The Cookout

[Deleted member 231]

I was thinking earlier this morning how we look at major events differently now that social media like twitter and facebook. Could you imagine what it would've been like if 9-11 had happened in the Twitter era? I remember being in high school and hearing the news about Eazy-E dying at the lunch table. I remember my English teacher turning on the news for us to find out OJ had been acquitted (you can imagine how that went) and I remember being in Black history class when a classmate told me Tupac was dead. Is there anything from your lifetime that happened and you found out through word of mouth that would've sent the internet ablaze had there been social media?

 

[GwynShivers]

I was thinking earlier this morning how we look at major events differently now that social media like twitter and facebook. Could you imagine what it would've been like if 9-11 had happened in the Twitter era? I remember being in high school and hearing the news about Eazy-E dying at the lunch table. I remember my English teacher turning on the news for us to find out OJ had been acquitted (you can imagine how that went) and I remember being in Black history class when a classmate told me Tupac was dead. Is there anything from your lifetime that happened and you found out through word of mouth that would've sent the internet ablaze had there been social media?

I was on my bus route in San Francisco, when a rider came aboard telling me that Michael Jackson just died.
The only other thing that I remember vividly, is the day Martin Luther King was murdered. I was in class in elementary school then.
The teacher rolled out the TV & we watched the breaking news report. Then, the sirens rang & the principal told us to leave school & go straight home.

 

[Jay]

I was thinking earlier this morning how we look at major events differently now that social media like twitter and facebook. Could you imagine what it would've been like if 9-11 had happened in the Twitter era? I remember being in high school and hearing the news about Eazy-E dying at the lunch table. I remember my English teacher turning on the news for us to find out OJ had been acquitted (you can imagine how that went) and I remember being in Black history class when a classmate told me Tupac was dead. Is there anything from your lifetime that happened and you found out through word of mouth that would've sent the internet ablaze had there been social media?

This is not before dialup but definitely before High Speed internet was everywhere. I remember Ether dropping but there was no YouTube to hop on to hear it or stream it. It dropped and I was on a message board called SOHH hoping someone dropped the files. New York actually felt far away. I didn’t get to actually hear it for like 6 hours.

 

[Deleted member 191]

I remember being on a message board. Don't remember what it was called but someone hopped on and started a thread I'll never forget the title. This is Real Yall. Aaliyah is Gone.
And then the first comment was something like, Aaliyah died in a plane crash last night, she's gone yall.

 

[Deleted member 1946]

I am in my 30s, and briefly remember life before dial up internet. I hated dial up internet. So slow. These high speed internet really young folks don't understand the pain that was.

 

[Deleted member 1946]

I remember being on a message board. Don't remember what it was called but someone hopped on and started a thread I'll never forget the title. This is Real Yall. Aaliyah is Gone.
And then the first comment was something like, Aaliyah died in a plane crash last night, she's gone yall.

I didn't find out on a message board. I think I found out on TV. I was briefly using the Internet back then.

 

[Deleted member 1946]

This is not before dialup but definitely before High Speed internet was everywhere. I remember Ether dropping but there was no YouTube to hop on to hear it or stream it. It dropped and I was on a message board called SOHH hoping someone dropped the files. New York actually felt far away. I didn’t get to actually hear it for like 6 hours.

I agree. Dial up started in the 90s, and Aaliyah died in the early 2000s. Wasn't it like a couple weeks before 9/11?

 

[Deleted member 1946]

I was on my bus route in San Francisco, when a rider came aboard telling me that Michael Jackson just died.
The only other thing that I remember vividly, is the day Martin Luther King was murdered. I was in class in elementary school then.
The teacher rolled out the TV & we watched the breaking news report. Then, the sirens rang & the principal told us to leave school & go straight home.

Wow. MLK dying was well before my time. I am sure that day was chaotic!

 

[Deleted member 1946]

I was thinking earlier this morning how we look at major events differently now that social media like twitter and facebook. Could you imagine what it would've been like if 9-11 had happened in the Twitter era? I remember being in high school and hearing the news about Eazy-E dying at the lunch table. I remember my English teacher turning on the news for us to find out OJ had been acquitted (you can imagine how that went) and I remember being in Black history class when a classmate told me Tupac was dead. Is there anything from your lifetime that happened and you found out through word of mouth that would've sent the internet ablaze had there been social media?

I can imagine. We would have had so much information so fast if Twitter had been around back then.

 

[GwynShivers]

Wow. MLK dying was well before my time. I am sure that day was chaotic!

You've no idea. My Father even left work & came home from his construction job.
He reminded me of Malcolm X, standing near the window with his double barrel shot gun & my Mom facing the door with one of my Father's rifles.
I was told to stay under the kitchen table, but they both had eyes on me.
We were safe, but there was lots of damage & deaths within a 24 hour period.
Eventually, the entire family ended up together & all the adults were armed & guarded us children.
There was no school until the following week, because all the windows were broken.

 

[ZxBro]

Mandela being released from a South African prison The Oklahoma Bombing, the first World trade center Bombing, Waco Texas, The Space Shuttle Explosion, The DC Snipers ......internet would have imploded. I remember being in northeast DC taking a break when a plane flew low overhead and I wondered "what the hell why is this plane flying so low over this part of DC? Four minutes later the pentagon was hit.....all I could think about was getting my children from daycare at that point that was one of those long days you couldn't wait to be over and never forget where you were. We were in DC visiting my Grandparents the day MLK Jr was murdered......I was young but I remember the people rising up.......bad times scary times for a child.

 

[Deleted member 1946]

You've no idea. My Father even left work & came home from his construction job.
He reminded me of Malcolm X, standing near the window with his double barrel shot gun & my Mom facing the door with one of my Father's rifles.
I was told to stay under the kitchen table, but they both had eyes on me.
We were safe, but there was lots of damage & deaths within a 24 hour period.
Eventually, the entire family ended up together & all the adults were armed & guarded us children.
There was no school until the following week, because all the windows were broken.

I can only imagine. I have heard so many stories about it.

 

[B1 rebel 365]

I was on my bus route in San Francisco, when a rider came aboard telling me that Michael Jackson just died.
The only other thing that I remember vividly, is the day Martin Luther King was murdered. I was in class in elementary school then.
The teacher rolled out the TV & we watched the breaking news report. Then, the sirens rang & the principal told us to leave school & go straight home.

9/11 would've been heavily sensored just like the Covid scamdemic/plandemic for sure as it became evident that it was the gov behind it.

 

[GwynShivers]

9/11 would've been heavily sensored just like the Covid scamdemic/plandemic for sure as it became evident that it was the gov behind it.

It ALWAYS is the scandalous ass government! I CAN'T WAIT FOR EXODUS TO COMMENCE!

 

[Mr. Generation X]

I was thinking earlier this morning how we look at major events differently now that social media like twitter and facebook. Could you imagine what it would've been like if 9-11 had happened in the Twitter era? I remember being in high school and hearing the news about Eazy-E dying at the lunch table. I remember my English teacher turning on the news for us to find out OJ had been acquitted (you can imagine how that went) and I remember being in Black history class when a classmate told me Tupac was dead. Is there anything from your lifetime that happened and you found out through word of mouth that would've sent the internet ablaze had there been social media?

I was a student at Job Corps and had limited access to television. In 1994 in the Job Corps cafeteria I heard a student tell another student 2Pac was shot five times in New York (he survived that shooting). Then in 1996, two years later, it was when I went home for the weekend that a family member told me Tupac was dead at 25 (after he was shot in Las Vegas).