There was a sense that the one true theory had been discovered. Nothing else was important or worth thinking about. Seminars devoted to string theory sprang up at many of the major universities and research institutes. At Harvard, the string theory seminar was called the Postmodern Physics seminar. This appellation was not meant ironically.
Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
physics, string-theory