Small video which came across my feed that definitely has a point IMO. 2000s were the peak crossroads of old and modern life and its fun to look back
isn’t everything a snapshot of the world before it changed?
You’re right. What they meant to say is that it’s a snapshot of the world before many overarching things changed at roughly the same time.
It seems more it comes in waves, and not all at once but over time. Through my life things like the internet and smartphones becoming ubiquitous and becoming staples of life, likely AI is another one of those.
I did enjoy the video but I died inside when he said “Even by 2008 we realized that the internet could be used for nefarious purposes.”
When Facebook was just starting to be popular I was telling my uncle how people will get exposure to more of the world and be more open to it. He told me he was afraid the wrong people would find each other too. Fast forward 15 years he gets red pilled and dies of Covid.
Some of us have been on the web since 1994. It’s not much older than that. The World-Wide Web, I mean. HTTP. Of course you had Usenet and such before the WWW.
2008 would be 14 years later. Sure, it was 17 years ago, but in 2008, people were on MySpace. Pretty sure 4chan was around then, wanna-be hackers and pedophiles posting anonymously. So yeah, I think people were aware the Internet could be a dark place by then.
I don’t really even recall the “web” being one of the rougher places. It was Usenet and IRC, aka places where you could actually deal with other people directly, that were the livelier area. They were also more fun for that exact reason.
2000s were the peak crossroads of old and modern life and its fun to look back
FYI in ten years kids will be saying the exact same thing about the 2010’s, just like they did 10 years ago with the 90’s and for my gen it was the 80’s-70’s.
