In general the 90s are an oddly forgotten decade. The internet and dotcom booms were so exciting and sucked so much attention, nobody remembers anything else that happened, and sometimes people go around rediscovering 90s things. The 80s are rememembered much more accurately.
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The 80s though, that was a big-thinking decade. Great Events were afoot all over; no single thing could suck all attention. Basically, in the 90s we overindexed on charismatic internet and forgot other stuff. After 2000 it was big enough that the attention level was warranted.
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Analogy: the 90s are a cache-invalidation decade. In many ways the achievements represented the peak capabilities of industrial era. But the invention of the internet kinda invalidated everything that didn’t have internet thinking wired in as a first principle.
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Another analogy. What do you think was the best piston-powered fighter ever built? You might think Spitfire, Mustang, Zero, Me109,... famous WW2 planes. Correct answer is probably the Vought Corsair. Built tail-end of WW2... after jets had already changed the rules.
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The Corsair had the best stats of any WW2 plane iirc. 11:1 kill ratio. What eventually “retired” the Corsair in Korea was running up against MiG 15. Yes, there was a brief “hybrid war” period with both jet and piston fighters in the air (in WW2 they were too little, too late)
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General principle of a technology being perfected just before it becomes categorically obsolete. Not just tech, everything is like that: culture, politics... The 90s were the decade industrial era was perfected...Just before it ceased to matter because ground rules changed.
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And all this is why the 80s were the best decade and it’s all downhill from here.
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