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I just recently flipped through some of my siblings yearbooks from the early-mid 2000s and was reminded how different not even ten years can make. I was in high school in the latter part of the 2000s which is more like today. However, 2000-2006 seems to be more like the 90s and afterwards is more modern. The music, fashion, and overall feel of the first six years of the 2000s were very reminiscent of the late 90s and internet was popular but still wasn't as popular as now and it was obviously not advanced (No Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, etc.) Cell phones weren't as huge as they are now and nobody had smart phones and tablets like today. In my middle school, half of the school didn't have cell phones and the other half was just getting it and kids nowadays have cell phones at the age of 5 or 6. I remember a lot of teenagers still using landlines as well and a lot of us listened to music from Walkmans or the Original I-pod. I couldn't tell the difference between the students of the yearbook from 1997 and a yearbook from 2004 or 2005. I feel like the late 90s-mid 2000s is when everything started to change. Music became worse, anti-fashion started, and everyone became glued to their mobile devices by about 2007. In the 2000s, there was still a lot of face to face contact (unlike today) as we didn't all have I-Phones yet like I mentioned. I feel like the year 2000-early 2006 was much more similar to 1996-1999 then is today and 2007-present is a separate entity. (2007 was also the year that the first I-Phone came out as well).
What you say is rather interesting to me.
Every 5-6 years you notice some retty major changes in styles, cultures, fashion, and the overall feel of the time. TV shows and movies show it best. A movie in 1991 will look a lot different from a movie in 1997, just as one from 2003 will look even more different.
The one thing I've noticed, and maybe it's because I graduated in 2007, and time and fashion sense seemed to slow down to me after that, is that since 2007 things do not seem to have changed as much. Sure, there was the nano gadgets revolution. But overall...this world feels very similar to the 2007 world. Idk, can't explain it.
I saw little difference. I think the 1990s and 2000s really saw the rise of the Internet, as well as more liberal attitudes in society.
I agree with others in that it was more of a continuation, since the 1990s was more or less the start of the current trend towards relativism, subjectivism, liberalism, sexual openness, tolerance, PC, etc. that we see currently.
I believe that the 2000's were a continuance in a small way of the 90's.
The last four or five years in my opinion has been a technological revolution in comparison to the industrial revolution that we learned about in school.
It is too long a list of socioeconomic changes brought about rapidly due to innovation and technology.
For one the smart phone has single handily brought sizable defeat to the laptop, desktop, landline, GPS, digital cameras and it has revolutionized the way we communicate.
Like the landline which at first lost ground to the cell phone slowly.....the cable industry is losing ground a lot more quicker than I thought to the Internet through streaming.
Like the post above has said......when we step back years from now we will have a greater insight to the rapid succession of changes we are living now.
Sure every decade has its changes in styles and small innovation bumps but things are disappearing....newspapers, magazines, books.........like 45's albums, 8 tracks, cassettes, and CDs the music is now in the clouds......really.....in the clouds?
Turbo Tax is killing H & R Block, Amazon is killing retailers, Netflix killed Blockbuster, digital killed Kodak and Polaroid.....will the phone company be able to survive on just commercial business in a few years?
This topic is neat.............everyday where ever I go in my travels I see the ever more changing landscape of smartphone use, their out in cars, people constantly texting, talking, losing themselves in them.......you have to look back and wonder how did people live their lives without them, i know but do they. Less than 20 years ago they were noveltys.
I am not down on any of this, in fact I dig seeing the changes......it's just sometimes you need to step back to see how fast we have come to where we are and how fast we are moving forward. Ten years ago if you had told people they would be carrying the equivalent of a computer in their pocket (smart phone) everyday they would have said, are you on crazy!
I send this over the net from my IPad....no wires attached. It's been about five years and what was a breakthrough in inovation is now but a everyday sight. As my five year old daughters have me stream them a movie from Netflix, that they can carry into any room, I think, this is cool as sh""t.......but to them....it's always been that way!
I saw little difference. I think the 1990s and 2000s really saw the rise of the Internet, as well as more liberal attitudes in society.
I agree with others in that it was more of a continuation, since the 1990s was more or less the start of the current trend towards relativism, subjectivism, liberalism, sexual openness, tolerance, PC, etc. that we see currently.
Liberal is pretty debatable. Some countries like eastern Europe and much of the Middle East became more conservative in the 90s - most notably Afghanistan with it being conquered by the Talib'an. And leftist economics died a complete death in the 90s though since '07 it's made a bit of a comeback.
Every 5-6 years you notice some retty major changes in styles, cultures, fashion, and the overall feel of the time. TV shows and movies show it best. A movie in 1991 will look a lot different from a movie in 1997, just as one from 2003 will look even more different.
The one thing I've noticed, and maybe it's because I graduated in 2007, and time and fashion sense seemed to slow down to me after that, is that since 2007 things do not seem to have changed as much. Sure, there was the nano gadgets revolution. But overall...this world feels very similar to the 2007 world. Idk, can't explain it.
Yeah I agree - things are slowing down in many ways. I don't think there is much of a difference between today and 2007. Hell I was watching a Louis Theroux documentary from 2003 and if it wasn't for the poor video quality and the lack of smartphones you could easily be convinced it was filmed in 2014 on a crappy camera. I think anything filmed in 1992 would have already seemed very old by '03.
Sure the tech today has evolved quite a bit since '07 and we are more connected but the overall feel is the same, you know?
I really think 9/11/01 was a pretty big deal in defining different times. Much more of daily life was defined by security after this date than before. The choices the Bush II administration made constrain Obama's scope of action, much more than Clinton era choices constrained Bush II. Perhaps the "oughts" began with 9/11, and ended or at least moved into a different phase with the Great Recession.
This. The world completely, utterly changed that morning. The politics, the foreign policy of the United States, the economy, the zeitgeist, the attitude towards government, you name it. It's hard to imagine that anyone would disagree with this.
You should add your reasons behind choosing the quintessential year. I really disagree with 1993 being the "quintessential" year of the 1990's.
I would wager for 1997 or 1998. The 90's were in full swing by then, boy bands, the new diva pop singers, Bill Clinton and his scandalous presidency, the economy was on the upswing, the internet was on the rise, video games were moving to the homes in droves with the advent of N64 and Play Station, Pokemon and other popular trading card games had made their American debut, a lot better movies had come out, Titanic namely, the Summer Olympics in Atlanta in 1996. Yeah, 1996-1998 were more the quintessential years in my opinion.
You should add your reasons behind choosing the quintessential year. I really disagree with 1993 being the "quintessential" year of the 1990's.
I would wager for 1997 or 1998. The 90's were in full swing by then, boy bands, the new diva pop singers, Bill Clinton and his scandalous presidency, the economy was on the upswing, the internet was on the rise, video games were moving to the homes in droves with the advent of N64 and Play Station, Pokemon and other popular trading card games had made their American debut, a lot better movies had come out, Titanic namely, the Summer Olympics in Atlanta in 1996. Yeah, 1996-1998 were more the quintessential years in my opinion.
Yeah, but did 1998 have:
Nirvana?
Full House?
Beavis and Butt-head?
Grunge?
Nope. 1998 and 1999 were still totally '90s for sure, but it definitely already has some early '00s tendencies.
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