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the post 2000s are normal now. what came before is no more normal now than what came before that. it's just the past now. it was a different way for things to be that will likely never be again. just like we'll never be medieval again.
As someone who came of age in the 80s/90s, that's not true. I can't describe the pre and early internet-as-we-know-it days, but they hit different. No anxieties over being always-reachable basically.