Does anybody else find it hard to believe this decade is nearly over?

Disease Ridden

I find it amazing how quickly the last 9 years have flew. You know the way when you see tv footage from, say, the 1970's or 80's, it looks all characteristic of those times? Well, I wonder what camera footage of this decade will look like when we look back at it in the 2030s say! Will all the trends, advertising etc look all "2000's-ie" or will it just look like some decade wherby everybody will look at each other and say, "eh, did anything actually happen there?"

So yeah, does anybody else find it strange that next year we'll be into the 2010s? Why have I so few memores of the last 9 years!!!

Disease Ridden

Disease Ridden wrote: »

I find it amazing how quickly the last 9 years have flew. You know the way when you see tv footage from, say, the 1970's or 80's, it looks all characteristic of those times? Well, I wonder what camera footage of this decade will look like when we look back at it in the 2030s say! Will all the trends, advertising etc look all "2000's-ie" or will it just look like some decade wherby everybody will look at each other and say, "eh, did anything actually happen there?"

So yeah, does anybody else find it strange that next year we'll be into the 2010s? Why have I so few memores of the last 9 years!!!

Did you sleepwalk through them.

tony1kenobi

No. It took exactly the same amount of time to pass as all the other decades.

Digital capture just made it clearer.

Disease Ridden

Deleted User wrote: »

Did you sleepwalk through them.

I remember bits and pieces but I dont feel like I have 112 months worth of memories in my head...those months went far too quickly!

Capt'n Midnight

It's still 2001 in Ethiopia

Senna

In years to come this decade will be a clip of two planes flying into buildings and a picture of a graph, with a red line going up till 2007 then falling down to nothing.
Bit of a ****e decade really.

tony1kenobi

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

It's still 2001 in Ethiopia

Do they know it's Christmas?

Melange

Is it just me, or did the 00s/naughties/whatever not have its own particular and distinctive style? The 70s and 80s, in terms of fashion, outlook and music, are immediately identifiable. They seem distinctive, somehow, in a way that the past decade simply didn't.

tech77

Melange wrote: »

Is it just me, or did the 00s/naughties/whatever not have its own particular and distinctive style? The 70s and 80s, in terms of fashion, outlook and music, are immediately identifiable. They seem distinctive, somehow, in a way that the past decade simply didn't.

Soullessness maybe?

Melange

tech77 wrote: »

Soullessness maybe?

Yeah, the 00s could certainly be seen as the age in which celeb-obsessed cultural vacuity truly came of age.

Disease Ridden

Melange wrote: »

Is it just me, or did the 00s/naughties/whatever not have its own particular and distinctive style? The 70s and 80s, in terms of fashion, outlook and music, are immediately identifiable. They seem distinctive, somehow, in a way that the past decade simply didn't.

I have a sort of theory that people during the 60s, 70s, 80s, and to a lesser extent the 90s, tried to make their time period distinguishable from the others. People in the 00's didnt care or else just stole fashion, music etc from the earlier decades :cool:

tony1kenobi

Melange wrote: »

Is it just me, or did the 00s/naughties/whatever not have its own particular and distinctive style? The 70s and 80s, in terms of fashion, outlook and music, are immediately identifiable. They seem distinctive, somehow, in a way that the past decade simply didn't.

It comes with age...the 70's 80's or 90's are easily identifiable to you because you were at an impressionable age at that time.

Now though everything sounds bland and unoriginal.

It isn't that everything has been done before, it's that you have seen more and new things are just less interesting because you may have other more pressing concerns.

conorlechance

Incidents which will stick in my mind:

Single currency
bohemians winning the league for the first time in ages in 2001/2002
ireland world cup 2002
9/11
madrid bombings
greece euro cup 04
italy winning world cup 2006
zidane headbutt on materazzi
ireland winning 6 nations
johnny wilkinson for england in the rugby world cup final 03
recession

Capt'n Midnight

The 00's were about materialism and the "me generation"

towel401

Web 2.0 will be something to remember

tony1kenobi

towel401 wrote: »

Web 2.0 will be something to remember

You'd need to tell me what that is before I'll remember it.

congo_90

Good god now I feel old!
Only just turned 19 Time certainly flies. Pictures of the millenium dome, the spire and the port tunnel under the title "fail".

Comedians will joke about the housing prices.
Awh its all sad now off to PI to spam some "I think im pregnant" thread..

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

Melange wrote: »

Is it just me, or did the 00s/naughties/whatever not have its own particular and distinctive style? The 70s and 80s, in terms of fashion, outlook and music, are immediately identifiable. They seem distinctive, somehow, in a way that the past decade simply didn't.

This decade certainly had a feel, just you don't notice it cos we're still in it!
Come back to this thread in 2020 and you'll see.

Melange

Hmm... If I were to sum up this decade on a grand scale, it would be:

Begins with a recession (dot-com bubble bursting)
9/11
Global sense of uncertainty
War in Afghanistan
A senseless war in Iraq
Geo-Political tensions - anti-American sentiment, a volatile Middle-East, an aggresively resurgent Russia, the rise of China
A global economic boom which was largely imbalanced and unsustainable
The rise and fall of excessive credit
A global recession of stunning severity

Ultimately, I reckon the 00s will be seen as the decade in which the unipolar, American led economic and political world order was severely shaken, if not almost destroyed by its own excesses.

Melange

Melange wrote: »

Is it just me, or did the 00s/naughties/whatever not have its own particular and distinctive style? The 70s and 80s, in terms of fashion, outlook and music, are immediately identifiable. They seem distinctive, somehow, in a way that the past decade simply didn't.

You can't be nostalgic about the past until it is the past! the naughties are still here and now!

Things need to change/evolve a bit before you can be nostalgic about the bits that got left behind. Except for music and fashion that keep on getting regurgitated again and again.

Melange

Deleted User wrote: »

Except for music and fashion that keep on getting regurgitated again and again.

Ah, but the reason that I compared the 00s to the 70s and 80s was that their music and fashion seemed to be genuinely fresh and new, not a recycled variant on something that went before.

Skyuser

00's is without a doubt the decade of the internet. Biggest memories will come from 9/11 terrorist attacks, Iraq war, 1st US black president and the global recession.

towel401

Skyuser wrote: »

00's is without a doubt the decade of the internet. Biggest memories will come from 9/11 terrorist attacks, Iraq war, 1st US black president and the global recession.

1700's maybe. back in those days we had to wait a whole 3 hours before we'd have enough steam just to get the computer running. longer to get the modem going and speeds were measured in bits per minute yet everyone stood around gazing in awe at the mechanical computer as the typewriter appeared to type a letter by itself at a painfully slow rate.

we had no bittorrent back then just private servers where you'd download a thing onto a punch card and have the piano play by itself. still I have fond memories of playing Doom 0 and Initial Fantasy on a steam powered behemoth of a machine that took up the basement of the whole freaking castle

5starpool

congo_90 wrote: »

Good god now I feel old!
Only just turned 19 Time certainly flies.

Feck off, ffs.

Kiith

5starpool wrote: »

Feck off, ffs.

Thats exactly what i was thinking. Saying you feel old at 19? Christ i feel super old now.

Sofiztikated

Anybody have any idea what the next decade is going to be called?

You know, the 70's, 80's, 90's, naughties (stupid name, ffs.), and then the ... Not a clue. Tens? doesn't sound right. Teens? But there's 3 years that doesn't have teen in it.

The 00's were some very "memorable" years, as far as fashion goes.

Everybody thinks the 80's were the years fashion forgot? Well, the 00's copied the forgotten years. There's frigging jumpsuits back in fashion now. They weren't nice the first time round. They're still not nice. The only ones that can remotely get away with them are thin waif like creatures. Unfortunately, we don't get many of them around here. Good hefty cultchie girls crowbar'ed into them does not a pretty sight make.

EMO. Oh f*ck off. Skinny jeans, c*nt.

A mild resurgence in Grunge. Yay. If I could get away with it, I would.

Again, skinny jeans, this time teamed with ballet pumps. Irish wimmens should not wear them. No matter what you think, you don't have the figure for them. Noone does. I like big butts and the rest of that song, but it makes your arse look fat.

And all the rage at the moment? That neon futuristic retro transexual ****e because of that Lady GaGa c*nt. Oh your so cool, in de pub, drinkin yourself into a drunken, puking mess, with your luminous clothes. I swear on my life, I was driving through Cavan one day, and outside a pub was this young wan, wearing:
luminous yellow high heels
luminous yellow knee high stockings
luminous yellow hot pants
luminous yellow tee-shirt top
luminous yellow hair band
luminous yellow big hoopy ear rings
luminous yellow bangles and braclets
luminous yellow handbag
luminous yellow eye shadow
and in her hand, luminous yellow plastic sunglasses.

She looked like a friggin tennis ball. Only she wasn't round, she looked quite trim.

Music wise? Think the 00's were the years of **** loads of number 1's that noone particularly liked!

Umbrella-ella-ella-ella-ella-ella-ella-ella-ella-ella-ella-ella No wonder Chris hit you a slap, he thought you were stuck on a loop!

That Basshunter git. Every scummy civic and golf going round town blaring this out. You're worse than Scooter!

Speaking of himself, Scooter attempting to come back every couple of years. Stop. Not in the next decade please.

2005 saw the Crazy Frog, and people with no imagination everywhere celebrated, and got the song by the millions.

Sporting events kinda passed me by, not a sports fan, people.

It also saw events (in no particular order other than what I can remember) such as

9/11
Madrid bombings
Resurgance in Lebabon/Afganhistan/Iran/Iraq/DirkaDirkastan (I know, blatant Team America rip, but hey, its 4.20 in the morning, brain is not hectic)
Hurricane Katriona
JP 2 died
Tsunami in Malaysia
George Bush lasting 8 years in power without actually knowing how he got there
First Black US president
dotcom crash
Failure of Y2K crash (I was so looking forward to this.)


Thats all I can think of at the moment.

S.I.R

chinese democracy by the new GNR also came out last year...


fair few years waiting, Brilliant album.... quickly forgotten

MagicMarker

S.I.R wrote: »

fair few years waiting, Brilliant album.... quickly forgotten

Because it's shíte.

walshb

The main thing that will stick in my mind was the celebrating the new Millennium a year early!

Abi

Its funny how people get all philosophical and nostalgic after 12am. But as the old saying goes 'the early bird catches the worm'. Indeed, if you are like the bird you might catch a few pics in KYN before they sober up and start surfing their own posts..... :pac:

I don't remember much of the last 10 years. I find it hard to believe I was pissed for the whole decade, but its not impossible.. Either that or I've chosen to forget.

DublinWriter

Disease Ridden wrote: »

So yeah, does anybody else find it strange that next year we'll be into the 2010s? Why have I so few memores of the last 9 years!!!

Not really - it's called getting older - the older you get the more speedily time seems to pass. I remember when I was a kid that a week seemed to last as long as a month does now.

Tech3

Disease Ridden wrote: »

So yeah, does anybody else find it strange that next year we'll be into the 2010s? Why have I so few memores of the last 9 years!!!

Probably cause you did nothing in the last 10 years. Life will pass away by tommorrow youll be 70 .

Mr Benevolent

The decade's not over until the end of 2010.

nyarlothothep

hmmm good films
crap music
crap fashion
return of 80s nostalgia to detriment of originality
film re-makes
greed
911
war on terror manufactured paranoia
The Iraq war
Christian/Islamic fundamentalism in your face
The rise and rise of Scientology

all in all 1/10.

Capt'n Midnight

Melange wrote: »

Hmm... If I were to sum up this decade on a grand scale, it would be:

Begins with a recession (dot-com bubble bursting) which decade didn't have a recession
9/11 media event, per capita Omagh was worse and look how the Bi Laden family were treated in the following days
Global sense of uncertainty like a cold war ?
War in Afghanistan go tell the Russians and the Brits
A senseless war in Iraq again tell the Brits and the Americans
Geo-Political tensions - anti-American sentiment, a volatile Middle-East, an aggresively resurgent Russia, the rise of China nothing new here , midd east has been vlatile for at least 7,000 years and Napoleon called China a sleeping giant
A global economic boom which was largely imbalanced and unsustainable
The rise and fall of excessive credit
A global recession of stunning severityagain not new, the biggest difference is that the rise was continued so long

Ultimately, I reckon the 00s will be seen as the decade in which the unipolar, American led economic and political world order was severely shaken, if not almost destroyed by its own excesses. sputnik shook the US far more, Oil is bought in dollars and the US spend more on military than everyone else except the UK put together, so they are still the dog in the manger

So nothing new there , when the new UK embassy opened in Afganistan , George Bush was president , Kylie was number 1, there was trouble in the middle-east and if you dig down a little I wouldn't be suprised if there wasn't a similar ferry disaster in the Philipines

maybe we are too close to see the changes

There was a format change in video disks
There is a tiny amount of TV now that is higher resolution than the system in use in France in the 1940's

CPU's have gotten faster by having more cores rather than more MHz, but the commercial transputer dates from the 1980's

TV going digital, that happened in the early 90's with satellite, what's happening now is that governments are selling off bandwidth , it's just the 3G auctions again

3G is nice, but if you look at the cost of the licenses and the bandwidth available it will never be cheap , for many it's a return to dial up speeds


We've got more wind farms ?

Peteee

Melange wrote: »

Is it just me, or did the 00s/naughties/whatever not have its own particular and distinctive style? The 70s and 80s, in terms of fashion, outlook and music, are immediately identifiable. They seem distinctive, somehow, in a way that the past decade simply didn't.

You need to be about 20 years away from the time period to have a decent outlook on it.

Go watch some early 90's TV or films, they will have a very distinctive look that will scream '90's'

Also 2010-2020 will be known as the 'twenty tens' just like 'nineteen ten'. All bets are still off for 2000-2010 though.

Steoob

Confab wrote: »

The decade's not over until the end of 2010.

So by your logic the 70's didn't end untill the end of 1980?

deco05ie

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

CPU's have gotten faster by having more cores rather than more MHz, but the commercial transputer dates from the 1980's

CPU's have gotten faster thanks to better architecture. MHz is not a measurement of how good a cpu is and never was

during the Pentium run it just happened to be a good indicator, lower frequency AMD chips were faster then Pentium's

AnonoBoy

Why has nobody mentioned the invention of the microwave breakfast roll yet?

speedboatchase

Crazy decade, easy to forget so much wasnt around in the 90s:

9/11
Iraq War
Simon Cowell
Lost
YouTube
Superhero Movies
1st U.S Black President
Big Brother
Abramovich buys Chelsea
Hair Straighteners
Cristiano Ronaldo
"Metrosexuals"
Hurricane Katrina
Kanye West
Fox News
Britney goes insane
Lord of the Rings films
Recession
Greece somehow win Euro 2004
George Bush
Bebo/Facebook
iPod
The Simpsons stops being funny
Nintendo Wii

Caoimhín

It is all a bit of a haze for me.

Mr Benevolent

So by your logic the 70's didn't end untill the end of 1980?

Yes. Perfectly logical. If you're confused, let's pretend we have a timer counting up to 100 seconds. 1, 2, 3... 98, 99... that's 99 seconds. Not 100. We'll only be able to count 100 when we reach the end of the 100th second.

Get it? That's why it was stupid to celebrate the millenium in 1999, because '99 wasn't the end of the millenium, 2000 was.

Steoob

Confab wrote: »

Yes. Perfectly logical. If you're confused, let's pretend we have a timer counting up to 100 seconds. 1, 2, 3... 98, 99... that's 99 seconds. Not 100. We'll only be able to count 100 when we reach the end of the 100th second.

Get it? That's why it was stupid to celebrate the millenium in 1999, because '99 wasn't the end of the millenium, 2000 was.

Eh... timers start at 0, the first millennium started at 0...

Find me a timer that starts at 1. Can someone back me up here?

Dudess

Melange wrote: »

Is it just me, or did the 00s/naughties/whatever not have its own particular and distinctive style? The 70s and 80s, in terms of fashion, outlook and music, are immediately identifiable. They seem distinctive, somehow, in a way that the past decade simply didn't.

Agreed - and the same with the 90s (apart from the very early part of the decade - all that acieeeed house stuff is very distinctive). Probably because styles since have just embraced those that went before them, with the odd exception though in fairness (e.g. when it comes to fashion: Uggs).

congo_90 wrote: »

Good god now I feel old!
Only just turned 19

LOL :rolleyes:

Time certainly flies.

Oh yes, wise old (wo)man that you are...

DublinWriter wrote: »

Not really - it's called getting older - the older you get the more speedily time seems to pass.

Not true! A fraction was shaved off the second (as in the unit of time) in the mid 90s - it's not a conspiracy theory, it's true!

Yeah, five years ago just seems recent to me, whereas when I was, say 12, five years previously was an eternity ago.

Melange

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

sputnik shook the US far more, Oil is bought in dollars and the US spend more on military than everyone else except the UK put together, so they are still the dog in the manger

It's true that the US still posesses an overpoweringly large military and the world's reserve currency, but it no longer feels that this will inevitably continue into the future. China has continued on its path of economic growth through this recession (albeit at a slightly slower rate), while the US struggles with a hard recession. It's now reckoned that the US will be overtaken as the world's largest economy in the 2020s, a decade or two earlier than projections of as little as a few years ago. Also, the military ventures in Iraq and Afghanistan have starkly proved the limits of American power.

Yes, the US is still global top dog, but not since the height of the Cold War has its hold upon that position felt more tenuous.

Peteee wrote:

Go watch some early 90's TV or films, they will have a very distinctive look that will scream '90's'

Not from my perception. The only instantly identifiable thing about the 90s to me is the male hairstyles!

GLaDOS

Steoob wrote: »

Eh... timers start at 0, the first millennium started at 0...

Find me a timer that starts at 1. Can someone back me up here?

Ha, exactly what I was gonna say. Just like a minute goes from 0-59, the 60th second is the first (0) of the next minute

nyarlothothep

Melange wrote: »

It's true that the US still posesses an overpoweringly large military and the world's reserve currency, but it no longer feels that this will inevitably continue into the future. China has continued on its path of economic growth through this recession (albeit at a slightly slower rate), while the US struggles with a hard recession. It's now reckoned that the US will be overtaken as the world's largest economy in the 2020s, a decade or two earlier than projections of as little as a few years ago. Also, the military ventures in Iraq and Afghanistan have starkly proved the limits of American power.

Yes, the US is still global top dog, but not since the height of the Cold War has its hold upon that position felt more tenuous.




Not from my perception. The only instantly identifiable thing about the 90s to me is the male hairstyles!

What about the skin tight exercise uniforms, the doc martins with the socks turned inside out at the top ala sonic the hedgehog, baggy jeans, grunge clothes, cargo pants, runners with the lights in them and tracksuits around 1998 with the stripes (which even at the time to me looked ridiculous but there ya go).

Melange

nyarlothothep wrote: »

What about the skin tight exercise uniforms, the doc martins with the socks turned inside out at the top ala sonic the hedgehog, baggy jeans, grunge clothes, cargo pants, runners with the lights in them and tracksuits around 1998 with the stripes (which even at the time to me looked ridiculous but there ya go).

Damn, I completely forgot about the baggy jeans and grunge clothes. As for the others, they're a little forgettable.

Ri_Nollaig

Melange wrote: »

Not from my perception. The only instantly identifiable thing about the 90s to me is the male hairstyles!

There is definitely a more noticeable style difference between early to mid 90s TV shows then todays.
For starters, intro are gone now in alot of shows, just replaced wit the logo or something.
Also, while it started in the 90's (cops) the 00s will certainly be remembered for reality TV
Inparticular the singing ones, complete shít that they are

nyarlothothep

Melange wrote: »

Damn, I completely forgot about the baggy jeans and grunge clothes. As for the others, they're a little forgettable.

Probably for the best

Ri_Nollaig

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Ha, exactly what I was gonna say. Just like a minute goes from 0-59, the 60th second is the first (0) of the next minute

while I agree 100% with the 0-59 second = 1st minute AND I also consider 2010 to be the next decade just like 2000 was the first in this.
But
was there a 0AD? did it not go 1BC -> 1AD ...? just saying