• mookulator@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Vaguely heard about it on the radio on the way to high school. First period was “intro to flash animation” taught by a boomer who didn’t know we could access YouTube on our computers. Everyone was watching videos about what happened and ignoring the teacher. One kid was late and she asked “why are you late” and he was like “ there was a national emergency”

    • andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun
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      2 years ago

      He didn’t know you could access YouTube on those computers because YouTube wouldn’t exist for 3.5 more years (Feb 2005).

      If you were watching it on a computer it was probably something else. Maybe MSN or something.

        • andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun
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          2 years ago

          Remembering the internet before YouTube and Google is weird. Trading AIM screen names with the girls who’d talk to me. Good times.

          • Sean@lemmy.worldM
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            2 years ago

            Those late nights on AIM in high school are something I really miss. Putting up cryptic song lyrics in your away message, just hoping your crush would see them.

  • Chrisosaur@startrek.website
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    2 years ago

    Having very strange dreams. I fell asleep with the tv on the night before. Never really did that before or since. Woke up between the two impacts.

  • Joe B@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I was at the Conversation Corps in the Day room with my then GF as soon as the second plane hit I thought I was watching a show. I went and got other people and we just watched. Saw people jumping to there deaths

  • VitaMan@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    In 9th grade Geometry class. Since our school is near CIA hq, we were locked down and so stayed in Geometry class all day.

  • dq9@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Personally I was in 8th grade. We were about to watch a movie and turned on the TV only to see what had happened. I grew up in southern CT. We could see the smoke from my town. I now live in NYC and know several people who were in the area when the first plane hit. 1 person was working at the same Burger King that the first responders ended up using at a base. Another person was working down on Maiden Lane. He had just immigrated to the US a few weeks prior.

  • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi
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    2 years ago

    In the UK and I was 5, so I would not have known about it that much back then. I only found out about 9/11 years later when I was watching a Discovery documentary on the Shanghai World Financial Center and they were talking about how 9/11 influenced some of the decisions made for that building.

  • CharlotteRain@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I was in the fourth grade. I never did enjoy the art class so I was able to go to the library and help with instead. Anyways, I was walking in and the librarian had the TV on (which was odd) but I got there just in time to see the second plane hit.

    I didn’t understand it at the time but I had just witnessed history that a child shouldn’t ever have to see.

  • TheBananaKing@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Sitting at home, other side of the planet, chatting to friends on IRC - somewhere around midnight local time.

    Someone suddenly said “A PLANE JUST HIT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER THE PICTURES ARE HORRIBLE” - turned on the TV, a few minutes later the news started filtering in.

    I had work in the morning, so I had to go to bed within a couple of hours. My overall thoughts on the night:

    • Fuck.
    • Gotta admit, that was clever.
    • Hoooo boy there’s going to be trouble over this
    • Fuck.
  • ji88aja88a@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Was holidaying in Queenstown, NZ and walked into the restaurant of the hotel to eat breakfast, hungover as.all get out, not believing what I was seeing