The 2000s was such a sweet spot between the 'manual' 80s and the 'automatic' 20s we now live in. I wish the technological advancements stopped by the 00s, so that we'd still be 'practical' while being 'modern'.
@@PoorDog69 I'm not talking about the iPhones. I'm talking about tech in general. Like all this tech has been shoved in our faces 24/7 365-days through social media and whatnot that it's been sooo hard to disconnect and recover our origins as 'practical' beings.
@@smansab59it’s not hard at all. People can just choose to use their phones way less and find practical hobbies. I do it all the time. Go outside, play music, read actual books, etc. There’s a lot to do and people can choose to do it if they wished
in a way i feel like the late 90s and early 2000s were the best time to grow up because we really got to see the internet explode. one of the biggest things we have ever achieved.
I think that the 2000s were a very particular time of transition, with all the good and bad that that includes, which makes many of us suffer from an irremediable nostalgia syndrome.
I can't really explain it, but the GTA III theme straight up sounds like New York to me. Maybe it's the trumpets mimicking the sounds of car horns, but in general, the theme just perfectly captures the hustle and bustle of the city.
Man, I was young but I vividly remember NYC from 2000-04. Even something as fucked up as 9/11 didn’t break us, it brought us closer. That vibe is still there, don’t let the media fool you. You just gotta look for it in the streets, not your TV screen.
This was absolutely the best time to be a kid. I was 7 years old in 2000 and that was easily the best time of my life. Late 90s early 2000 nyc is such a nostalgic vibe. Makes me wanna jam “Thank You” by Dido
Even though I was born in the UK in 2005, a part of me wishes I was born in something like 1988-1990. Just so I could grow up with all the things I appreciate from those times being brand new
The best cops cars were the new crown victorias at the time, even some of the classic blue and white Chevy caprices could still be seen rolling around in pursuits
Is it only me or I see the 2000s as two separate entities: 2000-2006 the cool 00s 2007-2009 felt to me like the start of the 10s for some reason, the fashion, the technology etc. I much miss the first portion
@@breastmilkenjoyer Smartphones aren't the real issue, the biggest one was the heavy political charge that grabbed social media in 2016 as certain people realised that it could be weaponised for their own ends.
Agreed. The early 2000's (2000 - 2006) always felt like an expansion pack of the late 90's. 2007 onwards is where I felt media, trends, and technology really mature and shift into something entirely new. Then again, I started high school in 2006. So I had significant life event(s) that divided the 2000's in two.
@@TammoKorsai With the arrival of smartphones, we got stuck in an attention economy where culture is produced & promoted algorithmically. Instead of taking a risk creating anything new, we just recycle what's been done before to capture the attention of masses.
And to think that Rockstar was developing GTA 3 during this very period. I suppose it’s getting recommended to everyone due to GTA 3’s upcoming 20th anniversary.
Imagine how I feel. Im 26 now… So I was a kid back when we had payphones, landlines, desktop computers, payperview, Cable TV. Now im an adult and a 7yr old kid I met asked me what a Landline Phone was. Blew my mind.
@@Crayolapup same. I'm 26 too, a couple of years ago my niece asked me "what is the point of a landline? Why would you use a phone thats stuck in one place?" The idea freaked her out. Made me feel like a dinosaur, i remember using payphones 😂😂
Things didn't change in 21 years. Heck it changed rapidly in 1 year. The country, let alone the city, was never the same after that drastic day in 2001
@@shoreZ I agree in part. 9/11 changed the life of the West more than any other event in the previous 20 years, but the world in the 1970s experienced the war in Vietnam or the cold war and then the war in Kosovo the 90's. In my opinion the atmospheres of the early 2000s derive from the charm of the new millennium.
@cuk There was phones, flip phones, slide phones, dial phones, house phones and pay phones wym? and there was social media but you had to have a camera with an sd card and have the sd card transfer photos to your apple mac or windows xp and upload the picture while using real slow dial up internet, trust me I grew up in the early 2000s and if I had the chance to go back, it be a normal for me
This style is very much present in Michael Mann's movies , this feel is exactly what the developers at Rockstar intended to replicate in Gta 3 , the bluish hue and the ambient sound of traffic .
despite not playing any of the games, I think we can agree that the GTA III theme is the most chill/calm theme of any of the GTA games edit: guys please stop replying I don't care please
Having played the game myself, I totally agree with you. I sometimes deliberately decide not to skip the introduction part of the game so that I can listen to the theme a little longer :)
It was the vibe for that moment for NY, check out of different is GTAIV Even being on the same city but you can find this cool chill stuff on the radio also
those were them days also sopranos was right around the cornor then the realease of the best and greatest console ever made ps2 no social media no nothing just pure badassery after 2012 everything went soft today everything is soulless i miss the old times bro
Even if you didn't know that this was the theme of GTA 3 (and I barely played it so I barely know either), this still feels absolutely fitting, like this kinda music and vibe is the last time in human history where it barely still fits NYC of the time - or at least, how it was perceived. Also getting some really strong Last Window feelings from this, which I love.
@@CrewDrastically they attacked the towers, crashing two passenger planes, the buildings could not withstand the heat of the explosions and fell, those officially responsible were the terrorist group "Al-qaeda"
I traveled around in there 20years ago and I still cannot believe that I'm now watching those familiar sceneries on youtube with GTA3 theme. So nostalgic. Thanks a lot.
also says the guy who waited in game weeks while I jumped from a broken bridge to collect 100 little bundles of cocaine to get weapons and a million dollars.
@@dushandvr5765 Damn the world often be so small sometimes. Of all comment i could' ve pick to read i chose these ones. Couldn't have described me better (but instead of a small town, a city) phew at least i was born at early 2000s (the same year to be exact) i gotta be proud i played the trilogy prior turning 13, that i knew from since 6/8-10 years
there is nothing more 2000 (the year, not the decade) as cars like the Chevy Impala, Lincoln Town car and the Ford Crown VIctoria.. anybody feels the same?
It feels like I've been searching for this video my entire life without even knowing it. My entire identity, the music that I love, my preferences, the aesthetic I base everything I do and make on in my life are entire based on everything you see and hear in this vid. The vibe, the aesthetic, the music, the colors, the camera quality, the lighting, the mood. I just love everything in this vid, and I'm glad this vid exists. I know it's a simple vid, but I love it and might be one of the best things I've ever seen on RU-vid. Even though I was only 5 back in 2000, this brings me back.
More military conflicts, riots everywhere in the world, new communist dictatorships, rainbow haired people spreading even more hate and addiction to technology being the norm. Ironically, we're apparently living in the most peaceful time of human history so far. Quite crazy.
Any late 90s and early 00s footage of NYC at night reminds me of the movie Like Mike with Lil Bow Wow playing the main character "Calvin Cambridge". I was born in 05 but that movie gives me amazing nostalgia
Never played GTA 3, never went to New York, but this video is so magical. The music perfectly captures 2000's Liberty City/NYC very well and this video proves that 100%.
This is depressing. We can never go back to those good, old days... We're stuck with what we've got now. I mean, I was born in '96 and my memory is a bit foggy and lots has happened and I'm sure not everything was perfect but all I know is that I hate what we've got now and it didn't really exist back then or at least I wasn't aware of it (didn't really have access to the Internet until I was in my teens). I was happy and I wanted to live, that's all I know.
This gives me memories of driving down to teterboro airport with my grandfather her I in the 2000s and listening to slow jazz as we pre-flight the airplane and wait for the celebrity personal he flew. No social media, just the technology that was relevant at the time. Simple handheld games, no smart phone. CDs in the car
@@lol-ih1tl already did but some idiots don't and keep the virus spreading it anyway 😐 They just won't listen and keep pinpointing at conspiracy theories.
And due to the year this video took place, no worries of terrorism or living in constant fear after what happened that day in September, just one year later
back when people thought world is gonna end at the year of "2000".. some years later they thought its gonna end in "2012".. now no one knows but we got a global pandemic disease
@@misterbuklau4053 world will end when we all day, to say that world ended in 2001 it's rather poetic... But in reality this will end one day. Seriously.
Let's be honest. As a little kid, when your parents finally let you play GTA, it would be like God coming down to confirm that it should be fine to play for a short period of time
it just gives a weird nostalgic vibe. I was born 8 years after 2000 and never even went to America but it just feels calm and nostalgic. And gta 3's theme is just so relaxing for some reason Edit: why does this have 219 likes?
@Radical Larry that's a great way to look at that game. if you go in expecting a basic, outdated, brutally difficult game then GTA 3 is going to be a blast. but if you go in expecting red dead redemption 2 style story and GTA 5 style gameplay and content then you aren't gonna like it.
I got GTA 3 on release day in October 2001 , 8 years before you were even born , sorry that you grew up in this tiktok generation , but boyyyy did we have some GREAT times in the 90s & early 2000s !
If the internet was one gigantic hotel, this would be that small quiet lobby on the far side of the building overlooking the city, but not too high up with few guests just chilling on their keypad phones. I love it.
Haven't been to New York.. Living my life in the southern part of india... Yet I feel that sweet pain of nostalgia....don't know why... Long live GTA... 😍😍😇😇
As a kid, I thought GTA III was such a mature game for adults, and 20 years later, man, I'm just a big kid now, and I still have no idea what I'm doing, but this tune is so classy, and brings back lovely memories of me and my dad playing GTA III together. Miss you dad!
Everything seemed so happy and carefree, because we didn't know what was going to hit us a year from then. The stuff that is to come in the following decades would make that fateful day seem like child's play.
How is the twin towers collapsing childs play? Are you dumb? It was one of the worst events in the history of the US and you call it childs play. Think before you type cause that was very tone deaf thing to say
@@Elias_Barbieri ever heard of an "expression"?, no in reality it wasn't, but when you add up, all the things that have happened afterwords, it just seems to feel like the same reached criteria of emotions, time and time again..
Bruh! That's only in the US not whole world. World was same to us that day like any other day before. Damn you Americans! You make it as if world is everything about you
As a young boy with Autism (yes I do have it). Growing up TWO days after 9/11. I 💯 Guarantee that THIS is a better time than the late 2010s AND 2020s. From 2017 to today is MORE stupid and worse than ever before. 2000s Memoria: You are welcome thank you very much for all the memories you shared with me. You will become essential to my life and heart. 🥹💙🇺🇸🥰 Remember: Forget Pewdiepie AND MrBeast. No Haters allowed. But NEVER EVER forget about 9/11. NEVER
I absolutely love this video. I get weirdly nostalgic for NYC circa 1997-2001 even though I was 2 when the towers fell.... and I've never been to New York and the crowds would drive me crazy.. Add the vibe of the GTA III theme to it and it's literally perfect.
You were 2. I was born in april 2001 and still remember bush talking to the people by mic after twin tower attack. I only remember from first 4 years of life
I'm born in 1998 and never been to america, but i can 100% relate to tht weird special nostalgia feeling for the late 90's/early 2000's nyc vibe that you described, like completely i can feel you
Whenever I watch old videos from the late 90's to mid 2000s, I feel truly depressed. I just miss the good old days. Wish I could go back to relive those days. Beautifully crafted video, man. Thanks for creating and sharing it! Put some tears in my eyes, not gonna lie...
" I know a place just on the edge of the red light district where we can lay low,but my hands are all messed up so you better drive brother" EVERBODY RAISE YOUR BOTTELS FOR GTA 3 THAT TURNS 20 THIS YEAR! ❤
That car in the thumbnail; a Chevy Lumina. An absolute piece of junk, overheating issues and transmission issues, but that was the car I grew up in in the early to mid 2000s. Man, how the time flies.
