What was western society like before 9/11?

>>136756815
what was western society like before the internet?

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>>136756815
fuckin awesome.

In a happy daze. We won the cold war, there was no great ideological fight anymore, the economy was booming like never before, liberty and freedom seemed to sweep the world... We thought we had won, that it was game over (in a good sense). It was truly the zenith of our civilization. We were so delusional that Fukuyama could publish "the end of history" and actually be taken serious.

Of course, we now know that it was just the silence before the storm.

Carefree. LIfe was easy. No TSA at the airports so getting on the plane didn't take as long. Family could wave and say goodbye before you got on the plane.

>>136756815
bout like pic. more driving

>>136756815
b...bu...but muh 9/11 sorry to disapoint you americans no one outside USA cared to give a fuck about 9/11 it didn't had any impact of rest of west except for USA.
ihb4 shut up irrelevant shithole
We helped you in Iraq after 9/11 and lost soldiers there so stfu

>>136756815
Everything I needed to know about islam, I learned on 9/11.

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>>136756815
9/11 was innocence lost for a generation. Why do you think he ran?

>>136756815
There was still a feeling of hope back then. It wasn't as degenerate, at least out in the open. No one ever thought about muslims or trannies. No one would have believed you if you told them white people would be genocided in their own countries.

>>136757308

Is that guy carrying a fish?

I thought he was throwing a basketball or dangling off a cliffside but now I'm not so sure.

>>136756815
Dont know about the culture, but bungee jumpings in 9/11 were awesome.

>>136758124
This is the biggest mind fuck

How did Muslim immigration increase after 9/11?

Most of us never saw a burka or hijab or whatever before and then BLAM they are everywhere

>>136757666

And nobody would care if you got invaded and annexed by Russia.

NATO or not, Americans are not going to war for Latvia, a country that doesn't meet its 2% obligations too.

More lighthearted. People had a sense of humor and typically liked each other. Hell, even NY and California were okay back then.

>>136756916
People didn't lose their jobs because they pissed off some bulldyke on the other side of the country and their 5,000 followers.

>>136758877
Yes you are. If NATO shows that it will not defend the Baltics, then you can count on Poland and all the others to bail on it, presumably with all of the EU behind them.

Not that I disagree with it, the EU would be much better off if we took our defense into our own hands. Which is why the USA will keep propping up NATO, you want us to be dependent on you.

>>136758752
Every fucking shitlib suddenly had to prove they, "weren't like the rest," and bend over backwards to accommodate Muslims. CAIR was formed, Obama got elected and the rest is history.

A little more A E S T H E T I C

live about an hour from the wtc. was around 13/14 at the time

life was nice

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>>136758877
>NATO or not, Americans are not going to war for Latvia
oh yeah but when you need help in Iraq and we lose our soldiers it's fine right?
> a country that doesn't meet its 2% obligations too.
Yes i agree our goverment is fucking retarded and i fully agreed with Trump on this, we need to get those 2%

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>>136758885
I miss it so

>>136757666
No one gives a fuck about you then or now. My state exports 5 times as much as your whole country, stupid slav nigger.

I remember when you could get a real ID with fake information and SSN.

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>>136759708

only cucks use that as an excuse. "b-b-b-but we helped and had loses". shut the fuck up pussy

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>>136759902
>Latvians
>Slavs

>>136759672
>What did it smell like?

It was just like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL7-CKirWZE

>>136758436
Air Jordan dunking a wart

>>136756916
it had it's ups and downs
without the internet I wouldn't know just how badly this country tries to indoctrinate it's children against whites

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>>136759999
>only cucks use that as an excuse. "b-b-b-but we helped and had loses".
y...y.....ye...YEAh it's nothing that we lost lives of young Latvian men in some midle eastern shitskin country far away from our homeland that most of us have never heard of before becouse oh boy oh boy some 2000 people where killed in United states a country that isn't of our own, but did help becouse it was our obligation and honor to do so.
But americans don't need to do the same right?

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>>136760149
oh yeah and by the way mr 52% ethnic Latvians in United states are making more money per capita then any other group except for Austrians so i am not sure who can call who a nigger.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_per_capita_income

>>136761229

yawn. you sound absolutely retarded and dont have any critical thinking skills

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>>136761487
Translation:I have no more arguments left so i will just call you a retard
T. Burger
By the way you should make genetic test to determine your heretage who knows mybie you have some Baltic blood.

>>136759442
Lol obama (or hillary)vs mccain. Talk about a fucking garbage hand.

>>136756815
Every sitcom was set in New York.

>>136758124
This.

>>136756815

There are two blockbusters in my city.

>>136756815
You could just board a plane.

>>136756815
Well, I used to be able to walk across the local Air Force runway to get to the park...

It sounds so bizarre to say it now. The air base had nothing to stop locals from simply walking out onto the runway.

But, if I could time travel back and tell myself of the security walls before 9/11, my earlier self would simply say "But why? We're not in a war zone"

>>136760149
you are honourable nordics, kind baltbro.

>>136756815
it was slowly deteriorating

>>136760430
No, in the other hand.

Extremely trash and full of normies.

Have you ever watched an episode of Friends, Seinfeld or Cheers?

Basically it was like that and was boring as fuck.

>>136758124
Honorary American.

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>>136756815

was pretty great my dude. Demographics weren't ruined, politicians maybe were actually representing the people, people were more open and trusting. Everything was polarized but not like it is today. I don't know, maybe society would have crumbled like it has / is without 9/11 but I think there's a chance 9/11 had a profound impact on our psyche. If it did you have to hand it to Osama, he fucking knew what he was doing. He knew he wasn't just killing a few thousand people and some nice real estate, he knew he was defeating the soul of the people. Perhaps he knew we were so weak that would destroy us, whereas for his culture it would only embolden it, but shit man...

>inb4 israel did it

>>136762912
you could also visit the pilots during flight

Idk I wasn't born yet

>>136757666
Fuck off, man. My school classes stopped to watch the happening in the school cafeteria. In 1-3 days, they didn't know who did it.

>>136763501
>Have you ever watched an episode of Friends, Seinfeld or Cheers?

I watched some Seinfeld episodes. It reminded me of city life some weeks ago.

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It was controversial for a female character on a major tv show to have a child as a single mother

It was boring af, if you didn't had vidya or internet you were at the mercy of whatever garbage was on the Talmudvision.

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>>136764146
notice anything different about the cast

>>136764146
back then they still tried to paint her like an upstanding woman - interesting

nowadays the shows just show single moms for what they are (degenerate sluts) and take pride in it

>>136763678
oh god I miss this. I used to go up into the cockpit and just chat the living shit out of the pilots, provided of course there weren't any kids that wanted to see "all the neat buttons", their wants came first.

You also used to cross the borders in north america with nothing more than your drivers license. They didn't really care about you for security reasons, they just wanted to log who came and went.

>>136756916
Pretty cucked, D.A.R.E, drugs are bad mmmk even though we did them in the 60s mmmk. Blockbuster was kind of fun on a Friday night, just to look at videos and pick them out for the weekend. Everybody was brainwashed, but nobody was the wiser. Still hated diversity then though, even more now.

>>136764146
I'm still blown away at how quickly things changed. We went from "Ellen coming out" to 8 year old twerking trannies in twenty years.

>>136764486
These changes happen so quickly, if you just are out of the loop for ~5 years or such, you already feel pretty alienated.

>>136759192
Comfy

>>136764661
"universal" internet access over the last decade has really blown the lid off everything though.

>>136756815
the 90s was the calm before the shit storm that we have today - no SJW shit, no jihadists, Cold War was over, people were more friendly, no big brother 1984 surveillance, etc.

>>136756815
A-N-A-L-O-G-U-E

>>136756815
It was definitely different. I felt really positive after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. No real wars, it seemed like you could start a business pretty easy. Arabs and Muslims weren't a big deal. The internet was just getting started. I was oblivious to the JQ.

Watch Donnie Darko

>>136757322
all i know is liberals are going to overstep soon, and just like my forefathers, i'll be afforded the opportunity to cull hundreds of them. civil war 2 or world war 3, sign me up for both.

>>136764962
see, there WAS sjw shit in the late 80's and 90's. this is from 1993 - > https://youtu.be/1DI6rOj8IPs

9/11 shut EVERYONE up for awhile. The (((New York Media Elite))) actually got hit where they lived. It took 8 years of Bush, Obama and smartphones to really rile everyone back up again. But we've passed the 90's at this point. We're in the 60's and possibly worse.

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>>136763668
>He doesn't realize israel did it
Get a load of this bluepilled retard

napster and aol server chats

>>136763668
(((Osama)))

>>136758752
Canadian shitlibs said "we'll show those terrorists by importing a million more of them". Our Muslim population doubled 10 years after 9/11 and it doubles now every 10 years.

>>136756815
in one word OP: fun

after 9/11 it become more and more neurotic until we ended up with the situation we have today where everyone is offended by everything and everyone is a snowflake that's about to melt in the heat

>>136764962
>the 1990's part 2
You had all the grunge guys virtue signalling how cool they were with "women and gays" at every turn. Eddie Vedder scribbles PRO CHOICE on his arm during the MTV Unplugged performance. Kurt Cobain is notably vocal about this kind of thing. We just came off of a decade of We Are the World and other globalist feel-good pop orgies. Stuff like 10,000 Maniacs with their lyrics straight out of the contents of a college sophomore's backpack about child abuse and poverty and loving everybody.

"Earth Day" is all of a sudden a thing and you better god damn believe that Nickelodeon, the only real kids cable network with any market penetration at the time, took full weeks out of their schedule to promote it. Everyone knows about Captain Planet so I don't need to go in to that. Also don't forget about shit like Terminator 2 with its anti-nuclear and feminist/matriarchal overtones was marketed heavily to children.

>>136756815
I don't remember, but it seemed better.
>No Patriot Act
>Not Mass Muslim Immigration
>100% Unrestricted Internet
>Better less decadent culture

born 1982

I remember writing letters. I remember when consumer Internet was a new concept. I remember when the bits of your gaming console was super important. I remember two player games. I remember if you wanted to see porn you'd better have a friend with an older brother who'd have a stash or pray the scrambled video feed from Playboy unscrambled. I remember the economygoing down hard in '88 and not knowing or caring what that meant. I remember that was the year crack first showed up and things turned to shit real fast where we lived in NY. I remember Madonna being young and beautiful, and Kurt blowing his brains out.

Good times in all.

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>>136761487
You sound like an ignorant faggot. I served with NATO in Afghanistan and they were all cool as fuck. Making the best of the shit.

You are clearly a pathetic basement dweller.
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>>136759708

Thanks based Latvia bro, and I salute your fallen.

>>136756815
Peaceful and happy.

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>>136764986

>>136756815
Imagine boarding planes like you would board a bus.

Also, the thought of government spying on you was laughable because that would be un-Constitutional. You were a loon if you thought that.

Oh, and dial-up sucked.

While 9/11 was a large cultural shift, I would say the intrusion of social-media/internet in our lives has been a more society-changing event.

>>136756815
Little did we know what kind of scheming was going on in the synagogues. All this NWO bullshit.

>>136756815
Optimistic, lighthearted, fun.
It felt like we were on the cusp of something.
I was 13 when 9/11 happened.
I remember the 00s just being very grey compared to the 90s. Much more reserved.

Culture still revolved around white people.
Music was better. Anime was still good.

I can't believe this decade now is all about demonising white men.

You could tell edgey jokes and have fun with things.
On wear what you awnt to school days I would wear t-shirts like "fuck Iraq, bomb France" or wanted dead or alive bin laden t-shirts, and no one would bat an eye-lid. Most kids thought it was really funny.

No one knew what the fuck a muslim was.
From the descriptions in Religious Education, they sounded like even more hardcore, mentally ill orthodox jews.

>>136756815
amazing. there were like 0 geopolitical worries.

Saddam Hussein was still acting like a huffy bitch, but not really doing anything that affected anybody outside Iraq.

Ghaddafi was just being his usual, delusional self

Russia was kind of fucked, Boris Yeltsin was a good advocate for Russia under the USSR, but sort of a shitty president

the biggest worries were HIV, which was and still is a fag disease, drugs, and gangs.

>>136756815
President Bill Clinton said there were too many illegal immigrants and they got to get the fuck out and Democrats cheered him for it. That was the mentality before 9/11 and it will be missed.

>>136766213

Dial up was fucking amazing. It only sucked once better shit came out.

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>>136756916
I remember my mom telling me about the concept of online multiplayer when I was like 9 and playing on my Genesis.

"someday you could be playing with Cody from here, without having to go over to his house!"

>more 80's/90's
>>136765980
>I remember Madonna being young and beautiful
Don't underestimate the influence of that woman. Madonna is ground-zero for a lot of the degeneracy allowed in "teen and young adult entertainment" today.
>>136766268
>smart phones are bigger than 9/11
Ok, think harder about this, but you're not entirely wrong. The fact that you compare the two is telling. 9/11 literally "linked" most Americans when it happened. It was a media explosion that, now that I think about it, has overwritten pretty much every thing that came before it. The OJ chase was huge. M.A.S.H. and Seinfeld ending were huge. The gulf War was a hit. But 9/11? LIVE FOOTAGE of New York exploding? Complete and utter confusion and bewilderment by pretty much every person of official capacity? That was life changing. Culture defining.

>>136760149
Can anyone explain the story of the split between I1 and I2 and how they ended up so far apart?

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>>136756815
I can't believe nobody has posted this yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe-35_BaA

>>136766599
I still stand by what I posted.

>>136766609
does the fact that russia clearly fucked them in two not tell you anything?

>>136764962
>no SJW shit
lol? the 90s was full of SJW

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>>136757322
See I don't get it? We went from cold war straight in the gulf war
So it's not like we were without conflict
I guess because it wasn't as serious of a threat?
Idk I wasn't alive back then
Born 1996

>>136764962
>no SJW

yeah, nah

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCU_(film)

granted, they had like zero influence back then

>>136766616
I was just about to post this. Here's this the follow up video those guys did. It's kinda depressing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8n11y2lxrE

>>136756815
18 years, one month and one day old on 9/11.
Pre-9/11, things were better. Just so much better. But at that point, the poisonous fruits were already planted.. At least we are in 2017 and not 2012. That's what I'm grateful for now.

Believe me bros we are living in the best time to be alive in decades.
We are all now aware of the propaganda and narrative aimed against the Western world
Even just a few years ago people were oblivious to the mind control, let alone the peak of when they were getting away with the diversity (white genocide) the 90s. And everyone was just going along with it
It might seem way shittier now, but that's just because we are now aware of what is going on, we are now able to see the world for what it really is. And while it might be shit, at least we now in a position to defend ourselves, we have not been aware of the attack until now

>>136766730
It implies some. I want details though.
>Russia
That split likely happened before the concept of the Rus ever existed, who were coincidentally founded by I1 Scandinavians through the Rurik/Rurikovich dynasty

>>136762862
Do you live in Alaska? I heard they still have 10 or so.

>>136767091
what's wrong with 2012? can't really remember it.
2007 was the best though.

>>136766487
I remember having to wait overnight to download a 30 Mb file over early DSL

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I was born in 97' about to turn 20 soon. I don't remember 9/11 as I was too young. The post 9/11 world is all I've ever really known.

Things were more 'mainstream'. Nothing really changed because of 9-11, 9-11 came around at the time the internet was changing everything.
That's all.

>>136756815
1998-2003 was like a big millennium party. then the music and movies slowly started turning to shit and more and more left-wing degeneracy emerged.

>>136766558
http://pe2bz.philpem.me.uk/Misc/-%20Video/-%20MiscProjects/V-601-Descrambling/cable.htm

>>136766899
the Gulf War lasted like 10 days.

>>136766599
>Ok, think harder about this, but you're not entirely wrong. The fact that you compare the two is telling. 9/11 literally "linked" most Americans when it happened. It was a media explosion that, now that I think about it, has overwritten pretty much every thing that came before it. The OJ chase was huge. M.A.S.H. and Seinfeld ending were huge. The gulf War was a hit

There was just a lack of universal and constant communication. It's all largely been driven by advertising dollars seeking more eyeballs. Google's major innovation is their ad model.

>>136766899
We had 10 good years or so before the kikes switched from the Cold War to the War On Terror.

oldfag here, it was just this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Rms5J7nGI

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>>136756815
>What was western society like before 9/11?
The gooberment raped the constitution like they do now but they blamed it on "muh ebil crack" instead of (((muslims))).

In 1998 they FINALLY started lose a FEW court cases in relating to illegal search, surveillance, and seizure: I said to myself, "I wonder what bullshit (after crack) will they come up with to take ALL the rest of our remaining freedoms."

I didn't have to wait very long.

Also, Art Bell hadn't murdered his wife (yet) and wasn't fucking a child (yet).

>>136766213
>Imagine boarding planes like you would board a bus.
No it wasn't. You clearly never travelled before 9/11. There was still security, I recall having to place bags on the x-ray machine and go through a metal detector. You just didn't have to take shoes off and could bring liquids on the plane. If you want to experience pre-9/11 airport security, go to Japan. It's pretty much the same thing.

>>136767536
I would say popular music went to shit after 1999 or so, with the boy band wave.

after boy bands came nigger music, and nigger music never left.

as for 9/11 I was in the Army that day. I had CQ duty, and I remember when I showed up at 7am to start the sgt. I was paired said, "I think today should be a quiet day".

Will never forget those words.

The base was on lockdown and I had to monitor the guards posted around our building a few hours later.

I was sad more planes didn't fall from the sky.

Happenings before I knew what happenings were and all.

>>136766029
Oh fuck off PFC. They aren't us. They will never be us. They fight with us because we shower them with money and arms. I think the arrangement is great because both benefit in the end. But don't defend a vodka nigger that's disrespecting our dead because you knew a good guy or two in the mess hall. Your naïveté contributes to their coon behavior

>>136767908
When I was 10 (1992) I carried a katana I bought in Orlando as carry on luggage on a flight to NY.

It just barely fit in the overheard compartment. The security guard and desk attendant joked about it but gave us no problem bringing it on.

>>136767918
>genz will never know the glory of the mainstream alternative rock days
no wonder they're pissed off fascists. look at the music and movies they had to endure.

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>>136767377
I feel u anon, All I know is the dark days of the world that came after 9/11 and I don't think we'll be alive long enough to see a golden age if it comes at all.

>>136768260
I saw someone on twitter posting excerpts from a bunch of young adult fiction, and holy shit was it bad.

he had 5 books, and 3 were about gay relationships.

not only that, but the writing itself was poor.

>>136766599
Yes I know that now, but as a young albeit still heterosexual boy she looked good to me. My first crush was Cyndi Lauper.

I make no apologies.

>>136768260
just make a pandora station called 90s alternative, it makes me hate the present so much when i listen, even these obnoxious mincing pussies whining about their girlfriend in their shitty 90s band are more manly than the manliest thing around today its fucking pathetic. even that pussy who wrote SHES SO HIIIGH HIGH ABOVE ME LIKE CLEOPATRA woman worshiping shit is 10x more manly than anything mainstream. theres barely any reason for anything anymore and its all uninspired bullshit with a gay feminist packaging

>>136768557
You will never know the joy of listening to a song called "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang" dedicated the sweetness of poon as a child.

Sucks for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTVDHnwlz5k

>>136768471
can't say im surprised...hell the required schoolbooks are probably full of the same trash

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WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO THE TIMELINE WHEN 9/11 HAPPENED!

I think I break 9/11 down as...

70% Chance our government KNEW about it but let it happen to incite public outrage. The US government did this to get us involved in WW1 and vietnam and probable some other wars too.
20% "ground zero" myth true and there was some kind of inside job nuclear weapons/thermite shit involved
10%everything is true we have been told

>>136767377
Found the 16 year old.

The world changed forever. US was more like the rest of the world. Now its a police state inside a prison planet.

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>>136768516
>My first crush was Cyndi Lauper.

She had talent and appeared on WWF. Don't be ashamed.

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>>136768190
>They fight with us because we shower them with money and arms
America has gave us nothing thus far, it where poles that you gave all of that stuff and you know what i don't expect you to give us any money or arms, since it's not your duty your duty hovever is securing help to us in case of war and we do the same.

>>136766029
Thank you ameribro.

>>136768279
We live in interesting times indeed. The U.S.A. is only going to become increasingly more polarized.

>>136768557
i feel you man...even shitty 90's sitcoms are more bearable. im surprised home improvement still gets shown on reruns, far too much toxic masculinity

>>136756815
no bots

>>136768880
I was born in 97' I was like 3-4 at the time of 9/11. There would be no way to grasp an event like that at that age. I'll be 20 in October.

You're just old

>>136756815

>go to almost any white country free from worry

>hang out in crowds without worrying about suicide bombers

>no smelly non-whites blasting their awful trap " "music" "

>kids could hang out at arcades, and both they and the machines would not be harmed

People had money.

>>136763882
Yeah but when compeared to impact it had on USA Europe and rest of west didn't had allmost any impact that is my point, this thread talks about ''west'' as a whole but west isn't only USA i am preaty sure that by now more people have died from refugee crisis in Europe then americans died in 9/11

>>136766029

t. dumbfag

>>136768934
Interesting indeed but what frightens me is that my generation will be the last true sons of the West and our culture and society as a whole shall crummble before our own feet if we do not act now. I the world I see today only a few have risen to try while the rest rip to pieces the foundation of their ancestors work to appease those whom will only destroy.

>>136769235
fuck man you just brought back waves of nostalgia from hanging at the bowling alley/arcade on weekends. sounds lame in (((current year))) but that shit was fucking cash.

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>>136756815
cucked
9/11 marked the drastic improvement from the shit 90's to the based early 2000s

Like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbmfQ8pB0Bs

>>136768897

you dont deserve shit. you havent done shit. you got steamrolled and cucked. you need to prove your worth. we already know ours

>>136769002
>Home Improvement
>buffoon played by closeted homosexual ex-con is put in his place by his wife
>(((Home Improvement)))

>>136756815
Whiter, and less bitchy & self-entitled.

>>136769422
>>136769235
How fucking old are you guys? I'm 36 and all this was ten years before me.
You worry about suicide bombers?

>>136769578
>closeted homosexual
>implying jill was an even remotely likable character that didn't ruin the actresses career
(You)

>>136759999
Checked

>>136769744
im only 30 but i grew up in a fairly small town that didn't get gentrified until the early 2000's

>>136756815
Can anyone post some comfy pictures from around 1999 to summer 2001?

>>136769422
There is a roller rink near me straight out of 1987.

It's cool yet unsettling.

9/11 was the second best thing that happened to America in the past 100 years, only surpassed by the Orlando Pulse club shooting

>>136769229
33 is not old. You are a little faggot who only dreams and memes from your virtual safe spaces about "how good it used to be" while others actually lived it.

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>>136770100
He turned fruits into vegetables.

wed all sit around the campfire n sing songs. and there was cakes n hotdogs n pies n shit. kek

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>>136756815
You could get tours of the cockpit.

Now if you ask you just get pistol whipped by an air marshal

Western society was at its peak. I miss those days knowing that I can never go back to a time like that and my kids will grow up in a rapidly declining west.

https://youtu.be/caDA5I4W_yc

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>>136770166
I don't know if it was good or not. I wasn't alive.

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>>136770237
this smug son of a bitch is fixing America before the white people can, and basically the alt right has a problem with this

why...?
Watch this free documentary on why the alt right is a zionist invention!
LEARN THE TRUTH NOW

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>>136770400

>>136769814
I just hated it, I don't really care about society's decline.
The actress was already old and had no career tho.

>>136757355
Yeah I still remember my mom taking us to pick up my dad when he came back from business trips, we could just walk right up to the gate and see him when he got off the plane.

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>>136770635
nobody ever said it was a good show.

>>136767683
>the Gulf War lasted like 10 days.

In reality it lasted many years. What Americans did to the Iraqis after the Gulf War made him go from 100% pro-American to 100% Anti-American between 1993 and 1998 when he at last snapped and said that muslims should go to war against America to stop the murder of muslims.

Bill Clinton killed 500,000 iraqi children between 1993 and 1996 (according to the medical Journal "the Lancet"). Which was one of the lists of 4 reasons that Bin Laden gave for the 9/11 attack. Bill Clinton murdered way more muslims than that though.

>>136758124
That muslims would try to hit back if you murder a million of them?

>>136770400
How old was your sister? Any more pics of her or your mom?

>>136756815

Everything was great. People forgot about race. There was no reason to fight and the biggest problem was Clinton getting blowjobs from whores... which most people knew was going on anyway.

>>136769542
THE BAIT!
ITS UNSTOPABLE!

>>136770802
4

It was a simpler time.
Tech and the Internet were exploding insanely quickly. The internet especially was the wild west. A new frontier and you could find anything you wanted on it fairly easily. Nowadays a lot has gone underground.

>>136770400
This one's great. Thanks anon.

It was boring with nothing but endlessly increasing peace, prosperity and freedom on the horizon. Whole agencies and industries were on the way out.

>tfw will never, EEEEEEEVVVVEEEEEEEEERRRRRR relive 1999

I ask for so little.

>>136758124
Jews did 911. This isn't breitbart comment section.

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>>136756815
I pooped on the floor there before 9/11
Thats what.

i can rub my forehead sometimes and skin rubs off. only on my forehead.

This is the only thing that should be posted in these threads. It speaks for itself and will give anyone who isn't underage b& the fuckin feels.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W8n11y2lxrE

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>>136771108
>when the Prince song 1999 sounded really fucking far away

>>136767073
Why is everyone socially awkward and semi-retarded?

Sad.

>>136771108
We would be if Clinton won the election.

Then she'd be the one cheating on her husband.

>>136771035
This.

You could get away with murder (literally) on the internet.

>>136757666
/thread

It's different for everyone. For me, 9/11 was a wakeup call because I wanted to know just what the fuck happened.

Before that I was relatively happy go lucky. Happy to get stoned and chase girls. I played golf almost everyday and listened to metallica and tupac on CD.

After 9/11 I got a gf who burned a CD for me and then I jumped on a computer and now I can' t et off it, down the f'kin rabbit hole.

>>136771108
1999 sucked ass. 1998 was actually better- Ocarina of Time, girls/Titanic/horny. I had a mix tape of Ghetto Supastar and Fuel by Metallica and Sublime and the Offspring... Also, Seinfeld was still on. Simpsons was still good.

>>136771691
I really don't remember much about 98 -- hell, I don't remember a lot of 99; but what I do remember is that I had a better feeling of that year than 98.

But, I wouldn't mind reliving 98, either, or even 2000.

Oldfag Gen-Xer here. Born in the 70s & came of age in the 80s. Childhood was so remarkably different. We grew up in a small town spending most summer & weekend days away from the house traveling around town on our bikes, playing in the woods, going camping with no adults to watch over us, riding motorcycles on our friend's farms, walking to and from school, etc. Very free range. Gosh, we used to ride our bikes six miles to jump off a tree that hung very high over the river. My siblings have kids and their children would never be allowed to do that stuff now and most most of their parent friends think the same. My siblings marvel at how normal it all seemed then but borderline insane now.

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>>136759999

>>136756815

Way better & 2001 marked the death of freedom.

MAGA can't do shit to ever change that.

>>136769451
This, why isn't "early 200s kid" a meme yet?
We had blockbuster and classic vidya along with e x t r e m e t v.
What more could you ask for?

>>136758394
It was the height of degeneracy, retard. It was pro wrestling and howard stern and everyone trying to copy those two things

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>>136770039
They are all hard copy and buried in a box in my storage locker. Mid 30s year old here. Really got to enjoy the latter half of the 80s and 90s. Hard to explain to younger folks how great it really was.

>part of me even realized it was comfy as fuck and wouldn't last so I should enjoy it...I did
>pic sort of related. 90s was the shire today is like being holed up in Helms Deep surrounded by savage shitskins.

>>136756815
People were a lot friendly then.
Kids could play outside and walk miles from their home without fear of being kidnapped. Of course the Church used to be much stronger too and the heretics got a visit from the Inquisititors. Things were good until the bloody Protestants ruined everything

>>136764451
i had no knowledge of what drugs even were until i was shoved into the dare program. after that i began seeking out weed with a raging curiosity

>>136758885
NY was the biggest shithole ever and everyone unanamously hated new yorkers and their stupid fucking hawt dawg accents. After 9-11 they became a national pet and somewhere after everyone forgot we werent supposed to take them or any of their shit seriously

>>136757322

You forgot the crack epidemic, wiggers, rap and the obvious failings of our government.

Mario64 was cool though.

>>136772804
I stoippe dlistening to Howard Stern cuz of 9-11. I saw little Afghani girls (don't worry pol, little Afghani girls are remarkably white) scared and col din some bombed out house. Next day on radio, Stern and a bunch of his white niggers were talking about bombing them (not really them, but you know-) and I realized I cared more about the little girls than Stern and other people. I became redpilled and by 2002 I believed giant lizards ruled the world thanks to David Icke.

>>136759192
FBBP (fifteenth post best post)

>>136772957
Idk I walked as far as I wanted with airsoft guns, skateboards, or whatever with my friends as a kid and this was like around '02-'07 so 9/11 couldn't have changed things that immediately,

>>136771929
Same here and would never let my kids roam like we were allowed to, of course
living in a city now is different from my small town but even the small towns aren't quite the same. World has become so much more degenerate. It wasn't like bad things never happened, they were just a lot less common.

>>136756815
In Australia, every single person was casually racist, in a nice cheerful way, like "oh fuck off ya black cunt, aye" while the boong would call you a white cunt back to you and you'd all be friends.

Then the fucksticks born my gen area (late 80's) grew up and fucked everything up as we now currently know it.

Now you have to tiptoe around everything, everything is a trigger for something, everyones selfish and out for themselves, grandparents are all hiding their insane depression with property and diy jobs to fill the void knowing they fucked up severely and they're going to be in their retirement years surrounded by chinks trying to rape and rob them.


Pre 911 was the literal golden years and I'm glad I at least got to experience a decade of it.

>>136758375
Dr Pavel I'm POTUS

>>136772606
>why isn't "early 200s kid" a meme yet?

because it was garbage culture not worth recycling by that point

>>136771929

When I was 6 I rode my bike a few miles from home. A truck beep its horn at me and made run off the road. I used to walk for miles in the woods and go to a park that was adjacent to our neighborhood for 3-4 years. I remember the day the niggers from other counties and cities found out the park we paid for in our county had a pool in it like it was yesterday. What was once a white pool had turned into a black head fest. If you did go in the pool have a very thin layer of Jerry Curl in it. From all the Fro Products. They would act rude and entitled obtuse and overbearing. Just like a bully out of place. Those were the days back in the 80's. Before they literally started moving them next door to people on tax payer dollars and carting them directly into your communities and schools and forcing them into every business and school first regardless of deserving it or not.

Those were the days! THE M.J. FOX days! Suburbs are now Ghettoburbs and even if niggers move out or pool up back to one side now. Don't matter much because were all poor now at lower level incomes which most jobs are but have gotten worse and gapped further by said niggers and said mexishits. Its planned to destory your econemy and nation as far as im concerned. Why can't white people work and make a living at jobs like fast food or construction like we used to. Why did they make it to where you're a mexishit or you run mexishits? Weakens the middle class. Were NOT SELLING ENOUGH HOMES BRING MORE SHIT SKINS WITH SHITLETS SO THEY NEED A HOME! GIVE THEM THAT WHITE PERSONS JOB THEY CAN LIVE IN THEIR MOM BASEMENT! THEY DONT NEED A JOB!

>>136756815
>What was western society like before 9/11?
It was a golden age

It was life with an occasional sprinkling of heaven on earth. Post 2002 is hell on earth

>>136767683
that was the Ground War. The Air War went for like 2-3 weeks prior.

>>136771180
That's the joke you diabetic nigger faggot

Fresh toys about cartoons, the best shoes, the 90s brought incredible music from REAL studios not that garbage from a laptop, cars with good bodies instead of ugly bodies

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modern internet multiplayer is cancer

>>136773252
No it wasnt that 64 shit was cloudy af it was all blurry n shit

>>136771691
Nigga that mix tape of Ghetto Supastar and Fuel by Metallica and Sublime and the Offspring sucked!

>>136761229
>lost lives of young Latvian
what, like, 4?

there were things that went unreported in the caucuses, central asia, africa ect

>>136760149
greeks are north african

>>136766466
Holy smokes

>>136775622
Still more then you have lost for our land.

>>136765920
>>This man-This, MACHINE, was the only thing >>that measured up
How was that not true

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>>136756815
they used to make console games very hard
not because they wanted to challenge player's abilities, but so that a game couldn't be beaten over a rental period
yeah really they used to rent games

>>136765287
Yeah really I thought everybody knew by the time YouTube came on the scene

>>136776090
When do you think it was that the Americans should of stuck up for Latvia but didn't? 1940? That'd be pretty ridiculous considering the times. Do you Latvians hold a grudge against everyone for not coming to your rescue then?

>>136757322
This.

>>136756815
It was good, most people were happy and society as a whole felt like it was moving forward.
It was never to stay that way for long though becuase the elites profit from war & chaos.

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>>136756815
>>136757322

Excellent synopsis.

>>136776396
And you Westerners wonder why we Slavs hate you :^)

>>136771035

The internet has become consolidated in the hands of a few major corporations (like American media companies did in the 1990s). Also 2007 brought an influx of amateurs unto the internet with the introduction of smart phones and the popularization of social media. Since then the internet has dramatically changed its content and culture to suit a lower IQ audience. My main point here is this: most normies were never meant to use the internet and cannot comprehend nor adequately use it for its intended purpose. Instead of seeing the internet as a space for discussing topics, getting info, and business, they have tried to bridge the Internet with reality. In the early 2000's I was told to never reveal my name or private info on the internet, now every kid and the mother is sharing everything on a public website for everyone to see. It's turned into a dick waving contest of the lowest kind. It's pathetic what social media has revealed about human nature.

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You know what was cool about the 1990's? It was considered cool to think and strive for your future. People didn't think about narcissism, vanity, and trying to be a model or the next Justin Beiber. A person was judged based on their comfort and little knicknacks, not how many people eye your face and know your name. Essentially, if you managed to live a good, what I like to call, a hammock lifestyle that made your life easier, you were known as successful. Think of having a TV in your car while there's also a mini-fridge. If you managed to nigger-rig your life, it was fine, if not considered creative.

People encouraged thinking in sciences. It was considered cool. Reading wasn't just for losers. Remember those book articles where you'd circle one and received a copy at school the next week and were happy to finally get the copy or when reading rainbow was on? Remember when you got to watch a VHS tape about rockets launching into space, planets, etc. and be excited about it, and fascinated by it, opening your mind to more questions? Remember when they had Imagination or Discovery Channel stores with telescopes, crystal formations, books, software, gadgets, magnets, etc. and finding the little sciences behind them intriguing? Remember when games like Sim City allowed for creativity, learning, and very little hand-holding where you got to learn micromanagement through trial-and error, and the game never ended, whereas games today are literally walkers for retards? Remember when little bits of technology released actually inspired both boys and girls equally giving hope for the future, thinking we'd have flying cars by the year 2000?

All of that became crushed. Nothing but bread-and-circus with social media, vanity, narcissism, addictions, sleeping around, social anxiety, suicides, etc.

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>>136776704

>>136764451
>Everybody was brainwashed, but nobody was the wiser
Lol

>>136764386
Lol

>>136759311
Say it with me, "president Putin"

>>136776597
Lativia, sure, but Hungary - you fucks just picked the losing side, you have nothing to bitch about.

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The 1990's ended with the 2008 financial crisis

>>136763325
This started when the 80s were finished. As far as I know... mother says the 70s were the last hoora

>>136777112
Your mother was probably a whore.

>>136777219
YOURE mother was a whore

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>>136777073
2008 was comfy as fuck
I hope for another financial crisis to discredit this clown Trump
the time of the business democrat is soon. 2020 here we come

>>136757322
The US got what was coming to them then, and they will once again

>>136775388
I do miss hanging out at LAN parties, trading warez, music and porn. Playing counter-strike and other games.

I do miss not giving a shit about politics because it was all the same to me.

I miss being without facebook, twitter, instragram, or any other apps because cell phones were just number dialers.

>>136777586
your*

>>136770210
she may poo in my mouth

>>136777608
>2008 was comfy as fuck

Absolutely not, especially if you were in California. It was MTV and MySpace personified.

>>136770795
>That muslims would try to hit back if you murder a million of them?
Yes, and there are too people many who can't see what's in front of them

>>136775601
Fuck you- it had head like a hole, one thing leads to another by the fixx and the devil went down to georgia on it too. plus that song from the katie holmes movie where the guy says 'and only stupid people are breedings'.

More laid back. Less divided. And the CIA was monitoring everything, like they are with this thread.

>>136776630
excellent post

>>136778041
*wasn't

>>136778041
>>136778092

Im sure all of us searched up girls our ages at the time.

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The worst thing of all it's that moment when you realised how fucking great it all was and how those days will never come back.

I remember back then in my comfy european small city, how there would be in any school just one black, maybe one russian and maybe one muslim.

Nobody knew their names and they were just ''the black'', ''the russian'' and ''the girl with the scarf''.

And now when I pass in front of my old school, it's like at least 40% immigrants.

All the trannies, the hormones, the diversity, fuck man...

I've lost all hope. The day of the rope will never come and my great grand children will be called Mohammed or Asha or I don't know.

Fucking life seriously.

pd. Can somebody post that meme of the father with a gun looking out of the window and seeing like a gay parade with trannies? I'd like to save it.

>>136776396
>Latvians hold a grudge against everyone for not coming to your rescue then?
No i am not delusional and i do realise that at those times you wheren't abble to stop USSR from fucking whole of Eastern europe for half of centiry, i am talking about now, we helped you, and you help us thats it.

blacks were not indoctrinated fully into the concept of gibsmedats nor had they been so snobby as they are now. people would generally provide a collective aura of comfort in familiar settings and the world felt like it was descending down a never ending spiral of nostalgia

>>136776597
>why we Slavs
Not sure if bait or not but bouth of our nations aren't slavic, hungary is finno ugric and Latvia is baltic.

I never though about carrying a gun

Now I carry.

>>136777797
Oh yeah! Remember? I had just to moved to LA one year before that The video game majors at college were so arrogant and hideous in every way while everybody else except the fashion majors were wonderful

>>136756815
"Hopeful" at best, "arrogant" at worst.

We were never smug, but we were naive in our optimism.

Also much more white and family-oriented. And [spoiler]religious.[/spoiler]

>>136778039
Thats so backyard boogie some nobody mixed it on their laptop and released that turd and people that didnt know music that never heard those songs before individually said yes.
Ofcourse!

>>136779607
>I never though about carrying a gun
>Now I carry.
I've lived in the same town for over twenty years. We got an alarm system in 2014. Gold tier - sensors on all doors & windows, glass break & motion sensors, fire alarms, etc.

The very ideal of owning the same system in 1996 would have seemed lol-worthy & a paranoid waste of money. Now I arm that system every night and would feel like I'm sleeping with the front door open without it.

>>136775388
Yea early 00's were the best. All night Halo LAN parties, EDM was still good and it was still acceptable to hate muslims.

Good times.

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>>136778748
>the end of history
Divorce yourself from non-essentials

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you could to go to the dmv with a birth certificate and ss card drawn in crayon and get a license with any name you wanted.

Fuck, what you guys are talking about I've experience in Cuba recently.
No internet (couponed internet), so LAN parties are commonplace, socializing is everything and it feels more coherent.

>>136756815
the exact opposite of today, excellent times.

>>136771284
1999 sounded really cool in1984

>>136776630
>The internet has become consolidated in the hands of a few major corporations (like American media companies did in the 1990s)

I used to love a local rock station in Richmond
it would of course play the popular stuff much of the time
they would host live events though and late night they would play all kinds of weird metal
then they were bought out by Clear Channel
afterwards no more local flavor, no more fun things and they play only the most mainstream and overplayed songs

>>136771929
You could have gotten hurt! *gasp*

Strange. I was 9 in 1979. I roamed endless farmland and woods with a .22 rifle. Completely normal. Nobody even thought Bout a computer. 3 channels on tv that I rarely watched.

>>136773781
I had to travel back to my hometown for an uncle's funeral last year. The place has changed so much, your description is spot on. I never saw a person begging the whole time I was growing up, now someone knocks on your car window asking for money at about 60 percent of intersections.

I'll never set foot in my hometown again.

>>136756815

Agreeing with the other X'ers here.. We primarily communicated with each other with our mouths. Even though we could have emailed.

There were also many fewer freaks and 'I'm unique' contestants running around as we weren't socially deprived and starving for human interaction.

Also a result, there were very few virgins. Lots of fucking happening.

And.. and.. the concept of being a NEET would earn you an ass-kicking. That nonsense wasn't an option.

The late 80s and 90s were so comfy, people we're a lot more friendlier.

>>136764146
Dan Quale BTFO

>>136756815
The 90s were literally bliss. I had a idyllic childhood.

>>136783526

Same. Saying "Mom, we're going shoot stuff in the woods" was met with a response of "Absolutely NOT, until you finish cutting the grass".

>>136756815
better than it is now

>>136756815
Everybody didn't act like they were always on camera all the time. Life was more organic and natural. Traditions and the family unit were strong. People connected to people, not electronic devices. Peoples' values and priorities were on the right things, not "likes', "shares", and "upvotes."

>>136769229
>you're just old
30 is old? You're a child. Don't hurt your thumbs playing video games lil boy

>>136756815
Way better.

>>136756815
Anyone could enter the USA all you had to do was have good English and say american

>>136756815
>tfw you will never attend a New England university before the current SJW hit them

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>>136784187
>have good english
Most of my latino friend's parents would suggest otherwise.

Better

>>136773542
It's quickly becoming that way. I've seen threads on /bant/ with that theme several times already.

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I could speak my mind.

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>>136777608
tfw you realize that trump has been a lifelong democrat the entire time and only left because of psycho SJWs and people like Crooked Hillary.

They thought muslims were mystical brown people on flying carpets before 9/11 happened.

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>>136757666
This from a man whose country's currency is measured in potatoes and spuds.


Joke
> What on top of Latvian man head?
> Hat! To hide bread from family!

Joke
> Two Latvian look at cloud
> one see giant potato
> one impossible dream
> Is same cloud

Joke
>Three latvian men sit at bar
> first says "My son is farmer, he has all the potatoes he can eat
> second says "My son is soldier, all the raping and pillaging he want
> Third says "My son is dead, for him struggle is over
> all three realize third is best and are sad.

>>136759543
Miss that desu

>>136770400
Look at all the comsumer products freshly consumed in the background. Yup, thats the late 90s alright

>>136756815

Better.

>>136771929
>My siblings have kids and their children would never be allowed to do that stuff now and most most of their parent friends think the same.

In their defense, it's considered child neglect to let your kids run off on their own like that now. All it takes is one fat, nosy cow to call the police after seeing your kids walking down the street alone, and suddenly you need to hire an expensive lawyer to fight child services in court for you.

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>>136756815
What was western society like before Google?

>>136756815
Barely remember. I was four when it happened. It always appeared more comfy than they things are now. 9/11 probably shook the world pretty big in a cultural aspect. But I don't think things have changed much. The reson why things look like shit now is because I got older.

>>136790189
>even a fucking furry
Haha.
There were perfectly good search engines like AltaVista and Hotbot back then, and everyone thought Microsoft/Bill Gates was the Devil (little did they know..).

Just as degenerate as it is today. It's just that back then there were less people crying about it.

>>136758752
>How did Muslim immigration increase after 9/11
It had to do with us invading the wrong country and destabilizing the Middle East.

It was a great time.

We were post- most of this SJW shit also. General vibe was that nobody really cared what other people got up to and didn't. In those days people thought things like skin colour and sexuality didn't matter so much.

Nearly everyone here would have been liberal, it was only religious nutter conservatives who thought interfering in what people did and thought was a good idea.

Its funny how things change.

It was just as bad as it is now.

>>136756815
Way less on edge.

>>136770795
>500,000 Iraqi children.
Wrong. You have your death counts mixed up

>>136756815
America was like every other country. You didn't have to take your shoes off in the airport.

i miss blockbuster. it was a treat my parents would give me for good grades and motivation growing up. now its outside dollar tree in a box, because kids these days are fucking spoiled as shit.

>>136758752
O B A M A
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>>136756815
The world was a lot less woke in many aspects, vast majority of people just learned shit from school, the media, hollywood, and television. All of these were (((manipulated))) naturally.
But it was also pretty comfy, but I was quite young so it's easy for me to say it was comfy. I'm 30 btw.

>>136756815
Still trapped in mind control and social engineering.

>>136793036
>it was only religious nutter conservatives who thought interfering in what people did and thought was a good idea.

This for sure.

>>136793820
If you have Family Video anywhere near, it's quite nostalgic for some reason. But I'm looking for blu rays instead of vhs.

>>136793547
>>136793735

This. 9/11 made so many people nihilistic. Our sense of safety was irrevocably shattered. Never before had there been an attack on our home soil. Yes there was pearl harbor in Hawaii, but it wasn't even a state then. New York's been with us since the birth of this nation, to see the largest buildings on fire and then collapse in the biggest American city was terrifying.

As a 10 year old I barely comprehended it, but my parents were freaking the fuck out. It fundamentally changed them and much of the country psychologically. There was minimal pushback against NeoCons then, everyone was ready for war. It was unreal.

I still remember being at boy scout camp when Mission Accomplished was declared in May of 2003, just 2 months after the invasion began. Then the war lasted another number of years.

The fact is that before 9/11 there wasn't really an existential dread like there is today. There wasn't the sense that it would all just collapse somehow. Nothing could stop us. The USSR and communism just ended in 89 or so. The 90s were the American decade, unbridled optimism among everyone, traditional society and church was still popular. This was well before the pedophilia scandals of the Catholic Church. There was still this sense of traditional American society, without an iota of the self-deprecating irony even many Patriots display today. It was less polarized as a society though not devoid.

There was no worry of being attacked by another country. Russia was dead and rebuilding, China was still pretty much nothing, but growing. There was no military danger whatsoever, the only danger was that our own consumerism would do us in. And most people didn't even comprehend that far.

It wasn't unequivocally better. Many things are better today such as technology, beer, and food. The culinary arts have become exceedingly refined in the past 20 years. It's a true art in America now.

Really though the best way to describe pre 9/11 is carefree.

>>136777673
>I miss being without facebook, twitter, instragram, or any other apps because cell phones were just number dialers.

I miss myspace. No kidding. That place was kind of cool, you got to personalize your page with the html code and stuff, embed videos, music, background, various effects.

A gentler, innocent time. Everything seemed to be moving towards an idealized future.

>>136794391
Spot on. I unironically think future historians might settle 9/11 as the ending of a historical era, like the Storming of Bastille or the Fall of Constantinople. We can't see it from within (and specially since it's been only almost 16 years), but I think it marks a shift in how things work. Maybe they'll settle on something else, like the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, but still... So much changed in so little time because of 9/11, even outside the US or the Middle East.

>>136794974
Think of how often you heat the term "post 9/11". I think what you are saying will happen for sure, it's basically happening now. It was the end of an era and the beginning of another.
If anything it was the end of the 90s. The same way they say the 80s sort of stuck around until 1994. The 90s ended in mid late 2001.

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>>136790625
I loved AltaVista because it had boolean searches. There was NO logical filtering back then so matter what you looked for you got 10,000 pages of titties. I like titties, but not when I'm trying to fix my 1988 honda. Google did NOT have that back then (they stole it later). There was also Yahoo which was like a subject directory for the WHOLE internet.

Typical 1995 AltaVista search: repair AND 1988 AND honda AND civic -fuck -sex -tits -screw -penis