I saw multiple screenshots and posts of how 2007 was the beginning of the end for culture, art and politics. And even more. They listed a bunch of events and media from that year. Including Obama announcing he was running for president, the iPhone being released and the Big Bang Theory debuting. If you have your own 2007 thoughts that's cool too. Interested.
I found a meme.
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>>1500361http://www.inthe00s.com/archive/inthe00s/smf/1500317584.shtml>-1st Gen iPhone launches, allowing billions of people easy access to the Internet - many of which had never used the Internet before, and caused a shift in Internet culture. Some early 2000s Internet users are resentful of this shift and feel it was their generation's own "Eternal September".>-YouTube, which was already popular in 2006, here starts to become "connected" to the real world, as the 2007-08 Presidential debates are broadcast from there on CNN and the BBC.>-The Big Bang Theory debuts popularizing "geek culture">-Tumblr founded>-Kindle and Android introduced>-(Technically late 2006) Facebook allows non-college emails to register, causing a mass influx of users that leave Myspace.>-In 2007, MySpace reports their first significant decrease in traffic; Facebook reports their first significant increase in traffic. No doubt a result of Facebook's late 2006 shift (*snickers*).>-Windows Vista released; Aero, along with the iPhone, popularizes shiny, futuristic GUI design that can still be seen in tech to this day (albeit in a simplified, "flatter" design)>-Twitter gains massive popularity after a marketing campaign at SXSW festival>-NSA launches PRISM Internet-spying program>-Hadoop emerged as a software framework for processing very large data sets; the idea of "The Cloud" in computing really began to take off around this time>-CRT monitors experience a decline in sales, being surpassed by LCD monitors. CRTs saw a slight sales comeback in 2008 but plunged into the abyss from 2009 onward>-Netflix began online streaming; Blockbuster experiences an acceleration of their previously slower decline.
