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Post by goodbants on Jan 3, 2022 2:30:11 GMT 10
What if we were to explain this day and age to someone from 20 years ago? What would surprise them the most? Would they be horrified? Would they think we live in a much more interesting time? Are there any things they would like?
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Post by John Titor on Jan 3, 2022 2:43:02 GMT 10
What if we were to explain this day and age to someone from 20 years ago? What would surprise them the most? Would they be horrified? Would they think we live in a much more interesting time? Are there any things they would like? lets go back to my 8th grade self and me that - Uber and lyft is a thing - Trump became president and then Biden - A Virus took over the world to plague like levels - Kobe Bryant died - Blockbuster and Hollywood video is going to go out of business in 10 years - Only Fans - cancel culture - Netflix will take over in a few years - Pokemon will be popular again in 2016 - Circuit City and Kb Toys will gone in 7 years - A recession will happen in 2008 - A recession will happen in 2020 - Mj will die in 2009 - Full House will come back in 2016 - Boy meets World will come back in 2014 - Toonami will end in 2008 and then come back in 2012 - Hipster will be the biggest thing in the 2010s - Internet will be faster in about 2 1/2 years - a social networking website called Myspace is going to take over in 2 years I would be shocked
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2022 2:46:10 GMT 10
What if we were to explain this day and age to someone from 20 years ago? What would surprise them the most? Would they be horrified? Would they think we live in a much more interesting time? Are there any things they would like? Horrified. Things are worse than a dystopian horror movie from the early 2000s. Pretty much everything doomers and preppers were warning about back then is our reality in 2022.
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Post by slashpop on Jan 3, 2022 2:52:03 GMT 10
I think the coolest thing would have been what we could do on our phones compared to then, which includes all kinds of crazy apps and the weirdest thing would be the social culture.
I don't think social media would be the biggest deal, nor netflix. I remember watching pulp fiction, when it was still in theatres via pay-pew-view in 1994 (tv where you buy movies via cable via parents credit card), it wouldn't be the biggest deal. I remember dating sites in 1997-1998, vampire freaks (gothic profile site) in 2001 and live journal in 2002-2003.
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Post by dudewitdausername on Jan 3, 2022 5:20:06 GMT 10
The more I think of it the more I realize that today is such a different world from 2002.
In 2002 people were still recovering from 9/11, smartphones and social media weren't a thing, a lot of people were still using dial up, TVs were still boxes...
2022 and we are living in a pandemic for 2 years, social media is the dominant force in pop culture, smartphones have been a thing for a decade and today they're more powerful than 2002 computers...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2022 19:15:25 GMT 10
2002 may have been post 9/11, had George W Bush as president and was peak early 2000s, but the way people went out about their lives was still barely removed from the late 1990s, especially considering the fact that social media was not around; physical media was relevant; wifi was still accessed through dial-up; phones were simplistic and non touch screen. 2002 is pretty much disconnected from today. It was a different world. 2002 is one of the last years I consider retro.
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Post by ItsMichael on Jan 5, 2022 1:43:06 GMT 10
2002 may have been post 9/11, had George W Bush as president and was peak early 2000s, but the way people went out about their lives was still barely removed from the late 1990s, especially considering the fact that social media was not around; physical media was relevant; wifi was still accessed through dial-up; phones were simplistic and non touch screen. 2002 is pretty much disconnected from today. It was a different world. 2002 is one of the last years I consider retro. Any year that is 20 years old or older I’d say is retro at this point.
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Post by dudewitdausername on Jan 5, 2022 2:53:07 GMT 10
2002 may have been post 9/11, had George W Bush as president and was peak early 2000s, but the way people went out about their lives was still barely removed from the late 1990s, especially considering the fact that social media was not around; physical media was relevant; wifi was still accessed through dial-up; phones were simplistic and non touch screen. 2002 is pretty much disconnected from today. It was a different world. 2002 is one of the last years I consider retro. Any year that is 20 years old or older I’d say is retro at this point. I'd go with 17-18. 2004 is pretty retro.
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