# Big pop culture landmarks of this decade **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 8, 2009, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-pop-culture-landmarks-of-this-decade/492365 "2009-04-08T06:10:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-pop-culture-landmarks-of-this-decade/492365/61 "2009-04-10T15:26:50Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > I would say the mobile phone really took off in the 1990s, here at least. By the 00s nearly every already had one. They got swankier ones but most people here had them by 1998 I reckon. This is one of the things Europe (and Japan too, IIRC) was into before before the U.S. Especially Scandinavia. A healthy number of Americans had cell phones in the late '90s, it’s true. But it was around 2000-2001 when _everyone_ started having them. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-pop-culture-landmarks-of-this-decade/492365/62 "2009-04-10T15:36:22Z")
Yeah, Europe was really ahead of the US on the cell phone thing. I graduated high school in 2002 and cell pones were not ubiquitous among my classmates. Within a year or two, _everybody_ got one. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-pop-culture-landmarks-of-this-decade/492365/63 "2009-04-10T16:23:56Z")
We got this far into the thread without a mention of the Abercrombie and Fitch look? This would be the look, at least for younger males, for the 2000s. It hasn’t changed too much over the decade, although the khaki and camo cargo shorts that were popular in the first part of the decade are being replaced by plaid shorts towards the end of the decade. Still, the T shirt with the “Abercrombie, American Eagle, or Hollister” label, the shorts with the belt, and the flip flops will instantly bring a flash back to the 2000s. Add the baseball cap and designer sunglasses on summer days. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-pop-culture-landmarks-of-this-decade/492365/64 "2009-04-10T16:31:47Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > We got this far into the thread without a mention of the Abercrombie and Fitch look? Sorry, I think we’re all still chuckling at Cisco’s belief that every teenager in the 2000s was a redneck. But yeah, A&F, Gap, American Eagle, Old Navy, Hollister… that kind of look will be remembered. “Juicy” written on the ass too. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-pop-culture-landmarks-of-this-decade/492365/65 "2009-04-10T17:39:23Z")
Yeah, definitely the Abercrombie look. Cargo shorts/pants, flip flops, polo and rugby shirts, graphic tees. Jeans are a whole other thing, too. Designer jeans exploded this decade and the mid-level brands went through a bunch of goofy washes and colors. I still have a pair of jeans I bought out of high school from The Buckle during that awful sand-blasted jeans period that look like someone dragged them behind a truck on a dirt road. And of course, as the decade went on the huge baggy jeans of the 90’s became the skin-tight jeans currently worn by hipsters, guy and girl alike. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-pop-culture-landmarks-of-this-decade/492365/66 "2009-04-10T19:01:52Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Sorry, I think we’re all still chuckling at Cisco’s belief that every teenager in the 2000s was a redneck. > > But yeah, A&F, Gap, American Eagle, Old Navy, Hollister… that kind of look will be remembered. “Juicy” written on the ass too. Dude . . . you’re kidding, right? I thought we established it’s a regional thing, and I’d never say “everyone” is this or that. But come to Arizona. Seriously. You’d probably be shocked. The A&F, American Eagle, etc, thing is still noticeable here but not 1/10th of what the flatbiller thing is. Abercrombie and Fitch says late 90s to me. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-pop-culture-landmarks-of-this-decade/492365/67 "2009-04-10T20:51:57Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Will Farrell, Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson movies. I don’t know what the name of the genre is - guy comedies?. Bromance [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-pop-culture-landmarks-of-this-decade/492365.md?page=3)