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Post by Htiaf on Feb 2, 2021 16:19:59 GMT 10
I agree that 2007/2008, even 2006 seemed recent in 2014/2015. 2005 was the year that I remember feeling dated as early as 2013. I remember thinking that @ the time. Heck a lot of people on reddit & or inthe00s consider 2006 (or 2007 or 2008)-2014 2 be the same era. Tbh all those years felt pretty damn long ago to me even in 2014/2015, so idk what some people are going on about here. Though I will say I thought 2008 still felt sort of recent compared with 2006 & 2007. 2014 & 2015 definitely has been feeling distant to me since the late 2010’s, ( especially 2014 by 2017 ) but not in a Mid & even late 00’s sort of way. It could have a part to do with how old you are too, how you perceive time.
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Post by Early2010sGuy on Feb 2, 2021 17:58:55 GMT 10
For me, anything before 2017 feels fairly dated at this point.
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Post by Telso on Feb 5, 2021 21:13:02 GMT 10
It depends, technologically, 2007 still felt very recent in 2014/15 (and still kinda does come to think of it). How so? To me 2007 tech felt noticeably dated by 2015 since iPhones first debuted back then but slider and flip phones were still by far the norm. This was the most sold phone in the world in 2007:  Versus this in 2015:  2007 also predated the tablet and streaming eras. MP3s and ringtones reigned supreme in 2007, while music consumption only swore by Spotify and the then-brand new Apple Music in 2015. Internet culture was mostly still in a burgeoning phase in that year while it already completely dominated pop culture by 2015. And social media made quite some leap too between the two periods. Even tech UI changed pretty significantly between the two years, with overly shiny and 3D UIs being the norm in 2007:  While by 2015 it was all about the clean flat design: 
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Post by jaydawg89 on Feb 6, 2021 1:06:23 GMT 10
It depends, technologically, 2007 still felt very recent in 2014/15 (and still kinda does come to think of it). How so? To me 2007 tech felt noticeably dated by 2015 since iPhones first debuted back then but slider and flip phones were still by far the norm. This was the most sold phone in the world in 2007: Versus this in 2015: 2007 also predated the tablet and streaming eras. MP3s and ringtones reigned supreme in 2007, while music consumption only swore by Spotify and the then-brand new Apple Music in 2015. Internet culture was mostly still in a burgeoning phase in that year while it already completely dominated pop culture by 2015. And social media made quite some leap too between the two periods. Even tech UI changed pretty significantly between the two years, with overly shiny and 3D UIs being the norm in 2007: While by 2015 it was all about the clean flat design: It was different but, it still felt very recent. The games that year didn't seem that dated (HD era games, online marketplaces, online gaming, the PS3 & Xbox 360...). Digital downloading was already very common in the music industry (and still actually was in 2015), Wi-Fi was everywhere (apart from Starbucks, they were quite late to the party believe it or not), high speed internet, pay phones were long dead, the point that social media was popular at all, web 2.0 (which is probably the most important part), and the internet did actually have a VERY huge influence on popular culture already (Youtube for example was an absolute juggernaut in 2007), you sorta overexaggerated the influence the internet had on popular culture in 2015 compared to 2007. When it comes to OS interfaces, they have pretty much worked the same since Windows 95, I am very aware that they look very different though (along with the way websites are designed). The tech that was dated though, was definitely the smartphones (that there is the biggest change between 2007 & 2015), the death of CRT TVs and the advancement of the internet (though, it's really just an evolved version of the web we already had in 2007). Overall, the way I see 2014/15 now is pretty much the same way I saw 2007 in 2014/15. Edit: Do consider that covid has also had a big influence on how long ago 2014/15 feels to me right now.
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Post by Telso on Feb 6, 2021 7:52:10 GMT 10
Digital downloading was already very common in the music industry (and still actually was in 2015) Digital downloads were indeed huge in 2007, and actually in their fall-out phase by 2015 in favor of streaming. I'm not overexaggerating though? Smartphones just had made the internet such extremely accessible at any time to anyone to the point that it became just this extremely influential presence on pop culture in 2015. While still pretty big in 2007, internet still didn't had the broad range yet to have a full-on dominating effect and was mostly still considered an alternative media to TV rather than one completely replacing. That's why I said it was in a "burgeoning" (therefore growing) state stilll. YouTube was a popular site in 2007, but definitely not a juggernaut at all still. The most viewed a video could do was still way below the 30M bar, which is laughable in comparison to 2015's multiple 1 billion viewed videos. 2007 was also still before the platform welcomed things like VEVO, streaming series and even monetization options for creators to be more involved in their content making. It really was more of an amateur visual blogsite that still mostly appealed to a niche audience of regular internetgoers, rather than the outright media empire it later became.
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Post by al on Feb 6, 2021 15:10:51 GMT 10
2007 seemed almost as dated in 2014/15 as it does now.
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Post by mc98 on Feb 16, 2021 1:10:19 GMT 10
One things for sure that the fashion of 2014/2015 is very different from today. This video is from spring 2015 and I couldn't imagine anyone wearing all of this today.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Feb 16, 2021 18:12:42 GMT 10
One things for sure that the fashion of 2014/2015 is very different from today. This video is from spring 2015 and I couldn't imagine anyone wearing all of this today. I don't know, most everyday people wouldn't have worn those clothing styles back then to begin with. Maybe the most "trendy" of people who obsessively like to keep up with everything that is in vogue, but not your average high-schooler or the people you run into while out and about. The biggest difference I have personally noticed between the fashion trends of now and 2014/15 is the popularity of flannelette and Nirvana t-shirts. There was this black, Nirvana-branded t-shirt that had an emoji with crossed-out eyes which I can remember was especially popular during the mid 2010s.
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