Name five things that you never heard of five years ago

[MrScorpio]

Whether they were around or not

iPods
Chai Tea
Neocons
Furries and Plushies
Global Dimming
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4171591.stm

[Reverend_Smitty]

1. Wardrobe malfunctions...

Weapons of mass destruction

[tuvor]

2. P2P

B2B
Clie
KaZaA
Ashlee Simpson

[smbolisnch]

3. Oh this should be an interesting thread!

Plasma TV
Abu Ghraib
Hummers
David Guest
OnStar

[tuvor]

4. george w. bush! n/t

[frogfromthenorth2]

5. Freedom fries....

Scott Peterson
Axis of evil
Enron
Falluja

[tuvor]

6. Two more posts to a thousand, my fellow Soviet Canuckistani!

Congrats in advance!

[frogfromthenorth2]

8. Yep...Just wondering what I should do for my 1000th post... hummmm

[Tweed]

10. Name five more things?

Dedicate it to someone special?

[Taxloss]

7. "The Electoral college"

USB ports

British ID cards

Neocons

Al-Qaeda

[Tweed]

9. Democratic Underground

Barack Obama
Weiner Circle
Jon Stewart
LeBron James

[tuvor]

12. BartCop, BuzzFlash, Common Dreams, etc.

[Rick Myers]

11. GREAT thread!!!

Brilliant!!! :beer:

[crispini]

13. Wow, fun.

"Asian fusion" cuisine.
Satellite radio.
Vermiculture.
Netflix.
And the ever-so-adorable Keith Olbermann. :loveya:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

14. HAARP, The Taliban, wireless routers, electronic voting and

deep fried Twinkies.

[crispini]

16. Deep fried twinkies.... Man, those are good! nt

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. Google, DVDs, bubble tea, electronic voting

and curried cream cheese wontons (Chinese cuisine, Minnesota style).

[Thor_MN]

43. If you like cream cheese wontons, Mr Q's in Eden Prairie

are the best in my book. I regret moving from Eden Prairie for almost no other reason than proximity to Mr. Q's. Some Hot and Spicy chicken or Curried Cicken or Beef and some spicy cream cheese wontons....

Dang, now I'm hungry. Maybe I'll have to get some Mr Q's after work sometime this week.

[Left Is Write]

17. Democratic Underground, blogs, low-carb pasta,

and that's all I can think of at the moment.

[MrScorpio]

18. Nobody said it would be easy

It took me twenty minutes for me to come up with my list.

[Left Is Write]

20. I'm sure I'll think of more, especially as I read other lists.

I could have included iPods and Chai tea also, but I didn't want to simply echo your post. :)

I was actually going to say reality TV, but then I remembered that five years ago was 2000, not 1999, and my first encounter with reality TV was the summer of 1999.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

23. Lo-carb pasta rules! :)

[Rowdyboy]

34. Did anyone beat you to DU as an answer?

If not, you deserve a prize.

[Left Is Write]

42. Yes, I think someone did.

[maveric]

19. Spyware, Neocon, "Embedded" journalists, 9/11, William Hung.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

22. Paris Hilton

American Idol
Jump drives
Blogs
Smartphones

[curse10]

21. Osama Bin Laden, salon.com, blogging, genetically modified organisms,

and
democraticunderground.com

[Midlodemocrat]

24. DU, American Idol, PNAC, Text messaging, George W. Bush.

[tjwmason]

33. No texts 5 years ago?

They were already massive over here by then. One would walk through town at lunchtime and see scores of school-children tapping away at their mobiles. I didn't like them then, but have since learnt that they have some uses.

[MrScorpio]

44. It wasn't the first time that America was behind the tech curve

The Dutch TV went completely digital way back in 1997
WAP is still unheard of here in the states
Of course, there's text messaging across the seas before it hit here

There are others

[Midlodemocrat]

45. I don't know. I have a 14 year old who introduced me to them

and five years ago, I hadn't heard of them.

[Deja Q]

25. And I was hoping that global dimming was a sign of supernova...

:cry:

But it's only 10% in the US, so who cares if it's less elsewhere - especially in evil Russia. :crazy:

[FarLeftRage]

26. My 5:

Air America Radio
Freepers
Ldotters
Peak Oil
MediaWhoresOnline

[Butterflies]

27. Swift boats

I've never been interested in military things (I'm still not.)

[fluffernutter]

28. you're fired, electric scooters, 3-D ultrasounds in malls, xm radio

Desperate Housewives

[Bertha Venation]

29. MP3s, Fox News, The DC Beltway, Heat Index, and Clinton, TN.

:hi:

[MrScorpio]

30. Hey, Bertha V!

You rock, Baby Cakes!
:yourock:

[Bertha Venation]

32. MrScorpio, my man.

:hug: Thanks for making me smile.:loveya:

[Rowdyboy]

31. Okay

Google
Gay marriage
Barack O'Bama
Phishing
Star Trek Enterprise

extraa credit: Osama Bin Laden

[ElsewheresDaughter]

35. compassionate conservative.........

neocon
al qaeda
osama bin ladin
patriot act

[lpbk2713]

36. Neocon Puppet President

Multi-trillion dollar budget deficit

Executive Branch trashing the Constitution

Armstrong Williams

Pfc Jessica Lynch

[norml]

37. PNAC WMD LIHOP BBV MILF

I think I may start a copy cat thread on acronyms that you didn't know five years ago.

[no name no slogan]

38. "George Dubya Bush Re-Elected President"

:puke:

[ikojo]

39. compassionat conservative

DVD-+R
iTunes
Democracy Now!
faith based presidency

[hyphenate]

40. Shock and Awe

Gitmo
Office of Homeland Security
Abu Graib
Dick Cheney
Karl Rove
pre-emptive strike
weapons of mass destruction

[Z_I_Peevey]

41. What a sad list.

GEMS
Peak Oil
Kenneth Blackwell
no-fly lists
torture memos

[MrScorpio]

46. kick

:kick:

[nutsnberries]

47. blog, blogger, blogging, blogroll, blogosphere,

in other words, all things *blog*.

[KurtNYC]

48. metrosexual, DVD-R, Altria, Xanex, Prilosec,

[MyUncle]

49. "World Champions Boston Red Sox"

"The tribe has spoken"
"catastrophic successes"
"hanging chads"

[KitchenWitch]

50. //

hybrid cars
GPS systems
Fox News (didn't have cable 5 years ago!)
The current "Terror Alert System"
E-85 (fuel that is 85% ethanol and only 15% petroleum based)

[MrScorpio]

51. Any mo?

:shrug:

[B Calm]

52. Air America, MP3 Players, TiVo, HDTV, Randi Rhodes

[jdonaldball]

53. Condoleeeeeeeza

[VelmaD]

54. chads of all stripes...

hanging chads, dimpled chads, pregnanat chads...chads chads and more chads

BBV - I knew there was electronic voting and I knew I didn't like it one bit...but I wasn't entirely sure why and I didn't know there was gonna be a movement

William Rivers Pitt :)