I stood in line for VHS tapes. I also know that the blockchain is slow as hell and that cryptocurrency is glorified gambling for people with too much money - and I had a friend in the early 2000s that was trying to make a Bitcoin exchange.
Time gets wonky when you get old. You’ll be surprised too when stuff that you were certain happened at a specific point in your life, that you remember it alongside so much else from that era, seems to turn out to be a chronologically misplaced memory from years later.
The “2000s” also has no meaning for defining a specific time period. It should mean 2001-2010, but I’ve also never heard anyone seriously refer to 2011-2020 as the “teens” and 2021-2025 as the “twenties.” Those words are already associated with decades that we still culturally reference.
We’re a quarter of a century in and I still don’t know how to precisely refer to a 21st-century decade.
I’m not even old and this has happened so many times, I think about something random I think was only a thing after 2021 but turns out I had been using it since 2018.
lol That dude has no fucking clue what he is talking about just making shit up about non existent “friends”. Any time someone talks shit about Bitcoin I always ask them what money is. None of them have given me a correct answer yet, most of the people who DO answer correctly already agreed about BTC except those who have never learned details about it, once they do they seem to always get real interested real fast. Either way, not exactly on topic here but damned amusing.
Ah yes, you have figured out that if you consider whatever you believe to be the “correct answer” people who give the “correct answer” likely also agree with you about closely related topics.
Except there is a correct answer to the question most people have just never even stopped to consider the question at all. So what is money? What is the inherent value of a dollar bill since that is the complaint anti BTC folks always spout off “it has no inherent value”. So what is the inherent value of a dollar or a euro or any other currency?
I stood in line for VHS tapes. I also know that the blockchain is slow as hell and that cryptocurrency is glorified gambling for people with too much money - and I had a friend in the early 2000s that was trying to make a Bitcoin exchange.
The Bitcoin network initially went online in 2009. Was your friend a time traveller?
Time gets wonky when you get old. You’ll be surprised too when stuff that you were certain happened at a specific point in your life, that you remember it alongside so much else from that era, seems to turn out to be a chronologically misplaced memory from years later.
A slightly different example of the wonky-ness of time is that 2016 was… Almost 10 years ago.
Can confirm, am getting older and making the timelines from my teens and early 20s make sense is getting harder and harder.
The “2000s” also has no meaning for defining a specific time period. It should mean 2001-2010, but I’ve also never heard anyone seriously refer to 2011-2020 as the “teens” and 2021-2025 as the “twenties.” Those words are already associated with decades that we still culturally reference.
We’re a quarter of a century in and I still don’t know how to precisely refer to a 21st-century decade.
Yup, I just say the numbers (2001-2010) to make sure I’m understood properly. It’s dumb.
“It was back it the early 2000s, around 2013 or so….”
I’m not even old and this has happened so many times, I think about something random I think was only a thing after 2021 but turns out I had been using it since 2018.
lol That dude has no fucking clue what he is talking about just making shit up about non existent “friends”. Any time someone talks shit about Bitcoin I always ask them what money is. None of them have given me a correct answer yet, most of the people who DO answer correctly already agreed about BTC except those who have never learned details about it, once they do they seem to always get real interested real fast. Either way, not exactly on topic here but damned amusing.
Ah yes, you have figured out that if you consider whatever you believe to be the “correct answer” people who give the “correct answer” likely also agree with you about closely related topics.
Except there is a correct answer to the question most people have just never even stopped to consider the question at all. So what is money? What is the inherent value of a dollar bill since that is the complaint anti BTC folks always spout off “it has no inherent value”. So what is the inherent value of a dollar or a euro or any other currency?