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  • folaht@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•When do we start saying the 00s, the 10s, 20s and 30s?
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    3 days ago

    The 2010s had CDs finally disappearing,
    CCFL-LCDs finally disappearing, ugly blocky 3D-games finally disappearing, HDs finally disappearing.

    LED screens, OLED screens for phones finally became popular.
    Color finally returned to normalcy again.

    SSDs became popular.
    Copying your files from a device to a computer finally returned to normalcy again.

    The 2020s has AI and HBM.

    We also have solar replacing fossil fuels.
    Air quality is returning to normalcy again.

    We also have medical technology like anti-obesity drugs becoming popular and possibly even anti-aging drugs.
    Human health is returning to normalcy again.

  • folaht@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•When do we start saying the 00s, the 10s, 20s and 30s?
    21·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • folaht@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•When do we start saying the 00s, the 10s, 20s and 30s?
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    3 days ago

    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.

    [edit]

    I see people disagreeing, so I’ll double down on why the 2000s were awful.

    The 2000s had Ugly 3D replacing beautiful 2D.
    The 2000s had ppl tlkng l1k3 d1s.
    The 2000s had Fred being #1 on youtube.

    During the 2000s gross-out movies were popular.
    The 2000s had the movie Idiocracy which was not a prediction, but a reflection of its time.
    Because it was a painfully stupid time.
    Same goes for Wall-E, who envisioned a far-future where everyone is painfully fat,
    because they couldn’t imagine anti-obesity drugs being invented,
    despite the precursor of semaglutide having already been invented at that time.

    It’s also a time where ‘gamer’ stopped meaning having fun playing various types of games
    at the arcades or Commodore 64, and instead started to exclusively mean
    having the fastest rig possible in order to play a foot soldier in war games,
    especially FPS shooters like Counterstrike, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Call of Duty, etc…
    and to a lesser extend strategy war games like starcraft and MMORPGs like WoW.

    [edit #2]

    Perhaps advancement wasn’t necessarily slow, but every advancement was a trade-off in the 2000s.

    Beautiful 2D -> Ugly 3D
    Bulky CRTs -> Bad-angle badly colored flatscreens
    Curated TV -> Poor-quality internet videos
    low-storage sturdy floppy disks -> Read-only fragile CDs
    A whole new world of communication -> A whole decade wh3r3 ppl tlkd l1k3 d1s

    The only exception, again, was anime.