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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Am I the only millennial that actually feels things that happened more than a decade ago are old?

Like I get it, the ps3 wasn’t before my time, but it’s ancient now given how we just got the ps5 pro.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yes. You are.

It got even worse when COVID hit. I could have sworn that 2019 was just last year, yet here we are, and the 2020s are almost halfway over. It literally feels like I'm missing an entire decade of my life.

Technology seems to be behind 10 years as well. I mean we've had 4K monitors for over a decade now, yet you still need to spend nearly $2000 for a GPU powerful enough to run games at that resolution and a modern refresh rate. Meanwhile back in the 2000s, we went from 480i gaming, to 720p/1080i, to 1080p, all within 5 years. Smartphones from 10 years ago were black slabs running Android or iOS, and today they're black slabs running Android or iOS. Windows 10 has been around for almost a decade now too. Back in the 90s, we went from Windows 3.1, to Win95, to 98, to Me. Advancements in technology and software come in small, incremental improvements, when not too long ago a new life-changing thing was coming out every 2-3 years. The only tech I've noticed keeping up with the times is internet bandwidth. In 20 years I went from dialup to 256kbps to 3Mbps to 15 to 30 to 80 to 500; now I have Gigabit internet and my monthly bill has never been smaller.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I think what you’re noticing is corporate greed. There have been substantial life changing discoveries in the last decade. The problem is that corporate investors can’t find ways to exploit it so they shelve the patents. Another thing that happens is someone holds a patent but can’t or won’t allow someone to use it because the price isn’t right so it sits without any use.