2010-2016 were the last good years before everything started to go downhill

i feel like people shit on the 2020s too much. sure the old stuff looks a lot better but nothing is really different with how people act if you boil things down

Nah for me I'd have to say 1999-2006 were where it's at.

2008 you had the great recession but things were getting worse even before that. That's also when the internet began to become more phone oriented and I don't know... like rules oriented and centralized and where you have to give your personal info to get an account somewhere. A lot of stuff online started dying off in 2008 as it shifted to video entertainment instead of text-based.

I mean really a lot of stuff started getting worse after 9/11 but we didn't start feeling the effects of all that until 2008.

If I could pick a year to go back to I'd choose 2005.

Also - yeah people are the same but back then you weren't connected all the time and when you were online, generally you'd be on your niche websites and forums talking to people who had similar interests and beliefs to you. Not like Facebook where everyone is mashed together and no-one really likes each other.

summer of 2019 was the best and last summer before the pandemic coming in and destroy  evrything i like