Thread by @Noahpinion

I thought I remembered playing Starcraft II #WhenLehmanCollapsed, but that must be a false memory since Starcraft II wasn't released until 2010. So in fact, I can't remember what I was doing. I don't recall being very concerned at the time.

I do recall that on 9/11 I mostly played Super Smash Bros. with @bennpeifert.

When Osama bin Laden was killed, I was sitting on my couch reading the internet. I cracked open a beer and listened to Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue"...

When Trump was elected I was asleep in an Airbnb in Japan. I remember waking up and taking a walk and thinking about how my country could be saved.

I never came up with a great answer and I still haven't...

When the Soviet Union fell, I was a little kid, and I remember hearing the radio on in my parents' room (the only time that ever happened). I remember not caring about anything at school, just being happy that the human race wasn't going to nuke itself to death.

When the Iraq War began I was...out protesting the Iraq War in SF. Then my car got towed and I got thrown in a holding pen. Long story.

When they called the 2000 election for Gore, I was in my dorm at Stanford, and I remember a kid on my hall saying "Nope. They're going to pull some shit in Florida. You watch." I still can't believe he called it.

When the tech bubble burst I was also in my dorm room, and I remember some guy on our hall screaming and cursing because he had just lost all the money he had made buying call options on AMD in the bubble. I'm sure he's plenty rich now.

Weirdly, just about the only important world event I *can't* really remember is #WhenLehmanCollapsed.

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