I feel like maybe around 2012 the whole concept of eras died.

Like I can clearly visualize items/people/media from the 60s/70s/80s/90s/00’s, but everything is homogenized now and there’s really no “style of the time” either. I think everything from 2013+ will just be remembered as a malaise era, if anything. Maybe the style of the 2050’s will be post cyberpunk apocalyptic? I have no idea.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      those ended in 2000 because nobody had a catchy name for the decade

      I usually heard it called the “noughties”. But, yeah, that’s kind of unwieldy, plus easy to confuse with the “nineties”.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_the_number_0_in_English

      “Zero” is the usual name for the number 0 in English. In British English “nought” is also used and in American English “naught” is used occasionally for zero, but (as with British English) “naught” is more often used as an archaic word for nothing.