Back in the noughties, Paul's Boutique bags were at the height of fashion, Girls Aloud were named the winners of Popstars the Rivals and Mean Girls first hit cinemas.
If you went to school in Merseyside during the decade, you'll remember the days of Piczo, MSN messenger, MySpace - and one bespoke social network loved by Scousers. Before Facebook was created, thousands will remember sharing photos and gossiping online via Jaydiocity.
Created by 17-year-old Jamie McCoy, the website streamed music, as well as having a chat-room, forum and arcade, the Liverpool ECHO previously reported. For teenagers of today, it's hard to imagine not having access to music streaming on your phone.
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Some of us feel old when we think back to the days when iPods were a must, but Jamie created the site after getting annoyed at not being able to listen to music while at college - because the computers didn’t have CD players. He previously told the ECHO: "The name Jaydiocity was a play on Radio City and obviously my name is Jay.
"I set it up in 2004, initially to stream songs. Obviously, this was before Youtube or Spotify. Then a few friends asked if they could access it too, it started spreading around schools and colleges and then it went mad.
"Due to its unexpected popularity, I invested a lot of my time into improving and adding new features as time went by."
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As time went on, an online dating section was introduced. And in its prime, Jaydio had 250,000 registered members.
An early Facebook for Scousers, ECHO readers previously shared their memories of the days of Jaydio. On our Facebook page, Mark Coghlan said: "Bring jaydio city back 2018 !!!!!!!!!."
Hayley Mackin said: "2004?! I feel old now." Antone Joseph Tremarco posted: "Proper loved this site, shame it ended."
Donnalouise Cavanagh commented: "Ahh the good old jaydio days we all used to meet up off the forums had some really good times had a party at my house once or twice some really funny memories." Carla Howard wrote: "This makes me feel old now! Used to love it on here getting ready for a night out putting the dance or pleasure room songs on!"
Nathan Lewis Hall posted: "Best thing ever, used to sit there listening to pleasure rooms talking to birds hahah." And John Wright commented: "Beast of a site for music and that back then but couldn't listen to pleasure rooms now."
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Thousands of people - mainly teenagers and young adults - would chat online and Jamie previously said he still gets messages from people saying they met their other halves on the site, with some going on to get married and have children. A lot of the buzz around Jaydio also came from people being able to request ‘shout outs’.
Jamie said: "The Scouse rappers were really popular; mainly young people with a love for music and a lot to say about life and the city. One of the first raps was KIM (Keeping It Merseyside) and it went off."
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But by the 2010s, Jadio was no more. Still part of many fond memories, it's hard to think it was at its peak before the days of Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
Jamie said: "It ran until 2011. By then we had Facebook, YouTube, Plenty of Fish and so on. There was a lot of competition and I ran it alone. I would have had to turn it into a business and I didn’t want to do that."
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