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Post by behindawall on Oct 27, 2019 13:37:31 GMT 10
I think the glasses Google made and other wearables will be remembered
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2019 10:14:37 GMT 10
Obama and Trump. I'm serious, the two of them encapsulate the two faces of the 2010s.
Edit: Sorry, I hadn't read the rest of this shitshow of a thread. Didn't realize this ground had already been well covered.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2019 11:51:08 GMT 10
Obama and Trump. I'm serious, the two of them encapsulate the two faces of the 2010s. Edit: Sorry, I hadn't read the rest of this shitshow of a thread. Didn't realize this ground had already been well covered. Unfortunately it looks like hate, bigotry, rage, and Christian fundamentalism is winning at the current time. Everything that defines our culture today was alive and well though pre-2017. Having lived in the South whenever the SCOTUS decision to legalize same-sex marriage was handed down I can say nothing about today's zeitgeist surprises me. The Obama years were rough as well if you happened to live somewhere where you were heavily exposed to an evangelical Christian worldview. The only thing that really shocks me is the fact the right-wing fundamentalist tyrants were able to pull off this takeover of the government and now a complete collapse of the USA is no longer unthinkable. If Trump wins again, which is actually very likely, I think the crap is really going to hit the fan and we could end up with a split of the USA. I can't see places like California, New York, the PNW, and other coastal areas accepting rule by a Gilead-like regime.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2019 6:00:54 GMT 10
Obama and Trump. I'm serious, the two of them encapsulate the two faces of the 2010s. Edit: Sorry, I hadn't read the rest of this shitshow of a thread. Didn't realize this ground had already been well covered. Unfortunately it looks like hate, bigotry, rage, and Christian fundamentalism is winning at the current time. Everything that defines our culture today was alive and well though pre-2017. Having lived in the South whenever the SCOTUS decision to legalize same-sex marriage was handed down I can say nothing about today's zeitgeist surprises me. The Obama years were rough as well if you happened to live somewhere where you were heavily exposed to an evangelical Christian worldview. The only thing that really shocks me is the fact the right-wing fundamentalist tyrants were able to pull off this takeover of the government and now a complete collapse of the USA is no longer unthinkable. If Trump wins again, which is actually very likely, I think the crap is really going to hit the fan and we could end up with a split of the USA. I can't see places like California, New York, the PNW, and other coastal areas accepting rule by a Gilead-like regime.
I hope the early-mid Obama 2010s are better remembered than the Trump late 2010s. Sadly I doubt that will be the case. I already see people calling the early 2010s "basically 2000s" which is an insult to the early 2010s in my mind 
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Post by Cassie on Nov 1, 2019 6:19:01 GMT 10
Unfortunately it looks like hate, bigotry, rage, and Christian fundamentalism is winning at the current time. Everything that defines our culture today was alive and well though pre-2017. Having lived in the South whenever the SCOTUS decision to legalize same-sex marriage was handed down I can say nothing about today's zeitgeist surprises me. The Obama years were rough as well if you happened to live somewhere where you were heavily exposed to an evangelical Christian worldview. The only thing that really shocks me is the fact the right-wing fundamentalist tyrants were able to pull off this takeover of the government and now a complete collapse of the USA is no longer unthinkable. If Trump wins again, which is actually very likely, I think the crap is really going to hit the fan and we could end up with a split of the USA. I can't see places like California, New York, the PNW, and other coastal areas accepting rule by a Gilead-like regime.
I hope the early-mid Obama 2010s are better remembered than the Trump late 2010s. Sadly I doubt that will be the case. I already see people calling the early 2010s "basically 2000s" which is an insult to the early 2010s in my mind While they do bear resemblance to the late 2000s, they were still their own era.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2019 6:22:51 GMT 10
I hope the early-mid Obama 2010s are better remembered than the Trump late 2010s. Sadly I doubt that will be the case. I already see people calling the early 2010s "basically 2000s" which is an insult to the early 2010s in my mind While they do bear resemblance to the late 2000s, they were still their own era. It depends what you mean by late 2000s. It was similar to 2009 (2009 is basically early 2010s), but the late 2006 to mid-2008 iPod and MCR era feels far removed from the early 2010s.
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Post by Cassie on Nov 1, 2019 6:30:30 GMT 10
While they do bear resemblance to the late 2000s, they were still their own era. It depends what you mean by late 2000s. It was similar to 2009 (2009 is basically early 2010s), but the late 2006 to mid-2008 iPod era feels far removed from the early 2010s. In some ways, 2010-2012 had some 2008-09 influence. HDTV was more popular in both 2008 and 2012 than either streaming or SDTV, plus it was in the 7th generation of gaming. The iPhone was already out but smartphone sales didn't beat regular phone sales until April 2013. Social media and YouTube were quite similar in both 2008 and 2012, not as corporate as today.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2019 6:40:05 GMT 10
It depends what you mean by late 2000s. It was similar to 2009 (2009 is basically early 2010s), but the late 2006 to mid-2008 iPod era feels far removed from the early 2010s. In some ways, 2010-2012 had some 2008-09 influence. HDTV was more popular in both 2008 and 2012 than either streaming or SDTV, plus it was in the 7th generation of gaming. The iPhone was already out but smartphone sales didn't beat regular phone sales until April 2013. Social media and YouTube were quite similar in both 2008 and 2012, not as corporate as today. HDTV beat SDTV in sales in late 2007, but HDTV adoption didn't hit 50% until late 2009 actually. www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/article/2010/hd-tvs-now-the-majority-but-hd-viewing-lags-behind/Also YouTube in 2008 was very different from 2012. 2008 was still early YouTube, the videos were all 10 minutes max and 480p. Total views were prioritized over total viewing time, so even the content was different (short funny videos were more popular than long diatribes).  Also with respect to smartphones, 2007 and 2008 barely had any smartphones at all. But by 2010, they were a part of daily life even if you didn't own one. Every time you turned on the TV they would talk about apps and smartphones, but it wasn't like that in 2008. It was still early days for the smartphone (I don't think most people even knew what a "smartphone" was in 2008), and the iPhone wasn't ubiquitous like it would be in 2010.
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Post by ItsMichael on Nov 1, 2019 6:42:16 GMT 10
In some ways, 2010-2012 had some 2008-09 influence. HDTV was more popular in both 2008 and 2012 than either streaming or SDTV, plus it was in the 7th generation of gaming. The iPhone was already out but smartphone sales didn't beat regular phone sales until April 2013. Social media and YouTube were quite similar in both 2008 and 2012, not as corporate as today. HDTV beat SDTV in sales in late 2007, but HDTV adoption didn't hit 50% until late 2009 actually. www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/article/2010/hd-tvs-now-the-majority-but-hd-viewing-lags-behind/Also YouTube in 2008 was very different from 2012. 2008 was still early YouTube, the videos were all 10 minutes max and 480p. Total views were prioritized over total viewing time, so even the content was different (short funny videos were more popular than long diatribes). God looking back at YouTube like that especially in 2008 makes me feel nostalgic. 2005-2012 were the golden ages of YouTube.
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Post by Cassie on Nov 1, 2019 7:06:59 GMT 10
In some ways, 2010-2012 had some 2008-09 influence. HDTV was more popular in both 2008 and 2012 than either streaming or SDTV, plus it was in the 7th generation of gaming. The iPhone was already out but smartphone sales didn't beat regular phone sales until April 2013. Social media and YouTube were quite similar in both 2008 and 2012, not as corporate as today. HDTV beat SDTV in sales in late 2007, but HDTV adoption didn't hit 50% until late 2009 actually. www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/article/2010/hd-tvs-now-the-majority-but-hd-viewing-lags-behind/Also YouTube in 2008 was very different from 2012. 2008 was still early YouTube, the videos were all 10 minutes max and 480p. Total views were prioritized over total viewing time, so even the content was different (short funny videos were more popular than long diatribes). Also with respect to smartphones, 2007 and 2008 barely had any smartphones at all. But by 2010, they were a part of daily life even if you didn't own one. Every time you turned on the TV they would talk about apps and smartphones, but it wasn't like that in 2008. It was still early days for the smartphone (I don't think most people even knew what a "smartphone" was in 2008), and the iPhone wasn't ubiquitous like it would be in 2010. I don't see how there isn't some influence from the late 2000s, kind of like how 2003-2005 babies have at least some late 2000s influences.
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Post by mc98 on Nov 1, 2019 8:14:44 GMT 10
2008 can’t be grouped in with 2012, not even 2011. A lot of 2010s things were already established in 2012. Only the end of 2008 was the beginning of the transition. 2009 is the only 2000s year that can comfortably be grouped in with the early 2010s.
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