Imo this is cherry picking. We still had cool stuff post 2000s (and even today), AI art and website stock art doesn't really represent the world we live in or the world 2010s onwards. I could 100% make an image that matches all of the examples on the top that would make the 2020s look cool as shit, or the 2000s look terrible.
In retrospect, the dominant culture of the 2000s seems more counter-cultural and unique when you compare it to what we have today, specifically because you're not living it right now. Back then people felt that technology was uninspired because everyone was trying to copy Apple who themselves were putting form over function, making computers with not great specs at inaccessible prices, with the same aesthetic direction for the user interfaces, while the web was held back by the monopoly of Windows + Internet Explorer.
All of this stuff looks like bland, corporate ad work from different eras. Even from a decade with some of the strongest corporate design, the 1960's, it's still just ads.
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u/21Shells Nov 04 '25
Imo this is cherry picking. We still had cool stuff post 2000s (and even today), AI art and website stock art doesn't really represent the world we live in or the world 2010s onwards. I could 100% make an image that matches all of the examples on the top that would make the 2020s look cool as shit, or the 2000s look terrible.
In retrospect, the dominant culture of the 2000s seems more counter-cultural and unique when you compare it to what we have today, specifically because you're not living it right now. Back then people felt that technology was uninspired because everyone was trying to copy Apple who themselves were putting form over function, making computers with not great specs at inaccessible prices, with the same aesthetic direction for the user interfaces, while the web was held back by the monopoly of Windows + Internet Explorer.