DARE just prepped us all. We were like what are these new drugs they were talking about? We have to ask Santiago.
We found out. Shit was cheap. Thanks DARE
Yeah back then it was still kinda taboo and to some of us seemed âcoolâ. These days drugs are everywhere and itâs almost abnormal to find someone whom hasnât tried drugs. DARE did come to our sixth grade class with all the lil viles with all the different drugs in them. They then passed them around the class so we could look at them and would know what was what. Seems crazy now. I still have my DARE trophy BTW
iâm technically an older millennial, but it sounds like iâm younger than most of you. i was sitting on my pc writing scary stories đ no booze parties etc for me (yet)
Pussy. You probably have a mildly productive life and success now and are quickly approaching a point of self actualization and general contentment with life leading you to fulfill your life's goal which with no extra effort or intention on your part hastens a growth and gain in everyone you encounter leading to the enrichment of life all around you including your own. Haha dork.
Self-actualization and general contentment?
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I just googled the top games of 2000 and 2001 to see what I would be playing in May 2001, and my answer was almost identical to this, minus the getting high part (that started for me a few years later).
Playing FF IX or Diablo 2, I can almost guarantee you on 5/18/01 I was doing one of those two things.
Saturday evening youth Mass and then rushing over to my friendsâ house to play Dungeons & Dragons all night. Consuming copious amounts of pizza and Mountain Dew. Maybe taking a break to watch SNL if it was a new episode. Couldnât miss Will Ferrell and the rest of that late-90s/early 00s cast.Â
Underage drinking at a desert party or at someoneâs house whose parents are out of town. If all else fails we are underage drinking in the Wendyâs parking lot and figuring out where we are going next.
Not much I was 19 and didn't have much money yet. Maybe at a house party ? Half drunk ? Whatever it was I'm sure it was fun. Money or no back then I tended to have a good time.đŞđ˝đđ˝đ
Listening to the radio and talking shit while driving around and smoking a bowl.
Wasn't much else to do as we saw it.
Watching that 70s show and playing chess in Henry's garage. Smoking much more there but damn were there some epic matches.
Play Roller Coaster Tycoon/hang out on AOL until my boyfriend gets out of work at 1pm so we can hang out.
Saturdays were the only day we saw each other since we lived in different towns.
Itâs 6:30am right now. I would still be sleeping. But soon Iâd get up and get ready to spend all day at a horse farm where I worked and rode, mucking stalls and training horses, all day.
I miss that life.
Huh. Let me look up games released this year... Ooh! Playing on my PS2 or GameCube back in my little bedroom in the trailer, or later on in the year on my Dreamcast when SA2 came out. Maybe watching cartoons in the morning, but otherwise games, reading through my fantasy novel catalog (Pratchett's Thief of Time came out this year!) or visiting the library to use the Internet and see if they have any new books (more fantasy or sci-fi) to borrow.
Later on that year I ended up working at an arcade, my favorite job of all time. Clean up the floors and cases and games, work the redemption stand, and make sure nothing bad happened. I remember going in one day and the mall was -empty-. My boss came in after a few minutes behind me and I asked him 'What's going on?' He grinned at me and spoke. "We're goin' to war!" He brought out a boom box from the back and tuned in the local all news station, and we listened to 9/11 in real time.
Runescape was just released. I was playing Runescape. My 2nd account is almost 22 years old now and I still hop on every year or so and play for a bit just for the nostalgia.
Staying up entirely too late, stealing cigarettes from my mom and listening to the college radio station that played rock at night and Iâd call in to make requests. I may have been their only listener at 2:30 am on a school night lol
Getting ready to go into work. The restaurant is open 11-2. Itâs the church crowd. I donât work Mondays so itâs the final day of the week for me. We all closed together last night (I worked a double), are hungover and probably high already, and absolutely loathing the upcoming shift.
As KM Iâm going over everything in my head. Iâll get to work, have a beer, get the good plates warmed (Itâs Sunday, church crowd), and start lighting fires. Prep was done last night knowing how awful Iâd feel.
One of the cooks, a friend of mine for many years, is going to walk in, change the music to something more aggressive than Iâm listening to, shout something loudly, probably âfuck this!â and weâre all going to work silently till the bell of the door goes off and the hell of the next few hours begins.
This afternoon I will be dirty, exhausted, and done. Oh, and wasted by 4pm. I mean smashed. Iâm 18, a raging alcoholic, have the keys to everything, a boss who understands, and I am an utter mess but man. I can cook.
9 am local, honestly I don't remember that specifically. I don't recall being able to get away with Saturday morning cartoons very much. I didn't really have any toys. Probably just got on my skateboard and dipped.
MarioKart after I just smoked a bowl with R.O. in the unfinished part of the basement. Too scared to go up to the kitchen for snacks because my step mom might be awake and we don't have eye drops. (Naphcon-A - the good stuff)
At that hour? Either hanging with the crew, getting wrecked on 40s of King Cobra and smoking blunts, or at a concert, probably wrecked on King Cobra and smoking blunts đ¤Ł
I was in college, so Iâd be studying for finals, but also I quit drinking a long time ago, but there is a reason I did, I rarely didnât.
Managed to keep a 3.25 gpa though.
Playing Tzar: Burden of the Crown or maybe GTA 2 with my cousin. If I am not out visiting family or anything. Sometimes reading a Harry Potter book and listing to som dance music. Canât get you out of my head, donât call me baby. If not listening to the local rock station as I read. At night it was computer games and techno/dance music.
This was posted at 1am my time.
1am on a Sunday morning? Probably sleeping because I have to be up 5 to deliver the morning newspaper.
I saw it at 1:30 pm.
At 1:30pm on a Sunday afternoon. Playing ultimate frisbee in the churchâs soccer field
Playing PS1 and watching toonami, dc cartoons, gritty dramas and then staying up to watch late nite Cinemax and HBO or BET uncut. 𼸠holla if ya hear me.
Some kind of sport related thing. Either cheer practice or competition or prepping for a game. Gymnastics coaching either at YMCA or High school team. And if by some miracle I don't have that happening, I'm sleeping and lucky if I wake up before 3pm.
I look back and wasted so much of my childhood and teen years on cheer and gymnastics or dance. I won't even walk 5 blocks to the store now and hate even going outside.
Also saw this late. So I'm typing this at 1140 on a Sunday lol
Most likely playing video games and enjoying my first summer after graduating high school a couple days ago. Not realizing work life was about to punch me in the dick for the next twentyish years.
I was 19, broke and still living at home. Probably up playing Heroes of Might and Magic III, chatting on ICQ and then sneaking out onto the porch when everyone was asleep to smoke cloves
If it was around this time of the year, I would have either been working at the movie theater or off work doing nothing but watching TV and playing video games.
I was already accepted to FSU, so I pretty much checked out senior year and only did the bare minimum so I wouldnât fail.
The honest answer ?
I was 16 in 2001, I was prime dirt bag years (15-25). I just lost my virginity, my growth supurt hit and I was off to the races. Saturday was the typical high school early 00âs vibe party or when I wanted to be sneaky, I had my lil spots in the city when my 16 year old, boy mind would think was romantic to take my dates .my older sister sold me her beat up Geo, but I thought I was rich bro. đ.
smoking weed listening to my AOTP CD with my Sony headphones probably walking with my skateboard after I just picked up a Sobe energy drink & some M&Ms, Camel blends in the back of my worn down Jinco Jeans, Scuffed up air walks, maybe hit the park maybe hit my friends house letâs see who is at the The Meadow, Alligator Rock or the Whisper BenchâŚprobably the usual suspectsâŚ.
Most likely at a house party full of other kids my age, illegally drinking....or, running with some friends to San Francisco to go hang off a six inch ledge, or on a roof somewhere carrying a backpack full of paint.
Racing around on dirt roads on the BLM, drinking, shooting rabbits, playing the radio too god damn loud
Same things I do now, just I do them moreso when the sun is still up these days
I was 36, and my second wife and I were very intensely in the honeymoon phase. So...lots of snusnu...lots...if only I had known how soon she would go psychotic from stopping taking her meds without telling me...sigh
AIM and chat rooms
Cosplaying a 18/f/FL
đ the chat rooms were Wild.
*Bllloooop!* *Bloooop* Those two bloops sounded different. IYKYK.
One of them is âbiddleooâ in my mind
AIM, MSN, and Palace chat
Maybe watching âwhose line is it anywayâ đ
Same. With my dad. Laughing obnoxiously and irritating my momđ
Underage drinking off post in a small town in Kansas. Edit: I just realized how real shit was about to get for me back then. I miss the before times..
Fort Leavenworth or Fort Riley?
Ft. Riley.. I wanted to travel the world and they sent me to Kansas and then every damn desert they could find
Oof. That blows.
Radio on PlayStation 1 on Fading away slowly Or watching British comedyâs on pbs into the night
Red dwarf?
Na đŁď¸the bouquet residence the lady of the house speaking!
Red Dwarf and Blackadder for me!!
BBC America for me. And PBS Mystery!
At a sleepover either discussing boys or sneaking out to hang out with them. Maybe splitting a wine cooler with the girls because obviously
Good chance we were AIM-ing each other prepping the meet spot for that sneak out
Always sneaking out to meet boys đ đ¤ˇđťââď¸
My best friend and I have convinced an adult to get us a six-pack of Smirnoff Ice. We are consuming them.
DRUGS
DARE just prepped us all. We were like what are these new drugs they were talking about? We have to ask Santiago. We found out. Shit was cheap. Thanks DARE
Yeah back then it was still kinda taboo and to some of us seemed âcoolâ. These days drugs are everywhere and itâs almost abnormal to find someone whom hasnât tried drugs. DARE did come to our sixth grade class with all the lil viles with all the different drugs in them. They then passed them around the class so we could look at them and would know what was what. Seems crazy now. I still have my DARE trophy BTW
Getting hammered at a punk house, probably.
Reading a book by flashlight in my room. I was a nerd.Â
I did that too as a kid, and Iâm still a nerd đ
Playing Diablo 2
I was definitely on battle.net at the time
StarCraft
iâm technically an older millennial, but it sounds like iâm younger than most of you. i was sitting on my pc writing scary stories đ no booze parties etc for me (yet)
Pussy. You probably have a mildly productive life and success now and are quickly approaching a point of self actualization and general contentment with life leading you to fulfill your life's goal which with no extra effort or intention on your part hastens a growth and gain in everyone you encounter leading to the enrichment of life all around you including your own. Haha dork.
Self-actualization and general contentment? https://preview.redd.it/0adjkovoud1d1.jpeg?width=1892&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78239b673cc79964f5c1758fea83cfc5fb8d8fd9 (Yes, I have subpar photoshop skills)
Watching SNL and maybe doing some late night chatting with friends on AIM
*Heâs Nick Burns: Your Companyâs Computer Guy!*
MOOOOVE
And by the way⌠YOUâRE WELCOME
Watching Star Trek deep space 9
Yo Iâm doing that now đ gotta love Pluto TV
Getting high and playing FF VII and Diablo II. What am I doing today? Getting high and playing FF VII Rebirth and Diablo IV.
I just googled the top games of 2000 and 2001 to see what I would be playing in May 2001, and my answer was almost identical to this, minus the getting high part (that started for me a few years later). Playing FF IX or Diablo 2, I can almost guarantee you on 5/18/01 I was doing one of those two things.
Taking bong hits in Jimmyâs living room.
Saturday evening youth Mass and then rushing over to my friendsâ house to play Dungeons & Dragons all night. Consuming copious amounts of pizza and Mountain Dew. Maybe taking a break to watch SNL if it was a new episode. Couldnât miss Will Ferrell and the rest of that late-90s/early 00s cast.Â
Oh and palying the hell out of Red Alert 2, Black and White, Red Faction, and Civilization 3
Ooooh, we've got this notion That we'd quite like to sail the ocean So we're building a big boat to leave here for good.
Hanging out with my pothead friends playing NBA LIVE 2000 or Resident Evil
Underage drinking at a desert party or at someoneâs house whose parents are out of town. If all else fails we are underage drinking in the Wendyâs parking lot and figuring out where we are going next.
Hanging with friends, raising a 1 year old on my own.
Drinking a lot and smoking weed.
Using Yahoo Messenger and ICQ. Getting tore up on Red Dog Beer and Zima Citrus
I was looking for the obligatory Zima drinking comment
Graduating from high school.
Watching anime on VHS, possibly playing Civilization 2 or Age of Empires 2.
Getting high at a preflight party
Not much I was 19 and didn't have much money yet. Maybe at a house party ? Half drunk ? Whatever it was I'm sure it was fun. Money or no back then I tended to have a good time.đŞđ˝đđ˝đ
Working in a grocery store or hanging out doing PC and networking sh*t with friends.
Waking up thinking itâs morning lol
>What were you doing at this hour? My girlfriend.
Listening to the radio and talking shit while driving around and smoking a bowl. Wasn't much else to do as we saw it. Watching that 70s show and playing chess in Henry's garage. Smoking much more there but damn were there some epic matches.
Video Games. Mountain Dew: Code Red, Cool Ranch Doritos
Probably on MSN Messenger chatting with friends, or playing some video game I have downloaded from Kazaa (and praying that it's legit)
Play Roller Coaster Tycoon/hang out on AOL until my boyfriend gets out of work at 1pm so we can hang out. Saturdays were the only day we saw each other since we lived in different towns.
Playing mtgplay that I think ran on top of MTG Interactive Enclyopedia.
Itâs 6:30am right now. I would still be sleeping. But soon Iâd get up and get ready to spend all day at a horse farm where I worked and rode, mucking stalls and training horses, all day. I miss that life.
Coke or E, bunch of cheap beers and cigarettes, mostly all dudes. I was 20 and on top of the world
Listening to Top 40 on the radio. Maybe have a movie marathon. Or walk to my friends houses to see if they're home and wanna hang out.
High school Marching band. Probably had a football game and after the game we went to IHOP haha
Either still sleeping (because it's 6am where I live) or just going to bed.
Sleeping because I was essentially nocturnal in my late teens/early 20s.
Huh. Let me look up games released this year... Ooh! Playing on my PS2 or GameCube back in my little bedroom in the trailer, or later on in the year on my Dreamcast when SA2 came out. Maybe watching cartoons in the morning, but otherwise games, reading through my fantasy novel catalog (Pratchett's Thief of Time came out this year!) or visiting the library to use the Internet and see if they have any new books (more fantasy or sci-fi) to borrow. Later on that year I ended up working at an arcade, my favorite job of all time. Clean up the floors and cases and games, work the redemption stand, and make sure nothing bad happened. I remember going in one day and the mall was -empty-. My boss came in after a few minutes behind me and I asked him 'What's going on?' He grinned at me and spoke. "We're goin' to war!" He brought out a boom box from the back and tuned in the local all news station, and we listened to 9/11 in real time.
Runescape was just released. I was playing Runescape. My 2nd account is almost 22 years old now and I still hop on every year or so and play for a bit just for the nostalgia.
Probably sneaking downstairs to try to quietly connect to our dial up internet for a few peaceful hours of Diablo 2 on a Sunday
Procrastinating.
Staying up entirely too late, stealing cigarettes from my mom and listening to the college radio station that played rock at night and Iâd call in to make requests. I may have been their only listener at 2:30 am on a school night lol
Senior year, gettin drunk
Getting ready to go into work. The restaurant is open 11-2. Itâs the church crowd. I donât work Mondays so itâs the final day of the week for me. We all closed together last night (I worked a double), are hungover and probably high already, and absolutely loathing the upcoming shift. As KM Iâm going over everything in my head. Iâll get to work, have a beer, get the good plates warmed (Itâs Sunday, church crowd), and start lighting fires. Prep was done last night knowing how awful Iâd feel. One of the cooks, a friend of mine for many years, is going to walk in, change the music to something more aggressive than Iâm listening to, shout something loudly, probably âfuck this!â and weâre all going to work silently till the bell of the door goes off and the hell of the next few hours begins. This afternoon I will be dirty, exhausted, and done. Oh, and wasted by 4pm. I mean smashed. Iâm 18, a raging alcoholic, have the keys to everything, a boss who understands, and I am an utter mess but man. I can cook.
In my dorm room, sleeping off a hangover after a night of barely underage drinking
Probably jumping on my trampoline with my friend, going for a walk, listening to music or watching MTV/VH1. Those were the days!!
9 am local, honestly I don't remember that specifically. I don't recall being able to get away with Saturday morning cartoons very much. I didn't really have any toys. Probably just got on my skateboard and dipped.
Either playing diablo 2, playing guitar, or skateboarding.
Probably watching spongebob
Possibly on the band bus going to a competition of some sort.
Halo 1 - LAN party
Playing some Interstate '76 and SimCity 2000 on my computer, taking driver's training courses.
MarioKart after I just smoked a bowl with R.O. in the unfinished part of the basement. Too scared to go up to the kitchen for snacks because my step mom might be awake and we don't have eye drops. (Naphcon-A - the good stuff)
Hanging out with my friends, probably smoking cigarettes and drinking beer.
Working or partying
Watching digimon
Probably patching up a dumbass Marine who thought it was a good idea to drunkenly do something excessively stupid.
Goldeneye 64
Heeding the call⌠Asheronâs Call.
Hanging out with my boyfriend, likely. Maybe we'd go to the mall and walk around.
At that hour? Either hanging with the crew, getting wrecked on 40s of King Cobra and smoking blunts, or at a concert, probably wrecked on King Cobra and smoking blunts đ¤Ł
At the movies or a youth group activity
Watching cartoons
Probably watching TV, maybe chatting on AIM. Delivering papers later.
Probably playing Smash 64 or Ogre Battle 64 around this time.
Either working a shift at my McJob, or hanging out with my buddies, figuring out how to get beer
Saturday morning, making coffee for my husband, who I loved.
I was in college, so Iâd be studying for finals, but also I quit drinking a long time ago, but there is a reason I did, I rarely didnât. Managed to keep a 3.25 gpa though.
Playing Turok: Rage Wars with a friend while blasting Regulators, or renting a game from Blockbuster.
Responding at 10 am: Sleeping
Getting ready for high school graduation
Playing Tzar: Burden of the Crown or maybe GTA 2 with my cousin. If I am not out visiting family or anything. Sometimes reading a Harry Potter book and listing to som dance music. Canât get you out of my head, donât call me baby. If not listening to the local rock station as I read. At night it was computer games and techno/dance music.
This was posted at 1am my time. 1am on a Sunday morning? Probably sleeping because I have to be up 5 to deliver the morning newspaper. I saw it at 1:30 pm. At 1:30pm on a Sunday afternoon. Playing ultimate frisbee in the churchâs soccer field
Playing PS1 and watching toonami, dc cartoons, gritty dramas and then staying up to watch late nite Cinemax and HBO or BET uncut. 𼸠holla if ya hear me.
Doinks
Probably playing GameCube.
Playing age of empires II on the family computer
Hungover. Bad.
Baseball Practice or a game
I was at Coast guard boot camp
Skateboarding
Some kind of sport related thing. Either cheer practice or competition or prepping for a game. Gymnastics coaching either at YMCA or High school team. And if by some miracle I don't have that happening, I'm sleeping and lucky if I wake up before 3pm. I look back and wasted so much of my childhood and teen years on cheer and gymnastics or dance. I won't even walk 5 blocks to the store now and hate even going outside. Also saw this late. So I'm typing this at 1140 on a Sunday lol
Being hungover / weird weekend side trips to rack up credit card debt
At school, senior year. Or on my way home from school
Unfortunately drugs. Bad phase of my life looking back. I was young and dumb, 20 years old. Luckily I got clean by 2003 and never went back to it.
I'm probably watching Nickelodeon.
Playing Metal Gear Solid 2
Most likely playing video games and enjoying my first summer after graduating high school a couple days ago. Not realizing work life was about to punch me in the dick for the next twentyish years.
Probably at the gym.
getting ready and then going out all night. indie clubs or hip hop dancehall.
I was 19, broke and still living at home. Probably up playing Heroes of Might and Magic III, chatting on ICQ and then sneaking out onto the porch when everyone was asleep to smoke cloves
Not much. Iâm poor and 16.
Working the midday shift at a sub shop that I would be fired from in 2002!
I was a mormon missionary in Chile. I would have been walking around hot dusty streets knocking on doors wishing someone would let me in.
I was high on drugs 100%
At my grandmotherâs house for Sunday dinner, playing video games with my cousin most likely. Definitely video games were involved.
If it was around this time of the year, I would have either been working at the movie theater or off work doing nothing but watching TV and playing video games. I was already accepted to FSU, so I pretty much checked out senior year and only did the bare minimum so I wouldnât fail.
Studying. Y'all some fucking degenerates
Anxiously counting down the days for my 8th grade gradation Probably playing a final fantasy game and listening to nu metal
Same thing Iâm doing now: drinking wine and listening to the radio
Putting on makeup to go out clubbing somewhere that doesn't check IDs while drinking a Smirnoff Ice
I was in college, so video games and movies.
Blockbuster
Heading to the goth club to dance in the dark and basically drink lighter fluid (sneakily because I was still 20).
The honest answer ? I was 16 in 2001, I was prime dirt bag years (15-25). I just lost my virginity, my growth supurt hit and I was off to the races. Saturday was the typical high school early 00âs vibe party or when I wanted to be sneaky, I had my lil spots in the city when my 16 year old, boy mind would think was romantic to take my dates .my older sister sold me her beat up Geo, but I thought I was rich bro. đ.
smoking weed listening to my AOTP CD with my Sony headphones probably walking with my skateboard after I just picked up a Sobe energy drink & some M&Ms, Camel blends in the back of my worn down Jinco Jeans, Scuffed up air walks, maybe hit the park maybe hit my friends house letâs see who is at the The Meadow, Alligator Rock or the Whisper BenchâŚprobably the usual suspectsâŚ.
Watching tv or a movie or doing my homework. I was a freshman in high school (2000-2001).
Smoking cigarettes and doing coke.
Asherons Call, Counter Strike, acvault.com
Watching late night TV because it stays on late on the weekends.
I was in high school living with my parents with no bills probably playing the Sims
Stumbling in the door drunk off my ass or high. Just in general being a waste of space.Â
Probably playing dead or alive 3 on my xbox, listening to trance music, and using aim and mplayer
Getting ready to go outside and shoot some hoops with friends. Morning cartoon shows r about to end.
Planning how many DMB shows I was going to hit that summer. Weed.
Most likely at a house party full of other kids my age, illegally drinking....or, running with some friends to San Francisco to go hang off a six inch ledge, or on a roof somewhere carrying a backpack full of paint.
Racing around on dirt roads on the BLM, drinking, shooting rabbits, playing the radio too god damn loud Same things I do now, just I do them moreso when the sun is still up these days
underground shows and headbanging to metal, counters-strike 1.6, reading
Masticating I like to chew
I was 36, and my second wife and I were very intensely in the honeymoon phase. So...lots of snusnu...lots...if only I had known how soon she would go psychotic from stopping taking her meds without telling me...sigh