• mydoomlessaccount@infosec.pub
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    5 months ago

    I’m biased towards Y2K from the nostalgia, since those were the prime years of my childhood right before my teenage years kicked in.

    But, I love the design of that time because of how obsessed with futurism everything was. It took the future chic look of the mid-late '60s and revamped it, taking that hype for the future- with the Space Race- bringing it back, and updating it for the Information Age.

    It felt like we, as a society, had so much optimism for the world that was to come. So, if anything, I think that’s what I’m mostly nostalgic for. I was so excited to grow up in that world. Damn.

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      It felt like we, as a society, had so much optimism for the world that was to come. So, if anything, I think that’s what I’m mostly nostalgic for. I was so excited to grow up in that world. Damn.

      As with anything regarding the past, there’s a lot of rose-tinted glasses going on. Be careful what you wish for

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        5 months ago

        I would also argue we lived in a pre-9/11 world.

        It us shocking how much the world changed in response for the sake of security and safety, and I know it’s a controversial take but the terrorists succeed in changing the world to their image.

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          Before: wow, this new thing is literally 4 times faster with a fuckload of features.

          After : wow, this new thing allows 800 companies, fifty countries and 2 superpowers to spy on me at the same time and has 4 times the bloatware!

          And all the alternatives do the same thing!

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      Me too, on the design, what I like about it is it wasn’t the ultra clean look futurism of the 1980s it was sort of collided with grunge.