2000s

The 2000s was the decade that occurred roughly from 2003 to 2011. Computers started to become actually decent, which allowed for truly 3D Video Games, and MMOs like World of Warcraft and Maplestory, along with Web 2.0. 80% of Memes were created during the 2000s, and penetrated the mainstream, thus causing an Eternal September and making the normies start to ruin our fun. Sites like 4chan started to become complete shit by the end of this decade. Encyclopedia Dramatica was brought into existence during the 2000s, single-handedly giving billions of people a reason to live. The economy went to shit, fucking america up the ass even harder than the initial bush presidency. A nigger managed to become el presidente of Murka after W Fucked off, mainly due to White Guilt. Lame ass subcultures such as emo kids and scenefags were at their peak. Everyone hated this decade, but as time went on to tell, it was a utopia compared to the 2010s, and now they look back on it with the same rose tainted glasses that 90s nostalgiafags have on.

What happened?

Kicking off the new millenium with a BANG!

NUMA NUMA YAY!!11

2000

This year was the last of the 20th century, and of the 2nd Millenium.

• Y2K doesn't happen, making an ass of millions of preppers and conspiracy nuts.

• Al-Qaeda holds a summit (with cooperation of USA, Israel, and Saudia Arabia) to prepare for the epic pwnage that would occur next year in New York City.

• AOL announces plans to buy out Time Warner for $162 BILLION dollars, the largest merger evar.

• The release of the PS2 and Gamecube.

• Bad Vlad becomes el presidente of Russia, and to this day, still holds mother russia by the balls.

• Microsoft gets pwn'd by the US Government.

• DeviantArt is launched, further accelerating the societal decay of teh intarwebz, by giving furfags, autistic artfags, and weebs a creative outlet.

• Al Gore sues W over the 2000 Elections of USA, but congress narrowly rejects the recount, thus ensuring Dubya becomes the dictator of Dumbfuckistan for a decade.

2001

• W Rigs the election, barely defeating Al Gore by having his brother, Jeb Bush rig the polls in Florida. Coincidentally, over 1/3rd of Nigras in that state were unable to vote due to being v& and sent to Prison at some point in their lives, thus banning them from being able to vote.

• Jews successfully conspire to bring down the World Trade Center towers; in full cooperation with the Shadow Government of Dumbfuckistan, they hire a dozen Saudis to massively pwn NYC and Raep the minds of the masses.

• • Newgrounds is flooded by shitloads of crappy 9/11 tributes within hours.

• a fanatic, extremely addicted EverQuest player named Shawn Woolley becomes an hero while EQ was still running on his PC. This caused a lot of lulzy drama online, especially within the MMO community.

• Wikipedia launches.

• Most 16 year old girls of today are born around this year.

• Timothy McVeigh is executed by Uncle Sam.

• Jews Did WTC - Duh!

• Windows XP is released, and is still used to this day; mainly, by the Chinese and Russians.

• Apple releases that shitty iPod.

• W signs the Patriot Act. A massive campaign of the erosion of civil liberties occurs.

• Just a month after 9/11, a plane taking off from NYC, America Airlines Flight 587, crashes in Queens, just minutes after takeoff, pwning all of the 260 unlucky sods aboard!

• A serial killer named Gary Ridgway (The Green River Killer) gets caught, after the longest game of hide-and-seek in US History.

2002

• Square has passionate sex with Disney, creating the abomination that is known as Kingdom Hearts, a game series played exclusively by underage b& and Scenefags.

• Unsurprising to anyone with a 90+ IQ, America goes to shit under the reign of Dictator Bush.

• Robert Steinhäuser goes for the high score in Germany, landing 16 frags in the best example of Tactical Espionage Action on the "School" gamemode, in the history of the game of Life!

2003

• The 90s truly end around now.

• moot makes 4chan, thus planting the seeds of 80% of all internet memes.

• MySpace comes out, giving Emo fags a home.

• Saddam Hussein gets caught :(

• Star Wars Kid has his cringy videos leaked out by his "Friends", becoming a massive internet meme and getting bullied to near-death. He's a successful lawyer now.

• Operation Pipe Dreams is conducted.

2004

• Justin Timberlake flashes Janet Jackson's tit at the Super Bowl, causing a media storm and moral panic upon retarded conservatives.

• W wins the elections again, providing direct evidence of the lack of intelligence among the 'Murkan tribesmen.

• Ronald Reagan is worm food, making rednecks BAWWW for weeks.

• EverQuest II, and World of Warcraft are released, destroying millions of lives in the process.

• YTMND emerges from the series of tubes...

• Encyclopedia Dramatica is born. She's old enough to 'hit' now, if you are a Catholic Priest ;)

• Dimebag Darrell is murdered on stage.

• Numa Numa yey, numa numa numa yey

2005

• Hurricane Katrina fucking pwns New Orleans and The South in general.
  • Bush greatly mishandles the situation, with FEMA being practically useless. This causes a fuckload of drama and spawns the meme George Bush doesn't care about black people.
    • To this day, Nawlins still hasn't recovered, a decade after the tragedy. It is presumed to be due to the city being 80%+ black, so intelligence is in short supply.

• Super Columbine Massacre RPG comes out on the 6th anniversary of Columbine. This shitty game goes unnoticed until a year later, when it causes a shitstorm.

• The last year Newgrounds was good at all.
  • YTMND is in its prime this year as well.
    • World of Warcraft and Maplestory too

• Youtube is released, killing Web 1.0 off once and for all. The intarwebs is nevar the same again.

• Jeff Weise shoots up his school, killing 10, including himself.

• SheezyArt b& pr0n. FurAffinity goes offline.

• Xbox 360 is released, starting the 7th generation of gaming. This gen lasts until 2017.

Notable Memes: Leeroy Jenkins, Chuck Norris, Loose Change, Tom Cruise's chimpout, Brokeback Mountain.

2006

• Bantown hax0rz hijack 900,000+ LiveJournal accounts.

• A fuckload of LiveJournal autists get their own ED articles for category 5 chimpouts.

• TheAmazingAtheist begins his jewtube career.

• Meatspin.com is sold on eBay. RIP

• My Immortal appears...

• Mitchell Henderson becomes the first An hero. RIP, fgt.

• We celebrate our 3,000th Article!

• The formation of the National Emo Kid Beatdown Day, the best holiday in human history.

• 16-year-old girl becomes our first page to break 100,000+ views.

• Mel Gibson tells it like it is! Hero.

• The Great Habbo Raid of July 2006 - one of the most epic raids in e-history.

• Don Vito is arrested after allegedly groping some 12 year old girls. He died later in 2015, never being free from his prison sentence. :(

• Kimveer Gill goes for the high score and only manages 1 kill. Epic Fail of 2006.

• Lonelygirl15 is exposed as a fraud.

• Lulzcon begins.

• ShutdownED.org is created by Girlvinyl, to trick our enemies into it.

• Steve Irwin gets pwn'd by a stingray.

• Borat - hello my namea borat i sex u plz watch my movie or i b execute!!!

• Ted Haggard, a not gay ultra-Conservative is caught having gay sex with some escort or something. Typical.

• YouTube Civil War - Trolls harness THE POWER OF ONLINE VIDEO COMMUNICATION

• Saddam Hussein is hung to death. RIP

2007

This year is probably the most notable in intarwebz culture. Because of this fact, we're only leaving in the best stories from the year; see the article for a tl;dr insight into this crazy ass year.

• The Great Sonic-cide of 2007

• JEWS DID WTC - Trolls trick CNN into making an ass of themselves to millions of people.

• 300: THIS IS SPARTA!!!1 TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL!

• The Great /B/lackout. Then The Great Re/b/oot

• Chocolate Rain - some stay dry and others feel the pain.

• Computer Science III in action- VTech gets hax0red by some kid

• Rickroll is spammed enough that the normies begin to take it up, exposing it as a IRL meme and ensuring it becomes unfunny and dies out in mere minutes.

• Virginia Tech gets shot up by Cho Seung Hui, resulting in 32 frags, causing the lulziest shitstorm since WTC.

• The Great Livejournal Strikethrough of 2007

• TheAmazingAtheist is youtube famous by now. He starts beef with Columbine fanboys, notably Pekka-Eric Auvinen.

• Tyler Dumstorf frags 2 pigs.

• Fox 11 - Tipped off by Alex Wuori, depicted Anonymous as a gang of domestic terrorists on a news broadcast, spawning countless new memes.

• The Great Habbo Raid of July 2007 - 4chan trolls are back again for another attack on the habbo kids.

• The Great Deathly Hallows IRL Raid of 2007 - Harry Potter fans get trolled hard as trolls spoil the plot of the latest (and last) book to be released, again.

• Krystal Can't Enjoy Her Sandwich - Furries producing something vaguely funny, clearly we have entered the twilight zone.

• 2girls1cup

• Obama begins to campaign for the presidency of Murka.

• The Anti-ED-Club gets shut down.

• Minneapolis Bridge Collapse only two years after the Red Lake tragedy, and Minnesota gets pwn'd yet again!

• Don't taze me bro!!!

• East High School Salt Lake City - typical homosexual Jock activities make the international news.

• Lulzcon 2007

• Trey Burba threatens to blow up his school on 9/11.

• Asa Coon sh0ts his sk0l, but kills noone and becomes the most epic fail on record.

• Chris-chan becomes an internet meme, mainly because of exposure by ED.

• No Cussing Club gets trolled hard.

• Battletoads - The first GameStop pranks/raids begin here. A tradition that lasts to this day.

• Jenkem - trolls successfully trick Old Media again!

• Robert Hawkins plays Counter-Strike IRL and gets an alright KDR.

• The Great LiveJournal Buyout of 2007

2008

A fuckload of shit happens this year as well. Many memes originated this year as well. As usual, here's the most notable events:

• Heath Ledger becomes an hero.

• Project Chanology is initiated. Expect us.

• Super Smash Bros. Brawl - after shitloads of hype, this shitty game comes out, causing a shitstorm among nerds due to not being able to play as Krystal, a blue fox chick that they jack off to.

• The Great Livejournal Content Strike of 2008 - LJfags do another protest, as if that'll get them anywhere..

• Hagger - a lot of drama regarding this troll.

• Operation LIONCASH

• Olympic Flame - the 2008 Summer Olympics are fucking INTENSE!

• We get our own article on Wikipedia. Took you nerds long enough.

• Dongcopter - It's a hit!

• THUNDERDOME

• Patriotic Nigras troll the fuck out of Second Life.

• Old /b/ Day - moot trolls the cancer IRL.

• Shamwow!!!1

• Chris-chan returns, with even more autism and epic lulz.

• Dorian Thorn - The story of quite possibly the greatest comeback, trolling, mindfuck or practical joke in the entire history of the internets.

• Large Hadron Collider - CERN attempts to divide by zero.

• Oprah gets trolled and uses the Over 9000 meme on her show. "They have over 9000 penises, and they're all raping children."

• Bailout Plan - pathetic attempt at saving the US Economy.

• Epic Sword Guy and Emo Cutter Girl demonstrate the ways of the samurai.

• Barack Obama kicks Hillary and John McCain's asses, and is secured the presidency.

• Sandalgate - a heroic arab man throws his shoes at Dubya.

• 3Guys1Hammer - A group of friends show you how to make ground beef in the wilderness using some simple tools you probably have lying around your garage.

• 1guy1jar - A man shoves a jar up his asshole, rekts his um, and stains the floor below his anus with massive puddles of blood. Don't ask.

• Satan Claus - the Grinch of Christmas.

2009

• Boxxy takes over the internets.

• Nancy Pelosi does a rickroll. Good night, sweet meme.

• Fred Phelps is b& from the United Kingdom.

• Kenny Glenn abuses his cats and has his life destroyed by Anons everywhere.

• Travis the Killer Chimp - What have we learned here? Chimps are not people too. They are psychopathic killing machines that will eat your face if you change your hairstyle.

• Girugamesh - A terribly embarrassing commercial for an anime convention turns into annoying internet sensation.

• Josef Fritzl gets arrested, and sentenced to life in prison.

• John Katehis - Eat your heart out, Chris Hansen; this guy not only hunts pedophiles, he does something about it.

• Angry Homo Kid - a 12 year old christfag boy starts a vlog, gets noticed, gets trolled hard, chimps out, and becomes an immortal meme.

• The 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School Massacre. NEVAR FORGET!

• Tony48219 assassinates fellow youtuber AsiaMcGowan, after an epic flamewar.

• Tubcat dies :(

• Operation YouTube - A mass upload of porn onto YouTube, using tags in a way that millions of people see the pr0n. The meme "I am 12 years old and what is this?" spawns.

• Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and BILLY MAYS die!

• Balloon Boy - Half of America stops and stares at a silver balloon as they get fuckin' owned by a 6 year old troll

• Obama wins the Most useless Nobel Peace Prize for no fucking reason.
  • At least Al Gore had a god damn PowerPoint.

• Nidal Hassan goes for the high score on Nightmare Difficulty, at Fort Hood, and manages an A+ grade for his work, all things considered.

• ED turns 5.

• Tiger Woods cheats on his wife.

• World of Warcraft reaches it's peak, with 12,000,000 pathetic losers actively playing it. It quickly dies after WOTLK though.

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See Also

• Time
• The Future
• 2010s - Inferior successor
• 1990s - Superior predecessor
• 1980s

The years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009