Truly these are unlocking some core retentivity .
1.Those weird and random different music countdown specials that VH1 put out in the early 2000s — like40 Most Awesomely Bad Love Songs…Ever:
2.And the “You Oughta Know” commercials that VH1 would play and that you actually discovered new artists with:
3.The bunch ofFarmVillerequests you would get from your one family member that kept playing well after everyone had stopped:
4.Designer iPod cases that sometimes cost almost as much as an iPod itself:
5.And iPod radio transmitters that never worked and that you would have to fiddle with any time you used it:
6.Built-in iPod docks that rich people would put into their homes along with a wired speaker system so that they could have music playing everywhere from their iPod:
7.Multi-disc DVD players that were another thing only rich people had and felt like the height of technology:
8.Pre-HD TV and recording something off the TV with a VHS tape and having it look like this — but still watching it because it was only a little worse than regular TV resolution:
9.Certs mints, which your mom or grandma would always have in their purse:
10.The drinking-beer app that low-key made you want to get an iPhone if you didn’t have one; or, if you did have one, it was the one app you’d show off to all your friends:
11.And the flashlight apps that you would download from the App Store because iPhones used to come without a flashlight feature:
12.The Newsstand app on iPhone that literally nobody would use:
13.The red neon lights and signs that went all around the inside of the Suncoast Motion Picture Company stores:
14.Abercrombie & Fitch store bags that featured shirtless guys on it:
15.Comedy Central’s Secret Stash which was a programming block that showed unedited movies and comedy specials late at night:
16.SNL’s “TV Funhouse” animated skits that were always hilarious:
17.The developed photo film section inside stores where you would look for your or your family’s photos by going through them (though they were usually placed in alphabetical order):
18.Lonelygirl15on YouTube and people thinking it was a real vlog:
19.Bravo’sNYC Prep,which was basically areality showversion ofGossip Girl:
20.Dan Levyas one of the co-hosts ofThe Hills: The After Show, because I guess we needed an after show to talk about the fake drama onThe Hills:
21.The MTV Production Development logo that was the shadows of crew members on grass and essentially played at the end of every MTV show:
22.ThoseGirls Gone Wildcommercials that played at midnight (usually on MTV, E!, and Comedy Central) and you were scared someone would catch you watching, even if by accident:
23.The Subway commercial that featured Peter fromFamily Guy:
24.Those water wheel timers that everyone had and were kinda mesmerizing to look at:
25.The beanbag toys theDisneyStore released to compete with Beanie Babies:
26.TheNature SoundsCD display at Target that you would have fun with just pressing all the buttons and previewing the sounds:
27.Costco having an entire aisle dedicated to just DVDs:
28.Promotional CD openers you would always forget to use when opening a brand-new CD. But if you remembered to use it, it really was a game-changer:
29.The catchy-as-heck Starbucks Doubleshot Espresso “Glen"commercial, which featured the bandSurvivordoing a take on their “Eye of the Tiger” song:
30.Several 7‑Eleven’s around the country being turned into Kwik-E-Marts to promoteThe Simpsons Movie:
31.And being able to buy products fromThe Simpsonsinside of them (Barbiehad nothing on that movie’s promo):
32.Blockbuster gift cards being a default holiday or birthday gift from a family member who didn’t really know you:
33.Jon Stewart andThe Daily Show’s book,America (the Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction, which parodied a school textbook:
34.And when Madonna was pretending she was British and even wrote a kids' book calledThe English Roses:
35.Refreshing your iTunes store over and over at 12:01 a.m. (EST) on Tuesdays so that you could buy and download that new album or single that you wanted:
36.Beyoncé, Britney Spears, and Pink as gladiators in the “We Will Rock You” Pepsi commercial:
37.Having to put on Channel 3 if you wanted to watch a movie or play a video game:
38.And lastly, having to manually turn off your desktop PC and having “Turn off computer” options on Windows XP that looked like this:
