Why was the early to mid 2000's the best of times?

Why was the early to mid 2000's the best of times?

Everything just seemed more carefree and fun back then, especially the internet.

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>Everything just seemed more carefree
nah, the 80s were carefree until freddie mercury got aids and we all had to start using condoms

It's been said that 9/11 put an end to it all.

The 80's and early 90's seemed pretty good desu.

>tfw will never be happy enough to unironically watch Full House again

Looking back, the 80s were far more carefree despite the evil Soviet empire. Kids today are fucked.

the 90's were better, you could smell the shit in the early 00's, you could see that everything would start fall apart soon, especially in 2007

because you were a child.

I can't explain it. Everything today seems passive aggressive & negative, like people are making an active effort to be as much of a douchebag as they can within the rules. It's even worse on the internet. I think the rise of Reddit has contributed to it in some way, that site seems to reward people being cunty.

>tfw you will never be a 17yo sitting in a McDonalds on a long summer night in 1982, having a milkshake while waiting for your QT high school girlfriend to finish her shift so you can drive up to Lookout Point to make-out

Because apparently you weren't around between 1986 and 1999.

So uh Pruane

Shut the fuck up, it was still shit but not as bad as now for obvious reasons.

The 90s was the last great period of human history.

mid 00's weren't the best of times.

50's were the peak, (for America anyway) and the late 80's/early 90's were the climax. everything past the early 90's into the mid 00's were the last dying gasp of western civilization. And it's been on a downward spiral ever since.

I was 15 in 2000 bro.

Everything seems so commercialised and 'plastic' now too. As if everything's too scripted. I can't really explain it any better than that though.

This.
I want less connectivity between people.
It's ruined human nature.

50's > 60's > 70's > 80's > 90's > 00's


this is irrefutable.

Ditch all social media

the last years were terrible. crisis after crisis .so annoying

>immediate aftermath of 9/11
>more carefree
No, you were just a child

Ditch cell phones and portable computers.

I lived far away from the US back then, it barely affect us in Singapore.

affected*

a rotten roadkill skunk > 2010's

At least we have each other.

Things in the US were better before a black guy sued a white guy for hiring his slave and giving him a wage and the courts ruled in favor of the black guy to let blacks enslave their own race in the USA.

90's were way better desu

What? Are you fucking serious?

Social media destroyed the internet.

Protocol for the net was new and unestablished, you could post,say or hold any opinion without getting back "Omg what you wrote is so ....ist."
Freedom has fallen from the net too when they let children on to it, should have been 18+ only to go online.

ya pretty much. time to an hero lads

'40 to '45 > all those

The 2000's had a lot of shitty cultural movements like emo and dudebro, feminism very hit but slut culture was strong. The 90's was a much better time, cold war was over and Islam was a novelty.

this time only seems carefree to me because I was in junior high.

because we were still young

Everybody thought the CIA recording everything on the Net in redundant server farm warehouses underground so that they can black bag anyone at any time was a conspiracy meme.

Alex Jones was a crazy kook to say that elections were rigged in the West.

There wasn't a government agenda to protect furries with censorship and invented "hate speech" crimes.

The world media wasn't filtered through a single massive government-controlled social platform like Kikebook.

Truly, it was an undespoiled digital Eden

this

>pruane
I know for a fact I have seen this guy before but I cant for the life of me remember why

Normies joining the net ruined everything. Now you have moms, dads, uncles, employers on it that can reach the far corners of the web in a few clicks and know all about what you;re up to, not to mention them changing the culture of the place.

That's rough

He made some videos and everyone made fun of him for being unbelievably ugly

Because Google/FB/others went techno fascists. So did the forums.

>nostalgia thread about being child

How fucked is civilization Sup Forums? Is it almost time to go innawoods?

Because the economy was doing pretty well in the early 2000's until the global financial crisis

Meh. Production values were shit, video quality wad awful. But at least we had nobodies making popular content. Now it's been hijacked by celebrities and PC cuckd.

It's possible(albeit unlikely) that things are starting to improve now that Brexit has happened and right wing political parties are gaining support worldwide, if things get much worse I'll be joining you innawoods

FIGHT BACK YOU CHOOSE FUCK TALK DONT BECOME THE NORMIE TO HIDE THAT YOU'RE NOT
BE REAL

>COMING NEXT SUMMER
youtube.com/watch?v=B3J6CyeFUds

All the cities will be nuked as World War 3 starts. We only got a few more years till most of the liberals die.

It wasn't. It fucking sucked. The taliban was running rampant. Things got a bit better for a while and now back to shit because we have ISIS running around. The glory days were pre 2000. You're probably just too damn young to remember.

>It's another thread full of nostalgiafags pining for the decade when they were a carefree kid with no job or responsibilities, and pretending it was a so much more innocent time than now

Classic jawsus, those were good times

HELLO IT'S MY BIRTHDAY YAYAYAAAAYAYYEYYEY

Heh I wonder what happened to that kid.

he became a cuck

Me too. How's it feel for you being 30 and stuck on Sup Forums? W8ing for death here desu

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I'm 33. I want to die.

post-9/11 hysteria you say?

>pruane2forever
>hello youtube in a nasally voice
>crooked teefs
>mongol eyes
>nigga lips
>years later
>actually looks OK although he's still kind of a dweeb

It brought it to its natural conclusion, it's all the same social patterns but faster and more distilled. Eventually we'll have to make an honest effort to become all together better people or the future of discourse is nonstop shitposting and meming but it probably always was anyway.

>Le silly dumb white people meme.
Tell me how many Sup Forumsacks actually post in tehse threads unironically?

Definitely not him.

He's still making videos though

PJW let himself go

make that 1979 or earlier before reagan "trickle down"

>I was 15 in 2000 bro.

Same, I turned 15 in April. Still remember vividly playing Wing Commander 3 on my PC during New Years 1999, things really haven't changed all that much for me.

You're right how everything feels more plastic, the world has just become a lot more processed than it used to be. Processed emotions and feelings 'pray for X country!', processed TV (as in, even reality TV is scripted), processed controversy. It's all bullshit. I was just to go back to playing Wing Commander 3 in my bedroom, those were carefree days.

Yep.

He closed his youtube account

Those years were marked by me spending countless hours playing Morrowind, Vice City, Rome Total War, May Payne, Pokemon, etc etc to the point that it was more fun than chasing girls. It was truly a fun time. And it was economically solid period in my country.

I remember watching the news on 9/11 and I gave absolutely zero fucks about it.

>a government agenda to protect furries

What?

90s when Pokemon first came out (ocarina of time was also around same time if I remember)

half-life 2 was a fucking amazing game and I couldn't wait to play the next one

a buffalo taking a diharea dump in your ear > 2010s

>old Sup Forums will never be a thing ever again

God, McDonalds looked happier then.

Look at it now.

Mainstream culture was still better in the 90a, which coincidentally was the god tier time in America and the civilized world

This.

Internet felt more free because it was at the end of the "Wild West" period. Connection speeds had advanced past 56k & DSL. The DotCom bubble had burst, and the surviving websites were generally (not always) very functional. Instead of purchasing goods from 100 specific sites, we purchased from a handful of refined and functional sites (eBay, Amazon, online retailers) ((still have their flaws, but Amazon was a huge triumph over Mom & Pop's WebDev101 project)).

2010s has been marked by the further consolidation of services. Now, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook track you to determine what you see on the web. New services provided are met with lukewarm to neutral responses. Users are losing the ability to say "No" or "Dislike" to things they do not like. Businesses have perfected viral marketing; trying to downvote a shoddy product is like pissing in a sea of marketer spam. Online retailers (Amazon & Ebay specifically) do not show items based on search match; instead, they provide favortism to companies that pay them for higher search ranking. Instead of having one or two web browsers that can access the entire lexicon of information; websites are reverting by enforcing the use of their own software (apps) so they can monitor you.

I would say it is a shame, but only a matter of time until a new technology or medium comes to replace this. Then we'll have the Wild West days again. The key takeaway from all this, and very important to any youngsters reading this--- when you lose the ability to say "No" or "Fuck off", you need to move on. Don't feed bad business behavior.

people were more equal in the 90's, self accountability was a thing

This
80s were GOAT, followed by the 90s.
2000s+ are absolute dogshit.

What if in 10 years we look back at these times and say they were the best. Put things into perspective you simpletons.

90s in my country were marked by war and recovering from the war. Late 90s were cool. Culturally, our society got more open about sex and shit, which basically led to slut standard we have today.

Shouldn't "Music" be lumped together into "Art"? Drawing or painting a picture, sculpting a 3D design, and writing/performing music require some degree intellect.

I'd love to connect with another user from the UK, but I know it would just be horrifically uncomfortable and they'd just think I was ugly

Churn some maple syrup, faggot.

Don't feed bad business behavior? What do you mean by that?

That sounds like something out of Happy Days, which was the 50's.

Is that Jay Bauman?

No time is better or worse. All times are marked by impermanence. Whether enjoyable or not enjoyable, nothing lasts. That which is impermanent is, ultimately, suffering. To attain peace, become detached from all times. Nothing can be grasped or held on to, everything slips through our fingers. The great mistake is attempting to build a permanent sandcastle on the beach. Sooner or later, it will be washed away. Then what will you do? Stop living as if permanence can be attained and all anxieties will melt away.

Fuck off leaf

Easy example: Disliking and complaining about a certain company's "journalism" ethics, yet, still clicking on their articles.

Kotaku: Even with ads turned off, they still use their daily unique user statistics to maintain relations with advertisers. If you are spinning in your chair with anger because Gorilla Hernandez wrote an article comparing Pokemon to Transgender Rape--- you clicking on that article or linking the article in a Sup Forums thread fuels their fire.

I see, thanks

80s and 90s IRL was the best.

'05-'07 was the best on the internet. Now memers have ruined everything.

This board is for adults, please leave

>It's a "I was born in the wrong generation" episode
oh lads

Completely this.

Is that the Vox reporter with the greasy hair as a kid????

He was making new videos for a while, he actually ended up looking somewhat normal.

>make it during the days of jimmy carter
fuck no

Yeah he finally got off the braces and got his shit together, still an autist but there was slight self improvement.

I knew he'd grow up to be a pussyslayer

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