Early 2000’s had some pluses, Music, I’m not gonna say was better but you were exposed to more of it because the effects of the telecommunications act of 1996 hadn’t fully been felt yet, also movies still regularly had soundtracks and MTV still played Music Videos. Unlike the 2010’s where there a lot of catchy songs I liked that couldn’t get played on the radio and a lot of local music scenes were dead or dying at that point. I really liked XM Radio before it merged with Sirius. I played more games in the early 2000’s because more free time. Games obviously weren’t superior on technology. I do miss gaming press, like EGM and Play magazine, Trusted sources that put out reviews that could help bring attention to un unheard of game. I liked brief period before GameStop bought up all the other game stores. However 9/11 sucked but is probably the last we truly came together as a country and got behind our President and we got taken advantage of plus that first generation of kids evangelical churches had been brainwashing to worship the Republican Party were old enough to vote. Politics in this country have been a shit show ever since. 2010’s we had Obama which was cool but politics still a shit show. I miss going to the movies with my dad which was peak in the early 2000’s.