A staged early-2000s computer desk setup lit with blue and magenta accent lighting. On the left, a white iBook G4 laptop displays SpaceHey, a modern MySpace-style social network, in a Firefox-based browser. In the center is a Dell Dimension 2200 tower connected to a Dell CRT monitor showing Windows XP with the game Zuma Deluxe running, using a Dell keyboard and mouse. Beige Harman/Kardon desktop speakers sit beside the monitor. Spread across the desk are period accessories including a Motorola Razr flip phone, a blue Tamagotchi Connection, a TI-84 graphing calculator resting on an open handwritten notepad, a black Game Boy Advance SP, and a blue 3.5-inch floppy disk labeled “Plop Bootloader.” A GTA III jewel case lies near the front edge of the desk, and a Maran Illustrated Windows XP: 101 Tips book stands behind the computers.

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[–] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Wait that calculator is 2000s? Its standard in german schools to this day

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Thats absolutely sick as fuck! ❤️

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    Was thinking about what would have been missing from my 2000s desk:

    • compact inkjet printer cramped somewhere in the back
    • some first person shooter reference (still fondly remember getting totally fragged the first time playing CS...)
    • some TV capture device or SW. PCs suddenly were able to decipher the scrambled cable pay-TV channel in realtime :-)
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  • [+] [S] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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...

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    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...

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [+] [S] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    History is important!

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)
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    [–] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Is that paleofetch on your desk?

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  • [+] [S] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I feel this in my bones

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I think I could beat this ...

    ... But not without doxxing myself.

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