Post by intheyear2000 on Jul 17, 2024 4:12:01 GMT
I've spent part of the last few days exploring the archive here and have really enjoyed reading all the posts. So many topics that interest me have been discussed here over the past few years!
I found this board originally just by browsing the Proboards directory. It was probably a year, possibly closer to two years ago -- hey, I'm nothing if not a procrastinator. I'd been slowly going through the whole directory and noting which forums I might want to join later on. At the time, I remember really liking Youth Culture 2000's aesthetic, but I got the audience totally wrong. I figured most people here would be around my age and have been teens and young adults during the 2000s nostalgic for bygone days so when I finally joined up I was really surprised to see most people here were in their 20s or in their teens. I really admire the effort Mia and Melissa put into recreating a digital past they didn't personally experience -- the website and zine look fantastic and quite authentic so all that time on the Internet Archive and other similar sites really paid off!
I've actually always been into retro stuff myself so I totally get it plus I think earlier Web culture has a lot of lingering appeal when you consider the excesses of social media, the growth of AI (what could be more human than a Geocities page?), and the way personal creativity tends to be discouraged in favor of conformity online. To this day, a lot of music, books, and movies that I love were made way before I was born or when I was too young to appreciate them so it's really cool to see people get just as excited about the 2000s as I was/am about the 70s and 80s.
One thing I wish is that more posters stuck around so it felt more like a community. It kind of feels like the forum has a tendency to reel in these cool people time and time again who spend a little time here and then move on to something else just as suddenly as they arrived. Hopefully some more of the past posters will return soon. I definitely plan on sticking around!
Here's a bit of early Youth Culture 2000 lore I was wondering about. Was the e-party hosted on Zoom successful? That's such a pandemic thing to do. Youth culture 2020 style! Also, was the artist who offered to draw fashion trends for anyone who posted their IG or Discord legit? Did people get their drawings? That one felt a little sketch to me for some reason.
I found this board originally just by browsing the Proboards directory. It was probably a year, possibly closer to two years ago -- hey, I'm nothing if not a procrastinator. I'd been slowly going through the whole directory and noting which forums I might want to join later on. At the time, I remember really liking Youth Culture 2000's aesthetic, but I got the audience totally wrong. I figured most people here would be around my age and have been teens and young adults during the 2000s nostalgic for bygone days so when I finally joined up I was really surprised to see most people here were in their 20s or in their teens. I really admire the effort Mia and Melissa put into recreating a digital past they didn't personally experience -- the website and zine look fantastic and quite authentic so all that time on the Internet Archive and other similar sites really paid off!
I've actually always been into retro stuff myself so I totally get it plus I think earlier Web culture has a lot of lingering appeal when you consider the excesses of social media, the growth of AI (what could be more human than a Geocities page?), and the way personal creativity tends to be discouraged in favor of conformity online. To this day, a lot of music, books, and movies that I love were made way before I was born or when I was too young to appreciate them so it's really cool to see people get just as excited about the 2000s as I was/am about the 70s and 80s.
One thing I wish is that more posters stuck around so it felt more like a community. It kind of feels like the forum has a tendency to reel in these cool people time and time again who spend a little time here and then move on to something else just as suddenly as they arrived. Hopefully some more of the past posters will return soon. I definitely plan on sticking around!
Here's a bit of early Youth Culture 2000 lore I was wondering about. Was the e-party hosted on Zoom successful? That's such a pandemic thing to do. Youth culture 2020 style! Also, was the artist who offered to draw fashion trends for anyone who posted their IG or Discord legit? Did people get their drawings? That one felt a little sketch to me for some reason.
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