The 00s (aka The Noughties) thread

[TubbsFarquhar]

That just triggers PTSD. **** them for letting Riewoldt sing with them.

 

[Cruyff14]

Video games really took off to a new level.

The PS2 and PS3 came into play (along with XBox) and changed the gaming landscape.

Grand Theft Auto hit shelves and Vice City is still my favourite game of all time, despite it coming out 17 years ago.

Two household names came to the fore too - Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. One of the biggest, longest and best rivalries in sport.

Apple made its name known again and rose to the top of the tech tree with the release of the revolutionary iPod, and of course the first ones to create a smart phone.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

I feel like this was the decade of hairstyle choices.

The mullets.
Tips in the hair.
Bleach blonde hair dye.
The emo look.

Any others I missed?

 

[Bomberboyokay]

SBS still showed weird things in the 00s. Episodes of South Park could be preceded or followed by anything. Then the LIBERAL GOVERNMENT let them show ads during programs and it was a decline into blandness, plus they started a second channel so interesting stuff was shunted to that. Now SBS is ABC for 38-year-olds.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Torrents ****ed Australian TV for good in the 00s Lost might've been the real big example. People watched it on Seven in 2005 but ****ing nobody was hanging around waiting by 2009. Except fossils on dial up.

I don't think they even bother promoting US shows on Australian TV let alone expect them to be a draw anymore. So we moved on to our current shit era of garbage local reality shows spread over 8 nights a week so people watch the ads.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Torrents and maxtreme definition TVs also marked the beginning of the end of cinemas.

 

[Scotland]

Great era for technology change.

I was in year 12 in 2001. Can't remember whether we still had dial up internet then or had switched to ADSL which was the newish thing at the time. Either way it wasn't quick but not having a session interrupted because someone picked up the landline handset was groundbreaking. Downloading a 3-4 MB song on Napster was a queue and hope for the best proposition. I remember watching JPEGs load in a web browser line by line.

Went to uni in 2002. No laptop, phone was a Nokia 3210 with snake to kill time. Used to save documents onto 3.5 inch floppy disks. Carried books around in a backpack. All the computers were white and had CRT monitors. Bought my first laptop around 2004/5 and by that time wireless had become a thing, and you could plug and play USB flash drives. Bought a 128 MB one of those bad boys for about $70. You can get 128 GB now for about $20. Phones started coming out with polyphonic ring tones, coloured screens, cameras that produced small, terrible quality images. Had a first generation iPod nano which I thought was pretty neat and wondered when phones would take over that function. Flip phones became the latest thing and I remember 3 running with how amazing 3G was and sponsoring the cricket with exclusive 'you can watch the cricket on your phone!' ads. Always wanted to watch grainy, buffering sports coverage on a 2 inch screen.

Youtube launched in 2005, iPhone in 2007. These were big ones. And Facebook (00s) and Instagram (10s) which have fast become ingrained in culture. Being able to just press play and watch a video on your computer was pretty cool, and a phone that was all screen controlled by your fingertips? Yeah OK Star Trek. Video streaming, wireless data transfer and touch screen technology have all been getting better and better the last decade or so but that's really been refining the steps made in the 2000s. Flat panel TVs also took off in the 2000s, first plasma and then LCD. I remember when an average 'big' TV that you see in most people's living rooms now (40 inch ish) was $5,000+. I remember going to someone's parents' house that had a $10,000 Pioneer TV. The sort of thing you don't want to stand near for feat of spilling a drink or knocking it over or something. You could get something 20-30 inches bigger and much better quality for $2-3000 today.

I grew up with cassettes and VHS and CDs and 3.5 inch floppy disks, and even some of the older 5.25 inch floppy disks also. DVDs were launched in 1999 here and took hold in the 2000s and not having to rewind the tape and fast forward through 'have...you... got... what... you... paid...for' was awesome, but physical media is down for the count. Even video games which fundamentally haven't changed in terms of console plugged into TV with hand controllers don't need disks or cartridges a lot of the time any more. You have all these houses with TV cabinets full of DVDs, shelves full of CDs etc. and they are redundant. It used to be that CD was better than cassette, DVD was better than VHS etc. and now nothing trumps all of them. You can watch a movie, TV series, live sport, whatever out of thin air. Even if you have Con Air on DVD and a DVD player it's probably still quicker to get Con Air playing on your TV without rifling through the drawer.

I wonder what the digital camera market is like today. Drones and GoPros etc. have taken off (10s tech) and there is a demand for DSLRs from people into photography but the days of everyone carrying around a Sony Cybershot ended a while ago.

 

[Cruyff14]

I guess another thing that really took off in the 00s was house music.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

With:

Windows Media Player.
Limewire.
Frostwire.
Winamp.
Ares Galaxy, a Pandora's box full of downloading possibilities was opened.

This medium of music downloads was to be joined by a YouTube to MP3 converter.

If you wanted more than just music:

Megaupload.
The Pirate Bay.
Azureus/Vuze.

What I discovered was that, with Ares Galaxy, it had a built in web browser (Firefox) so there was no need for me to open a separate window/tab for browsing.

While on Firefox, Internet Explorer and Netscape's stranglehold were to be tested with the introduction of, not only Firebox but also Safari and, perhaps the biggest one of all, Google Chrome.

But, wait, where's Opera?

Opera's growth was steady if not spectacular and didn't have the mainstream appeal and accessibility of IE and Netscape nor did it have the fast download speed possessed by Firefox and Chrome.

Opera's always felt like the least attractive (and possibly least known) web browser.

With Firefox, this saw the advent of add-ons that have benefited all of us.

My favourite 2 were the ability to tree-tab and autopage.
That is, view all the pages on the one search as one rather than click to access each page.

Tree-tabbing was simply vertical tabs rather than the horizontal style we've grown up with.

While on that, the Noughties allowed us to use more than one tab.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Napster

That's what I was after.

Couldn't for the life of me remember what it was called.

 

[Cruyff14]

WinMX another to add to your post.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

The growth of eBay and Amazon changed shopping/buying habits forever.

 

[Scotland]

Interesting era for sports broadcasting too. I'll leave the technology aspect out of it (HD TV launched in the 2000s), but 2001 saw a big change to AFL coverage. Channel 7 paid $40m a year to broadcast 1999-2001 then Channels 9 and 10 and Foxtel bid $100m a year for 2002-2006. I'd grown up just watching footy on Channel 7 so seeing it split across two channels and Fox was different. Weird having Friday and Sunday games on 9 and Saturday games on 10. Never had Fox back then (why would you bother for 3-4 games a week when all WC games are on FTA?) but a dedicated footy channel was pretty awesome.

The rights values have gone up and up which isn't all a good thing but we have at least reached a point where all 9 games a round are available live on TV and you can stream them also, even if you have to pay. Used to drive me bat shit not being able to watch games live in Perth without needing a satellite feed of Channel 7 from another state.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Being able to confidently and arrogantly plead your case and say that you were right became that bit difficult with the mobile phone having access to the 'net and, in the case of footy stats, was able to obtain information that proved that that person was wrong all of this time.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Scotland.

We also saw the change in material used for AFL guernsey's.

No longer were they woollen nor were numbers sewn on.

 

[Scotland]

Scotland.

We also saw the change in material used for AFL guernsey's.

No longer were they woollen nor were numbers sewn on.

That was a 90s thing, I reckon about 1996/1997. Used to have an old polyester WC jumper with the AFL logo as a shield.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

In schools, blackboards became a fading force and whiteboards were the dominant feature on the wall and, with lights dimmed, and the advent of projectors suspended from ceilings (they were also somehow connected to laptops,) we were watching films or shows on a whiteboard which was a novel thing as opposed to a TV box brought in on wheels.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Video games really took off to a new level.

The PS2 and PS3 came into play (along with XBox) and changed the gaming landscape.

Grand Theft Auto hit shelves and Vice City is still my favourite game of all time, despite it coming out 17 years ago.

Two household names came to the fore too - Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. One of the biggest, longest and best rivalries in sport.

Apple made its name known again and rose to the top of the tech tree with the release of the revolutionary iPod, and of course the first ones to create a smart phone.

Don't forget the improved graphics which grew more lifelike.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Interesting era for sports broadcasting too. I'll leave the technology aspect out of it (HD TV launched in the 2000s), but 2001 saw a big change to AFL coverage. Channel 7 paid $40m a year to broadcast 1999-2001 then Channels 9 and 10 and Foxtel bid $100m a year for 2002-2006. I'd grown up just watching footy on Channel 7 so seeing it split across two channels and Fox was different. Weird having Friday and Sunday games on 9 and Saturday games on 10. Never had Fox back then (why would you bother for 3-4 games a week when all WC games are on FTA?) but a dedicated footy channel was pretty awesome.

The rights values have gone up and up which isn't all a good thing but we have at least reached a point where all 9 games a round are available live on TV and you can stream them also, even if you have to pay. Used to drive me bat s**t not being able to watch games live in Perth without needing a satellite feed of Channel 7 from another state.

Chuckle when people 'good old days' pre-201whatever football TV. Yeah waiting 3 hours for a game that already ended was wonderful...

 

[RedmanWasHere]

The Noughties saw the death of British Bulldog, Brandy and, I supposed Kisschasey and its tamer/lamer devolved form Love, Like or Hate rendering the kids of the late '90's the last of the old school and the Noughties the first of the new school.

 

[Scotland]

Kids born in the 2000s are now turning 18. If you thought millennials were bad then look out.

 

[Scotland]

Don't forget the improved graphics which grew more lifelike.

I must have had a pretty good imagination back in the day.

What I thought was amazing, realistic graphics:

Today's equivalent:

 

[footyfan1978]

 

[Gough]

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I guess another thing that really took off in the 00s was house music.

About a decade too late there Cruffy.

 

[Cruyff14]

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About a decade too late there Cruffy.

Wasn't it more techno in the 90s?