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symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

i'm a stupid young millennial and as such i can't remember a time where you didn't have to take off your shoes at the airport or were allowed to bring knives to school and whatnot.

teach me about the old days, gbs. i want to learn.

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FlimFlam Imam
Mar 1, 2007

Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams
Freedom fries were once called French Fries

CISMALES DID 9-11
Jun 5, 2002

chaotic good STEM major; INTJ
lots of the time young ppl in love would greet each other right outside the plane when you got off it made for LOTS of good hug pictures

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:
IT was pretty chill. People smiled more, koolaid ecto-cooler tasted better, you got holographics more often in your pokeman booster packs. man those were the days


Zzulu
May 15, 2009

(▰˘v˘▰)
I was born as the twin towers fell. All the souls of the fallen merged in the dark and created a perfect amalgamated being of pure misery, myself

Lunchmeat Larry
Nov 3, 2012

I went to America on holiday and didn't get treated like a loving criminal at the airport when I was 8. 9/11 was after that and when I went back at the ripe old age of 11 a security guard pulled his gun on me for standing next to my parents' luggage in what was apparently a suspicious manner

honestly even at the time I found it too stupid to be scary but lmao america

CISMALES DID 9-11
Jun 5, 2002

chaotic good STEM major; INTJ

Zzulu posted:

I was born as the twin towers fell. All the souls of the fallen merged in the dark and created a perfect amalgamated being of pure misery, myself

SICK dude

CISMALES DID 9-11
Jun 5, 2002

chaotic good STEM major; INTJ
i mean sick in a good way that sounds really neat

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.

Zzulu posted:

I was born as the twin towers fell. All the souls of the fallen merged in the dark and created a perfect amalgamated being of pure misery, myself

lol youre only 14 years old

Ziggy Starfucker
Jun 1, 2011

Pillbug
When I was kid before 9/11 I was in the airport with my family about to go on a vacation and the security guy gives us the standard questions about if we have any weapons, luggage from other passengers, etc, and I asked him if anti-tank missiles counted and he just laughed and waved us through and then my parents scolded me in private later for being a dumbass.

Fishy Joe
Apr 19, 2005
Eat at Fishy Joe's
mom could pick you up at the gate instead of at baggage claim and shes too cheap to pay for loving parking so she just uses the pickup lane IM ONLY 12 MOM I DONT WANNA PICK UP MY BAGS gently caress

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

Ziggy Starfucker posted:

When I was kid before 9/11 I was in the airport with my family about to go on a vacation and the security guy gives us the standard questions about if we have any weapons, luggage from other passengers, etc, and I asked him if anti-tank missiles counted and he just laughed and waved us through and then my parents scolded me in private later for being a dumbass.
they were right to scold you, you almost revealed their plans to bomb mt. rushmore

Enfield
May 30, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo
it was easier to smuggle fruit into canada thats for drat sure

Mr. Pumroy
May 20, 2001

we watched movies like wayne's world, and we enjoyed them

CISMALES DID 9-11
Jun 5, 2002

chaotic good STEM major; INTJ
op believe it or not candles were a bigger deal

pop fly to McGillicutty
Feb 2, 2004

A peckish little mouse!
We had pogs.

Digital Fingers
Sep 2, 2012

There was a soda named "Orbitz"



life was pretty great before 9/11 destroyed it all

poopzilla
Nov 23, 2004

it was a hell of a lot easier to smuggle drugs i tell yuo whut

goddamn aye-rabbs

Bamford Brownstone
Jul 21, 2010
In the year 2,000 movies like The 6th Day starring Arnold Schwarzenegger came out and it was bad. After 9/11, movies like Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines starring Arnold Schwarzenegger came out and they were still not very good.

Mr. Pumroy
May 20, 2001

you might take things like vh1 "pop up" videos for granted, but pre 9/11 it was quite a novel concept

Mr. Pumroy
May 20, 2001

back then, gangs like "the crips" or "the bloods" was what frightened the white folk. after 9/11, well, i don't have to elaborate, i'm sure.

FlimFlam Imam
Mar 1, 2007

Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams
Iraq could manufacture weapons of mass destruction in peace.

City of Tampa
May 6, 2007

by zen death robot
i remember being annoyed by cigarette smoke on airplanes when I was a kid

Mr. Pumroy
May 20, 2001

also, we all thought that our computers were going to explode on january 1st 2000. it wasn't a terrorist plot, no, the computers were going to explode all by themselves. it was a different time, i guess.

Digital Fingers
Sep 2, 2012

helmet laws for bicycles were a lot more lax

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

Mr. Pumroy posted:

also, we all thought that our computers were going to explode on january 1st 2000. it wasn't a terrorist plot, no, the computers were going to explode all by themselves. it was a different time, i guess.
ah, yes, Y2K. i believe i've heard of that. wasn't there also something called "Lovebug" back then that hosed up computers?

FlimFlam Imam
Mar 1, 2007

Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams

Mr. Pumroy posted:

also, we all thought that our computers were going to explode on january 1st 2000. it wasn't a terrorist plot, no, the computers were going to explode all by themselves. it was a different time, i guess.

things like powerstrips and calculators had Y2K Compatible stickers on them, they were more innocent times for sure.

City of Tampa
May 6, 2007

by zen death robot
also my family crossed an Eastern Airlines picket line to get on a plane, and my dad almost fought a dude that had a sign that said "fly cheap, die cheap" because he got all up in his face. this was like 89-90? I dunno.

Digital Fingers
Sep 2, 2012

roller blading used to be cool and fun... then the terrorists came and all of a sudden people were calling you a fruitbooter

house of the dad
Jul 4, 2005

If you forgot anyone's phone number it was very likely you would never see that person again

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

(▰˘v˘▰)

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

lol youre only 14 years old

im actually a thousand year old demon

Smelly Bohemian
Aug 20, 2015

by Lowtax
It was a time when we took freedom for granted. But now, now we know


FREEDOM


ISN'T



FREEE

Kuato
Feb 25, 2005

"I CAN'T BELIEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING"
Buglord
Was a tough place, had to order porn on vhs or DVDs. Was a far worse place in most ways.

big nipples big life
May 12, 2014

Quake 3 was better than any of the bullshit kids play today and flying didn't suck rear end.

Mr. Pumroy
May 20, 2001

white american males did a lot of bombings, which is crazy because these days people think that it's all about the middle eastern men, but white men really stepped up their bomb game before osama showed them how it was done. i guess they mostly stopped out of shame of being upstaged like clowns.

Digital Fingers
Sep 2, 2012

wearing hats indoors was considered to be disrespectful as gently caress

naem
May 29, 2011

Your mom makes you peanut butter and jelly sandwich every day and she cuts the crusts off its the best, but you have to clean your room and do your homework first also you are like 7

FlimFlam Imam
Mar 1, 2007

Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams
Beating up Muslims wasn't quite as much fun back then.

Jerry Mumphrey
Mar 11, 2004

by zen death robot

(and can't post for 4 years!)

my social studies teacher on 911 was like "the world as we know it has changed forever!" and u know something he was right

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criscodisco
Feb 18, 2004

do it

Mad Monk posted:

things like powerstrips and calculators had Y2K Compatible stickers on them, they were more innocent times for sure.

There was a girl in my high school back in the mid to early 90's who couldn't pronounce her own name (Maria Trong became Mia Tongue) whose dad was convinced that the world would come to a screeching halt from Y2K, so be put a thick steelcase door on their basement and filled it with cots and emergency rations and jugs of water, and had a generator with an outside exhaust and a water purifier thing in the back yard.

Only difference I remember is that you could get to the airport about 10 minutes before your plane left and still get onboard no problem. First class didn't even have to bother with security through some airlines/airports.

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