“The 90s and 2000s were the same, only difference were cell phones”- how true is this?

[ThrobbingHood]

The iPhone came out in 2007

Thanks. I was thinking of the 3GS.

 

[acri1]

Biggest difference was that the Internet blew up in the 2000s.

Sure, it was around in the 90s, but it was mostly just dialup and a lot of people didn't have computers at home. The 2000s was when it went mainstream and social media first started to blow up.

 

[Windows 91]

I didn't even have internet for a lot of the 90s and then when we did get it it was slow dial-up where you'd get disconnected when the home phone rang.

Entering the 2000s really felt like the future. Broadband internet, online games, PS2, flip phones, MP3 and DVD players. The technology really started to take off in the early 2000s.

 

[HandyWithTheSteel]

There’s some truth to that. The 2000s felt like an extension of the late ‘90s.

Go watch videos or sports broadcast from the early to mid 2000s and it looks the ‘90s. The HD era changed everything.

The two defining events of the decade were 9/11 and the creation of the IPhone in 2007. But the effects weren’t felt until the 2010s.

 

[K.Y.R.I.E]

There’s some truth to that. The 2000s felt like an extension of the late ‘90s.

Go watch videos or sports broadcast from the early to mid 2000s and it looks the ‘90s. The HD era changed everything.

The two defining events of the decade were 9/11 and the creation of the IPhone in 2007. But the effects weren’t felt until the 2010s.

By 2002 it stopped feeling like the late 90s

It wasnt just because of 9/11 either ..it was already starting to transition culturally by mid 2001 like as early as may imo

 

[IIVI]

First half of the 2000's for sure.

When people started to wear really tight clothing, that was the change.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

*Early 2000s


Early 2000s was an extension of the 90s. Music, movies, and clubbing was still good. Cost of living was still cheap. If you made $40k in 2002 you was eating good.

 

[Space Cowboy]

By 2002 it stopped feeling like the late 90s

It wasnt just because of 9/11 either ..it was already starting to transition culturally by mid 2001 like as early as may imo

Nah. Music, clothing, culture, media still felt 90's. We were wearing baggy clothing, Phatfarm, Fubu. It wasn't until baggy clothing was considered wack and we stopped buying baggy stuff and Kanye won the feud against 50 Cent that it truly felt like a massive cultural shift which as I said was 2008. It was a slow transition.

 

[IIVI]

Nah. Music, clothing, culture, media still felt 90's. We were wearing baggy clothing, Phatfarm, Fubu. It wasn't until baggy clothing was considered wack and we stopped buying baggy stuff and Kanye won the feud against 50 Cent that it truly felt like a massive cultural shift which as I said was 2008. It was a slow transition.

This right here.

Once Phat Farm/Baby Phat and the similar brands were finished it was basically a new era.

That was basically Pharrell and Kanye. Ice Creams, BBC () and BAPE pushing that expensive shyt put it into overdrive.

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

Complete 180 between the two decades.

2001: 9/11. The beginning of the ‘war on terror’ as we knew it.

2004: Bush’s 2nd term election was a complete travesty.

2005: Hurricane Katrina.

2005/06: YouTube changed the game.

2006: MySpace was the genesis of streaming music.

07/08: our generation’s “great depression” thanks to Bush and others.

07-09: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.

2009: The first iPhone.

It was all incremental but these changes each year really defined and laid the foundation for the 2010s. Absolutely nothing like the 90s.

Try and explain music video channels to someone born after 1999. They’ll look at you crazy. Who would actually sit and wait for their favorite video to play today?

Bush was so hated and still pulled the W
Kerry won all the debates etc
Bush was in the middle of the war

 

[Alexander Wiggin]

2000's golden era of black porn

Street dvd's

Mixtape era

TV shows were off the charts

Chasing unrealesed music on internet

 

[K.Y.R.I.E]

Nah. Music, clothing, culture, media still felt 90's. We were wearing baggy clothing, Phatfarm, Fubu. It wasn't until baggy clothing was considered wack and we stopped buying baggy stuff and Kanye won the feud against 50 Cent that it truly felt like a massive cultural shift which as I said was 2008. It was a slow transition.

You do know culture in the world is more than just what rappers are Doing right?

 

[Space Cowboy]

You do know pop culture in the world is more than just what rappers are Doing right?

Yeah, and pop culture in America was pretty damn 90's-ish.







This shyt would have popped off in white society even in the 90's. American Idiot is a 2004 song.

 

[Black White Sox Hat]

Not even close

 

[Turbulent]

Internet going mainstream is the most impactful. Music, porn, movies and tv shows going online at different points in time changed a lot of things too.

The cellphone pre-smart phone just meant anyone could be reached at anytime. When smartphones became mainstream (everyone having a hi resolution camera, super computer, constantly connected to the internet in their pocket) is when culture shifted imo.