Can't say much of the early part of the 00's since I was super young
But it was weird, some of my earlier memories of being a kid were about 9/11 and hearing about the Iraq war
It was kind of cool to watch how technology rapidly changed going from flip phones to smart phones, land lines disappearing, this new thing called Netflix, and how much the internet changed. I remember a viral video on YouTube was 100,000 views and a million if it was big.
Phones books and phone booths being phased out
We knew what memes were without knowing what a meme was (I remember in school if someone yelled "HILLSHIRE FARMS" a bunch of us would yell back "Go Meat!")
The best way I'd sum it up was a rapid change in technology and how the internet changed socialization
And the great recession of 08