It was only a decade ago that the BlackBerry is a fruit barely? That the green was, well, color and reality TV show as it was inserted between the music videos on MTV?
There was, of course, enormous political and social upheavals that afflict our world in the last decade. But there are also changes in lifestyle little by little you will not notice when it always happens – a little ‘like watching a child grow. Here is an overview list 50 things that changed our lives since the start of the new millennium:
AIRPORTS: Remember when you do not have to remove their shoes before boarding an airplane? I remember when you could bring a drink bottle on board? Terrorism has changed everything.
Alternative medicine: from acupuncture to herbal supplements to alternative ways to treat cancer, alternative medicine has become more mainstream than ever.
PRESIDENT: This is a soft for this! The term comes from advertising Apple’s iPhone, but could apply to the gadget explosion entire decade, from laptops to GPS systems (that your car will provide guidance at home mom in Chinese or a French woman named Virginia? There was a app for this.)
AARP card … for the boom! Some prominent Americans have 50 of this decade: Madonna. Prince. Ellen DeGeneres. The Smurfs. Michael Jackson – who also died at the age of 50 years. And some baby boomers beginning to celebrate its important 60 years: Bruce Springsteen and Meryl Streep, for example.
AGING: Nobody seemed to look more their age: Clothing for the 50-year old women began to look more like clothing for the 18-year-olds, tweens were more like teenagers, long hair was important for all age and in many aspects of women’s fashion seems to turn into a single age group.
BLOG: I blog, blog, blog … How we spend our time before the blog? There are over 100 million of these blogs out there in cyberspace.
BlackBerry considered essential by managers and mothers planning snacks. Introduced in 2002, the smartphone version is now used by more than 28 million people, according to its manufacturer, Research In Motion Ltd.
BOOK CLUBS: Thanks in part to Oprah Winfrey, the decade has seen a profusion not only in literary circles for discussion, but the increasing role over them by publishers.
CABLE: Cable network 24 hours made the evening news new sound strange, cable dramas harvest Emmys … and close to ten years, Oprah was the passage of cables.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Remember those trips to get your film developed? No? Even your grandmother is a digital camera, and is probably now e-mailing photos and transfer them to a site for sharing photos.
The culture of celebrity magazines celebrity fueled a growing obsession with celebrities and the minutiae of their daily lives. At the end of the decade, we have always been obsessed, while Britney Spears and Angelina Jolie had given include many reality stars such as Jon and Kate Gosselin. Celebrity website TMZ abducted in mid-decade.
Mobile phones: Mobile phones are now used by over 85 percent of the population of the United States and some have replaced completely fixed. Downwards, were betraying their spouses more difficult – just ask Tiger Woods.
CHEFS: Chefs are hot! The food web, whose viewership tripled this decade, wrapped in viewers with persons of high tension, as Rachael Ray and Bobby Flay, Emeril Lagasse and Giada De Laurentiis. Meryl Streep played in a film tribute to the late Julia Child.
Connectivity: As everyone should be connected wirelessly at any time. Boss e-mail on Sunday? Best answer, unless you’re out of the Antarctic – you have no excuses.
Puma: A new television series called Cougar Town, “focuses on a phenomenon that has taken the name from that decade: the women meet younger men.
Crocs: The ubiquitous plastic shoes debuted in 2002 and became the shoes you loved to hate. Kids love ‘em, but there are groups of Web site dedicated to their destruction. Not to be deterred: First Lady Michelle Obama, who was on holiday in 2009.
DANCE: Dance never went out of style, but this decade has seen the immense popularity of dance competitions, such as “So You Think You Can Dance” and “Dancing with the Stars.”
EVENTS: Meetings, like everything else has been transformed from websites, which makes other ways to meet people obsolete. It was not only the territory of the relatively young: Seniors find love online, too.
EVN: Suddenly, DVR-ING is a verb, and what it means is this: There is no reason for all that the program is on the canal, and when.
ENTERTAINMENT embarrassment embarrassment has always been part of the comedy – just think of Don Rickles – but this is the decade of cringe worthy of Larry David in “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” Ricky Gervais, and, of course, Sasha Baron Cohen as Borat shame Bruno and perhaps the entire country.
Facebook: Can you believe that the social networking site was once limited only to students of Harvard? Now it’s time to suck the obsession for more than 300 million users around the world and a new form of social etiquette: Who to a friend on Facebook?
FAT: It ‘was the decade that the fat has become the enemy of the state. New York City banned trans fats, and Alabama – second in the National Obesity – has introduced a tax on state workers who are overweight.
Food: It’s not only kind to the White House who loved rocket – This was the decade of the Food, when we have developed all tastes gourmet. Even hamburger has become a gourmet item – such as Daniel Boulud Burger truffles, stuffed with foie gras and short ribs.
Going Green: the type of bulb that we use for the type of shopping bags we carry in our cars, “Going Green” takes this decade. Now, it is not strange to hear a guy talking to a parent to use a fabric bag.
GOOGLE: It ‘was the decade that Google has become part of our brain functions. We know the guy who was in this film – where was he? Just Google.
GPS: We can not lose more than we – or at least is quite difficult, with the ubiquity of GPS. But it’s better for your site with care: A couple made an error of 400 miles this year by typing “Carpi” rather than “Capri”.
Helicopter Parenting: Translation: helicopters hovering, and many parents. After years of obsessive attention to safety and the achievement of younger children, some have said the game is in progress.
Information Overload: The explosion in Internet use has led to an overload of information on practically everything. E ‘at hand, but this is correct? Some call it part of a broader phenomenon, namely …
Instant gratification, otherwise known as being able to get everything you want in an instant. Often regarded as a subject of this decade.
IPod: an icon of the digital age, it is hard to believe that this portable media player was launched in 2001. Six years after the 100 millionth iPod was sold.
“Life Coach: In a very few, there is a coach for everything! So why not his own life? Some say life coach” is that therapists without a license or regulation.
MUSIC: I have always existed, but this decade comes to film music, from “Moulin Rouge” and “Chicago.” But for children was a huge success for Disney’s “High School Musical” franchise – and three movies and counting – that have brought the magic of music.
Netflix: The DVD by mail service, established in 1997, has announced its billionth DVD delivery with two of this year. For many, these disks on top of the TV is only one thing to procrastinate.
BIOLOGICAL: Americans rushed to fill their shopping trolleys with organic produce, which makes large enterprises – now $ 21 billion industry, up from 3.6 billion in 1997. At the end of the decade, Michelle Obama to the White House planted the first garden vegetables.
CHIC PREGNANCY: If you have it, Flaunt It: This is the new philosophy of experience of pregnancy with fashionable clothing that focuses on the swollen belly, pregnancy, personal photos, and coverage without celebrities pregnancy.
Reality TV: As a nation we have become addicted to reality shows, the Gosselins of vengeance “Jon & Kate Plus 8″ on “American Idol” to “Project Runway”. At the end of the decade, ball Heene and the famous Boy Salah gatecrashing Reality Friends give unwanted attention.
RECESSION CHIC: Fashion distorted styles more serious – very dark – like the so-called “recession chic” took hold in the second half of the decade.
RETRO CHIC: Once you forget smoking, racism, sexism and homophobia, early ’60s represented by the AMC series “Mad Men” that was fine. The swing links men to Madison Avenue are cool again.
Sexting: Combine texting with the phone’s camera function and get this nightmare of the parents. A poll conducted by Pew Internet Research Center and American Life Project found that 15 percent of adolescents 12-17 years with a cell phone had received sexually suggestive pictures or videos.
STARBUCKS: It ‘a commonplace that there is one on every block, but sometimes it seems to me – and millions of people now consider it normal to spend $ 4 or more of drinking coffee in the morning can be a means of twenty half-decaffeinated coffee milk vanilla with a Blow-Up.
TATTOOS: E ‘began innocently – perhaps a butterfly on the shoulder or a tribal symbol on the biceps. A few characters of the Chinese later, he seemed hipster which meant that he had a folder full of tattoos. The long term trend of middle age and even between mothers idol Miley Cyrus.
Texting: skills RH for the rest of this style? Hope u r. This is the decade that we begin to communicate in text messaging shortcuts. Used to it: E-mail is so ’00s.
TV screens: the TV screens have become larger and flatter, doing some common rooms and spacious rooms dens equivalent screening study. At the same time, though, people watched the film and video on small screens that you can imagine – their iPods and other mobile devices.
Among the culture: teenagers, especially girls, has become an economic force to reckon with the purchase of everything from clothes to electronics to music tickets for the concert.
Twitter: The new social network, set up tweets, retweet, the following trends and issues – how to fit 140 characters.
UGGS: Not since the Cross (see above) has created such a frenzy functional footwear. Fur snowboots were everywhere, regardless of climate. Los Angelenos insist worn with shorts.
WII: In a sea of increasingly sophisticated video games, this console has become easy in small groups of the decade was performed using non-gaming masses. Wii becomes a center of family games, home fitness and socialization even greater.
WIKIPEDIA: a boon for students around the world, the open-source encyclopedia used the masses to police its entries and keep them (mostly) (sometimes) true.
YOGA: Madonna, Gwyneth and other celebrities made the Eastern practice of integration Bendy. At the end of the decade, the grandmother could face downward-dog for his Wii Fit.
YOUTUBE: an end to this list and go kill some time watching … YouTube video! The site for sharing videos was born in 2005. Political candidates in 2008 also had their own channels on YouTube. The most popular video “Charlie Bit My Finger,” in which Charlie boy little finger of his brother Harry.