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[โ€“] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

the post 2000s are normal now. what came before is no more normal now than what came before that. it's just the past now. it was a different way for things to be that will likely never be again. just like we'll never be medieval again.

[โ€“] tym@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

As someone who came of age in the 80s/90s, that's not true. I can't describe the pre and early internet-as-we-know-it days, but they hit different. No anxieties over being always-reachable basically.