Friday, May 01, 2009

The Boring '00s

Question of the night (hat-tip: Ryan): What have been the great cultural innovations since the 1990s? Are there any? We struggled for an hour tonight to find something more noteworthy than "YouTube" or "text messages/status updates." These are platforms more than cultural forms.

"Blogs" (as cultural form, not platform) come closest, but even these really originate in the homepages of the '90s...

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