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View Poll Results: Is 2000 more similar to 1986 or to 2014?
2000 is more like 1986 9 28.13%
2000 is more like 2014 23 71.88%
Voters: 32. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 03-04-2014, 02:00 AM
 
Location: Old Mother Idaho
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The 2000's were more like 1996 than 1986. I believe 9/11 trapped us in the 90's, and we are just now beginning to transition into the 21st century.

Society very seldom changes with the turn of a calendar page. The 20th century really didn't leave the 19th behind until ca. 1916, and World War I was the biggest agent of change. Even then, most of the rural U.S. remained un-electrified well into the 1930's, and horse-drawn vehicles lingered even longer.

The same is true with decade changes. Most decades have changed, if at all, in the middle toward the end, not the first years. Some decades have changed very little from the proceeding decade, while others have had vast changes happen.

 
Old 03-04-2014, 05:20 PM
 
Location: Duluth, Minnesota, USA
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It depends what country you're from, I think.

In technological terms, the U.S. was up to 50% internet penetration, and it became a part of daily life for many. The Internet obviously wasn't as expansive as it is today, but most of the groundwork for Web 2.0 was complete. The Internet in 1986 was limited to IT companies, the military, and universities, and few people even had household computers.

Popular art was closer in 2000 to 2014 as compared to 1986, too. Modern-sounding dance music was already popular in Europe and some of the US.

On the other hand, if you grew up in Mexico, 1986 and 2000 might share more in common than 2000 and 2014.
 
Old 03-04-2014, 06:10 PM
 
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Could we agree that change has actually slowed down slightly then, as opposed to is accelerating?
 
Old 04-01-2014, 12:29 AM
 
Location: Sydney, Australia
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If you want to go by fashion sense...

Watching the weddings we have from 2000 look much more similar to those in 2014 than the campy 1986 ones.
 
Old 07-27-2014, 11:38 PM
 
Location: White House, TN
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2014. Major differences even between 2000-2014, but I'd say if 1986 is "0" and 2014 is "100", 2000 is somewhere in the 55-60 range.
 
Old 07-27-2014, 11:40 PM
 
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If you want to go by fashion sense...

Watching the weddings we have from 2000 look much more similar to those in 2014 than the campy 1986 ones.
Movies from 2000 don't really look too old now, while movies from 1986 looked very dated already in 2000. Aside from Ferris Bueller's Day Off which oddly still feels like a modern movie.
 
Old 07-28-2014, 05:05 PM
 
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Can we close this one too?
 
Old 07-30-2014, 12:14 PM
 
Location: Trieste
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Could we agree that change has actually slowed down slightly then, as opposed to is accelerating?
I agree for sure

it seems to me everythinh has gotten slower, in terms of fashion, music, politics

when one looks at the 1980s and compare them to the 1970s or he makes the same comparison between the 60s and the 50s well the pace of change was so fast

but comparing 2010s with late 90s or early 2000s meh...
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