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What was the bigger change and why, 2026 vs 2006, or 2006 vs 1986. (lemmy.world)
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Prompted by all the commencements making the news.

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[–] 33 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (10 children)

Pre-2006:

  • End of the Cold War and the USSR
  • 9/11, the war on terror, invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan
  • Cell phones, laptops, public GPS, WiFI
  • The internet, Wikipedia, Amazon, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit
  • Public awareness of global warming

Post-2006:

  • 2008 financial crisis
  • Smart phones
  • TikTok, Instagram, Netflix
  • Covid-19
  • LLMs, generative AI

I’m sure I’m overlooking some things, but the pre-2006 decades seem like a more drastic change overall.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    All of the pairs of decades going back to 1906 have been a bigger swing than than 2006-26. This century seems on track to be a bit more like the 19th, in terms of social change.

    Edit: Although, Those platforms were all brand new, and Reddit didn't really take off at all until Digg died years later. The basic ideas existed, but they weren't a part of everyday life yet.

    Politics has shifted way more on this side of 2006, as well.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    The tech stuff on your pre-2006 list brings to mind the phrase "The future is here, but it's not evenly distributed yet."

    Those things technically existed, a few of them were in their infancy, but for the most part they hadn't reshaped society yet.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    1986 to 2006 is a massive leap as far as LGBTQIA+ rights an even as far as recognizing some of those letters as actual things not to mention the whole spectrum, awareness, representation, those things have largely improved. I know it's a bit hard to reckon with now we seem to be on a backslide but trust we'll make it

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    Being gay is cool in progressive crowds now, where in 2006 it was still an insult. The pride movement came to exist at all over the 66-86 period.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (2 children)

    I'll go back and tell that to all the rural and suburban kids who were scared to come out in my high school in the 90s. In the cities sure that might be true, but out here not so much, you are right that the movement started much earlier though but we didn't feel the changes here. I really don't know what to say about it being cool or whatever, it was definitely never cool here so

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    Not sure if you caught that before my ninja edit or not.

    Yes, of course, the trajectory has continued. For cis gay people it hasn't really stopped improving, even, despite government efforts. All three decade pairs were transformative in their own way. From a political non-issue to a fight, from a fight to basic rights, or from basic rights to social acceptability.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Yeah, I just took it the wrong way as usual lol, I just thought in regards to the question at hand it was a bigger attitude shift from 86-06 than 06-26 but I guess it all depends on where you are talking about and all that

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Smartphones were 100% around before 2006, FYI Even some of the "dumb" phones (like the OG Razr) could browse the web, take pictures/video, watch TV, etc. They were just becoming increasingly commonplace as the costs went down.

    On a related note, Apple did not invent the smartphone. They just happened to become the first really popular one, thanks mostly to marketing, because the OG iPhone was garbage (it couldn't even copy and paste) especially compared to Android and WebOS (or even Windows, BlackberryOS, or Garnett - which didn't look pretty but were more capable than iOS at the time).

    It only got good after it stole a ton of features and designs from Android and WebOS (which was a wildly underrated mobile OS that is more or less, what all modern smartphone homescreen interfaces are based on, in fact Android hired the guy who made WebOS's UI to fix up Android's interface, which Apple largely copied). Unfortunately for WebOS, it was horribly mismanaged and a real mess on the back end because of said mismanagement, making it a pain in the ass to develop for (meaning, there weren't many apps).

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