• FuckyWucky [none/use name]English
    30•2 years ago

    being a zoomer who was not even a year old then it freaks me out to see 9/11 being discussed as it happened. funny seeing 870KB image files being considered ‘huge’.

    • Beaver [he/him]English
      15•2 years ago

      When everyone was on dial-up, that would add another minute to the load time of the site. The internet was slow as hell in 2001. And that goes for the web hosts as well - on 9/11, all of the news sites ended up posting simple static pages because they were getting hammered by visitors.

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]English
      30•2 years ago

      I was in middle school when 9/11 happened and it was basically like a switch got flipped

      The same teachers who were bemoaning us loving Pokemon and playing on our Game Boys were making us watch live footage of people dying and telling us that everything was going to be fine

      One of the gym teachers had a breakdown and started to cry, half of the kids started to point and laugh at him

      Everyone started making up rumors about who did it, #1 runner was aliens

      For six hours, I sat in a room clutching my backpack, looking at my comic books and trading cards, waiting for my parents to come pick me up early as the rest of my class slowly filtered out as their parents arrived

      My teacher came up to me and put a hand on my shoulder and said “Are you okay? You’ve been really quiet today and that’s not like you.”

      It became suddenly apparent that nothing good was ever going to happen again

      “I’m okay” I managed to get out, “it’s just a lot to think about”

      I went home a short while later, we got KFC for dinner.

    • Elon_Musk [none/use name]English
      14•2 years ago

      56k no way!

      They used to put this warning in the title of threads with lots of large images as a warning to those still on 56k modems

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]English
      11•2 years ago

      Same, but for me it was listening to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8P9TaEIWjw a while ago that really changed my mind. Before, I thought the war on terror was a very opportunistic endeavor that most Americans only went along with because it was the solution the government put in front of them. But I was wrong, the islamophobia runs a lot deeper and people were calling for genocide minutes after the second plane hit. amerikkka

  • HypnoctopusEnglish
    37•2 years ago

    Wow

    "What I fucking fear is the fear for anyone that is from the middle east in america. You gonna get this neo nazi bullshiters preaching their hate for the middle east. Then you gonna be seeing Shit happen to innocent people just cause of where they are from.

    Hell I’m not from the Middle East but some neo nazi dudes might think i was. Fuck I mean fuck it’s fucked up in every which way. I pray for everyone.

    Septemeber 11 2001 This day will live in Infamy. It’s just mindboggling. We see it go on in other countries we never really think much about it. Then it happens.

    Even those this tragic thing happen here in USA. I rather risk my life if i had to live in NY. Then live over where the beginning of hell is over Where the Palestin and Israel are fighting. That shit is constant I feel for them kids an all that shit they go through. The mental shit that must be happening to them. Stop the Madness Please Stop it now. Why God??"

  • AernaLingus [any]English
    56•2 years ago

    Not to belittle the signifigance of these events, but you do realize that this means a whole slew of “anti terrorist” and probably “anti violence” laws will be passed through congress.

    Any “anti terrorist” laws will be given almost a blank check to do what is necessary. I’d be surprised if in 6 months you’ll be able to make a domestic call without it being monitored.

    That’s the way terrorism works. It’s not the attack that hurts most people. A couple of hundred people die – every death is tragic, but the truth is the real tragedy will be the loss of freedoms for the survivors.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]English
      27•2 years ago

      They were pretty close, but the real tragedy was that all of this was allowed to happen so a million more could be killed, some American fossil fuel companies could capture a new part of the world, and America could maintain imperialist dominance over a region that is halfway across the globe.

  • john_browns_beard [he/him, comrade/them]English
    18•2 years ago

    I know we poke fun at 9/11 a lot, but as someone who lived in an NYC suburb and grew up with the towers as part of the skyline that I’d see on a daily basis, it’s extra eerie reading through this. I was a student in a larger NJ high school and we were sent home early because there was an assumed risk that our school could be targeted (also there’s no way anyone was going to get anything done for the rest of the day). I could clearly see the smoke on my walk home.

    The frantic comments accurately depict the panic and confusion, as well as the anger and immediate urge to assign blame.

    • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]English
      5•2 years ago

      There’s that Serbian song by a band called Serbian Taliban singing about 9/11 a year before 9/11 happened. I think to certain corners of the globe, it was really obvious a 9/11 was going to happen.

  • Pseudoplatanus22 [he/him]English
    20•2 years ago

    Wow, a lot of Americans literally shaking in that thread. The jingoistic pro-war rhetoric reminds me of the Howard Stern broadcast where they start calling for Iraq to be nuked