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https://youtu.be/fT4lDU-QLUY
May 5, 2022 1:02 PM
GoodGuyGonzo
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https://youtu.be/fT4lDU-QLUY
GlobalImageServiceCat
The Zenith of USA's soft power. Now it has degenerated into Trump Land.
Hopelessromantic12
SatoriEnligtenmentNow
Dat look back at the hottie.
SaintWanderlust
Is it ever going to not be eerie to see those towers?
DarkHelmet87
Notice how everyone isn’t on their phone, it’s kinda beautiful.
tatianagreymatter
Khyber Pass!!! I miss that restaurant, gone now. My town, 5 years before I lived in it.
theinternetconfusesme
Crazy that this was only ten years ago
The8obman
The tech behind this is really neat - this was recorded onto a VHS tape at very, very high speed - the bit rate is actually higher than DVD
pickles0PMA
This porn is weird
blatantlyobviouscomments
The cigarette billboard, the blond work couple who is obviously having an affair, and holy shit a dude in a SS sweatshirt!!?!?
FlyYouFLCL
That look though /a/RlTtq0c
Animorphs
I was there Gandalf
postulio
That's the St. Mark's i love and remember. Not the tourist trap it is today.
cardinal29
Gritty. Sigh.
Rmutt17
I miss the Grassroots ?
Stampedeo
Wow who ever colorized this did a pretty good job
Aaronb1138
It was a tech demo for DVHS. A standard which would not be beat until HD-DVD & Blu-ray 13 years later. (DVD was vastly inferior)
Preincarnated
So many shoulder pads still...
cardinal29
BIG hair and BIG earrings! My head was 75% Sebastian hair spray
DonaldFuck
All I'm hearing is the intro to Die Hard 3.
Mewmus
"hot town, summer in the city, back of my neck getting dirt and gritty......"
SpaceHaggis
BOOM
Heffe3737
Ahh yes, a whole 7 years ago.
alluro2
Yeah, what's the big deal about the post...
bleh64
It's not like it's been a long time; I can clearly remember coming home from elementary sch... waaaait...
Kottok
I saw you John Travolta
stygiansojourn
Vincent Vega*
Kottok
That's a tough maybe. Pulp Fiction was released In 94.
daguq
It's '93 but it looks so damn 80s.
RideTheStimutacs
A lot of people today don't realize that Times Square in the 80s was a crime-ridden shithole full of porn theaters and sleazy pawn shops.
quietwalker
You know, I was in New York in 1993, and it was in much higher def than this.
quietwalker
Hmm. Doesn't show up so well in pictures, though:
cardinal29
Jersey!
quietwalker
Ha, close. It's from the base of the statue of liberty, Liberty Island.
GrammarAndPunctuationNazi
I had just finished college. Man I'm old! ?
Preincarnated
Unless you were like Doogie Howser.
iamdanman
I wasn’t born until three years later
Dissipo
You're not alone and yup we old
cenataur
WaveLine
Ha! That dude with the tiny ponytail checking out the lady.
P00pdalla
He saw himself on Youtube:
llortamai
Had the "how you doin" look queued up in case she turned back!
5knotcans
Was this when it was called New Amsterdam?
highinthehills
Why'd they change it?
DonkeyBottomBiters
Because of the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever.
WoodfolkFae
the netherlands traded to england in exchange for Surinam
Imalwaysready
I can't say. People just liked it better that way.
genericgelatine
So take me back
Imalwaysready
To the Paradise City? Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty?
highinthehills
Take. Me. Home. Country roads.
RowanUnderwood
I see your 1993 and raise you a HD in 1990 (Sony 1035i Experimental HD demo. )
Nikolai5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW26YMe8iUQ
BrownestofCoats
"That's not 1990" - Music hits - "Oh, wait, nevermind."
Doomicorn
Yeah, that music got me too.
fructoseintolerant
Nevermind was ‘91
temotodochi
All clips taken on film is by default in HD.
dashers
Yeah, but film is expensive, so most is taken on video, which definitely wasn't HD.
cjandstuff
It's freaky watching stuff from the 50's and 60's on television in HD.
PowerPedant
I'd like to see a picture of a playback device from the time capable of actually displaying this. It must have been *massive*.
cjandstuff
Sony Trinitron were stupidly heavy TV's capable of 1080i. If you're interested, a great video on analogue HD. https://youtu.be/TfRMLS3j7DM
RowanUnderwood
probly experimental laserdisc
PowerPedant
That's not a display...
RowanUnderwood
The display was probably a 250 pound CRT :)
Flaptrapper
I don't think they were HD
RowanUnderwood
They weren't, but they did hold enough data for a few minutes of HD video.
Flaptrapper
Ah.. Yeah. Think they were MPEG-1
PowerPedant
Enough storage yes, high enough read rate probably not.
JustAnotherknarF
I graduated HS in '93
iwanttobebobdylan
I graduated in '95!
ThatTransformersDude
That's when we moved to the states, shit that was so long ago
triptolemus510
1993 was 28 years ago. You’re welcome.
JustAnotherknarF
You're Thanked!
darianzg
Ditto. Still one of the last great eras of rock.
melodiousfunk
Hey, me too!
baecaughtmewhackin
What did these people do with their lives? There isn't a mobile phone in sight.
Landstander101
They had to yell their political opinions to rats in the sewer.
bread1
trying to beat the high score of their favorite video game for the 10000th time. Yes, remember scores in video games?
meskarune
We read books and talked to each other I guess
Fawin
Picture it, 1993, Maryland. A 6 year old Fawin was watching TMNT cartoons from a VHS tape he got from Burger King.
AlbaneinCowboy
Man I got heart surgery in 1993, and missed my first two weeks of 1st grade.
eatenbygrues
Attack of the Killer Pizzas? (that's the one I remember getting)
RowanUnderwood
Meanwhile a 16 year old RowanUnderwood was playing StarFox on SNES.
DrLOAC
And 16 year old DrLOAC was playing Target Earth on Sega Genesis.
Fawin
His Leonardo action figure's swords have been long gone. But he can still punch out Shredder's mutant Barbie army while his sister cries.
angusbeefburger
It’s 1993, Beefburger is -4, half his genetic makeup is Sat in his mothers ovaries and the other half is non-existent, he missed out.
ThickMilky
Oh shit Fawin, continue with the history lesson
Nual
It's 1993, a 5 year old Nual just got back from seeing Jurassic Park in the theaters, sugar high from mountain dew, life is good.
plainoldfool
plainOldFool was a freshman at a local community college. A completely ordinary wallflower of a dude who just tried to make folks laugh (1)
WorkLurker
Hello fellow old person.
plainoldfool
despite crippling social anxiety.
DrSleepyPhZzz
Who the hell is...? Oh, I see.
henryvk
Western Germany, a 7 yr old henryvk doesn't have cable TV at home but he goes to his neighbours house to listen to TMNT casette tapes!
agermanguy
Technically just Germany
AllHailTechnoViking
Just the western part.
TheFunionKnight
Thank you for reminding of these amazing times
EchoOfSnac
EchoOfSnac: I guess I'm alive now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
FelixT93
Meanwhile Felix was just born. :3
Samoht
I was watching the same tapes! TMNT for life!
GuessMyDickSizeWinAPrize
I just wanna say that the replies here are very cute. I love how there are memories we have that are useless to everyone else but mean the 1
GuessMyDickSizeWinAPrize
world to the person experiencing them. My early 2000s memory was getting Donkey Kong Country for my birthday in Gameboy. I was obsessed 2
GuessMyDickSizeWinAPrize
with DK for some reason. Also the old X-Men cartoon VHS tapes that my brother left me. Amazing cartoon to this day tbh 3
Mewmus
the parents of the meme
Dravit
'Rat-tail Ross Geller' surely?
IrishCyko
I'd have the same reaction
brianthefly
Podrick?
alienrobotzombiebear
RexFury
my favorite thing is he's the top comment on the youtube video
Mewmus
lol, really?
Preincarnated
Dude just made Matrix rookie mistake number 1...
Mewmus
look again.....
gablestout
MeatPopsicleMultiPass
Bro didn't stand a chance.
purdhapley
Ya, and with that killer haircut too. Wtf?
Dravit
Nope; her glance down and back up as they passed said it all...
Barantor
Dude 100% was scoping her on the way into tagging her shoulder to see if she would turn too.
buuumped
You can see she looks down for a sec before looking back up when he's passed.
Barantor
Yeah, she knew that eye contact would make him want to interact more. Creep mode.
MoochieMan
avoiding creepy dudes 101.
charliethewizard
A young Vincent Vega
chrismofer
Jake Gyllenhaal as Vincent Vega
CarlottaVonSprockett
The woman looks like Alicia Silverstone
Splittmark
Looks like Hilary swank to me
Mewmus
i'm thinking more like Milla Jovovich
Aforaseem
But she's clueless
lebensmuede
As if
BaconAlmighty
lol the racist with the SS shirt, nah you can't be filming me :D
capefling
Aah, the days where even the racists knew they were wrong.
Debadguy
If I remember correctly, their intention was to not be filmed instead of be racist since they're part of a bike gang. Still fucked tho
ridureyu
He is a congressman now.
Preincarnated
Looked like it said "New York City" above and then maybe "Support the" something something below? I just got a red "Big Apple" shirt, myself
lichtly
"Support the Third St. Crew" Hell's Angels Headquarters is there.
flagbasher
Back when they still had some sense of shame.
AntikytheraMechanism31415
Yeah now they just wear red hats.
mikeatike
Yeah back then people were ashamed of being seen with it.
WorkLurker
All biker "clubs" have anti photo/video rules, nazi or not.
pretenditswhales
I used to live around the corner from there. Made the mistake of taking a picture of a friend outside one night. Thought it was empty...
pretenditswhales
As soon as the camera came out, an Angel came running out and threatened to smash my camera and/or our skulls.
imredheaded
I'd say they were different times back then but.... well things don't seem so different anymore
conradfr
azarza
yea was wondering about nazi boy
Fortforest
Super secret. It's an elite club
pfunk81
"New York City Support The...." can't read the rest of it?
thatlamer
Third street crew. A notorious neo nazi hells angel chapter. As @idontknowyoufromadam said, thats likely outside their clubhouse.
idontknowyoufromadam
Yup. It was behind the guy, on the right. If you check 75 E 3rd Street, Google Street View still shows their name and logo on the building.
Vergenbuurg
"I'm wearing this inflammatory logo to get attention! No, not like that!"
AndyYouGoonie
THIIIIS! What every Harley guy wearing SS shit says. “It’s not about racism, fuck Nazis. It’s about counterculture and keeping squares away”
pensylvestre
My dumb ass thought he was just wearing a flash shirt at a glance
Rustedgear93
Same.
WoodfolkFae
yeah me too
idontknowyoufromadam
That's where Hell's Angels clubhouse used to be (until a few years ago) so he didn't want anyone to film the people there.
NoDoctor
The one on 3rd St?
Redshadow09
Can confirm one time I was just taking pictures of one of their club houses and 1 guy came out screaming at me
conglacious
did you call him a pussy?
lance415
What happened to it? Were they kicked out and didn’t move to a new location?
llortamai
They moved to the Senate..
BennyGaga
The HA aren't that far up in the white nationalist hierarchy. They're like infected ingrown toenail on the ethno state repubs want to instal
idontknowyoufromadam
They sold the building for around $8 million and bought a former American Legion hall in the Throgs Neck in The Bronx.
dogmoind
I mean... I don't have an SS shirt, nor am I racist but I sure as fuck don't want you filming me.
BaconAlmighty
Legally allowed in public forums you have no right of privacy in public.
kakari
Varies by jurisdiction and filming. As an American example: try filming a sidewalk with a camera on the ground facing up.
kakari
https://helloflo.com/perfectly-legal-take-upskirt-photos-america/ Texas and Massachusetts at least
BiggestofBears
Incorrect. In America you can film anywhere/anyone that is on public property as long as they don't have "reasonable expectation of privacy"
kakari
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2022/03/29/damon-deteso-charged-upskirting-photos-newbury-street-store/
BiggestofBears
So no. You can't stand on a sidewalk and film into people's houses through windows or whatever. But just walking on the street? Legal.
IveGotRedOnMe
If you're not on private property, too bad so sad
dogmoind
Ah yes, Imgur. Where having an opinion isn't relevant.
IveGotRedOnMe
Did you not learn that as a child? Your opinion is only relevant to *you*. I should get a tax break for doing your parents' job
2fligh2high
Jesus Christ, that was an ss shirt indeed. You world be able to wear that in Europe. Crazy
A2DY79
You must have never been to Europe. You could totally wear that in many places in Europe. And many do, including soccer hooligans.
TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsTheBabyAteMyDingo
Sod off fascist scum.
alchemist12345
Im sure you are very versed in where to display nazi symbols :D
alchemist12345
And in many places wearing/displaying ANY kind of authoritarian symbol (including red star, hammer and sickle) is banned, unless its for
alchemist12345
educational purposes. Actually in Europe, nazi symbols being legal to display is the exception. As for hoolingans wearing them: sure there
alchemist12345
is nothing physically stopping them from doing so, but as far as I know their football club gets heavy fines when the fans act this way.
2fligh2high
Well, not in my northern european country anyway. My statement was probably a bit too general.
2fligh2high
World=wouldn't
RedRatchet765
Honestly, this was the best thing I've seen so far in the comment thread.
onepinksheep
I don't know when I'm ever going to need a gif of a panda cringing itself, but saved.
2fligh2high
Just make plenty of typos like me!
iConfirmAnythingAndEverything
Typeo
Salpinus
That's not correct. Some countries (eg Germany) it's illegal, in some it's semi legal (eg Norway). I mean semi because it's easy to step
Salpinus
over the border from freedom of speech to hate speech (and symbols are considered speech too). It's legal to say "I hate Jews", but illegal
Salpinus
to say "kill all Jews".
UrGyPc
What does SS stand for?
purdhapley
They were the nazi secret police, aka Hitler’s henchmen.
UavinAGiggowMate
Secret service
lozeldatkm
Stroopwaffel
Hubb
stormtroopers from ww2. bs idiots who killed millions of people,others and their own for no good reason, could never happen now; oh wait...
crateo
Nope. Different things. The stormtroopers are from WW1 and were merely the assault troops of German army.
JT902
Secret sisters
StupidPidgeon
Scissor Sisters.
Decitron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel
braaaiiiiinnnnsss
Shit stain
hannahbutnotreally
WoodfolkFae
I'm sorry I don't want to be rude but how do you not know this? its quite common knowledge.
Rips4w
Now, as a mental exercise, think about and explain what the actual purpose of your question is. I think you'll find your opener disingenuous
WoodfolkFae
I just found it strange I didn't mean to insult him.
IIikethecutofyourjib
How is someone supposed to comment on how they do not know something?
WoodfolkFae
well perhaps they live in India where the Germans weren't so prominent or their school didn't teach history well.
TheCutestNeckbeard
Most people don't know that ss stands for schutzstaffel. Don't be a dick.
WoodfolkFae
I didn't mean it like that, and most don't know what it stands for but know its something from nazi's at least where I live 1/2
WoodfolkFae
2/2 we get it tought in history class and stuff like that is right now on television due to it being freedom day from germany.
UrGyPc
They didn’t teach it in my history classes, and I came from a shit school, I’m trying to educate myself and tried to google first. Be kind
onepinksheep
How do you think knowledge becomes common? You ask when you don't know something.
WoodfolkFae
I'm not upset that he asked
PaulTomblin
“There weren’t any racists until Obama stirred up the blacks” - every racist today.
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PaulTomblin
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/22/trump-ohio-campaign-chair-no-racism-before-obama
Theory89
I love how they all delete their comments the moment you prove them wrong. Don't even
Theory89
have the balls to take the downvotes. Such snowflakes.
A2DY79
Why are blacks and latinos abandoning the Democratic party in record numbers?
thedudeman519
Blacks?
notreallyaclevername
They're not sure what to call them anymore. Ever since n***** became frowned upon what the hell are you aroused to call those people, right!
notreallyaclevername
(/s)
thedudeman519
I saw a video of this lady in a scooter at an airport cursing out this woman. She wen "You African-American..... Black......." then finally
RhinestoneSouron
Because republicans are getting them removed from the register?
smallfrie32
And a lot of Cubans liked the machisimo that Trump claimed to display. Toxic masculinity hitting us again :(
llortamai
When I think "macho", Trump is near the bottom of the list. Seriously, who looks at that turd and thinks "that's manly"?
KeyMasher
Simpler times
MastahPetah
I was 1 in 1993. I remember this, the flying toilets and the rat race with The William Tell Overture. Suuuuuper vaguely tho
Blackterror25
#teamtoaster
TheFeralDog
Really because violent crime was WAY higher than it has ever been in the 2000s
triaddraykin
Is there any way to still get this?
MyNameIsBatty
Daredevil Dan: https://youtu.be/1_rRTJu6yk0
thereitis101
World Trade Center was bombed the same year. Persian Gulf.
masterbot
I legit , was jealous of my buddy for having this screen saver , my computer couldn't run it ?
LinkaAdoptsACouger
My mom had the Liver Dance screen saver. It was a bunch of bloody disemboweled livers Irish Stepping. It was pretty niche.
MadnerKami
The times weren't simpler. You just had less access to information.
wkearney99
THIS.
BwianOfNazareth
*opinion
Ariltongadottir
For me, 11 years old, it was simpler than now.
rangermcfadden
Right? I didn’t know/wasn’t worried about climate change, systematic racism, I just wanted some friggin Dunkaroos.
TheLastKingOfSomewhere
After Dark!
Septcanmat
My dad had an After Dark Star Trek screen saver where the Borg would slowly assimilate the screen. I would sit and watch for hours.
Septcanmat
Or at least it felt like hours cause I was like 5 years old. Probably was only like 15 minutes but still! I have fond memories!
Mechwarrior719
I liked the Rock Paper Scissor one
pollypocketfullofposies
I liked the Rat Race. Always put my money on Kentucky Blue Cheese.
GasBandit
The Hortas vs Red Shirts one was my favorite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buRo9bOsU-k Would wait forever to see a dude get eaten.
LariCheltsy
I still have this necktie.
ThatOldTrans
That's still my screensaver on my gaming rig right now!
NewToTheEnterwbs
Ugh. I asked people at work on the first video/gif they saw online and no one remebers this or the dancing baby. Fuck it made me feel old.
thorboy86
Under Construction sign for a website
DrSleepyPhZzz
Flying out of the sun. The smell of toast is in the air
cowashee26
When there's a job to be done- the flying toasters will be there!
FiveHeadedSnakeGod
And it's flap, flap, flap, now help is on the way! This precious gift they bring:
DrSleepyPhZzz
We pop up to save the day! On mighty toaster wings!
wetllama
It still amazes me that a screensaver app was so successful
Preincarnated
You didn't want burn-in did you? Also, I had ties from their After Dark tie-in clothing collection...
Imalwaysready
Hubb
Keep them, must be worth big bucks now :p
sardonislamir
Definitely the toast of the party wearing that.