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Even though I can't say I fully remember it, the beginning of yt, back when the Internet was a lot healthier than it's ever been due to the Wild West lifestyle (back before 3-4 webpages became the only place you go to).

Also, there for what I would consider the absolute best game console to come out since the beginning of the 2000s: xbox360. Also got to see what I consider the most aesthetically pleasing out of the box OS ever (W*ndows Vista)

I was there for 9/11 like many others were growing up. Many born in 2001 and after would not understand the impact it has had on America.

I was there for the Boston Red Sox finally snapping a multi-decade streak of losing or not making it to a World Series in 2004. This is significant if you're a sports fan, especially baseball.

I was there to see the rise of social media sites that many use today.

My mom ran away from home to see Elvis in a high school auditorium, and was in Little Rock when it was being integrated, I always thought that was cool.

I saw Nirvana before they were famous, in a crowd of about 30 people in a club here, and barely missed being blown up over Lockerbie, but the moment that stands out most in my mind is: I was getting frisked (felt up ) by a cop on a US city street when, no shit, the English punk band GBH were walking by and they started shouting at the cops, oh my God I have never felt so cool.

I volunteered at the occupy wall street camp in New York. Fun times.

I was there when smart phones came out.

When Y2K didn't happen

When the internet was a useful tool and not monetized to shit

When the thread of sanity broke and society began to transition into some Lordranesque nightmare of tribes.

I watched the Challenger explode on live TV from my school classroom. The teachers were all ecstatic about the mission because NASA was sending a teacher into space. It took a minute for us to realize what happened, even though we literally watched it explode in front of our eyes.

Having been there for the recent solar eclipse.

I was there when a plane crashed on the airport where I live.

I was there when a car cought fire on the highway.

I was there when the fediverse "exploded".

Man, my life is boring.

I remember leaded gasoline (and prices under USD$1)

I saw (on TV) the Challenger explosion

On 9/11 I was staying at a friend's house, and that morning basically every news site was brought to its knees. Like serving static text only summaries. I remember going outside and seeing the newspaper on the porch and thinking "This is going to be the last normal one for a very long time". It was of course.

Some friends and I took a long road trip and in person we saw this fly the first of the two flights for the X prize (Note: that one actually had some decent reasons to use the name X)

I caught COVID-19. Twice. So far.

I actually just became a grandfather two days ago. I'm looking forward to, "Listen, things were different back in the nineteen hundreds..."

I played Helldivers 2 when it was good. Before the dark times, before the nerfs.

The 2024 eclipse, even got the pics!

I was arrested at a G8 summit while I was helping block the road Putin's motorcade was about to use, but police had to let me go cause they didn't have the manpower to process all the protestors.

Dunno, COVID maybe?

I was there Gandalf, in the previous millennium.

I was waiting tables at the Eat N Park across the street from the bank where the "Pizza Bomber" exploded. We couldn't tell what was happening from where we were, but I was there.

Assuming there will be "next generations"..