I was browsing some diet supplements when I chanced upon this article defining the 00’s. I thought it was a nice read.

No one is quite sure yet what this last decade will be called as we move forward and start trying to define, understand, and compartmentalize it. The ’80s were all about big hair, glam rock, and general excess. The ’90s were the decade of grunge, flannel, and angst. What will we collectively decide the ’00s were all about? And how will we pronounce it?

I say we should all band together and call this departing decade the "ohs." None of this "noughties" or "two-thousands" nonsense. Who’s with me?

On that note, here is my non-comprehensive list of items that have characterized the ’00s. What would you add to it?

1. The cell-phone explosion. I got my first cell phone in 1999, and I knew plenty of people who were still vehemently resisting the trend. "I’ve survived this long without one," they’d say, just before capitulating and becoming instantly dependent.
2. Closely related to item #1 is the rise of texting. It’s so convenient. So pervasive. So annoying.
3. Text and e-mail shorthand. LMAO! ROFL!
4. Capri pants. How I shall be sad to see them go away. (Or have they already? Not in my wardrobe.)
5. Apple mania. The iPod, the iPhone, the iMac, the iEverything. I’ve heard it suggested that we call the ’00s the iDecade (for more reasons than Apple alone).

6. Customization. Get your purple iPod, your designer M&Ms, your photo on a Kleenex box.

7. Google and the verbification thereof. "Hang on, let me google that for you…"

8. High heels with jeans. In particular, ridiculously impractical pointy-toe high heels.

9. The rise of the entitled generation. Go ahead, google this phrase; you’ll get 14.6 million results. (Members of the entitled generation do NOT realize that they’re entitled, so shhh…)

10. Empire-waist tops and skinny jeans. I hope empire-waist tops stick around for another decade. For once, there’s a trend that flatters my body—and pretty much everybody’s body.

11. The return of bangs. Come on, how many of us finally tried some softly sideswept bangs after eschewing them for two decades because of the bang nightmare of the ’80s? Thanks Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Garner!

15. The rumpled, tousled look in men’s hair. (And I’m not just talking about Robert Pattinson. Think Jason Bateman, Matthew McConaughey, Prince William.)

13. Self-publishing. Everyone’s blogging, vlogging, posting to YouTube, broadcasting who they are and what they’re doing at every minute of the day.

14. Along the same lines as #12, we have: connectivity. Cell phones, Blackberries, iPhones, laptops, linkedin.com, myspace.com, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter. The ’00s were all about being plugged in and hooked up.

15. Red Mini Coopers and lime green VW Beetles: the iconic ’00s cars. Right?

16. Out-of-control neologisms. (Neologism = newly coined word.) You know what I’m talking about: "metrosexual," "Bennifer," "Brangelina," "fugly," "staycation," "womenomics," and the list goes endlessly on.

17. Domesticity, ruffly aprons, everyday gourmet, Rachel Ray.

18. Oprah verging on becoming a supernatural being. Back in the ’90s, who could have predicted the power Oprah would one day wield? (Besides Oprah herself, that is.)

19. Environmentalism. Green is the new black.

20. The cult of creativity. Everything’s handmade, homemade, self-made, DIY. I place scrapbooking firmly in this category, thanks in part to the proliferation of digital cameras. Go ahead, embrace that inner artist!