[fiddlerwoaroof]

I don’t know about the author of that quote, but I mentally often think of the 90s as “last decade”

[dataflow]

Interesting. Is that a reason behind it? I can see why the 2000s might seem like "last decade" (it might still feel like the 2010s), but the 90s are another decade behind...

[fiddlerwoaroof]

I don’t really know, but Y2K and 9/11 were fairly notable in a way that most of the other decade transitions weren’t.

I also don’t really know if this is common: but the individual years of my adult life just seem less real than my childhood for some reason.

[mitchdoogle]

Because the human brain perceives time in odd ways.

[watt]

That joke was funny 10 years ago.

[mitchdoogle]

It's probably not a joke. Many people report things like this when talking about time. Our brains are just not that great at accurately thinking about long periods of time.

[ludamad]

Clearly his directly outer conscience thinks it's the 2010s