Moving on to the awkward adolescent phase...

Learning permit and driver's license, never having to ride the bus again

Cowboy Bebop on Adult Swim

Sega Dreamcast: NFL 2K, NBA 2K, and Shenmue

Mix CDs

Gym class

Wu-Tang, Nas, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Eminem

$1 Whoppers

Carabiner clips and Rainbow sandals

PowerPoint presentations and senior project

Pep rallys

Baggy jeans and sweatshirts

Y2K panic

Matrix movies

King of the Hill

Napster

Surge

South Park

Youth group worship songs and mission trips

[Edited on April 18, 2026 at 8:40 PM. Reason : M&M]

4/18/2026 8:27:30 PM

Foo Fighters and blink-182

4/21/2026 5:32:39 AM

Paintball

Building ramps, riding bikes

Thinking about Fast-and-Furious'ing my ride, never doing any of it

Summer Camp

Worrying about what people think

Feeling too chubby to do anything with my shirt off

Video games

Go kart

Shooting hoops after dinner

Burning CD's

Napster

Dial up internet

Music videos on MTV and VH1

WWF and WCW

Memorizing every friends phone number

House phones

American Eagle

Malls

Having something to look forward to in life, not whatever this shit is now

4/21/2026 8:00:28 AM

Summer.

Just in general. In that when you are a [younger] teen and you don't have school over the summer, you typically don't have an expectation to have a summer job. So you can just... enjoy it. Stay up late, have sleepovers in the middle of the week, go swimming, hang around at the mall, whatever. Even when I was 17 and had a part time job over the summer, I still had tons of time to do whatever.

I think summer between my junior and senior years of high school was the last "kid" summer I had. After that, I either had a full time job I was working or was taking summer session classes at NCSU.

4/21/2026 10:16:04 AM

Flip phones

4/23/2026 10:53:24 AM

4/25/2026 2:33:46 PM

from like age 15 to age 26 my life was pretty fucking scary

I'm 42 now and I'm dealing with it in counseling

4/25/2026 2:50:51 PM

^Yep, I remember reading the Starr Report on AOL, probably didn't say much at dinner that night. Awkward subject matter.

Marcy Playground - "Sex and Candy"

Natalie Imbruglia - "Torn"

Method Man - "Judgement Day"

Tom Green - "The Bum Bum Song"

Weird Al Yankovic - "It's All About the Pentiums"

3 Doors Down - "Kryptonite"

4/25/2026 2:53:22 PM

IOP1

4/25/2026 3:13:22 PM

Chris Paul punching Julius Hodge below the belt

JJ freakin’ Redick

Epic battles between Duke and Maryland: Williams, Boozer, and Battier vs Dixon, Blake, and Baxter

4/29/2026 5:29:50 PM

I remember in 7th grade there were a duke unc game where the winning team was down like 20 with leas than 5 minutes to go. I think it was unc coming back to beat duke

4/29/2026 5:34:33 PM

Depends on how old you are. Duke pulled off a one minute miracle by coming back from 10 points down in the final minute and beating Maryland in OT in the early 2000s. In 2005 Carolina came back from 9 points down against Duke with 3 minutes left during the Sean May and JJ Redick years. I was in the student section for that game.

Duke's miracle minute is one of the craziest moments I've seen in college basketball. Here's a YouTube clip with Jay Williams' take: https://youtu.be/ENo3spJaJa4?si=QL31n6-Usz-QaOfX

The best game I remember from that era was a triple overtime game between Wake and UNC at the Dean Dome. Wake had Chris Paul and they edged us, 119-114. It was Roy's first season as head coach and we had McCants, Felton, and May.

[Edited on April 29, 2026 at 7:32 PM. Reason : Correction]

4/29/2026 7:17:49 PM

This woulda been like 1998 i believe

4/29/2026 7:19:12 PM

Maybe when the Heels had Rasheed Wallace and Antawn Jamison.

4/29/2026 8:04:39 PM

DVDs

Survivor

American idol

American Pie movies

[Edited on April 29, 2026 at 8:09 PM. Reason : Reality TV]

4/29/2026 8:08:02 PM

Scrambled channels

4/29/2026 8:58:23 PM

Cary Towne Center

Cici's Pizza buffet

4/30/2026 2:42:51 PM

masturbation

4/30/2026 4:45:53 PM

the 97 sears catalog

5/1/2026 8:19:55 AM

Halo on my friend's Xbox

5/2/2026 9:38:49 AM

Off campus lunch in junior and senior year

5/2/2026 9:42:16 AM

Dave Matthews Band, Butthole Surfers, Sugar Ray, Smash Mouth

DMX, Ludacris

MapQuest

ICQ, MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger

Chatrooms, pranking old folks on audio chat

5/3/2026 3:29:36 PM

@clawai after reading this thread, what are 5 things from between 1993-2005 that aren't listed?

5/3/2026 4:29:00 PM

claw the ai

Five things from 1993-2005 not yet listed in this thread:

1. Napster/Limewire/Kazaa -- waiting 45 minutes to download one song, getting a mislabeled track with static at the end, and giving your family computer seventeen viruses. The pirate radio of a generation.

2. Motorola Razr -- the flip phone that was also a status symbol. Thin as a credit card, satisfying snap-close. Having a Razr meant you had arrived. Having a Sidekick meant you were on a different level entirely.

3. AIM Away Messages -- the passive-aggressive art form of a generation. Song lyrics directed at one specific person. Inside jokes nobody else understood. The carefully calibrated performance of being offline but still available to the right people.

4. Myspace Top 8 -- ranking your friends publicly and the nuclear-grade social drama it caused. Custom HTML profiles with auto-playing music that crashed your browser. Tom was everyone's first friend.

5. Halo 2 multiplayer / LAN parties -- hauling CRT TVs to basements, getting screamed at by 12-year-olds through Xbox Live headsets before that was a cultural phenomenon. The peak before matchmaking became algorithmic.

5/3/2026 5:20:42 PM

@clawai I mentioned Napster in the first post

5/3/2026 5:22:37 PM

claw the ai

Noted. I scanned the thread, clearly not well enough.

5/3/2026 5:24:06 PM

Microwave popcorn and Hot Pockets

Eggos

5/4/2026 5:57:26 PM

Fucking fat chicks while watching Tarheel basketball!!

5/4/2026 6:53:07 PM

Did the fat chicks watch with you or stare at the ceiling?

5/4/2026 8:03:40 PM

Yes!

5/4/2026 8:14:02 PM

WKNC 88.1 FM

Underground Hip Hop

The Original Hip-Hop Lyrics Archive

Neal Boortz and Rush Limbaugh

Discovering 80s music

PC Games

The Sims

Yearbooks

Senior class photos

Japan trip

Ichiro Suzuki

5/5/2026 8:02:52 PM

Doing quizzes and homework on Blackboard software

Playing games on a TI-83 calculator

5/7/2026 10:06:53 AM

A&E Biographies
The History Channel

5/9/2026 6:57:35 AM