16 Cringeworthy Early 2000s Habits

If you want to avoid embarrassment, stay away from these awkward habits from the early 2000s.

“Recording songs from the radio and trimming off the talking parts at the beginning”

“Blowing in the cartridge to get the game working”

“Taking a selfie on a digital camera”

“Having long conversations while leaning on a public phone booth”

“Calling to ask about the weather outside”

“Stopping by someone’s house unannounced”‘

“Relying on phone books to find business listings”

“I’m sure some people don’t ever remember when you had to manually finish shut down.”

“Trying peculiar hairstyles”

“Going to the cyber café to chat with your friends on MSN”

“Trying to light things up with the Flip Lighter App”

“Using a Walkman all day, every day”

“Waiting until the commercials come on to run out and take a bathroom break”

“Wanting black streaks in your hair”

“Memorizing phone numbers”

“Doing anything to get the poofy ponytail look”

Source: brightside.me

2 comments

  1. This post is obviously made by someone who thinks time began in the year 2000, as some of these examples are from the 1980s…

  2. That windows one must be running on a seriously old PC. Windows would auto-shutdown as long as there was an ATX power supply, these became commonplace around 1997. XP was released late 2001.

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