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8th grade teacher got pissed at us on 9/11 because he thought we were laughing at the fact that a plane had hit the WTC. We were laughing because one of the girls didn't know what the WTC was. We turned on the TVs to see the second one get hit.
6th grade we had napster while some of us were still bringing in cases of floppies to play games that'd run on the computers
9/11 was high school for me, Columbine mass shooting was around the same time. I went from end of cold war get under your desk drills in early grade school to a few years with no drills aside from tornado, to ending high school with active shooter drills.
4th grade for me, so barely old enough to understand the significance, but definitely old enough to remember airports without TSA, and being able to go all the way to the gate with whomever was flying.
I had a girl in my classroom watch the second plane hit the tower and said out loud to the room, "wow, what a coincidence." We were so innocent... and she was so dumb.
The elders had to rewind the movies after watching
I still own a VCR and a vast collection of VHS tapes. I mean, I also pay for streaming services, but without the old 90s commercials for Disney World and previews for movies that were released in 1995, the movies just don’t hit the same.
If only the pace of technology was the only paradigm shift to have to worry about since the 80s/90s
This post makes my knees hurt
Wait… what happened to people born in 1989 that didn’t to those born in 1991???
hold up now.
I remember beta vs VHS debates, now get off my lawn!
Beta was superior
Funny story. Back in the 1960s porn shops invented loop booths. You'd pay a quarter and have five quiet minutes alone to watch an 8 mm porn movie. When the time came to switch over to video, the porn shops went with the cheaper option. The guys who made the tapes put them on VHS because the porn shops were the biggest market at the start. When guys went to buy dirty movies for home viewing they saw that most were only available on VHS.
That's how Sony lost billions.
Porn is the spice of media. Whoever controkes porn contrôles the medium .
Hilariously, the Spice channel was the OG porn cable channel.
So was HDDVD. Both lost for the same reason, money backed the rivals.
My aunt was born before TV was broadcast
My mom had the first tv in our community when she was a kid cause her dad owned the general store. Before that they all gathered around the radio at the store. By they, I mean the entire community cause he was the only one with a radio as well.
I wish that wasn't painfully true.