Community dedicated to the Y2K aesthetic.
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Felt like staging the most 2000s desk I possibly could. Colours just for fun. The more you look, the more there is!
Did they have that model of Tamagotchi already in the 2000s? Man, my brain just can't make sense of time anymore.
Also, I can totally hear my phone call incoming with the little put-tutut, put-tutut, ptttttttttt from the phone being so close to the speaker, haha.
I think the Tamagotchi Connection v3 (the one in the photo) was a 2006 release. The original Connection was 2004. I didn’t have any older Tamagotchis, so this is the one I chose. I’ve had that one since I was a kid!
Daaamn all of those look like they're in great condition. They re-released the og Tamagotchi here in Japan. I was so tempted to get it, but I realized I already have two kids who constantly yap and complain about being hungry.
They re-released those original Tamagotchi and then the Tamagotchi Connections fairly recently. Not sure of global availability, but I got my hands on one pretty easily in Canada. They use the shell of the Connection v3 and behave about the same, if I’m not mistaken. But, they’re not quite the same. They’re not as good. The battery life isn’t as good (it’s kind of short, actually), and there are certain quirks that make me think it’s running slightly faster than the original.
I’m glad they exist, but they’re definitely not the exact same thing. They’re kinda expensive now too. I remember them costing $20 back in the day (the Connection, in Canada), which is about $30 now. But to buy the rebooted Connection, they’re all over $60-$70. I got the translucent neon colour, the 90s design. I see a dark starry neon colour, that looks even more 90s.
I feel this in my bones
I think I could beat this ...
... But not without doxxing myself.
Wait that calculator is 2000s? Its standard in german schools to this day
If I’m not mistaken, this particular model was introduced in the late 90s and has been a common fixture in schools since. I’ve had this one since sometime in the late 2000s. It’s a Texas Instruments TI-84 of some variety. I’m not certain, but I believe they can still be purchased brand new in most places. There are different, more capable models, but the basic ones are still very powerful and capable (and expensive) graphing calculators.
Yes! We use the TI-84 in german schools to this very day! The school tells the students/their parents to buy them! XD
Was thinking about what would have been missing from my 2000s desk:
All things I wished I could have, but didn’t. Well, I did have one of those 2000s cheat booklets for PS2 games, but it was in bad shape and wouldn’t have been obvious, and I couldn’t bring my Phillips CRT with PS2 over here (it was a practical space/support issue), so I left it out, even though it would’ve really taken it that much further.
I don’t have vintage printers either, since I can’t justify them, and the printer I already do have usually works (though it is a haunted and vindictive HP, so that should say all).
All good things to have though. I’m sure I’ve got more neat goodies hiding in my basement, I just have to dig them out.
Portable standalone MP3 player would also be a good addition very typical for the time period, plus a reference to Napster or so... :-)
I owned a Samsung Yepp 32, one of the earliest somewhat affordable ones.
The "32" stands for its whopping 32 MByte (no, not GByte) internal flash memory. Enough for half an hour of standard compressed music...
Ahhhhh that’s one thing I missed! I don’t have a standalone MP3 player or boombox, but I do have a Discman! We had tons of those iPod-wannabe MP3 players too, not sure where they all ran off to. Those ones we had ranged from 16MB to 128MB I wanna say. Probably had SD card expansion too. Tsk, just lamenting the fact that I forgot my Discman and a set of Koss headphones!
History is important!
Zuma lol
It had to be Zuma. I needed my PS2 wallpaper and icons visible! And that game is stupidly addictive.
Encarta would be a flashback to the 90's through.
Together with the 14-CD-Set of heavily compressed satellite images that had been the forerunner of the 00s online map services, as well as a CD that contained all the phone numbers, manually digitized from the printed phone books by early east asian data workers...
I honestly forgot how cool Encarta actually was! It’s fun to revisit it to see what it had on various topics I’m more familiar with now. It’s quite light now, but a fun trip down memory lane!
Yes, those early multimedia CDs had their own kind of very special magic.
Everyone was trying out what was possible with the new immense data capacity available.
The technological jump from the early- to the mid-90s was completely insane!