Herrin High School Class of 2001's Last Day

Class of 2001. Final day of school.
Herrin IL

[@the76yearoldguy30]

I remember my high school graduation in 1957 : it was a day like this: I took some photos, but i wish i had a camera to tape it : it was such a fun day, the sky was blue : it feels as it was yesterday. I felt so happy that I was looking forward to the next stage in my life. I will always remember that day.

[@Forgan_Mreeman]

post video or it didn't happen

[@TrustySteeringWheelTray]

I love your name. Makes your story more believable. 'the76yearold Guy"

[@MrJuulia01]

Sounds great!

[@pride7416]

@B LT nope he's dead now

[@ptrekboxbreaks5198]

Wow man! That's amazing wish I lived back in the 50s and 60s...do you do any reunions still?

[@thekern7666]

Looking back at this, as someone who started high school in 2001, it looks very antiquated now. When I remember HS in my mind, it feels very modern, just with different outfits and no cell phones. I thinks it's because people are the same inside, no matter what generation it is. The pranksters, the sweethearts, etc. So it feels like we've never changed. But seeing it all together- the music, the cars, the brands, the girls' hair (I did my hair like that too, I can just smell the hair product now!) it takes me back to a time that feels unusually far back. I think it's just seeing g it all at once. Also, I'm sure part of it is because of the film quality. I remember the crisp, clear, real life that I lived. Whereas this is fuzzy and antiquated looking. Yep, sort of an interesting impression, looking back

[@superhyperyoshi]

People who were born then are now graduating from high school

[@roscoe416]

yup my brother just did and he is in the air force now.

[@lil_weasel219]

well I was born early 2000 but graduated 2019

[@namelessghoulphantom]

Yup, I was born in 1993 and was suppose to graduate in 2012

[@MrJuulia01]

Totally. I graduated in May

[@teortega93]

@@namelessghoulphantom I was born in 1993, and I graduated from high school in 2013.

[@SimNGuitar]

I was in 2nd grade in 2001. A part of me really wishes I could have been in high school back then and had the chance to grow up without so much technology thrown in my face. The iPhone and smartphones in general became big when I was midway through high school and everyone became completely consumed by the time I was a senior. Watching this is the nostalgia I never knew I had. Thanks for sharing this, what a great vibe

[@SaintShaun]

Honestly same bro, don’t get me wrong. I’m very grateful to be apart of Gen Z and graduating in 2016 so although technology wasn’t thrown in our faces then as of now is a blessing of its own but man… something about the early 2000’s and late/mid 90’s where everybody actually talked to one another, (nothing against them BUT) tattoos wasn’t so normalized and everybody had clear skin, television was actually watchable… hell even the commercials was watchable, you actually needed real talent to make music, social skills was a must growing up, things were just so simple and most importantly you didn’t have to worry about a phone camera being shoved in your face everyday and/or forced to have an opinion on every single thing in the world that’s going on. It was honestly ok to just merely exist and watch tv or sports game or hang out at the bar with your friends. And tho we can do it today (and possibly more) it’s just something about the early 2000’s that gives you a feeling you really can’t explain. I envy those who went to HS/College during those years, I truly wish I could’ve been apart

[@MarioMartinez-tt9ly]

I’m one year younger than you . I don’t think technology was a negative thing especially in high school when I got my cellphone I was able to communicate even better with all my friends in school .

[@m1ghtysauc397]

I was class of 2001. It feels like last week until I watch this video. This makes it feel like a lifetime ago.

[@twinsisterr]

@@agirllikem probably 37 or around there

[@laurenjeanvp5131]

I was class of 03!!! It literally feels like yesterday...so many amazing memories

[@laurenjeanvp5131]

@@agirllikem I'm 35 so their probably 37

[@merfwriter]

I'm the class of 2001 too! As of 2021 for the record I'm 39 now and most of the class of 2001 are 38 now.

[@jasonharris996]

Class of 01 represent lol! Can't believe I just turned 40. Where has the time gone?...

[@geejae4243]

3 months before September 11th. These were good days

[@theradiantchild]

2001 still had that 90s aesthetic and people weren't a bunch of try-hards. No social media

[@russellamb8783]

Grade 9 in 2001.....smartphones and social media, feel bad for anyone that didn't get to experience their youth without them....better times

[@MarioMartinez-tt9ly]

Funny how everyone who complains about social media yet here you are . Just to let you know this is part of social media in case you were unaware.

[@bluedesks6629]

@@MarioMartinez-tt9ly Factual

[@Harperlouise1]

Just came across this. What’s crazy is that kids who were born in 2001 are seniors in college. Not high school. College.

[@earlsweatyass9321]

Notice how the fashion still seems pretty similar and it still seems relatively modern.

[@Sarah-ft8jr]

That’s because it is modern..

[@kyleappleton9004]

@@Sarah-ft8jr lol

[@9852323]

@@Sarah-ft8jr somewhat.

[@jeffreysmith6793]

I was a homeschooled fourth grader in the 2000-2001 schoolyear. It's now going on 20 schoolyears since this year. Let that sink in.

[@mrshawnbanks]

This is great! It’s a video time capsule of the old high school. Thanks to Josh for making and Joe for sharing.

[@felipes.carvalho8790]

yeeaaa . this great film 90s 00s

[@Mini_Steevve]

That's kind of crazy that these highschoolers are now in their late 30's... I didn't even exist in 2001 or multiple years after

[@Spwilkey1]

I just came here because I graduated in 2001 ..REPRESENT!

[@m1ghtysauc397]

spwilkey w same.

[@Menig]

'01 Represent!

[@producedbyruiz]

I love the way people did their hair and dressed during this time, it seemed like a fun time to be a teen/young adult

[@richardsilden5683]

I also graduated in 2001. A few months later my newfound adult life showed me that the world can be a very scary place.

[@francescamartin]

2:30 she is so gorgeous! 🥺💞

[@spaceballs44]

Watching this is a time warp. I remember watching’Peggy Sue Got Married’ and she’s at her 20th reunion I think and has a stroke but goes back to high school. When I watched it as a kid I didn’t understand why her character was so happy but now that I’m 39 years old and if I woke up back in High School class of 2001 I would be really excited. To see everyone before having kids, losing hair not having to worry about bills and College debt. If I could go back I would.

[@namelessghoulphantom]

Pretty sweet U2 song you had playing in the background 🤘

[@stevefrench8256]

I was 4 years old just learning to walk and talk when this was being filmed. Seems like a lifetime ago, i guess to me it is.

[@cameronjones5517]

Kim Jong Un you didn’t learn to walk/talk until you were 4 ?!?

[@m00dsw1ngs]

Cameron Jones had the same thought lol

[@throwbackgeneral6944]

Fellow class of 2001 alumnus. To this generation we are like what the class of 91 was to us

[@merfwriter]

For the class of 2001, we could look at the class of 1981 and 20 years had gone by back then. Now the class of 2001 is looking back over the 20 years and we are ourselves where has the time gone? To the class of 2021, maybe by the year 2041 the class of 2021 will wonder the same thing 20 years from now.

[@kennyshi6416]

I was born in 2001😁, 21 yrs passed, I am from 0 to 21.

[@maddysmith3405]

Everybody born in 2001 has graduated high school already or is about to graduate in 2020 like me...

[@spaceballs44]

Then COVID-19 came and destroyed graduation. 😞

[@amberrickenbaugh9142]

I was at the end of my sophomore year when this was filmed. I feel old watching this.

[@KingVazay]

man time goes by so fast!!!

[@TayDays1128]

You can tell that it's the early 2000s when I heard you listening to U2 at the end

[@paulrose319]

al lot of the 2000s fashion is still in use or versions of it and or considered vintage now

[@fringeminority3224]

We were so much happier back then. Kids this generation will never understand. They are a bunch of self entitled cry babies who don't want to work for nothing. We really didn't complain about nothing and worked hard to get where we got

[@qu3646]

I agree, I was born in the wrong generation since my class (2026 🤮) is so sensitive, making up new genders everyday, and can’t do work!

[@danieldees9686]

My favorite thing about being a millenial is watching all my contemporaries morph into boomers and repeating dumb sentimental comments just like their parents made about them.

[@davida6919]

2001 I was born and man this is entertaining to watch 💯👏🏼

[@russellamb8783]

I was in grade 9 in 2001. I didn't have my first cell phone until 2004 and it was only talk and text....I feel bad that you never lived knowing how different and better it was without smart phones and social media

[@anthonyf3680]

I was born in 2000 so I have some vivid memories of life before smart phones… I remembered when they came out in 2007 life after that became shit

[@Danawise04]

Those were the days!

[@steelkristian1686]

Haha back then everybody used so big cameras... and only few of them... rest spoke to each others.... now people only using smartphones....

[@TrustySteeringWheelTray]

@I AM YOUR FATHER more like any time before 2011 or so was better than today

[@Liface]

The camera the girl is using in the middle is from the 80s. New miniDV cameras in 2001 were pretty much the same size as today.

[@callmekyle4950]

I’m in herrin high school now I’m just so wowed

[@samanthawalsh1572]

Ahahahah I was born Aug 27 2001... I’m class of 2020! I’ve always wondered what I would be like if I was 18 in the year I was born 😆

[@iamryansanchez]

Samantha Walsh thats crazy i was born on August 26th 2001 👍🏻

[@usser1138]

This comment didn’t age well. I came for the same reason but graduated last year.

[@bloodcltss]

If this stuff wasn't here y'all would've graduated but now y'all can't :(

[@sweetlildevil7597]

And now you've graduated. You've taken the place of the people in this video. And in 18 years someone will be commenting on videos of your graduating class and how they were born in May 2020.

[@lightsoff9008]

Born December 2001 and class of 2020 too :)

[@bartolomeestebanmurillo4459]

People born in that year graduated high school and are now starting college.

[@doleluv01]

I was born just a few months before this was filmed and now i'm graduating next month

[@ce7133]

Same

[@matthansen5906]

I was 6 years old when this came out

[@MarianRenta]

Everyone in this video was born in the early to mid 80s 🙂 I was 17!

[@throwbackgeneral6944]

Yup i was 17 in 01

[@liampatrick3110]

So you were born in 84.

[@merfwriter]

Yep, I was born in 1982. Graduated in 2001. I was 18 1/2 at the time.

[@merfwriter]

@@liampatrick3110 probably 83

[@static_Tricolor_camry]

This is the same year I started going to High School. The early 2000's were the worse days of my life, I didn't have money and food. The world was still a better place I remember watch The World Trade Center getting hit on T.V. it shocked the world. I remember every T.V station was broadcasting it.

[@spaceballs44]

After seeing it I knew the world changed to where it is now. I always wonder if Al Gore became president would 9/11 still happen? Or more people still alive?

[@NewLife-qj5lp]

Jesus. This was the year my parents graduated and I'm already 18

[@spaceballs44]

😊😳. My son turns 17 in a few months. I graduated in 2001.

[@blopez8311]

Class of 2001!!! Yasssss!!!!

[@Bassin_withaustin]

dang I'm 16 now and my first trucks a 2001 Silverado its rare cause it has 13,248 miles on it

[@JACS420]

Swag

[@francescamartin]

this was the year i was born but all the way in december 🥺🤍

[@bengisu7643]

I was born in that year lol

[@krissy9104]

okok Same lol

[@jackclancy4948]

Same 😂

[@Babytronians]

Same

[@antxv713]

Same

[@andiewhatsittoya382]

@I AM YOUR FATHER It's funny, I was born in 1998 but I'm class of 2019 :P

[@snowwhitebeautyful]

I started high school in 2001.

[@pumpkinseeds8990]

They wore simple clothes. Now everybody try too hard

[@mikebottiaux5850]

Where was the old Herrin HS building located then?

[@joemc83]

Right in front of the new one. I just uploaded another video on my channel when they tore this school down and you can see the new one.

[@mikebottiaux5850]

joemc83 , Thanks! I moved to Herrin in 2004 so the old HS must have already be replaced. I’m a grad of Marissa, IL (1978), Thanks for sharing this!

[@musicalspork]

Oh shit. I was hoping I didn't make it on here. :/ But I did. I think I blocked out Mrs. Orso's dance..thing.

[@zacharysmith4787]

And they had no idea that the world would change later that year. Didn't get far into adulthood without their first collective tragedy. Shame.

[@ivanchavez3711]

to think 9/11 happened a month or so after this... the world changed forever

[@yurunning5574]

Was born 02-02-01 and graduated in 2019

[@minakoa7178]

I was 3 😂

[@xaviermeadows818]

I was 6 in 01 ...... boy im old

[@ericswanson6032]

I was also 3, I turned 4 that November

[@fabriziogarreta7160]

I was 3

[@BeautyByKayla1011]

I was born in 2001 WOW

[@libertywarrior91]

no smarts phones, if you were not alive for these times you missed one hell of a time!!!

[@oohsnap93]

2001 I was 8 years old holy shit lol

[@renee3883]

Really & Why I was born in that year lol

[@supermstudios4941]

Not Jealous IM TERRITORIAL. I was only 2 years old Damn hahahaha

[@m00dsw1ngs]

SuperMStudios same i was also 2😭

[@jeffreysmith6793]

I was ten years old when the 2000-2001 High School classes graduated. It's crazy how long ago it was.

[@DoctorRickSanchez]

2:20 Mr.Gibaon probably mad old now.

[@veronicageorge3825]

My brother was born that year.

[@PackinStackin]

Dawn of the millennial generation.

[@jeffreysmith6793]

True, although some definitions have some Millennials born in 1980, and 1981, meaning they could be graduates in the 1998, and 1999 schoolyears.

[@felipes.carvalho8790]

Josh?

[@yodawg3469]

Life was still normal then

[@lil_weasel219]

I'm class of 2019, and graduation was such a depressing day, just like every other day. ugh

[@Patrick19833]

At least you were not the class of 2020. I feel so bad for them! They may not have a prom and graduation due to the coronavirus.

[@lil_weasel219]

@@Patrick19833 well hmm I can't say I would've missed out much not going to prom. But it's different for most folk cuz they arent depressed anxious weirdos so they arent really scared of prom xD. But yes, the coronavirus thing has spiralled out of control. I'm supposed to be retaking 2 exams (for better score) this year, and I have no fkn clue what is gonna happen :I

[@lil_weasel219]

@@yourface87 I did go to prom, but like...sat there and did nothing. Walked around barefoot lol. Urgh Being a weirdo is ok hahah I've not had contact w anyone since June 2019. Because I have no friends hah. Mah life is like a cruel lab experiment PS: I'm a girl :B

[@russellamb8783]

2001 I was in grade 9....no smartphones and social media. People were more normal and talked to each other....better times

[@Imraan53]

Depressing day? I didnt get it why?

[@usser1138]

I brought my camera to my last day of school I basically didn’t have any classes and left 3 hrs early. I wish I recorded it

[@nicholasmohr3353]

I was born in 2004

[@gameboy5524]

class 2023 and 2024 for me

[@danieldees9686]

I can't believe I missed Mrs Orso's retirement strip tease because I was stuck at home with a broken frickin' leg.

[@joemc83]

I had to edit out the spicy part. Too hot for KZbin!

[@danieldees9686]

@@joemc83 okay but what about the patreon archives?

[@joemc83]

@@danieldees9686 I’ll think about it

[@nicholasmohr3353]

I go to school there! Class of 2022!

[@nicholasmohr3353]

Brooke Hebor no. The old building (the building this video takes place in) was tore down in 2002. I wish I was here for the old building.

[@9852323]

I graduated from here in 2012

[@ShizukaOG]

*There^**

[@nicholasmohr3353]

I have never seen the old building before (besides the parts that are still standing)

[@Phantom-sl9qv]

Kids now, I was born that year

[@nfnf5749]

Damn I was in 8th grade

[@callmekyle4950]

I’m on my sophomore year here at herrin high

[@russellamb8783]

Wish you got to experience it without smartphones and social media....I was in grade 9 in 2001...better times

[@pumaxd7186]

I was Born 3 June 2001 :)

[@reddlive_95]

I was born June 3rd 1995

[@candy8323]

I was born in 2005😕

[@johnwesley-oldchannel-6821]

I was 3 in 2001

[@xrranger4310]

Me to didn't even go to school yet or pre k I was staying home injoying my childhood memories miss 2001\2002

[@user-nk7up9jm9r]

@@xrranger4310 no one asked

[@mysseraefim7852]

Yo Mama no one to comment lmao

[@roshpenin4701]

same here.

[@lp9074]

Not o town, n’sync and backstreet boys all over the walls 😂

[@spaceballs44]

Seeing the teen couple at the end I wonder if they got married?

[@danieldees9686]

Nope. He married the girl with the pixie cut from about a minute earlier.

[@steelkristian1686]

how old you was that day and how old are you now"!?

[@joemc83]

+FredeexGaming 18 then and 33 now.

[@steelkristian1686]

oh

[@succulentpizza]

+joemc83 I'm guessing this is before the terrorist attacks.

[@joemc83]

Correct, this would be May of 2001.

[@hennessyblues4576]

18 then and 36 now.

[@ejae4063]

I was born in 2001

[@Lon8r_MBK]

04 Nov 23

[@mrcalmyourself5405]

These people got married and have kids now

[@bertclements]

👍

[@joemc83]

Ha! Even though I'm in this video a few times, I don't remember a thing about this day!

[@josephhoover4542]

I was 6 in 2001 lol

[@coryschroeder82]

I blocked all of that out! Haha

[@felipes.carvalho8790]

Diosh

[@felipes.carvalho8790]

Blond girl in band is beautiful

[@GenTuZaki]

World went shit after 2010 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@ffkk6000]

😲

[@pavomis]

Little they know what would happen on the September of that year :/

[@bumblebee2001]

Sure I was born then xD

[@pavomis]

kath rin :/

[@SportsSharp412]

So nobody is going to mention my man at 4:33 is wearing Heelys in high school? 🤣🤣💀🛼

[@geoffreydevore9503]

Remember this folks: Whether you think it or not, this is 1 of the best times of your life!! Does not seem like it at the time, but it is!!

[@bumblebee2001]

Not for some people. School makes everything worse for me. I will remember the day I leave school as the happiest day of my life. I hate myself bc of school, I was bullied, and I have adhd what doesn't make it easier. I hate school not bc I'm young and I don't know any better I hate it because it's horrible.

[@jeffreysmith6793]

Really? For a lot of people, this is false.

[@merfwriter]

@@bumblebee2001 Wait until you become a full adult. 20 years from now when your in your mid-late 30s pushing 40 years old. The adult world will hit you and you will realize man adulting sucks. You will look back on your teen years good or bad and dream of going back to those younger years when you were like 15-16 years old and didn't have as much responsibility.

[@bumblebee2001]

@@merfwriter you clearly didn't understand me. Childhood is not great for everyone. I have trauma from school and childhood days. I'm happy I'm independent. I'm also 20 years old and I even now k ow that yes adultung can suck. But nothing sucks more than not being able to do anything against bad things. Also my mom is almost 50 years old and she doesn't miss school at all. She agrees with me 100%

[@theautisticcomedian]

How come all the girls are all over this Josh guy? How hot was he?

[@felipes.carvalho8790]

Joshie

[@felipes.carvalho8790]

Gioche

[@mccursedwallpapers7296]

4:34 HEELIES

[@jeffreysmith6793]

I thought those were a late 2000s trend. I had no idea they existed in 2001.

[@felipes.carvalho8790]

you are adorable kkk

[@guitarttimman]

In two tousan one i had a latin girlfriend 18

[@HelloooThere]

Band sounded terrible

[@HelloooThere]

@Q T ok

[@handsome5655]

I was born in 2003