What was life like before 9/11?

What was life like before 9/11?

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It was an amazing time without any wars or troubles, nogs were civilized and Jew kept jewing

look at some of louis theroux documentaries. all documentaries of the life in '97

go crazy

It's all just a Fanta sea...

It was all about Digimon battles desu

>wcw vs wwf
shit was cash

Everything was radical.

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.

Less Mexicans

>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.

There was a strict no fat chicks policy, it had to be done.

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!).

that's the first coherent breaking news i remember

It was decent. I just remember cartoons, Friends, Ally McBeal, Clinton, Netscape Navigator... Definitely a simpler time.

>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.

less newfags shitting up the forums

Kinda sad that this will never happen again in the US now that people are all cynical self involved drama queersexuals

we impeached him because he lied in court numbnuts

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".

The internet killed everyone gathering in a room to play multiplayer games. Feels bad.

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.

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>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.

Playing some Sanic

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

I have a SNES hooked up to my TV, I play Mario Kart and the like sometimes. The wife gets really competitive, pretty funny.

Kid in the middle looks like he's gotta go fast.

It was fun and simple, after 2003 it's full pain and shit.

the exact same it is now, plus all the arabs that died over the last 15 years.

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

>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

>screen split in 4
>good

Yes, being called a faggot nigger by a squeaky voiced teenager is great. I barely even play single player games, shit just sucks.

This is an 18 and up board.

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.

t.Millenal Kid

Not an argument

Life before the TSA was great. Get your ticket and walk directly to the gate. Airports are the worst now.

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

>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.

Neither is that.

Less shock oriented.

>tfw remember smoking being allowed Denny's

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.

>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

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I can't even imagine filming something like this today.

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.

>The Middle-East was fairly stable except for Israel,

Uhhh, Iran-Iraq War? Iraq invasion of Kuwait? USS Cole bombing?

I know right.

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It's okay, user. You would have hated those people nowadays anyway. It's better to just stay inside.

I would agree. I am just trying to explain how intense that day was for those too young to have been around.

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.

The Xbox was released 2 weeks after 9/11

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?

Can you imagine if 9/11 happened today in ultra-liberal society?

"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!"

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.

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.

>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

>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

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.)

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.

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

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

could you elaborate on your theory? i dont understand how youu would think that

MUCH BETTER than even your wildest dreams

Top fucking kek

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

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)

Who's more degenerate? Them or you who seeks to make them degenerate?

it was cool as fuck. even in this backwater country.

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?

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

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.

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 Sup Forums during 9/11

I remember having a 322 Mhz Pentium MMX CPU.

>What was life like before I was born in 1997?

>Sup Forums 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

People were slightly skinner, shit costs slightly less, and there were slightly fewer minorities. Basically a slightly better version of today.

Sup Forums didn't even exist yet...

Sup Forums during 9/11 would have been lit af.

>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.

Just think off all of those memes.

Think of the memes.

2 thousand more americans in circulation

that's because it was the first one on the internet

It was like the whole world was American.

Everyone loved us and wanted to be us.

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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.

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.

>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.

Jorge and Paco replaced them don't worry.