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[–] Electricblush@lemmy.world 66 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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 90s to keep growing because everything after that is tainted with internet memes and increasing amount of ai slop.

[–] halykthered@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The nuclear wasteland future of The Terminator is 2029.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago

Optimistic, weren't they?

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The 2000 "election" was the beginning of the end.

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Hello fellow time traveler

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Me, who peaked in high school in the year 2002: That's fair

[–] aarRJaay@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Does that mean we're all enslaved by ChatGPT?

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 week ago

Sorry, I'm not sure how to approach this type of question yet. Let's chat about math, coding, and logic problems instead!

[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Maybe we're only supposed to have 4 fingers like people on the Simpsons.

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago
[–] officermike@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'd push the peak forward a smidge to late 2003, at least for where I'm from. Florida banned smoking indoors that year.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 week ago

9/11/2001 was the end of attitudes of the 90s, so I think the peak would have had to been before that.

[–] booly@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So basically the Internet before YouTube came out and sparked the rapid corporatization of the Internet we called "Web 2.0"

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Tiger@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I grew up before the internet… I think life in general might have been better before it.

[–] booly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Tiger@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

I agree with that. What I was thinking about was more so people getting atomized spending so much time on their phones, socializing less, receiving more disinformation, and so on.

Sure it used to take longer to meet up, but time was less compressed, you enjoyed the quiet in the time between moments, the chance to reflect. Sure it sucked people smoked in public places - but at least we were out more together at public places - the trend now is people do things together less in public than ever before.

Those kinds of differences.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

dimpled chads

[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

no truer words