Flat screen TVs replaced CRT in the 2000’s, the iPhone came out in 2007, HD home media in the form of Blu-Ray, the PS3 and xBox 360, and mass internet adoption all occurred in the 2000s. You just didn’t think it was special because you were growing up with it. The slow web pages you complain about are because telecom companies in the US took billions of federal grants to upgrade their systems and then just pocketed it
The 1990s had better graphics almost every year.
One year you were playing single-color blocks with bleeps and bloops
and the next year you’re suddenly looking at controlling real looking people with sound and music.
You just didn’t think it was special because you were growing up with it.
It wasn’t special because adoption happened painfully slow.
HD home media in the form of Blu-Ray
Blu-Ray was just another fancier DVD, which was another fragile CD.
It wasn’t a completely new looking device like SD cards, USB sticks or floppy disks.
Flat screen TVs replaced CRT in the 2000’s, the iPhone came out in 2007, HD home media in the form of Blu-Ray, the PS3 and xBox 360, and mass internet adoption all occurred in the 2000s. You just didn’t think it was special because you were growing up with it. The slow web pages you complain about are because telecom companies in the US took billions of federal grants to upgrade their systems and then just pocketed it
Mass internet adoption took a full decade.
The 1990s had better graphics almost every year.
One year you were playing single-color blocks with bleeps and bloops
and the next year you’re suddenly looking at controlling real looking people with sound and music.
It wasn’t special because adoption happened painfully slow.
Blu-Ray was just another fancier DVD, which was another fragile CD.
It wasn’t a completely new looking device like SD cards, USB sticks or floppy disks.