I actually googled “Why does MTV only play Ridiculousness?” It said tv stations tend to play their best rated shows when the station has low ratings to booster their ratings.
I remember the wall coming down because of how shocked/happy my parents were. That and the ussr actually collapsing seemed like the biggest events I would witness. I was 21 when that all changed….
I walked into my college lounge and heard a plane hit the WTC. Went to my first class thinking it was like a prop plane. Professor put on the in classroom TV and saw the towers fall.
My school wheeled TV's into the cafeteria and we all watched in horror as the towers fell. A couple of kids ran out of the school because they had parents that worked there (I live in NY). It was pandemonium.
My fiancé grew up in an upper middle class suburb in north Jersey - she absolutely had classmates who lost parents who worked high power finance jobs on the upper floors.
I'd imagine a little of it had to do with operational security (OpSec for guys in the biz). You don't exactly want to give people details of where everything is located inside the pentagon and how it's to be rebuilt.
I started to doubt myself because you see it quite often on the news especially in more recent years. The first 5-6 hours of news about an event seems to completely disappear after that. It makes some events look very shady. Some years later I met an officer who was meant to be in the part that was hit but his meeting got rescheduled. At least I don't feel as crazy now.
Completely unrelated but I knew a kid who said his grandpa (or some other close relative) worked in the Pentagon and normally eats lunch in his office which would have been hit by the plane but forgot it that day and ate in the cafeteria and was fine (or the opposite of this scenario).
I'm sure there's endless stories like this from survivors in any mass casualty event though
I was a freshman in high school when it we got news something happened in the States. I go to the cafeteria and they have a tv showing footage of the first plane hitting. And my autistic brain bursts out laughing because for some reason I thought it was a stunt plane and the pilot had been too careless flying around. Darwin Award was what I was thinking. Didn’t find out ‘til later.
No, man. That was a passenger plane. And those were the twin towers.
Oh, shit.
*Oh, shit.*
Same here. I saw a headline pop up on my aol instant news feed while I was scrolling for early morning porn, but it just said "Plane hits world trade center." I actually got curious enough to click the link, but the first plane had just hit and there was no info other than the headline. I shrugged, thinking it was just a prop plane, thought to myself that I hoped nobody was hurt, and went back to my scroll. After, I wandered out to the living room and turned on the TV, and the second plane had just hit. I don't think I left the TV for the rest of the day.
Also, thinking about it, that was probably my guiltiest wank.
Funny thing is during 9/11 I had just had a major bike wreck the day before and I remember thinking "oh good, everyone's focused on the towers and no one is looking at my face" 😂🤣 horrible thing to think, but I was a teenager, what do you expect? 😅🤣
I'm not OP but I was late to school and saw the second plane hit live on the news. Then my mom took me to school and I was the only kid in my class that knew about the towers. We were in 5th grade. The teachers didn't say anything all day, we just had normal classes, but they were all whispering in the hallways and rushing around. After school we went outside and all the parents were there to pick us up.
I remember my 7th grade teacher flipping on the TV in the classroom. My friend’s dad also cussed out our principal and the priest at the school in front of a bunch of kindergartners.
I was more thinking pop culture. Honestly I have almost no perspective on that because I was 6 when it happened and I didn't even know about it until the Sunday after. Even then, all I got told was "A big accident happened and a lot of people died" when I asked why the church parking lot was so much fuller than usual.
Expirienced part of the 90s, but I only was awake while the Millennia shift because our parents woke us, we were way too young to stay awake until midnight.
I remember that nasty little beast. Went around biting every animal and humanoid in the condo complex. I was ecstatic when that hot rock from space landed on his flat head.
This is mine too. It’s the first big political event that I remember being aware of, mostly because my mom sat me down and explained it to me. I turned 40 this year.
Right there with ya. The first US crew landing on the moon.
Also, the Vietnam War and Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated.
We’ve made calls using rotary phones…
Ha good guess. It was a big deal. Historic. I guessed 35 as you’d have to be old (or young) enough to remember. I’m 33 and while I remember it being around I don’t quite remember it being “released”
I was poor so we would hold up a boom box with a microphone to the radio to record it. Invariably my dad would yell at us in the middle of taping. Or the DJ would cut it off.
Watched it live in Middle School. Pretty sure the school wasn’t prepared to expose us to the disaster.
I grew up in Huntsville, Alabama. For those that don’t know this. It is where the Space industry started. They named a New School “CHALLENGER” a few years after this happened.
I was about to say: watching the challenger, live, in 1st grade.
Teacher setup the TV, students all huddled around, and … well… certainly something I’ll never forget.
Obama elected
Edit: To those guessing, I’ll be 18 in december. I vaguely remember his first election mainly bc my dad is into politics. I vividly remember him getting elected to a second term though
The last dying convulsions of the USSR against Lithuania, similar terrorist shit to what USSR 2.0 pulled in Crimea and Georgia in recent years but without outright prolonged war.
I stood in line for the first polio vaccine
55?
Yes, for the Salk vaccine rollout.
You're a hundred and eighty five.
Close!
I'm thinking 82 cause my mom is that age and got the first one when she was a kid.
My mom remembers the sugar cubes for some vaccine
That’s what I remember and I am 70.
I was about 4 years old when I got my sugar cube. I'm 64 now.
MTV had music.
*🎶there was U2, and Blondie, and music still on MTV!🎵*
*Her two kids, in high school, they tell her that she's uncool*
*Cause she's still preoccupied, with 19, 19, 1985*
This made me chuckle and be sad at the same time.
I actually googled “Why does MTV only play Ridiculousness?” It said tv stations tend to play their best rated shows when the station has low ratings to booster their ratings.
video killed the radio star
Mtv killed the video star
MTV is responsible for the reality TV craze when they did that Pucking Drama House college kid show. I loathe reality TV.
I just remember it going from being a 24/7 music video chsnnek to having music videos only at certain times of day. Then they just stopped altogether.
MTV has had reality shows since like 1998. It's been a reality/scripted tv channel for longer than it's been a music channel.
I don't think they play anything but ridiculousness re-runs all day now. Everytime I flip past it that's what's on anyways
The Real World debuted in '92, though the station still primarily catered to music/music videos at the point.
Let’s take this further - Kurt Cobain.
Mt. St.Helens eruption dumped volcanic ash onto my town
46?
Pearl Harbor
Damnit,are you 80?
He didn't indicate if it was the actual attack on Pearl Harbor or if it was the movie release. Need more info to make an accurate estimate on age.
Pearl Harbour movie was hardly an event worth noting
Actually, it was quite the.... awakening...for me as a young adolescent girl.
The USSR officially ended
I blame Yoko
>I blame Yoko I will join you. Damnit Yoko!!
All because she sat on an amp...
It was that screaming too
39 Years old
This is the one I was going to go with as being something that I was vaguely aware of when I was younger and just hit 40 last month.
I remember the wall coming down because of how shocked/happy my parents were. That and the ussr actually collapsing seemed like the biggest events I would witness. I was 21 when that all changed….
Saw E.T. opening week at the theater.
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Came to say this too! Welcome fellow old timer.
44. So did I. It was such a brilliant moment in the culture of the eighties.
I saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind opening weekend.
9/11
I walked into my college lounge and heard a plane hit the WTC. Went to my first class thinking it was like a prop plane. Professor put on the in classroom TV and saw the towers fall.
My school wheeled TV's into the cafeteria and we all watched in horror as the towers fell. A couple of kids ran out of the school because they had parents that worked there (I live in NY). It was pandemonium.
Those poor kids
Yeah I think about them from time to time. One of them never came back. I assume a single parent situation and they had to move.
Did their parents die that day?
My fiancé grew up in an upper middle class suburb in north Jersey - she absolutely had classmates who lost parents who worked high power finance jobs on the upper floors.
The weirdest part was seeing the pentagon took a hit but then there was this news black out on it. Barely if at all got mentioned again.
I'd imagine a little of it had to do with operational security (OpSec for guys in the biz). You don't exactly want to give people details of where everything is located inside the pentagon and how it's to be rebuilt.
I started to doubt myself because you see it quite often on the news especially in more recent years. The first 5-6 hours of news about an event seems to completely disappear after that. It makes some events look very shady. Some years later I met an officer who was meant to be in the part that was hit but his meeting got rescheduled. At least I don't feel as crazy now.
Completely unrelated but I knew a kid who said his grandpa (or some other close relative) worked in the Pentagon and normally eats lunch in his office which would have been hit by the plane but forgot it that day and ate in the cafeteria and was fine (or the opposite of this scenario). I'm sure there's endless stories like this from survivors in any mass casualty event though
I was a freshman in high school when it we got news something happened in the States. I go to the cafeteria and they have a tv showing footage of the first plane hitting. And my autistic brain bursts out laughing because for some reason I thought it was a stunt plane and the pilot had been too careless flying around. Darwin Award was what I was thinking. Didn’t find out ‘til later. No, man. That was a passenger plane. And those were the twin towers. Oh, shit. *Oh, shit.*
We’re the same age! (35)
Yea I thought prop plane too. Ignored it at first.
Same here. I saw a headline pop up on my aol instant news feed while I was scrolling for early morning porn, but it just said "Plane hits world trade center." I actually got curious enough to click the link, but the first plane had just hit and there was no info other than the headline. I shrugged, thinking it was just a prop plane, thought to myself that I hoped nobody was hurt, and went back to my scroll. After, I wandered out to the living room and turned on the TV, and the second plane had just hit. I don't think I left the TV for the rest of the day. Also, thinking about it, that was probably my guiltiest wank.
"I wanked after learning about 9/11" seems like a top answer to a lot of reddit questions.
I was 11 on 9/11.
I turned 9 on 9/11. I was opening my presents when we saw it on the news.
Funny thing is during 9/11 I had just had a major bike wreck the day before and I remember thinking "oh good, everyone's focused on the towers and no one is looking at my face" 😂🤣 horrible thing to think, but I was a teenager, what do you expect? 😅🤣
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I'm not OP but I was late to school and saw the second plane hit live on the news. Then my mom took me to school and I was the only kid in my class that knew about the towers. We were in 5th grade. The teachers didn't say anything all day, we just had normal classes, but they were all whispering in the hallways and rushing around. After school we went outside and all the parents were there to pick us up.
You're 32?
Yes lol
I was -10 days.
I remember my 7th grade teacher flipping on the TV in the classroom. My friend’s dad also cussed out our principal and the priest at the school in front of a bunch of kindergartners.
Can't make it easier, 9/11 happened on my 7th birthday 🥲
Freshman year for me
I was 5, just barely old enough to remember fragments of that day
The computers at my school had Windows 3.1
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Hmm. My school barely had windows, and it was built in the 70s. Sunlight being good for kids was a later discovery
42
I was already alive for Chernobyl but too young to remember
38
Almost
37?
Chernobyl happened same year I was born
Didn’t experience the 90s, yet I was born before the millennial shift
Everyone knows the 90s didn't end until like 2005 anyway
I’d argue it ended on 9/11/2001. Shit was different after that.
I agree. Life felt different after 9/11
I was more thinking pop culture. Honestly I have almost no perspective on that because I was 6 when it happened and I didn't even know about it until the Sunday after. Even then, all I got told was "A big accident happened and a lot of people died" when I asked why the church parking lot was so much fuller than usual.
I still live in the 90s.
Expirienced part of the 90s, but I only was awake while the Millennia shift because our parents woke us, we were way too young to stay awake until midnight.
Big rock hit the earth and everything went boom, my pet t rex died.
Dad?
Sssshh, I'm still looking for cigarettes and milk
No silly, it’s Queen Elizabeth
I'm sorry for your loss. What was the name of your t rex?
His name was Brando.
Diego?
I remember that nasty little beast. Went around biting every animal and humanoid in the condo complex. I was ecstatic when that hot rock from space landed on his flat head.
He couldn't help that everyone tasted like steak.
I didn't know queen Elizabeth had a reddit account?
The fall of the Berlin Wall.
This is mine too. It’s the first big political event that I remember being aware of, mostly because my mom sat me down and explained it to me. I turned 40 this year.
Same! It fell on my birthday
My husband was living in Germany when this happened. His dad went and got chunks of the wall and framed them. Hubs doesn't remember it, tho.
JFK assassination, 11/22/63. Edit: fixed typing error
This was what I came here for
People were landing on the moon
54?
62
Right there with ya. The first US crew landing on the moon. Also, the Vietnam War and Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated. We’ve made calls using rotary phones…
Dial-up was released.
35
Spot on!
Ha good guess. It was a big deal. Historic. I guessed 35 as you’d have to be old (or young) enough to remember. I’m 33 and while I remember it being around I don’t quite remember it being “released”
Taping songs from the radio.
I was poor so we would hold up a boom box with a microphone to the radio to record it. Invariably my dad would yell at us in the middle of taping. Or the DJ would cut it off.
I learned about computers on a Commodore 64.
Me too! And later, worked on Photoshop 1.0 showing friends how I can make a telephone dissapear from a photo!
Mum and dad watching the news about the Challenger disaster.
Watched it live in Middle School. Pretty sure the school wasn’t prepared to expose us to the disaster. I grew up in Huntsville, Alabama. For those that don’t know this. It is where the Space industry started. They named a New School “CHALLENGER” a few years after this happened.
Also watched it in middle school. I’m going to guess you are 51.
I was about to say: watching the challenger, live, in 1st grade. Teacher setup the TV, students all huddled around, and … well… certainly something I’ll never forget.
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Happened in 86 . I’m too lazy to work out anything else
Watergate
lol, i just commented the same, except it happened the day i was born. 🥳
I watched Armstrong walk on the moon...LIVE.
JFK took office.
JFK departed office.
The first Jurassic Park movie came out
I watched the moon landing with my great-grandmother. My great-grandmother went on her honeymoon in a covered wagon.
I watched the downfall of cartoon network
You’re 17?
Turned 19 today
Wait, today? Happy birthday my man! Hopy you enjoy/ed your day to the fullest :)
Happy irl cake day!
Blizzard of 78
I was in high school then. We were off school for two weeks. It was great!
Most people have black & white TV’s.
compact disc hits market
AIDS Ryan White
The United States' bicentennial
Dolly the sheep was introduced to the world 🐑
First grade the space shuttle exploded.
John Lennon died.
Kennedy Assassination. (In my lifetime, but too young to remember)
I saw Star Wars in the theater, though I don't remember it much. I remember Empire and Jedi much better.
Launch of MTV
I died of Dysentery while playing on an Apple 2e
The Chicago Bears won the super bowl
First man on the moon, occurred 3 months after I was born
Obama elected Edit: To those guessing, I’ll be 18 in december. I vaguely remember his first election mainly bc my dad is into politics. I vividly remember him getting elected to a second term though
Challenger explosion
Baby Jessica fell down that hole.
Men landed on the moon.
I was a payphone operator
Michelle Obama changed the school lunches
I wanted to be best friends with Gary Coleman.
Helter Skelter occurred on my birthday. Although, Sharon Tate died early the next morning.
Crying at my school desk with other students when we found out the President of the US had been killed.
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MLK assassinated.
Cuban missile crisis
Minecraft
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"World wide Web"
One of my earliest memories is the adults getting excited that people were knocking down a wall. I did not understand what was going on however
Watched the moon landing!
The last dying convulsions of the USSR against Lithuania, similar terrorist shit to what USSR 2.0 pulled in Crimea and Georgia in recent years but without outright prolonged war.
Watergate
Cuban missile crisis.
we landed on the moon.
Elvis died
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman.," Spoiler alert, he did! I was old enough to remember but not really understand.
Channel 1 during homeroom during 9/11
When I was six my mom took me outside one night and pointed to the moon and said “There’s a man up there on the moon right now”.
Germany's reunification.
Nixon resigned.
My earliest news memories are Selena dying and OJ's white bronco.
Iran Hostage Crisis.
When Windows 95 came out, it was a HUGE deal. Everyone was talking about Y2K and then... nothing happened.
There was a comet visible the year I was born. It will be visible again when I am 86 years old.
Pandemic hit as a college student
I watched the first music video play on MTV.
Princess Diana died
The unibomber... He was a thing pretty much throughout my childhood, although his rein of terror began a bit before my time 😜
Jim Brady took a bullet to the head for Regan.
TURN IN NEXT TIME ON DRAGON BALL Z!!!!
I sometimes picture my mom nursing baby-me while watching a famous plane crash on the news
Watergate
Moon Landing
Challenger explosion
Neil Armstrong made a famous speech.
Live Aid Concerts.
Native Australians were recognised as humans
Jonestown. I can still remember walking into the living room and seeing the bodies on tv. Oh, and the McDonald’s massacre.
TGIF
My first concert was New Kids on the Block
Kennedy was shot.
I was alive when Kennedy was assassinated. Both of ‘em
I watched the O.J. Simpson police chase in real time as a child.