I’m grateful to every videographer who came to the City and documented life the way it was. I moved out in December of 1999, but spent most of my life there, so it’s fun to revisit.
It was, I think after 9/11 we slowly became less humane and more bitter. It’s sad because I wish life was still like this overall and not just on an individual level
@@BlackGirlLovesAnime6 In reality it seemed people helped each other more after 9/11 but it was after the Iraq War started that Americans seemed a bit more divided and when social media started becoming more popular by 2007-2009, people started seeing others true self's online which makes people now seem more bitter and have more hatred.
Nostalgia blinds people, take off your glasses. The world was not calm and normal back then, you were a bit younger so the world looks colorful when you’re young. You have no responsibilities or cares in the world, just plain fun. The world has been the same as it ever was, you just have the advancement of technology. NYC actually has less crime now than it did before, stop being paranoid from watching too much news. If you go outside or travel back to NY, you’ll see that. People want to beat around the bush instead of accepting that the view was due to your youthfulness. Which is going to be the next excuse? 9/11 is already used, tech is already used…. Each generation says the same thing about how I experienced the best times in 1900,1950,1980,2000, 2010s and etc, it will keep going on until the end of time. Manners aren’t lost, good people aren’t lost, good times aren’t lost, stop dwelling in the past instead of living in the moment. The only reason why you are unhappy with today is because you have full consciousness. You could still recreate most of those memories anyways….
Yeah people can't afford groceries or even buy a house but you're right I guess...its all in my "head" right? You tried to come off smart but failed miserably.
@@piccolo5346Stop all your whining.. I addressed that and based that in my comment. You thought you did something with your comment but failed, checkmate. The nation has always has its ups and lows with the economy, you could tell who actually reads instead of responding cause you think you know it all without analyzing…
@@AXEL-jt2cd Inflation through the roof, gass prices through the roof, housing crisis, immigration crisis, groceries are unaffordable, 10 eggs cost 10 dollars, One big mac with small fries costs 30 dollars but but im "whining" lol. The average American literally can't afford to live by themselves, most of them are forced to move back to their parents. You dont even know how bad it is, you dont live in reality, every argument you made is from an emotional standpoint, absolutely nothing you said was backed with facts,numbers,data etc. We're literally in the final stage of "capitalism", you should know this since you "read" lol.
Yes the internet made sure we no longer lived in the moment, but simply lived the moment by dreaming of and remembering past moments (*pre internet) that were good
@@Raj-b2q1x nah the true social media infancy was in the mid-2000s. AIM, MySpace, etc. by the time 2011 came around things were in full swing but still nowhere near as pervasive as today
@@SticktothemodelsYes but it didn’t take over everyone’s lives yet. It truly wasn’t until 2010-2012 where social media really influenced everything and when everyone spent so much time online. Heck even 2012 compared to now, people are much more online. We call that chronically online 😂 I’d love to see a graph of the average screen time over the years. Covid definitely did us in.
I agree for me I dont think this looks old in my perspective it feels so vivid feels like yesterday all the clothes the people the style the street seems like it was just yesterday I think I stopped aging haha I still feel so young.
I live in Poland on the other side of the globe, but those video reminds me winter vibe on March '2000 in Warsaw. We had an identical weather at this time. The guy in the black coat from the time 5:01 reminds me my outfit from this time, I had also an black coat and I smoked a cigarette during while crossing the city. It was a happy time!
@@lilyliciousss lol stop with the doomsday nonsense. The "world", AKA New York and other states, are still the best places to live in all of human history. This is the opposite of a dark age. In the 1950s it was way worse and life sucked way more. And in the 1900s it was worse. Every 50 years, it was worse. Overall, this is the highest level of civilzation that humanity has ever reached. With the most comforts.
@@whatisthishandlegarbage dude you’re so lost. We’re no longer at the peak of humanity. As far as we know, tartaria was peak humanity. Do you not see what’s going on right now? How fucked up everything is and will continue to be? Some see it and some don’t. By all means, interpret it as you will. But you can accept the conditions we are in and choose how you feel about it. You don’t have to shut yourself away and cry, but live as true to yourself as you can. But don’t be naive either, you know?
@@whatisthishandlegarbage so you don't think people being super antisocial and all the mental health issues going on nowadays is bad. I lived during a time you could go up to someone and just have a conversation idk maybe its just me
as someone not living in the USA, can you share your overall experience with the city and where you want to head now? I would be suuuuper interested in it man.
@@alexwells6876 everything. its very dangerous, loud, and dirty. Not cozy anymore, just loud and dirty....and dangerous. And racist! if you're white you won't be perceived well in certain places thats for sure.
Ruthless Aggression era was better IMO based on facts. It had proper dramatic storylines, no more of that mindless trayshTV. The women were hotter than ever. The aesthetics were gorgeous. The music was superb. The athletes were top notch. Inventions of very entertaining match stipulations.
I remember going to that restaurant. They had like a mini movie theater/cafeteria section downstairs, huge titantron, somewhat of a museum as well with showcases of wrestling memorabilia like Cactus Jack’s barbwire 2x4 used in his match with Triple H in a glass display, and some of the best pizza I’ve ever had. Wrestlers used to show up all the time to. They had the best in house shop as well, replica belts, action figures. I remember begging my pops for a belt, but he said it was to expensive so he got me a pair of The Rock’s elbow pads they were selling. Never can forget that beautiful time. Miss those days so much.
I believe early 2000s was a good era. Most people had cell phones, tvs, dvd players, video games, even internet, all the things we enjoy today yet they still lived in the moment and weren't glued to their phones or social media. Were in the moment, soaking in the moment, socializing, more open to talking to a stranger you meet standing in a line at the store, etc etc. Now everyones literally glued to their phone, not living in the moment.
Mid 2000's is when I noticed texting becoming an issue. I remember people whipping out their various cellphones and texting with the keypad, ignoring others in the middle of a conversation.
Looks like the same commercial driven shit hole it is today. At least back then things were cleaner and there was less crime in New York. To be honest America has been in decline for a long time now.
I was there in December 2000 when I was 31. Everything was busy but relaxed. A lot of phones with hardware keyboards in the shop windows. The twin towers still dominated the cityscape.
@michaellemmen Dude, 1998-2000 was essentially all the same when we lived it. We weren't moving any differently because all the stuff it was only 3 year apart. 2002-03 was the beginning of the 00s trueself. 🤣
@@GR1NDMOD229/11 was start of the 00s Iraq War controversy, it was alot fear and panic during 02-04 days. 2005 is when we notice stuff started become normal again
Take me back!!!! pre 9/11 pre Covid no stupid social media the world wasn't perfect and never will be but the past was better in almost every way and it's not just nostalgia talking.
March 17 2000, I was 5 years old playing Final Fantasy 7 on Playstation 1 in the dining room of my parents new house. Now I'm the same age as my parents were back then, playing Final Fantasy 7 Remake on my PlayStation 5 in my new house I'm renting in Tokyo.
Wow your parents were pretty young. I guess you were the first born. I was 5 years old then. Though my dad was 52 years and 8 months old in March 2000 and my mom 45 years and 3 months old. I mostly played educational pc games then and only video game I ever played then was Capn Crunchs crunchling adventure.
@@MrLyosea At that time, I already owned a PSX but was still playing my SNES quite alot tho... I was trying to catch up on a few old games that I hadn't been able to afford previously when I was younger.
And younger people smart enough to know the real perpetraor of 9/11 .. than you all who still sleeping and just listening without testing and searching !
I feel young again watching this clip. 😅 I was a teen back in 2000. The pre days of 9/11 were awesome. Right amount of technology. Not overboard & not overbearing. On this day I was in school. I couldn't wait to get home to watch TRL on MTV. I miss those days.
@@izzetoubari9799 i know! The Twin Towers were such an iconic symbol in Manhattan! 9/11/01 really changed everything! I miss the old stores as well! Tower Records, The Virgin Mega Store, Record Explosion!
I miss those times. People were different - so much more open and friendly with each other. Life was different, easier, better, simpler. Everything was different. And much better. And that's not nostalgia. It really was.
@@sovka8394 These are the future old times, you're right about that, but I'm not quite so sure about the good. These folks had about the same experience about the 70s-80s as us about the 80s-90s. Very minor differences. But the 80s-90s compared to what's going on in the world today...
Take me back to the 2000 area, no smart phones in every day life , no real social media, just our minds and people around us. Politically kind of peaceful :/ Really, take me back. Especially to the 2000s USA. I came back to the USA 2018 and 2021 and SO much has changed :(
Remember everything like it was yesterday man,so much memories,what a childhood we all had during 00's today's kids will never understand that (like we don't understand theirs now)but I am 💯 sure we had "more" than they have now despite all technology
I was there for the millennium celebration. I remember there was a blizzard the day or two before. I was on my high school winter break and remember flying back to LA on 1/1/2000 the plane was so empty lol Y2K baby! lol I miss the days before 9/11.
@1xalexandrax1 you completely missed the point of their comment, They are saying they miss the Old new york. Just because everyone has a smart phone now, doesnt mean people cant reminisce on the days when people didnt have them.
The pre 9/11 world… when everything felt more normal. Sometimes I’m hoping we all wake up and it’s pre 9/11 again and this craziness was all a bad dream
I was born 4 months later. It's weird to look at footage that shows the world as it looked when you were born. A period you basically lived in but didn't experience.
Watching this feels like "the reality that once was" - a strange humanity and intimacy that the whole world seemed to be under back then and in previous decades. Not to say that it was that much better materially, because clearly it had its rough edges - but the world seemed like a smaller, more intimate place nonetheless.
@@blue-mo6xm Dirty industry, trash, low quality plastic, toxic materials; while a resale market was good and things were built durably/more out of metal today (and domestically with love) - it ended up maintaining a level of decay over time.
5th generation NYer here with my family being this city over 100 years. I'm the last one standing at the age of 36 and I'm heartbroken by what the city has become. Nothing but gentrifiers everywhere, talentless souls and TH-camrs. It truly sucks. You can't go into a restaurant without people on their phones.The rich conversations, diversity, culture and talent are a thing of the past. Happy to have grown up in this NY.
Things change, it's part of life. Native Americans used to live there, then different people came and then other different people came and so on and so on
I've also lived in downtown Manhattan my whole life and I completely agree with you. The city has lost it's soul, it's pulse. It's completely flatlined and is an utter cesspool.😢😢
I was 11 years old back in March, 2000. It was a wonderful time, full of dreams and ambitious. And one of my dreams was to visit the US (especially NY city). This dream came true after 18 years in 2018, and I am happy to say that. 😊
3:50: 1996 Novabus RTS #8791 Not In Service 4:32: an unidentified 1996 Novabus RTS possibly on the M10 or M104 4:58: RTS's and Orion Vs on presumably the M6, M7, M10, M20, M27 and/or M104 11:14: 1986 GMC RTS #4517 13:46: A 1993 Orion V 21:52: Queens Surface Corporation 1998 Orion V CNG #519 (renumbered to #9951 under the MTA in 2005), 1999 Novabus RTS #5143, and 1998 Orion V CNG #572 (renumbered to #8572 under the MTA in 2005), and a Green Bus Lines RTS. 22:05: A GMC RTS on the M50 23:30: A 1998-99 MCI 102-DLW3SS on (presumably) the X1 (plus a pair of Crown Vic NYPD cruisers) 24:12: Another GMC RTS on the M50 Back when RTS's and Orions RULED NYC (from both MTA and NYCDOT). The person commenting on this video (me, a Transit Buff and First Responder Buff) didn't exist until December 2001 (after you already know what happened in September that year, God rest all of those lost souls on 9/11).
These were the days right here and I'll tell you that straight up 3 1/2 at the time but I was cognitive of what was going on lot of good buses during that time the 1993 Orion Vs and RTSs were in the midst of being repowered from 6v92 to Series 50 , The MCIs were taking over the Express routes and the D60s we were just getting comfortable with the D60s
Born and raised in NY. So I hate to say this, but this was back when humans actually lived in NYC back in 2000 [I was about to turn 28 back then]. Now fast forward to 2023 its just bodies with no souls. Literally. Real sad. I wish I can go back to those days.
Beautifully crisp smooth footage of NYC in 2000! Very immersive and amazing to see New York in Y2K. It looked very normal and relatable. Thanks for sharing this gem at 60fps* It's always a treat to see videos like this in higher realistic fps. 😊
@@escapemac While I agree it's more in line with current tendencies and technology, or just how people today prefer to watch anything, the video is sped up and feels a bit unnatural, I don't think it was originally 30FPS either, it's probably 24.
@@jeffitachi2589 I don’t mind the responsibility because that’s what pertains to adults. I mean how everything around us is conducted. This generation has coming lazy. Lol
That's what every generation thinks of the one ahead of them.Basically as time goes by things become easier and fast to solve which creates an impression the generation is lazy but that is far from the truth
@@jeffitachi2589 if what you say is true then Rome, Greece, Mongols, Egyptians, and many more would still be. They all collapsed as each generation after the birth becomes lazier and weaker. The US is on a fast decline headed straight towards total collapse
Things changed from 9/11 onwards. People got more fearful. Media talked about terror and war 24/7. They never dialed back the agitation and hyperbole from then on. Social media made it worse. Back then, nobody would’ve imagined that an orange clown could almost topple US democracy 20 some years later.
Compared with today the late 90's seem like a dream world... like a beautiful dream world which is lost forever and only lives on in our memories and hearts. 2020-24 seems like a nightmare compared to this beautiful footage and not just because of the pandemic, the inflation or the war in Ukraine, in general!!!! The entire Western world never really recovered from 9/11, not just the USA.
It would be interesting to see a shot-by-shot comparison from these clips to the same areas now. 2000 feels like yesterday, in many ways, and yet like a century in between (in other ways). Beautiful video. As another commenter stated, it feels like a time capsule.
The 80s and 90s had a big impact on me, the 2000s not so much, but it's very sad to imagine that after 1 year of this video, something so sad would happen.
@@Ril014Don't listen to him. We had some bad snow storms within the past decade. 2015, 2016 and I think 2017. One year we were having snow storms back-to-back almost every week. It was so exhausting.
es un momento de recordar las generaciones pasadas con estos videos ineditos , ahora nostros tambien debemos hacerlo filmar , y colgarlo a youtube para generaciones que vienen
I was 10 in 2000, holy shit dude I remember these days so well. Crazy how life moves very quickly. I remember my mom always telling me "life moves so fast that before you know it, you're 20, then 30"........I'm now 33😭I feel so old everytime I watch these late 90s-early 00s videos. I miss my childhood so much. Don't take your childhood for granted kids, it all goes away before you know it.
I'm 36 1999 was the best year to be alive. Pokémon, Playstation, with Playstation 2 coming, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Dexter's Laboratory, Ren and Stimpy, Rockos modern life, Hey Arnold, Aaaaah! Real monster.
@@paypig2652 facts bro. I swear everything was just so much better than it is now. I miss camping with my friends at the mall for game and console releases. Shows were definitely superior as well.
New York has completely changed since 2001 for the worse. I was a 28 year old artist/young professional from ATL living there that year for the experience. went back recently after 20 years for a visit and NYC is basically in full apocalypse. Nothing like the magical place I lived in from 2000-2002. And the "kinds" of people that you now see in the areas that were once beautiful, trendy, cool places in 2001 are people you don't want to associate with. just thousands of Hoodlums, non English speaking immigrants, or the young snobby culturally "lost" racists (social media generation) that think they're "hipsters" but will never really know what that truly means because they'll never know how to be open minded, independent, thinkers but just followers and copycats
Are you an "open minded, independent, thinker" or more like a "snobby culturally "lost" racist" bc " thousands of Hoodlums, non English speaking immigrants" point out to you being the latter hun bun x
I've been living in NYC my whole life and I noticed it started getting worse right around the late 2000s/early 2010s. I have a feeling the rise of social media and smartphones had something to do with it mixed in with transplants and FOB-ish immigrants moving in while the native New Yorkers were moving out for the suburbs.
It's an inorganic NGO and state-facilitated invasion. They import staggering numbers of foreigners while our own people are priced out of a home in their own country. Not to mention the immigrants are almost always unsavory and make the streets less safe. These same parasites are responsible for 9/11 and facilitating American intervention as proxy wars for Israeli foreign policy.
Pretty sure NYC had non-English speaking immigrants then - because it always has, going back over 100 years (if not more). On one hand you’re talking about not knowing how to be open-minded, yet in the same post talking about not wanting to associate with non-English speakers. Doesn’t quite make sense.
Ja vi aqui no TH-cam um canal de um cara que ele postou um vídeo de 1994 que ele gravou com uma câmera que filmava em Alta definição e é impressionante Alta definição em 1994.
Got this video in my recommended & it struck me cause the day it was filmed is my actual birthday! And the view count as of me watching is 317k (3-17) Should I go play the lottery or something??😅
it was a cold march of 17th ! Amazing video, all those people out there being busy, minding their own business got immortalized by this video and I was at the time in my mum's tummy not knowing anything yet.
That's unbelievable. There were no LED back then, at least for mass lighting, and even always overlit NYC and Times Square seem so cute. With all that crazy light pollution caused by LED NYC became impossible for me to live anymore. Half of the city and especially those blocks around Times Square are overlit like hell with all those crazy big screens. I wish I could return to those times in the video and take a walk during a rainy or snowy gloomy weather without any LED lamps lit on. Then, those walks were really enjoyable, now it's impossible even during daytime, let alone nighttime - everything blinds like hell. And there were also times without those especially nasty and blinding LED headlights. No wonder people had a mch better eyesight back then.
LED headlights are blinding okay, but ur taking it too far. What next you're gonna whine about the LED lights on your oven's clock? As the other comment said Get a grip freak
the late 90s and early 00s is the time when people for the first time became cooler. The clothing style and hairstyles have became nicer and had more variance compared to the 70s and 80s. It was a hard change that is why this era is so uniqe
Time is the only thing you can't get back... Enjoy every Moment you have . And your families....Take advantage of great opportunities and appreciate your relationships..
America was truly at its peak. This is well before the effects of climate change, Reaganomics, and the cost of living crisis truly materialized. Sure, there were still lots of shady things behind the scenes in politics and business at the time as well, but the economic and social conditions were much better than now.
Um, Reagan was president from 1981 to 1989, so Reagonmics occurred before this video. The real reason for the decline is because people started embracing clown world ideology. Most of this clown world ideology happened post 2012.
@@CalebSteele That's true, and I know all this corporate consolidation and deregulation started way before the late 90s- early 2000s. What I was saying was that the conditions, whether economic or social, was undoubtably better in the year 2000 when there were a lot less people living paycheck to paycheck and, not to mention, the world was unipolar with the United States being the undisputed superpower. Technology, financialization, corporate consolidation, and globalization hadn't got to the point where blue and white collar workers felt like they were getting squeezed, especially for young graduates trying to look for entry level positions. I look at how things are now for the average person, and life is definitely a lot more tough than back in the day. My comment was largely a callback to the simpler days where there was a real sense of financial, political and social stability even when the declining of our institutions was going on slowly behind the scenes. And also, can you clarify what you mean by clown world ideology and where do you think this came from if it this was the cause?
A lot of what is happening today is caused by the government taking control of everything like brainwashing most people into believing that the world is ending due to climate change and destroying our economy with inflation it's all planned.
If you asked the people back then, they would've told you the world is going to shits then too. You ask today it's the same answer. It's been the same answer since the beginning of time. We always long for the days past because it represents our youth. So it's the youth we miss, not the time.
Except we have data to dissaprove all your claims. The world is objectively getting worse each day, nobody can afford anything anymore and nobody owns anything.
Life in 2000 looked like: internet is mainstream but very much desktop. You'd be looking for an internet cafe if away from home. Music was played on CD Players, your Sony Playstation or Computer. Cellphones were only used sparingly because minutes were expensive. Cash was king. George W. Bush was running for President. Mission Impossible II and Gladiator were the big movies that year. 'Say My Name' by Destiny's Child was a huge hit. Britney had dropped 'Opps I did it again'
Crazy days. In my late 20s, you wouldn't believe the utter nonsense about the end of days if you weren't around at the time. Like a millenia matters to this planet! 😂 Not even a blink of a celestial eye. PS1 was console of choice although I still had my Sega Saturn. Like I said, crazy days.
Yeah, and that's what people in the 2000's said about the 80's. And people in the 80's said about the 60's. And people in the 60's said about the 40's.
@@pokemonitishere202Australian here. You've heard the phrase "when the US sneezes, the world catches a cold"? 9/11 kind of dragged the West into a new era of the war on terror. This is what happens when influential nations change their tack: a wide ripple effect. The events of that era not only formed the backdrop for everyone at the time (7/7, the Bali and Madrid bombings etc), but the US's conduct divided politics in many nations around the world. It was an ugly era marked by war, and we all got subjected to more surveillance. I remember saying in like 2003 that 9/11 stuffed everything compared to the more peaceful and fun 90s. Tbh, my high point came between 2004-2006, but it was a personal high point. I was in my mid twenties and doing what I enjoyed, etc etc . The temper of the times was pretty poor; but I guess we weren't suffering, and it was kind of fun in a way to hate on Bush, Blair and Howard 😂. The 90s, however, was a more optimistic time.
@@doctorbohr1585911 didn't change the entertainment, cultural or social aspects which are things we base on fun. And wars have always existed prior 911, there were major holcaus in Europe, Rwanda and Palestine(still on going), America were warring against Iraq already in 1990 and Arab Americans were already suffering discrimination by then. And the 80's and 90's were the highest in crimes in both America and Australia. You have made a poor case.
born in '85 here, so was a teenager then. If you think about what has actually changed - the internet was around then, but it's much faster now and you carry it in your pocket. Media consumption has changed a lot, we don't consume media linearly now like we did then. The big change for me over the past 23 years is really just how much more virtual our connections have become, and this was really spurred on by two main events - Facebook in around '04/'05 and the pandemic. Less happens in person now, I feel blessed I met my wife before Tinder.
I agree that Fb and the pandemic were two important factors....I would add the creation of smartphones and TH-cam to that list... people started to live virtually
Can't believe the 2000s now is equivalent to the 80s then
Right especially before 9/11 after that everything changed
You just made me cry man. We’ve taken a horrible wrong turn. What happened:(
@@Lucky-sh1dm money power control propaganda all because of capitalism
Capitalism as in the system where you own what you work for?@@michaelbaumgarten5471
Propaganda from both state and corps have always been around since forever. @@michaelbaumgarten5471
I’m grateful to every videographer who came to the City and documented life the way it was. I moved out in December of 1999, but spent most of my life there, so it’s fun to revisit.
Where did you move
@@neverhungryagain2187 , Most likely in Dedroid
, Ioi in Washington State
Right before the new millennium came in. Interesting.
It has historic value.
For some reason everything seemed cozier and more human...even in NYC. I miss those times before social media took charge. I miss the old world order
You put thus so well. I'm 40 and I miss it too.
It was, I think after 9/11 we slowly became less humane and more bitter. It’s sad because I wish life was still like this overall and not just on an individual level
@@BlackGirlLovesAnime6 In reality it seemed people helped each other more after 9/11 but it was after the Iraq War started that Americans seemed a bit more divided and when social media started becoming more popular by 2007-2009, people started seeing others true self's online which makes people now seem more bitter and have more hatred.
@@MrLyoseaYeah social media has destroyed our society
@@MrLyoseaSocial media existed in the 90's. Furthermore nobody knew what facee book or what twter was until 2010.
Nostalgia blinds people, take off your glasses. The world was not calm and normal back then, you were a bit younger so the world looks colorful when you’re young. You have no responsibilities or cares in the world, just plain fun. The world has been the same as it ever was, you just have the advancement of technology. NYC actually has less crime now than it did before, stop being paranoid from watching too much news. If you go outside or travel back to NY, you’ll see that. People want to beat around the bush instead of accepting that the view was due to your youthfulness. Which is going to be the next excuse? 9/11 is already used, tech is already used…. Each generation says the same thing about how I experienced the best times in 1900,1950,1980,2000, 2010s and etc, it will keep going on until the end of time. Manners aren’t lost, good people aren’t lost, good times aren’t lost, stop dwelling in the past instead of living in the moment. The only reason why you are unhappy with today is because you have full consciousness. You could still recreate most of those memories anyways….
Yeah people can't afford groceries or even buy a house but you're right I guess...its all in my "head" right? You tried to come off smart but failed miserably.
@@piccolo5346Stop all your whining.. I addressed that and based that in my comment. You thought you did something with your comment but failed, checkmate. The nation has always has its ups and lows with the economy, you could tell who actually reads instead of responding cause you think you know it all without analyzing…
@@AXEL-jt2cd Inflation through the roof, gass prices through the roof, housing crisis, immigration crisis, groceries are unaffordable, 10 eggs cost 10 dollars, One big mac with small fries costs 30 dollars but but im "whining" lol. The average American literally can't afford to live by themselves, most of them are forced to move back to their parents. You dont even know how bad it is, you dont live in reality, every argument you made is from an emotional standpoint, absolutely nothing you said was backed with facts,numbers,data etc. We're literally in the final stage of "capitalism", you should know this since you "read" lol.
late 90's - 2000's - were actually amazing and that's not just nostalgia talking. The internet destroyed everything
Yes the internet made sure we no longer lived in the moment, but simply lived the moment by dreaming of and remembering past moments (*pre internet) that were good
No, social media destroyed everything
@@kurisu3000
no - people were getting less social at around 2011 - 2012. Social media was in its infancy..
@@Raj-b2q1x nah the true social media infancy was in the mid-2000s. AIM, MySpace, etc. by the time 2011 came around things were in full swing but still nowhere near as pervasive as today
@@SticktothemodelsYes but it didn’t take over everyone’s lives yet. It truly wasn’t until 2010-2012 where social media really influenced everything and when everyone spent so much time online. Heck even 2012 compared to now, people are much more online. We call that chronically online 😂 I’d love to see a graph of the average screen time over the years. Covid definitely did us in.
I was born in 1991 so I was about 9 years old in 2000. It's crazy how time goes by so fast. This feels like it was just yesterday.
I agree for me I dont think this looks old in my perspective it feels so vivid feels like yesterday all the clothes the people the style the street seems like it was just yesterday I think I stopped aging haha I still feel so young.
I live in Poland on the other side of the globe, but those video reminds me winter vibe on March '2000 in Warsaw. We had an identical weather at this time. The guy in the black coat from the time 5:01 reminds me my outfit from this time, I had also an black coat and I smoked a cigarette during while crossing the city. It was a happy time!
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Lucky you. Tf did u watch dexter's laboratory???
@@jacobsinger97 Of course, I love it
I was 40 years old in 2000, watching this video brings back so many memories getting older. Still feel 40 everyday as nothing changed.
you're lucky to have enjoyed the world before this dark age we're entering/already in
@@lilyliciousss lol stop with the doomsday nonsense. The "world", AKA New York and other states, are still the best places to live in all of human history. This is the opposite of a dark age. In the 1950s it was way worse and life sucked way more. And in the 1900s it was worse. Every 50 years, it was worse. Overall, this is the highest level of civilzation that humanity has ever reached. With the most comforts.
@@whatisthishandlegarbage dude you’re so lost. We’re no longer at the peak of humanity. As far as we know, tartaria was peak humanity. Do you not see what’s going on right now? How fucked up everything is and will continue to be? Some see it and some don’t. By all means, interpret it as you will. But you can accept the conditions we are in and choose how you feel about it. You don’t have to shut yourself away and cry, but live as true to yourself as you can. But don’t be naive either, you know?
I hear u,but its the mileage
@@whatisthishandlegarbage so you don't think people being super antisocial and all the mental health issues going on nowadays is bad. I lived during a time you could go up to someone and just have a conversation idk maybe its just me
I just left NYC after 12 years of living there. I would go back in a heartbeat to this version of the city.
as someone not living in the USA, can you share your overall experience with the city and where you want to head now?
I would be suuuuper interested in it man.
I too would be interested. What has changed about the city since then?
@@alexwells6876 Me too
@@Skikopl+
@@alexwells6876 everything. its very dangerous, loud, and dirty. Not cozy anymore, just loud and dirty....and dangerous. And racist! if you're white you won't be perceived well in certain places thats for sure.
Love that WWF (World Wrestling Federation) New York sign! What an era.
The Attitude Era🔥. Best era for the company if you ask me.
@@Wrestling316Oh yeah. Best wrestling era BY FAR!!!!
Ruthless Aggression era was better IMO based on facts. It had proper dramatic storylines, no more of that mindless trayshTV. The women were hotter than ever. The aesthetics were gorgeous. The music was superb. The athletes were top notch. Inventions of very entertaining match stipulations.
I remember going to that restaurant. They had like a mini movie theater/cafeteria section downstairs, huge titantron, somewhat of a museum as well with showcases of wrestling memorabilia like Cactus Jack’s barbwire 2x4 used in his match with Triple H in a glass display, and some of the best pizza I’ve ever had. Wrestlers used to show up all the time to. They had the best in house shop as well, replica belts, action figures. I remember begging my pops for a belt, but he said it was to expensive so he got me a pair of The Rock’s elbow pads they were selling. Never can forget that beautiful time. Miss those days so much.
The real WWF made them changed.
I believe early 2000s was a good era. Most people had cell phones, tvs, dvd players, video games, even internet, all the things we enjoy today yet they still lived in the moment and weren't glued to their phones or social media. Were in the moment, soaking in the moment, socializing, more open to talking to a stranger you meet standing in a line at the store, etc etc. Now everyones literally glued to their phone, not living in the moment.
People were glued to their computers lol
Mid 2000's is when I noticed texting becoming an issue. I remember people whipping out their various cellphones and texting with the keypad, ignoring others in the middle of a conversation.
Looks like the same commercial driven shit hole it is today. At least back then things were cleaner and there was less crime in New York. To be honest America has been in decline for a long time now.
I think more people were engaged and pay more attention compared to now where we have this behaviour of being glued to our screens as you pointed out.
Totally agree
I miss those black cameras to take videos of NYC and its people. The city was so calm.
and it isn't now?
@@tadeusztadek6816no is not the city has got dirty
then around September you had a major shock to the system 9/11
@@paulrose319those video cameras were the only way to take videos in 9/11.
You obviously haven’t been to NY…it’s a dumpster these says
I was there in December 2000 when I was 31. Everything was busy but relaxed. A lot of phones with hardware keyboards in the shop windows. The twin towers still dominated the cityscape.
Still got the 90s vibes
Really? That’s weird, I would have thought the ‘vibes’ of the previous 10 years would just disappear immediately on Jan 1 2000!
@@michaellemmenno after 9/11
@@michaellemmen 9/11 changed everything though.
@michaellemmen Dude, 1998-2000 was essentially all the same when we lived it. We weren't moving any differently because all the stuff it was only 3 year apart. 2002-03 was the beginning of the 00s trueself. 🤣
@@GR1NDMOD229/11 was start of the 00s Iraq War controversy, it was alot fear and panic during 02-04 days. 2005 is when we notice stuff started become normal again
Take me back!!!! pre 9/11 pre Covid no stupid social media the world wasn't perfect and never will be but the past was better in almost every way and it's not just nostalgia talking.
Exactly right
👍👌
We didn't ask for all that B's we wanted to connect to each other noth melt in one other
Good points tho
Stop saying stupid social media it’s not nice & even you’re using social media so why are you on it?
March 17 2000, I was 5 years old playing Final Fantasy 7 on Playstation 1 in the dining room of my parents new house. Now I'm the same age as my parents were back then, playing Final Fantasy 7 Remake on my PlayStation 5 in my new house I'm renting in Tokyo.
Amazing how fast time goes.
@@pencilpen8838The ds wasn't out until 2004
March 17, 2000 , I was 8 and idk what I was doing but I was somewhere obsessed with Aaliyah 😢
Wow your parents were pretty young. I guess you were the first born. I was 5 years old then. Though my dad was 52 years and 8 months old in March 2000 and my mom 45 years and 3 months old. I mostly played educational pc games then and only video game I ever played then was Capn Crunchs crunchling adventure.
@@MrLyosea At that time, I already owned a PSX but was still playing my SNES quite alot tho... I was trying to catch up on a few old games that I hadn't been able to afford previously when I was younger.
Younger people don't understand how awesome and different America was before 9/11.
Younger people never understand why things were so awesome when their parents were younger. Same as it ever was
How was it different? I am European. I get that airports were different
@@DanielAnderssson it isn't different people just want to sound special
@@DanielAnderssson everything has changed, less freedom now and more control
And younger people smart enough to know the real perpetraor of 9/11 .. than you all who still sleeping and just listening without testing and searching !
You should revisit the same places and put them side by side, that would be really interesting. Great relaxing video!
I feel young again watching this clip. 😅 I was a teen back in 2000. The pre days of 9/11 were awesome. Right amount of technology. Not overboard & not overbearing. On this day I was in school. I couldn't wait to get home to watch TRL on MTV. I miss those days.
I really miss the old NYC, such a different time and era.
Agreed, the most I miss about NYC are the twins which stood on the south side of Manhattan.
@@izzetoubari9799 i know! The Twin Towers were such an iconic symbol in Manhattan! 9/11/01 really changed everything! I miss the old stores as well! Tower Records, The Virgin Mega Store, Record Explosion!
Yes, the Twin Towers was a such a visual landmark from many view points especially at a distance.
I remember living in those times things were simple and easy,,,,social interactions were must back then no smart phone no hiding behind screen.
23 years ago I was 11, now I live in NYC with 34, and I swear this doesn’t look old for what I see today everyday. Its crazy how life goes by
Where do u live now? Still in NYC?
Are you married?
@@yg78t76t7 yes, to me
I was born in 1992 so I remember 23 years ago like yesterday
I was like 5 lol
24 years ago. I wish I could go back to this day.
I miss those times. People were different - so much more open and friendly with each other. Life was different, easier, better, simpler. Everything was different. And much better. And that's not nostalgia. It really was.
These folks were saying the same thing about 70s-80s too. It will only get worse. The old good times are now:)
I wonder what is the one key element that changed...
@@sovka8394nah. Smartphones and technology made people Lazy, bad communicators and introverts, thats why its changed.
It's gotta be cellphones. So many are so busy living their lives in it, they stop making random chit chat with a stranger next to them
@@sovka8394 These are the future old times, you're right about that, but I'm not quite so sure about the good. These folks had about the same experience about the 70s-80s as us about the 80s-90s. Very minor differences. But the 80s-90s compared to what's going on in the world today...
Take me back to the 2000 area, no smart phones in every day life , no real social media, just our minds and people around us. Politically kind of peaceful :/ Really, take me back. Especially to the 2000s USA. I came back to the USA 2018 and 2021 and SO much has changed :(
Not so much... More like, TOO MUCH!!!
I was 8 years old in 2000. Pokemon, Dragon ball z, the old Nickelodeon and Cartoon network, playing in the streets without fear...
Remember everything like it was yesterday man,so much memories,what a childhood we all had during 00's today's kids will never understand that (like we don't understand theirs now)but I am 💯 sure we had "more" than they have now despite all technology
I was 6 and I remember playing with dozens of friends until 10pm on summer days ,and the next morning football and beach good times
Wrestling was also at it's peak
I was there for the millennium celebration. I remember there was a blizzard the day or two before. I was on my high school winter break and remember flying back to LA on 1/1/2000 the plane was so empty lol Y2K baby! lol I miss the days before 9/11.
I was there for Y2K also...I recorded it and I remember it was brutally cold...like single digits temperatures
That was the best new years ever
No smartphones and no social media. I miss this New York so much. I’ve lived in this city my entire life and it’s just not the same anymore.
I wish I could have visited the 2000's new York. Looked cool, i've seen how it's now, ads everywhere, looks like a browser :))
@1xalexandrax1 you completely missed the point of their comment, They are saying they miss the Old new york. Just because everyone has a smart phone now, doesnt mean people cant reminisce on the days when people didnt have them.
@1xalexandrax1yet here you are, being obnoxious
I know, it’s more like a tourist attraction now. All the influencers want to either go there or live there for their content. It’s sickening.
Here's a sad song on the world's smallest violin... 🎻🎶🎶🎶
No smartphone addiction, no 9/11, no botox and fillers. What I would give to have those days back 😭
How the world has changed in only 2 decades
inflation and cost of living has probably led more to the downfall of western civilization versus all of those things you mentioned
@@abdallah5176 less trash on the streets too
no pronouns either
No LGBTQ crap
The pre 9/11 world… when everything felt more normal. Sometimes I’m hoping we all wake up and it’s pre 9/11 again and this craziness was all a bad dream
I was born 4 months later. It's weird to look at footage that shows the world as it looked when you were born. A period you basically lived in but didn't experience.
That’s also how I feel, too, about the year I was born. 1981 footage looks so old
To be honest New York didn't look so different from today.
They got 3d hologram advertisements at Times Square wtf are you talking about?!?
Watching this feels like "the reality that once was" - a strange humanity and intimacy that the whole world seemed to be under back then and in previous decades. Not to say that it was that much better materially, because clearly it had its rough edges - but the world seemed like a smaller, more intimate place nonetheless.
Can u explain the rough edges?
@@blue-mo6xm Dirty industry, trash, low quality plastic, toxic materials; while a resale market was good and things were built durably/more out of metal today (and domestically with love) - it ended up maintaining a level of decay over time.
Social media replaced much of the fabric of society with inhuman, toxic algorithms. This shift happened between 2013 and 2017.
What are you talking about? Its still the same, I see no differences
Dang, this was before America changed forever.
9/11 did do that, BUT 2012 & 2020 WERE FULL BLOWN LET ME OFF THE RIDE NWO TWILIGHT ZZZONE!!!
5th generation NYer here with my family being this city over 100 years. I'm the last one standing at the age of 36 and I'm heartbroken by what the city has become. Nothing but gentrifiers everywhere, talentless souls and TH-camrs. It truly sucks. You can't go into a restaurant without people on their phones.The rich conversations, diversity, culture and talent are a thing of the past. Happy to have grown up in this NY.
I'm forty and I keep older friends to keep the rich conversations alive. Choose my social spots wisely. I live in Buffalo. I'm blessed in that regard.
Exactly what I've been saying it's so pathetic man it's why I'll never a visit a city in my life
Things change, it's part of life. Native Americans used to live there, then different people came and then other different people came and so on and so on
😢
I've also lived in downtown Manhattan my whole life and I completely agree with you. The city has lost it's soul, it's pulse. It's completely flatlined and is an utter cesspool.😢😢
I was 11 years old back in March, 2000. It was a wonderful time, full of dreams and ambitious. And one of my dreams was to visit the US (especially NY city). This dream came true after 18 years in 2018, and I am happy to say that. 😊
Your dream is to visit a city? There's cities everywhere. What small dreams you have
So where you from?
@@diegoflores9237😂😂😂
3:50: 1996 Novabus RTS #8791 Not In Service
4:32: an unidentified 1996 Novabus RTS possibly on the M10 or M104
4:58: RTS's and Orion Vs on presumably the M6, M7, M10, M20, M27 and/or M104
11:14: 1986 GMC RTS #4517
13:46: A 1993 Orion V
21:52: Queens Surface Corporation 1998 Orion V CNG #519 (renumbered to #9951 under the MTA in 2005), 1999 Novabus RTS #5143, and 1998 Orion V CNG #572 (renumbered to #8572 under the MTA in 2005), and a Green Bus Lines RTS.
22:05: A GMC RTS on the M50
23:30: A 1998-99 MCI 102-DLW3SS on (presumably) the X1 (plus a pair of Crown Vic NYPD cruisers)
24:12: Another GMC RTS on the M50
Back when RTS's and Orions RULED NYC (from both MTA and NYCDOT). The person commenting on this video (me, a Transit Buff and First Responder Buff) didn't exist until December 2001 (after you already know what happened in September that year, God rest all of those lost souls on 9/11).
These were the days right here and I'll tell you that straight up 3 1/2 at the time but I was cognitive of what was going on lot of good buses during that time the 1993 Orion Vs and RTSs were in the midst of being repowered from 6v92 to Series 50 , The MCIs were taking over the Express routes and the D60s we were just getting comfortable with the D60s
Mentioned the M10 bus...Remember riding that service to Penn Station before being cut back at Columbus Circle
At 8:37 I think that's a Bristol VR
4:32 definitely the M10 the M104 was all Orion V
Born and raised in NY. So I hate to say this, but this was back when humans actually lived in NYC back in 2000 [I was about to turn 28 back then]. Now fast forward to 2023 its just bodies with no souls. Literally. Real sad. I wish I can go back to those days.
Thanks for your comment. Most people seem to agree NYC died after 9/11. Did you ever meet a woman named Melissa Doi in NYC?
@@ADVANCE-information no, I never met that lady.
Beautifully crisp smooth footage of NYC in 2000!
Very immersive and amazing to see New York in Y2K. It looked very normal and relatable.
Thanks for sharing this gem at 60fps* It's always a treat to see videos like this in higher realistic fps. 😊
Thanks. A lot of people don't realize that to convert SD to HD, they also need to convert from 30 fps to 60 fps.
@@escapemac While I agree it's more in line with current tendencies and technology, or just how people today prefer to watch anything, the video is sped up and feels a bit unnatural, I don't think it was originally 30FPS either, it's probably 24.
I wish I could back to 2000s
This video looks so recent, except people are not totally fixed on cellphones
1 year before 9/11,😢😢😢
I was 16 in 2000 ……Such an amazing era 2000s for music, movies and just the people in general…..now it’s so bad lol
I had just turned 15 in February 2000. Same. Now everything is really bad. Lol
@@Lechon210Because you have responsibility now😅
@@jeffitachi2589 I don’t mind the responsibility because that’s what pertains to adults. I mean how everything around us is conducted. This generation has coming lazy. Lol
That's what every generation thinks of the one ahead of them.Basically as time goes by things become easier and fast to solve which creates an impression the generation is lazy but that is far from the truth
@@jeffitachi2589 if what you say is true then Rome, Greece, Mongols, Egyptians, and many more would still be. They all collapsed as each generation after the birth becomes lazier and weaker. The US is on a fast decline headed straight towards total collapse
I miss being a toddler and seeing adults flick their wrist so they could see their watch
the 2000s. perfect mix of old school and new technology
I don't know if it's because I hit a certain age but it feels like we all shifted in some different realm at around 2015-2016. Things just changed.
That's exactly how I feel. Something's really changed at the end of 2015 that's for sure.
2005 seemed different as well lots of narcissism started to get into every day people
Wokeness
Things changed from 9/11 onwards.
People got more fearful. Media talked about terror and war 24/7. They never dialed back the agitation and hyperbole from then on.
Social media made it worse. Back then, nobody would’ve imagined that an orange clown could almost topple US democracy 20 some years later.
@@Kgio-2112No.
Just think. Pre-9/11 and Rudy Giuliani was still sane at this time.
Compared with today the late 90's seem like a dream world... like a beautiful dream world which is lost forever and only lives on in our memories and hearts. 2020-24 seems like a nightmare compared to this beautiful footage and not just because of the pandemic, the inflation or the war in Ukraine, in general!!!! The entire Western world never really recovered from 9/11, not just the USA.
YESSSSSS... Hell at last! 🔥🔥👹🔥🔥
It has some magic vibe like it's a movie or something. When i watch the modern nyc footage it's just not there
It would be interesting to see a shot-by-shot comparison from these clips to the same areas now. 2000 feels like yesterday, in many ways, and yet like a century in between (in other ways). Beautiful video. As another commenter stated, it feels like a time capsule.
The 80s and 90s had a big impact on me, the 2000s not so much, but it's very sad to imagine that after 1 year of this video, something so sad would happen.
man, this feels like a living time capsule. i'd give anything to go back to those days.
Pois mas devemos sempre nos preocupar com o presente que também o que já se foi, foi vivido
@@user-Michael_JAcKsOn. isso é verdade. no entanto, o passado também existe para ser amado pelo que foi.
Before our caring governments decided to destroy the city…
The 2000 looks like than 90's 😮
The 2000s in general were like the 90s up until maybe 2007-ish.
I mean, this was only three months after 1999.
That’s because 2000 was fresh from the 1990s. You aren’t going to see a drastic change in three months, or even a year.
Yes considering it was the year 2000 and the 90s weren’t far
maybe because this was literally like 10 weeks after the 90s ended
Back then when the cameras had great audio mic quality. They can pick up anything for how Crisp the sound is.
Now it's all DSLRs, mirrorless cameras, or cell phones. No one uses a camcorder anymore.
@@escapemac I do use camcorders :~))
@willvl Sony DCR-TRV 110. Then I ran it through Topaz Video Enhance AI and Final Cut Pro.
It is incredible how we can capture the timeless moment.
Just like Driveclub.
@@TheAfricanPie 🥹🥹🥹🏁🏁🏁
Exactly. And nowdays even easier with much more refine technology in our pockets. Now that's incredible and should be used in proper way.
it's not timeless, you can see the time right in the title
@@john_smith_john wdym 🤣😵💫
Folks walking around with straight necks. What a time!
The world felt more at peace before 9/11. Everyone seemed genuinely happy.
Nah just the Western world was at peace
Facts
not really, the world was a fucked up place back then also
@@midnightrocker7 Less messed up though lol
Not really, 90s Russia when Soviet Union fell was hell
Back when it still snowed.
It still snows? 😂
@@FastGuy1not like it used to. We used to have regular heavy snows and blizzards and now we barely get any snow in the winter
in been coming in rain instead of snow nowadays.
That’s crazyy, I had no idea it didn’t snow in NY anymore
@@Ril014Don't listen to him. We had some bad snow storms within the past decade. 2015, 2016 and I think 2017. One year we were having snow storms back-to-back almost every week. It was so exhausting.
Anyone else notice at @5:27 the news of an attempted hijack of an Alaskan Airlines flight?
es un momento de recordar las generaciones pasadas con estos videos ineditos , ahora nostros tambien debemos hacerlo filmar , y colgarlo a youtube para generaciones que vienen
When mcd cost only 1 dollar
I was 10 in 2000, holy shit dude I remember these days so well. Crazy how life moves very quickly. I remember my mom always telling me "life moves so fast that before you know it, you're 20, then 30"........I'm now 33😭I feel so old everytime I watch these late 90s-early 00s videos. I miss my childhood so much. Don't take your childhood for granted kids, it all goes away before you know it.
Same here Man. Another one that gives me Nostalgiac Vibes is this game th-cam.com/video/qqpTq9_rf_Q/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Legomanarthur
I'm 36 1999 was the best year to be alive. Pokémon, Playstation, with Playstation 2 coming, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Dexter's Laboratory, Ren and Stimpy, Rockos modern life, Hey Arnold, Aaaaah! Real monster.
@@paypig2652 facts bro. I swear everything was just so much better than it is now. I miss camping with my friends at the mall for game and console releases. Shows were definitely superior as well.
I Wish you were my best friend 😌
No use wasting your breath on ZOMBIES... Social media, political fuckery, and all that jazz will BRAINWASH them all in no time!
New York has completely changed since 2001 for the worse. I was a 28 year old artist/young professional from ATL living there that year for the experience. went back recently after 20 years for a visit and NYC is basically in full apocalypse. Nothing like the magical place I lived in from 2000-2002. And the "kinds" of people that you now see in the areas that were once beautiful, trendy, cool places in 2001 are people you don't want to associate with. just thousands of Hoodlums, non English speaking immigrants, or the young snobby culturally "lost" racists (social media generation) that think they're "hipsters" but will never really know what that truly means because they'll never know how to be open minded, independent, thinkers but just followers and copycats
Are you an "open minded, independent, thinker" or more like a "snobby culturally "lost" racist" bc " thousands of Hoodlums, non English speaking immigrants" point out to you being the latter hun bun x
I've been living in NYC my whole life and I noticed it started getting worse right around the late 2000s/early 2010s. I have a feeling the rise of social media and smartphones had something to do with it mixed in with transplants and FOB-ish immigrants moving in while the native New Yorkers were moving out for the suburbs.
@@professional.commentator Yep, I'm of the same opinion. 2010/2011 is about the cut-off point for when the decline started.
It's an inorganic NGO and state-facilitated invasion. They import staggering numbers of foreigners while our own people are priced out of a home in their own country. Not to mention the immigrants are almost always unsavory and make the streets less safe.
These same parasites are responsible for 9/11 and facilitating American intervention as proxy wars for Israeli foreign policy.
Pretty sure NYC had non-English speaking immigrants then - because it always has, going back over 100 years (if not more). On one hand you’re talking about not knowing how to be open-minded, yet in the same post talking about not wanting to associate with non-English speakers. Doesn’t quite make sense.
Ja vi aqui no TH-cam um canal de um cara que ele postou um vídeo de 1994 que ele gravou com uma câmera que filmava em Alta definição e é impressionante Alta definição em 1994.
Got this video in my recommended & it struck me cause the day it was filmed is my actual birthday! And the view count as of me watching is 317k (3-17) Should I go play the lottery or something??😅
Life will never be this easy again
It’s not that it’s hard today? It just SUCKS today
it was a cold march of 17th ! Amazing video, all those people out there being busy, minding their own business got immortalized by this video and I was at the time in my mum's tummy not knowing anything yet.
We got into town the night before. The temp was in the mid-50's. It was a nice night to walk around the city.
@@escapemac I was half expecting a shot of the twin towers
That's unbelievable. There were no LED back then, at least for mass lighting, and even always overlit NYC and Times Square seem so cute. With all that crazy light pollution caused by LED NYC became impossible for me to live anymore. Half of the city and especially those blocks around Times Square are overlit like hell with all those crazy big screens. I wish I could return to those times in the video and take a walk during a rainy or snowy gloomy weather without any LED lamps lit on. Then, those walks were really enjoyable, now it's impossible even during daytime, let alone nighttime - everything blinds like hell. And there were also times without those especially nasty and blinding LED headlights. No wonder people had a mch better eyesight back then.
JFC Get a grip of yourself
LED headlights are blinding okay, but ur taking it too far.
What next you're gonna whine about the LED lights on your oven's clock?
As the other comment said Get a grip freak
sounds like you’re exaggerating
@@akolyt hes right though
All of those billboards were replaced with digital billboards.
Why didn't you warn us about 9/11 ?!?"?!"
The world is so fucked up nowdays, with covid, wars, inflations etc... :(
Yeah that’s America for you. You look at places like Shanghai or a Tokyo and it looks like the future
Also the people they're so brainwashed and narcissistic and only care about themselves now
no loud music on every corner? no venezuelans running city-wide vehicle theft rings? not very diverse or progressive, NYC
Strange to see how no one is on their phones while walking or eating. Wish it was like that now, I’d be more in the moment, all of us.
Back then when the cameras had great audio mic quality.
the late 90s and early 00s is the time when people for the first time became cooler. The clothing style and hairstyles have became nicer and had more variance compared to the 70s and 80s. It was a hard change
that is why this era is so uniqe
Time is the only thing you can't get back... Enjoy every Moment you have . And your families....Take advantage of great opportunities and appreciate your relationships..
This is my comfort zone. Early 2000s NY, during winter, in a nice christmas decorated hotel lobby. A place i go to in every dream i have.
Fuck the post 9/11 2000s!!! THE 90s HAD THE MAGIC!!!
People were normal back then
Too many ads; NYC looks like commercial advertisement to me! Not a place I'd want to visit.
America was truly at its peak. This is well before the effects of climate change, Reaganomics, and the cost of living crisis truly materialized. Sure, there were still lots of shady things behind the scenes in politics and business at the time as well, but the economic and social conditions were much better than now.
Um, Reagan was president from 1981 to 1989, so Reagonmics occurred before this video. The real reason for the decline is because people started embracing clown world ideology. Most of this clown world ideology happened post 2012.
@@CalebSteele That's true, and I know all this corporate consolidation and deregulation started way before the late 90s- early 2000s. What I was saying was that the conditions, whether economic or social, was undoubtably better in the year 2000 when there were a lot less people living paycheck to paycheck and, not to mention, the world was unipolar with the United States being the undisputed superpower. Technology, financialization, corporate consolidation, and globalization hadn't got to the point where blue and white collar workers felt like they were getting squeezed, especially for young graduates trying to look for entry level positions.
I look at how things are now for the average person, and life is definitely a lot more tough than back in the day. My comment was largely a callback to the simpler days where there was a real sense of financial, political and social stability even when the declining of our institutions was going on slowly behind the scenes.
And also, can you clarify what you mean by clown world ideology and where do you think this came from if it this was the cause?
A lot of what is happening today is caused by the government taking control of everything like brainwashing most people into believing that the world is ending due to climate change and destroying our economy with inflation it's all planned.
@RR1-gn2hv Is it not getting hotter where you live? Even if it's not man-made it's still affecting our lives.
man made climate change isnt real lol
This is the NYC I romanticize. Sadly, it is no longer the same.
Nobody on phones this was golden
some people were on flip phones
@@hectorlopez1069yea but no smartphones. These days its totally different
Before 9/11
If you asked the people back then, they would've told you the world is going to shits then too. You ask today it's the same answer. It's been the same answer since the beginning of time. We always long for the days past because it represents our youth. So it's the youth we miss, not the time.
the world was shit back then, I thought, it was a pretty scary place then too
Not only youth also the freedom with no responsibilities
@@anuradhakrishnan4086 Yes, that's the precious aspect of youth we long for. Freedom w/ no responsibility.
Except we have data to dissaprove all your claims. The world is objectively getting worse each day, nobody can afford anything anymore and nobody owns anything.
Life in 2000 looked like: internet is mainstream but very much desktop. You'd be looking for an internet cafe if away from home. Music was played on CD Players, your Sony Playstation or Computer. Cellphones were only used sparingly because minutes were expensive. Cash was king. George W. Bush was running for President. Mission Impossible II and Gladiator were the big movies that year. 'Say My Name' by Destiny's Child was a huge hit. Britney had dropped 'Opps I did it again'
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That whole area of midtown is exactly the same today - it just seems different because the people didn’t have smart phones.
Crazy days. In my late 20s, you wouldn't believe the utter nonsense about the end of days if you weren't around at the time. Like a millenia matters to this planet! 😂 Not even a blink of a celestial eye.
PS1 was console of choice although I still had my Sega Saturn.
Like I said, crazy days.
Man hard to believe I was 3 1/2 living in West Harlem when this was filmed lotta good NYCT and PBL transit equipment in this video
wish we could turn back time
to the good old days
Yeah, and that's what people in the 2000's said about the 80's.
And people in the 80's said about the 60's.
And people in the 60's said about the 40's.
@johnoneill1386 And people in 2040's will say that about the 2020's
@@tapeadeadwormIn about 20 years people will start calling 2023 the good old days
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 that was my point....
i was just 1 year old when this was filmed and today is my birthday what a perspective!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!!!
Good times back in the 90s and the year 2000, I was 17 back in 2000. Ever since Sep 11, 2001, everything has gone to shits.
This was recommended to me on 9/11 damn
Wonder if one day we'll get to be normal like in the past
it still is what are you on about? its all in your head
Dun hold your breath on it...
😢 I miss those old days...in my heart forever❤
People didn't wait for the end of the world, they eat hot dogs and hang out
I remember everyone being so excited for the new millennium. Then we were soon plunged into the age of fear we still are not free of.
To me this was possibly the best time ever to be alive,i really think that 2000s had the best highs
Finally a non-US citizen who doesn't annoyingly mention 9/11 on every early 2000s video as if whole world was revolving around that incident
@@pokemonitishere202true that 👍 ,i grew up in the 2000s, this time is important tô me
@@pokemonitishere202Australian here. You've heard the phrase "when the US sneezes, the world catches a cold"? 9/11 kind of dragged the West into a new era of the war on terror. This is what happens when influential nations change their tack: a wide ripple effect. The events of that era not only formed the backdrop for everyone at the time (7/7, the Bali and Madrid bombings etc), but the US's conduct divided politics in many nations around the world. It was an ugly era marked by war, and we all got subjected to more surveillance. I remember saying in like 2003 that 9/11 stuffed everything compared to the more peaceful and fun 90s.
Tbh, my high point came between 2004-2006, but it was a personal high point. I was in my mid twenties and doing what I enjoyed, etc etc . The temper of the times was pretty poor; but I guess we weren't suffering, and it was kind of fun in a way to hate on Bush, Blair and Howard 😂. The 90s, however, was a more optimistic time.
90s were actually better but the 00s were not too bad.
@@doctorbohr1585911 didn't change the entertainment, cultural or social aspects which are things we base on fun. And wars have always existed prior 911, there were major holcaus in Europe, Rwanda and Palestine(still on going), America were warring against Iraq already in 1990 and Arab Americans were already suffering discrimination by then. And the 80's and 90's were the highest in crimes in both America and Australia. You have made a poor case.
I bet those September 10, 2001 NYC videos are gonna be haunting to see
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*Hello from 17 march 2024* 👋
born in '85 here, so was a teenager then. If you think about what has actually changed - the internet was around then, but it's much faster now and you carry it in your pocket. Media consumption has changed a lot, we don't consume media linearly now like we did then. The big change for me over the past 23 years is really just how much more virtual our connections have become, and this was really spurred on by two main events - Facebook in around '04/'05 and the pandemic. Less happens in person now, I feel blessed I met my wife before Tinder.
I agree that Fb and the pandemic were two important factors....I would add the creation of smartphones and TH-cam to that list... people started to live virtually
Quality footage, Thanks for uploading!