Everything 2000s

Chad, Matt & Rob were a group of filmmakers based in Los Angeles known for their short films, posted on YouTube, that blended comedy with horror, adventure and sci-fi.

Their most notable works include a series of Prank Gone Wrong found-footage videos and a collection of Choose Your Own Adventure style films known as Chad, Matt & Rob's Interactive Adventures.

A sleeved blanket is a body-length blanket with sleeves usually made of fleece or nylon material. The product has been marketed by various brands as the Snuggie, Snuggler, Doojo, Toasty Wrap, and Slanket, with varying sizes, colors and qualities of materials but similar basic design.

The "Snuggie" brand itself also became a phenomenon of pop culture in late 2008 and early 2009, outselling other brands and being referenced or imitated by many comedians or TV shows.

Trance is a genre of electronic music that emerged during the early 1990s and carried in popularity into the mid-2000s. Although it is a genre of its own, trance liberally incorporates influences from other musical styles such as techno, house, pop, chill-out, classical music, tech house, ambient, and film music. Vocals are also a common feature, typically performed by mezzo-soprano to soprano female soloists.

Trance was arguably at its commercial peak in the second part of 1990s and early 2000s.

Reader Rabbit is an edutainment software franchise created in 1983 by The Learning Company. This series is aimed at players aged from infancy through second grade. 

Generally, the games in the series taught language arts, featuring a variety of simple games designed to teach schoolchildren basic reading and spelling skills. This later expanded to include math and writing.

Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. Formed in 1996, the band rose to international fame with their debut album Hybrid Theory (2000). Their following studio album Meteora continued the band's success, topping the Billboard 200 album chart in 2003, and was followed by extensive touring and charity work around the world.

In 2003, MTV2 named Linkin Park the sixth-greatest band of the music video era and the third-best of the new millennium. Billboard ranked Linkin Park No. 19 on the Best Artists of the Decade chart. In 2012, the band was voted as the greatest artist of the 2000s in a Bracket Madness poll on VH1. 

Linkin Park has sold over 70 million albums worldwide and has won two Grammy Awards.

RIP Chester <3

The Simple Life is an American reality television series that aired from December 2, 2003 to August 5, 2007. The series depicts two wealthy socialites, Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie, as they struggle to do manual, low-paying jobssuch as cleaning rooms, farm work, serving meals in fast-food restaurants, and working as camp counselors.

The death of Michael Jackson occurred on June 25, 2009, where the American artist, described as the "King of Pop" for his contributions to music, dance, and fashion, died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication at his home in Los Angeles. 

The Los Angeles County Coronerconcluded that his death was a homicide. Shortly before his death, Jackson had reportedly been administered propofol and two anti-anxiety drugs in his home. His personal physician was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2011 and served a two-year prison sentence.

Jackson's death triggered an outpouring of reactions around the world. A public memorial service for Jackson was held on July 7, 2009, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, where he had rehearsed for planned London concerts the night before his death. The service was broadcast live around the world, attracting a global audience of up to one billion people.

Microsoft Solitaire is a computer game included with Microsoft Windows, based on a card game of the same name, also known as Klondike.

Microsoft has included the game as part its Windows product line since Windows 3.0, starting from 1990. The game was developed in 1989 by an intern. The card deck itself was designed by Macintosh pioneer Susan Kare.

One common concern with the game was the potential loss of business productivity by employees playing Solitaire. Studies conducted as a result of this concern revealed that playing the game can actually boost productivity.

Red Eye is a 2005 American thriller film directed by Wes Craven and written by Carl Ellsworth, based on a story by Ellsworth and Dan Foos. The film follows a hotel manager (Rachel McAdams) ensnared in an assassination plot by a terrorist (Cillian Murphy) while aboard a red-eye flight to Miami. 

The film received positive reviews from critics and fans of Craven's work and was a box office success.

Box Tops for Education is a program founded by General Mills to help support education and better America’s schools. Founded in 1996, schools all over the country began clipping Box Tops and earning cash to buy the materials they needed.

By 2004, over 82,000 schools across the nation participated in Box Tops, earning more than $100 million.

AOL Inc. (simply known as AOL, originally known as America Online) is an American multinational mass media corporation based in New York.

AOL was one of the early pioneers of the Internet in the mid-1990s, and the most recognized brand on the web in the U.S. It originally provided a dial-up service to millions of Americans, as well as providing a web portal, e-mail, instant messaging and later a web browser following its purchase of Netscape.

The Nokia 3310 is a GSM mobile phone announced on September 1, 2000. The phone sold extremely well, being one of the most successful phones with 126 million units sold worldwide. The phone is still widely acclaimed today, and has gained a cult status due to its durability.

On 14 February 2017, it was reported that a modernised version of the 3310 would be unveiled at the 2017 Mobile World Congress by HMD Global Oy.