Best Years of the 21st Century

The Top Ten
1 2010 2010 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2010th year based on Anno Domini/Common Era designations. It is the 10th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2010s decade.

This was the best year in the 21st century. I wasnt so old facing college issues. But I wasnt too young either to not know about exciting things in life like science, girls, etc... I was a teen and in high school. It was partying everywhere. And also the time when I began to know about the truth behind everything, physics, biology, nature, why we exist, etc. I read hawkings brief history of time for the first time. My close friends were all total nerdy and geeks and I was a high school genius and ubergeek.
Also this marks the beginning of time when the new technology called smart phones and whatsapp are getting very popular and my jump to 3g internet from 2g. Means access to a much faster bandwidth for all people. Apple released ipad. Ebooks getting very popular, amazon will release kindle fire 1 year after 2010.
So this marks the time when all developing countries get widely connected to the rest of the world through internet and facebook.. I also remember the old orkut. The peak of technology advancement. The tallest tower burj khalifa gets opened in 2010.

Not to forget the music released in 2010s. FIFA 2010 was the best FIFA. I istill remember the FIFA theme song Shakiras waka waka This time for africa. And also the Michael jackson's one of the last song " Hold my hand", as a tribute to his death.

2 2011 2011 (MMXI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2011th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations.

2011 was an awesome year as well as the year I started kindergarten. I remember celebrating my 5th birthday and getting a mini Lalaloopsy school bus as one of my presents. I even remember my preschool teacher bringing in a bounce house inside the classroom on my last day of preschool. I would totally go back to 2011 as a little kid if I could. I can't believe 2011 was an entire decade ago already.

My opinion, I leant this one to be number one, manly because it had really great songs that year. There's a great remix for them. The old days were good.

Overall one of the best of the 2010s, I thought school was pretty fun here, and I got some amazing lego city sets

3 2006 2006 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2006th year based on the Common Era/Anno Domini designations. It is the 6th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2000s decade.

Nothing matches with this year, the energy, the enthusiasm, there are people who say that 2006 was boring and that hip hop died in 2006, but they're very wrong, 2006 is the year which set a fashion trend all the way up till 2012, so anything that people see in early 2010s is because of the change in 2006.

I was in middle school in '06, 7th grade I believe? still, the best year in my life because 1. I met my GF 2. digital media was the bomb and 3. GAMING!

I feel like 2006 is a starting year for the new modern, like flat screens TV became more popular and the 90's vibes just ended and technology just stared to get more advanced, and also everything was so cinematic

4 2012 2012 (MMXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2012th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 12th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2010s decade.

2012 was another good year for me. I was 6 years old back then, and I remember things such as going to Target with my grandma and getting some Squinkies playsets, celebrating my 6th birthday, and how awesome Christmas 2012 was (it's my favorite Christmas of all time as of 9/6/2021). Unfortunately, my best friends (who were also my apartment neighbors) moved away in January/February, and I got lost on my first day of 1st grade in September 2012, but oh well.

I hope the 2020s bring back all of the 1970s 1980s 1990s and 2000's nostalgic things, but I'm not sure if this would be official or not, because I think everything started to suck around mid 2013, the last good year for me was 2012, early 2013 was okay, but everything went downhill in mid 2013, because I had braces then and my school was crap.

There was just something magical about 2010-2012, but 2012 was the bomb. It was joy happiness, and ecstasy every moment breathing this year!

5 2007 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2007th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 7th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2000s decade.

Here's my timeline/opinion:

1999: Born
2000 - 2003: Awesome years! Best games, best movies, best music, and best T.V. shows of the early 00s
2004 - 2007: Great years, but not as good as the earlier years, but still had a great childhood.
2008 - 2012: These years were okay, Things were starting to change a lot
2013 - 2014: Bad. Things were starting to suck!
2015 - 2016: Awful! Things were getting worse!
2017 - Present: $#! tty music, Movies, T.V. shows, etc.

I sometimes hate being a teenager in the 2010s, which means I was 13 in 2013.
I sometimes wish I was born 10 years earlier in 1989, so I could be 13 in 2003, and 30 in 2020.

Although I was born in 1999, the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and the 2000s were awesome, although a lot of people hated the mid to late 2000s, It wasn't that bad for me, except 2009.

The best year of my life would be 2007! I wish it was 2007 again. Oh and by the way, Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, Happy New Year! 2018 was a pretty rough year all right

6 2009 2009 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2009th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations. It was the 10th and final year of the 2000s decade.

2009 is the first year I can remember. I was 3 years old and I started preschool that year. I even remember going to Toys R Us and getting my first Barbie doll with my grandma holding me on my pink leash (yes, child leashes are a real thing).

I was born this year so I guess this is the best year ever in my life!

This year ushered in a multi year era of hope and prosperity.

7 2008 2008 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2008th year based on the Common Era/Anno Domini designations. It is the 8th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2000s decade.

I loved this year this year I saw the dark knight, breaking bad premered. and I got to sink deep into nosalgia with adult swim old school night if you don't know in 2008 every friday adult swim would showcase programs that was on adult swim in 2001 the whole night

If you were born in 2008, you are the last birth year to spend all of you're elementary school years before the pandemic. Which is pretty cool right?

Kindergarten was a bop. I lived in a coastal town. It was a bLAST.

8 2003 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2003rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 3rd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2000s decade.

Preschool and early childhood!

9 2019 2019 (MMXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2019th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 19th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2010s decade.

2019 was the last good year with 12 full good months until everything in general and internet stuff went downhill. 2020/3/3 was the last good day and then every single thing that was going on around the world became crap including general stuff. 2020/3/3 was the day I came back from visiting Japan for cherry blossoms with my husband and the day after on the 4th he was in a crappy mood, and my two children who were toddlers destroyed a picture frame in our house, then everything went downhill and at evening I saw crappy content on internet, people on social media were saying crappy leap year instead of being glad, some terrible movie and I forgot what the name was it was released that day. Social media and movies have gone crap on this day. Japan went to all business in the country lockdown right after we came back there and then North America went into lockdown on the 13th. General stuff and internet stuff went downhill altogether.

10 2015 2015 (MMXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2015th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 15th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2010s decade.

I was born in 1999.
1999-2006:?
2007-2010: Sometimes good, sometimes bad
2011: Bad
2012: Ordinary
2013: Mostly bad
2014:
January-August: Mostly bad
September-December: Relatively good
2015: Very good
2016: Very good
2017:
The second half of February-November: Bad.
January-the first half of February and December: Good
2018: In the balance

This year was the golden time of my life. 2016 was just slightly worse, but still amazing, in February 2017 the golden time of my life ended and my dealing with Holocaust deniers started.

2015 was the most nostalgic year of my life. The starry night, M83music, my old friends, and the club Bella gold. Best time of my life. GT Racing 2, asphalt 7, and real racing 2 were still around and the atmosphere felt nostalgic. It is the second most nostalgic year followed by the 1980s.

The Contenders
11 2004 2004 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2004th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations

I was born this year! Of course this should be high up then!

This year should be at number 1! top 3 at least

12 2005 2005 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2005th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations. It was the 6th year of the 2000s decade.

YouTube was started and From Under the Cork Tree came out in 2005.

The year when I was born was cool!

13 2002 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2002nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 2nd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2000s decade.

This year was absolutely sublime as we recovered from 9/11, music was wonderful, and TV shows were fabulous.

14 2017 2017 (MMXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2017th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 17th year of the 3rd millennium, the 17th year of the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2010s decade.

Good and bad. I had a fun time going out with friends, exploring abandoned buildings, making youtube videos and trying not to breath in my friends vape haha. However I had an operation and was very ill the day before, also had a unusual reaction to a menijitis vaccine and threw up a lot so yeah strange year I guess.

Way better than the previous three years! One of the best, my second little sister was born, we moved to a better house, and I got a Nintendo Switch.

Best year of my life, 2016 was boring and terrible, in 2017, I felt so happy.

15 2013 2013 (MMXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2013th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 13th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2010s decade.

I was 7 years old in 2013 and it was the year I started using hair chalk to color my hair. I remember hair chalk being pretty popular in 2013 for some reason. It was also the year I lost my 1st baby tooth the day before my 7th birthday that August. I can't believe 2013 was 8 years ago when it feels like it was just yesterday.

Extremly overhated, we had a decent trip to Lithuania, I got a 3DS and... yeah, on the good side.

I had a fun year of fifth grade. I wish I could go back.

16 2018 2018 (MMXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2018th year of the Common Era (CE), the 9th year of the 2010s decade, the 18th year of the 21st century, and the 18th year of the 3rd millennium.

Went on a 2 week holiday to Spain, went on a decent camping trip, started college, last year before I started really struggling with my mental illness, during 2018 it was my last stress free year, saw a cool ufo with my dad, made new friends.

Lots of memes and music, but this year tik tok started so I don't know if its that good

17 2014 2014 (MMXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2014th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 14th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2010s decade.

#1 best year tied with 2013 I lived through ever!

Pros: I spent good times with my 2 dogs, I lived in Japan, high school was normal, I got to play Nintendo every sunday when my friends/cousins came over, people weren’t depressed and were happier, great food, my older brother graduated college, my cousin got married
Only con: Kim Ja-ok’s passing

This year a million times better than 2024.

- 2020sdecadehater

2014 was the year I got my 1st ever piercing done with my 1st holes on both ears. I currently have 4 and counting on both ears and my right nostril as well. I became addicted to piercings the same day I got my 1st hole done. 2014 was also the last year of the golden era for me (2015 is when the world started getting boring) and I was 8 years old back then. I even remember how my first day of 3rd grade was actually good and how I played some Adobe Flash games on my family's Windows 7 computer when I came home from school that day in September 2014.

18 2016 2016 (MMXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2016th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 16th year of the 3rd millennium, the 16th year of the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2010s decade.

Stress free year. Started high school, made new friends, easy lessons, good music, got my first phone, good summer, all round good year.

Terrible year to be honest but 2017? Even worse. 2020? Way worse. 1943? Far, far, far, far by far way worse

The year I discovered furries.

19 2023 The year 2023 (MMXXIII) was a common year that started on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. It was the 2023rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations. Additionally, it was the 23rd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, as well as the 4th year of the 2020s decade.

Still in the age of post Trump optimism so nowhere near the dark ages

20 2021 2021 (MMXXI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 21st year of the third millennium, the 21st year of the 21st century, and the 2nd year of the 2020s. 2021 was scheduled to host many major events that were originally scheduled for 2020.


In addition, many pandemic restrictions from 2020 were lifted in 2021 leading to the reopening of many businesses and schools,... read more

2021 was another long year with a ton of unexpected events, mainly because of the continuation of the pandemic, omicron, arguing with friends, too many fights, I stopped paying attention to important school stuff, spent too much time on the internet, not playing that much sports, and a lot of other things. Despite vaccinations and reopenings, this year was a very awful year, it was obviously slightly better than 2020, but still a bad year! But there was some good thing that actually happened this year, there were more bad things than good things. The good things were is that schools reopened for in-person learning, vaccines came out (in late 2020), few places started reopening, I started my first year of high school, I graduated middle school, and Spider-Man No Way Home came out.

2020 was so bad that any year that isn't 2020 is considered "decent". By 2020 standards, 2021 is a pretty kickass year. But by early 2010's standards, 2021 is a complete and utter disaster. because wearing masks indoors and taking them off outdoors is better than staying at home going insane during quarantine and not even interacting with people

21 2022 2022 (MMXXII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2022nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 22nd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2020s decade.
22 2020 2020 (MMXX) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 20th year of the third millennium, the 20th year of the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2020s.

It was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, schools and many workplaces being closed for months, online school... read more

Well, obviously, there was a pandemic. But for me, 2020 was actually quite good. I didn't have any fights with my friends, I had online school, and now I'm quite close to graduating, and me and my best friend both had to go to school to do the online learning, not stating the reason. So I basically spent my whole school year with my best friend, which was pretty nice. And since it was online, we did a lot more fun things than usual for year 8s. -randomIntelligence

Many people will probably hate me for it, but, despite the pandemic, taking into account my personal life, I enjoyed 2020. I lived more deep life. I read many interesting books. I also in this year lost 50 lb. Also, in the summer 2020, when there were almostly no restrictions in my country, I had many trips. Yes, COVID pandemic was horrible, but is this time period better? Now, instead of it, people are dying in Ukraine and atomic war is again more and more probable scenario.

23 2001 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2001st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 1st year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 2nd year of the 2000s decade.

This year was amazing besides 9/11. It's also kinda annoying how this year gets beaten down so harshly like people willingly ignore all the good it had to offer, yet 2012 is so high when half of the world was scared of the end of the world and Sandy Hook too, but nah let's forget about those…

24 2024 2024 (MMXXIV) is the current year, and is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. It's the 2024th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations. This is the 24th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2020s decade.
25 2024 2024 (MMXXIV) is the current year, and is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. It's the 2024th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations. This is the 24th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2020s decade.
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