>>717376187- iPhone released
- iPods become basically ubiquitous
- Start of Web 2.0, youtube, social media, internet memes, the web becomes centralized into just a few major sites
- Facebook allows anyone to open an account, normies enter the internet
- Big Bang Theory normalizes nerd culture
- Death of children's cartoon television channels around 2007
- Music shifts into a style that still continues to this day. Very few songs made after 2005 will be heard 20 or even 10 years years after they came out, as opposed to the endless amount of music from 2005 and earlier that are still frequently played on radios
- Stagnation of culture and fashion, people still dress today much like they did in 2007, nothing has really changed since then and people have started to notice it too
- Mass transition from analog to digital
- Mass transition from SD to HD
- Mass transition from curved to flat screens
- Video games graphics hit a ceiling with games like CoD 4, Halo 3, Crysis, Assassin's Creed still looking amazing today
- 2007 Hollywood Writers Strike marks the death of movies, it's the reason why the are so few good movies released after circa 2008
- 2007-08 financial crisis, job market never recovered
The difference between 2005 and 2008 is so big it looked like more than a decade had passed between them. It was a "weeks where decades happen" period