Remember last decade, how you used to quote Mean Girls word for word while talking to your best friend on your Nokia cell phone? You wore low-rise jeans with tiny t-shirts and Rocket Dog sandals and spent your afternoons requesting music videos on TRL and learning the dance moves to “I’m a Slave 4 U.” We’ll be honest; we still quote Mean Girls and try to copy Britney Spears routines, but we look back on those days with equal parts dreamy nostalgia and sheer horror. We’re taking a trip down memory lane with all the best (and worst) things about coming of age in the aughts. So here we go: you know you were a teenager in the 2000s if . . .
– Additional reporting by Lauren Harano
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You Thought These Two Would Be Together Forever
Same With These Two
And These Two
But They <i>Were</i> as Low as Humanly Possible
This Was Your First iPod
And You Had to Wait a Week to See That Selfie You Took
Tried to Surf Like You Were in Blue Crush
And Wanted to Take a Road Trip With Your Girlfriends, à la Crossroads
You Remember This Miley Cyrus
This Hilary Duff
And This Rihanna
You Thought This Was the Best Super Bowl Halftime Show Ever
Until Beyoncé in 2013, of course.