Comment on On 9/11 what was the internet like after it happened? Did people quit being dicks or trolls and showed some decency? Or was it like we have today and nothing changed?

zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• BlackAura@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I remember seeing a video (from a digital camera, not a phone), probably turned into a gif, of three or four friends on Halloween.

  Two were dressed as towers. One (or maybe two) were of planes.

  The ones dressed as planes were running into the ones dressed as towers.

  So only like a month and a half after 9/11, and anyone posting it to forums usually titled it “too soon?”

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  • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, that was about right. Some of my younger, more moronic friends were making these same kinds of jokes pretty much right away. You know the type, trying to show how cool they were with being edgy. I was already working two full time jobs at the time when this happened so I was kind of in a daze at the actual moment of 9/11. I was more mad that I knew it would be used as an excuse to pass a bunch of bad laws that would screw over everyone and that was right on the money.

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