20 things each "cool child" growing in the 2000s

The Aughts set a farfelu base for the 21st century.


If you grew up during the first decade of the new millennium, one thing is certain: the whole world isvery eager to define who you are. You are generation z, they told you. Or maybe an Igé-Technology, Gold Tech, or Gen Wii, or maybe the net Gen. So many possibilities, and none of them entirely correct! The children of the first Aughts have never been exactlya thing.

The goal is that you and your generational peers has a wide range of interests and you are fully ready to take the world one day. What you bought and played with really material; After all, it was predicted that you will be40% of all consumers By 2020. Here are 20 things that have defined your consumerism at the dawn of the 21st century.

1
JEAN SKINNY

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If a pair of jeans was so tight, he cut the traffic and pulled over or go up or down the stairs almost impossible, you knew it was cool. The last skinny jeans were all the rage,It was the 1960s, And your grandmother was hanging a walk to Woodstock.

2
An Xbox 360

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The first Xbox was cool. (Advanced graphics! A killer controller!Halo!) The second iteration, the Xbox 360, was even cooler. When he came out in 2005, the console not only had some of the best games ever made, some of us still dream of this firstPortal Play - but it also offered Xbox Live, which allows you to play against other people online. The world has a little smaller that year. Everything said, above the life of the machine, Microsoft has sold about 84 million units.

3
Razor scooter

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Invented (or so that the legend go) of a Swiss banker who wanted a way to get a bratwurst without driving his car, he became the most popular way for the new millennium children. It was more naughty and faster than a traditional scooter, and easy to bend and transport when you arrived at your destination. What the skateboard wasCool children in the 90sThe razor was to cool the children in the 2000s.

4
Beyblades

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A toy that took an old concept, the top of the rotation and transformed it into something futuristic and dangerous. Beyblades came with different parts, rings and different disks that would affect the way your blade would turn - and you could fight other beyblades in plastic arenas called Beystadiums. If your opponent's blade has been torn by the pure force of your spinning, it had been delivered a "beyblade burst". They were so popular, Beyblades even had theirclean cartoon!

5
Heelys

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Forget the clunky roller skates, when Gen Z Kids wanted to slip through a crowd, they put a pair of Heelys. They looked like normal shoes but worked as skates online. By slightly moving your feet, you could suddenly zipper at the upper speed - which was really really cool and,According to some studies, really really dangerous.

6
Zhu Zhu Pets

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With adorable names like the song, pipsquak, Mr. Squiggles and Num Nums, these tiny hamster robots, which,If you take it advertisements, were so smart that "they decide what Zhu" should run and run and hug and even talk to their owners. They were so incredibly popular during the 2009 holidays that many toy shops sold almost instantly and that the rare Zhu Zhus were selling for inflated prices of 500%.

7
An iPod touch

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Before iPhones, the iPod Touch was the way every child Tech-Savvy Gen Z worn around the music, photos and favorite pocket video games. You could not make calls with it, but no one worked as long as they could stay connected online. A child even hadHis pants catches fire In 2009 due to an iPod touch overheating, but that was not enough to scare the children to put their devices.

8
Bratz dolls

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According toNew YorkerBratz were "the first dolls to successfully compete with Barbie since she was starting her beginner in 1959." This is because the original four Bratz-Jade, Cloe, Yasmin and Sasha-were not impatient to please. They had a rebellious and rebellious attitude that prejudices were more relative. And the best of all, they are "ethnically ambiguous", while the manufacturers liked to put it. Bratz did not go for everyone, but they were loved by children who wanted their dolls to be as an upset and imperfect as they saw each other.

9
AClub penguin adhesion

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More than 200 million users have registered withClub penguin, an immense virtual world where players represented by comics penguins avatars - could participate in dozens of online games and multiplayer activities. He had so much devoted as a result thatNielsen chose himAs the eighth most influential social network platform in the United States in 2008. Disney officially closed the servers in 2017, but the dedicated fans used cached files to recreate the entire Shebang in what is now known asPenguin Club Rewriting (above). From this writing, Disney has not stopped the cessation of oblivion yet.

10
Crocs

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Why fangs, which are essentially just plastic hooves, have taken the world by the storm, is that someone becomes. But in the mid-2000s, it seemed like everyone possessed a pair of these things resembling hideous shoes, resembling slippers that had been attacked by Piranhas. About 300 million clogs have been sold since they became ubiquitous in the cultivation of American youth.

11
Magic house books

Afternoon on the Amazon AUTHOR: Mary Pope Osborne ILLUSTRATOR: Sal Murdocca SERIES: Magic Tree House ; book 6 LOCATION: FIC OSB (Series) Jack, Annie, and Peanut the mouse ride in a tree house to the Amazon rain forests, where they encounter giant ants, flesh-eating piranhas, hungry crocodiles, and wild jaguars.
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Even in a world with endless digital temptations - so many YouTube and MP3 videos and video games around you for our attention - the Magic Tree House series has always managed to attract faithful follow-up. Books likeMummies in the morning,Dark day in the deep sea, andCastle haunted on standby relics kept an entire generation captivated.

12
RoboSapian

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Promised advertisements Let these personal robots had "67 functions", which included the dance, navigation in a room, giving high treats and even flee. If we had managed to determine how to program RoboSapian to become our personal butler, we probably lived with one of these toys today.

13
Zoopal Hefty Plates

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Because eating is intrinsically nicer if your meal is served on the face of a fox, a frog, a hippo, a pig or a dog. These plates were so loved by children who aged in the 2000s who, over the years,various petition have jumped light light, the manufacturer, bring them back. Currently, there is a list for coveted cutlery onAmazon-But they are completely sold and there is no indication on when they will come back. (Trombone sad ...)

14
Livestrong bracelets

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Before doping allegations nosseefully his reputation, the Champion Cycliste Lance Armstrong was a symbol of hope for millions of people who fight cancer. Livestrong yellow silicone bracelets, created by Nike in 2004 to raise funds for the Armstrong Cancer Charity, were a sign of support not only for Armstrong-which would go this year to win its sixth Tour de France , but also for patients with cancer everywhere. It was the AIDS ribbon of his time and each cool child was sure to wear at least one.

15
Nintendou

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Meet,Nintendou: All responsibilities to have a real dog-yes, this virtual version had to be trained, brushed, washed and played with - but without any accidents of cooking or kitchen ".Nintendou was such a phenomenon that 23.96 million copies were sold worldwide, making it the largest seller of Nintendo, second only toSuper Mario Bros.

16
Sponge Bob SquarePants DVD

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Walk to anyone who grew up in the early 2000s and ask them: "Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?" Not only will they know the answer without hesitation ("Spongbob SquarePants!"), But they will also proceed to sing you The rest of the theme song.

17
Dance Dance Revolution

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AsThe battles of break from the 80s,Dance Dance Revolution, Where "DDR, "allowed children to challenge their dancing peers. The winners were judged not on originality, but how much they followed the rhythm of a song, striking the exact color arrows on a carpet of Sol. Sad Tristed Game had mats as they had been trampled by a crowd of bulls. (Shortly afterDDR has become a cultural phenomenon, a similar game,Guitar Hero, came and do the same thing for guitar battles.)

18
Uggs

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If these fuzzy pushers were stylish enough for Beyoncé and Sarah Jessica Parker, they were good enough for everyone. Nevertheless, they disappeared from the darkness - and to ridicule - faster than something existence. Wear a pair today and you're laughing at laughing.

19
TheMusical soundtrack

Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron in High School Musical (2006)
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You could not escape this Juggernaut Disney if you were a child in 2006. Love it or hate it, the melody at "To free"Is probably burned in your subconscious.

20
Steel

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Only advertisements were sufficient to make salivation of any gen z. Imagine if the G.I. Joe Dolls took a pile of steroids and had a group of explosives and you have a good idea of ​​whatMax Steel ($ 20) was all about. And for more ways, the Aughts were a totally different period, check these22 things that have become obsolete since 2000.

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