>30-year-old 3D Engine
I saw that title and thought to myself "Wow, a 3D game engine from the 80's!" before realizing 30 years ago was 1994-95, during the time of Doom 2 and a year before the first Quake. Damn, I'm getting old fast.
I saw that title and thought to myself "Wow, a 3D game engine from the 80's!" before realizing 30 years ago was 1994-95, during the time of Doom 2 and a year before the first Quake. Damn, I'm getting old fast.
The other day I was reading something and was surprised that "50 years ago" was the mid '70s, not, like, the 50s. Then they hit me with Guardians of the Galaxy already being ten years old. Ouch, right in the mortality.
I think this perceived time warp is affecting many people in the 30+ age group since the world(at least the west) hasn't changed that much in the last 10-15 years or so, so compared to the past when 10-15 years delta made a huge difference, especially in the areas of technology and entertainment, so it kinda feels like time just went by us while the world stood still.
Basically, the 80s feel like they happened about 100 years ago. Which makes us depressingly old.
Similarly, Windows 95 is now closer in time to the Intel 4004 microprocessor than to today.
It makes you think though. Has the innovation run out of steam?
I have never felt older than in that moment.
I've been experimenting on my website with automatically adding to all years or dates a little subscript like '5ya'. While I thought it was clunky at first, I'm finding it helpful to be regularly reminded that when I mention something that happened in '2003', that really was '21 years ago', and I feel a little less like Billy Pilgrim.
I wish I could regain some of that wonder back, but all the Raytracing and RTX make it very hard to find.