The least interesting decade

The least interesting decade


  • Total voters
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1900-1909
1910-1919
1920-1929
1930-1939
1940-1949
1950-1959
1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
1990-1999
2000-2009
 

Dialga

Banned
I'd say the 19-oughts, for the simple fact that it was for all intents and purposes an extension of the late 19th century.

After WW1 came around, everything changed.
 
1900-1909; as Dialga said in the OP, that decade was, for all intent and purposes, an extension of the 19th century..:eek::eek:
 
Hard to say the aughts were "uninteresting" since they had President Teddy Roosevelt.

Actually, since any decade will have plenty of interesting elements on their own terms, I'm actually tempted to think of it as the most "overrated decade".
 
How can anyone say 1900-09 was "uninteresting?

The first heavier-than-air aircraft.

The first transatlantic/long-range radio.

The political lead-up to WW1 - the Triple Entente etc.

The first Dreadnoughts.

Einstein's Theories of Relativity.

Quantum Mechanics.

(Just off the top of my head).

And I CANNOT think of an "uninteresting" decade of the 20th Century. Sorry.
 
I also went with the 00's. No major wars, fewer than 35-40 nations in the entire world, little to choose between major powers with respect to ideology. Peace, Science, Industry, and Progress inevitable. The future looked great!

The old Chinese proverb implies that "interesting times" are times we should want to avoid. Clearly, at least for us in the west, the period 1900-1910 is not interesting.
 
How can anyone say 1900-09 was "uninteresting?

The first heavier-than-air aircraft.

The first transatlantic/long-range radio.

The political lead-up to WW1 - the Triple Entente etc.

The first Dreadnoughts.

Einstein's Theories of Relativity.

Quantum Mechanics.

(Just off the top of my head).

And I CANNOT think of an "uninteresting" decade of the 20th Century. Sorry.


Exactly!


Not to mention the rise of Imperial Japan, US industrialisation, the birth of the commonwealth and other such interests.

Nay, the 1920s were more 'boring', but then much the same could be said about the 1990s.
 
I think the 19th century was interesting, so I didn't vote 1900-1909.

50s, I guess, since the most interesting things to me were decidedly provincial. But really, the 20th century was generally a very interesting century to me.
 

Zeldar155

Banned
It's hard to say any decade is uninteresting, because everything has something going on. Personally, I'd probably lean towards the 2000s.

Indeed, in the end, I went for the 1900-1909, myself.

I don't understand why the 90's were so "boring"; the whole mess in the Balkans and the break-up of the USSR?
 
Exactly!


Not to mention the rise of Imperial Japan, US industrialisation, the birth of the commonwealth and other such interests.

Nay, the 1920s were more 'boring', but then much the same could be said about the 1990s.

There were also the Boxer Rebellion and the Russian Revolution of 1905.
 
Indeed, in the end, I went for the 1900-1909, myself.

I don't understand why the 90's were so "boring"; the whole mess in the Balkans and the break-up of the USSR?

The 90s were more culturally interesting than anything else, but that's still interesting. At least parts of it were interesting anyway. The large part of the Millenial era was just so dull and androgynous in my opinion, and the parts of the 90s that are uninteresting are those parts that progressed fastest or earliest towards that Millenial dullness. There was a War on Terror, a War in Iraq and a bad Presidency that we civilians all lazily meandered through with minimal protests and those that did protests were limited and a very annoying lot that wanted to be pseudo-hippies. There was no electricity in the air. Besides that, not much else happened that was interesting. All the 2000s makes me think of is bad digital video everywhere, lousy movies and TV shows (and "Reality shows" being just terrible game shows and being everywhere) and bad CGI shoved everywhere and into every movie before it was even ready as a technology, and MP3 players with their terrible sound quality carried everywhere. Just a bunch of lousy cultural products and technology everywhere in a sh*ttier form before it was ready.

I much prefer today. CGI finally got good enough, things are getting better, and the technology is actually where it should have been before we started using it on a massive scale. There's just no character in the 2000s up till it started to become the 2010s, and today isn't as much as it could be compared to other eras, but it is better.
 

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The 50s. It seems like just the prologue to the rest of the Cold War
 
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