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
Flat screen TVs replaced CRT in the 2000’s, the iPhone came out in 2007, HD home media in the form of Blu-Ray, the PS3 and xBox 360, and mass internet adoption all occurred in the 2000s. You just didn’t think it was special because you were growing up with it. The slow web pages you complain about are because telecom companies in the US took billions of federal grants to upgrade their systems and then just pocketed it
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.
Per chip is a bit misleading - the technology started running into barriers, so they just added more cores and increased die sizes. On top of that, clock speeds stopped going up, because one of those barriers is that energy dissipation from non-reversible switching became insurmountable on it’s own.
Not everything can be done in parallel across cores, and software hasn’t really kept up with what can be done, so yeah old computers still work fine if you don’t add bloat. Meanwhile, good luck running Windows Vista on a computer from the mid-90’s.
Even outside of these kinds of shooters, look at all the other timeless games that were released during this time. Nah. I’d say 2000s were peak video games.
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…
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.
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.
Flat screen TVs replaced CRT in the 2000’s, the iPhone came out in 2007, HD home media in the form of Blu-Ray, the PS3 and xBox 360, and mass internet adoption all occurred in the 2000s. You just didn’t think it was special because you were growing up with it. The slow web pages you complain about are because telecom companies in the US took billions of federal grants to upgrade their systems and then just pocketed it
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.
It wasn’t special because adoption happened painfully slow.
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.
What do you mean? Moore’s law died in the 10’s. You’re being reached by a device from early in them and it’s fine.
The number of transistors are still doubling and never stopped.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Moore's_Law_Transistor_Count_1970-2020.png
Per chip is a bit misleading - the technology started running into barriers, so they just added more cores and increased die sizes. On top of that, clock speeds stopped going up, because one of those barriers is that energy dissipation from non-reversible switching became insurmountable on it’s own.
Not everything can be done in parallel across cores, and software hasn’t really kept up with what can be done, so yeah old computers still work fine if you don’t add bloat. Meanwhile, good luck running Windows Vista on a computer from the mid-90’s.
You must not be a gamer.
1990 -> 2000
Commander Keen -> Quake III Arena
2000 -> 2010
Quake III Arena -> Quake Live
There’s a big difference between the first period.
Not so much the second.
You must be joking, or you are smoking.
Quake to Unreal?
Halo?
TF mother fucking 2?
Come on bro.
Even outside of these kinds of shooters, look at all the other timeless games that were released during this time. Nah. I’d say 2000s were peak video games.
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…
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.