It seems like the year 2000 was just here yesterday. I often find myself thinking about the great times I had in the 90's and it's almost 2010. Damn time has been going by too fast.

Unfortunately the older one gets that faster time flies.

this means I'll have been married for 10 years now (10/07/99)...

RenHoek said:

10/7 is my Mom's birthday and Congrats!

I know... I was thinking about this the other week. A few months, and we're in the 2010's.

so what do we call the next decade....the 10's or the teens?????

YAY !!

OMG I hadn't even noticed that !

It's unbelievable. Yesterday we were dying from Y2K, now I'm turning 40. What the hell happened?!

I can't believe this decade is almost over, and it can't believe how bad it sucked.

missfee said:

what do we call this decade?! Nobody seems to know

Adisa said:

Especially musically

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Moreso with all things connected to George W. Bush.

Adisa said:

Well, there's that too

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

It sure does! I was just thinking a little while ago, where the heck did August go! It's almost the end of the month, too too fast!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

We never did collectively settle on a name, did we?

Bowie once called this decade the Naughties. I think we should go with that.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

A few days ago I was at work shooting the breeze with my friends/ coworkers. During the discussion I told how in the past 8 years I got married, went back to school, bought a house, bought a new car, took a trip across seas, had a kid, and my income doubled. A right-winger in the group basically said it was all possible because of the Republicans, that Obama was gonna take all that away and I'd have to wait until we got another GOP president to get it all back.

But I digress...yeah the music, fashion, movies, and all of pop culture in general sucked.

it's the reality TV decade, isn't it? f***ing dreadful...

veronikka said:

I'm going to be 43 this year!!! When the hell did that happen. I want my 30's back!!!!!

Despite the attention that the US terrorist attacks and the resulting wars received not too much happened during this decade in a cultural sense, did it? All the other decades had a distinctive quality to them, and it would be easy to see on the cultural products as well. This one just felt more like a continuation of the latter half of the last decade, really.

You can put on a record from ten years ago and the chances are you wouldn't be able to tell too easily whether it was released ten years ago or just last week. I'm still using Photoshop 5.0 on my computer - which is over 10 years old - and see no reason to upgrade. Most of the clothing items that people wear wouldn't have had looked so out of place ten years ago either. Scientific discoveries? What scientific discoveries? Well, they finally realized most ulcers were caused by a bacteria infection and not stress. Cars? Does anyone really prefer the models they have today over what they had ten years ago? Is the food that we eat somehow considerably different? No.

I really do feel like we've entered an age of a relative cultural standstill.

missfee said:

I still havent figured out what we called this one.

Its shocking to me how fast the the time has gone. I am 30 years old now! WOW!
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dreamfactory313 said:

We should call it the teenies!

Don't forget a decade is 10 years so the 10th is the last year of the decade.
We're now in the 9th year of the 3rd millenium
We still have one year and 4 months left for the decade to end

Time flies when you are having fun!

this decade hasn't been fantastic 4 me so here is 2 the next decade in my life!!!!! can't wait till my bday this yr then new years woohooooo!!!!!

The 00s have been both the most difficult and transformative decade of my life. I'm simultaneously grateful for them and happy to move on from them.

yes, went by quickly!

essentially uneventfull?
It feels that way to me. I'm going into my forties!

novabrkr said:

This is the decade in which the world shrank by leaps and bounds. The internet connected everyone with the means to buy a coputer and a connection. People took and are still taking back the media with blogs and DIY journalism. Social networking has allowed us to not only not lose the people in our lives everyone before us has, old college roommates, long lost cousins, and so on, but to make new connections with people all over the world we've had had no possible way to meet even 15 years ago. Video phones became reality, not to mention exceedingly cheap, instead of being relegated to sci-fi fantasy.
It's the www decade. Sure, it started earlier, but it really hit it's stide and came into it's own in this decade.

This year has really sucked for me so far. Here's hoping '10 is better.