Funny,CuriositiesOCT 12, 2020

People Are Sharing What Things Look Strange Now, But Were Completely Normal 20 Years Ago In This Viral Thread

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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...

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People Are Sharing What Things Look Strange Now, But Were Completely Normal 20 Years Ago In This Viral Thread

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

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

Dijiwolf1975, priscilladupreez

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135points

#2

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

digitalchicken, snd63

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123points

#3

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

LeftHandMorty9, sashaatx

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118points

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

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

sib2972, aleksdorohovich

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118points

#5

MTV music videos actually had videos

theinkedmuneca, public domain

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116points

#6

Memorizing a phone number.

nofrigginway, PublicDomainPictures

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116points

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

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

JustAnother0utcast, MichaelGaida

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109points

#8

Rewinding movies when you’re done watching them

Raze321, igpetry

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100points

#9

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.

Rustyboyvermont, iwnph

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99points