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A lot of people mention the release dates of apps/sites when the proliferation dates are very well more significant.

Here's a comprehensive list of each app/site that I'd say is notable/popular, or at least was, and when they got launched. I might have missed a couple of them. Since 2001:

2001: Wikipedia

2002: No launches

2003: MySpace, Friendster, Steam, LinkedIn, Skype, 4chan, Friendster

2004: Facebook, Gmail, Flickr

2005: YouTube, Reddit, Google maps

2006: Twitter, Roblox

2007: Tumblr, Hulu

2008: 9Gag, Spotify, Soundcloud

2009: Whatsapp

2010: Instagram, Quora, Pinterest

2011: Snapchat, Twitch, Uber, Keek, Google+

2012: Tinder

2013: Telegram, Vine

2014: Musically

2015: Discord

2016-2017: No launches, except games like pokemon go and fortnite

2018: Tiktok

2019-present: ChatGPT launched in 2022, alongside many AI chatbots in 2023, and stuff like Threads and Bluesky.

Both are very balanced shift years and are among the biggest shift years of the 21st century. Imo 2011 takes the edge.

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From most eventful to least, politically ONLY:

Tier 1: 2020, 2008

Tier 2: 2001, 2022, 2011

Tier 3: 2016, 2003, 2026 (prediction)

Tier 4: 2021, 2025, 2015

Tier 5: 2009, 2024, 2014, 2023

Tier 6: 2005, 2017

Tier 7: 2019, 2000, 2004

Tier 8: 2012, 2013, 2006, 2010

Tier 9: 2002, 2018

Tier 10: 2007

Tier 1 are worldwide super shifts, tier 2 are super shifts, tier 3 are major shifts, tier 4 are shifts to borderline shifts, tier 5 are very transitional to notably transitional, tier 6 are transitional, tier 7 are semi-transitional to borderline transitional, tier 8 are filler, tier 9 are very filler, and tier 10 is complete filler.

Each year is ranked in successive order from most eventful to least.

Technologically ONLY, not politically, culturally, socially, etc

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This is for pop culture ONLY, not politically, technologically, socially, etc.

From what I remember this year had WAP, tiger king and the queens gambit, TikTok’s rise, blinding lights, games like fall guys and among us, demon hunter and the dream smp, and aesthetics like the indie kid. Definitely had other stuff but this is all I can remember

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From most changeful to least, socially/general culture ONLY, not pop culture.

1. 2011 (shift)
2. 2015 (very transitional/borderline shift)
3. 2017 (very transitional)
4. 2013 (very transitional)
5. 2016 (transitional/semi transitional)
6. 2019 (semi transitional)
7. 2014 (borderline transitional)
8. 2010 (borderline transitional)
9. 2012 (borderline filler)
10. 2018 (filler)

Since 2016 is probably gonna win against 1991, I’m putting it against more massive worldwide super shifts that it shouldn’t stand a chance against.

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1991 should win this in a complete and utter landslide, but I want to see how many biased people there are. 2016 already won a battle against 1989 which utterly destroys it politically. Anything that isn't 10 to 1 in favor of 1991 is too low

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Widely agreed to be the top 3 biggest shifts of the 21st century. IMO it's 2020.

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From most eventful in pop culture only to least:

1. 2019
2. 2013
3. 2011
4. 2016
5. 2010
6. 2015
7. 2017
8. 2012
9. 2014
10. 2018

2019 and 2013 can switch places, 2012 and 2014 can switch places, 2015/2017 and 2010/2016 too.

Only pop culturally, not socially/general culture. I might make a post on that soon.

1. 2000: 2019
2. 2001: 2008
3. 2002: 2018
4. 2003: 2016
5. 2004: 2000
6. 2005: 2017
7. 2006: 2013
8. 2007: 2002
9. 2008: 2020
10. 2009: 2024
11. 2010: 2018
12. 2011: 2022
13. 2012: 2013
14. 2013: 2006
15. 2014: 2024
16. 2015: 2025
17. 2016: 2003
18. 2017: 2005
19. 2018: 2010
20. 2019: 2000
21. 2020: 2008
22. 2021: 2015
23. 2022: 2011
24. 2023: 2014
25. 2024: 2014
26. 2025: 2015
27. 2026: 2003 (prediction)

A lot of these are minor recessions and there was more recessions like these in 1973-75, 53, 58, etc but still interesting nontheless

1910s: Panic of 1910-1911

1920s: Depression of 1920–1921

1930s: The great depression

1960s: Recession of 1960-1961

1970s: Recession of 1969-1970

1980s: Early 1980s recession

1990s: Early 1990s recession

2000s: Early 2000s recession

2010s?: Great Recession, though technically it was 2008-2009, but more than 50% of people thought there was still a recession in 2011 and unemployment remained high

2020s: COVID-19 Recession

2030s are most likely going to have another recession, maybe the AI bubble is going to pop later this decade starting a recession that will continue into the 2030s or some black swan event happens that ends up affecting the economy.

It seems like around 2 years after a political super shift, yet another one happens.

1989: Political super shift

1991: Political super shift

2001: Political super shift

2003: Political major/super shift

2008-09: Political super shift

2011: Political super shift

2020: Political super shift

2022: Political super shift

We might see it happen again with 2026 and 2028 if 2026 turns out to be a super shift.

From most eventful to least eventful:

1. 2005
2. 2001
3. 2000
4. 2005
5. 2007
6. 2011
7. 2008
8. 2006
9. 2003
10. 2012
11. 2009
12. 2004
13. 2013
14. 2023
15. 2010
16. 2015
17. 2020
18. 2022
19. 2019
20. 2025
21. 2017
22. 2016
23. 2014
24. 2024
25. 2021
26. 2002
27. 2018

2000s vs 2010s years, which one was more eventful and changeful in general?

2000 vs 2010 - 2000

2001 vs 2011 - 2001

2002 vs 2012 - 2012

2003 vs 2013 - 2003

2004 vs 2014 - 2004

2005 vs 2015 - 2015

2006 vs 2016 - 2016

2007 vs 2017 - 2017 (could be 2007)

2008 vs 2018 - 2008

2009 vs 2019 - 2009

Overall: 2000s 6/7, 2010s 3/4

Three of the most important events of the 21st century and they all started out the same: All were extremely small, minimal, and unknown in their introduction year and all started in the same month of December (2007, 2010, and 2019) before rising to proliferation and public awareness early next year (2008, 2011, and 2020) (though the recession hit it's peak in September)

This is all a very impressive and big coincidence, and perhaps the next big "gradual" thing will start out the same way.

Another thing to keep in mind is to not inflate 2007, 2010, and 2019's significance and importance simply because of these events technically starting in them. They were all extremely minor and unknown and should be attributed to the following years completely (2008, 2011, 2020)

Most eventful month of every year since 2001, mostly politically.

A lot of years have their events scattered around the whole year, while others are completely filler, so i had to compromise a little with some. I tried to mention at least 2 events.

2001: September (9/11, anthrax attacks, war on terror announced)

Honorable mention: October (US invasion of Afghanistan, Patriot act)

2002: January (Euro introduction, axis of evil speech)

Honorable mention: October (Bali bombings, moscow theater crisis)

2003: March (US-led invasion of Iraq, SARS global alert)

Honorable mention: December (Saddam hussein capture, Bam earthquake)

2004: December (Indian ocean tsunami, nintendo DS)

Honorable mention: November (US election, arafat death)

2005: August (Hurricane katrina, israel withdraws from gaza strip)

Honorable mention: July (7/7 bombings, live 8)

2006: October (North korea nuclear test, Google buys youtube, taylor swift debut)

Honorable mention: July (Lebanon war, mumbai train bombs, twitter launches)

2007: December (Recession starts)

Honorable mention: June (Hamas takes control of gaza)

2008: September (Lehman brothers collapse)

Honorable mention: November (Obama wins election, Mumbai attacks) but also August with the Russo-Georgian war and olympics.

2009: June (Swine flu pandemic, Recession ends, michael jackson death)

Honorable mention: January (Obama becomes president, end of the Gaza war)

2010: April (Smolensk disaster, Kyrgyz revolution, first ipad, yushu earthquake)

Honorable mention: January (Haiti earthquake, Burj Khalifa opened), but also March with Obamacare getting signed and Cheonan sinking.

2011: March (Tohoku earthquake and nuclear meltdown, NATO military intervention in libya, syrian civil war starts)

Honorable mention: October (Killing of gaddafi, end of the first libyan civil war, occupy movement growing)

2012: November (Obama wins elections, xi jinping becomes leader of china)

Honorable mention: September (Benghazi attacks)

2013: July (Egyptian military coup, Quebec rail disaster)

Honorable mention: April (Boston marathon bombings, rana plaza collapse)

2014: March (Russian annexation of crimea, Ebola, malaysia air)

Honorable mention: June (Fall of Mosul, start of US military intervention against ISIS), but also September with the Scottish independence referendum, start of US intervention in Syria, and the Yemeni civil war

2015: June (Gay marriage legalized in the US, Trump announces his candidacy)

Honorable mention: September (Hajj stampede, Russian intervention in Syria)

2016: November (Donald trump wins the election, indian banknote demonetization)

Honorable mention: June (Brexit referendum, pulse nightclub shooting and ataturk airport attack)

2017: October (Las vegas shooting, #MeToo, catalan independence, fortnite)

Honorable mention: August (Hurricane harvey, solar eclipse, unite the right rally)

2018: June (Trump meets with kim jung un, XXXtentacion death)

Honorable mention: March (Xi jinping removes term limits, Valencia fires)

2019: October (Iraqi and Chilean protests, ISIS leader assassinated, operation peace spring)

Honorable mention: September (Impeachment of trump starts, Abqaiq–Khurais attack)

2020: March (COVID becomes a pandemic and lockdowns start, ceasefire in 4 conflicts, russia-saudi oil price war)

Honorable mention: January (Assassination of qasem soleimani, COVID becomes a global health emergency, Australia wildfires, kobe Bryant death)

2021: January (January 6th riot, Biden becomes president)

Honorable mention: August (Afghanistan pullout, kabul airport attack)

2022: February (Russian invasion of Ukraine, ISIS leader killed)

Honorable mention: September (Queen Elizabeth death, Kharkiv counteroffensive, Mahsa Amini protests)

2023: October (October 7th attack, red sea crisis, israel-hezbollah conflict)

Honorable mention: April (Finland joins NATO, Sudanese civil war starts)

2024: December (Assad regime falls, south korea martial law crisis, healthcare ceo assassination, israeli invasion of syria)

Honorable mention: July (Donald trump assassination attempt, Biden drops out, gen z revolution in bangladesh, hamas leader assassination)

2025: September (Charlie kirk assassination, Nepal revolution, Qatar strikes, drone incursions, Bolsonaro arrested)

Honorable mention: June (Twelve day war, air india plane crash) but also April with the liberation day tariffs, pope francis death, impeachment of yoon suk yeol, and iberian peninsula blackout.

2026: February (El Mencho death, afghanistan-pakistan war, and start of the iran war with the assassination of Ali Khamenei)

Honorable mention: January (US capture of Maduro, Kurds collapse in syria, STC collapse in yemen, Iranian protests, operation arctic endurance)

2024 is on the same level of political eventfulness as 2014 which was notably to very transitional, 2025 is on the same level as 2015 which was very transitional to borderline shift, and 2026 is looking like it's going to be on the same level as 2016 which was a major shift politically. (imo)

However, unlike the mid 2010s being the most politically eventful period of the 2010s (excluding 2011), the early 2020s were the most politically eventful period of the 2020s, not the mid 2020s. The mid 2020s like the mid 2010s are also mostly technologically filler, right after a technologically eventful year (2013 and 2023).

Who else remembers during 2023 and early 2024 when literally everyone was hyping up 2024 to be this crazy super shift year purely because it was an election year? Even when 2000, 2004, and 2012 were pretty filler years overall. People were even claiming it would somehow beat 2020.

All of that hype and commotion all went to waste, as 2024 turned out to be literally the least eventful/changeful year of the 2020s. Literally 85% of 2024's eventfulness only came at the last months of November to December, leaving the vast majority of the year to be a wasteland except for July.

2007 is by far the most geopolitically filler year in modern world history, prove me wrong.

Putting the subprime mortgage crisis and recession aside because they weren't geopolitical, even though they were effectively unknown and extremely minimal in 2007 anyways.

Once you start learning and studying the events of years, even local ones happening around the world, and not base years simply off your memory or US-centrism, you will quickly realize and be surprised at how 2007 is the most geopolitically filler year of the entire 20th and 21st century and how it was a complete wasteland.

2007 is so unbelievably filler that in the Wikipedia article for it, in the collage that shows 8 images of the most important events of the year, one of the events are about a controversial relocation of a soviet world war 2 memorial in Estonia, which only had around 1.3 million total population. The relocation sparked protests that only lasted 3 DAYS, and a singular death, and resulted in practically absolutely nothing. Hopefully that gives you an idea of just how geopolitically filler 2007 is when something like that can even be considered as one of the top 8 most important events, let alone be implemented.

2 of the events aren't political, 2 more happened at the complete tail end of 2007 and were mostly a 2008 thing, while others were about local natural disasters that didn't result in much deaths. 2007 is a complete geopolitical wasteland, here are the events:

The most important and significant event I could find was that Hamas completely took over the gaza strip from the Fatah government after they already won an election in 2006. This is already overshadowed by the fact that Israel pulled out of the gaza strip in 2005 and that there was a complete full out war between hamas and israel from 2008-2009, and that hamas won the election in 2006

ALL the other events include Putin giving a speech in Munich critical of the west (filler), a minimal troop surge occurring in Iraq (after a civil war broke out in 2006), couple of local minimal natual disasters, israel bombing a nuclear facility in syria (absolutely nothing happened as a result, arab countries didnt even give out a statement), a mass shooting in the US (that happens every other year), former pakistani prime minister assassinated and a political crisis in kenya over an election (happened at the complete tail end of 2007, december 28th, and mostly 2008), failed revolution in myanmar (mostly 2008), political candidates like obama announcing candidacy for presidency (mostly 2008), tony blair steps down as prime minister of UK (after announcing he would already be doing so in 2006), Sarkozy wins the presidential election in france (same political alignment of the previous president), Treaty of Lisbon is signed (at the very end of 2007, and only in effect in 2009)

Overall 2007 had absolutely nothing in terms of geopolitics and was a complete wasteland year. If anyone can tell me any actual notable events in 2007 then tell me, and also tell me if you have any other year from the 20th and 21st century that was more geopolitically filler than 2007, because i promise you there isn't any if you properly research the events of said year.