We need to start making the years sound cool

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    13 hours 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.