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January 2000-August 2001: Still pretty much like the late 90s; basically an extension of 1999
September 2001 - July 2003: More like the 90s but definitely 00s
August 2003 - October 2006: The distance between the 10s and the 90s are the same.
November 2006 - October 2008: More like the 10s but still more dated than the next period.
November 2008 - December 2009: Much more like the 10s than even the mid 00s
Im going to rephrase myself. I agree with 90% percent of what you said. Here is my full take.
2000-2001(pre 9/11): still the late 90s or last stages of the 1990s
late 2001-early 2003(till iraq war): the early 2000s era, more like the 90s than the 10s
mid 2003- mid 2006: the most quintessential part of the decade, culturally and politically it's peak
late 2006-mid 2008: still 2000s culture but in a more evolved way. until America got a new leader in office
late 2008-2009:the beginning of the 10s culture, for many reasons
Same here. Any movies or shows produced after 2007 pretty much looks similar to today's movies and shows.
Agreed the late 2008 and 2009 years are kind of still alive and well. It seems like after Obama was elected, the recession, and when Katy and Gaga hit it big. Pop culture, politics, basically a lot of things CHANGED. And with the exception of last year(2013),It never really changed again.
I don't notice a huge difference between 2006 and 2014. Even the difference between 1996 and 2004 was pretty modest, but compared to the past 8 years it seems huge. 1996 was still a lot more old fashioned than 2004 in a lot of ways but today feels like 2006 in most regards.
I don't notice a huge difference between 2006 and 2014. Even the difference between 1996 and 2004 was pretty modest, but compared to the past 8 years it seems huge. 1996 was still a lot more old fashioned than 2004 in a lot of ways but today feels like 2006 in most regards.
Could you explain why you feel 06 and now don't feel any different. is it politics, pop culture, sports?
The 2010s aren't even half over so too late to say but I would imagine the 2000-2004 period looks more similar to the 2010-2014 period than it does to the 1990-1994 period.
Love how everyone in here is saying today is just like 2008-2009. Does the Smartphone not have any love at all people? Like how that is just phasing past everyone's mind.....
Life is very different then it was even 3 years ago. Technological Progression speeds up exponentially.
Love how everyone in here is saying today is just like 2008-2009. Does the Smartphone not have any love at all people? Like how that is just phasing past everyone's mind.....
Life is very different then it was even 3 years ago. Technological Progression speeds up exponentially.
To me technology isn't everything. I think the attitudes of people and the fashions are more important. Besides, smartphones have been commercially available since the early 2000s with the BlackBerry.
To me technology isn't everything. I think the attitudes of people and the fashions are more important. Besides, smartphones have been commercially available since the early 2000s with the BlackBerry.
For me it is. Tech wise life is drastically different than 10 years ago. And while it is true culture moves amazingly slow that will change once A.I rolls out more and the Singularity hits. Heck the ExaFLOP is going to be in our reach before 2020, once we have the algorithm worked out, Computers will be more advanced than the Human Brain, they've already passed it in base computation a long time ago. Life will change immensely once that is perfected. Automation in the next 10 years is going to make nearly 50% of current jobs in the current market obsolete, forcing Government's to adopt Basic Income Policy. Tech immensely changes the way we live. Cultural perceptions are in a different category all together, such as Gay Rights or Jim Crow laws
Which Blackberry model was that? To my extent no phone in the early 2000s even had a fraction of the power that even the first generation of Iphone had. It's less about the term Smartphone and more about the multiplying of Computer power ala Moore's Law. Phones in 2004 had 16mb of RAM, only a few MHz of power, and little next to no Memory at all. Those phones where mostly tagged as 2 Way Pagers actually, most of their memory only supported baseline functions. Even if those where what You would call a Smartphone, they are drastically laughable to the Google and Apple based Smartphones today. It's more about what You can do with technology more than what You call it or when it comes out.
Phones from 2010 couldn't even run 3 dimensional Programs. Smartphones are even starting to threaten Desktops now. They almost have nearly 70% of their power. And their sales since last year have passed that of Notebooks and Desktops.
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I'm 24 and I've taken a keen interest in topics like this for at least 10 years now. Around 2004 or so I did not perceive that there was much nostalgia for the 90s. Not like today. And today, those years seem to be a sort of continuation of the 90s, up till the end of 2005. Now looking back retrospectively, the 2000-2005 period seems more like the 90s to me than the current decade, which began culturally in 2008. Personally, I was into video games, mostly N64, and a lot of Pokemon; that's what I grew up on. I didn't even get the internet until 2003, and I only started using it heavily around mid-2004, a trend that continued to its zenith in mid-2005.
Everything 2007 and earlier, at least, seems distinctly of the preceding decade (i.e., the 2000s), and not of this one. In a way, I felt like I was ahead of the times. I'd read Wikipedia articles often since 2004, for instance. I remember the old layout. 2007 was the year I signed up for Facebook at first (which I've since discontinued using). I had used Myspace since 2005, but it wasn't used in the same way as Facebook is now for sure. I had as many international pals I'd met on forums and such as I had friends in real life. Nowadays it seems like that sort of thing would be frowned upon. Now there's actually a function to social media: it isn't just recreation. And that what I detest. Youtube became my usual way of listening to music around 2006 or 2007. I do remember how much more difficult it was to listen to music online around 2005. Now it's all in one place.
I never really saw much use for cellphones, and still don't. But of course, they're useful in emergencies. I honestly forget when I got my first one. I think it was 2008. I usually don't forget milestones like that, but the fact that I have just illustrates how little I care about them. And as for smartphones, I never caught on. They've become a thing of their own, whereas at first they seemed more like mobile internet gadgets (but without the full functionality of a conventional computer and therefore completely inferior in my mind). But they have become more sinister than that (that's just how I feel).
These days I tend rather towards nostalgia. I'd say the years 2000-2004 were among the best for me. Technology was there and enjoyable as a diversion. But it didn't run your life. I'm sure it has always been easy to feel deracinated from one's youth at this age, but I think the times we live in really exacerbate this. And what can I say, I don't really like change. I remember once in 2003 pictures of one of my footballs games were posted on some website for some reason. I was rather unnerved, and glad my face wasn't captured. A decade and change later and I think no one of any age would give this even a second thought. Sometimes it takes time to discern how society has changed, and I think just how much we've become conditioned to accept less privacy and anonymity is not yet fully realized. But maybe, hopefully, once it is, it will influence the future course of societal change. Maybe we won't, after all, let machines and mechanized thinking run our lives... one can hope.
I'm 24 and I've taken a keen interest in topics like this for at least 10 years now...
We in the history forum do not however "take a keen interest..."
Let's stop flooding the forum with "is 2014 like 2010" threads. There are other pop-culture forums for your commenting pleasure.
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Like how that is just phasing past everyone's mind.....