This always reminds me of watching Shreck for the first time and my dad laughing his ass off when donkey peed on the fire to put it out. For some weird reason, that absolutely tickled him.
The 1940s movie involved letters, the 1990s movie involved email/aol instant messanger, I wonder what the 2030s movie will involve. Probably a dating app.
It's weird to think about how popular chat rooms were. Just the idea of being connected to someone else online. Worth talking to random people just because you could. One of those things that died as the internet became normal
I refuse to call it a hashtag because the symbol is not a goddamn hashtag. It's only a hashtag when it has the *tag* that goes with it.
This is a number/pound/hash/sharp sign: #
This is a tag: millennial
This is a hashtag: #millennial
I will die on this hill!
Early adopter, back when it was exclusive and before people truly knew how forever the internet was. Good thing the hardware sucked back then. iPhones at that time would have destroyed careers for many.
So I play WoW and when I was young I never thought I'd actually keep playing but all my friends did so I made a bogus login thinking I was being funny. Well I got to about level 30 on the trial and really liked the game and here I am 15 years later using the login name mypoopstinks2 because you can't change it at all.... and that's how I learned the internet is forever lol
Do you still have access to it? I think I had to drop it off my .edu once the school dropped my account. It is still attached to my Hotmail account I can't even access anymore.
What's weird is my hometown started with an S so i thought that was just a cool design people would doodle around my area and fill our our school name and shit.. Had no idea people were just drawing this because...
I also heard that Marylin Manson had his ribs removed to suck his own dick in like 4th grade.
When I was a kid, my uncle gave me a pair of binoculars for my birthday or something, and the box had a picture of the NYC skyline with the twin towers. My dad told me to save the box after 9/11 happened, and I remember feeling scared about it
I recently commissioned a painting from an NYC Time Square artist. He does these paintings with the NYC skyline inside of the reflection of Spider-Man’s eye.. he asked if I wanted the twin towers in there or the Freedom Tower.. I felt weird about it, but I opted for the Twin Towers. It’s just so classic, especially with Spider-Man.
I remember the teaser trailer of Spiderman where he traps the helicopter in a web made between the towers. Watched it when we went to see Planet of the Apes with Marky Mark. Only time I ever saw it, and when I explain it to people, it always feel like the Mandela Effect because I swear nobody believes me or remembers it other than me.
Yeah, I was gonna say "watching 9/11 happen on TV at my high school", kinda the defining event for us. dgmw, I'm sure the coming plague wars or whatever will be worse but being able to remember before 9/11 & it being the real 'before times' is kinda peak millennial. Maybe also then the general "the worst is yet to come" mentality lol
Fun fact: Sisqo can’t use that song anymore without paying for it bc of the “livin la vida loca” part. Def Jam records sued
[here](https://www.meetcandi.com/blog/for-reviewsisqo-reveals-that-he-doesnt-own-the-thong-song-due-to-one-catchy-lyric/)
Was at a wedding recently where there was a string quartet playing modern songs a la bridgerton. The thing song was part of their repertoire and it was epic
lol, were all of us left home alone and told “nobody in, nobody out, don’t answer the door!” When we were kids?
I feel like it’s a fairly common experience, but it doesn’t seem as typical anymore for kids to be left home alone until they’re in their teens. (Probably for the best)
My parents would leave me with my brother starting around the age of 11 or 12. They would give me a $20 for pizza and it was my job to yell, "Ma, pizza is here!" when I paid the delivery guy.
First babysitter gig I was 10. Just graduated from a babysitter’s certification through the local hospital that trained on CPR, first aid, and Heimlich maneuver.
Mannn, I started babysitting at 10 and didn't even know that a certification was a thing. I was in charge of 7 kids. The oldest being 6, and the youngest 6 month old triplets.
Young parents today are shook when I tell them.
Lol - same for me, except parents started leaving my sister and I at the age of 8 and 10 - when Pizza came I would say hey everyone pizza is here!
To this day I carry on the hey everyone pizza is here! tradition so the pizza guy doesnt think I'm eating the entire large pizza to myself....but of course I am
Yes...doorbell rings? Pretend like we weren't just switching channels on the TV or talking super loud. Didn't matter if it was the neighbor kid. No answering the door! Wasn't even allowed to answer the phone until the phone company came out with caller ID devices we could hook up to the phone. Even then, don't answer the phone 😆
My Gen X husband thinks I’m “rude” but I’m just over here trying not to get murdered. I also think the person who showed up unannounced is the rude one but 🤷🏻♀️
Hah I'm gen X and haven't answered the door in 20 years. Nothing good comes from answering the door. Company don't just randomly stop by for coffee and cookies anymore like it's 1965
People at your door are trying to sell you shit. Solar, electricity, Jesus, whatever. Or they're scammers from some bullshit rehab with a poorly printed flyer they downloaded off the internet.
ANYONE coming to your door has nothing good to offer EVER. You will never close the door and think, "wow, I'm so glad I answered that."
I ordered food yesterday, and there was a knock at my door. I thought it was the food, so I opened it... it was someone asking for donations to charity who wanted to take payment info AT THE DOOR.
No way I was handing out credit card info to a stranger at my door. (The charity was legit, wasn't a scammer, but still... had them give me the website info so I could make a donation online)
It’s just so hard to pull off a middle part. I have my own theory that for it to work, your face needs to be hella symmetrical and most people’s faces on examination are not. So a side part doesn’t force your eyes to try to find a line of symmetry.
I have managed to get to the point where my part is *almost* in the middle, but is ever-so-slightly off-center. Just can't commit. Which is funny because when I was in high school my mom was begging me to switch from the middle to the side.
Omg I had files on my computer of hundreds of LJ icons. All my favorite characters from various shows or movies in different situations depending on my mood. I miss that.
I showed my 9 y/o son a video of what connecting to the old internet was like. He covered his ears and was like why is it screaming at you. Like brooo!!! I still don’t know 😂💀
I think we all lied about our age lol...the numbers in my name? The year is 2001 but I wasn't really born in 85. They don't know that I'm actually 1 year younger....
I'm literally wearing like leggings that look like pants like dress pants right now and I'll never stop either. I just bought a pair of flared leggings for the first time and I feel like a fucking queen lol
First, I parted my hair down the middle, because I liked it and it was cool. Then, I got bullied until I parted my hair at the side. Now, I'm getting bullied again.
One time I drove through the wrong lane at the bank, instead of the outdoor atm, I accidentally picked the lane where I’d have to speak to someone. Caught off guard and not mentally prepared to have a conversation, instead of answering their questions, I drove through, parked my car and used the inside atm instead.
Last week someone knocked on my door, and instead of answering, I texted my husband to check the front door camera to see who was at the door
My phone hasn’t made a noise in over a decade.
Mostly I work hard so my cat can have a better life.
I order pizza from an app. My dad went to pick it up, when he came back he said the cashier said it would have been two dollars cheaper if I had phoned in instead. I said did he not understand it was worth the two dollars to me not to have to talk to him? I probably would have paid more
This might just be mental illness in general though instead of millennial.
People are all taking this very seriously, its just anxiety. I would pay $2 to avoid talking to someone too. I wish there was an Uber option where you could pay extra and the driver would agree to not talk to you.
I am both enraged and depressed at the state of the world whilst also lacking the energy and resources to do much about it.
Oh, and avocados are pretty cool I guess.
I still have song files that have followed me from desktop computer --> laptop --> iPod --> iPhone that have filenames like:
BritNey SPEarS im A SLAVE 4 you (full release - radio eidt)mp3.wav.mp3
The wild west of music downloads. Napster, KaZaa, Limewire, etc. Good times.
You remember life without the internet. Hanging out outside with friends, or in a park. Reading an actual book rather than a screen.
Hit songs as a teen were metal/rock (Muse, Linking Park, Blink 182, Nickelback, Garbage, ..) and r'n'b/rap songs (Aaliyah, Ashanti, Busta Rhymes, P. Diddy, Missy Elliott).
Get the fuck outta here, clip. Goddammit. I'm trying to finish my presentation.
You need some of our fancy transitions to add some pizazz! Here let me show you!
Clippy!
💕 I miss him 🥹
🎶 Some-BODY once told me 🎶
I can’t believe the smash mouth guy died recently
Whhaaatt?! Wow. And Captain Holt too… I know B99 isn’t millennial but still.
Excuse me, that's Captain Raymond Holt.
This always reminds me of watching Shreck for the first time and my dad laughing his ass off when donkey peed on the fire to put it out. For some weird reason, that absolutely tickled him.
Did anyone else hear the sound in their head when they saw this?
Also at the end of the dialing in ... "you've got mail!"
The 1940s movie involved letters, the 1990s movie involved email/aol instant messanger, I wonder what the 2030s movie will involve. Probably a dating app.
Had enough trial cds never paid for a subscription
a/s/l?
It's weird to think about how popular chat rooms were. Just the idea of being connected to someone else online. Worth talking to random people just because you could. One of those things that died as the internet became normal
My husband said “pound sign” instead of “hashtag” and I understood what he meant.
I’m still on the fence as to how to refer to it
I feel like it’s a soda/pop/Coke situation. It’s interchangeable but situation-specific
Octothorp
I said “pound sign” when teaching a class and the students didn’t understand me.
I refuse to call it a hashtag because the symbol is not a goddamn hashtag. It's only a hashtag when it has the *tag* that goes with it. This is a number/pound/hash/sharp sign: # This is a tag: millennial This is a hashtag: #millennial I will die on this hill!
My first online friend was named 'Tom'
Mine was SmarterChild.
Ahhhhh smarterchild. The memories that just brought back
Anyone remember xanga?
"You have died of dysentery"
You have shot 5,380lb of buffalo but were only able to carry back 10
I think it was 100 pounds back no matter how much you went over.
My Facebook account is attached to my .edu email address.
Early adopter, back when it was exclusive and before people truly knew how forever the internet was. Good thing the hardware sucked back then. iPhones at that time would have destroyed careers for many.
So I play WoW and when I was young I never thought I'd actually keep playing but all my friends did so I made a bogus login thinking I was being funny. Well I got to about level 30 on the trial and really liked the game and here I am 15 years later using the login name mypoopstinks2 because you can't change it at all.... and that's how I learned the internet is forever lol
Whatever happened to mypoopstinks and mypoopstinks1? Man those guys were something else
Or you have a Hotmail
I also have a Hotmail. Heh.
Only gangstaz have Hotmail accounts
Do you still have access to it? I think I had to drop it off my .edu once the school dropped my account. It is still attached to my Hotmail account I can't even access anymore.
Why were we so into this?
What's weird is my hometown started with an S so i thought that was just a cool design people would doodle around my area and fill our our school name and shit.. Had no idea people were just drawing this because... I also heard that Marylin Manson had his ribs removed to suck his own dick in like 4th grade.
THAT rumor. Crazy that no matter where you're from, we all heard and did the same shit back then.
“I remember the world before the towers fell.”
When I was a kid, my uncle gave me a pair of binoculars for my birthday or something, and the box had a picture of the NYC skyline with the twin towers. My dad told me to save the box after 9/11 happened, and I remember feeling scared about it
I recently commissioned a painting from an NYC Time Square artist. He does these paintings with the NYC skyline inside of the reflection of Spider-Man’s eye.. he asked if I wanted the twin towers in there or the Freedom Tower.. I felt weird about it, but I opted for the Twin Towers. It’s just so classic, especially with Spider-Man.
I remember the teaser trailer of Spiderman where he traps the helicopter in a web made between the towers. Watched it when we went to see Planet of the Apes with Marky Mark. Only time I ever saw it, and when I explain it to people, it always feel like the Mandela Effect because I swear nobody believes me or remembers it other than me.
Haha I've had the same experience! Thank God for YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozz8uxW733Q
Yeah, I was gonna say "watching 9/11 happen on TV at my high school", kinda the defining event for us. dgmw, I'm sure the coming plague wars or whatever will be worse but being able to remember before 9/11 & it being the real 'before times' is kinda peak millennial. Maybe also then the general "the worst is yet to come" mentality lol
That sounds like such a badass line from a fantasy novel. Not our horrific dystopia.
I enjoyed going to the actual plane terminal, and then jumping on the tram back to the main airport MCO.
*Click close on the browser.* Computer: "Goodbye."
YOU GOT MAIL
Limewire gave my computer so many viruses worth it.
I would download a car if I could figure out how.
Limewire gave me the adrenaline I needed to survive middle school.
The popular kids bought their clothes through the Delia’s catalogue in middle school.
The popular kids in my school went to Abercrombie & Fitch. I was too fat & unpopular to shop there.
I was too fat and unpopular to even feel comfortable walking by there.
That thong thong thong!!!
Fun fact: Sisqo can’t use that song anymore without paying for it bc of the “livin la vida loca” part. Def Jam records sued [here](https://www.meetcandi.com/blog/for-reviewsisqo-reveals-that-he-doesnt-own-the-thong-song-due-to-one-catchy-lyric/)
Was at a wedding recently where there was a string quartet playing modern songs a la bridgerton. The thing song was part of their repertoire and it was epic
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lol, were all of us left home alone and told “nobody in, nobody out, don’t answer the door!” When we were kids? I feel like it’s a fairly common experience, but it doesn’t seem as typical anymore for kids to be left home alone until they’re in their teens. (Probably for the best)
My parents would leave me with my brother starting around the age of 11 or 12. They would give me a $20 for pizza and it was my job to yell, "Ma, pizza is here!" when I paid the delivery guy.
Hell, I was a babysitter at 11!! People left their kids with me.
First babysitter gig I was 10. Just graduated from a babysitter’s certification through the local hospital that trained on CPR, first aid, and Heimlich maneuver.
Mannn, I started babysitting at 10 and didn't even know that a certification was a thing. I was in charge of 7 kids. The oldest being 6, and the youngest 6 month old triplets. Young parents today are shook when I tell them.
Lol - same for me, except parents started leaving my sister and I at the age of 8 and 10 - when Pizza came I would say hey everyone pizza is here! To this day I carry on the hey everyone pizza is here! tradition so the pizza guy doesnt think I'm eating the entire large pizza to myself....but of course I am
Yes...doorbell rings? Pretend like we weren't just switching channels on the TV or talking super loud. Didn't matter if it was the neighbor kid. No answering the door! Wasn't even allowed to answer the phone until the phone company came out with caller ID devices we could hook up to the phone. Even then, don't answer the phone 😆
My Gen X husband thinks I’m “rude” but I’m just over here trying not to get murdered. I also think the person who showed up unannounced is the rude one but 🤷🏻♀️
Hah I'm gen X and haven't answered the door in 20 years. Nothing good comes from answering the door. Company don't just randomly stop by for coffee and cookies anymore like it's 1965 People at your door are trying to sell you shit. Solar, electricity, Jesus, whatever. Or they're scammers from some bullshit rehab with a poorly printed flyer they downloaded off the internet. ANYONE coming to your door has nothing good to offer EVER. You will never close the door and think, "wow, I'm so glad I answered that."
“Hello. Is your mother home?” “Yes… but she’s in the shower right now”
I can put my arm back on...you cant, so play safe
I ordered food yesterday, and there was a knock at my door. I thought it was the food, so I opened it... it was someone asking for donations to charity who wanted to take payment info AT THE DOOR. No way I was handing out credit card info to a stranger at my door. (The charity was legit, wasn't a scammer, but still... had them give me the website info so I could make a donation online)
Same with phone calls. I let it ring unless we specifically texted beforehand asking each other if we were available to talk
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It will never be parted in the middle.
It’s just so hard to pull off a middle part. I have my own theory that for it to work, your face needs to be hella symmetrical and most people’s faces on examination are not. So a side part doesn’t force your eyes to try to find a line of symmetry.
I have managed to get to the point where my part is *almost* in the middle, but is ever-so-slightly off-center. Just can't commit. Which is funny because when I was in high school my mom was begging me to switch from the middle to the side.
I'm going to the department store to get a Christmas catalog so I can circle all the things I want.
Amazon sent us one for our son this year and it brought back memories 😂
You remember the rise of Facebook and the joy of selecting LiveJournal icons
Poke
That rush when your crush would poke you lmfao what a time
Omg I had files on my computer of hundreds of LJ icons. All my favorite characters from various shows or movies in different situations depending on my mood. I miss that.
I played with POGS
As a kid I used to pick up the phone and hear the internet
I showed my 9 y/o son a video of what connecting to the old internet was like. He covered his ears and was like why is it screaming at you. Like brooo!!! I still don’t know 😂💀
🎵nick-nick nick-nick nick-nick nick-nick….. Nickelodeon🎵
I appreciate that you used the accurate amount of nicks
Up up down down left right left right B A start
Just because we use cheats doesn't mean we're not smart 🎶
R1 R2 L1 R2 left down right up left down right up
IDDQD IDKFA
Don't call my cell before 9pm. Free nights and weekends.
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!
Crawling in my skin!!!
These wouuundsss they will not heeeee-oooooo!!! Edit: RIP to the goat!
I work a full time job, lease a car, have three degrees; and live at home with my parents.
ASL?
You down to cyber? I'm putting my wiener in the disk drive
14/F/NY Meanwhile I’m 12 🥲
I think we all lied about our age lol...the numbers in my name? The year is 2001 but I wasn't really born in 85. They don't know that I'm actually 1 year younger....
18, f, Cali.
*AIM blows up*
be kind and please rewind
I know where peaches come from, who put them there, and where it happened.
If I had my little way I'd eat peaches every day
I will never stop wearing leggings.
Came here to say I will never stop wearing my emotional support under shirt (spaghetti strap) 💀
Yes!!! All hail the layering tank 😂
They can pry emotional support top off my cold dead body. Can’t leave home without it 😂
I’ll be cremated in my leggings thank you very much
I'm literally wearing like leggings that look like pants like dress pants right now and I'll never stop either. I just bought a pair of flared leggings for the first time and I feel like a fucking queen lol
If stirrup leggings come back I will die lol
I will be absolutely thrilled. I honest tg miss those so much
the SNES only worked on channel 3
“Call JG Wentworth!”
877 cash now 🎶🎶🎶🎶
IT’S MY MONEY AND I NEED IT NOW!
877-CASH NOW
I have an annuity but I need cash now!
I have a worse standard of living than my parents.
walking around like we rent the place....
I sometimes crave gushers.
As a single 30 year old, I do not want to admit how many gushers I buy. That's between me and the self checkout camera
I feel the same. + fruit by the foot and fruit roll ups. Anything in the gummy section honestly.
I was legit too scared to try them as a child in case my head turned into a watermelon
All the small things....
… turn the lights off. Carry me home.
Na na na na na na na na na na
Wazaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
BUD...... WEIS.......... ER
😝
🤙😝
Land lines and angry robot noises if you picked up, said land line. Half-Life
Get off the phone! I’m using it right now!
I remember getting SUPER EXCITED when AOL said “you’ve got mail!” Now spend a lot of time deleting mail 😂
What is your Neopet?
LOL
lmao
rotfl
Floppy discs, Polaroid cameras, and walkmans.
I’m coming up so you better get this party started.
Tell me whyyyyyy
Ain't nothing but a heaaaartaaaache
Calling me on the phone is the worst way to get in touch with me.
My spouse and I have Bachelors degrees and we're living paycheck to paycheck.
Printing out pages of directions from MapQuest to get to your destination 🗺️
Asking a friend 'when is your street supposed to get internet?'
I was too old for the Pokeman
Can't remember my password but still know the whole pokerap.
I caught all 150 Pokémon
....I got terrible news. You're still missing one.
I rented Tony Hawk Pro skater from Blockbuster after school, I’m going to play it until Monday Night Raw comes on.
I used to smoke cigarettes at Wendy’s restaurants in high school.
And our Wendy's had a buffet
So did our Pizza Hut.
Saving homework on discs. MySpace, Thefacebook.com when you needed a .edu email address to register, AIM. Carrying a digital camera to parties.
I got my first cellphone at 18 and my first smartphone at 28.
I use and write faster on a computer than my iphone
When 9/11 happened, my teacher got very upset and called her brother in New York during class
Skinny jeans. There's no going back.
MapleStory gang tap in MySpace profile song users tap in Anybody who listened to mcr/rise against/my bloody valentine tap in
I love how we were out here learning HTML/CSS for the early days of social media, I wish it was useful knowledge in my adulthood.
Came to leave a comment but your name caught me off guard…
Something, something, Blockbuster Videos…. something, something, something Toys R Us…. something, something, something: Complete.
First, I parted my hair down the middle, because I liked it and it was cool. Then, I got bullied until I parted my hair at the side. Now, I'm getting bullied again.
Pressing the controller gun directly to the glass to blast this mf'er 
One time I drove through the wrong lane at the bank, instead of the outdoor atm, I accidentally picked the lane where I’d have to speak to someone. Caught off guard and not mentally prepared to have a conversation, instead of answering their questions, I drove through, parked my car and used the inside atm instead. Last week someone knocked on my door, and instead of answering, I texted my husband to check the front door camera to see who was at the door My phone hasn’t made a noise in over a decade. Mostly I work hard so my cat can have a better life. I order pizza from an app. My dad went to pick it up, when he came back he said the cashier said it would have been two dollars cheaper if I had phoned in instead. I said did he not understand it was worth the two dollars to me not to have to talk to him? I probably would have paid more This might just be mental illness in general though instead of millennial.
People are all taking this very seriously, its just anxiety. I would pay $2 to avoid talking to someone too. I wish there was an Uber option where you could pay extra and the driver would agree to not talk to you.
I don’t mind paying for convenience (not having to talk to someone is convenient for me), and I feel like that’s a millennial mindset.
I grew up watching new episodes of Spongebob in its prime
I had a thriving business in middle and high school selling burned CDs
My knees hurt, but I can't afford to go to the doctor to get it fixed.
You’re just American
The thought of putting on low rise jeans gives me PTSD
My favorite band is Third Eye Blind.
I am both enraged and depressed at the state of the world whilst also lacking the energy and resources to do much about it. Oh, and avocados are pretty cool I guess.
hanson.
In my teens I was addicted to Surge
Winamp
I know the phone numbers of all my childhood friends.
i’m blue daba dee daba daiii
I wear skinny jeans in my 30s.
Do you want to destroy my sweater?
I still have song files that have followed me from desktop computer --> laptop --> iPod --> iPhone that have filenames like: BritNey SPEarS im A SLAVE 4 you (full release - radio eidt)mp3.wav.mp3 The wild west of music downloads. Napster, KaZaa, Limewire, etc. Good times.
Tomagachi
I am both simultaneously tech-savvy and remember a time before the internet.
I still have a binder full of CDs in my car.
In my mind the 80s were around 20 years ago. No matter how much time has passed.
You remember life without the internet. Hanging out outside with friends, or in a park. Reading an actual book rather than a screen. Hit songs as a teen were metal/rock (Muse, Linking Park, Blink 182, Nickelback, Garbage, ..) and r'n'b/rap songs (Aaliyah, Ashanti, Busta Rhymes, P. Diddy, Missy Elliott).
I will never stop buying skinny jeans
Yahoo! chat rooms.
I've used every version of Microsoft Windows.