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no truer words
I’d push the peak forward a smidge to late 2003, at least for where I’m from. Florida banned smoking indoors that year.
Peak was mid to late 2000’s. Late enough for most people to have broadband Internet and lots of websites with user submitted content that bypassed the traditional cultural gatekeepers, before smartphones and social media ruined everything.
So basically the Internet before YouTube came out and sparked the rapid corporatization of the Internet we called “Web 2.0”
YouTube was launched in 2005, as a way to share clips of Janet Jackson’s breast from the superbowl halftime show. The founders worked at PayPal, so I guess we can blame Peter Thiel once again
I grew up before the internet… I think life in general might have been better before it.
We can agree to disagree. I don’t miss the days of paying for long distance phone calls, all the waiting around in trying to link up with friends at a designated place, looking up addresses in a physical book of map grids, manually maintaining a calendar in a planner, driving across town and waiting in line for tickets to a show. The internet made things better.
The other stuff back then wasn’t always better, either. Smoking eveywhere, unreliable cars, air pollution, crime, etc., really cut into quality of life.
9/11/2001 was the end of attitudes of the 90s, so I think the peak would have had to been before that.
dimpled chads
I was just thinking the other day that the plot of the matrix would make a lot more sense now.
The ai is running a simulation of the 90 to keep growing because everything after that is tainted with internet memes and increasing amount of ai slop.
The 2000 “election” was the beginning of the end.
Hello fellow time traveler
Me, who peaked in high school in the year 2002: That’s fair
You really have to hear it for full effect. https://youtu.be/YhRk45Sdg2o
https://youtu.be/YhRk45Sdg2o without trackers
Oh my god, i watched this 4 times not realizing it’s from the post image…but man did that tickle me.
Thanks for the laugh.
Does that mean we’re all enslaved by ChatGPT?
Maybe we’re only supposed to have 4 fingers like people on the Simpsons.
Sorry, I’m not sure how to approach this type of question yet. Let’s chat about math, coding, and logic problems instead!
The nuclear wasteland future of The Terminator is 2029.
Optimistic, weren’t they?
