picture above is me on the left rocking on my "linkin park" hoodie with my friends lauren, chloe and sharna when we was teenagers.
1. collecting gel pens! there was the bright neon pens that was all the rage, and then they brought out the scented gel pens! everybody owned as least one. we used to graffiti our school books with them and they smelt great. my favourite was bubblegum or popcorn. you could never actually write in the popcorn one though as it was white
2. hair gel! some girls would put so much hair gel, hair mouse and hair spray to scrape their hair back in a tight ponytail and leaving just two thin strands down at the front, also being covered in hair product
3. micro scooters! when these first came out they was all the rage. you was extra cool if you had neon wheels!
4. dial up connection internet! can you remember that awful noise it used to make when you connected to the internet? then you would get annoyed as someone in the house had to use the phone so you had to disconnect, even if you was in the middle of talking to guy/girl you fancied on MSN.
5. wearing a band hoodie! after limp bizkit got to number 1 in the charts, everyone thought they was hardcore listening to nu mental music and wearing black hoodies with a band on such as slipknot, papa roach, korn and system of a down.
6. baggy trousers! the baggier the better. it started in wearing the bootleg flared jeans then turned into baggy styled "skateboarding" jeans. then along came the baggy cords!
7. who remembers tow socks? they where like gloves for your feet and you was super duper cool if you wore them to a sleep over with the girls
8. at some point loving one of the following boybands: westlife, a1, 5ive, n sync or backstreet boys
9, wearing lots and lots of cheap clear lipgloss! then when the wind would blow your hair would stick to your lips.
10. being allowed to drink one sugary, fizzy, brightly coloured alco pops like bacardi breezers or WKD, then getting hyper of it and thinking you was drunk...
11. you was so not cool if you wore unbranded trainers or shoes. they had to be nike or addidas. or depending what your style was vans or DCs. there was also the buffalo trainers with the flames down the side
12. you would read magazines like "shout" "g17" and bliss with your girly friends and do the the quizes like "does he fancy me" and read articles like "how to get a boyfriend" there was also the music magazines like "top of the pops" "smash hits" and "kerrang" what we would buy just for the free CDs, music lyrics and posters!
13. you could base you life around lizzie mcguire
14. can you remember those butterfly clips? it was "cool" to cover your head in as many butterfly clips you could find
15. owning everything denim! denim bags, denim purses, denim jackets, denim pedal pushers, denim scrunchies!
16. if you liked to be the sterotypical chav or scally, you owned at least one lonsdale hoodie, complete with a fake burberry bag and hat. even your phone has a burberry pattern case on it, oh and dont forget that burberry scarf!
17. we used to download all our music from limewire or soul seek or even napster and burn the songs onto CD. before broadband it would take about an hour to download one song and we used to get all excited when it finally arrived on out computer.
18. we all had a go a skate boarding at least once! we even owned one of those tinier skateboards. i believe they was called micro boards
19. we took all out photos with disposable cameras! you couldnt delete a bad selfie back then, unless you was one of the lucky kids with a digital camera.
20. we all owned a nokia! the best nokia was the nokia 3310! if you didnt have one you was just lame! we could sit for ages playing snake. we also had midi tones on our phones back then. if you was clever you could copy the music notes from a friends phone on to yours so you wouldnt need to pay out and get the same ringtone. i believe my ringtone was the simpsons them tune
21. phone credit! ahh yes we all had to walk up the shop to get our credit, then use it all in one night texting our crush.
22. late 90s/early 2000s there was hair mascara! we used to put streaks of colour through out hair using a mascara like product.
23. spending hours making your myspace page look unique using allot of HTML codes!
24. there was the crazy frog that was constantly being played on every ad break!
25. coke was the in drink, not energy drinks
26. wearing lots of bracelets up each arms, consisting of shag bands, tiny beaded bracelets, draw string bracelets, and ones with Chinese or Japanese symbols on them. you may of even wore a spiky dog coloured style of bracelet.
27. neck chokers!
28. having thick highlights in your hair, making you look a bit like a zebra
29. wearing tank tops so you can show of your sexy bra straps ;)
30. wearing trousers a little lower so you could show of your thong or french knickers, as we knew thats what the boys wanted to see
31. long black cardigan style jacket jumper thingie, with a tie up belt in the middle.
32. dressing like avril lavigne! wearing a tie, black eye make up, converse trainers. was it avril that started the trend of wearing a tie as a belt?
33. collecting beanie babies, mainly the bears
34. you was the cool one if your parents let you own a pair of heelys. unlike my parents who though they was dangerous
35. "CAN YOU SMELL WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKIN!?" before it was called WWE it was called WWF. all the guys used to do the DX suck it crotch chop
36. reading festival always had a good line up back then.
37. you remember coming home from school and seeing 9/11 all over the news
38. portable cd players. the batteries never lasted very long in those things. so while you was listening to the latest single you brought from woolworths it would die. or you was cool if you had an mp3 player that stored at least 16 songs on it.
39. before sky and freeview we only got 5 channels! well i only got 4 channels as my street area couldn't pick up channel 5. or if you was that lucky kid you had a huge satellite dish on the side of your house and could pick up cartoon network and nickalodion. ahhh those was the days. i used to go round my friends house and watch rugrats and sabrina the teenage which.
40. you read books like "goosebumps" and all the jacqueline wilson books.
41. you knew who loved orange soda! if you didnt you never watched kenan and kel...i pity you
42. we rented out the newest movies on VHS or DVD. there was none of that netfix business back then
43. there was those tiny little note books with a furry cover that was attached to a key chain on your school bag or pencil case
so not all of these may apply to you. between 200-2009 allot had changed, so it was hard to include everything.
if you feel i have missed anything, feel free to comment below. share with your friends and see how many you can all remember :)
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