Why Did the 2000s Look Like That?
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Published 2024-04-25
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CONTENT
0:00 Intro
0:53 Why is Everything Chrome?
2:38 The Clear Craze
3:56 Gaming Aesthetics
5:37 Metalheart?
6:17 Gen X Soft Club
7:02 Fashion
7:55 My Thoughts
8:42 Conclusion
All Comments (21)
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Correction: 2:56 should just be Gameboy, not the advance (GBA). The original Gameboy model was made translucent as part of the "Play it Loud" product line after its initial release. A better (and more factually correct) example of clear tech in the 80s is the Unisonic 6900 corded telephone from 1987.
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Marketing. Companies wanted to look futuristic and "ahead of the curve". The dawn of the a new century was the perfect time to do that.
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the whole Y2K era was just the perfect time to be a young child... just take me back
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I feel like the minimal aesthetics today come from companies just being cheap.
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I felt like i was living more in the future in 2000 then now in 2024
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Honestly, I would be very happy if the world just got stuck in the late 90s and early 2000s. Sure, I will miss the smartphones that combine 10 gadgets of that era into your pocket but there was just that charm of having to go to different places to get what you wanted: library, movie rental stores, photostudios, arcades, Internet clubs and so on. People actually socialized more because of that.
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We had no idea how happy were, how good things were..
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The futurism of the late 90s-early 2000s was so creative and interesting. The designs, music (particularly electronic) and other media coming out of that era was really incredible. You could tell that people were optimistic and hopeful about the future with those sorts of visions. What a shame that we let em down, man.
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i miss it. i miss the internet still feeling a little bit lawless and being able to find little corners of the web untouched by algorithms and advertising. i miss buying something and owning it for life without having to pay monthly subscriptions. i miss not having instant answers to everything a click away, and actually having to take the time to discover things myself. i miss the aesthetics. i miss the pixels. i miss the slower pace.
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Y2K is my favorite aesethetic I still remember my uncle showing me the matrix when I was 6 and somthing about the aesethetic really clicked in for me.
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Those Y2K and early 2000s aesthetics look way much cooler than the aesthetics of today. Also, as a guy who wants to create his own independent comic books I would definitely bring back the Y2K aesthetic and put it into my own art really give it a major edge.
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Love Metalheart. Y2K was cool. Now all we have is flat modern boring stuff.
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I want to go back
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The fact that I’ll never be able to relive this time
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Everything was so colorful and felt more alive back in the early 2000's, shame that now everything is so minimalistic and void of any colors
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I really wish companies made translucent plastic versions of electronics again. I’ll never forget being young and going to a cousins house who had a green translucent nintendo 64 and having my mind blown as I’d never even knew they existed. Such a beautiful aesthetic that would be awesome to see on newer consoles and phones even.
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I was a young teenager in 2000 and remember it all well, especially the tech/gaming stuff - it was a FUN time to be a kid/teen
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Often design is influenced by the latest technology 2000s. Chrome influenced by more advanced 3D rendering 1980s: Neon influenced by the colors computers could display at that time Now: Minimalism influenced by needing wires less thanks to stronger Wi-FI, Bluetooth
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Can't believe that was 24 years ago...
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I just miss the sense of discovery and feeling like we were in the midst of a revolution. Now society and technology seems to have plateaued in recent years.
