Decadeology

For example, would you consider xxx3 to be early or mid?

I always considered xxx4 to be the start of the mids.

I'm glad to see this sub is alive on Lemmy!

I think a bunch of 90s culture lived through a good portion of the 2000s as well. For example up until 2003 there was this "post Y2K vibe" going around, something that didn't feel exactly like the Y2K in looks but more of an empty shell of it. Lots of 90s stuff was still around and used up until 2005, even technology wise.

CRT TVs with VHS still being dominant in 2005, internet 1.0 still. Despite seeing the 2000s developing its own identify, it felt like the 90s were still lingering around in one form or another. That's how it felt for me in the south of the US.

Unlike other decades, like the 80s for example were completely gone in 1990 and the 2000s were gone in 2011. There's just something about the 90s that was somehow hard to get rid off.

As an American, it has to be Septemer 11, 2001.

Y2K had been a mostly smooth transition, thanks to a lot of hardworking cowboys. But the terrorist attack and response to it were such a sharp break from the world we lived in before it, in a way that still dominates media, culture, and politics today.

So yeah, to me, all of AD 2000, and most of 2001, were still the old millenium, still the 90's, and for me personally still mostly my childhood in many ways.

Back in 2013 things were obviously different but I don't think we've seen a huge culturale change, just an evolution of what was already coming.

In contrast to 2003-2010 were the change was largely more impactful, starting from technological advancements and huge political shifts in the west.

Sure, we have experienced technological advancements since 2013 but the internet (pretty much the same) and the devices we carry are just an improved version of what we had back then. If we take the rise of AI out of the equation.

I think 2030 will improve upon what we now have and lead us to an era which is predominantly AI dominated in the forms of communication and ease of access. Much more EV vehicles on roads for sure but I still don't think we'll see drastic changes when it comes to improve climate change. The oil industry will still be dominating for at least another couple decades.

The innovations we seen in the 90s and 2000s are hard to come by again. In a sense I feel like we almost reached the peak of innovation until there's some sort of breakthrough.