These were the signs which increased your ‘cool’ quotient in the early 2000s.
It’s hard to believe that 18 years have passed since the millennium dropped in 2000. Fashion trends and technology have advanced since then, but we still remember the early 2000s as the good old (albeit, slightly cringe-worthy) days. Those were the days when glitter was everywhere, and on every body part, when super low waist jeans were all the rage, and when Britney was sassing us all by being Britney.
Just because we were in middle school or high school did not mean we tried any less hard to appear cool. And we’ve curated a list of things that were the definition of ‘cool’ for us. So, if you wanna take a trip down memory lane check out this article.
Orkut was your introduction to social media, and you especially bugged your friends to write amazing, long testimonials for you. Remember using the scrapbook to chat on Orkut? Can you imagine doing that now? Nuh-uh.
Of all the classes in school, we’re sure you hated Math the most. Unless, you were one of those grade-A students who loved math! Regardless of your relationship with the subject, you were thrilled to possess your first geometry box with all its weird tools and equipments.
Back then, this was a pretty accurate way of determining whom you’ll love, marry, hate and so on.
Physical Education classes were mere excuses to romp around in the dirt, and make your mom’s life a living hell by making your attire disgustingly dirty. But oddly enough, you loved this process of whitening your Bata converse.
These days you must get pretty pissed off at the slightest of discomfort, even a 10-minute power cut has the ability to push your buttons. But throwback to the time when you were in school and you didn’t have an inverter, power cuts meant total freedom from your school work.
You knew Backstreet Boys’ ‘Everybody’ by heart, and had no qualms about singing, ‘Am I sexual?’ in public. You even had your favorite cutie from each band.
These were embroidered in the nether regions, and you paired them with chunky belts and platform sandals. So hip.*barfs
Frankly, we have Disney and Nickelodeon to blame for this trend.
This was started by Kajol’s weird look from the first half of K2H2. Our school also had a weird policy of allowing only yellow and black hair bands to be worn by girls, and we totally rocked the yellow hairband.
I still have no idea what it did to ease digestion apart from adding a bitter aftertaste to your mouth for what felt like an eternity.
Glitter was the single most important makeup item in our vanity bags. And we generously utilized glitter in every single aspect of our outfit of the day.
You were hankering after transparent lip gloss, sometimes with glitter, which you would wear on special occasions. But it was the bane of your existence when it got windy, because your hair would inevitably get stuck in your lip gloss.
The holy grail of all teenage boys who aspired for ‘spiked’ hair. Brylcreem was used to give the ‘just-out-of-shower’ look to your appearance. Kudos to the 2000s for making the ‘wet mop’ a fashion statement.
Cigarette candies made us feel a lot older and, automatically, a lot smarter!
If you’ve ever had the pleasure of owning a laser pointer, you were the envy of your neighborhood kids, and the terror of your neighborhood elders. You made cats and dogs chase it, pointed it into people’s houses at night, basically caused a lot of unnecessary havoc with your choice of weaponry.
You exchanged these with your friends and created your collection.
These were usually filled right before farewell, or after joining a new class. You wrote the name of your crush in secret codes and wrote cheesy dialogues, replete with filmy references.
This was one of your prized possessions, usually gifted by your parents on your birthday or by your uncle who lived in the States.
The MotoRazr Flip Phone in either pink or silver was the epitome of ‘millennial cool’. It was the fanciest accessory for your teen self and was all the rage in your school. The flip phone was so popular that it became the highest selling handset of its generation, and rumour has it, that the MotoRazr is making a comeback.
Even Iron Man uses a Flip Phone in the Avengers: Infinity Wars. Hurry up, Moto, give us our favorite flip phone back.
Did you agree with our list? Tell us stuff we’ve missed out, in the comments below.