Millenial Pop Culture
This social network taught us how to rank our friends and customize a profile song.
What is MySpace?
This early YouTube video featured a British kid doing something naughty to his brother and took the internet by storm.
What is Charlie bite me?
This reality show convinced us that home renovations required yelling and surprise buses from Ty Burrell
What is Extreme Makeover: Home Edition?
This colorful candy came with a tiny paper comic strip and stained everyone’s tongue.
What are Bazooka gum comics?
This bulky computer accessory made the internet scream before it worked.
What is a dial-up modem?
This early 2000s movie made “burn book” part of our vocabulary.
What is Mean Girls?
This instant messaging service let you set cryptic away messages that were definitely about someone.
What is AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)?
This basketball themed show made high school seem impossibly dramatic and emotionally exhausting for everyone involved.
What is One Tree Hill?
This yogurt brand made tubes acceptable to eat at any age.
What is Go-Gurt?
This music device could skip if you moved too confidently.
What is a Discman?
This early-2000s cellphone commercial featured a man walking around asking a single question to prove network coverage.
What is the “Can you hear me now?”
This early 2000s computer game involved shooting colorful blobs at each other and ruined many afternoons.
What is Snood?
This mockumentary-style sitcom made office life feel both unbearable and weirdly comforting.
What is The Office?
This snack came with frosting and made lunch feel elite if you had it.
What are Dunkaroos?
Question: This was the universal solution when a computer stopped working.
What is turning it off and back on again?
This 2000s celebrity meltdown was so widely covered that it permanently changed how the media treated young female stars.
Who is Britney Spears?
This looping Flash animation involved a rotating phone and a famously hypnotic ringtone.
What is Crazy Frog?
This movie made us believe that one perfect outfit, daddy's credit card, and Paul Rudd could change your entire social status.
What is Clueless?
This candy’s slogan instructed kids to interact with sugar in three very specific steps: “Lick it, dip it, shake it."
What is Baby Bottle Pop
This device stored your homework and could be destroyed by one strong magnet.
What is a floppy disk?
This Canadian teen drama taught us that anything could happen at school, including school shootings, teen pregnancy, and surprise pop star careers.
What is Degrassi?
This unsettling flash animation series absolutely should not have been watched by children, but was anyway.
What is Salad Fingers?
This movie taught us that basketball tryouts and musical auditions absolutely had to happen at the same time.
What is High School Musical?
This candy was so aggressively sour that kids dared each other to last more than five seconds without crying.
What are Warheads?
This peer-to-peer file-sharing program was famous for mislabeled downloads, computer viruses, and accidentally getting the wrong version of a song or movie.
What is LimeWire?