Since I haven't had the luck to be born and to grow up in The United States of America, or any other Western country, but rather an occupation-torn post-Soviet state that has just regained its freedom, I've never actually seen or touched half of the things on this list. And, yet, looking at all these Poo-chi dogs, Polly Pockets, and things like phone charms, I feel a massive wave of 2000s nostalgia!
That's probably because we, as kids, were glued to our screens whenever they showed something like Dawson's Creek or even Hannah Montana, absorbing not only how the characters looked and talked but also the things they had. It was almost like having them yourself! Though speaking of the nostalgic series we used to get during the early 2000s, we'd more often get something as old as The Little House On The Prairie or Doctor Quinn rather than the newest episode of, say, Phineas & Ferb.
Nevertheless, I can definitely feel the importance and the impact of the decade on our lives and the early 2000s nostalgia we all collectively feel. Things were changing ever so quickly. Straight from oblivion, we went to the Western civilization and its pop culture with half-naked ladies, boy bands, electronic toys, TV series, and even portable phones (those definitely came out of some witch's brew)! Also, the sense of liberation - both literal freedom regained by my homeland and the one given to us by the ever-expanding World Wide Web - was just overwhelming. So many new cultural experiences and opportunities were never present. Starting, of course, with 2000s nostalgia toys and ending with poking someone on Facebook, this decade was moving into the future at a breakneck pace.
But, without any more of my essayistic babble, let's dive a few decades back and reminisce on the things that we all loved dearly when growing up. From Tamagotchis to pencils with cartridges, and from the old Cartoon Network to flare jeans, you'll find many things that'll remind you of your careless youth. So, share these things from your childhood early 2000s nostalgia list with someone susceptible to the same kind of feelings that you are, and tell us which of these items, pop stars, or games you miss the most!
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Remember Watching The Pipes Screensaver?
Screensavers are for entertainment, like the kaleidoscope watchface, change my mind
Burning The Sickest CDs In The Neighborhood
Τapes were even better! Especially when we recorded the songs from the radio!
Flipping Through These As A Kid Trying To Find Your Favourite Bands Poster
Before there were the 2000s, the '90s Paved the Way for Iconic Toys
To find out more about where this 2000s nostalgia is all coming from and what games from our early days we have long forgotten, we reached out to Qudsia Shakeel, the content manager at Moonpig, who recently found out the most iconic gifts of the last 50 years.
It turns out that just before the early 2000s, it was the golden age for toys we consider iconic today. “The '90s were an especially iconic time for toys. Technological advancements presented new opportunities for toys to be much more interactive, making for a truly exciting time for the toy industry,” Qudsia told us. Moreover, she added that “there is a great sense of nostalgia brought back by these toys, the Gameboy and Furbies are seen to be true icons of the decade.”
"The 2000s saw no slowing down in the momentum of great toy production. Those who grew up in the naughties would remember some of the true gems of the era, including the Teksta Robotic Puppy and Beyblades. Not to mention the infamous Tamagochi, which saw children across the world cherishing their very own virtual pet," Qudsia commented. According to her, a combination of new technology and quirky crazes made the early 2000s a standout time for toys.
The Magic That Was The Scholastic Book Fair
When I Was 9 Years Old My Dad Was Deployed To Baghdad, Iraq. I Gave Him These Yu-Gi-Oh Cards To Keep Him Safe. They've Been In His Wallet For 12 Years
The Smell Of Opening A Brand New Can Of Play Doh
Why are the 2000s so Nostalgic?
Early 2000s was the time of our childhoods, and if you were to ask anybody how they feel about their childhoods, the answer would always be the same - nostalgic! Yes, it's as simple as that. Now, Moonpig, a brand that specializes in gifts, has seen a huge surge in interest in 2000s nostalgia aesthetic and nostalgic gifts lately. “We are unsurprised to see a number of Gameboy cards and retro gifts being purchased today,” Qudsia said. And that’s mostly because we, Millennials, are exactly the age of starting to feel nostalgic about the good ole days and want something to remember the times by.
These TV Carts Always Meant Class Was Going To Be Fun When The Teacher Rolled One In
I Found An Old Pic Of Me Playing Computer Games. As It Turns Out I Haven't Changed Very Much
Pencils With Cartridges
What were the most Wanted Toys in the 2000s?
So, which 2000s nostalgia toys are we talking about, exactly? Well, you probably remember Furby, a chatty furry ball that became a must-have for children all over the world. In 1998, Furby released its first model consisting of 48 colors and 22 special editions. The same year, a whopping 1.8 million Furbies were sold, and the toy was translated into 24 different languages.
Furby paved the way for other robotic toys of the 2000s that became incredibly popular. Like, the famous Teksta the Robotic Puppy. This little doggo started a huge craze in the early 2000s when kids realized they could literally fulfill their dream of having a pet, minus all the hassle. Parents were also excited with the idea, so over 7 million robotic puppies were sold in the first year. As a result, the Robotic Puppy became one of the most popular birthday gifts of the new century.
Tamagotchi, a virtual pet, is basically a symbol of the 2000s nostalgia. After its launch in 2005, children would carry it everywhere they went, attaching it to their belts and backpacks, in order to be always ready to take care of their pet whenever it needed them. Feeding, training, and playing were part of the journey of raising a Tamagotchi, but in turn, it would grow and… not much else! Yet, many millennials still remember it with great nostalgia.
If you want to delve on the past for a little while longer, check out further submissions on our list. Besides serving well for a walk down memory lane, all of these items are a great inspiration for a nostalgia 2000s-themed party if you were planning on staging one!
Only Fidget Spinner I Ever Owned
These Are The Streets I Grew Up On
The Ge Alarm Clock That Everyone Seemed To Have
The Old Cartoon Network
Remember When You Didn’t Have To Enter Your Personal Info Online To Win A Soda?
When I was in high school I got Sprit free all summer because I realized if you flip the bottle over you could read the cap inside and it wound either say win free Sprite or Play Again. Not the best choice of promotion on a clear soda. 😊
Can We Please Bring Back The Holes To Put Phone Charms On Our Phones?
Wooden Playgrounds
Windows Pinball
Found An Old Polly Pocket While Cleaning My Mom’s Basement
Who Remembers This Ice Cream From School?
When You Wore Flare Jeans And It Rained
Starving Your Calculator To Death
The Family Computer
Surreal Moment Today. I Went To Oaks, PA Too Many Video Games Expo. Found My Gameboy From Early 2000’s
LimeWire
Today A 70th Years Old Ma'am Gave Me Her Nokia 3310 To Change The Battery. I Couldn't Resist
I Know I'm 31 And All, But I Still Get Excited About Scholastic Book Club Order Forms
Msn Messenger! Playing With Emojis Over A Decade Before It Was Cool
Friendship Bracelets - I Used To Love Making These
Linkin Park
Did Anyone Else Have A Stage In The Cafeteria Of Their School?
Jelly Shoes
The Sims
for real, usually when I'm in disagreement with someone I sometimes see the red minus figure. Sims 2 was so good, i miss it
Load More Replies...This game taught me so much about time management and taking the most optimal route to complete all task. I swear I'm a Sim now.
Me too! Frustrated since you have to buy a bunch of stuff if you want it realistic, but I love mine just as well without it.
The Goths have married into my vampire family XD. Alexander married my second matriarch (Elondra DeathShade) and Cassandra married Elondra's adopted brother Hank. I have such a nice family. I'm working on my third generation of vampires right now, as Elondra's oldest sister Arana has teenage girls. (I could rave for hours about the DeathShades, sorry)
Load More Replies...Thank you! So, I started out with a simple vampire, just the one member of the household in Forgotten Hollow. Of course, it was a really simple, really nice house. There was this one human who kept coming over, a pack-specific NPC by the name of Johnny Zest. Clearly, my vampire (Ravyn DeathShade) took advantage of his apparent interest in her to drink from him a few times, since she wasn't leveled up enough to get Plasma Packs. Of course, I was able to get her leveled up with fighting the Vatore siblings and learning from them. Over time, she invited Johnny into her household, they developed a relationship, and got married. Now they have 6 kids: Johnathan, Arana, Mercedes, Raven, Kate, and Elondra. Mercedes and Kate are adopted, as are 3 other Sims that don't actually show up on the family tree (Lucy Holiday, Hank Lee, and Antoinette Burton). 10-23-21_1...00-png.jpg
Now, Lucy and the others have an interesting story. Their father, a vampire by the name of Jake Gambino, was someone I was experimenting on. You see, I hadn't had a Sim die before, so I was seeing how exactly other Sims would react in that case. I made Jake the most selfish, unlovable jerk I could (so I wouldn't get too attached). He went around the neighborhood seducing whatever poor Sim got in his way, the most notable of whom were Summer Holiday, Liberty Lee, and a married woman named Alondra Burton (the name similarities between Elondra and Alondra were not intentional, as Elondra was already born and named by the time Jake got Alondra to cheat). After I finished my experiment and killed Jake by overexposure to the sun, I had Ravyn go around picking up the autospawned urn and the 3 children he left behind. Not a difficult task, as 2 of the mothers lived together and the other one was easy enough to find. So, Ravyn adopted them and raised 'em as her own.
The oldest girl, Arana, was the first to get married. She had a high school sweetheart by the name of Ezra Wiseman, and they got "promised" pretty quickly. Over time I had to track down Ezra's family and age him up after Arana's birthday, and they got married that same day. They currently have 3 children: Leah, Celeste, and Aaron. Leah is more human than her family (Ravyn turned Ezra before she allowed him to marry her daughter), she has golden brown hair and likes bright colors. Celeste is like the direct opposite of her; her aesthetic is really dark and vampiric/witchy. They're both teens right now, as I said before. Ezra and Arana have taken in an orphan by the name of Milo Sanchez, who currently is falling for Celeste. I'm planning to make them have a similar love story to Celeste's parents'. Aaron doesn't have much in the way of an individual personality, as he's just a child. He seems to be a pretty average vampire kid. I don't think I have a plan for Leah yet, though.
Johnathan was the next to get married. He married his mother's best friend, Lilith Vatore (It sounds a bit weird when I say it like that, but they're all immortal vampires. Time and age doesn't really matter to them). He moved in with his wife and brother-in-law, and here's where things start to get interesting. I was bored one day, and decided to just make a randomized Sim vampire to move in with Johnathan and his family. This vampire, by the name of Mattias Taylor, looks almost exactly like someone I had a very severe crush on for an extended period of time. He just needed a different skin color and fluffier hair (he previously had stone-gray skin and a buzz cut), and voila. Just like that person. Now, before I run off on the Mattias tangent, I would like to state that Johnathan and Lilith have three kids, all girls, by the names of Loren, Anita, and Elsabeth. Loren is the oldest, and she's just a child. They don't have established personalities or stories yet.
Now, Raven DeathShade, the third biological child of Ravyn DeathShade, is completely based off of me. The hair, the style, the fashion sense, all me. She was supposed to be the next matriarch, once I got bored of Ravyn. She was supposed to be this powerful, intimidating, perfect replacement for her mother. But then she met Mattias, and she settled down. She chose love over power, stability and a quiet household over the rule of her siblings and the title of Matriarch of the DeathShade Family (the wealthiest and most influential family I've ever created). And I can't help but wonder if that was some sort of sign or psychological revelation I have discovered. Currently, they have 3 children. A child, my little Goth boi, Odin; a toddler, my spunky charmer Jareth, and a little baby named Angel. They're really my favorite couple, and they are such good parents as well.
Finally, there is Elondra. The youngest of the original DeathShade children, she became the second DeathShade Matriarch and married Alexander Goth(after he underwent an extensive makeover provided by yours truly, since he looked like a monkey). She has only one child, a baby named Romeo. She has inherited the DeathShade fortune and the family mansion, as her parents moved into Vlad's castle with Lucy and Antoinette (I ran out of household space). Cassandra Goth married Hank Lee, and they have a son named Carlos. Antoinette's still a teen, and Lucy's going to marry Caleb Vatore whenever I get around to having them meet. There are still several loose ends to tie up with generation 2, so I suppose I should stop working on gen 3 for now XD. But I have my family, my entire empire of vampires, so I suppose I'm satisfied. (Note: Mercedes and Katherine, since they are humans, live in Willow Creek. I have not focused on them much, since all my attention is on my vampires. They're happy).
They always come to my various sims houses and argue Lol, times are tough for poor Mortimer and Bella these days
Hah i have this! I actually have two of this, and genuinely if anyone wants the other one for nostalgia or whatever, let me know! It would be cheap as chips for me to post to you, and I'd send it for free. I know how hard it is to find a game disc with the correct case and serial number so you can actually install it 😉
We have to be living Sims, there's no other explanation as to why I burn everything I cook.
I miss the og Roller Coaster Tycoon !!!! Ultimate time management. I hate all the apps they aren't nearly as good.... if anyone ever finds something I can play let me know
Hi! You can get the OG Rollercoaster Tycoon on Steam. It was £6.99 a few years ago IIRC.
Make a swimming pool in the living room with no stair, invite our friends to come... And.. Voila...
I instantly hear the tune that plays when you're shopping for furniture! Ba-dooba-doooohoooo~
I’m a lesbian and it took me so long to create a lesbian couple on here. The game kept thinking they were “friends” and they’d reject each other, until one day, it all changed…still one of my proudest moments…I’m joking obviously 😄
Bro I hate the remake of SimCity that you can get on the play store. It sucks, the og is better
Fricking loved the Sims! And then the Sims 2! Didn't play the Sims 3 that much because I was mostly just playing WoW, but now I'm playing the Sims 4 and have gotten almost all the packs for it in the almost 2 years that I've been playing it. S**t is expensive! I always just wanted Sims expansions as presents (bday and xmas) when I was a kid, and there's a picture of me ugly crying when I got the house party expansion. I was so happy! Then the bugger went and EXPLODED a few months later while I was playing, and it took months until I got a new copy of it.
I was hooked on this for years. I remember me and my friend borrowing all the CDs from each other until my dad was able to make a copy. The ghosts, burglar and grim reaper still freak me out. We had a ghost green kid we used to call "Snot Boy" though. And WTF was up with that bear?!
original sims! my dad bought it for himself to play, but then i took it over :P
I remember when The Sims was a game, not a platform for selling 30+ DLC packs.
Still play it! Sims 4 is great, especially with the awesome community of modders!
So much time spent installing all of that for my sister, vacation add on and whatever have you.
Motorola Razr V3xx
My 20 Year Old Toy Phone And My Daughters Brand New One! Both Fisher Price
Knee-Length Rainbow Toe Socks
My Girlfriend Got Me The Evangelion Tamagotchi For My Birthday And I'm So Excited To See Which Angel I Get First
Girlfriend Made Me The Chatterbox From The Opening Sequence For Our Anniversary
The Last Blockbuster Was A Five Minute Walk From The Motel I Was Staying At
You Guys Remember Boondoggle? Anyone Know Any Other Cool Stitches?
I Restored My 16 Year Old iPod Nano
Farm Ville
I remember my sister in law making me log in and tend her farm while she was on her honeymoon.
Me And My Best Friend In 1999/2000 Working On Our Donkey Kong/Banjo Kazooie Fan Website Titled "The Dk/Bk Jungle"
These Cereal Bowls I Used To Eat Out Of As A Kid
Plastic Tube With Water And Plastic Fish Inside It, If You Try To Squeeze It It Just Rolls Itself
Found My Old Nintendo DS And Nintendogs And I’ve Been Screaming At The Fake Dog To Sit For 15 Min
20+ Years Of Lip Balm Pans. Who Remembers Lip Smackers And Lip Lix?
I was so excited to get my daughter the same soda flavored lip smackers that I had as a kid! Had no idea they were still around!
Eminem
Cereal Straws
I Know You All Remember The Spacemaker Pencil Box
When I went to school, my pencil box was made of stone and contained only chisels. My trip to school was uphill both ways with waist deep snow even in summer. I had to carry my Atlatl to scare away saber tooth tigers.
Torture Device Known As The Sit And Reach Test
Maybe just " Things millenials feel nostalgic about" would be a better title. Plenty of things on this list are just as common now as they were 20 years ago, they are just kid things, playdoh, school cafeterias, the road rug, scholastic books ect.
My thoughts exactly. Just about everything that was not electronics are things my kids love.
Load More Replies...I have seen somethings on this list, But This list makes me wish I lived in the 2000s seems so fun with no one having a phone. I was born in 2009 and am 11.
People had phones in the 00’s. Like everyone. They were just different phones. Every little kid “wishes they lived back then.” Shít isn’t even that different now, it wasn’t that long ago.
I know other countries tend to get popular American trends and items a few or ten or more years after we do in the US, but I'm Gen X, and some of these came out in the 80's, 70's, even the 60's! Definitely not things that only Millenials are nostalgic for!
Most of these things are prior to the 2000s. Several were obsolete before 2001. (I will fight to the death that a decade starts at 1 since there was no year zero).
Load More Replies...I would say that because 2000 starts with “2000” as opposed to “1990” it should count. Agree with your point about the list though. Most of it is not 2000s specific.
What about those rings that you put around your ankle and they’d spin and you’d jump over the ball? I have no idea what they were called, but I remember them
We did have a lot of really dangerous stuff... do you remember Clackers? Those things could kill you.
Load More Replies...I don't remember what we called them as kids, but nowadays I know them as "ankle destroyers"
I loved that! Except when it tangled and came around and barked you in the ankle
Several of these things are not from the 2000's. Nostalgic? Yes, but some are from decades earlier than the post claims them to be.
You know you are old when other people's (younger people's) nostalgia feels like "new" stuff.
Even worse, I didn't even recognize half of these things, because I was never into video games; they didn't launch until well after I reached adulthood. I feel positively decrepit.
Load More Replies...Same here. I was starting to wonder if - just maybe - I am not as young anymore as I think I am? But guess what - I don't care! Let people be "nostalgic" about whatever they like...
I mean, apart from the technology, all of this was around long, LONG before the 2000s. Come on. LOL!!!
If we're all in Europe why not make one of the things we all remember from here, including the op's country? I'd like to know their memories too.
i loved book fairs! from kindergarten-5th grade i would buy a poster and hang it up on my wall, i still have all 6.
Most of these items were long before the 2000s. Many are still even available today.
i remembe scoubidous and all my friends had them on their pencil case, schoolbag. I had one green and orang color
No chatter rings? The crazily overpriced toy fad of a steel ring with 5 brass nuts on it? You had to keep them spinning and you could do tricks. Weird fad
Whoever put this together did so in a sloppy manner lacking any research. About HALF of these were not iconic to the 2000s.
So, I'm guessing that Bored Panda are assuming that no one over the age of 25 reads their page and call them on their BS. 2000 my a**e on several of these.
i was born in 2007 and im fourteen now but i remember most of these. these aren't purely millenial things... im gen z
The Office. What's that? It's still relavent? Sure, but the first episode aired in 2005, before YouTube existed, before anyone ever heard of sparkly vampires, and before Anakin had become Darth Vader.
My god I hate these posts of people thinking that something is only nostalgic for their generation. I see the same thing for "90s kids" posts as well. Just because something existed when you were a kid doesn't mean it didn't exist for kids before and after you. Stop thinking reality revolves around you.
The “Oh My Gosh! Go Away!” Smile Cursors on Window that you can download with different type XD . FunnyFlashGame.Com ahaha #97baby
Well, this was a wonderful walk down memory lane! So thank you for that! :D And the fact that it seems SO MANY of the things I enjoyed when I was a kid are still being sold and enjoyed today warms my heart :)
Why are so many people completely unable to see past their own nose when there is almost no end to the information out there? I wasn't born is no excuse. People use to know about things before their time. Now that you could actually look it up, why do you insist that everything was yours and yours alone? It came from nowhere and disappeared the second you stopped looking. When did adults lose object permanence?
kerbamgers (yet another torture device) and the Johnny Bench Batter up. Never saw the warning for a wiffleball bag. I took a wooden Louisville slugger to the face. Badly broken nose, fix cheek. I was in the third grade and the girl who took the swing? She sat directly behind me.
Those of us who work in schools continue to see many of these on the daily. This is not a great title.
Mid-century nostalgia is what I feel the most. I remember but never hear any more the sounds of old mechanical things like adding machines, cash registers, typewriters, gas pumps, sewing machines, engines with carburetors, steam locomotives, propellor airplanes, police car sirens, and so on. So much has changed in the past 120 plus years.
My little brother used to use a box fan and make his action figures climb up it. You could tell how the battle was going by where Spiderman, the Hulk, Superman and all the others were positioned on the fan.
Moved on since then? More like moved backwards since then... My childhood was about 10 years ago, and I don't remember people being as stupid as you see in the media now
Maybe just " Things millenials feel nostalgic about" would be a better title. Plenty of things on this list are just as common now as they were 20 years ago, they are just kid things, playdoh, school cafeterias, the road rug, scholastic books ect.
My thoughts exactly. Just about everything that was not electronics are things my kids love.
Load More Replies...I have seen somethings on this list, But This list makes me wish I lived in the 2000s seems so fun with no one having a phone. I was born in 2009 and am 11.
People had phones in the 00’s. Like everyone. They were just different phones. Every little kid “wishes they lived back then.” Shít isn’t even that different now, it wasn’t that long ago.
I know other countries tend to get popular American trends and items a few or ten or more years after we do in the US, but I'm Gen X, and some of these came out in the 80's, 70's, even the 60's! Definitely not things that only Millenials are nostalgic for!
Most of these things are prior to the 2000s. Several were obsolete before 2001. (I will fight to the death that a decade starts at 1 since there was no year zero).
Load More Replies...I would say that because 2000 starts with “2000” as opposed to “1990” it should count. Agree with your point about the list though. Most of it is not 2000s specific.
What about those rings that you put around your ankle and they’d spin and you’d jump over the ball? I have no idea what they were called, but I remember them
We did have a lot of really dangerous stuff... do you remember Clackers? Those things could kill you.
Load More Replies...I don't remember what we called them as kids, but nowadays I know them as "ankle destroyers"
I loved that! Except when it tangled and came around and barked you in the ankle
Several of these things are not from the 2000's. Nostalgic? Yes, but some are from decades earlier than the post claims them to be.
You know you are old when other people's (younger people's) nostalgia feels like "new" stuff.
Even worse, I didn't even recognize half of these things, because I was never into video games; they didn't launch until well after I reached adulthood. I feel positively decrepit.
Load More Replies...Same here. I was starting to wonder if - just maybe - I am not as young anymore as I think I am? But guess what - I don't care! Let people be "nostalgic" about whatever they like...
I mean, apart from the technology, all of this was around long, LONG before the 2000s. Come on. LOL!!!
If we're all in Europe why not make one of the things we all remember from here, including the op's country? I'd like to know their memories too.
i loved book fairs! from kindergarten-5th grade i would buy a poster and hang it up on my wall, i still have all 6.
Most of these items were long before the 2000s. Many are still even available today.
i remembe scoubidous and all my friends had them on their pencil case, schoolbag. I had one green and orang color
No chatter rings? The crazily overpriced toy fad of a steel ring with 5 brass nuts on it? You had to keep them spinning and you could do tricks. Weird fad
Whoever put this together did so in a sloppy manner lacking any research. About HALF of these were not iconic to the 2000s.
So, I'm guessing that Bored Panda are assuming that no one over the age of 25 reads their page and call them on their BS. 2000 my a**e on several of these.
i was born in 2007 and im fourteen now but i remember most of these. these aren't purely millenial things... im gen z
The Office. What's that? It's still relavent? Sure, but the first episode aired in 2005, before YouTube existed, before anyone ever heard of sparkly vampires, and before Anakin had become Darth Vader.
My god I hate these posts of people thinking that something is only nostalgic for their generation. I see the same thing for "90s kids" posts as well. Just because something existed when you were a kid doesn't mean it didn't exist for kids before and after you. Stop thinking reality revolves around you.
The “Oh My Gosh! Go Away!” Smile Cursors on Window that you can download with different type XD . FunnyFlashGame.Com ahaha #97baby
Well, this was a wonderful walk down memory lane! So thank you for that! :D And the fact that it seems SO MANY of the things I enjoyed when I was a kid are still being sold and enjoyed today warms my heart :)
Why are so many people completely unable to see past their own nose when there is almost no end to the information out there? I wasn't born is no excuse. People use to know about things before their time. Now that you could actually look it up, why do you insist that everything was yours and yours alone? It came from nowhere and disappeared the second you stopped looking. When did adults lose object permanence?
kerbamgers (yet another torture device) and the Johnny Bench Batter up. Never saw the warning for a wiffleball bag. I took a wooden Louisville slugger to the face. Badly broken nose, fix cheek. I was in the third grade and the girl who took the swing? She sat directly behind me.
Those of us who work in schools continue to see many of these on the daily. This is not a great title.
Mid-century nostalgia is what I feel the most. I remember but never hear any more the sounds of old mechanical things like adding machines, cash registers, typewriters, gas pumps, sewing machines, engines with carburetors, steam locomotives, propellor airplanes, police car sirens, and so on. So much has changed in the past 120 plus years.
My little brother used to use a box fan and make his action figures climb up it. You could tell how the battle was going by where Spiderman, the Hulk, Superman and all the others were positioned on the fan.
Moved on since then? More like moved backwards since then... My childhood was about 10 years ago, and I don't remember people being as stupid as you see in the media now