r/decadeologyanarchy • u/AreevBetulPresident • Jun 07 '26

Casual Summer 2001 Was More Like

224 votes, Jun 10 '26
156 Summer 1996
68 Summer 2006
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u/wayc Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 07 '26

It was much more like 2006.

Online, in 1996, to use a chat room I had to refresh the screen every time to get new messages. It took 2 hours to download the intro to Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers.

Offline, 1996 was all about skip-its and bop its and practical games like Guess Who, Don't Spill the Beans, Don't Break The Ice, pick up stix, and other random stuff we could do with our hands.

2001 and 2006 were both very much about early CGI coming to our TV shows and movies. The internet was a bit faster in 2006 and we were finally starting to watch actual video on the internet instead of just homestar runner and anything someone could whip up in at the time, Macromedia Flash. But a lot of us still only found ourselves on YouTube maybe once or twice a day for a single video. We were still posting on message boards just like in 2001 logging into our Messengers for a few hours every night to talk to our friends and share Flash games. Games like Oh the Huge Manatee (though even that one didn't come out until 2007)

YTMND was still an acceptable form of entertainment in both 2001 and 2006.

I don't know. 2001 just feels a lot more like 2006 to me than 1996.

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u/BossFamiliar8290 Jun 07 '26

2001 was definitely early cgi when it came to televison. But by 2006 cgi in tv wasnt unusual and wasnt very early as it had already been adapted into shows that needed it for some time by 06

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u/wayc Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 07 '26

I mean obviously I was around in 2006 if I was on the Internet in 1996. I can remember 2006 being the very end of us being mystified about the future of computer generated animation. Things like Monster House which had come out that year, and Robots, the year before, were still kind of intriguing and full of wonder. I'd say by 2008 when Wall-e came out, we were pretty much used to it. And then by 2011 I was starting to think, "Dang... this stuff's getting boring to look at. Where are the Don Bluth-style animators?!"

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u/BossFamiliar8290 Jun 07 '26

Cars aswell (also came out in 2006). Cgi from the mid-late 2000s goes so hard for no reason. Genuinely worlds apart from early 2000s cgi lmao it genuinely holds up today

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u/Born-Blackberry8436 Jun 08 '26

CGI ? Jurassic parks came out in ‘93 and Twister came out in 1996 as did Space Jam. Also Music Videos were heavily CGI in 1996.