Was anyone on Sup Forums in high school during the late 90s? What was it like after Columbine?

Was anyone on Sup Forums in high school during the late 90s? What was it like after Columbine?

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we were allowed to carry backpacks around to every class for like 2 years and the trenchcoats were frowned upon.

nothing much really.

It wasn't that big of a deal, but then I went to a small private school.

We did have this one guy that was into the whole Matrix clothes bullshit but we threw him into a hackberry bush out by the portables and that took care of that

It was a happening like no other.

>IT AINT ME

I was in my college dorm watching that shit live.

Prime happenings.

Prior to that, I could go to my friends high school a town over and hang out in each class. Teachers didn't give a fuck.

That kind of leniency is long gone.

>be freshman in high school the year columbine happened
>there was a trenchcoat mafia before the attacks, a few kids that i knew, dressed punk or goth and wore trenchcoats.
columbine happens,
>trenchcoats are banned
>everyone talked about the shooting of course, it was big news. everyone blamed video games (lol doom and wolfenstein 3d)
>It was frowned upon to play first person shooters in the late 90s because of columbine
>I had a friend nearly get suspended for shouting "Trenchcoat Mafia!" with a "West SIIIDE" inflection to it in the cafeteria
>there was regular school shootings every year since then

Went to a small but nice/new rural 7-12 school (my graduating class totaled 80 people). There was a small amount of talk about it but it wasn't really a big deal. I do remember teachers commenting on how blaming video games was bullshit.

i didnt know costanza attended columbine

I graduated in 99. Life just went on the same as usual. We just joked to the guy that always wore a trench coast about not saying anything bad to him

Yes.

I remember the next day, I hadn't heard the news, but I was walking through the halls and it was just dead empty. Everyone would run to their next class and not linger or hang out as usual. It was fucking weird.

It was pretty much the same as before. Trenchcoat kids were made fun of, but everything else was the same. It seems like another lifetime.

started in 1999, not much changed here honestly. wasnt until i just graduated you could see the changes coming.

>I was playing DukeNukem3d every day.
>Media blamed violent vidya games.
>My mother took my DukeNukem away.
>I protested by listening to Johhny Cash in my room for hours.

In school, not a damn thing changed. I remember the news had a running body count during the story like it was the score to a fucking foot ball game. Why do you ask?

Some say that it was Columbine, not 9/11, that truly changed everything

I think OKC bombing was the beginning of it all.

Always blows my mind how Jags Guy is in that picture.

I like how there are spics but no blacks

Columbine, my favorite school shooting of them all.

No. Not even closet to being true.

This was a major event. But remember that OKC was a response to Waco and Ruby Ridge. After OKC, the Government largely backed down. The assault weapon ban was passed in the 90's... but it was allowed to expire. Conceal Carry skyrocketed, crime went down dramatically as a result of that. States became more Right wing...

People think since Clinton was a Democrat that the 90s were a Democrat time... they were not. Clinton was a Centrist. Had to be. Republicans controlled everything else. Then we got 8 years of Bush.

So OKC was in my view the furthest the pendulum swung away from Civil Liberties. Afterwards it started swinging back to the Right.

>no trenchcoats
>had to wear clear or mesh backpacks
>school got a cop with a stupid little metal detector baton

Awkward kids like me all got forced to take one of our elective periods off every day to talk to a psychologist.

By the end of the school year, the school had labelled every autismal or awkward kid in the school a 'ticking time bomb' and had expelled us.

When you see it

Those people are retarded
It was the sixties when Americans were brainwashed into believing in peaceful protests and the last bit of opposition to globalist bankers faded

>Prior to that, I could go to my friends high school a town over and hang out in each class. Teachers didn't give a fuck.
I saw something like this happen when I was in high school a few years ago. A guy who graduated the previous year showed up to lunch with his friends who were seniors that year. There was an open area by the cafeteria with picnic tables where you could eat lunch outside, literally within eyesight of the parking lot. The guy parked and walked up to his friends and just sat there talking to them. Like 5 minutes later two cops and the principal showed up with stern as fuck faces and told him he needed to come with them, and they escorted him into the office. I don't think he was charged with anything but he was scared shitless.

I am honestly really frustrated I had to grow up in a post-9/11 post-columbine country

...Where the fuck did you go to school?

it was fun I got expelled for playing gunshot sounds on speakers in my backpack and terrifying a bunch of kids and teacher, they thought it came from outside

getting them lulz pre Sup Forums era

South Texas.

My hometown had no high school, so I had to go to a high school in a neighboring town right outside county lines.

Schools are allowed to immediately expel any student who doesn't live in their particular county, no questions asked.

I had to do a semester of schoolwork in this fucking 'corrective' high school that was like a prison before I was allowed to attend another school.

I was in there with people who actually dealt drugs, and in one case, an ACTUAL MURDERER. Shit was retarded. We were only allowed to wear white T-shirts and jeans because "We didn't deserve better", weren't allowed to talk ever, and had 2 restroom breaks PER SIX WEEKS.

I got more work done in that one semester of independent study than I did my first one and a half years of high school.

how the fuck was it frowned upon to play shooters in the late 90s because of columbine when that happened 8 months before 2000

I always found this picture really bizarre because we took photos exactly like this when I was in Middle School and my friends and I were a lot like the fucking retards in the top left.

In our own little circle. I remember a joke I had pulled once where I made this thing called the "Kira Kult" based after that shitty anime Death Note spiraled out of complete control.

My friend printed out like 100 copies of our "creed" and handed them out throughout the school. I almost got expelled for that.

I remember some random kid got called into the office as well because he lied and took credit for it to try and make himself look cooler. He was in sobs huffing a paper bag to stay conscious.

Weird day.

>mfw graduated in 1999, the same year the Columbine killers would have graduated

I remember the day at school after the shootings. In my first period Spanish class, we just sat around and talked about what we saw on the news.

It was especially eerie when the news came out they were just weeks from graduating like we were.

My school principal, Principal Ventura, handed out guns to all the faculty members and students. I remember the speech he gave at the assembly.
>I'd like to see any of you Marilyn Manson psycho punks try and shoot us up. You step foot onto our school and you'll be gunned down faster than you can say uncle.

meanwhile actual terrorists who were cutting heads off a week ago can attend schools in Europe and have their asses sucked by everyone.

I guess i mean early 2000s then, thanks for catching that.

Life went on. Only thing I remember is MTV playing a bunch of anti gun special episodes and Bill Clinton sitting in.

Shitty. I was the quiet kid who didn't like socializing. So some cunt teacher thought I was dangerous.

Graduated HS in '96. It was a pretty cool and uneventful time. The main factions were the goths, the wiggers, the metalheads/skaters, and the preppies/jocks.

I miss 90's era cliques and trends.

Man.

All those people are in their 30's and shit and are all old and boring like me, now.

Not a single fucking nigger

I graduated in 1999 ask me anything

>we were allowed to carry backbacks to every class
This is normal lol.

>I was 3 when columbine happened and you guys are talking about graduating high school or being in college

that's odd, I don't remember people disliking games, I think even more came out.

>Go to an 99.9% white school in the USA
>Still get murdered
topkek

>haha let's just ruin this kids life that will make sure he doesn't shoot up the school

You probably already know this but your school was fucking retarded

spread dem bootycheeks

No, there was a big shitfit about guns thrown.

Joe Lieberman, Hillary Clinton, and Al andTipper Gore, the usual busybodies got on CSPAN and started yammering on about it.

Yeah, i do. But that was half a lifetime ago.

I'm a teacher now, and my experiences make me really protective of my students. Therefore, I think it's been an important thing for me to experience. It's definitely shaped who I am.

How different were the 90s from now (if at all)?

It was pretty much the same. The biggest difference was that every year on the anniversary of Columbine kids would start a rumor that there was going to be a school shooting on the day of Columbine, so everyone would stay home that day.

I remember playing the shit out of counsterstrike, halo, and unreal tournament.

It's actually the same guy, fyi

No way.

The fake one was much better.

>all of them are white
Emmm, excuse me? Your picture is literally problematic. Delete it!

no social media, no cellphones, no SJW's, competitve culture, pantera [utopia by todays standards]

Graduated in 1997. I have to admit, I miss those simple cliques. I was in the metalhead/skater group. Good times...back when work was fun, rock on the radio, and no shit happening in the world.

I was a senior and that was only a couple months before the end of the year. I guess things may have changed after I graduated.

But even before that, Marilyn Manson shirts were banned. Teachers would freak out over those.

I was in grade 11, nothing changed.

This happened in my hometown. Graduated in 2003. Sick fucks tortured one of their moms to death. I remember hearing they cut her titties off and injected them with bleach. I knew a couple of the murderers personally and I would say that everything they did was fueled by meth. Dunno what ever happened to them all and don't really care.

Because of Columbine, we already had lockdown procedures in place, so the school was locked down when they were looking for the 5 teens. I think we had 2 cops at our school after the Columbine shooting, but I lived in a small town and the two cops were good guys and didn't really seem out of place. One graduated from that same high school that he was protecting, and the other officer was the brother of the mayor.

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90s were overall better but crime was worse black crime was way worse

when you werent allowed to say "black"

The biggest between now and then is that there was more freedom

It's hard to explain there was just more freedom

You didn't have to worry about what you said or what you did as much

There were other school shootings in the 90s before Columbine.

One example: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurston_High_School_shooting

Stuff like that was why Manson shirts were banned. Everything that happened back then got blamed on him.

Funnily enough, Sup Forums is one of the boards with the most oldfags.

What the fuck. That's pretty sick shit.

I think I know what you're saying. Internet and smartphones weren't everywhere and people weren't monitored all the time, right?

>got visited by police because one of the friends in my group wore a trenchcoat to school
>got visited by police because one of my friends made a "finger gun" on the bus (got the full bad cop good cop grill on that one)
>my cousin had his entire life ruined because he made a "shit list" of kids he didn't like which they took to be a hit list of kids he intended to kill
>got accused of being drug dealer although I was probably the only kid in school not doing drugs
>group of friends got nicknamed trenchcoat mafia and routinely had police harass us outside of school

Public school is shit anyway. I'm sure it would have been fucking shit either way.

Yeah, really shocked the whole area. I almost feel bad about hitting one of those kids with a Bible in computer class. Almost. This was the year before the murders.

High school was terrible. I got attacked by a gang of blacks in school and defended myself and got ISS for a week. Literally not allowed to defend yourself if someone punches you.

well, this really honestly made me think.

the fuckin hell?

I was that weird kid that kept to himself and then after Columbine all the assholes always joked about me shooting up the school and then we had the local police patrolling the school, metal detectors put in and doors were locked. Luckily I graduated in 2001 and got the fuck out of that hell hole of a high school.

I was pretty young, was going into juniour high, but I had older siblings and our schools went into overdrive with anti-bullying stuff.
Also gun racks on your car were pretty common in Alberta up until then and by about 2002 were almost nonexistant (they were illegal technically but police didn't care, there were also 'concealed' gun racks which you could put your locked guns on). I haven't seen anyone with a gun rack since probably 2004ish

We weren't allowed to have guns in our trucks in the parking lot anymore. It was gay as fuck. If you brought one you had to take it home.

Fuck you're totally right

someone please point him out to me

5/6th-ish row down from the top. He's in the center above the gap in the bleachers. He's directly above where the weird looking kid wearing the turtleneck is sitting.

Holy shit. That was not a typical experience of American high schools. Hope life improved for you afterwards.

literally true

Damn that class picture is comfy as fuck

>BAN ASSAULT TRENCHCOATS
>FUCKING WHITE MALES AND THEIR TOXIC MASCULINITY VIDEO GAMES
>NEVERMIND LOCKHEED MARTIN AND KOSOVO THO, LOL
Pretty much the same shit.

Doesn't look like him, unless he had a nose job and a brow lift.

I got caught with the anarchist's cookbook shortly after. I probably ended up on some fucking list.

I went to highschool in Indiana for 2 years, was pretty chill.
Teachers were shit, funding was decent.
People would get in fights, smoke in the bathrooms, etc. Get suspended for a couple days. No issues with guns/knives that I ever heard of.

Then went 2 years in California.
Shit teachers, shit funding. Constantly calling the police over stupid fights or even arguments if people raised their voices.
Random bag searches by staff/cops/rentacops every day.
Not even kidding, probably over 1,000 kids arrested per years over done childish shit.
As much as people joke about Commiefornia, it is seriously true.

Lol sounds like you were just a pussy who couldnt stand up for himself

The changes were really subtle at first. We started having lockdown drills every couple of months, but no one seemed to care. Then the exterior doors were locked during the school day and eventually I think everyone who came into the building had to check in with the front office. It used to be a chill environment, but between columbine, 9/11 and the beltway sniper, the atmosphere became sort of tense.

They failed fucking miserably in their plan. They thought they were going to kill 300+ kids lol. Dumb faggots only killed 13 and now suddenly the whole relaxed laid-back school culture was gone because of them. I never understood why is was such a big happening during the time. I mean yeah they were kids and all but fuck 13 people isn't that many for a national tragedy.

I was a 14 year old punk who wore black and dug on KMFDM and my qt gf owned trenchcoats. We got to see a counselor and our edge factor went fucken KAbOom!!
First happening that I had American cable news for... 7/10