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[Noxton]

Since then, there has been the Matrix that was based somewhere in the late 20t century early 21st century.

In MxO theory, The Matrix universe is set only in 1999. They way they put it (If i remember correctly) is that the year they remember to be 1999 is re-coded in the blue pill's brain to 1998 and the previous 1998 to 1997 and so on and so fourth. That way it is always 1999, just before the invention of "AI".

I really don't like that because the movies never set a date. Hell in The Matrix, at the beginning it was 1998. They always said at the end of the 20th Century or the beginning of the 21st Century.

The specific quote from Smith is:

Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization.

This really set the tone for when the Matrix was set in place, because we saw very familiar surroundings that we (the viewers) identified with. It was also very poignant to make us question reality, since as the viewers, the turn of the 21st century was something we could identify very deeply with. If the Matrix took place in the Wild West, well... that's just silly.


I think people took the "it's always 1999!" waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too literally. It was supposed to be the peak of civilization, which could literally run for DECADES without significant change. By significant change, I of course mean change that would cause conscious questioning of reality, as opposed to the allowed subconscious questioning.

So years could pass by, and blues would see the calendar go by and small things would change, but nothing astronomical. And since change tends to make humans uncomfortable, the blues would go on happily without change for years. Those who's subconscious wouldn't let them just accept things as they were ended up like those who populate Zion.