Anledningen till att Matrix placerades 1999 var att de tidigare hade misslyckats ... Maskinerna behövde människor att acceptera den virtuella världen i stället för den verkliga världen, som jag kommer att förklara i detalj senare.
Det var två tidigare versioner så långt vi vet.
Matrix Beta-versioner (Matrix Wiki)
Den första var paradismatrisen, vilken mänskliga sinnen förkastade.
The first Matrix (known as the Paradise Matrix) was designed to be a
perfect human world, where none would suffer and everyone would be
happy. It was supposedly a utopic realm where's one's desires, namely
the mind connected to it, would manifest. However, human minds could
not accept this concept, and scores of humans rejected the program.
Den andra var "Nightmare Matrix"
A second Matrix (known as the Nightmare Matrix) was created. This
time, the Architect didn't try to make a perfect world, but one based
on human history, "to more accurately reflect the varying
grotesqueries of your nature".[2] This time, the Architect inserted a
primitive cause and effect option into the virtual world.
Det här var ett misslyckande eftersom det inte liknade nära nog till den verkliga världen.
If the Merovingian's chateau and artifacts are any indication, while
the second Matrix beta was designed to more closely resemble real
human history, it somewhat resembled a stilted soap opera or B-horror
movie. Instead of a fluffy and soft "Paradise" like the previous
version, the Nightmare Matrix was populated with various "Monsters"
such as vampires and werewolves. Humans within this Matrix did now
operate within a framework of cause and effect, but didn't have true
choice, so much as acting out these scripts. Human minds within the
second Matrix beta could still discern on a certain level that it
wasn't real. While it wasn't the catastrophic failure of the first
Matrix beta, the second Matrix beta was still ultimately deemed to be
a failure.
Den slutliga versionen är den moderna 1999-versionen vi ser i filmen ... Det blev gjort mer realistiskt än de två föregående där den mänskliga civilisationen var på topp:
"As I was saying, she stumbled upon a solution where nearly 99% of all
test subject accepted the program as long as they were given a choice,
even if they were only aware of the choice at a near-unconscious
level." The Architect to Neo
Thus the
Architect redesigned the Matrix into its third and final form, a
realistic world approximating human civilization at its peak, circa
1980 - 2025, right before human started developing Artificial
Intelligences that became the Machines.