Y2K FM
Welcome to Y2K FM, the ultimate throwback podcast where one woman dives deep into the late ’90s and early 2000s. From dial-up internet to flip phones this channel is your personal time machine back to the era that shaped a generation. New episodes drop monthly. Subscribe and relive the days before YouTube existed. Learn about how things were in the late 90’s // early 2000’s from a first hand perspective.
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Friday Aug 01, 2025
Friday Aug 01, 2025
Learn about the history of Peer to Peer file sharing. Before Spotify there was Napster, KaZaA, Limewire, and BitTorrent. Find out how people in the early 2000's filled their new iPods with sketchy mp3 files downloaded from random computers.
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Tuesday Jul 01, 2025
Tuesday Jul 01, 2025
A laptop computer is nearly essential for work and school these days. That wasn't the case in 2002. They were expensive, loud, and not widespread in the classroom.
Pull out your Scantrons and dust off your spiral notebooks. In this episode find out what it was like to be in college without a laptop.
Saturday Jun 07, 2025
Saturday Jun 07, 2025
The internet in the late 90's was vastly different than the internet today. Let's take a look at how we connected before we were always connected. In this episode: chat rooms, instant messages, and download speeds that you had to witness to believe.