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Remember when floppy disks, dial-up internet, and Blockbuster rentals were part of daily life? Take a nostalgic trip back to the 2000s and discover some of the iconic trends, gadgets, and pop culture moments that have since vanished. From tech to toys and entertainment, these relics remind us just how much has changed in a couple of decades!
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00:00To the red envelope that changed the world, at just 25 years young, the Netflix DVD service is going dark.
00:07Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:09And today, we're counting down our picks for the most unforgettable throwback tech, gadgets, and digital platforms from the 2000s.
00:18But few, if any, make MySpace their own anymore.
00:23Number 30. Jetix.
00:25This Disney-owned kids' TV brand brings back memories for a lot of people who grew up in the 2000s.
00:32It's hard to forget that epic logo.
00:35Jetix.
00:36Jetix offered a mix of live-action and animated series, plus the world's first trading card game played concurrently on
00:44TV and online.
00:45The channel was available in various parts of the world, including the US, Latin America, Europe, and parts of Asia.
00:52In some places, Jetix expanded its reach, with magazines, award shows, and even an international youth soccer tournament.
01:01Here's how it all plays out.
01:02Boys and girls from 16 countries travel to Paris to compete in the Jetix Kids' Cup.
01:07Even though it was a hit after launching in 2004, it didn't stick around for long.
01:12By the end of the decade, it was discontinued worldwide.
01:16In the US, it got replaced by Disney XD.
01:19On TV, online, everywhere. Check your local listings.
01:23Number 29. Bebo.
01:25While American-owned, Bebo mainly made its name in the UK.
01:29The social networking platform launched in 2005 gave users a profile and a chance to do all the typical social
01:36media stuff we take for granted today.
01:38Blog posts, comments, questionnaires, pictures, videos, and so on.
01:43I took an hour fighting. The boo came up.
01:45The name Bebo stood for blog early, blog often, and a lot of people must have taken that advice,
01:51because at one point, the platform overtook MySpace as the most used social networking site in the UK.
01:57But after it was sold to AOL in 2008, things started to go downhill.
02:02It changed hands again in 2010, and by 2013, it was pretty much cooked.
02:07Multiple relaunch attempts, including one in 2021, came up short.
02:12Will you seek to make Bebo profitable?
02:16Um, it's the last thing on my mind right now.
02:19Number 28. VCRs.
02:22After decades as a staple in countless households, the VCR really started fading into obscurity in the 2000s.
02:29DVDs played a big role in that, overtaking VHS rentals in the US by 2003.
02:34Remember how cool it was to record and playback TV shows, or to pop in a videotape of an old
02:40favorite movie?
02:41These days, we barely think twice about that kind of access.
02:45The rise of higher quality, more advanced DVRs only sped up the shift in home video,
02:50and by 2016, the last remaining VCR manufacturer had stopped production.
02:55We wanted to continue producing them, but it's become hard for the vendors to continue producing the parts,
03:01so we decided to stop our production of the VCR.
03:04Number 27. G4.
03:07Perhaps the only drawback for many fans of the G4 television network was that it required a paid subscription,
03:13but plenty would tell you it was worth it.
03:15It's Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb.
03:18Hello and welcome to X-Play.
03:20After launching in 2002, G4 quickly established itself as a favorite for gamers and tech enthusiasts alike.
03:27With shows like Cheat, X-Play, and Attack of the Show,
03:31it was the go-to channel for video game tutorials and reviews,
03:34as well as general pop culture, tech, and gaming news.
03:38Okay, you know what? Just make sure to tune in January 2nd, 2008. That's when we're coming back.
03:44In 2013, G4 was available in over half of all American households with TV.
03:50But by the end of 2014, it was shut down.
03:53And that's all for now.
03:54A relaunch came seven years later,
03:56but it only took a year before the network disappeared from TV guides once again.
04:02Number 26. Radio Disney.
04:04A lot of 2000s kids couldn't get enough of Disney Channel growing up,
04:08but we can't forget Radio Disney either,
04:10which, unlike the former, is no longer with us.
04:13Radio Disney. Hear your music, your way.
04:15Disney Channel lovers could get a musical fix even when they weren't in front of the TV.
04:19Radio Disney played songs from Disney Channel shows and teen idols,
04:24along with some mainstream pop and R&B you'd hear on other stations.
04:28Radio Disney. Your music, your way.
04:30Find your station at RadioDisney.com.
04:33A version of the station still airs in Latin America, broadcast in Spanish.
04:37But the U.S. version, unaffiliated with that one,
04:40went off the air in 2021, about 24 years after its debut.
04:4436 employees will be laid off as part of the move.
04:47Number 25. Netflix DVDs.
04:50Before the days of streaming,
04:52Netflix was crushing it as a DVD-by-mail rental service.
04:55For many, checking the mailbox for a Netflix DVD was just another part of the day.
05:00Netflix. All the DVDs you want, starting at only $9.99 a month. No late fees.
05:04The business began in the late 90s and continued to bloom through the 2000s.
05:09In 2004, Netflix made a profit of $49 million, sending out around a million DVDs a day.
05:16At its peak several years later, it had about 20 million subscribers.
05:21You'll get three DVDs.
05:23Keep them as long as you want, without late fees.
05:25These days, those red and white envelopes are pure nostalgia.
05:29As video streaming took over in the 2010s, DVD-by-mail lost major steam.
05:33In 2023, Netflix sent out its final DVDs,
05:38letting remaining customers keep them as a parting gift.
05:41That marked the end of a legendary run of over 5 billion shipments.
05:45It's just weird thinking about how it's something you'll tell
05:47your kids and your grandkids about, and they'll think you're just a dinosaur.
05:51Number 24. AOL Instant Messenger.
05:54AIM.
05:55Before texting and social media DMs took over,
05:58AOL Instant Messenger was the way to go, or at least one of the ways to go.
06:02I get instant messages from John.
06:06Yahoo Messenger was another game changer tons of people used during the 2000s.
06:11But for this list, we're giving the slight edge to AIM, which came out first.
06:16At the peak of its powers, AIM had more than 60 million users,
06:20and was the most widely used instant messaging method in North America.
06:24It's having a verbal chat electronically.
06:27By the time the 2000s were in the rear view, though,
06:30competition became overwhelmingly stiff,
06:32as the number of ways to message people expanded and advanced to new heights.
06:36Now, AIM's not just a way. It's gone.
06:39People started to shift away from AIM, as it was called,
06:43when text messages, Twitter, Facebook started to become more popular.
06:47Number 23. Windows XP.
06:50This operating system developed by Microsoft used to be everywhere.
06:54Schools, libraries, offices, homes, you name it.
06:57In those days, a lot of people were content with how smoothly their computers ran with Windows XP.
07:03Welcome to Windows XP from Microsoft, the new version of Windows that brings your PC to life.
07:09But what once felt fast, user-friendly, and visually appealing quickly became outdated.
07:15By 2009, about eight years after Windows XP was initially released, Microsoft nixed its mainstream support.
07:23Five years after that, extended support ended too, as the decline only steepened.
07:35But even now that Windows XP has become virtually obsolete, we can never forget that trademark startup sound.
07:46Number 22. Myspace.
07:49Sure, technically Myspace still exists, but it's not the Myspace it was during the 2000s.
07:55The one that was on top of the social media world.
07:57Yes, that's what it was.
07:59The largest social networking site in the world from 2005 to 2009.
08:04And during that stretch, Myspace surpassed Google and Yahoo as the most visited website in the United States.
08:11At one point, it was attracting well over 100 million monthly visitors.
08:16But over time, it lost buzz and customers to Facebook and Twitter, and has become an afterthought.
08:22Now, it's more of a music and entertainment site, and a much, much less popular one at that.
08:27So what went wrong?
08:29Well, a combination of things.
08:30Facebook certainly didn't help, nor did Myspace's own technical issues, management missteps, and failure to evolve the user experience.
08:39So the last time I used Myspace was probably in my middle school years.
08:42Number 21. Skype.
08:44Remember this?
08:49These days, we can make video calls with FaceTime, WhatsApp, Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and more.
08:56But before all of those came along, there was Skype.
08:59The go-to for video calls.
09:01Still remember that ringtone?
09:03Yeah, us too.
09:04Initially released in 2003, Skype eventually amassed hundreds of millions of users worldwide.
09:10Hello.
09:11Hi, Emma.
09:12Its popularity soared in the late 2000s and into the 2010s, as its free video chatting services became available for
09:19more and more devices.
09:20But in May 2025, Microsoft, the owner of Skype, shut it down, choosing to put its focus on its Teams
09:28platform.
09:29If just hearing the word Skype or seeing that white and blue logo brings up fond memories, you're definitely not
09:35alone.
09:36It's deemed Skype to sort of be no longer needed among its portfolio of offerings.
09:44Number 20. BlackBerry Phones.
09:47New BlackBerry, huh?
09:48Yeah.
09:49Me too.
09:50During the mid to late 2000s, BlackBerry was climbing the charts in the mobile phone game, particularly in North America,
09:57with its iconic keyboards being a major pull.
10:00In 2009, the BlackBerry curve became the best-selling smartphone in the U.S.
10:06So what went wrong?
10:07You guessed it, iPhones and Androids.
10:10Although BlackBerry continued to expand its global user base and seemed to be thriving within the first few years of
10:16iPhones and Androids,
10:18its dramatic decline became glaringly apparent by the mid-2010s.
10:23BlackBerry's death rattle came in June 2010 with the release of the iPhone 4.
10:27By the end of that decade, whoever you knew that had previously owned a BlackBerry most likely no longer did.
10:34It was finally time for the company to bow out of the phone game in 2022.
10:38And despite their downfall, these iconic phones will always be bricks in the foundation of smartphone history.
10:45Number 19. Zanga.
10:48Before the social media sites that dominate the digital world today, there was Zanga.
10:52In the 2000s, it became a popular place, especially among teens, to blog and connect online.
10:58This web blogging service took off at the start of the decade, and shortly after, it added features like comments
11:05and photo uploads.
11:06In 2006, Zanga let users upload audio blogs and add online friends.
11:12That year, it hit a user base of around 30 million.
11:15But even the launch of video blogs in 2007 wasn't enough to keep this once-significant social media presence around.
11:23Zanga shut its doors in 2013.
11:25Thanks Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
11:29There's Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Maps, Google Earth, so on and so forth.
11:35But what about Google Reader?
11:36It tends to get lost in the shuffle, probably because it hasn't existed since 2013.
11:41Google Reader was launched in 2005 and became a popular way for people to collect their favorite web content in
11:48one organized place.
11:49Efficiency and organization were its main draws.
11:52However, a decline in use and Google's desire to focus on other products led them to give Reader the boot.
11:59In March of 2013, a petition to save it reached over 100,000 signatures, but Google stood its ground.
12:06But Google says usage of the service has declined.
12:12The original Motorola Razr came out in November 2004.
12:16And from 2005 to 2008, it was at the top of the mountain in terms of cell phone popularity in
12:22the U.S.
12:26In retrospect, it might not seem all that special, but at the time, it was.
12:31The thin design of the V3 set it apart.
12:33When we reminisce about flip phones in general, the Razr should be thought of as the epitome of that era.
12:39But perhaps the only time you'll see them nowadays is if you put on a TV series from the 2000s
12:44like Prison Break,
12:45or a 2000s movie like The Devil Wears Prada.
12:48Let me see what I can do.
12:49Good.
12:50Number 16, personal digital assistants.
12:53Hey, who's got a PDA?
12:54Everybody's got a PDA.
12:55A touchscreen device with data storage, Bluetooth, a calendar, an address book, and a calculator.
13:01Sounds familiar, right?
13:03These are the functions many personal digital assistants, or PDAs, were built to provide.
13:08PDAs entered a lot of people's lives in the 1990s and 2000s.
13:13One example is Microsoft's Pocket PC, which was introduced in 2000, but was phased out by the end of the
13:19decade.
13:20So let's type in car, and you'll see that it's suggesting words for me as I type.
13:25The concept of a pocket-sized computer has obviously evolved, becoming more advanced and well-rounded than PDAs ever were.
13:32As a result, PDAs lost their appeal.
13:35Still, they shouldn't be ignored as predecessors to modern smartphones.
13:39But for really smart, check out this palm handheld from CompUSA.
13:43Number 15, Friendster.
13:46115 million users were registered on Friendster in 2008, five years after its launch.
13:53This is one of the ancestors of social media that people probably forget about because it's no longer around.
13:59So, here's a place that suits your style. A place where you can express yourself.
14:04The platform was designed to allow users to connect with others online, share content, comment, message, discover new events, and
14:12more.
14:12The problem was that it just couldn't keep up with other major players in the industry, namely Facebook.
14:18Friendster transitioned into a social gaming platform in 2011.
14:22Just a few years later, it shut down its site before officially ceasing to exist in 2018.
14:28Well, it was called Friendster, and at its peak, it was a vibrant social network with more than 50 million
14:34members.
14:3450 million?
14:35That's right. But then, out of the blue, the civilization just ended.
14:39Number 14, Club Penguin.
14:41Rated E for everyone.
14:43As far as online games and virtual worlds go, Club Penguin was a standout.
14:48Just hearing the name probably brings back some nostalgia for anyone who was a kid during the late 2000s and
14:54early 2010s.
14:56After launching in 2005, Club Penguin reached 30 million users by 2007.
15:01And by 2013, had registered over 200 million accounts.
15:06While users could purchase memberships if they wanted to upgrade their Penguin's style, home, or pet,
15:11the basic version of the game was free.
15:14There's something new and exciting every week.
15:16The interactive nature of Club Penguin was also instrumental to its popularity.
15:21That, and of course, the chance to play with virtual penguins.
15:24By the mid-2010s, though, Club Penguin's popularity began to decline, and it was discontinued in 2017.
15:35Number 13, Blockbuster.
15:37Remember the days when watching a movie at home meant first heading to a rental store?
15:41Or waiting for a DVD to arrive in the mail?
15:44For many, Blockbuster was the go-to place for that.
15:47There's one near you.
15:49At its peak, the chain boasted over 9,000 store locations.
15:53However, a combination of factors, including the Great Recession, rising competition,
15:58and a failure to adapt to the changing home video landscape led to its demise.
16:03By 2014, all corporate-owned Blockbuster stores had closed,
16:07and the company had shut down its DVD-by-mail program after filing for bankruptcy a few years earlier.
16:13This really is the end of an era.
16:15Blockbuster will close all of its remaining stores.
16:18Technically, one Blockbuster store still survives in Bend, Oregon,
16:22serving as a nostalgic tourist attraction and a reminder of the brand's once-iconic status.
16:27This is it.
16:28This is our final stand.
16:30Number 12, Redbox.
16:32Perhaps you remember that eye-catching red movie machine inside or outside your local supermarket,
16:38convenience store, or pharmacy.
16:40And with over 41,000 kiosks in more locations than Starbucks and McDonald's combined.
16:46That vending kiosk was known as Redbox, easy to remember and instantly recognizable.
16:51Redbox was founded in 2002 and quickly expanded its kiosk locations across the U.S.
16:57The idea was transformative, and the technology seemed pretty awesome at the time.
17:02I guess we could get a scary movie.
17:03That one is crazy, right?
17:05You'd use the screen to browse through numerous movie options,
17:08pick what you wanted to rent, pay, and voila.
17:11The DVD would pop right out.
17:13You'd then bring it home, watch it, and return it when you were done.
17:16Simple as that.
17:17However, with the rise of streaming, the company couldn't keep up.
17:20Its run officially came to an end in 2024.
17:24The 24,000 DVD kiosks are closing.
17:27As streaming continues its dominance.
17:29Number 11, iPods.
17:31These discontinued portable media players were a key part of Apple's history
17:35and revolutionized the way we listen to music.
17:38iPods were a tier above formats like mini discs.
17:41The first ever iPod was released in 2001.
17:44iPod, a thousand songs in your pocket.
17:47Over the years, Apple produced a variety of models.
17:50The classic, mini, nano, shuffle, and touch,
17:53offering plenty of ways to enjoy your favorite tunes.
17:56Some versions even came with games.
17:59Many former iPod users probably remember the iTunes store to buy songs and build playlists.
18:04Apple officially discontinued the iPod product line in 2022,
18:08but its decline started long before,
18:11as the iPhone took over in the 2010s,
18:13blending music playback with so much more.
18:15As a business decision, this makes a lot of sense.
18:19People are not buying iPods.
18:21Number 10, Nintendo PictoChat.
18:24Before the iPhone, there was the Nintendo PictoChat.
18:27This 2004 messaging app was included on various Nintendo DS consoles.
18:33Essentially, one user could type or draw on their console
18:37and share their message to other DS users.
18:40Hey, look what I got.
18:41We can chat on games.
18:43Those who played Super Smash Bros. Brawl may recognize the PictoChat,
18:48as it actually appears as a stage in the game.
18:52Hey-ya!
18:53Hey-ya!
18:54Hey-ya!
18:56Hey-ya!
18:57Hey-ya!
18:58The app is technically still alive, but let's be honest,
19:01does anyone actually use it anymore?
19:03I'm still cool.
19:04Nah, you've changed, man.
19:07The DS was discontinued in 2013,
19:09and the 3DS has since replaced PictoChat
19:12with another app titled SwapNote.
19:15Number 9, LiveJournal.
19:17This social networking service technically started back in 1999
19:20when a programmer named Brad Fitzpatrick
19:24created it to stay in touch with his friends.
19:26Nothing is more important than having the freedom
19:28to express your thoughts and feelings openly with others.
19:32On today's social networks, however,
19:34you probably feel pressure to censor
19:36many of your true feelings and opinions.
19:38The basics.
19:39People write a personal journal,
19:41and other users can read it.
19:42It was eventually adopted by various fandoms
19:45and used for things like fan fiction and original stories.
19:48But even this was eventually taken elsewhere.
19:51I was so calm and boring,
19:52I didn't even want a live journal.
19:53And then Dawson's Creek got bad
19:55because there was no one to speak truth to power.
19:57Dawson's Creek did not get bad.
19:59Nowadays, the service is mainly used in Russia.
20:01Isn't that good?
20:02Let's go!
20:04Russia!
20:05Yep, the product was eventually sold
20:06to Russian company SUP Media,
20:08where it became a popular site
20:10for political pundits and public figures.
20:13Claimed $30 million was paid for the global brand,
20:15but soup suggested to business today,
20:18the figure was much higher.
20:19So, like the Twitter of Russia?
20:21Number 8, Pagers.
20:23Shockingly enough,
20:25some people have never seen a pager outside of a movie.
20:28Can I ask you a question?
20:29Do you know if the hotel's pager-friendly?
20:31What do you mean?
20:32I'm not getting a sig on my beeper.
20:34Pagers were essentially used
20:35to transmit voice and text messages
20:37before the invention of cell phones.
20:40Gosh, I hope you got a picture of that
20:41with a camera on your beeper.
20:42Actually, my beeper doesn't have a camera,
20:44but it does have a pedometer.
20:45Actually, not this one.
20:47These things have been used since the 50s,
20:50although they lasted well into the 2000s.
20:52First of all, Jake,
20:53there's no records that you and I teamed up together
20:55because you insisted that we only communicate
20:57through a beeper.
20:58Stupid beepers were right to be addicted to our phones.
21:01In 2003 alone,
21:02the pager industry generated
21:04over $6 billion in revenue.
21:06Unfortunately, this all came crashing down
21:09upon the widespread adoption of cell phones
21:11and, you know, texting.
21:13Oh, my moolah!
21:14It's escaping my clutches!
21:16Nowadays, pagers are mainly used
21:17in public health and emergency industries.
21:20What's with the second beeper?
21:21Carla gave it to me.
21:22This is due to their systems being more reliable
21:25than cell networks.
21:27Number 7.
21:28Microsoft Zune.
21:29The Zune was essentially
21:31Microsoft's answer to the iPod.
21:33It was a line of portable media devices
21:35that could play music and videos
21:37through the Zune Music Pass service.
21:39Just show me how to work this thing.
21:41Well, the tourney thing there
21:42makes the songs go up and down.
21:44Made by primitive people.
21:46That is primitive.
21:46Show you some of my favorites.
21:47It's got traffic.
21:49That's really good.
21:49The first model, the Zune 30,
21:52came equipped with a whopping 30 gigs of storage
21:54and a 3-inch screen.
21:56It was introduced in 2006,
21:58but sales were immediately stagnant.
22:05It took just 3% of the MP3 market
22:08and was considered dead by 2008.
22:11I stood in front of a case of iPods
22:13and I bought a Zune.
22:18What's a Zune?
22:20Yep, exactly.
22:21Sales had crashed
22:22and even major stores like GameStop
22:24refused to sell them,
22:26citing a lack of demand.
22:27I am never gonna financially recover from this.
22:30The hardware hung on until 2011,
22:32until it was mercifully discontinued.
22:36Number 6.
22:36CD Binders.
22:38CD players were introduced in 1982
22:40and quickly eclipsed records
22:42as the primary method of listening to music.
22:45Well, lads,
22:45what do you think of the new album cover?
22:47Great, but it won't look good
22:49when it's shrunk down for a CD.
22:51CD?
22:52What's a CD?
22:53A digital compact disc.
22:54Their popularity lasted well into the 2000s.
22:58That is, before things like the iPod and smartphones
23:00essentially made them obsolete.
23:02I get iPod.
23:04He only get iPod mini.
23:05But before then,
23:07we needed something to hold our hundreds of CDs.
23:10The answer?
23:11CD Binders.
23:12These were large books filled with plastic pages
23:15and in these pages were slots in which to slide a CD.
23:19Unfortunately,
23:19the fun of flipping through these booklets
23:21went out with CD players themselves.
23:36Son of a bitch.
23:38Now we can scroll through our phones instead.
23:41Admittedly,
23:41it does not bring the same joy.
23:44Number 5.
23:45Sony Ericsson.
23:46Remember the Sony Ericsson?
23:48Not many do.
23:50Pepperidge Farm remembers.
23:51The mobile market is a fickle thing
23:53and many companies,
23:55including Blackberry,
23:56have come and gone.
23:58Smartphones were actually in play
23:59long before the iPhone appeared in 2007.
24:08In fact,
24:09five years earlier,
24:11Sony released a touch-based smartphone
24:13called the Sony Ericsson P800.
24:15This ran under the Symbian OS,
24:17which was developed in the late 90s for PDAs.
24:20The final Ericsson phone was the Vivaz,
24:23which was introduced in March 2010.
24:25After that,
24:26the Ericsson brand was discontinued.
24:33Sony dropped their previous OS
24:35and began running Android,
24:37and they abandoned the Ericsson line
24:39to focus exclusively on the Xperia.
24:42Number 4.
24:43Halo 2 Servers.
24:45Few video games are as historic as Halo 2.
24:55Gentlemen,
24:56we're lucky to have you back.
24:58Its multiplayer component
24:59helped popularize Xbox Live
25:01and originated many now-common aspects
25:04of online gaming,
25:06including matchmaking and lobbies.
25:08Multiplayer's a little different
25:09because it's more like a sport
25:10in that you're, you know,
25:11yes, the game is there,
25:12but it's basically helping you
25:12compete against your friends.
25:16Yep, one could certainly make the argument
25:18that online multiplayer gaming
25:19began with Halo 2,
25:21at least within the mainstream.
25:23Oh, I haven't had a chance to shower
25:24for a few days.
25:25I've been gaming like a loon.
25:27Unfortunately,
25:27a major part of its history is now dead.
25:30The Xbox Live server
25:31was officially discontinued
25:33in April of 2010,
25:34and the PC servers
25:36were terminated three years later.
25:38I thought we were gonna play Halo tonight.
25:39By the summer of 2013,
25:41all the OG Halo 2 servers
25:43were offline.
25:44Luckily,
25:45the game survives
25:46through the Master Chief collection,
25:47and its multiplayer
25:48can still be enjoyed to this day.
25:51You'll make a girl with problems.
25:52If you know you can't keep it.
25:54Number 3.
25:55MSN.
25:56There was simply nothing
25:58like getting home from school,
25:59grabbing a snack,
26:00and logging into MSN for the night.
26:02This was a basic service
26:03that allowed two or more people
26:05to talk to each other
26:06through text-based messaging.
26:08What about your girlfriend?
26:11Well,
26:12things are getting pretty serious right now.
26:13I mean,
26:14we chat online for like two hours every day,
26:17so I guess you could say
26:18things are getting pretty serious.
26:19Voice recordings
26:20were introduced in later iterations.
26:22The service really took off
26:24in the early 2000s,
26:25with version 7.5
26:27being released
26:28in the summer of 2005.
26:35Following that,
26:36MSN was rebranded
26:37as Windows Live Messenger,
26:39and this was officially released
26:40in June of 2006.
26:47Unfortunately,
26:48it was also around this time
26:49that social media truly blew up,
26:52leaving Messenger in the dust.
26:53I don't want things to change.
26:56But you can't stop the change
26:58any more than you can stop
26:59the suns from setting.
27:01Number 2.
27:02LimeWire and Napster
27:03Following the advent of the internet,
27:06it didn't take long
27:07for file-sharing clients to pop up.
27:09The most popular by far
27:10were LimeWire and Napster.
27:12Well, I founded an internet company
27:14that let folks download
27:15and share music for free.
27:17Kind of like Napster?
27:18Exactly.
27:19Like Napster.
27:20What do you mean?
27:22I founded Napster.
27:23Sean Parker founded Napster.
27:25Nice to meet you.
27:26These took advantage
27:27of something called
27:28peer-to-peer file-sharing.
27:30It essentially allowed people
27:31to download music
27:32from someone else's files
27:33without paying for it.
27:34Isn't that stealing?
27:36You downloaded a lot of songs.
27:38Says here you even downloaded
27:39Judas Priest?
27:41That's hard time
27:42you boys are looking at.
27:43You got anything
27:44to say for yourselves?
27:46We didn't think
27:48it was that big a deal.
27:49We'll let you be the judge.
27:50These systems exploded
27:51in the early 2000s
27:53and were easy enough to use.
27:55So much so that even
27:56the most technologically
27:57adverse individuals
27:58could operate them.
27:59Of course, along with their popularity
28:01came the copyright lawsuits.
28:03As a result,
28:04Napster was forced
28:05to shut down in 2001.
28:07I'm starting to like
28:08this whole sharing thing.
28:10Hey, boys!
28:11Fuck, I'm here!
28:16Before we continue,
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28:29and switch on notifications.
28:32Number one,
28:34dial-up internet.
28:35Anyone who used
28:36the internet
28:36in the early 2000s
28:38knows the sound
28:39of dial-up.
28:43As a result,
28:44the dial-up noise
28:45is something 14-year-old
28:46Hebe Richardson
28:47has come to dread.
28:48Dial-up allowed us
28:49to access the early internet,
28:51which was more
28:51of a Wild West experience
28:53than the corporatized
28:54internet of today.
28:55The speeds were cumbersome
28:57and the video
28:57and audio quality
28:58was not for the faint of heart.
29:07Welcome.
29:08But there was
29:09an undeniable sense
29:10of fun to it all.
29:11Hurry up!
29:12I'm a busy man.
29:14We were experiencing
29:15something truly groundbreaking,
29:17historic even.
29:19Napoleon,
29:19don't be jealous
29:20that I've been chatting
29:21online with babes all day.
29:23Of course,
29:23broadband killed dial-up
29:25in the mid-2000s
29:26and a certain part
29:27of the internet
29:27ended with it.
29:29Broadband is the marriage
29:30of those technologies.
29:31The best description
29:32I heard came
29:33from a pioneer
29:34in broadband,
29:34Excite at Home.
29:35They call it
29:36the internet on steroids.
29:38One thing we don't miss,
29:39however,
29:40is having to log off
29:41so someone could use
29:42the phone.
29:43Yeesh.
29:44What do you miss most
29:45from the 2000s?
29:46Let us know
29:47in the comments.
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