Reply #8: Yes it did

[Anarcho-Socialist]

2000s culture does not feel so distinctive because we're living in this decade. However things have changed.

Music has changed. Grunge, indie rock & indie pop helped define the 1990s. I don't know about the U.S., but in the early 1990s in Britain there was a substantial amount of 1960s revivalism in fashion and hairstyles especially the 'mod' look, although it is never quite the same, as new innovations and other past derivations are also mixed and matched. Other differences were that corporate hip-hop wasn't as powerful a force in music in the 1990s as it came to be in the early 2000s, and reggae pop was also a short-lived form that had been a minor force in the early 1990s before giving way to corporate pop music.

If one were to look at hair and fashion from an early season of the sitcom 'Friends' I think there would be a lot of differences and if were one to replicate those styles today, it would feel dated.

The continuing development of the World Wide Web had a huge impact on culture. Until the late 1990s, internet usage wasn't as prolific. The 'information superhighway' was this 'thing' that people heard of but weren't quite sure what it was (although there had been a polemic small internet culture since the 1980s). Music and the internet's entwining wasn't as apparent, and iPod culture wasn't to be seen. Music on the move meant MiniDisc and more probably a portable CD player.

Also the 1990s weren't fully to feel the cultural impact of the cellphone. Most people didn't have one until the late 1990s and even then they weren't the multimedia devices that they are now.