@ryo @lina @Burn @djsumdog 2006 was the pinnacle of technology. Computers were pretty damn good (you could already get quad-core CPUs and 8 GB of RAM, maybe even 16 GB if you were crazy, and you didn't need it all that much because the software was so much lighter and the internet wasn't shit), most people were getting good internet connections by then, and the iPhone didn't exist yet. Torrenting was getting big, so actually getting older media was becoming easier.

Also, fansubbing was getting big. Not relevant for people that are actually Japanese, but in the west, we didn't have access to a lot of shows for a long time. So, regardless of when shows were made, the second half of the 2000s was when a lot of people actually watched them, because that's when it became available to them. Same goes for games, that's when we were reaching post-scarcity. The PS3/360/Wii were definitely inferior to previous consoles, especially when a lot of stuff came out on PC anyway, and there weren't as many great games as there were before, but there was still a lot of good stuff. Hell, there were even games that came out on both PS3 and PS4 basically at the same time.

If I could go back in time and freeze technological development, I would go back to 2006, and freeze it right there, and I feel like basically nothing would be lost. Almost everything good that came out since would work just fine on that technology. Hell, the computers that I use now are less powerful than quite a few computers already around at that time.