What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 Was Born

1. This year’s high school freshmen, the Class of 2018, were born (for the most part) at the turn of the century.

2. Let’s take a look at what the world was like back then. Back when the Class of 2018 was born…

3. Eminem wore shirts like this and everyone understood what it meant:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

4. The iPod was about to change the way we listen to music:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

5. Lizzie McGuire had just begun and apparently showed us what “seriously cool” was:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

6. Justin Timberlake was a marionette:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn
What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn
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Hannah bought me a Justin Timberlake of N’Sync cerca 2000 marionette doll #sheknowsme #wouldiwantanythingelse



7. Wilson was Tom Hanks’ best friend:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

8. Sum 41 took middle schools by storm:

And so did “Absolutely (Story Of A Girl)”, “Californication”, “Adam’s Song”, BBMak, Creed, Macy Gray, Matchbox 20, Bon Jovi for some reason, 3 Doors Down, and Papa Roach, and the immortal Baha Men asked the question “Who Let The Dogs Out?”

9. These sweet morsels still lived in our cereal bowls:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

10. Darrin’s grooves were the only grooves that mattered. The alpha and the omega of grooves:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

11. The Nickelodeon daily schedule looked like this:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

12. The world’s most important cheerleading movie ever made had just been released:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

13. The WWE was still the WWF:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

14. The Rugrats visited Paris:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

15. And if you watched it, hopefully you did on an orange tape:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

16. The future of gaming was released:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

17. SmarterChild got real as hell:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

18. “Now That’s What I Call Music” had just released its fourth edition…

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

19. And the tracklisting looked like this:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

20. People thought it was OK to sit on inflatable furniture:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

21. Destiny’s Child still had four people in it:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn
What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn
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22. Britney Spears was made out of clay:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

23. And traveled to the moon:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

24. Someone had just decided that these freaky little hell beasts were an OK toy:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

25. The most important movie ever about a doll becoming real was made:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

26. The Harry Potter cast all looked like this:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn
What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn
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Legends. RT “@iTweetFacts: The cast of Harry Potter at their first movie premiere 10 years ago. ”



27. Andre 3000 asked this important question:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

28. Ben Affleck was on a “journey to manhood”:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

29. People somehow thought it was OK to go out in public like this:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

30. Chicken Run was on the cover of Time:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

31. The Cartoon Network schedule looked like this:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

32. The Spy Kids made the world safe for spy kids… for now:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

33. These jeans were inexplicably popular:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

34. Sisq held the world in his thong-covered hands:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

35. Chances are you had to stare at this for about 10 to 15 minutes before using the ‘net:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

36. People listened to music like this for some reason:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

37. Everyone just wanted a snow day:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

38. Jason Biggs was allowed to be near women:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

39. Linkin Park had just… burst… onto the scene:

40. Someone thought it wise to put Eminem on the cover of Teen People:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

41. Gwen Stefani had braces:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

42. Oh, and gas prices looked a lot more like this:

What The World Was Like When The Class Of 2018 WasBorn

We got them beat on one thing.

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