As someone who was a teenager in Merseyside in the Noughties, I can vouch that it certainly had its perks, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t the occasional time when something would happen and my day would be immediately ruined.
In the 2000s, Rihanna, Britney Spears, Amy Winehouse, and Justin Timberlake were among those topping the charts. Unlike teenagers today, we didn’t share every moment of our lives on Instagram, and we weren’t glued to TikTok.
Nearly every teen in the Noughties owned a Nintendo, and MSN was considered a hobby with many of us wasting hours after school or college chatting to friends we’d spent the whole day with. Facebook 'pokes' and FarmVille were a thing, and Netflix hadn’t become an online streaming service yet.
