There’s been two main massive shifts that create before-and-after feelings in tech. One is going from “the computer is that super-typewriter that can send mail” to internet culture, and the second is going from online in pcs to always online in smartphones.
Win 95 feels from era1, xp and git was already in era 2.
Once those two changes were done by 2010 though, there’s been no game changer, if anything we've regressed through shittyfication (we seem to have fewer social networks vs the original Facebook for example, as most of them turned single player feed consumption).
Maybe pre and post LLMs will feel like an era change in a decade as well?
Win 95 feels from era1, xp and git was already in era 2.
Once those two changes were done by 2010 though, there’s been no game changer, if anything we've regressed through shittyfication (we seem to have fewer social networks vs the original Facebook for example, as most of them turned single player feed consumption).
Maybe pre and post LLMs will feel like an era change in a decade as well?