I remember digital watches that played simple melodies (80's hi-tech that came and went, never to return) but toothbrush players? That sounds so dumb I gotta look it up. 😮
I remember brining my Video Now to school with me. 20 kids gathered around me in the cafeteria to watch the episode where sponge bob thought Mr. Krabs was a robot.
Lmao my elementary school confiscated any media players. I ended up cutting a hole in a book to hide my GBA SP to watch Sonic X with my friends at lunch
The best thing I remember about tech in the 2000s was that everything had transparent covers on them. Apple computers, video game controllers, flashlights, neo-pets
The PSP was amazing. Especially for the price. I remember the day they came out there was a mountain of them at Walmart. That mountain stayed there for a year. I guess my area wasn't ready for the PSP. I loved mine. I remember the demo disk it came with that had a bunch of nuMetal videos on it. It didn't take long for it to get hacked and soon I was playing all my favorite snes, NES and Genesis games on it. The actual PSP games were pretty lackluster for a long time after release though. Ridge Racer was good. It eventually got some great shit, but it took awhile and being an early adopter was rough as far as original games. The thing I like the most about the PSP was it's screen. For a mobile device of its time that screen was leagues above anything out. And the cute little UI it had made it feel so advanced. I used it was an all purpose device for many years. Internet, movies, music, games. That little sonofabitch did it all.
Raid, the game everyone's talking about... Because they've all been paid to. EDIT: This was a joke that really blew up, he obviously deserves the money, leave Billiam alone
When I was a wee lad, my mom bought me Michael Bay's Bad Boys on the PSP because she just didn't know any better. I watched that movie hundreds of times as a child, in my native language, then in English, with native subtitles, English subtitles and in a way, Bad Boys on the PSP is what gave me my start in learning the English language. It's very near and dear to my heart.
My GBA went 16 hours on two AA batteries! Rokenbok on the other hand... that stuff ate batteries like crazy! 3 batteries for each vehicle (4 for the monorail), and they lasted only a few hours! My current layout takes 28 AA batteries to run everything!
Videonow has a special place in my heart. I was about 10, and I was in foster care. My little brother and me got split up into different homes, which was horrifying and lonely. He lent me his video now black and white with band geeks, and I watched that episode over and over throughout dozens of nights. It was a weird way of keeping me connected to my brother and distracted from the lonlieness. Ultimately I still get a weird nostalgia sensation when watching that episode.
@@azaleawinchester My brother? Yeaup. We bounced around different Forster home in different cities for about 5 more years. After that, we both just said fuck it and ran away to our parents. Foster system couldn't get us back after :)
When you pulled up the "video now" I had vivid flashbacks of being grounded and hiding in my closet watching SpongeBob on my blue video now with a Cabela's mini flashlight in my mouth lighting up the screen. I had forgotten about that thing. Thank you for this video and the memories. Lol
Story time: So apparently when I was a baby I had a Video Now with Nick shows on it. One time, the power went out in my house but my dad managed to put me to sleep. He was bored with nothing to do so he took the Video Now and watched Band Geeks and tween sitcoms. The end. Also, I had an iDog but I had no idea where it came from so it's cool to finally know what it is
My Dad Bought me a Portable CD Player in 2002 (When I was 4) ever since then I was Attached to it ever since I still use one of those to this Day since I still Listen to Music CDs from the 90's and 2000's and I'm still Attached to it to this Day since I don't care for Downloading Music on my Phone I had my Spotify for a Year but I Canceled it Months Ago because I went back to using a Portable CD Player and Music CDs I think that's a better option since I'm still Attached to it to this Day I'm Super happy
I had a portable dvd player in the 2000's (after saving up my allowance to buy it it for ages) and I'd never felt so cool in my life. It might be the coolest I've ever been to this day.
My fondest memory with a portable DVD player was from the mid 2000s’ when my mom took my family to Northern Ireland to visit her relatives. We stayed at a hotel at one point and my mom and her siblings went to go play cards in one room, so my little brother and I hung out in the other one and watched Madagascar about three times in a row on the DVD player.
Not completely related but awhile ago I found my dads old stereo speakers and now I have 2 huge speakers hooked up so I can play dookie by greenday and then I have 2 smaller but still quite large speakers hooked up to my electric drum set
My sister and I only had a few songs for our hit clips because we lost them all. Every time I hear the chorus of dancing queen, I want to throw her easy bake oven out the window again
What are you guys talking about? Everyone I know plays "Raid: Shadow Legends (TM)" how can you guys possibly think that this amazing unique mobile experience, needs a bunch of sponsors. When the name alone, is enough to get people to download the definitive mobile gaming experience that I have waited a long time to play.
Hit clips was amazing for one reason: the fm radio attachment. Remember how it was set up, the short single earbud connected to the cartridge holder.. that was perfect for hiding in your sweater hood & under your hair so none of your teachers knew you had the radio going all day. I didn't do this in 2002 though I did it in 2010..
You horrible person why would you do that if you didn't like the song then you should have just ignored the song not take it and hide it from your sister that's not nice
A part of me wouldn’t like that to happen b/c it means the c-y stuff which happened at the turn of the decade which I barely developed out of recently will continue to be rubbed in my face #Bush43 (?).. ‘Potus 43’ nostalgia is suppose to be the escapism when we barely made sense of ‘Potus 44’ era stuff and are expecting to make it out of the ‘maga’ era, sanely? ‘_’ ..
@@RichardHernandez-pz7bt Yeah that stuff has really aged piss poorly. Especially smash mouth they went from relevance to absolutely no one cared in like a couple of years. I don't think I've ever seen a downfall that quick. But the likes of the now retired Britney Spears, boy bands and the rest deserve to be forgotten like most of the stuff from the end of the 90s to the end of the 2010s.
I was actually thinking it is one of those things where the game pops up a notification about rating the game, and maybe it gently nudges you to give it a 5 star review. I feel like there would be a rule against doing that, but you never know. Stranger things have occurred! Maybe it gives you even more stuff in-game if you give it 5 stars.
LRGonzales because they themselves send him the footage, pics of their AppStore ratings, and the script. More than likely they don’t care changing their script
But now you're all grown up its like treasuring hunting season finding them. I've got all I wanted as a toy except I got myself a wife instead of a Barbie Doll
At the time that was the best anybody had for portable media. So you wanting one back then is understandable. I'm just thankful smart phones can stream just about anything these days.
Sorry for the dour comment but I just wanted to say thanks. My dad passed away last week and I've been binging your content as a cushy nostalgia filled way to self-soothe atm. I wanted to say thanks for providing such a comfortable space in your content. Keep doing what you're doing.
I had exactly one hitclip that I got from a no longer existing toy store that was in a small Finnish town and it played Geri Haliwell's "Scream if you wanna go faster" or whatever it was called. Cons: only one earbud, not the entire song, my parents wouldn't get me any more clips (which was probably wise). Pros: was actually pretty good at making my ears stop hurting on airplanes and I did enjoy replaying that clip of music for a good while at the time.
As a teen I remember ripping and watching the whole avatar: the last airbender on my phone (not smartphone, just phone) tbh it was great, all I lost was resolution and screen size, but plug in some headphones and was watching that every night for a while. Needless to say, I got bored of actual TV as soon as I got broadband internet (was probably 1Mbps), I don't remember tv ever being good, it just was all I had as a kid (whenever I wasn't able to play videogames)
I remember using cheap feature phones as MP3 players while ut and about. The only problem there was nobody would settle on a standard charger or headset format, no iDog for us! Also, did you ever Bluetooth anything to your mates? Loved doing that!
@@GeoNeilUK Initially I infrared-ed stuff, it was literally sitting two pones on a desk and not move them for a couple minutes for a very light file, when we eventually moved to bluetooth it wasn't too wildly different, since you still couldn't do anything while transferring and couldn't move them too much or too far, but at least could pass files while in class. Got so many wallpapers and meme videos. Edit: Heck, I even remember sharing a couple games.
I did the same thing! I'd record the show when it was on and then transfer it to my walkman. The screen was like 2 inches but it didn't matter. I still could watch Avatar on the bus to middle school.
@@jester9215 i was wondering the same thing if it was just a phone??? how did it even have a headphone jack?? like huhhh i thought we were talkin old school nokia my guy all u can do is play snake... he's tryin to impress us w lies lol
So a few days ago I gave my friend shrek 2 as a last second joke birthday present. now I can’t help but anticipate the moment I hand him shrek 2 for the second year in a row, but in much lower quality.
Billiam: I overcame my collector mentality and threw it away Also Billiam 10 seconds later: this piece of plastic doesn't even have the whole song for $3.99 and you can't get that anywhere else!!
I remember wanting one of the video players when I was a kid, since we only had one TV which my dad was always using, and I had no siblings to play with and no one would drive me to see friends... I never got it, and my mom still wonders why I grew up watching X-Files , CSI, and Buffy instead of shows for my age grouup.
when i was like 4 i watched spongebob on my gameboy advance and i grew up thinking i was dumb or making things up because i did that sometimes and i remember some of the strangest things from my childhood that never existed and yoU HAVE HELPED RESTORE MY CONFIDENCE IN MY CHILDHOOD MEMORY IM NOT INSAANE
I wanted all of these so much as a child, but my mom refused telling me they were pointless because they were expensive and only tiny bad clips of things. I was so mad. Looking back, I'm very thankful she said no.
I had one of those too!! Few years later I got a more up-to-date one that attached to the back of the passenger seat. The front of it was all screen with the dvd slot in the back
Smart phones really did change everything. But we couldn't be sure at the time because everyone else was ALSO releasing their "futuristic" products all over the place trying to replace the CD player. They were usually super specific with primitive quality, but there was nothing better. Your choices were either one of these new things, or a CD player or expensive portable TV from the 80's, and the CD player usually won. Being able to burn your own CD's didn't hurt either.
Oh my gosh I loved my Hit Clips. My sister and I had one of the little boomboxes and we had The Angel’s “My Boyfriend’s Back”, Pink’s “Get The Party Started”, and The Temptation’s “My Girl”. That’s all we had but we played those 1-minute songs all the time 😭
*Is anyone else slightly deaf in only one ear, due to there only being one earbud and it being stuck at an insanely stupid loud volume?* *Thanks Hit Clips!*
I downloaded it once. Got bored after the first week, but I really like Darkness Prevails and the orc waifu was cute for a while, so it was worth it. Not downloading it _again_ , no matter who asks. Still liked the video though. Good content.
I had a spongebob edition video now and it was awesome for what it was🤣 it definitely came in handy when I got grounded bc my mom ALWAYS forgot I had it lol
That’s a benefit of the videoNow sometimes parents forget you got the, and you can use them as a last resort I actually watched my videoNow color once in class without the teacher noticing I played it quiet threw my backpack
Dude I got one of those portable DVD players, and I used to order Netflix movies online then watch them on the bus or at track and cross country meets, I wish I still had it honestly.
When psp came out i begged my parents for one . I said id get straight As and i did for 2 semesters straight lol in the end i was the only one without one. Its a villain origin story i went full professor chaos that year.
I laughed because I watched a video a couple days ago where they talked about a "mobile game everyone has been getting paid to shill and this is their vague script." It was Raid, you could tell it was Raid, and then watching this video I could almost predict what was going to happen beat for beat. XD Companies need to stop doing the script thing.
At least four other popular RUclipsrs have been promoting it. I know afterprisonshow, and I want to say like, teamsamuraix1. Unfortunately I can't remember who else I've seen promoting this. It's a big lol (edit; just remembered a third was billiam)
And they thought that everyone was Xtreme! Late 90-early 2000s was like... the time period where being extreme went mainstream. Little kids with silver parachute pants, Soap shoes, Morpheus sunglasses and frosted tips were all over the suburbs riding their Razor scooters and listening to NuMetal on their Hitclips. I think some of the only surviving remnants of that era are the Xbox and Mtn Dew Gamer Fuel.
hey yo Don’t forget track jeans lmao. Tracksuits were so popular back then that they had to just start putting tracksuit stripes on jeans even. Nelly had a pair of those as well. I remember rocking a pair of those in 2000-early 2001.
The average person in 2000 didn’t have DVDs yet. DVD players were really expensive back in 2000 ranging from $700 to $1200 or more, which the average American (middle class) couldn’t afford. Everyone was still using VHS in 2000, and to my recollection every rental service I went to back then had nothing but VHS.
You've done it again, Billiam. I had one or two GBA Video carts, maybe a Sonic X and a Spongebob one? I have no recollection of ever actually getting them though. Mystery.
The 00's had some weird things such as Green Ketchup, Pokemon cereals, Bubble Yum ice cream, Lunchables' S'mores, etc.🥰 Overall, not a bad decade, but it could have been better.😊
@Michael Mathers It's about the weird stuff we had; besides food. We even had these light-up pacifiers that you push it down, it lights up. It was a toy, though.
I remember going to Chicago for a weekend with my 3rd grade class and watching the GBA video of the first season of Pokemon with my friend on his SP, but all the others are new to me.
Our stuff will be considered old dumb useless by the younger generation or just weird to listen to for music as well Time marches forward and you cant stop no matter much you want, and actually you don't know if they'd remove it or not
That's what I was thinking during the video. I wonder what will replace current tech, and how advanced it will be in order to make what we have nowdays obsolete.
Watched a few of your videos now, love seeing things I’d literally forgotten about. Who doesn’t love going back in time, especially now a days. Really awesome work man!
I remember seeing a PSP for the first time in middle school. That shit was life changing. I was jealous as hell and immediately felt like I wasn't shit.
i didnt have them but i saw commercials- at most i had the car dvd player cause my family moved most my childhood. and tbh the movies most played were pixars cars , barbie in a mermaid tail and veggietales...that and all the scooby doo dvds we had at a time-
I've never broken a UMD... My friends never did ether, nor my school mates in both England and France. Not sure why people keep saying they broke a lot.
I can go buy UMDs at a pawn shop. That's the worst possible place. I have never had one not work. I would say 100% working ratio in the worst possible place(Las Vegas Pawn Shops), is the pinnacle of what you could expect. Now ask me how well Nintendo products fair.
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Does anyone remember the toothbrushes that played music? They were jamming music into everything back then.
I remember digital watches that played simple melodies (80's hi-tech that came and went, never to return) but toothbrush players? That sounds so dumb I gotta look it up. 😮
I remember seeing commercials for those, they were called Tooth Tunes
My friend had one and the audio quality was terrible.
omg I remember those in like late 2000's. They were quite expensive as well (like 12 bucks over here).
i had a KISS tooth tunes. I. WANNA ROCK AND ROLL ALL NIGHT. AND PARTY EVERY DAY... I.... ugh
When I was 7, I told Santa I wanted a video now and he said, “well I can’t give you a video now, but maybe on Christmas day” lol
I had one. It was honestly ahead of its time. I enjoyed it
I LOVE THIS!
I still have my Video Now. It still works too. My little girl who is 9 absolutely loves it lik
@@mommabear2646 cb... n. 9880088inches
"why the frick does everyone want videos immediately?" -santa, probably
I remember brining my Video Now to school with me. 20 kids gathered around me in the cafeteria to watch the episode where sponge bob thought Mr. Krabs was a robot.
I took my ds to school and 10 kids gather around while im playing at the cafetiria
mr krabs is dummy thicc
Lmao my elementary school confiscated any media players. I ended up cutting a hole in a book to hide my GBA SP to watch Sonic X with my friends at lunch
I had all the kids at a birthday party gathered around watching spongebob on a gameboy advance sp. So lit.
I had the same one! I took mine to school everyday lol
I swear this man's entire channel is just to bring up memories from my childhood I did not know I had
Specifically millennial memories
I completely forgot about the fucking Video Now and that I had one until I saw this video. How did I watch anything on that
Hope he brings up that weird show Storm Hawks, I remembered it a few days ago and reminded my friends of it too
The best thing I remember about tech in the 2000s was that everything had transparent covers on them. Apple computers, video game controllers, flashlights, neo-pets
I wish they brought them back :/
tamagotchis
Honstly I love the crystal cases, wish it was still a thing tbh
Jon o got an emogochi thing and it hade those covers and I just let it slowly die
me who still gets happy looking at my translucent pink xbox 360 controller-
Damn, looking at all of this today is like looking at caveman technology. The PSP was truly a godsend for its time.
Cap'n Crunch unfortunately I was Amish growing up
The PSP was amazing. Especially for the price. I remember the day they came out there was a mountain of them at Walmart. That mountain stayed there for a year. I guess my area wasn't ready for the PSP. I loved mine. I remember the demo disk it came with that had a bunch of nuMetal videos on it. It didn't take long for it to get hacked and soon I was playing all my favorite snes, NES and Genesis games on it. The actual PSP games were pretty lackluster for a long time after release though. Ridge Racer was good. It eventually got some great shit, but it took awhile and being an early adopter was rough as far as original games. The thing I like the most about the PSP was it's screen. For a mobile device of its time that screen was leagues above anything out. And the cute little UI it had made it feel so advanced. I used it was an all purpose device for many years. Internet, movies, music, games. That little sonofabitch did it all.
Tbh, I should save my money for the PSP soon so I can play the PSP version of Chinatown Wars.
The PSP is still great if you like emulation, retro games, or Homebrew.
It even had a couple of GTA games. Godlike.
Raid, the game everyone's talking about... Because they've all been paid to.
EDIT: This was a joke that really blew up, he obviously deserves the money, leave Billiam alone
I mean, yeah. That's what a sponsorship is.
Ive seen so many raid sponsors that ive memporised the script
Its not the best game, but it's not complete shit either... Id shill for it lol
Same, I'm always waiting for the same key phrases, it's like 'say it.... say it... HE SAID IT! :D '
That shit lost my data after a week. Waste of time dont play
When I was a wee lad, my mom bought me Michael Bay's Bad Boys on the PSP because she just didn't know any better. I watched that movie hundreds of times as a child, in my native language, then in English, with native subtitles, English subtitles and in a way, Bad Boys on the PSP is what gave me my start in learning the English language. It's very near and dear to my heart.
Damn that’s a pretty awesome story
PSP especially for the time was pretty great quality, at night when you were under your covers watching a movie there was nothing like it.
Can we have a moment of silence for all of the AA batteries that died for these “media players”?
Yep, I practically lived on AA batteries for my various incarnations of Game Boy.
Hey my rift controllers use AA batteries tech has not advanced 100% xD
My GBA went 16 hours on two AA batteries! Rokenbok on the other hand... that stuff ate batteries like crazy! 3 batteries for each vehicle (4 for the monorail), and they lasted only a few hours! My current layout takes 28 AA batteries to run everything!
We left them to bake in the sunlight to "recharge" them.
-aX :^(
Videonow has a special place in my heart. I was about 10, and I was in foster care. My little brother and me got split up into different homes, which was horrifying and lonely. He lent me his video now black and white with band geeks, and I watched that episode over and over throughout dozens of nights. It was a weird way of keeping me connected to my brother and distracted from the lonlieness. Ultimately I still get a weird nostalgia sensation when watching that episode.
Did you ever see him again?
@@azaleawinchester My brother? Yeaup. We bounced around different Forster home in different cities for about 5 more years. After that, we both just said fuck it and ran away to our parents. Foster system couldn't get us back after :)
@@FrankieHiltz beautiful story man :')
Glad everything worked out for you man.
You’re a good sport about it. Thanks for sharing your story, sounds like the plot of a great short film to be honest(not to downplay it of course).
When you pulled up the "video now" I had vivid flashbacks of being grounded and hiding in my closet watching SpongeBob on my blue video now with a Cabela's mini flashlight in my mouth lighting up the screen. I had forgotten about that thing. Thank you for this video and the memories. Lol
TheTl33 why did you get grounded from it
Idk. I was a kid. Lol. Not cleaning my room, not doing homework. Take your pick
LOL
Story time: So apparently when I was a baby I had a Video Now with Nick shows on it. One time, the power went out in my house but my dad managed to put me to sleep. He was bored with nothing to do so he took the Video Now and watched Band Geeks and tween sitcoms. The end.
Also, I had an iDog but I had no idea where it came from so it's cool to finally know what it is
I remember wanting one of them hit clips and my dad buying me a portable CD player instead. Top Dad!
Tom Atherton he saved you. I bought a hit clip and regretted it right away 😂.
My Dad Bought me a Portable CD Player in 2002 (When I was 4) ever since then I was Attached to it ever since I still use one of those to this Day since I still Listen to Music CDs from the 90's and 2000's and I'm still Attached to it to this Day since I don't care for Downloading Music on my Phone I had my Spotify for a Year but I Canceled it Months Ago because I went back to using a Portable CD Player and Music CDs I think that's a better option since I'm still Attached to it to this Day I'm Super happy
@@zpushy633sora I think there is something wrong with this thing's programming, it seems to be repeating and lacks the ability to punctuate sentences.
@@mortemmalum7228 Or maybe he is a CD player too 🤔
Bet u were pissed at the time lol
Dude, this unlocked a memory of watching fairly odd parents on my gba that I didn't even know I had
I had that one too. The baseball episode, the internet one, and my favorite one where Timmy accidentally wishes to turn into a girl.
kinky
Had the one where he wished he was an adult. That was weird, especially in low-res.
Wait you could do that how???
@@dorothypena9245 GBA video cartridges.
During the 2000s, I was one of the lucky ones to have a portable DVD player.
I still have mine
@@princesskristan Well I don't, unfortunately.
I had one and I used it daily.
So many scratched Simpsons DVDs
We had multiple players.
Everyone had one.
Watching the "Band Geeks" spongebob episode on a video now is a memory I forgot I had. I thought it was a dream
Likewise!
To this day, I can quote that episode word for word solely because of my VideoNow
The early 2000s was weird man, basically the twilight zone between modern day and the 90s.
I had a dvd player. But still used a VCR to record my favorite shows. Strange times indeed
I love reading about technology from those years for that reason. It's quite fascinating and has a charm to it.
I was time-shifting episodes of Lost on VHS in 2005 and streaming them on ABC.com by 2006.
Yeah I’d say once 2006-2007 hit there was a big change in technology. Early 2000s was just a more advanced late 90s.
But it was still fun.
I had a portable dvd player in the 2000's (after saving up my allowance to buy it it for ages) and I'd never felt so cool in my life. It might be the coolest I've ever been to this day.
Kat I remember having the video now black a white as a kid I went to Florida with it around 2004
Kat ya I remember having one being badass. I honestly wanna get one again.
My fondest memory with a portable DVD player was from the mid 2000s’ when my mom took my family to Northern Ireland to visit her relatives. We stayed at a hotel at one point and my mom and her siblings went to go play cards in one room, so my little brother and I hung out in the other one and watched Madagascar about three times in a row on the DVD player.
Not completely related but awhile ago I found my dads old stereo speakers and now I have 2 huge speakers hooked up so I can play dookie by greenday and then I have 2 smaller but still quite large speakers hooked up to my electric drum set
I had one but I spilled yogurt on it, not a great day for me
I'm so sad that you didn't talk about the Hit Clips Robot or the Hit Clips recorder. Those were my childhood.
Oh here is a legend
go fuck yourself
Grognak Your name is as generic as your face
lol up yours.
Grognak enjoy mediocrity
My sister and I only had a few songs for our hit clips because we lost them all. Every time I hear the chorus of dancing queen, I want to throw her easy bake oven out the window again
you mean crayon pop when you said dancing queen?
...AGAIN???
@@M364A I think he means the one by ABBA.
@@sophie_drachen yea, well i am a stupid mind
"You know everybody is talking about Raid: Shadow Legends"
Absolutely no one.
Everyone is, actually.
Because they're being sponsored lul
Actually everyone is paid to talk about it
What are you guys talking about? Everyone I know plays "Raid: Shadow Legends (TM)" how can you guys possibly think that this amazing unique mobile experience, needs a bunch of sponsors. When the name alone, is enough to get people to download the definitive mobile gaming experience that I have waited a long time to play.
Only 1 million download
No one:
Not a single soul:
Billiam: SHADOW RAID LEGENDS
Hit clips was amazing for one reason: the fm radio attachment.
Remember how it was set up, the short single earbud connected to the cartridge holder.. that was perfect for hiding in your sweater hood & under your hair so none of your teachers knew you had the radio going all day.
I didn't do this in 2002 though I did it in 2010..
i love this
i listened to "Oops I did it again" on my hitclips probably 2000 times. i also had a video now with a jesse mcartney video i fell in love with
The kids who had HitClips were the kids who bought oregano for $50 a gram
Hahaha.. very accurate
😭😭😭😂😂😂
Bahahaha
😂😂
Oh my god yes! 😂😂😂😂
I remember HitClips. Those we're disappointing even when they were brand-new and overpriced during their entire existence.
@dandanthetaximan Tbh, I'm not so sure. I still think you paid too much for them if McD gave them to you for free.
I remember them. I had the britney spears "stronger" song, and nsync "it's gonna be MAY!" Thought they were pretty cool.
I do too I remember being like “well that was a cool 30 seconds”
Mine was given away with a shirt💀
@@MeatEatingVegan777 wtf I had the same two songs and they were the only ones I had....did they come as a set? I dont remember how I got those songs
I had a hitclip. I thought I was cool. The other kids kept asking me if it was a hearing aid.
I’m 27 and still have my childhood Hit Clips and it actually still works lol my daughter plays with it
Jeez. Those hit clips hit me in the nostalgia... I remember hiding my sister's backstreet boys clip so I didn't have to hear it any more.
You horrible person why would you do that if you didn't like the song then you should have just ignored the song not take it and hide it from your sister that's not nice
@@princesszeldaprincess447 lol that's what 6 year old little brothers do when they have to listen to the same 30 seconds of a song over and over.
Princess zelda Princess Did you grow up with siblings? Lol..
Aggies52 I understand, I understand. 😆 Idid crap like that too.
Princess zelda Princess Jesus christ, chill out.
Mark my words: The 2000's will become cool again in the 2020's
A part of me wouldn’t like that to happen b/c it means the c-y stuff which happened at the turn of the decade which I barely developed out of recently will continue to be rubbed in my face
#Bush43 (?)..
‘Potus 43’ nostalgia is suppose to be the escapism when we barely made sense of ‘Potus 44’ era stuff and are expecting to make it out of the ‘maga’ era, sanely? ‘_’ ..
NEVER all those people are old asf now and I refuse to listen to their music
@@RichardHernandez-pz7bt
Yeah that stuff has really aged piss poorly.
Especially smash mouth they went from relevance to absolutely no one cared in like a couple of years.
I don't think I've ever seen a downfall that quick. But the likes of the now retired Britney Spears, boy bands and the rest deserve to be forgotten like most of the stuff from the end of the 90s to the end of the 2010s.
it already has. There's a ton of early 2000s inspired fashion on Instagram
@@Brodobaby
You lost me at Instagram.
I'm sure the "influencers" on the gram know best. Lol
Feels weird watching this on my smart phone that is basically just an entire screen in 1080p
I know, right!!! Lol
Lol yours is still 1080p? Can't wait til you see a phone with a 1440x3040p resolution, that will blow your mind
@@LT1316 Hahaha. Mine does go that high but most videos on RUclips don't allow for that resolution choice
@@Crazelord91 haha true, only the techies like to use 1440 or 4k because they have quality content that looks beautiful in that
@@LT1316 Yup
"It doesn't ask you if you can spare some change for gas"
So they took out the best part of the song?
“Raid: Shadow legends has a perfect score on the AppStore.”
And I can guarantee that all of those oh so great reviews are paid for.
I was actually thinking it is one of those things where the game pops up a notification about rating the game, and maybe it gently nudges you to give it a 5 star review. I feel like there would be a rule against doing that, but you never know. Stranger things have occurred! Maybe it gives you even more stuff in-game if you give it 5 stars.
Where do I sign up to get paid to whore out this game? };-)>
Nah just dumb kids that only put 5 stars for everything
The image he showed only had 4 1/2 stars and I can't get over that
LRGonzales because they themselves send him the footage, pics of their AppStore ratings, and the script. More than likely they don’t care changing their script
As a child with incredible ADHD the gameboy video line was fantastic in keeping me entertained throughout a car ride
This video makes me feel dumb, because all these were overpriced and terrible quality and I wanted them all so bad when I was a little kid. 😂
It means the marketing team did a good job and kids are not always the best judge of quality.
But now you're all grown up its like treasuring hunting season finding them. I've got all I wanted as a toy except I got myself a wife instead of a Barbie Doll
At the time that was the best anybody had for portable media. So you wanting one back then is understandable. I'm just thankful smart phones can stream just about anything these days.
I'm surprised I shown restrained on them as a kid
I had galaxy brain that day
I still kinda want them......
Sorry for the dour comment but I just wanted to say thanks. My dad passed away last week and I've been binging your content as a cushy nostalgia filled way to self-soothe atm. I wanted to say thanks for providing such a comfortable space in your content. Keep doing what you're doing.
i remember these being so LOUD. i had to listen to my simple plan hit clips away from my ear because they were screaming at me 💀
I dunno what model yours was but mine had two volumes. Loud AF and Louder
Bought my girlfriend a hitclips player and a Brittany Spears song in 2012. She's now my wife.
Aww
Arnold Rimmer BSC lol
This is the most absurd and amazing thing I have ever heard in my entire life
An ArchosJukebox6000 says your marriage to Brittany will be annulled faster than HitClips' hot minute.
2012?
Random fact: my friend had the Hit Clips radio and on 9/11 that's how she was able to tell everyone what was going on.
I got my 9/11 play-by-play from fuckin' Howard Stern. If you havn't heard the howard stern 9/11 broadcast, you should.
Thats the most 2000’s thing ever
My first grade teacher just turned the TV on. I just thought we were pledging allegiance for a long time because the tv was up next to the flag.
As if it wasn't on every radio station and tv channel.
@@RestingBeachFace721 Right, but we were in school and our school didn't let us watch TV or listen to the radio school hours.
I had exactly one hitclip that I got from a no longer existing toy store that was in a small Finnish town and it played Geri Haliwell's "Scream if you wanna go faster" or whatever it was called. Cons: only one earbud, not the entire song, my parents wouldn't get me any more clips (which was probably wise). Pros: was actually pretty good at making my ears stop hurting on airplanes and I did enjoy replaying that clip of music for a good while at the time.
As a teen I remember ripping and watching the whole avatar: the last airbender on my phone (not smartphone, just phone) tbh it was great, all I lost was resolution and screen size, but plug in some headphones and was watching that every night for a while. Needless to say, I got bored of actual TV as soon as I got broadband internet (was probably 1Mbps), I don't remember tv ever being good, it just was all I had as a kid (whenever I wasn't able to play videogames)
I remember using cheap feature phones as MP3 players while ut and about. The only problem there was nobody would settle on a standard charger or headset format, no iDog for us!
Also, did you ever Bluetooth anything to your mates? Loved doing that!
@@GeoNeilUK Initially I infrared-ed stuff, it was literally sitting two pones on a desk and not move them for a couple minutes for a very light file, when we eventually moved to bluetooth it wasn't too wildly different, since you still couldn't do anything while transferring and couldn't move them too much or too far, but at least could pass files while in class. Got so many wallpapers and meme videos.
Edit: Heck, I even remember sharing a couple games.
How did you do that?
I did the same thing! I'd record the show when it was on and then transfer it to my walkman. The screen was like 2 inches but it didn't matter. I still could watch Avatar on the bus to middle school.
@@jester9215 i was wondering the same thing if it was just a phone??? how did it even have a headphone jack?? like huhhh i thought we were talkin old school nokia my guy all u can do is play snake... he's tryin to impress us w lies lol
So a few days ago I gave my friend shrek 2 as a last second joke birthday present. now I can’t help but anticipate the moment I hand him shrek 2 for the second year in a row, but in much lower quality.
Did you give it?
Sir, can you tell us if you actually give the Shrek 2?
Did ya do it?
You still haven't given us an answer
Sire, we request your answer.
Billiam: I overcame my collector mentality and threw it away
Also Billiam 10 seconds later: this piece of plastic doesn't even have the whole song for $3.99 and you can't get that anywhere else!!
I remember wanting one of the video players when I was a kid, since we only had one TV which my dad was always using, and I had no siblings to play with and no one would drive me to see friends... I never got it, and my mom still wonders why I grew up watching X-Files , CSI, and Buffy instead of shows for my age grouup.
"With a perfect rating on the play store!"
*4.5/5 stars*
Forget silly cartoons! This game has realistic graphics! *like anything else nowadays…*
Cute protogen pfp
when i was like 4 i watched spongebob on my gameboy advance and i grew up thinking i was dumb or making things up because i did that sometimes and i remember some of the strangest things from my childhood that never existed and yoU HAVE HELPED RESTORE MY CONFIDENCE IN MY CHILDHOOD MEMORY IM NOT INSAANE
yo i had a video now and my ass was really out here watching The Same Episode Of Fairly Oddparents on the daily
j u l e s same here! I had that, as well as one of the old spongebob episodes 😂
@@HighTicket2Freedom same but "my life as a teenage robot" lmao
Just watching the same 4 fairly odd parents episodes over and over on my gameboy sp lmao
Same!
Omg same but I had Zoe 101
I wanted all of these so much as a child, but my mom refused telling me they were pointless because they were expensive and only tiny bad clips of things. I was so mad. Looking back, I'm very thankful she said no.
Dude same
I totally had a hitclip with Brittany Spears Stronger in the early 2000's. We bought it from McDonald's lol
i worked at McDOnalds as a teenager when it came out...it was definitely sold there as like a premium toy or something
i forgot but thet gad these cheap little versions that played music
I had that one too!
Yup!
I had a full DVD player. It had a laptop like flip screen. It ran 720p movies and music just fine. Great device.
I remember my parents would sometimes bring that along when we went on road trips.
My dad had one and would find any excuse to take it out with us. He was very proud of it.
I had one of those too!! Few years later I got a more up-to-date one that attached to the back of the passenger seat. The front of it was all screen with the dvd slot in the back
I very much doubt a DVD player was playing 720p movies.
@@MuchWhittering back in those days, when 720p was the highest resolution you could get, right before 1080p became a thing
7:57 The Princess Bride: "Picked purely since this movie deserves to be owned on every format available..." Amazing
raffle baffle you really do. It’s a classic
That's a very good reason to put The Princess Bride into new media formats
It really does though. Such a good film.
raffle baffle it’s very funny mah dude. I think you’ll love it.
@raffle baffle you're not human if you've never seen princess bride
I eagerly look forward to twenty years from now someone doing a retrospective on shitty mobile game sponsorships.
Ahaha so true
From what I remember watching the disk spin in that tiny window on the Video Now was a much better experience than whatever I was trying to watch.
My friends and I would pass around a Hit Clip during sleepovers hahaha! We were so excited about it though!
Watching this makes me extremely grateful for modern smartphones.
Smart phones really did change everything. But we couldn't be sure at the time because everyone else was ALSO releasing their "futuristic" products all over the place trying to replace the CD player. They were usually super specific with primitive quality, but there was nothing better. Your choices were either one of these new things, or a CD player or expensive portable TV from the 80's, and the CD player usually won. Being able to burn your own CD's didn't hurt either.
Oh my gosh I loved my Hit Clips. My sister and I had one of the little boomboxes and we had The Angel’s “My Boyfriend’s Back”, Pink’s “Get The Party Started”, and The Temptation’s “My Girl”. That’s all we had but we played those 1-minute songs all the time 😭
I’ve never heard of raid shadow legends in my entire life until 6:42 PM eastern time on June 17th 2019.
I've been hearing about it in forced ads when playing an excellent update of Carmen Sandiego on my phone...
*Is anyone else slightly deaf in only one ear, due to there only being one earbud and it being stuck at an insanely stupid loud volume?*
*Thanks Hit Clips!*
ContactingTheDead same
WHAT??
*Some B O D Y*
I always assumed my right ear had hearing problems because of marching band, but now
I know the truth.
God I do not care how many people they get to sponsor it I will NEVER DOWNLOAD *RAID:SHADOW LEGENDS*
Same
I downloaded it once.
Got bored after the first week, but I really like Darkness Prevails and the orc waifu was cute for a while, so it was worth it.
Not downloading it _again_ , no matter who asks.
Still liked the video though. Good content.
There is a hentai game that you can create your own waifus,its called Honey Select.
Imagine how sad you must be to advertise a free to play Mobile Game. Hahahaha pathetic.
Kyra Gotta get that bread somehow, given RUclips likes to have these knee-jerk Adpocalpyses every now and then to appease certain crowds. 🤔
As a furby collector, tiger electronics is my lord and savior and hit clips are just another masterpiece made by them
YAAS!! Honestly looking back at their products they were ahead of the curve least of all in understanding it would be an LCD world.
...I had every single one of these growing up but somehow forgot any of them existed until now
Thanks for really bringing me back
I had a spongebob edition video now and it was awesome for what it was🤣 it definitely came in handy when I got grounded bc my mom ALWAYS forgot I had it lol
That’s a benefit of the videoNow sometimes parents forget you got the, and you can use them as a last resort I actually watched my videoNow color once in class without the teacher noticing I played it quiet threw my backpack
These are all so weird but amazing. Thank you 90s and 2000s
That's true, and without those we wouldn't have today's technology.
Dude I got one of those portable DVD players, and I used to order Netflix movies online then watch them on the bus or at track and cross country meets, I wish I still had it honestly.
i was newborn at 2000s so my parents just buy me those phone that scream
AYI AYI YA IM YOUR BUTTERFLY
I remember those!!
@「 Charmlesseul 」 Okay, enougb of my stupid nostalgia
I just felt that hit every note of nostalgia.
DUUUUDEEE
I REMEMBER THAT SHIT
I STILL CAN'T FIND THE ORIGINAL SONG
When psp came out i begged my parents for one . I said id get straight As and i did for 2 semesters straight lol in the end i was the only one without one.
Its a villain origin story i went full professor chaos that year.
So you copied the Simpsons?
EEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! BATTLE SCREECH! AAAAAAAA
Yo if I was you I woulda dropped outta school just to spite them
"You know everyone is talking about raid."
Everyone being other RUclips personalities trying to promote it?
I laughed because I watched a video a couple days ago where they talked about a "mobile game everyone has been getting paid to shill and this is their vague script." It was Raid, you could tell it was Raid, and then watching this video I could almost predict what was going to happen beat for beat. XD Companies need to stop doing the script thing.
youtubers got to eat
At least four other popular RUclipsrs have been promoting it. I know afterprisonshow, and I want to say like, teamsamuraix1. Unfortunately I can't remember who else I've seen promoting this. It's a big lol (edit; just remembered a third was billiam)
exactly dude
@@TheOuroborosLoop unfortunately did you know gaming was shilling it too
the hit clips sounded so cool I wld've loved one as a kid. I didn't even know they existed. cute and cool concept ideas.
Literally nobody:
Billiam: "Everybody is talking about raid shadow legends"
Evan Verburg is the
Literally nobody...still finds this overused quote funny
@@24ecko How is this quote overused, this is literally the only video i've ever heard it
this is the only acceptable version of this meme
“That May sound abysmal, but that’s only because IT IS.”
Lol that got me
90s and 2000s marketers really assumed that we were always on the go LOL
And they thought that everyone was Xtreme! Late 90-early 2000s was like... the time period where being extreme went mainstream. Little kids with silver parachute pants, Soap shoes, Morpheus sunglasses and frosted tips were all over the suburbs riding their Razor scooters and listening to NuMetal on their Hitclips. I think some of the only surviving remnants of that era are the Xbox and Mtn Dew Gamer Fuel.
@@jokerzwild00 those visuals made my day
Since the 80s and the walkman we have always been on the go. I guess the 1st cellphones werent allow to hold that much space for videos.
hey yo Don’t forget track jeans lmao. Tracksuits were so popular back then that they had to just start putting tracksuit stripes on jeans even. Nelly had a pair of those as well. I remember rocking a pair of those in 2000-early 2001.
@@jokerzwild00 I can hear Limp Bizkit in the background while I read this comment
Its facinating how basically everything tiger electronics ever produced is kinda crap but still somewhat succesful.
I still have a kink in my neck from hunching over my Video Now trying to see that shit.
In a couple years, when we have full-body touch VR, we’ll look back on the headsets as we look back on these.
Safir good point
2000 : you need devices and cds to watch videos
2019 : you need youtube to access all videos.
lol
The average person in 2000 didn’t have DVDs yet. DVD players were really expensive back in 2000 ranging from $700 to $1200 or more, which the average American (middle class) couldn’t afford. Everyone was still using VHS in 2000, and to my recollection every rental service I went to back then had nothing but VHS.
c Hell yeah!
@@user-mq9io6hm5z those were better times.
@@user-mq9io6hm5z The ole curtained off area your parents told you not to enter and had the sign, "no kids".
You've done it again, Billiam. I had one or two GBA Video carts, maybe a Sonic X and a Spongebob one? I have no recollection of ever actually getting them though. Mystery.
piplupfan77 I have dragon Ball GT volume 1 and Shrek 2 :)
Timestamps:
0:50 - Stupid Sponsorship
1:42 - HitClips
4:44 - Gameboy Advance Video
7:07 - PSP Movies
9:17 - VideoNow
12:24 - TVNow & Simpsons HitClips
13:23 - Juice Box
15:24 - Outro
REIDSHEDWOLEGENDS
this needs more likes
4:11 Billiam decided that joke was worth the monetization on this video.... _and I agree_
I don't care whether or not I'm demonetized, that's not where I get my source of income anyway.
@@smb-c3po but no was talking about you
Sora Song who do you think you are
@@smb-c3po hey guy, no offense, but he's talking about the guy who made this, not you.
@@Hyperiotic on't try to make this about, the word "hypocrite" is dead from people throwing it around too much.
I used to have a VideoNowFX, I only ever had one disc, but it got my baby brother to calm down with the pair of SpongeBob episodes on it
[Mad] Del Beto wholesome
The 00's had some weird things such as Green Ketchup, Pokemon cereals, Bubble Yum ice cream, Lunchables' S'mores, etc.🥰
Overall, not a bad decade, but it could have been better.😊
Blue hot cheetos
@@gushernandez25 Yep. That too.💖
@Michael Mathers It's about the weird stuff we had; besides food. We even had these light-up pacifiers that you push it down, it lights up. It was a toy, though.
I'm really missing the toys in cereal packings
@Michael Mathers Because our food might be junk, but it tastes fantastic. Tasty food sticks with you as a kid.
my friend had the orange video now color and i remember all four of us crowding around it to watch spongebob 😭😭
I remember going to Chicago for a weekend with my 3rd grade class and watching the GBA video of the first season of Pokemon with my friend on his SP, but all the others are new to me.
I love learning about the early 2000s, this videos was great
One day we will view our IPhones how we view these machines 😟
Facts.
Thrtxxnth ...deletion of the audio jack
Our stuff will be considered old dumb useless by the younger generation or just weird to listen to for music as well Time marches forward and you cant stop no matter much you want, and actually you don't know if they'd remove it or not
That's what I was thinking during the video. I wonder what will replace current tech, and how advanced it will be in order to make what we have nowdays obsolete.
I do that now
I owned everything in this list at one point or another, now I feel old. That video now was my favorite as a kid.
My, relatively, new phone has a 3.5 jack. So I can still use... The iDog.
Samsung's latest phone still has a jack 😃
Ngl, those GBA videos were the coolest things ever when I was a kid. I watched the same two episodes of spongebob so many times
The UMD cases never broke for me, in fact strong I threw jak and daxter the lost frontier at a wall and spilled water on it and it works
The only game in that series that truly does deserve to break
Watched a few of your videos now, love seeing things I’d literally forgotten about. Who doesn’t love going back in time, especially now a days. Really awesome work man!
1:26 “with a perfect rating on the play store...”
Shows 4.5 star rating
Shoutout to my teen self watching all of the Elfen Lied anime on my 4th gen iPod with its stamp-sized display.
I remember seeing a PSP for the first time in middle school. That shit was life changing. I was jealous as hell and immediately felt like I wasn't shit.
i didnt have them but i saw commercials- at most i had the car dvd player cause my family moved most my childhood. and tbh the movies most played were pixars cars , barbie in a mermaid tail and veggietales...that and all the scooby doo dvds we had at a time-
when that "who let the dogs out" hit i got ptsd flashbacks
A couple weeks ago, in the kinda deserted section of my local mall, I saw this old guy using a portable DVD player.
They still sell them at Walmart and they're still more expensive than the cheapest tablet lol just get Netflix and download episodes lol
Billiam: This video is sponsored by Rai-
Me: -Oh god dammit!
Me: *skipskipskipskipskip*
How dare he advertise! God forbid he make money.
@@Takimeko get off the soapbox... its more of the fact mocking how much this game is EVERYWHERE
Just found my old Usher hitchip and it brought back so many memories XD
😂😂
isn’t psp the sound you make when you try to get a cat to come over to you
Psp were OP at the time. I miss my psp
Pspspspspspsp
I think its the sound the Dog Whisperer uses to put a dog in it's place
@@LannasMissingLink tru
ugh I wasted so much money on Hit Clips....and they only played like 30 seconds of a song.
1 minute
Queen McDerpFace 🤯
How much did you spend on Oregano? ;)
hahaha!!!!! \m/
More like your parents spent it.
I've never broken a UMD... My friends never did ether, nor my school mates in both England and France. Not sure why people keep saying they broke a lot.
One of mine broke but super glue fixed the plastic casing back together
neither did mine or and UMD´s of my friends. So yea cant say they broke alot
The only way they break, is if you carry them around, not in a case, and apply a ton of pressure to them… aka abuse.
i have a psp and my umds never break exept one that exploded out the pack and broke (not my falt)
I can go buy UMDs at a pawn shop. That's the worst possible place. I have never had one not work. I would say 100% working ratio in the worst possible place(Las Vegas Pawn Shops), is the pinnacle of what you could expect. Now ask me how well Nintendo products fair.
The most shocking part of this video was that Shark Tale was nominated for an Oscar.