YOU SHOULD KNOW RULE
2026-04-21 14:43 UTC
Replies (12)
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@thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-21 15:03
Ah yes, and the turbo light. Offering the illusion of some vague notion of enhanced speed of some sort, somewhere inside box. I had a pc with a 486mhz processor and and a cordless phone with a 900mhz processor. Both communicated via the same copper wires. And don’t forget Napster. What a time to be alive and chat in the Microsoft network chat rooms.
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@blitzen@lemmy.ca 2026-04-21 15:19
I always lived the Conan O’Brian “In the year 2000” bit, and it got even funnier after it actually was 2000.
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@hOrni@lemmy.world 2026-04-21 15:29
Back in 85, they thought 2015 sounds futuristic enough for hoverboards and self lacing shoes.
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@rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2026-04-21 20:43
I want to go back to *that* future. Remember when we had hope?
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@carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-21 20:22
now they just put a bunch of adjectives around the product's name New Super Phone U Deluxe Pro Max AI
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@egrets@lemmy.world 2026-04-21 19:47
> back in the 1900s Welp, guess I'm watching Bojack Horseman the whole way through again.
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@leftascenter@jlai.lu 2026-04-21 19:06
I'll just leave this her. https://www.optic2000.com/
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@DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2026-04-21 16:45
Judge Dredd has entered the chat He was featured in a comic called '2000 AD'
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@Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2026-04-21 15:33
We never reached the promised (now retro-)futurism of the distant year 2000. We keep surpassing ourselves in that regard. \ Despite the evidence artists retain (sell?) all that hope of the brighter future. Even doomer fiction keeps falling short.
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@ol_capt_joe@piefed.ee 2026-04-22 06:22
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@MimicJar@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 06:58
Growing up we had exclusively Gateway 2000 computers. When it came time I bought a Gateway laptop. Best computer I ever had. Shortly after it sold to what was eventually Walmart and became a nothing brand. But I had a Gateway. I grew up with Gateway. It was the future. Cows. Now it’s less than nothing.
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@zerofk@lemmy.zip 2026-04-22 11:02
It’s still the future. 2000 is when we’ll have flying cars. By 2001 we’ll go to space in ships with retro 70s interiors and find an obelisk that makes you hallucinate.