oh right, we're in coinbro land π
every browser that i use will render it. but it's a bit of a P.I.T.A. when you wanna edit them...
one of the first records to be recorded and released digitally was ABBA's The Visitors in 1981/82. i had it down as 1975 for some reason. might be some other release i'm thinking about.
it can be streamed on YouTube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_xFpjlrF38&list=OLAK5uy_l2j6c-5-nsg_DE_Vr3W07Lh0AhiJQhDww
late 20s because much of the tech and science we continue to use emerged in the early 30s and late 70s because some of the first digital stuff began to get some adoption then - early home computers but also the first digitally recorded album - an ABBA record - around 1975.
well, okay, a LITTLE bit of it was specific years - 1968 (the "year of protests") because that year did cause a major shift and so did 1993 (the web)
on my end here i wasn't aiming for particular years but more feeling out roughly where things changed - not very precisely
the search result that comes up most often for that year is women's suffrage - is that what you meant though?
current era = 1978 and later
narrower sense = 1993
broader sense = 1968
broader sense still = 1927
the "current era" started around 1978 or so, as i subjectively judge it.
the Yugoslavian War happened in 50/60 FPS, on live TV. not in historical black and white film reels from 1942, so as far as i'm concerned, it happened "today".
when the Yugoslavian War broke out in the 90s, Europe was shocked that such brutality wasn't considered a chapter of history rather than something that could happen "today".
now we have the same kind of carnage going on in Ukraine. i think maybe people are a bit less surprised this time over...
i must admit i had high hopes that it might result in some productive collaborations/projects but this far, people are largely sucking at taking me up on such offers.
the counterarguments to this isn't on my speed dial at the moment, but it sounds similar to cherrypicking of the sort that you tend to see in Russian media sources - the ones that are heavily censored at the moment
if the Russians were so correct about this POV, why would they need to introduce such strict laws to curtail speech?
before i can evaluate if that request carries any merit, i'll need you to explain what you're talking about
oh, you mean like with Gadhaffi?
while i have some respect for Zelenskyy because he appears to be sticking around to lead his country instead of accepting offers to flee it, i do think he did accidentally get caught up in it a bit. if that war hadn't happened, there's a chance he'd be a very forgettable head of state that didn't do much to solve Ukraine's problems. so he got a bit lucky there. historical accident put him in that role. when i see the media glorify him, i remind myself of that. and for all i know, maybe the guy is profiteering off the war in some way. we don't know for sure that he isn't. i don't assume him to be a saint, but i suppose he does serve as a unifying figure.
in all fairness, there are SOME parallels between the invasion of Ukraine and the invasion of Iraq by the Americans. very few countries supported the Americans in that. the difference is that hardly anyone liked Saddam very much. Ukraine? all right, typical East Bloc corruption kind of thing, but not as brutal as Saddam. so while not officially endorsed, there was at least a *bit* of a justification there. not that it went so well. America created ISIS through that war.