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I just recently flipped through some of my siblings yearbooks from the early-mid 2000s and was reminded how different not even ten years can make. I was in high school in the latter part of the 2000s which is more like today. However, 2000-2006 seems to be more like the 90s and afterwards is more modern. The music, fashion, and overall feel of the first six years of the 2000s were very reminiscent of the late 90s and internet was popular but still wasn't as popular as now and it was obviously not advanced (No Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, etc.) Cell phones weren't as huge as they are now and nobody had smart phones and tablets like today. In my middle school, half of the school didn't have cell phones and the other half was just getting it and kids nowadays have cell phones at the age of 5 or 6. I remember a lot of teenagers still using landlines as well and a lot of us listened to music from Walkmans or the Original I-pod. I couldn't tell the difference between the students of the yearbook from 1997 and a yearbook from 2004 or 2005. I feel like the late 90s-mid 2000s is when everything started to change. Music became worse, anti-fashion started, and everyone became glued to their mobile devices by about 2007. In the 2000s, there was still a lot of face to face contact (unlike today) as we didn't all have I-Phones yet like I mentioned. I feel like the year 2000-early 2006 was much more similar to 1996-1999 then is today and 2007-present is a separate entity. (2007 was also the year that the first I-Phone came out as well).
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