see one now it’s like spotting a leprechaun, genie or unicorn and you ask it if it grants wishes

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#15

Writing down an address or telephone number to store the information for later.

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#16

Telling people to call you back after 9pm bc that's when minutes are free

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#17

Having a school project to do and busting out the Encarta disk.

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#18

Smoking in bars. Hell, even going to bars

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#19

Going to Blockbuster on Friday nights

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#20

Using Yahoo to search for things. Or, repeatedly signing up for 15 free hours of AOL using a spoofed credit card number and a fake name.

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#21

I used paper maps to deliver pizza in 2001. I paid like $30 for a map book of my city so I can deliver fast and efficient plus not get lost.

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#22

Saying dot com at the end of everything because it was cool to do.

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#23

Collecting Beanie Babies

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#24

Saying that technology is useless. Or that you won’t always have a calculator in your pocket

#25

Waiting for the internet to connect. Yelling at someone in the house for being on the phone when you can’t connect.

I kept a folder of music lyrics that I ripped out of Dolly/Girlfriend magazines. Also loved reading the booklet inside the CD of all the lyrics.

Recording songs off the radio to make a personal mix tape. Always got annoyed at the DJ for talking over the end of the song.

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#26

Being pleased your new car had a CD player AND a tape deck.

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#27

Getting excited about receiving an email.

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#28

Smoking or non-smoking” was the first question you were asked when entering a sit-down restaurant.

#29

Using AOL.

#30

Worrying about someone listening in on another land line phone in the house..

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#31

Teen magazines (Tiger Beat, M, Mad…) that you could take posters out of and hang in your room

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#32

Renting or buying a game and playing it the very moment you get home.

#33

Frosted tips.

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#34

Pretending the internet was not gonna be much. Saying "Oh yeah, when the internet runs the world?" Or something dismissive like that.

At one point if it was on social media, people said "But it's on social media, so it doesn't really matter."

People in 2020 lose careers over their posts on social media.

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#35

Television in 4:3

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#36

Giving manual directions to someone.

Turn left at the McDonalds, then take your 3rd right, and if you get to the crooked tree you’ve gone too far kind of thing.

#37

Buying a new Pc every 1-2 years because the old one can barely keep up now. 10 year old pcs are still alright for most tasks nowadays.

#38

CRT monitors

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