It used to be so normal for people to smoke cigarettes everywhere. Old photos of NBA games and boxing had a blue haze \u2013 you can look this up. You used to be able to smoke in airplanes. When I was a teenager, I remember smoking at Starbucks and McDonalds, which had ashtrays and smoking corners in Singapore in 2007. People used to smoke cigarettes on airplanes. Fun fact: there are still ashtrays in airplane lavatories even though smoking has been banned, for harm reduction purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2006-2016 \u201cwas a time of optimism\u201d. (Not exactly.) TEDtalks. Citizen journalism. Progress on feminism and LGBT rights. Growing pains for internet communities as they became more civilized. Tolerance for a certain kind of bullying went down, though since then you could say a different kind of bullying went up. (Latest: a couple of girls mocked another girl from the background of a video, and allegedly tiktok got those girls fired.) 2013. Suey Park. Cancel Colbert. BLM 2020. Trump winning was a big shock. Covid was a big shock. Crypto was a strange mess. NFTs \u2013 even the big brands and celebrities were getting in on it. Metaverse hype.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2009, Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Slutwalk 2011. Gamergate. Anita Sarkeesian. 4chan vs Tumblr. Internet history thread. Something Awful. Kickstarter. Patreon. Rise of YouTube. Egirls. Onlyfans. Linktree. \u201cYou have won the internet, sir.\u201d type reddit comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2013 Oreo Superbowl<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Singaporean elections, blogosphere, twitter, PAP, #SGelections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now Twitter is owned by Elon Musk, something feels weird. It\u2019s never quite been the same vibe-wise. Trump used to tweet. John Mulaney\u2019s \u201chorse in the hospital\u201d story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The rise and fall of Louis CK. #MeToo. Weinstein. Epstein. The Fappening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve come a long way, baby.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Google Glass. Google interview questions. Pre-youtube blogosphere. Tim Ferriss. SethGodin. Lifestyle design. Jane McGonigal, \u201chappiness hacking\u201d. Leo Babuta. Digital coaches, move to Bali and sell ebooks, that\u2019s been going on a while, there are some old ribbonfarm posts about this I\u2019m sure. Outsourcing to India, Philippines, Tech media narratives. Story of Buzzfeed. Jonah Peretti, brother of Chelsea Peretti, wife of Jordan Peele. Syrian refugee crisis. Ukraine tiktok girl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stickdeath.com. Early atheism. Dawkins and Neil Tyson and so on. Sarah Haider, ex-muslims. It used to seem edgy, now it seems mostly cringe to even care or talk about it, it\u2019s not quite relevant anymore. \u201cGod Is Not Great\u201d talk by Christopher Hitchens is one of the top vids at Talks at Google. 10% happier. So Good They Can\u2019t Ignore You. Mindfulness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TRP recommends therapy now. Therapycoded invalidation. Everyone goes to therapy now. That\u2019s broadly maybe correlated with some kind of progress, but it\u2019s hard to say for sure, isn\u2019t it? It\u2019s probably never been better to be a woman or minority\u2013 but what about Roe v Wade?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
People mostly seem to just become irrelevant over time. But idk. Salman Rushdie got stabbed. Shinzo Abe got assassinated. Leaders used to get assassinated more. Bombings, unrest, ? etc. The big difference is that we have more realtime media coverage of things now. Emmett Till, Rodney King, black history\u2026 I must apologize for my ignorance but consider the average American knowledge of Southeast Asian politics. Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos \u2013 great atrocities, but also lovely ordinary people just trying to live their lives<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Those who died, Steve Jobs\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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