Y2K to the present; what screams new millennium to you?

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Carrie Ann

Relating to Seminal Styles of the 20th Century, Part Nine: The New Millennium

We've been doing it for weeks, from the twenties thru today we've talked about style and music and fashion and the things that influenced us in each era. How about the present? From Y2K madness to today, what screams new millennium to you?

Answers (public voting - your screen name will appear in the results):

Y2K itself. Fear. Stocking up on food. Computer threats. Hype.

Carrie Ann , User Unknown , Rockin' , LikeSunshineDust , Victoria , Avery Dragon , Luscious Lily , LicentiouslyYours , RadRach , SexyySarah , ToyTimeTim , Lady Venus , OhMy! , DeliciousSurprise , Kindred , Adriana Ravenlust , Persephone Nightmare , Alegria , Gunsmoke , darthkitt3n , Cream in the Cupcake , hjtee , MaryExy , null , Maiden , SoloJoe , falalena , caramilk

9/11

Carrie Ann , User Unknown , Rockin' , Victoria , Avery Dragon , Luscious Lily , LicentiouslyYours , Fred Petrenko , jedent , SexyySarah , Owl Identified , ToyTimeTim , sexysweetieshan , Lady Venus , P'Gell , OhMy! , The Girl With No Name , Gatita , DeliciousSurprise , Persephone Nightmare , Gunsmoke , purplekidney , sae928 , null , cburger , Maiden , SoloJoe , falalena , bronzelotus , caramilk , WestTexasBarbie

Social Networking; Facebook, MySpace, etc

Carrie Ann , Rockin' , LikeSunshineDust , Victoria , Avery Dragon , Luscious Lily , LicentiouslyYours , jedent , SexyySarah , ToyTimeTim , kck , sexysweetieshan , Lady Venus , P'Gell , OhMy! , The Girl With No Name , Adriana Ravenlust , ToyGeek , Persephone Nightmare , Alegria , thatonegirl , ninaspinkturtle , darthkitt3n , Cream in the Cupcake , sexygoddess , dhig , hjtee , purplekidney , MaryExy , sae928 , null , Maiden , GONE! , TransGuy14 , falalena , bronzelotus , caramilk , karenm , WestTexasBarbie

iPhones

LikeSunshineDust , Avery Dragon , SexyySarah , Lady Venus , P'Gell , OhMy! , Alegria , darthkitt3n , Cream in the Cupcake , sexygoddess , purplekidney , MaryExy , sae928 , Maiden , GONE! , falalena , Miss Morphine , spiced , WestTexasBarbie

Texting

LikeSunshineDust , Avery Dragon , Luscious Lily , LicentiouslyYours , SexyySarah , kck , sexysweetieshan , Lady Venus , OhMy! , The Girl With No Name , DeliciousSurprise , Adriana Ravenlust , Alegria , Gunsmoke , shelly8791 , darthkitt3n , Cream in the Cupcake , sexygoddess , hjtee , MaryExy , sae928 , null , cburger , Maiden , nova2014 , GONE! , falalena , bronzelotus , caramilk , karenm , spiced

Reality TV ; Hulk Hogan, Brett Michaels, Flava Flav & Dog the bounty hunter

Carrie Ann , Rockin' , LikeSunshineDust , Luscious Lily , SexyySarah , OhMy! , Adriana Ravenlust , ninaspinkturtle , null

Shaggy hair for guys

Carrie Ann , Avery Dragon , Fred Petrenko , sexysweetieshan , GONE!

Sleek, smooth hair for girls

Carrie Ann , Luscious Lily , P'Gell

Tattoos and piercings and funky colored hair

Carrie Ann , User Unknown , Victoria , ToyTimeTim , kck , Persephone Nightmare

Atkins, South Beach

Carrie Ann , Rockin' , SexyySarah , ToyTimeTim , Persephone Nightmare , ninaspinkturtle

Size 0 models overrunning the earth

Carrie Ann , Rockin' , Victoria , Avery Dragon , Luscious Lily , SexyySarah , ToyTimeTim , sexysweetieshan , The Girl With No Name , Persephone Nightmare , Alegria , MaryExy , cburger

Beanie Babies (and Ty spelling millennium wrong on their Y2K bear)

User Unknown , Luscious Lily , DeliciousSurprise , Adriana Ravenlust , Persephone Nightmare , hjtee , MaryExy

Crocs and Uggs

Avery Dragon , Fred Petrenko , SexyySarah , OhMy! , caramilk

Sunless Tanner

Emo-ism

Carrie Ann , Rockin' , Avery Dragon , Luscious Lily , jedent , sexysweetieshan , The Girl With No Name , ninaspinkturtle , darthkitt3n , MaryExy , GONE! , caramilk

Wii, etc

LikeSunshineDust , Avery Dragon , ToyTimeTim , sexysweetieshan , Persephone Nightmare , Cream in the Cupcake , purplekidney , MaryExy , GONE! , WestTexasBarbie

Yoga and Pilates

Avery Dragon , sexygoddess , WestTexasBarbie

Paris Hilton and crew

Carrie Ann , Fred Petrenko

Brangelina

Carrie Ann , Luscious Lily

Other: Cuz you know you've got one. Or six.

Lady Venus , P'Gell , DeliciousSurprise , Persephone Nightmare , Chilipepper , gehuwd , hjtee , sweetpea12 , Rory

Total votes: 240 (57 voters)

Poll is closed

06/30/2009

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User Unknown

Oh gosh the Y2K, everybody waited...and nothing happened. lol I remember sitting in the living room, watching the ball drop, with flashlights and a fire going in the fireplace just in case all the lights went out.

06/30/2009

Adriana Ravenlust

Y2K feels so long ago.. It definitely feels like a different era to me than now.

06/30/2009

Carrie Ann

Quote:

Originally posted by Adriana Ravenlust

Y2K feels so long ago.. It definitely feels like a different era to me than now.

Me too.

06/30/2009

LicentiouslyYours

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Originally posted by Adriana Ravenlust

Y2K feels so long ago.. It definitely feels like a different era to me than now.

Heh. Technically, Y2K was during the last century, so it actually kinda was a different era.

06/30/2009

Adriana Ravenlust

You know - anything internet just feels normal to me at this point; I've been involved with it for so long.

What -really- stands out for me this past decade or so is all the freakin' rap on the radio.

06/30/2009

SexyySarah

I think you pretty much nailed all of them! lol I'm sure I could think of some more, but not a the moment! lol

09/04/2010

Owl Identified

I'm from New York so 9/11 is the biggest thing for me. Today they shut down the West Side Highway because of a huge fire on a pier. I saw a huge plume of black smoke filling the sky and felt this horrible paralyzing panic until I heard someone mention it was a sanitation garage that caught on fire. For a minute it looked the way financial district did at 9am on 9/11 and it was absolutely horrifying.

09/04/2010

P'Gell

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Originally posted by Owl Identified

Oh, SLL, I am so sorry you had to briefly relive that. I sat in my house, alone with a baby, watching the news and crying and hoping My Man would get home. I can't imagine the panic New Yorkers go through when something happens to reignite the fear.

09/05/2010

Gatita

It's got to be 9/11 for me too. I use to work there (92nd flr, tower 2), but God spared me that day & kept me home for a parent/teacher mtg I had re-scheduled to that morning (original appt was the day before). I would normally have been at work by 8am. Lost my entire dept & several friends/co-workers. My world changed drastically from that day & I will never be the same. It has been a new world for me since then.

10/27/2010

Gunsmoke

Y2k hype was so over done - the same purveyors of fear are no telling us the world will end in Dec 2012 - the end of the Aztec calendar. Hopefully the 2012 hype will just be a History Channel phenom that no one watches.

10/28/2010

Chilipepper

Being married. (September, 2000 - November, 2010)

10/28/2010

Viktor Vysheslav Malkin

Don't forget those silk pants with the vertical strip going down the sides!

10/28/2010

hjtee

Terrible pop music.
When I think of 2000-2010, the first thing that comes to mind is Backstreet Boys & Britney Spears.

Then it's Beanie Babies....what glorious memories.

04/13/2011

purplekidney

She: 9/11 is still used as weight behind a political agenda, which I find kind of awful, so I guess that's really one of the most memorable things. Don't get me wrong, I think 9/11 was absolutely a tragedy, I just think it's a bit disrespectful the way some politicians are using it as motivation still for things that aren't necessarily related.

04/13/2011

sae928

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Originally posted by purplekidney

Seconded, couldn't have put it better. Also texting/social networking/iphones.... damn you Steve Jobs.....damn you.

04/13/2011

K101

I think it's all a bit scary. 3 days ago my area was hit with 3 tornadoes all in one day! It's a disaster and our entire town has no power still. We're running off a generator. Being that our area has never ever seen any kind of harsh weather, much less a disaster like this, it has really made us all more aware that the end times are here. I mean the shit is scary. Excuse my language, but we've all gone through hell this week and we're not even fully recovered yet. There are people's houses in our streets right now and bodies stacked up. The funeral home was destroyed as well. It's seriously time that we wake up. The Y2k wasn't what people thought and now they're doing the whole 2012 thing which I don't really get hyped up about, but reading Revelations in the bible, everything predicted has happened or is on the verge of happening and it scares me now. I've been having this major scare since the tornadoes hit the other day and the entire town is. Our eyes are open for it to be over soon. I hate to sound like such a freak, but really it sure is happening exactly how it says in the bible. I know it's "just a tornado" but like I said, I live on a Mtn. and our area hasn't ever had a tornado and we've never been in a disaster like this.