2012 was pretty much peak imo. Cant really think of anything after that thats worth saving. Guess the mayans were kinda right after all. Smartphones had come out and evolved into something decent but weren’t terrible yet, facebook was still kinda useful and not a propaganda cesspit, google would give you useful results, reddit was full of unique and interesting information. Tv and movies were really hitting their stride with some of the most bou dary pushing original tv series and movies hadn’t all devolved to remakes and superhero rehashes, global warming was bad but people seemed concerned about it and it wasnt past the point of no return yet, youtube didnt shove a million ads down your face. Netflix was streaming content but didnt have any competitors buying up rights yet, spotify was fairly new and revolutionary still, forums still existed for all sorts of niche interests, ads werent completely pervasive everywhere, google wasn’t an evil monopoly sucking up everyones data, memes were still fresh and original, gaming pretty much hit its pinnacle of graphical fidelity relative to performance costs, you could order awesome drugs off the internet unregulated (not even just the dark web, research chemicals were fucking great and hadnt started to be banned yet). Idk i could go on and on but literally everything felt like it got worse from there. I didnt even touch on productivity or the economy but it still felt like a bit of a boom in the wake of the rebound from 2008. If im missing anything good that happened post 2012 please let me know.
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IzzyJ@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoAnyone who actually knew a damn thing would not want to stop right at 2015 abd stay there forever
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
IzzyJ@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Obergefell was in 2015 I believe
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
I had to look it up because its been since 2005 in Canada, but wow you’re right. I wish that madw me feel differently about the content of my comment, because that is one objectively good thing that happened after 2012, but the fact that it didnt happen until then and that its so recent still just feels really bad.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
There’s a lot to be said for the late 90’s. Post Cold War, but pre 9/11.
It’s not perfect for everyone, especially if you’re LGBT+, but it’s got a lot going for it.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
September 2016, so we’d have finished existance off with the summer of Pokemon GO
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
No thanks.i long for a time that never was, and may never be.
Auth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In 2015 I actually thought the world was going to get better. Haha what an idiot I was.