Does anyone else genuinely miss the 2000s?

[ToroidalBoat]

be stuck in the 2000's as much as possible

Like I said, I pretty much still live in the '00s technologically. My phone service is landline. I still watch DVDs, and sometimes even VHS. With 2 exceptions, no console game is DLC. I don't use "cloud storage" for files. I don't have a "smart TV" (In Clown World, TV watches YOU!). If I want to find a place, I may draw a map on paper. "Social media"? What's that?

I really don't see the appeal of living like a soy technophile who "owns nothing".

 

[Sperghetti]

I really don't see the appeal of living like a soy technophile who "owns nothing".

Not to sound materialistic, but the “owning nothing” really weirds me out. It goes beyond just the media itself; I was actually talking with a friend the other day about the sheer amount of separate gadgets that have pretty much disappeared due to modern technology.

It used to be that you’d have a gizmo that was dedicated to one particular task, and if you wanted one, there was a wide range of different models available from “cheap, but it does the job” up to “expensive one meant for dedicated hobbyists or professionals”.

Now smartphones have so many functions that they’ve essentially replaced the low-to-mid-range end of the spectrum for most of these things, and all that’s left is the high-end stuff: Nobody buys music players anymore, they just use their phone unless they want a high-end stereo system. Nobody buys cameras anymore, they just use their phone unless they want a DSLR. I can't help but wonder many kids or teenagers today are never going to own a desktop or laptop computer aside from what they use for work.

Who would have ever guessed that “the future” would lead to things like dedicated electronics and video games stores going out of business?

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Who would have ever guessed that "the future" would lead to things like dedicated electronics and video games stores going out of business?

And the more life revolves around the smartphone, the more it seems like there's "no real life" anymore.

Especially with this endless "New Normal".

 

[Pointless Pedant]

Not to sound materialistic, but the “owning nothing” really weirds me out. It goes beyond just the media itself; I was actually talking with a friend the other day about the sheer amount of separate gadgets that have pretty much disappeared due to modern technology.

It used to be that you’d have a gizmo that was dedicated to one particular task, and if you wanted one, there was a wide range of different models available from “cheap, but it does the job” up to “expensive one meant for dedicated hobbyists or professionals”.

Now smartphones have so many functions that they’ve essentially replaced the low-to-mid-range end of the spectrum for most of these things, and all that’s left is the high-end stuff: Nobody buys music players anymore, they just use their phone unless they want a high-end stereo system. Nobody buys cameras anymore, they just use their phone unless they want a DSLR. I can't help but wonder many kids or teenagers today are never going to own a desktop or laptop computer aside from what they use for work.

Who would have ever guessed that “the future” would lead to things like dedicated electronics and video games stores going out of business?

What I find really weird about this thread is that people are conflating the idea of owning nothing (basically communism, or at least a very extreme version of it) with simple matters of better technologies surpassing old ones. I don't own a gramophone or a horse and carriage or a clothes mangle, so I'm living under communism! My entire concept of property rights is just having a bunch of separate obsolescent gadgets!

Also anyone who does professional or even serious amateur photography still buys cameras. You can't take high quality nature or astronomical photographs at long distance with a tiny phone camera.

 

[Never Scored]

What I find really weird about this thread is that people are conflating the idea of owning nothing (basically communism, or at least a very extreme version of it) with simple matters of better technologies surpassing old ones. I don't own a gramophone or a horse and carriage or a clothes mangle, so I'm living under communism! My entire concept of property rights is just having a bunch of separate obsolescent gadgets!

When I bought a DVD, there was little question I owned a single copy of the movie. No one could delete it from my closet. As long as I had a player and the DVD didn't get damaged I could watch the movie.

When I built a desktop PC in 2005 there was little question I owned it. I could install whatever compatible OS I wanted and replace hardware as I saw fit.

When I buy a movie on iTunes, I do not technically own it. If I store it in the cloud there is actually a chance Apple can delete it from my library and I can never watch it again with no recourse.

When I buy a phone, I cannot change out parts or change the OS as I see fit. I often cannot fix it. I often cannot add storage.

I picked these two examples because they are very clear cut examples of ownership and control people could exert a decade ago that have been diminished.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

When I bought a DVD, there was little question I owned a single copy of the movie. No one could delete it from my closet. As long as I had a player and the DVD didn't get damaged I could watch the movie.

When I built a desktop PC in 2005 there was little question I owned it. I could install whatever compatible OS I wanted and replace hardware as I saw fit.

When I buy a movie on iTunes, I do not technically own it. If I store it in the cloud there is actually a chance Apple can delete it from my library and I can never watch it again with no recourse.

When I buy a phone, I cannot change out parts or change the OS as I see fit. I often cannot fix it. I often cannot add storage.

I picked these two examples because they are very clear cut examples of ownership and control people could exert a decade ago that have been diminished.

Home desktop computers are still around and will be for the foreseeable future because of PC gaming (and to a lesser extent stuff like video editing). Phones are simply too small to completely replace them.

One thing I would agree with is that the complicated electronics in cars makes self repair a lot harder, but that's a trade since those electronics actually do something useful a lot of the time.

 

[Never Scored]

Home desktop computers are still around and will be for the foreseeable future because of PC gaming (and to a lesser extent stuff like video editing). Phones are simply too small to completely replace them.

One thing I would agree with is that the complicated electronics in cars makes self repair a lot harder, but that's a trade since those electronics actually do something useful a lot of the time.

Many desktop PCs now come with a UEFI built in with no legacy options that makes it more difficult to install some Linux distros. Microsoft is working on a "security chip" with AMD and Intel that is widely expected to make it harder to install operating systems besides Windows.

Besides that you're missing the point. The issue is not the electronics are complicated. The issue is you're locked out of doing shit with them even if you want to. The reason I can't install a different OS on my smartphone is not because it's too complicated. I'm specifically locked out of making changes to a device I have purchased because they have locked the phone's bootloader. The issue isn't that the electronics in your car make it harder to repair, the issue is the electronics have a built-in software lock to keep you from even trying.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

Many desktop PCs now come with a UEFI built in with no legacy options that makes it more difficult to install some Linux distros. Microsoft is working on a "security chip" with AMD and Intel that is widely expected to make it harder to install operating systems besides Windows.

Besides that you're missing the point. The issue is not the electronics are complicated. The issue is you're locked out of doing shit with them even if you want to. The reason I can't install a different OS on my smartphone is not because it's too complicated. I'm specifically locked out of making changes to a device I have purchased because they have locked the phone's bootloader. The issue isn't that the electronics in your car make it harder to repair, the issue is the electronics have a built-in software lock to keep you from even trying.

I wasn't aware of Microsoft's plans but given their history I'm not surprised. It will be interesting to see how the Linux community reacts to it if it comes out.

 

[Null]

Never make the mistake of watching a comedy special. Period. If you watch a recent one, it sucks shit. If you watch an old one, you're stunned and depressed.

Even terrible comedians, like I remember hating Lisa Lampanelli as a teenager because her entire routine was "I suck black dick", are funnier now. She makes so many hideously racist jokes about everyone and then says "but you know I'm just kidding I love fucking niggers", that was good enough to air it on Comedy Central even in the late 2000s. I tried to pull up Lampanelli to show someone how bad her routine was and I was laughing pretty fucking hard at it just because it had racist humor you'd get banned for on fucking YouTube now.

 

[AnOminous]

Who would have ever guessed that “the future” would lead to things like dedicated electronics and video games stores going out of business?

Guess what? The future SUCKS.

 

[Ruin]

Never make the mistake of watching a comedy special. Period. If you watch a recent one, it sucks shit. If you watch an old one, you're stunned and depressed.

Even terrible comedians, like I remember hating Lisa Lampanelli as a teenager because her entire routine was "I suck black dick", are funnier now. She makes so many hideously racist jokes about everyone and then says "but you know I'm just kidding I love fucking niggers", that was good enough to air it on Comedy Central even in the late 2000s. I tried to pull up Lampanelli to show someone how bad her routine was and I was laughing pretty fucking hard at it just because it had racist humor you'd get banned for on fucking YouTube now.

I cannot think of a single comedy central roast from 2000-2012 or so that you could air today without being canceled from polite society. It's madness how quickly everything has gone to shit.

 

[AnOminous]

I cannot think of a single comedy central roast from 2000-2012 or so that you could air today without being canceled from polite society. It's madness how quickly everything has gone to shit.

I can't even rate this more than Agree because even here has gone to shit.

 

[Slap47]

Hit the nail right on the head with these paragraphs; at least after 9/11 people united around the fact that America was a great country worth fighting for. People gave up high powered careers to pick up a rifle and teach those bastards a lesson. Nowadays, every time there's a terror attack, we get pieces saying "think of the poor Muslims who might experience Islamophobia" (my Android doesn't recognise that as a word lol) before the last victim has even expired.

You are mistaking the symptom as the problem. This new version of race obsessed politics emerged in the aftermath of Occupy Wall Street. A new awareness of the problem triggered this but the problem already existed.

 

[naught]

Yes, there seemed to be an innocence left.

 

[PaleTay]

I miss when the West had interesting ideas. For example, I recently thought of Chaotic which was a mix of Pokemon/Yu-Gi-Oh/Warhammer 40k, it was too episodic but still good and the TCG was better than Hearthstone, MTG Online and all their clones.

 

[Mamas boy]

What happened to people since then, man? Like, everyone (on here, and all of my friends) seems to agree that they hate the 2010s and miss the 2000s.

Who are all these people listening to this news trash music (while iconic classics only have 1 million views, and artists ive never even heard of are getting like 40 million on the first day), watching these trash movies and dressing like 90s special ed kids (and were born after 9/11)?
I refuse to believe that the people who agree are all just a niche group, and everyone else is having an absolute blast.

 

[Extreme Aneurysm]

The thing I miss from the early 2000's are the great amusement parks and the rides within those amusement parks that were taken from me and replaced with fag tier shit. All a fucker wants to do in life is drink a damn American sized soda with a corn dog in my hands, while listening to kids without phones in their hands having fun on rides! THEY TOOK THAT AWAY FROM MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

 

[pitawilson]

The thing I miss from the early 2000's are the great amusement parks and the rides within those amusement parks that were taken from me and replaced with fag tier shit. All a fucker wants to do in life is drink a damn American sized soda with a corn dog in my hands, while listening to kids without phones in their hands having fun on rides! THEY TOOK THAT AWAY FROM MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

You can hire an hour as a passenger in a plane doing high G maneuvers here, don't know about you. Sounds fun, try it.

 

[Extreme Aneurysm]

The 2000s had its own problems of course with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the 08' recession. The ""migrant crisis"" or at least the conditions for migrants to be exploited by the globalist EU elite for white-replacement duty began with those wars as well. That said, overall the 2000s weren't bad at all and the internet was great.

The 2010s on the other hand have been an absolute garbage time in which to live. A half-breed globalist President in office for the majority, the recession/housing collapse, the rise of SJWs, the death of late-night comedy, the Globohomo agenda being increased ten-fold, the rise of the big tech monopolies and corporate censorship... the 2010s were absolute shit, and thank god we only have sub-6 months left here.

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The 2020s I am relatively hopeful for.

"Hopeful for."
I have news for you.

 

[Android raptor]

9/11 was dope we got to watch the news instead of having to do math.

In all seriousness late 90s/early 00s were probably the best years of my life before I started getting severely gangbanged by mental illness. I was a bratty little shit kid, but I didn't give a fuck and had fun. Even the internet was a much simpler, wilder place.

Now you get fired if some stranger says you're racist and gets enough of their friends/sockpuppets to dogpile your employer. Doesn't matter if there's any truth to it or not. Meanwhile back in the day you could probably post nonstop DBZ x Sailor Moon futanari hentai in between walls of racial slurs and no one would give a shit because it was the internet.