• ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
    11 days

    I think we need cool years as a baseline first. This is hardly comparable to the ‘roaring twenties.’ The 90s and the 2000s were the best decades ever. But for names, they will all be called twenty- tens, twenties, thirties, etc

    • folaht@lemmy.ml
      11 days

      2000s were awful in my view.
      Slow technological progress compared to the fast-paced changes during the 1990s.
      I was constantly frustrated by subpar technologies that took one leap upwards and five steps back.
      CD-Rs that could not be rewritten,
      LCD screens that you could not view from the side and had these washed-out colors,
      and people actually complained when those colors improved in the 2010s with LED
      because “we don’t like those candy colors”
      Slow internet that kept being slow as webpages got larger faster.
      The whole decade should have been condensed to a year.

      The only good thing about it was that computer parts were cheap.
      And anime.

      The 2010s picked up the pace and the 2020s are just crazy,
      maybe even faster paced than the 1990s.

      • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
        11 days

        Must have been living during a different 2000s than you…

        Progress was crazy during the 00s.

        In 2000 we still had clunky stationary computing only, in most cases without or only with modem speed online access.
        Photography still was analog, music came on huge, physically fragile silver discs.
        By 2010, wireless always-on access had become ubiquitous, fully digitalized private life for most.

        Everything coming after 2010 feels like almost complete stagnation in comparison.

        Only exception: recent generative AI technology. And l am not sure if I am happy about that…

        • folaht@lemmy.ml
          10 days

          1990 -> 2000

          Commander Keen -> Quake III Arena

          2000 -> 2010

          Quake III Arena -> Quake Live

          There’s a big difference between the first period.
          Not so much the second.

          • amaryllisfever@lemmychan.org
            10 days

            You must be joking, or you are smoking.

            Quake to Unreal?

            Halo?

            TF mother fucking 2?

            Come on bro.

            Even outside of these kinds of shooters, look at all the other timeless games that were released during this time. Nah. I’d say 2000s were peak video games.

      • WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social
        10 days

        Flat screen TVs replaced CRT in the 2000’s, the iPhone came out in 2007, HD home media in the form of Blu-Ray, the PS3 and xBox 360, and mass internet adoption all occurred in the 2000s. You just didn’t think it was special because you were growing up with it. The slow web pages you complain about are because telecom companies in the US took billions of federal grants to upgrade their systems and then just pocketed it

        • folaht@lemmy.ml
          10 days

          Mass internet adoption took a full decade.

          The 1990s had better graphics almost every year.
          One year you were playing single-color blocks with bleeps and bloops
          and the next year you’re suddenly looking at controlling real looking people with sound and music.

          You just didn’t think it was special because you were growing up with it.

          It wasn’t special because adoption happened painfully slow.

          HD home media in the form of Blu-Ray

          Blu-Ray was just another fancier DVD, which was another fragile CD.
          It wasn’t a completely new looking device like SD cards, USB sticks or floppy disks.

  • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11 days

    Yeah, I think they will be called the twenty-thirties. Maybe once we get closer to 3000, we can do it.

    I wonder if in the early 1900s, people had this problem too.