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[-] Sausage_Mahoney@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

I was there for the shot heard 'round the world. The day a hero died and it's all been wrong ever since.

I was at the Cincinnati Zoo The day Harambee was murdered.

Dicks out.

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 12 points 5 months ago

I was there when Metallica tried to kill piracy by killing Napster and in turn, created a giant market of music piracy programs.

[-] MrEff@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

To counter Metallica, Nine Inch Nails at about the same time then went on and very publicly said to steal his music because the label was overcharging his fans and he would rather they listen to it than he get paid. He then started releasing his albums for free where you pay what you want on his website. And this is just one reason I am a life long NIN fan and stopped listening to Metallica after middle school.

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I still remember that lame sketch that Metallica did on like the MTV awards to defend their stance

[-] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I remember watching that and thinking, they don't sound very rock-'n'-roll. I guess they lived long enough to become the corporate villain

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

Fire bad!

T shirts good!

[-] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

I was arrested at a G8 summit while I was helping block the road Putin's motorcade was about to use, but police had to let me go cause they didn't have the manpower to process all the protestors.

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

I still remember the Toronto g20. Police assigned a park as a free speech zone, surrounded it, put on masks, took off their name tags and went in to beat the shit out of everyone in sight. Men, women, children, the disabled. Hundreds of people tossed into coed massive cells with a shared bucket for a toilet, sexual assaults happened etc. That day Canadian police proved without a doubt that they're every bit as bad as American cops, and I've hated them ever since.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

I was there when smart phones came out.

When Y2K didn't happen

When the internet was a useful tool and not monetized to shit

When the thread of sanity broke and society began to transition into some Lordranesque nightmare of tribes.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 months ago

When Y2K didn't happen

*When tens of thousands of people spent years of their lives making sure Y2K wouldn't happen.

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

People

Programmers

Pick one. Signed, Management

[-] technomad@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago

Hey wait a minute, has that last one happened already or not? 🧐

[-] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Depends where you live.
Usa: yes
Country that is under Usa's influence: happens right now
Country that is free from that: might start soon

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[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The world before the Internet.

I was there. We had to go to the library if we wanted information. The magazine aisle at the grocery store is where you got your up to date info that you couldn't always get on TV. TV was like 5 channels. A few more local ones if you were lucky.

They're was nothing on TV after a certain hour. Just static, or colored bars and a buzzer. You had to wait till morning for TV broadcasts to start again.

No one had cell phones. You had to go to your friends house to see if they were home, and yell for them at their window.

Fun times.

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Remember when there was the morning News, and then the 6pm and 11pm news. That's it. Now it's news channels running 24/7

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[-] CarterH739@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I actually just became a grandfather two days ago. I'm looking forward to, "Listen, things were different back in the nineteen hundreds..."

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I have a buddy in his late 30s who just became a grandpa. He had his kid in high school when he was like 17. His son is now like 19 and just had a kid of his own. That shit is crazy

[-] Slovene@feddit.nl 5 points 5 months ago

Oh, the Boebert way of life.

[-] Entropywins@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I had to walk 7 miles up hill in the snow...just to get my shoes!!!

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Seriously, we had snow back then. Lots of. But the world has moved on

I could tell my kids about snow days, school bus sliding into the ditch, walking home when no one could get up our hill. I could talk how anything not cleared quickly, icier over and remained for the winter. My kids will be able to tell stories about me jokingly wishing to get enough snow to try out my new snow blower. They’ll tell about the arguments about clearing the driveway in case we need to go out, vs waiting a couple days for it to melt

[-] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I actually just became a grandfather two days ago

Have they asked you in advance if you even want that?

;-)

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I was there for the beginning of the internet …

Al Gore was instrumental in passing legislation that set the foundation for commercialized internet … and all us old-timers hated it.

Nope, I was there as serial cables and token ring coalesced toward Ethernet, various telemetry and others built toward a common internet, individual well-known servers gave way to a vast directory of dozens.

Much later on, there was this minor invention of Tim Berners-Lee that brought everything together, and I was one of the coders for what may have been the first 401k management web site

[-] lud@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago
[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago
[-] alehc@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 months ago

Not all of us. Source: am a 2yo infant browsing lemmy

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I was waiting tables at the Eat N Park across the street from the bank where the "Pizza Bomber" exploded. We couldn't tell what was happening from where we were, but I was there.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I was still up for Portillo, back in 1997.

What an amazing night. I had never known anything but Conservative government, so to see those corrupt, selfish bastards swept away was absolutely joyous in a way that's hard to fully capture in words.

Obviously the Blair government eventually completely fucked things up with Iraq, but at the time it felt like genuine liberation after years and years of sleaze and hatred.

And IMO things genuinely did change for the better in the UK with the Blair government, whether or not you agreed with every policy they had. Then Sept 11 happened, and Iraq and Afghanistan, and the world started going inexorably to shit, and it's never really recovered.

[-] experbia@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I was once personally responsible for making Red jump off the long ledge in front of the elite 4 in the very first Twitch Plays Pokémon. it happened a lot but I know I caused it once. sometimes it's so easy to be a villain.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I watched the Challenger explode on live TV from my school classroom. The teachers were all ecstatic about the mission because NASA was sending a teacher into space. It took a minute for us to realize what happened, even though we literally watched it explode in front of our eyes.

[-] acetanilide@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Years later, I was a child waiting for Columbia to land when all of the adults started acting weird...then we found out. But i didn't quite understand at first. I remember wondering how they landed in Houston when they were planning on Florida. I was smart enough to know that that wasn't really an option but not enough to put it together until later.

[-] waz@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I remember borrowing CDs from friends and converting them to MP3s in the mid-late 90s. Admittedly I didn't really know what I was doing, so I couldn't really explain it to my friends, but ripping CDs with Windows CLI programs and amassing a huge (for the time) digital music collection was something I thought was super cool. Unlike wav files, I could actually (not always) fit a whole song on a floppy disc!

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

I was ripping CDs from the public library... Onto cassette tapes

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

My mom ran away from home to see Elvis in a high school auditorium, and was in Little Rock when it was being integrated, I always thought that was cool.

I saw Nirvana before they were famous, in a crowd of about 30 people in a club here, and barely missed being blown up over Lockerbie, but the moment that stands out most in my mind is: I was getting frisked (felt up ) by a cop on a US city street when, no shit, the English punk band GBH were walking by and they started shouting at the cops, oh my God I have never felt so cool.

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I remember leaded gasoline (and prices under USD$1)

I saw (on TV) the Challenger explosion

On 9/11 I was staying at a friend's house, and that morning basically every news site was brought to its knees. Like serving static text only summaries. I remember going outside and seeing the newspaper on the porch and thinking "This is going to be the last normal one for a very long time". It was of course.

Some friends and I took a long road trip and in person we saw this fly the first of the two flights for the X prize (Note: that one actually had some decent reasons to use the name X)

I caught COVID-19. Twice. So far.

[-] shottymcb@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

I remember leaded gas too, from 15 seconds ago when a propeller plane flew over my house dumping lead out it's exhaust. They inexplicably are still allowed to use leaded gas in small aircraft. Even new planes are designed to only accept leaded cause it's all they have at the airports.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I remember it well. I was in the right place at the right time to be solicited for a real donation t that X-prize, as if I had money. I got to goto one of the first presentations about their plan. I got to shake Burt Routan’s hand and wish him luck I did put in like $10 though

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

The 2024 eclipse, even got the pics!

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"Ehhh, I just watched from my house. 92% totality, sort of the same thing."

[-] Gumbyyy@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I live in the path of totality....it was cloudy here. Still was incredibly cool when it got dark, but now I want to see one for real.

[-] teegus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Assuming there will be "next generations"..

[-] TheSpermWhale@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Most optimistic lemmy user

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