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[Cody_]

Lynteofantasia69

 

[PhenomenalV1]

SoopaDoopa

 

[Andonis1997]

Arsonist, it's pronounced Arsonist
Arsonist

Shuut uuuup...
>_>
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[Storm20]

It's just dawned on me that there are kids that play in my footy team that did not experience the mass hysteria of the Y2K bug.

 

[Craegus]

It's just dawned on me that there are kids that play in my footy team that did not experience the mass hysteria of the Y2K bug.

Ah yes the Y2K hysteria, or as I called it, Year 9.

 

[TheLoungeLizard]

My earliest world event memory I have is 9/11, Y2K I was a bit too young (born in 95)

 

[Matele]

I vaguely remember 9/11. I was only 5 at the time.

My earliest memory is stacking it as a 3 year old.

 

[Fizzler]

I can recall the miners at Beaconsfield being let free. I was 3 and I think that's my earliest memory.

 

[SilvaComet]

9/11 was 2001 right?

If so I was barely alive


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[El_Scorcho]

Lynton don't have LM anywhere in it.

Arsunist is fine.

 

[El_Scorcho]

The first major piece of world news I can recall is Freddie Mercury's death.

 

[Grandsun]

My first recall of news I can think of is either Steve erwins death or Greg leaving the wiggles

 

[SilvaComet]

My first recall of news I can think of is either Steve erwins death or Greg leaving the wiggles

Greg will always be my favourite wiggle

 

[Red Crow]

True story: I was in a plane when the 9/11 attacks happened. I was 13, and had been to Greece with my grandfather. We were on our way back. I reckon it happened just as we crossed into Australian airspace, because the plane started to head south towards Perth, instead of south-east to Melbourne, but we did eventually turn and go on to Melbourne. Our theory was that every plane anywhere in the world was directed to the nearest major airport, but we were deemed safe enough to continue on.

My brother was watching it all unfold on the late news with Sandra Sully before they were coming to pick us up from the airport. We stayed up till about 4am watching the aftermath on CNN when we got home. It was all very surreal.

I still have my itinerary from the trip somewhere that has our flight date of 11 Sept 2001, which I reckon is pretty cool.

 

[Dylan8]

Greg leaving the wiggles

Huge piece of international news

 

[Freight Train]

Yeah my earliest memory of major news was probably 9/11 as well. I was like 6 or 7 at the time, and I didn't really bother to watch news.

Didn't really understand the whole terrorist thing though, just thought it was weird two planes would crash into two buildings next to each other. Made me kinda scared of both planes and being in the city with tall buildings for a while though...

 

[Rainier Wolfcastle]

9/11 was surreal. I remember I was watching an episode of The West Wing, featuring an inspiring speech from (fictional) President Bartlett, and it was interrupted a few times by newsflashes about a developing story at the WTC towers in NY.

Following the show it was wall-to-wall live coverage: the second tower was hit, they collapsed, the aftermath, etc and the real-life President, George 'Dubya' Bush, was completely uninspiring, going MIA.

 

[Andonis1997]

My first recall of news I can think of is either Steve erwins death or Greg leaving the wiggles

Actually, I think Steve Irwin was mine also.. Either that or Michael Jackson. I was at my grandparents' place before primary school watching that unfold.

 

[Matele]

9/11 was surreal. I remember I was watching an episode of The West Wing, featuring an inspiring speech from (fictional) President Bartlett, and it was interrupted a few times by newsflashes about a developing story at the WTC towers in NY.

Following the show it was wall-to-wall live coverage: the second tower was hit, they collapsed, the aftermath, etc and the real-life President, George 'Dubya' Bush, was completely uninspiring, going MIA.

The thing that gets me about 9/11 is that I will never properly understand how the world changed, as I can’t remember the world as it was before 9/11. You can watch countless documentaries and hours of footage about the WTC and the world prior to 9/11 but I don’t think anyone my age or younger can really grasp how the world changed. It took me until this year to find a specific piece of footage of one of the planes going into the towers to make me feel physically sick. I can’t imagine how it felt to anyone old enough at the time to realise what was happening.

All my childhood memories are from 2002 onwards, so 9/11 (for me at least) is something devastating and sad in the same way the holocaust was. I know it was a tragic event but I’ll never fully comprehend it on the same level someone who was older than me will. (That is, I didn’t see the event live and wasn’t old enough to comprehend the fallout or the shift in thinking across the world).

 

[cannavo]

That day I walked into the TV room and wondered why Cheez TV wasn't on

 

[Cody_]

Yeh I remember mum turning on the tv to just all news channels, I was disappointed of the lack of morning kids shows but found some amusement in all the firetrucks. Obviously than I had very little awareness of what was going on.

 

[The_torpedo]

I have no memory of 9/11 (albeit I was 2 at the time)

Although funnily enough, the earliest memory of my life* I am 100% certain on was going to dreamworld in 2000 (date known thanks to photos of the day at home) - I would have been most likely 1.

*I may have earlier memories but I don't know whether they were indeed earlier than the above

 

[Matele]

I have no memory of 9/11 (albeit I was 2 at the time)

Although funnily enough, the earliest memory of my life* I am 100% certain on was going to dreamworld in 2000 (date known thanks to photos of the day at home) - I would have been most likely 1.

*I may have earlier memories but I don't know whether they were indeed earlier than the above

I have fond memories of going to dreamworld in 2002. Went on the rapids ride twice and that was my favourite thing there..

 

[The_torpedo]

All this talk makes me wish time travel was real

 

[Matele]

All this talk makes me wish time travel was real

It makes me curious of alternative history tbh

9/11 doesn’t happen. Bush becomes a one term president you’d assume? No wartime spending, no Patriot Act or Department of Homeland Security. No additional powers given to NSA etc etc. No disruption in Middle East = No Arab spring. No ISIS?

Only real political event that has happened regardless was the housing bubble in the US hat triggered the GFC, but maybe that would have been caught earlier if US citizens were more focused on the economy than wars in the Middle East?