I was there visiting the GDR when it still existed, and I even met several people who talked (somewhat) openly how life is there.
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Since I was quite young at the millennium, but old enough to totally remember it, they'll come a day (hopefully) when I'm one of the few very old people in the world who "remembers the 20th century". Like how there were a small number of people kicking around in the 1980s who could remember the 1800's..
I remember 9/11, I am a Swede and we were in school when suddenly there was an announcement of a minute of silence for the victims of a horrible attack.
It was only that evening I found out the true scope.
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I was working my first year on a new (and frankly fantastic) job in the center of Stockholm when the dickhead stole a lorry and drove down Drottninggatan, mowing down shoppers and tourists. We put on the live news broadcast and stayed over for an hour or so at the office before people started getting home. The metro was closed, as were the busses in the center of the city as well as the large commuter trains, people just walked home or if they couldn't strangers offered others a couch to sleep on as well as dinner. My normal commute was a bus from the center of the city out to the closest bus stop to my apartment in the suburbs, but that bus was obviously cancelled. So I walked up to Stockholm East station, the nothern most stations of the central station in Stockholm, it is the terminus of the local narrow gauge railroad Roslagsbanan, it had service so I could get home that way...
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I was there when a plane crashed on the airport where I live.
I was there when a car cought fire on the highway.
I was there when the fediverse "exploded".
Man, my life is boring.
I had to deal with this. It was not satisfying at all.
I was part of my city's biggest indoor crowd "WrestleMania 18" and was part of my city's largest outdoor crowd "Toronto rocks SARS benefit". There's really nothing like being front row while AC/DC belts out Thunderstruck, with over 600,000+ jumping and singing along. The crowd at Skydome when the Rock and Hulk Hogan wrestled was insane too, the whole building shook
I have never been in a concert in my life, and I actually want to now because this seems fun (unless politics are involved)
The worst part about my best concert story is that it was a Kid Rock concert. Imagine being 16, getting right into the middle of the crowd thinking "Im totally up for this" right before he opens up with Bawitaba...
You felt the anticipation build with the intro, like the whole growd just simultaneously shotgunned a whole pot of espresso. he started screaming his name. Some big ass dude behind me leaned over and shouted "Kid, when he says "Rock" jump for your fucking life." and grabbed a fistful of the back of my hoodie. That dude kept me on my feet the whole song, Ive never been more scared or filled with adrenalin my whole life.
He might be a right wing asshat now, but 24 years ago his show was epic.
Sigh, Kid Rock.
I (well, supposedly) knew the guy who unleashed SQL Slammer and a small group of friends (into Ragnarok Online hacking/botting) sat around on IRC watching backbone router pings go apeshit until ISPs started blocking it. It was also amusing checking firewall logs to see whose servers were vulnerable.
I have piracy accounts older than my niece and nephew.
Had to call rackspace and get new credentials for a friend in Iraq after that massive raid.
I played Helldivers 2 when it was good. Before the dark times, before the nerfs.