We need to start making the years sound cool

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
    11·
    6 hours ago

    I think we need cool years as a baseline first. This is hardly comparable to the ‘roaring twenties.’ The 90s and the 2000s were the best decades ever. But for names, they will all be called twenty- tens, twenties, thirties, etc

    • folaht@lemmy.ml
      52·
      5 hours 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.

      • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
        8·
        4 hours ago

        Must have been living during a different 2000s than you…

        Progress was crazy during the 00s.

        In 2000 we still had clunky stationary computing only, in most cases without or only with modem speed online access.
        Photography still was analog, music came on huge, physically fragile silver discs.
        By 2010, wireless always-on access had become ubiquitous, fully digitalized private life for most.

        Everything coming after 2010 feels like almost complete stagnation in comparison.

        Only exception: recent generative AI technology. And l am not sure if I am happy about that…

  • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8·
    6 hours ago

    Yeah, I think they will be called the twenty-thirties. Maybe once we get closer to 3000, we can do it.

    I wonder if in the early 1900s, people had this problem too.