What was life like before 9/11?
>>73844104
It was an amazing time without any wars or troubles, nogs were civilized and Jew kept jewing
>>73844104
look at some of louis theroux documentaries. all documentaries of the life in '97
go crazy
>>73844104
It's all just a Fanta sea...
>>73844104
It was all about Digimon battles desu
>>73844104
>wcw vs wwf
shit was cash
>>73844104
Everything was radical.
>>73844104
We impeached a president for getting a blowjob -- that's how bored we were.
Thank god for the Iraq War to get our priorities straight.
>>73844104
Less Mexicans
>>73844996
>Impeach Clinton
>His approval ratings soar to their highest of his career
Everyone loves a scoundrel. People are actually wondering why Trump is so popular.
>>73844996
There was a strict no fat chicks policy, it had to be done.
>>73845006
Less muslims
Airport security was by no means lax, but for example if you were a martial artist you could sometimes ride with your sword on the plane Kill-Bill-style.
Cell phones and pagers) were banned in all public schools (because surely only drug dealers could ever possibly need them, not kids with single parents who worked until 8pm!).
>>73844996
that's the first coherent breaking news i remember
>>73844104
It was decent. I just remember cartoons, Friends, Ally McBeal, Clinton, Netscape Navigator... Definitely a simpler time.
>>73845092
>diet coke
every time
The government was 100% scared of riots breaking out if gas reached $2/gallon in any major city, so they opened the Strategic Oil Reserve to compensate. After 9/11 they realized people would just assume it'll be a war sacrifice.
>>73844104
less newfags shitting up the forums
>>73844979
Kinda sad that this will never happen again in the US now that people are all cynical self involved drama queersexuals
>>73844996
we impeached him because he lied in court numbnuts
>>73844104
Home Improvement was the best show on TV.
Fuck, I miss the innocent 90's. I'm nostalgiaing pretty hard remembering those years.
After Bosnia, Americans started getting the notion that the future of American warfare would be "zero casualties".
>>73846512
The internet killed everyone gathering in a room to play multiplayer games. Feels bad.
>>73844104
There were 4 more airplanes in circulation and about a dozen more Muslims in circulation, but other than that it was pretty much the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUpy7GFOqWQ
>>73847008
>you will never all get round the telly to play some splitscreen with your bros
system linking Xboxes was the shit
>16 players between 4 rooms in one house all shittalking eachother
>except the team upstairs made up of less popular/skilled kids who didn't get mics
Economists started getting panicked about what would happen if America's budget surplus kept up with projected economic growth and inflation.
One commentator (Time or NYT) gave the doomsday scenario that the government may have to re-invest in the economy by buying corporate stock, but if the surplus continued to grow, the government share of stock would continue to increase until said corporations came under de facto government control, i.e. COMMUNISM!
Talk about a fucking buzzkill -- first budget surplus in over a century and he predicts it ushering the end of our Republic as we know it.
>>73844979
Playing some Sanic
>>73844104
Same as post 9/11, you just didn't have to do as much shit at airports and you didn't know the government was spying on you
We've always been ran by Jews and fought dumb wars
>>73847258
I have a SNES hooked up to my TV, I play Mario Kart and the like sometimes. The wife gets really competitive, pretty funny.
>>73847371
Kid in the middle looks like he's gotta go fast.
>>73844104
It was fun and simple, after 2003 it's full pain and shit.
>>73844104
the exact same it is now, plus all the arabs that died over the last 15 years.
>>73844104
no facebook, fat handys , people hanging outside,internet was a rare thing and only used for napster and porn pics (no vids) everyday was like a new action/comedy movie damn big times
fuck my english
>>73847008
>always having to go play multiplayer games at the friends house whose mom smoked in the house, was always messy, and the dog shit and pissed on the floor
No thank god for internet multiplayer
>>73847008
>screen split in 4
>good
>>73848051
Yes, being called a faggot nigger by a squeaky voiced teenager is great. I barely even play single player games, shit just sucks.
>>73848117
This is an 18 and up board.
>>73844104
I got to sit in the captains chair before my first flight. There were buttons everywhere. They gave me this cool winged button.
Everyone was so fucking chill about it. Except there people smoked in the cabin which made trans-atlantic unbearable.
>>73848117
t.Millenal Kid
>>73848186
Not an argument
>>73847525
Life before the TSA was great. Get your ticket and walk directly to the gate. Airports are the worst now.
>>73844104
Children were allowed to go into the cockpit of airplanes during flight
Travel was pretty fucking neato, and you could bring a bottle of water with you or shampoo if you wanted, and no one has to look at your smelly shoes.
The Middle-East was fairly stable except for Israel, and the refugees we had were from Palestine or Somalia
People could smoke cigarettes were they damn well pleased, except for in trains, which had entire carriages only for smokers
>>73848213
>clustered to fuck
>probably end up hitting some kid
>screen peaking
>shit viability
It was good for the time, but only because it was the only way.
>>73848421
Neither is that.
Less shock oriented.
>>73848441
>tfw remember smoking being allowed Denny's
>>73844104
I remember it seemed "normal".After the Soviet Union fell, and NATO emerged from Somalia and Bosnia successful (NATO used to actually be effective), it appeared that world peace had truly been achieved (relatively) and that the West, and specifically the United States, would usher everyone into a boring future. For a good half decade before 9/11, the World was truly at peace and was seeing record prosperity. Then 9/11 happened.
I was 10 years old at the time. I can't over-state how big of an event this was. For any of you too young to remember (or have seen) the day - the best way to describe it is to compare it to a modern day disaster movie. It truly brang the entire planet to a complete halt. Hell, I am Canadian, and even up here they immediately sent us home from school (at like 1 PM, so about 3 hours after the attack). All the adults came home from work. Everyone was just at home at 2 PM on a random weekday afternoon, staring at their television sets while a foreign Islamic terror group laid siege to the American North East using hijacked airliners. It was surreal.
No one ever expected we would face over 15 years of warfare with some sand monkeys from the Middle East, on the precipice of electing America's first strongman and openly anti-Islamic President, Donald J. Trump.
It would be impossible for me to over-state how unexpected the last 15 years have been, especially when looking at it through the lens of what people thought would happen in the 90's.
>>73848855
>I can't over-state how big of an event this was
You're Canadian
However threatened or big you thought the event was, you felt it as much as the least concerned US citizen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe-35_BaA
I can't even imagine filming something like this today.
>>73844104
Dial up internet
Phones all landlines. And cash only with some credit cards.
There were no women or muslims on the internet.
Ultima Online was the best game ever.
>>73848441
>The Middle-East was fairly stable except for Israel,
Uhhh, Iran-Iraq War? Iraq invasion of Kuwait? USS Cole bombing?
>>73849073
I know right.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzysxHGZCAU
>>73847008
It's okay, anon. You would have hated those people nowadays anyway. It's better to just stay inside.
>>73849005
I would agree. I am just trying to explain how intense that day was for those too young to have been around.
>>73848855
Kek (swt).
In America we started cracking jokes the moment we heard people died in a weird way. Also no one went home from work or school. Why would they? Lol.
We are truly the best.
P.S. we invaded Iraq to kill muslim niggers and because it was fun. No one except hippies care why Bush did it.
>>73847258
The Xbox was released 2 weeks after 9/11
>>73848855
>>73849005
Yeah, no, I thought it was way overblown and overreacted to. People were trying to compare it to Pearl Harbor and I was just like "not even close." People wanted a war -- they wanted someone to blame ASAP, and they wanted it to be geopolitical. We were lucky the Taliban were such dicks and we had invasion plans from the moment they took power in the 90s, because if they weren't we would have overthrown a legitimate regime in Afghanistan in the name of revenge (you don't capture bin Laden who was still hiding in a cave by taking over the urban parts of the country).
And yet we stayed on the blind vengeance path because Americans were fucking pussies who didn't know what the meaning of "resilience" is.
9/11 brought out the worst in us, which is exactly the point of terrorism. Al Qaeda put Western values in turmoil for over a decade in a single day -- the terrorists won the war, indisputably.
Like every other period, there were good and bad parts about it.
I was a bit young to remember much, but the 50s and early 60s were cozy. TV was a huge part of my life. Bonanza, Leave it to Beaver, I Love Lucy, and other such shows were always on the palette. I and a couple of friends would have regular expeditions, where we would bike many miles all day in the wide-open terrain of Indiana. Googie architecture was a real thing and was everywhere, from movie houses to brightly-lit gas stations. Those buildings were quite ephemeral, through we had no way of knowing that at the time of course. By the early 70s they had mostly vanished.
The mid-west was rather detached from a lot of the angst which was going on the mid- to late-60s. No riots or anything like that which I can remember. Had a job working at a small-town diner, knew everyone who went, super laid-back. I loved that job. Even in small-town Indiana, you still had the feeling the country was falling apart at that time. A few folks I knew got sent to 'Nam, but I had a very high draft number and miraculously never got called.
A friend and I actually drove to Woodstock in an ancient Studebaker. With several run-ins with the police, the drive was more eventful than the show. We ran behind because of the weather and a breakdown, and we were only there for the last 3 days.
The 70s were lousy, in a word. I went to college in '70 and graduated in '74, right in the heart of the recession. With a freshly-minted degree I was so ambitions to get on with my life, but nobody could find work. I don't think anyone who doesn't remember that time can understand just how bad it was. There were some enjoyable moments and good times, but overall it's a decade I'd rather forget.
Should I continue?
>>73844104
Can you imagine if 9/11 happened today in ultra-liberal society?
>>73850437
"If a woman or PoC had been allowed to build the towers, they'd still be there!"
"They were oppressed! They were lashing out against the patriarchy!"
>>73850045
Hello Justin.
Western values like not being frisked at an airport? Yea that was terrible. Really hurt my feelings when they trampled that bit of muh right to privacy.
Great! Our government didn't care what we were doing at every moment of our lives, business was good, and all the problems in the middle east stayed in the middle east.
I actually remember people being happier.
Then the internet got popular.
>>73846798
And Malcolm in the middle
>What was life like before 9/11?
How far back, the 90's and very very early 2000's?
It was good, the soviet union just lost the cold war, Russia was in shambles and we had no big enemy in sight. We showed the world during the first gulf war that the US military has the ability to curb stomp you anytime over night. There were still boys and girls, and you could make anti-PC jokes. Video games were becoming a thing and technology was getting to where people could have all this crazy new shit in their house that used to be reserved for industrial warehouses and military facilities. You had your groups in schools and being a nerd or jock wasn't some gender identity that you needed PSA's and training to understand. You could go out and still do traditional shit with a bit of a modern twist. You could actually take a girl on a real date and have fun doing it, then suddenly the girls started shaving, which was fucking weird because it literally happened at once to almost all girls over night at some point, a "wild" girls had a landing strip. No rape PC crap or tinder hook ups, being a slut was known as being a fucking Slut. Arcades and sneaking out to get fucked up with your bro's was exhilarating and getting prescribed anti depressants meant you went to a psych ward some time for something, you were "that" person.
Then 9/11 happened, and people got freaked the fuck out that shit actually hit the fan. I actually have a theory that all this PC/SJW shit is a delayed psychological response to the the impact 9/11 did the general populus.
Ted Haggard was completely heterosexual.
>>73850095
>I don't think anyone who doesn't remember that time can understand just how bad it was
You know it's like this with everything, right? Older generations have things they think your generation will never understand and think you're just complaining. 30 years from now millennials will tell younger people about how bad the most recent economic crisis was. Do continue with your story though. Tell us about the 80s.
I fell for the world peace meme after 1999, believed in it right until 9/11
>>73850860
>I actually have a theory that all this PC/SJW shit is a delayed psychological response to the the impact 9/11 did the general populus.
I have the same guess, also the fucking wars and information everywhere fucked people mind
>>73850095
Sure thing old man, do you hate what the world has come now, or do you believe it was inevitable? (i.e feminism, liberalism, dissolving of the family.)
>>73850602
Western values like not torturing, like not vilifying an entire religion, like not invading a country preemptively and illegally, like not spying on citizens without a warrant, or causing residents to disappear, or denying spouses and family members entry back into the U.S. when they travel.
>>73844104
I played a game in high school where you got points for taking girls various virginities. Like 1 for a handie, 20 for vag sex, 50 for anal.
Can't do that anymore. Girls are now ruined by high school
>>73850704
The internet was also happier. Back then it was only populated by true geeks, who were into coding and playing Ultima Online.
It all went to shit when everyone, including that high school prom king,went online.
Now real life is the escape place.
inb4 tips fedora
>>73851228
could you elaborate on your theory? i dont understand how youu would think that
>>73844104
MUCH BETTER than even your wildest dreams
>>73850551
Top fucking kek
>>73851084
Good point, Sweden. I'll continue.
I got a job working the retail beat in a large department store in '79, which I maintained through the '80s. The job was difficult and the pay mediocre, but during the abysmal Carter years, I was happy to have it.
A few things made the 80s good for me. In '81 I married my college sweetheart (we got back together after all that time!), and we are still very happily married. She was a court clerk at the time which gave us a bastion of financial stability (my salary was commission-based and was hit-or-miss), but we still had to live quite frugally. We shared just 1 spoon in a shoe-box apartment for the first few years of our marriage.
I had a large group of close friends, and we used to play war games and role-playing games almost every weekend. Zines were hugely fun to read and write for; it was a really vibrant community. I miss zines and gaming more than about anything else in the '80s. Social media just isn't the same.
In '85 I tried for a CS Master's degree in hopes of moving on from retail. The first semester was fun, with history of computing and other similar light classes. The second term, though, was like the last ring of hell. I had intro courses into the archaic languages FORTRAN and Cobol. To create a program back then, they had to be charted, written, transferred into punch-cards, and then 'debugged'. You had to hand your punch cards to the guy in 'the cage', who would put on the queue for compiling. Waiting for this usually took 4 to 5 hours, at least. Then, you'd get a print of the output, which for me was usually a blank page with a little bit of code on the top. How does one even troubleshoot THAT? The whole thing was horrendous.
The last straw came for me when I accidentally dropped my meticulously-organized box of punch cards in the parking lot of the school. I went into a fit of rage, drove away, and never once went back.
Cont'd
>>73850860
Your memory is complete shit. To jog it, maybe just remember any TV show from the time, but here's for starters:
Gays were mainstream, sexual harassment laws were enforced and training was being required at every major company, "date rape" was among the major crusades against rape, antidepressants were safe and ubiquitous and much less stigmatized than they had been -- while not everybody was on a pill, everybody was starting to see a therapist. You couldn't make anti-PC jokes in 2000 or 1995 -- plenty of celebrities got in big trouble for that. The entire 90s was a debate over whether the U.S. should stop world-policing almost entirely -- no more curb-stomping whatsoever.
You're completely off about vid games -- they had been a thing since the NES debuted in 1985 (US) and revitalized the industry, and PC gaming exploded starting around Doom (1993)
>>73851512
Who's more degenerate? Them or you who seeks to make them degenerate?
>>73847008
it was cool as fuck. even in this backwater country.
>>73852055
F77 was only 8 years old by then. I wouldn't call that an archaic language. In fact, I've modified f77 code written in the 90s. Some of the punch card remnants are a bit annoying though, like the compulsory indentation and the forced max line width. gfortran is a pretty sane compiler though. How were the 90s?
>>73844104
There always was 9/11
>tfw 1994
>tfw cant fucking remember
there was cs 1.6, broodwar, quake2 mods (quake 3 too)
there was 1 core 1 ghz cpus, dvd burners were a hot item
the lsd was legit, the x was real, pot was everywhere
>>73852370
What fag hole did you grow up in? Fags were fags in school and HR departments were just preliminary laughing stocks, not a guide on how to ruin worklife and stigmatize employees.
Of course there was laws against discrimination and rape was fucking illegal, I don't get were you imply it wasn't. And the video game thing, yeah it was becoming a thing. I don't remember NES and DOOM during the fucking 70's. And no, anti depressents werent safe or mainstream, they were known for being taken by "that" guys mom or crazy sibling. SSRI's weren't treated like breath mints as they are today, you were forced to deal with life. They had the occasional tricyclic drugs, but they weren't a life style.
Sorry your shit sucked.
>>73853228
Fake LSD has been around for almost as long as LSD itself. Psychedelic amphetamines such as DOB were being sold as LSD even at woodstock.
>tfw you will never browse /pol/ during 9/11
>>73853228
I remember having a 322 Mhz Pentium MMX CPU.
>>73844104
>What was life like before I was born in 1997?
>>73853580
>/pol/ wasn't around during 9/11
>But it will be around when a dirty bomb goes off and the middle east finally hits the red button
End times soon brother
>>73844104
People were slightly skinner, shit costs slightly less, and there were slightly fewer minorities. Basically a slightly better version of today.
>>73853580
4chan didn't even exist yet...
>>73853580
/pol/ during 9/11 would have been lit af.
>>73853384
>during the fucking 70's
Life before 9/11. Useful information on this front would be on the order of maybe the difference between a few years prior to 9/11 and afterwards, since obviously what is wanted is a perspective on what changed directly due to or concurrently with 9/11.
But if you want to instead generalize about your life across a 30-year span from the 70s up, be my guest and spout generally useless information since a lot fucking changes in that long a time.
"What was life like before 9/11?"
"Well for one thing we didn't have personal computers!"
Yeah, that shit doesn't help.
>>73853580
Just think off all of those memes.
Think of the memes.
>>73847123
2 thousand more americans in circulation
>>73845613
that's because it was the first one on the internet
>>73844104
It was like the whole world was American.
Everyone loved us and wanted to be us.
https://youtu.be/E3YGtQ40Qvs
>>73854333
Pretty much. Even with Clinton being the butt of everyone's jokes he was still popular around the world, because all the European leaders were full of sex scandals (and still are) that everybody knew about but nobody prosecuted.
Clinton should have had the foresight to trademark "Bunga Bunga" though.
>>73854333
This is true. Europeans were generally very positive to the US before 911 as far as I recall. Then you got Afghanistan and Iraq, Michael Moore 'documentaries', supersize me etc which were shown everywhere, at least here in sweden. It's like after Iraq everyone was supposed to hate America for any reason.
>>73854078
>Life before 9/11. Useful information on this front would be on the order of maybe the difference between a few years prior to 9/11 and afterwards, since obviously what is wanted is a perspective on what changed directly due to or concurrently with 9/11.
Oh, I'm sorry idiot, did I not fucking clarify the 90's and very very early 2000's in my very first sentence, or can you not comprehend that either?
Yeah, sorry I'm not giving my opinion on the turn of the the century or prohibition, maybe I should clarify that as well, seeing how I wasn't fucking alive.
>"Well for one thing we didn't have personal computers!"
Yes retard, because I didn't describe how there was still an anti-PC culture and you could still go on dates and not everything was a hook up. Should I have described dial-up or go into detail of early Simpsons episodes, would that have helped? What part of my lexicon should I detail before something is clarified for you to understand and answer OP's question? Perhaps if I get asked again I will go into more detail about shaved cunts became a thing.
>>73854172
Jorge and Paco replaced them don't worry.
>>73852833
>I've modified f77 code written in the 90s
You must like suffering.
My word processor crashed and I've had to write this twice. But here you go:
I lost my retail job in '88, as was probably for the better. I jumped into a Library Science degree program right after, which I graduated from in '90. I got a job in the reference department at the university library where I interned, and I'm still working there now. I understand that it's difficult to find stable work with good pay and benefits like this nowadays, and I feel like I made it just under the wire.
Being comfortably middle class, we had a kid in '91. This was of-course all-consuming and changed our lifestyles radically. In a lot of ways, my life got a whole lot less interesting, but I have no regrets and still value this stability. The 'air' of the '90s through '94 was basically a crossover of the '80s. 90s Internet was not as fun as people say. Very early on I did research work on a database which patrons actually had to pay for because they charged by the minute. I don't remember the name right now. In terms of mid- to late-90s Inernet, I never used IRC or any of the other stuff that it's known for nowadays, and it was SLOW. It's easy to have a warm, fuzzy image of what the Net was in the '90s due to its comparatively dismal state nowadays, but it was NOT fun to use.
>>73846390
God damn I remember logging onto my dads computer using compuserve. feelsgoodman
>>73851345
The PC culture of the late '80s and '90s was pretty abhorrent. That's why I loved zines so much, you could say what you want as long as your opinion was intelligently-crafted and well-written. Having good friends whom I could speak my mind to helped. Nowadays most of the people I knew moved away and what I have left is... well, /pol/.
I remember the hippie culture as being really tolerant, and I think the PC movement (along with all its baggage and manifestations) were a spin-off on that. We were supposed to love each other, unless you were in uniform of course. It just went way out of control, and I don't know how or why. It's even worse now than in the '90s, I feel. If not anything else you're allowed to blame us.
Nobody knows that I'm a Trump supporter, not even my wife or son. In my daily life, I follow the party line of "he's a lunatic!", but he will have my vote. I have the strong impression that there are others like me, which is why he probably has a good chance at the general.
>>73852055
>those rtoj BK cups
The 90s were the odd calm before the storm.
>>73844104
The same, only scum and assholes would use something different to justify their billshit interventionism and police state crap
>>73855536
>My word processor crashed and I've had to write this twice
You never learned vi or emacs?
>It's easy to have a warm, fuzzy image of what the Net was in the '90s due to its comparatively dismal state nowadays, but it was NOT fun to use.
I remember. Even the things people look back at and feel nostalgic about, like netscape and geocities etc felt like utter crap at the time.
So given that you're a 55+ year old father, what the hell are you doing on 4chan?
>>73856030
What are your thoughts on the PC culture today?
I remember society wasn't fully consumed with it until sometime around 2010 with the whole social media frenzy. Maybe that's just me but it felt like the 90s/00s weren't totally obsessed with hurting people's feelings or constantly pushing a marxist agenda
>>73857103
Seinfeld: "We're not gay! ...Not that there's anything wrong with that...."
>>73856694
>what the hell are you doing on 4chan?
Birds of a feather. If anyone in my life (to give just one example) knew that I have a complete disdain for Islamic culture, I'd be crucified. Especially as an academic. Academic ""freedom"" is a joke. Here, I can openly rant under the veil of anonymity without any worries about my life, family, or career.
/Pol/ isn't as good as zines used to be, and most of it is low-quality, thoughtless banter, but it's still a place for me to rant and express my opinion, which is in itself valuable to me.
I forgot the commands for vi ages ago. I use Libreoffice now because it's fast and convenient. I just don't have the time or patience for that alchemy anymore.
>>73857103
>What are your thoughts on the PC culture today?
It's basically the same as it was back them, except it's even more absorbed and accepted into the mainstream. I think back then it was more codified; people and organizations were PC because they had to be in order to preserve their reputation. But beyond that, people went on believing whatever they wanted. Nowadays I think people actually believe it, and buy into it hook, line, and sinker. Especially this younger generation. Their brains are so absorbed into social media that they no longer have a point of view or individual perspective, even secretly.
>>73849073
I don't care what anyone says, the psychology of this country changed so fast
>>73849073
>>73858206
Were the 50s the comfiest period?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-6gnFO11JY
>>73856413
Bullshit, going to the airport was a 1000x easier and we didn't have the wonderful POS known as the patriotic act
>>73844104
I spend my nights drinking and watching reruns of Full House or Fresh Prince.
So pretty much my life is just like the 90s except i couldn't drink back then.
>>73849411
Global population has doubled since the Gulf War, there is too much shit in the pool so it cannot all be contained in that shithole known as the Middle East.
>>73844104
Was fun. I played mancala on my family's laptop and pood my diaper. Also got school off that day. Score!
>>73858066
As yes, Seinfeld. That show continually tested the waters of what was acceptable on the boob tube.
That it was so popular is a testament to how non-PC the sentiment of the 90s actually was.
>>73844104
When I was very little (1988) my dad would take my brother and I to the airport to watch planes land and take off.
And in the 90's during long transatlantic flights we could go up into the cockpit at night time and talk to the pilots. Sometimes you even got little plastic pilot wings.
>>73844104
something like this:
"lol clinton got a blowjob in the oval office roflmao" and everybody smoked cigarettes.
then it was a few months of
"who is this new guy? bush2? whatever. seems cool. that election was weird, eh?"
then boom.
"War! We're goin to WAR!"
>>73844104
It was better
Jews didn't control anything
SJWs didn't exist
Feminism was relegated to a very small amount of women who didn't shave their armpits
Black people were dindu'ing but they weren't getting paid by Soros to do so so they kept it amongst their own hoods
Life was all around better and then the Arabs had to fuck everything up and now you've got liberalism running rampant through Western nations, anti-white groups like BLM trying to assert themselves all over the place
I miss the 90s a lot
>>73844104
>>73849073
Because people are used to getting filmed now. They'd just tell you to fuck off for being annoying now
>>73849432
i think people would be ok with the video if he wasnt such a creep
I was in freshman year of college when 911 happened.
I had no clue what that meant at the time.
As much as the internet was about 'sharing' and 'connecting'..
it seems no one makes actual human connections anymore
>>73858850
the pilot wings
i remember flying alone ! at a young age to see my grandparents, and proudly receiving the plastic gold delta wings
>>73857103
Sanford and Son
Fred "What have you got against black drivers? Look around. Ther's enough niggers in this courtroom to make a Tarzan movie."
>>73845465
I just remembered how kids were allowed to visit the cockpit on a flight.
shit was cash
>>73858324
I'll go out on a limb and say that for most people the psychology of the 50s was closer to the 80s than 1995 was to 2005.
It must be the Internet because I think the relative slowness of my 80s childhood is what was so important. Your world was still principally your neighborhood. I think of my backyard, beating sun, a radio playing somewhere in the neighborhood as somebody worked outside... I don't find that comfiness anymore. Being connected has such profound side effects that none of us could have predicted.
>>73844104
It was a wonderful time. The Earth was spherical and you could fly on an airline without submitting to sexual assault.
>>73844104
Somewhat more optimistic. The tech boom was in its infancy although we still had shit like the Bosnian conflict and Desert Storm
>>73851084
The 70's really was a terrible decade. Truth is, the actions by the Nixon administration (started by LBJ) that took us off the gold standard kicked off the 40+ year debt fueled economic paradigm that is now on the verge of collapse. The world we know today had its foundations laid down in the early 70's.
Today's moral and societal decline, lousy economic fundamentals and general sense of western decline largely mirrors what we saw in the 70's. However, in some respects the 70's was worse: crime was substantially higher and was increasingly at an almost parabolic rate, America's largest cities were literally crumbling (just look at pictures of NY, Washington and Chicago in the 70's) and inflation hit shocking levels by the end of the decade.
The problems we face today, though, are actually worse: a fundamentally and dangerously unbalanced capital-flow driven world economy powered by unsustainable levels of credit expansion; radically dysfunctional politics that has devolved into a game of faux-social platforms and virtue signalling while not addressing real issues; insane social policies and a complete breakdown of even the most basic forms of moral absolutism. Where things are better than the 70's: cleaner cities, less crime, masked inflation; the methods used to achieve those results are questionable at best and dangerous in the long-run (crushing of civil liberties, ZIRP fed policy, etc.).
>>73844104
It was quite literally a happier time. People weren't even fazed by the dotcom bubble or by y2k
The internet was still a vast unknown. No texting selfies or emojis beyond :)
Clinton actually balanced the budget
I was just a kid but I genuinely felt better back then
>>73859263
>plastic gold delta wings
Yep. Only two I have live next to my cuff links.
>>73850857
Yes.
>>73854172
The other seppos got fatter to compensate, so it's evened out.
>>73859896
I agree with you.
>>73859896
Wow you are amazing anon, that is one of the rarest feels is hearing that radio echo across the neighborhood. I remember losing my grandpa about age 8 and crying a lot and hearing this Janet Jackson song on a distant radio echoing around is something I'll never forget.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5ecZWwO_hQ
>>73844104
Im 33 and while I love how informed and connected we are now it feels like everyone is a lot more paranoid, lonely and unhappy.
But I grew up in the Suburbs of Chicago and had a happy spoiled childhood. I'm probably just wistful
>>73850095
go on
>>73858081
You sound pretty dope dude, you should try to be a Library Science professor, I cannot believe how many assholes are MLIS professors, its close to a 51/49 good person to ahole who knows nothing and just knows about using the social medias to create social justice ratio.
>>73851437
>we have always tortured
>we have always spied on Americans
>we have used bullshit reasons for starting wars before (Vietnam)
>>73844104
I still had friends.
>>73844104
Stop with this stupid meme.
With the exception of airport security, things were fine after 9/11. Americans felt united across the country, George Bush had insanely high approval ratings for how he handled it, American flags everywhere, neighbors were more warm towards each other, feelings of community were probably at an all time high.
Things didnt go to shit until 2008- Obama, the Great Recession, iphones/smartphones, facebook/social media, hipsters, Lil Wayne, SJWs, BRICS- every single thing that is awful and horrible today can be traced back exactly to 2008. That was the fucking year to end all years. Weve been sliding further and further down a rope of shit ever since then.
>>73848855
I was a junior in high school when it happened, and I have never been able to shake the feeling that my future was stolen from me that day. My whole life up until then had seemed to hold so much promise for the future, but since then everything has seemed to spiral out of control, to one new low after another. To this day, we still don't REALLY know who was ultimately behind the attacks, but it seems like we have continued to blunder right into the traps. When you think about it, the "terrorists" have won, we are a terrorized nation and we have lost what made us great. This is the great depression of our time.
>>73861679
But in those past cases it wasn't because the citizens themselves were clamoring for it.
>>73846438
>>73860942
Thanks pal. 80s/90s suburbia was such supreme comfort. This thread has made me realize things. It's like our centers of psychological gravity have swung to the Internet and mass media when it used to be our neighborhood, town, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjtXUULtH4E
2001 was a weird year
>>73844104
>ywn get an N64 for the first time again
>>73844214
>nogs were civilized
Maybe in Canada but in the US violent crime peaked in the 90s.
>>73846798
>>73846512
>be 8, gook family moves to scarsdale jewyork
>spends all time after school with friends doing stupid shit outdoors, indoors, calvin n hobbes tier shit
>supersoakers, pool noodles, bop-it, gameboys, n64, windows 95 for days
>summer roles around, we'd just sit around the tv and watch based older bro playing ocarina of time
>nightmares till i was 10 after i saw the shit that was in the shadow temple
>tfw music plays the first time you enter hyrule fields, when you catch a 60 pound fucking tuna and get sheckles for it
>thought internet was slow, noisy, and for serious work for adults
>it was a magical 2 years for me, then the age of the meme millennium happened.
>moves away from based friends, 10 year old me has no idea how to stay in contact. Move to gay faggot pennsylvania. Bum fuck nowhere with some big university.
>Was real edgy and bitter about all the move for a while. I now realize I might've turned liberal if I had stayed in scarsdale, jewyork.
>still, sometimes I wish the 90s lasted a bit longer.
90s were fucking magical. For 10 years the world was in balance, there were no major conflicts to speak of (inb4 cosovo). War was a distant memory even for adults, airline bombings / hijackings was thought to be committed by north koreans and cubans.
My god... even when Columbine happened, the nation lost its shit in grief, not its mind by claiming guns were the problem. It was fucking tragic, but we moved on.
>>73844104
Glorious.
>>73849073
>2:30 am
club and pub goers out for a midnight run
>>73844104
Movies didn't always have a political agenda.
Music was mostly grunge and women's music.
PS2 was the hottest gaming platform.
Internet was slower, sparser and not so commercialized.
Everyone didn't have a cell phone.
TVs were square and standard def.
Laptops were bulky and heavy.
People weren't so insanely divided on politics.
Airport security was much quicker to get through.
Life was pretty good.
9/11 fucked us up terribly.
Saddam Hussein and the Russians were our biggest threats and there wasn't so much of "do you know what your child?....." on the news every night.
Also people were less susceptible to letting their freedoms be taken away for the sake of security.
Good ol nostalgia making everything seem better than it actually was
Less minorities and cops.
>nobody pointing out this underage
>>73846438
Ahahaha WTF HAHAHAHAHAHA
Fucken white people
>>73868653
>Airport security was much quicker to get through.
look where that led
>>73868905
Heck even Mexico was safer back then.
>>73844587
>look at some of louis theroux documentaries
this
based louis
>>73844104
War on drugs was in high gear; lots of young people arrested for Marijuana all day long.
Minimum wage jobs were worked by teens and college students.
Everybody spoke English.
No Mexicans.
Rent was half as much.
Pay phones on every corner.
The movies were a lot better.
People still believed in America then.
>>73854066
Was quite lit during Paris attacks. Remember being on /pol since the first minutes of the happening.
>>73846438
Look underneath the desk.
>>73853105
>1998
>no pre-911 memories
>>73869570
Yeah, great, a diet coke. Fucking awesome. You going somewhere with that chief?
>>73868997
Good point.
>>73869645
>mfw meeting people that were born in '98 in college
I'm from fucking 95 and I feel old
>>73844104
we all danced to technotronic and watched family matters
>>73868653
>Everyone didn't have a cell phone.
The days.... The days.... Those days...
Reeeee
Reeee softly...
>>73869570
>and I'm still going to drink that garbage
>>73869714
the last few years of school were crazy, with all the 20XX kids
>mfw i babysit kids born in the 2010s
>mfw they can talk and are in school
>>73869570
Look above at the flag.
>german tv was awesome, still untouched by american media
>no euro so shit was still cheap in europe
>didn't have to worry about being american overseas
>people actually had a semblence of education in america instead of having tv educate people now
>cars weren't soo expensive since the dollar didn't plummet in value thanks to the wars
>rack stereo systems were still being made
>furniture that wasn't made in some southeast asian country
>people who didn't need to buy a house, didn't fucking buy a house
>the internet was awesome
>music wasn't soo shit
>movies weren't soo shit
>>73844104
Near Utopia compared to now.
The 90's... I will miss them.
>>73844104
Life before 9/11? There was no pandering to the "religion of peace". Rarely even heard about them.
Battle.Net was one giant laggy place with no specific server to choose from.
People actually went outside to communicate and hang out.
People went to eachothers houses to play games, N64 was the shit for party games (this is before the rise of cheap ass PC's before everyone and their mother had one. Fucking Dell)
Squaresoft, Capcom and Konami were still great.
Girls listened to Nsync and Backstreet Boys, not nigger music.
When you had a gf you'd be stuck on the phone talking to them and it was fucking near impossible to get off the phone without lying and making up an excuse.
Never once saw any trannies/traps/people with hair dyed fucked up colours pre-9/11, although there was a little fad where people dyed their bangs blonde.
Much Music and MTV actually played Music, and a good variety of it, lots of rock. There were still shitty shows here and there though but they never lasted very long (S Club 7)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer was still good.
etc etc
>>73869045
The 90s were great, at least for me. In general, we had some shitty presidents and NAFTA kinda fucked us over.
better.
im 23 now.
Before 9/11, everything was more relaxed. it seemed like America was literally the best place to live.
eating frozen pizza and playing pokemon on the gameboy color. Things were less expensive. government was less up your ass. no feminism, no black lives matter. liberals only cared about weed and not this tumblr shit.
im drunk. but honestly being a kid pre 9/11, in the 90's up until 9/11 were rhe best times in human history to be a kid. kids from today on will live in a shitty violent world and will be immersed in excessive technology to the point they dont act like normal humans anymore. the future is dark.
>>73853105
>>tfw 1994
Can remember up to 1997.
I still remember OK Computer being promoted on Video Hits.
I remember 'Betterman' being played on the radio every time it was on.
I remember alot of the old cartoons and soaps that were on.
I remember driving in a "new" camry that fell to bits.
Late 90's/early 00's I remember crystal clear.
I watched documentary after documentary of 9/11 shit after it happened. I was only 7, my parents were perplexed.
I knew from that day, the world was not what my parents thought.
I knew instantly that they were fools (partially thanks to their parents telling me about the war and the great depression)
I knew one day we'd face the same calamities - and we did face them
>>73870326
>NAFTA kinda fucked us over.
how? Mexico is the manufacturing hub of North America now because of that. the very first car i bought, an '01 Jetta came out of Puebla, piston heads installed upside down and all. i still remember that car fondly despite that.
>>73869996
>the internet was awesome
Yeah it was great, waiting five minutes for a page to load praying that no one picked up the phone.
>>73853840
>>But it will be around when a dirty bomb goes off and the middle east finally hits the red button
80 nukes is not enough.
Infact, I think it's a bluff because it's way too small an amount to be catastrophic worldwide.
Fallout though...
>>73844104
Was great leaf
https://youtu.be/FOXfbtWPZjw
>>73855536
>It's easy to have a warm, fuzzy image of what the Net was in the '90s due to its comparatively dismal state nowadays, but it was NOT fun to use.
So much this.
Dial up was the worst shit.
>>73856030
>I remember the hippie culture as being really tolerant, and I think the PC movement (along with all its baggage and manifestations) were a spin-off on that. We were supposed to love each other, unless you were in uniform of course. It just went way out of control, and I don't know how or why. It's even worse now than in the '90s, I feel. If not anything else you're allowed to blame us.
Look at /pol/
Punk came back, only this time properly. Old punks hated nazies. New punks praise them.
Though essentially that's sorta tongue in cheek in some ways, serious in others.
It was great. If I had one wish granted by a genie, it would be that it never took place.
>>73859103
>Jews didn't control anything
They've had control since the 30's.
As I keep saying, they are not the "new world order" - they are the old order.
And they are shaking at the knees now.
They unleashed the beast again. We white people will tame them.
>>73846485
>The government was 100% scared of riots breaking out if gas reached $2/gallon in any major city, so they opened the Strategic Oil Reserve to compensate. After 9/11 they realized people would just assume it'll be a war sacrifice.
True the government didn't want a repeat of the oil shock of the 70's, but society had been thoroughly prepped for rising fuel costs in the late 90's early 00's with the 'peak oil' meme that was spammed relentlessly. Iraq was never a primary source for oil destined for North America either, before or after 2003. and US oil companies had and and still have very little to profit from Iraqi oil fields.
>>73859896
>Being connected has such profound side effects that none of us could have predicted.
Well, we're beginning to adapt now.
Especially the middle/lower classes.
I went to the store the other day - ethernet cables all sold out in several stores (I wish I'd invested in stocks now)
>>73854089
Unlike you assholes I was already fully conscious at 9/11, we were stealing internet hubs on the day it took place, I was 13
Anyway - life before 9-11, cozy nineties everything is fine russia is no longer retarded, lets make some fucking money muthafucka
Life after 9-11 - scary modern world.
In fact you can easily date 21st century from 9-11 and I dont doubt thats how historians will do it.
>>73869984
You better stop pointing swords at Australians.
If Trump is bogus, we're your last hope.
I'm working as we speak. Already seen the key issues financially (not economically as some fools expected).
The whole mess has to do with risk aversion and derivatives.
They suckered the government into giving bonds.
That will stop. No buts. It's taken power from the government and given it to banks.
>>73871639
What is this referencing? Is that the Green Lantern?
The late 90's were shit. A lowpoint of civilization.
>>73858642
>Entire human race has doubled in population in 25 years
jesus
>>73849073
>I can't even imagine filming something like this today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8n11y2lxrE
>>73869714
>tfw 98fag
At least we can both acknowledge that Valentine did nothing wrong.
>>73844104
I was in 8th grade when it happened, we had some sandnigger family living on our block, after 9/11 they moved pretty quickly
>>73871940
Hamboigas
>>73844104
Watch "Seinfeld" reruns. It was basically just like that.
>>73872388
someone cure this virus already
>>73871789
i send my condolence to your kangaroo wife
>>73844104
Reagan made all nice with Russia, Berlin Wall came down, Stoner sax player took office. Cheap shit everywhere. It was blissfulness for almost a decade, after Bush sr ran out of office for Iraq war.
Bush Jr comes in, Realitys of what Clintons did takes hold, DC starts to admit huge gaps in debt, then towers hit.
Over night, things began to change. People grew larger K-9's and a lust for blood. Went on like that for a couple years. Then questions began to arise, and the noose has been ever tightening on what one can and can't do.
Yes Big change. The US has become what it use to fight against.
>>73844104
fuck man, dont you need to get ready for elementary school? this place isnt for your trolling
>>73844104
Songs like this and the general attitude were pretty common among the populace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sfg68aTRsY
After 9/11, we bought the whole we are the world koolaid and started sucking up to countries like a bunch of shy school girls.
People were more open and trusting, seems a lot of that trust was destroyed after 9/11 and hasn't fully recovered yet.
>>73844104
When you thought of France, you thought of wine, cheese and baguettes.
When you thought of Germany you thought of the huge industry.
When you thought of Sweden you thought of the awesome porn industry and the nefarious chef.
Now you think of a country and it's all terror, despair, hopelessness and ambivalence. Melting pot of emotions.
Is it 9/11, I think Not so much. I believe it's the use of the internet and social media fueling paranoia. We walked willingly into 1984 dystopia, we won't stand for CCTV and intrusion. Give us instagram, Twitter and Facebook and we'll show you everything.
Mostly, I don't give a fuck.
What I was doing that week.
>Playing Kingsfield the Ancient City, Baulder's Gate and FFX on the Playstation 2.
>Running around scamming, thieving and PKing, Reskilling and being a JewMuslim on Ultima Online.
>Pretty sure I was busting into cow levels in Diablo2 as well throwing Frozen Orbs at peoples like a madman.
>Switched from dial up to DSL (it wasn;t common then) so I was constantly accused of speedhacking by the 56kers.
>Posting screenshots of my connection speed on forums so they'll stop with the crying/reports.
>Going to school until 2-3pm
>Washing dishes to pay for said school from 4pm til midnight.
>Going home and gaming or going into bars that never carded me cause I rolled in late with regulars I worked with and never caused a scene.
>Driving my 89 4banger Nissan Centra I bought from a farmer for 600 dollars.
>Going swimming with my buddies
>Going to various music stores to buy CDs
>Being proud of the 3 full CD towers I had all organised out perfectly
>Friends hadn't turned into junkies
>Windows 98 and buying a new computer a few months later because it came with Windows XP
>Downloading music from WinMX and making a few bucks off people who didn't have a PC by burning CDs for them.
>Got redpilled on psychiatric meds and people who use them by ending a 3 year relationship with a grill who was the posterchild of better parenting through chemistry
>Swore off any sort of contact with dindus whatsoever
>>73844104
it was 9/10
>>73865082
Thanks Clinton Crime Bill
>>73871271
>I was using dial-up until 2007
>Switched to Hughes' Net for one year before going back to dial-up
>>73844104
Boring
>>73844214
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Fi_murders
It wasn't that different, the internet sucked, nobody used it.
>>73844979
LOL that kid on the couch couldn't take the graphixxxxx
>>73879116
Kek
>>73848051
Kek, those were the days. I'd go to my friend Brodie's to play Pokemon Stadium. He had puppies that shit all over his room, even the N64. His brother would smoke weed and blast Nelly from the next room. His mom would make nasty dinners, like gravy and bread.
>>73879116
>>73859173
whats that?
>>73880576
Ketchup with purple food coloring.
>>73844104
I carried this knife through security in '94 going to summer camp. And this is not a small knife by any means. The security guard just said, "cool knife man". Same thing on the way back. Even fidgeted with it on the plane. Not even a sideways glance from the flight attendant.
Not directly related, but also people were less afraid in general I think. I grew up in suburban New Orleans in an upper middle class neighborhood. I used to trek up and down the canal bank near my house with a bb gun, all day every day. Shooting at turtles and nutria. People in their backyards would wave. No cops were ever called. And the gun looked real. Even when I got a bb revolver that looks completely real, nobody cared at all.
>>73844104
The government did the same shit but without justifying it with patrioc act
>>73862240
Good point anon. You are right. The early 2000s were fine with the exception of war. 2008. Hope and change was the start of what we have today.
>>73846620
This. Clinton was trash.
We were on top of the world. Economy was great, cold war was over. There were still problems around the world (yugoslavia, rwanda) but they were far removed and weren't important to us.
Of course, I was also a kid during the 90s so of course there's also that sense of youthful innocence and nostalgia clouding my view, but yeah.
Growing up in white suburbia in connecticut because parents valued education and got good jobs. Walk outside at 10, knock on friends door. We say hey, knock on all the doors, get the gang together, go play football in the frontyard for hours and go swimming after at friends house, basketball swim football repeat, climb trees n shit, and when we were 10 or 11 lightsabre battles in public areas, eat 5 buck burgers, just a beautiful childhood.
>>73882991
The irony is social media killed this, it makes people less social
>>73862240
Very true, 96 here, so barely a 90s kid, early 2000s is more like it, and all I remember changing was not being able to visit the control tower at the airport with dad anymore
>>73882991
I played outside from early morning until the sun went down. Only forcibly went inside when my mom made me eat her well-cooked dinner (which I now miss). I liked being outside so much I HATED going back inside the house.
I didn't have a phone glued to me 24/7 and I played in my room on days I didn't go outside by building all sorts of elaborate things.
>>73844104
Before 9/11 the news was crazy over some California politician having an affair when no one cared or some missing white girl for years.
Political correctness was the lowest it had ever been in recent memory. Liberals were too incensed that their president had been impeached. Impeached! Hahaha. Even though no one cared.
No one cared about anything. It was preferable to now when all of a sudden everybody is showing they care by getting offended for everybody else and talking about how they should empower women and minorities. Oh the poor terrorists. Jesus fuck.
Not everything was classified as "breaking news", people actually spoke to each other instead of texting, less fat fucks
>>73870669
Don't do this to me right now senpai not now
>>73881265
I remember bringing a bb pump action shot gun in my backpack in 99' when I was in 3rd or 4th grade. I bought it from this icecream man who was Muslim or something. Pretty cool guy.
>>73882991
israeli from connecticut? Me too. where did you live? Fairfield or new haven?
>>73871460
There go my dry eyes.
>>73868653
The PS2 came after 9/11 you fucking retard.
>>73850045
>Not even close
It was literally worse than Pearl Harbour you stupid fucking monkey
In every conceivable way
>>73844104
you want to know what life was like before 911? find a library with no people, find a window where you can sit, grab a book that you might like and turn off your phone/tablet or what ever mobile thing you use
America used to be like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAU3iINiLCE
but now is like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vroRefQS2c
God help us all
>>73871460
Went to the top, thanks based parents.
I regret getting one of those squashed quarters with the towers on them.
>tfw I was only a 4 yr old when it happened
I wish I was there to see the direct aftermath. If I can't remember, how can I never forget?
What's gonna happen on the 12th of September in 2019?
ON THAT DAY PEOPLE BORN AFTER 9/11 WILL LEGALLY BE ALLOWED TO POST ON 4CHAN, WHAT WILL WE DO?!?!
>>73888849
I REMEMBER BEING ABLE TO TELL THE TEACHER TO GO FUCK HERSELF AND JUST BEING MOVED TO ANOTHER CLASS, NOT EXPELLED OR TAKEN INTO CUSTODY.
OR GOING OUT AND PLAYING WITHOUT A ESCORT OR COP COMING UP TO YOU
- how about riding bike without cops physically checking your helmet to make sure theres enough phome in it, no police state here johny
now its just permit this, insurance that. fee for using this, cant fish here protected, cant fish there that's a different permit, cant give people water without permits, cant make a home for yourself. j walking just tured into a 700 dollar fine, rich prick in fort mcsuckmy balls get 10% burned but get donatation, did i mention those are the pricks making xraycameras and measuring devises , didnt even mobilize the big bomber fleet, becasue we cant,cant,cant
how can we when were so scared we just cantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcantcant
at this point im gonna find a hole and cant by myself
>>73844214
>no wars
We were at war. We're almost always at war. It was something in the middle east I forget the name of.
>>73888849
>being born in 1997
faggot
>>73844104
Pre-paranoid times were awesome. Money and jobs were a given. America was great.
MAGA
>>73889285
I was about to post "senpai, that's like a decade away"
It's not.
2 years.
>>73846798
I have a bit of nostalgia for the 90s, but thinking about it recently, I realized that most of what I miss about it is the media from the period. My home life and school life sucked shit.
>>73889554
I was born in 1996.
I don't give a fuck desu, I was born just in time for Brexit and MAGA.
>>73844104
No one gave a shit about Mudslimes.
As should be the case now.
>>73889997
You better be doing your part and sharing the Brexit Movie on your normiebook feed and with everyone you know
>>73844104
Tumblr didn't exist, the news was pretty lame, and gas was less then $2 a gallon, it was pretty much bizarro world compared to today
>>73844104
Only had to worry about niggers and spics. Now it's niggers, spics, and mudslimes.
Bretty good but not perfect. Gangster rap was at it's highest peak during the late 90's early 00's and it affected white suburbia hard. However I would trade feminists for wiggers in a heartbeat.
>>73844104
Late night TV still sucked. E! tv shit with that fat dude walking around to different bars in New Orleans and talking to strippers or whatever. The internet was exciting and cool and it seemed like you were always discovering something interesting, unlike now where you just go to the same set of websites every day and shitpost incessantly. I think movies were generally better. I actually remember loathing the 90s as I was growing up through them and feeling nostalgic about the 80s.
>>73844979
The term is EXTREME!
![Iz7RCS0[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/rLYDcwU.jpg "Iz7RCS0[1].jpg")
>>73848117
>>73844104
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe-35_BaA
Try this nowadays and see what happens.
