The most important thing to do after a long day of school was grab your favorite CD (mine was Fergie Ferg) and pop it in the old school CD player:
Maybe you had the honor of upgrading your CD player for a colorful little iPod after the best Christmas of your young life and jammed to that instead (for 99 cents a song):
If you had siblings, maybe you were forced to share the family desktop computer to enjoy some (cherished) time online:
It was an especially good day when you'd log into Myspace and be greeted with a rainbow of notifications:
Before there was Myspace or Facebook messenger, there was this yellow dude who is definitely the CEO of AOL:
No disrespect to the MSN messenger people, though:
If you were a 2000s kid on the desktop computer, of course you spent too much time on Club Penguin:
Or maybe you were a RuneScape kid:
Perhaps you were oddly soothed by planting virtual crops in FarmVille:
Once your turn on the desktop computer was over, you could totally shred on this bad boy:
Or you could *literally* shred some gnarly pipes in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater:
You made sure to take care of your child, aka your Tamagotchi:
If we're talkin' handheld games, the purple Game Boy Advance was a symbol of power:
The only console that could dethrone it was the Game Boy Advance SP:
If you wanted to get your groove on, you could stomp to the sweet crinkle sounds of the Dance Dance Revolution party mat:
Maybe it was a Wii Bowling kinda night:
If Wii Sports didn't have you sweating enough, you could go outside and obliterate your ankles with the Skip It:
I know I spent *many* hours after school with the Bop It until my parents sold it in a garage sale because they couldn't stand hearing "BOP IT. TWIST IT. PULL IT." ever again:
Streaming didn't exist yet, but there was plenty of classy and not at all trashy programming to choose from — like Room Raiders:
The best thing you could see on the TV guide was a marathon of Next — the most chaotic dating show in 2000s history:
If you were hungry for a lil' snack, you could slam three of these without a worry in the world:
And finally, the best part of coming home from school was a Scooby-Doo-themed gummy pack with *many* blue gummies:
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