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butterfly1313
The world we lived in one hour ago no longer exists, let alone the one we were born into.
Cateyes99
I was born before the second world war..how do you think I feel about changes !
LiarLiarPantsUntier
Every single thing you see is happening in the past.
stronomer
First time I've seen NYC I came in on a container freighter, towards Newark. I knew we were getting closer and so I scanned the horizon for the Manhattan skyline. Nothing. Then my eyes wandered up by quite a bit and there, above the haze, were the upper parts of the Twin Towers. Whoa!
Audasity
huffnpuff72
Change is inevitable.
magikmarker
I grew up in a time before cable, before the Internet, and before cell phones. The majority of people trusted the police, and trusted the government.
ItsMoreComplicatedThanThis
The past is a familiar place, but nobody's there anymore.
zmxme
This picture has that "Spaceman" vibe
wylkyn
Time is a serial killer. It killed the people I remember and replaced some of them with doppelgangers that only slightly resemble the originals. My daughter has been killed by time over and over. I love each new version of her, but I mourn those I've lost. I wish I could see them again.
Arfulblastskat
Is this Taylor swift?
Macwalrus
I miss the optimism of the 90s more than anything else
downrightmike
Little did we know the republican house and senate were fucking us in the ass in the background
MorgulTheFriendlyDrelb
I grew up in a small fishing town surrounded by mangrove wetlands. Those mangroves were a wilderness to me and my buddies, we ran around barefoot, knee deep in the mud, catching crabs and fishing. Then they turned it all into a canal housing development. People moor their fishing boats outside their houses. But there are no fish to catch because the mangrove swamps were the fish breeding grounds and nursery. And their kids play in perfectly manicured & safe playgrounds.
landisfloatingrock
Like Camelot. It's only a model.
lowbudgetjeremyrenner
And a silly place.
zFUBARz
I have a distinct memory dropping my brother off at a Cub (Scouts) camp somewhere once, and while our mom was doing registration stuff, we went off with some of his friends to wander the woods. it was this insane vibrant woodland paradise, we walked on logs over turquoise pools of water, and for the life of me I've never been able to find it again. When I asked my brother about it decades later his descriptions matched mine perfectly. He's gone now too, and my mind is the only place I know (1/2)
zFUBARz
of now that that place even exists anymore. The world moves on, and new wonders will emerge though even if mine fades. (2/2)
whowantstodoschoolwork
I have a similar memory of going hiking with friends and there was a swimming hole with water that was so beautiful. But I don't remember the name of the place. I always keep an eye out for it when I go hiking, but I was a kid back then and I don't know if I'd recognize it now
zFUBARz
Always keep a little hope, I spent a decade trying to find a song I saw at like 3AM on a rerun of what turned out to be the super dave variety talk show. Found out it was a song by Doug and the Slugs just last year.
R100GSPD
Any New Yorkers know where this picture was taken?
HotCarle
I'm 99% sure it's Liberty State Park. I suppose it COULD be the big park near Hoboken station, but the angle is messing with me.
JayEnfield
I'm thinking it's the location where the Empty Sky Memorial is now located.
finnwin
I think on or before Sept 11, 2001.
QueefMalone
stxae9ud9x101
Too soon…
TheShogunOfSarcasm
That's true for one year olds. They just don't get depressed and moody about it.
PredictablySilly
Right? Also, this has been true of any person by the time they are 30 at most. People act like the world changing rapidly is new.
Grateful42
BDBottom
"You... are becoming gods. There's a new master of creation, and it's you!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--S8yIAhDB8
TZO2k15
Indeed, also we still hold the prehistoric notion to have a single asshole leading our nations/corporations instead of committees made up of different perspectives and solutions, I mean we could, but as humanity is right now we would find a way to fuck that up, we first need to change our perspective on how we use the internet, as it is the single-most important mass communication invention on earth, yet we squander it by allowing corpos total control over it...
Lugh314159
I mean... theoretically, that's what a parliamentary system is doing. If the PM resigns, the largest party just fills the role with another member that was elected in their riding. Laws pass based on majority of elected officials, and no one person holds the reigns of power.
TZO2k15
LOL, ironically, that is what gave me the idea in the first place, but in my world, I'd bypass the archaic need of different factions, as humanity works best together, yet we are still addicted to the idiotic prehistoric tribal-hunter-gatherer dynamic, we are global now in the sense that we are no longer isolated nations, indeed we rely on our neighbouring nations much more than we have in the past, we just need to kill the tribal cavern dweller within us to grow up and learn to cooperate...
gilgameshismist
Never saw that picture of JonBenét Ramsey.
Rynath
Vergenbuurg
Kermit the Frog is responsible for the Twin Towers no longer being there.
MyOldUserNameMeantUndeadCocaineButNowItsThis
The year is 1998, I'm 15, living under my parents roof rent/food free, I'm playing Diablo 1 while listening to Life Is Peachy by KoRn. My hare is down to my ass. I'm only then learning the pleasures of cannabis and I just lost my virginity. Life was at it's peak and I was too busy being a brooding teenager to realize it. Then the twin towers fell and my life never really changed because I lived in the Canadian boonies, free from the troubles of the world. Now I'm 41, bald and still brooding.
Imadethisaccounttopost
This isn't the world I was promised in the 80s and 90s. It's the one we were threatened with if things didn't change.
ZaphodBbx
Hell, yesterday no longer exists, and tomorrow doesn't exist either.
viila
Tomorrow will exist soon enough. But only for a fleeting moment. Oops, there it went. You missed it.
RickO3611
Look, deep for here but...yesterday is a memory and tomorrow is a dream all there is, is now. All there always is, is now. All there ever will be is now. Don't worry about it, don't try to figure it out... just BE. Btw Zaphod, they never did...
sandstruk
Time is irrelevant
SirMisterDudeBroPhD
Lunchtime doubly so
igglebotato
time is the fire in which we burn
lonelyrangerofthedreams
The world you were born in never existed. In your memory is good because you was young and because your memory can keep whatever it wants and forget the rest.
yamamasyamaha
I’m pretty sure it does. But if you were raised in America in a middle/affluent neighborhood and had a decent life, then you may have been under a false impression about what the world is.
Yes, things have changed with technology… but it’s still the same. The powerful taking advantage, the unscrupulous behaving unscrupulously.
But the threat of global annihilation has been around since at least 1945, and wars have been ravaging the planet forever
Hekatombe
iMcFly
mcodger
it's out there
DinosaursCameFromSpace
Better than the main series
lovehandlesmessiah
These guy needed a spin-off, not just a comic.
TheBlackShakes
There in fact was a spin-off series called The Lone Gunmen
billyjonas
tinydog
The Lone Gunmen
Hekatombe
Did you see the Pilot episode?
tinydog
I did. Didn't watch most of the show though.
jamandtoast
Predicted 9/11 the week before
iMcFly
Had no idea. Just watched it; that’s insane! https://youtu.be/cmmOVSmmdwk
GenXHippie
Age has revealed the curse of aging. I have distinct memories of a place and time I can’t even prove ever existed.
JohnWickdidnothingwrong
My head is full of references and inside jokes that nobody alive would get, I hear you.
afterdarkart
Me, walking up to the gate at an airport and just waiting for my parents to walk off it. What a time.
HandoB4Javert
Conboss
That convenience store with the old Chinese lady on the corner of my street was an absolute gem. She sold off over a decade ago, lived on, but damn I miss the candy that store had. Can't get tootsies from a damn boxing gym...
RickO3611
Been there, doing that. Hello
HandoB4Javert
CJwhoIsKindToAllKinds
As a fellow genXer, other than actual point and click cameras and big bulky handicams, we really didn't have proof that we existed. We were too busy living our lives and not recording everything.
GenXHippie
I’m quite pleased there is limited evidence of us. :)
BORGALOOGIE
Your past is in pictures, but so is a lot of mine
Calicious
And the curse of Cassandra. We can see the future paths those younger than us will walk, but have no power to convince them of this.
leaderofthedamned
I had someone in a college class say the words, "I know none of us were alive for September 11th." Myself and 4 others got a shot of old in that moment.
ToasterDent
When I was younger I though nostalgia was sitting around laughing talking about the good times you'd had with friends and family. But now I know it's a bittersweet sadness about times that will never happen again, with people many of whom have died and you'll never see again.
HaberdasherInGold
"Time is the school in which we learn that time is the fire in which we burn."
JayEnfield
2000-2010 internet. I miss it so bad. So so so fucking bad. And it's gone. It's gone forever and I can't have it back.
flavivsaetivs
This.^^
CaptainHyperbole
Yeah the internet thing is going full circle, enshitification is going to get so bad that people just fucking either give up on it and go outside again or find social groups on deep web forums just for the privacy. The internet is shit
itsallaboutthecones
What is this "outside" to which you refer?
JimFromMarketing
Shockwave!
iMcFly
GenXHippie
I kind of miss what it was in like 1997-1998. Not too much earlier, but that was when my ISP offered something faster than we had ever seen. I needed two phone lines, and they plugged into two modems inside this box. The box dialed their system, each one connected at 56K (give or take) and delivered twice the bandwidth. It felt like the goddamned future. Coupled with the early search methods, it was a gold mine. :)
JimFromMarketing
Late nineties internet!
Stick death!
Joe cartoon!
Aaronyuri
It's called bonding, in case you didn't know. Still used today on DSL!
HitlersArtCritic
Tell kids about a TV show you watched growing up. They'll look confused.
GenXHippie
I can think of a few that likely couldn’t even be made now.
HitlersArtCritic
What's one of your favorite shows that couldn't be made today?
GenXHippie
Soap is the first one that comes to mind. All In The Family might have trouble too.
nclu
I've got a handful of core memories that are actually just parts of dreams inspired by the SF botanical gardens
GenXHippie
That location is also part of my childhood.
nclu
Climbing that steep wooden bridge as a tyke, round like a barrel, looms large in my psyche
sadurdaynight
I watch urbex vids, and folks wandering through old malls is a trip. It's like they're walking through old memories that are fading. When we were young, we created a vivid memory of going to the mall, the excitement (maybe buying something, or going to the arcade), the people, the colors, the sound. But, over time you forgot about that memory. And now it's like they're walking through it, the sounds gone, colors faded, can't remember why the memory was made, but it's lost it's luster.
GenXHippie
My dad died a few years ago and when I went back to California to be with my brothers and deal with the business, and I visited my old college campus and the mall across the street. In my youth, these places were my entire world; and yeah, they were ghost towns. My eyes felt pain trying to see what used to be there. It was honestly humbling.
Lyconous
That's in large part because malls HAVE lost so much of the people, sounds, colors, ect that made those times so memorable. Now it's all white walls and advertising
Shennington
Feels like most things at least in America now is just white walls and advertising
Lyconous
3 things destroyed the face of all the fun things in America: advertising, business majors, and culture war dumbassery
CaptainHyperbole
This is why I don’t talk about my past.
GenXHippie
Is this where I go, "Oh come on, tell us about your past." and you do, and we find out you were The Hillside Strangler or some shit?
CaptainHyperbole
But would you be able to believe me, whatever it is I tell you?
GenXHippie
It's not my role in the universe to be the judge of what your truth is. I would believe you unless given evidence not to.
CaptainHyperbole
That’s basically what I tell my parents!