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[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was born 94, vividly remember 9/11 on the news and being annoyed no cartoons were on. I remember the turn of the millennium but not specifically about Y2K

[–] mriormro@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, you remember it for being annoying. Others remember it for being traumatizing.

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

I mean I understood it somewhat, but I also didn't want it to be the only thing consuming my afternoon. It was very depressing and I was only 7. Of course I didn't want to just dwell on that all afternoon. I was also at my nanas at the time so there was nothing else i food do but watch tv till my mam came home from work. So i had nothing else to distract me. But yeah you are right I didn't fully grasp the gravity of the situation at the time. I think watching it through the tv allowed me that kind of separation. Obviously as time went on, those memories got skewed as i understood more of what actually happened, but I still remember that moment of when I went to my namas bedroom tv in hopes of finding a different channel that might be showing something different. I didn't.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You would've been in first grade during school hours lol, why would you have expected cartoons?

Edit: I forgot timezones exist lol

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm from the UK so it actually happened more in the afternoon. The one thing I don't remember is if it was after I finished school normally or if we were sent home earlier. I think it was the former though

[–] kurosawaa@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

IMO if you were American, you would remember it for being traumatizing rather than for disrupting your cartoons. I'm about the same age as you and it had a huge impact on everyone I knew.

[–] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like you truly grasped what it meant for 3000 people to be murdered in an intentional spectacle

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

It's almost like I was only 7, shock horror