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"PhONEday, where a bunch of telephone numbers went from 10 to 11 digits." Oh! I do remember them going from 7 to 8, but I didn't think that counted  (I'm talking about Australia - early 90s) | |||
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"Actually tell a lie. 9/11 wasn't my first. I remember everyone panicking over Y2K and how the world was going to end lol " One of my friends got a phone call on the 1st of January 2000 from family in Europe (again, Australia - it was still NYE in Europe). They wanted to know if the apocalypse had come, because as we all know, the apocalypse will respect time zones. | |||
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"Actually tell a lie. 9/11 wasn't my first. I remember everyone panicking over Y2K and how the world was going to end lol One of my friends got a phone call on the 1st of January 2000 from family in Europe (again, Australia - it was still NYE in Europe). They wanted to know if the apocalypse had come, because as we all know, the apocalypse will respect time zones." Lol that is amazing | |||
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"Actually tell a lie. 9/11 wasn't my first. I remember everyone panicking over Y2K and how the world was going to end lol One of my friends got a phone call on the 1st of January 2000 from family in Europe (again, Australia - it was still NYE in Europe). They wanted to know if the apocalypse had come, because as we all know, the apocalypse will respect time zones." Given that the Y2K bug would have been triggered as the time ticked over midnight then it is actually very likely that if there had been an issue then it would have rolled around the world by time zone. | |||
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"Actually tell a lie. 9/11 wasn't my first. I remember everyone panicking over Y2K and how the world was going to end lol One of my friends got a phone call on the 1st of January 2000 from family in Europe (again, Australia - it was still NYE in Europe). They wanted to know if the apocalypse had come, because as we all know, the apocalypse will respect time zones. Given that the Y2K bug would have been triggered as the time ticked over midnight then it is actually very likely that if there had been an issue then it would have rolled around the world by time zone." Sure. I didn't say "Y2K" though. I said "apocalypse". These were very religious people and they were less concerned about computer failings and more about literal Revelation. | |||
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"Gosh I was moving house on 9/11. I feel really old now when I speak to young adults who weren't even born then. Mine would be the roman invasion of Britain. (Obviously.)" How was it living under the Roman Empire then?? | |||
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I was twelve and it was like the world stood still  although I didn’t fully under_tand everyone was worried and upset | |||
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"Black panther" The man who killed Leslie Whittle? | |||
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"Prince Charles and Lady Diana getting married " I remember the epic street party for this  | |||
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"Gosh I was moving house on 9/11. I feel really old now when I speak to young adults who weren't even born then. Mine would be the roman invasion of Britain. (Obviously.) How was it living under the Roman Empire then?? "It was actually ok, cos they brought quite a bit of innovation, like basic plumbing and sanitation. After they left, going to the toilet, meant going out into a field, for the next 1000 years. (True.)  | |||
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"Black panther The man who killed Leslie Whittle? " Yes. I just looked the date up. 1971 so I would of been 6 | |||
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"I have very vague memories which (given what I know now) must have been night vision during the First Gulf War. Things that I remember/ under_tand? Probably the Barcelona Olympics. I remember watching Kieran Perkins closely." Anyone would think we're the same age. My memory is a Gulf War one too. | |||
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"I have very vague memories which (given what I know now) must have been night vision during the First Gulf War. Things that I remember/ under_tand? Probably the Barcelona Olympics. I remember watching Kieran Perkins closely. Anyone would think we're the same age. My memory is a Gulf War one too. " no such thing as a coincidence! | |||
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"I have very vague memories which (given what I know now) must have been night vision during the First Gulf War. Things that I remember/ under_tand? Probably the Barcelona Olympics. I remember watching Kieran Perkins closely. Anyone would think we're the same age. My memory is a Gulf War one too. no such thing as a coincidence! "Are we the same person?! | |||
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"I have very vague memories which (given what I know now) must have been night vision during the First Gulf War. Things that I remember/ under_tand? Probably the Barcelona Olympics. I remember watching Kieran Perkins closely. Anyone would think we're the same age. My memory is a Gulf War one too. no such thing as a coincidence!
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"Black panther The man who killed Leslie Whittle? Yes. I just looked the date up. 1971 so I would of been 6" Same year as decimalisation. I remember both. | |||
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"Black panther The man who killed Leslie Whittle? Yes. I just looked the date up. 1971 so I would of been 6" Im the exact same as we mostly watched BBC in Ireland | |||
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Zebrugge ferry disaster, mainly because I had a dream about something very similar then woke up for my breakfast and this was on the news. Proper weird! | |||
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"Black panther" that was 1975 I think when Leslie whittle was m*rdered I was at primary school | |||
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"Berlin Wall coming down " My goodness I'm old, I was in Berlin 3 days before the wall went up. Can remember vividly the death of JFK. And the Cuban missile crisis. | |||
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"Death of Diana I think, mainly cause I had stayed over in my cousins house the night before and couldn't figure out why his mum was so upset by the death of an English princess.... she was proper upset and I think it was the first show of sorrow or sympathy id seen for a British royal at that stage in life.... I was 12...... " Interesting. I was a similar age and I remember the adults in my life saying that it was important and I should pay attention. No feelings expressed. | |||
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"Mine is 9/11. I was off school that day because I was sick. Will never forget watching it live. " 1987 storm Liverpool match disaster Zeebrugge Ferry disaster King's Cross fire Poll tax riots Grenfell Marchioness disaster | |||
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"The murder of James Bulger "I remember watching a documentary about this, absolutely heartbreaking the anger I still feel when I think of it is unreal. Not long after I'd seen it my 3 year old went missing in a shopping centre and it was beyond terrifying.
Mine was 9/11, I was in primary school. Would've been 9 at the time. | |||
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"Death of Diana I think, mainly cause I had stayed over in my cousins house the night before and couldn't figure out why his mum was so upset by the death of an English princess.... she was proper upset and I think it was the first show of sorrow or sympathy id seen for a British royal at that stage in life.... I was 12...... Interesting. I was a similar age and I remember the adults in my life saying that it was important and I should pay attention. No feelings expressed." Well they were right, it did matter.... strange though that it seems like the ones who told you to pay attention, almost acted as though it was expected...... | |||
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"Probably the miners strikes. Plus zeebrugge " The Herald of Free Enterprise had taken me to France the week before. Hearing about it sinking was a shock, and seeing the pictures of the disaster site was upsetting | |||
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"Death of Diana I think, mainly cause I had stayed over in my cousins house the night before and couldn't figure out why his mum was so upset by the death of an English princess.... she was proper upset and I think it was the first show of sorrow or sympathy id seen for a British royal at that stage in life.... I was 12...... Interesting. I was a similar age and I remember the adults in my life saying that it was important and I should pay attention. No feelings expressed. Well they were right, it did matter.... strange though that it seems like the ones who told you to pay attention, almost acted as though it was expected...... "Or they just don't care that much about royalty... | |||
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"Mine is 9/11. I was off school that day because I was sick. Will never forget watching it live. " Images of Vietnam war | |||
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"Princess Diana Dying I was on the way to the all ireland Final, Mayo v meath, great question by the way" That was the first weekend of my retirement, aged 52! Didn't know about the all Ireland final. I was on my way to going canoeing through the Thames Barrier. | |||
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"Black panther The man who killed Leslie Whittle? Yes. I just looked the date up. 1971 so I would of been 6 Same year as decimalisation. I remember both." It was actually 1975 | |||
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"Elvis dying, my mum was beside herself " mine too | |||
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"Enniskillen bombing,unfortunately it was regularly on the news in Ireland the troubles in Northern Ireland." Aye growing up in the Badlands during the troubles I think all my first news memories will have been about them. I remember the Hillsborough disaster and discussed it in Primary school. What I most remember is our teacher's "mask" slipping and saying something along the line "there's more to this and the truth is being hidden". He died in the early 00's so never got to see that he was right. | |||
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"Elvis dying, my mum was beside herself " Exactly the same here. Cal | |||
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"I think Elvis dying is probably my first childhood news memory. It was a really hot summer. I was nearly 8, and I can remember my little sister and I playing in a paddling pool in the garden when my mum came out in tears. " We were camping in Spain. My brother asked my mum to make him a black armband which he wore on the beach with his swimming trunks. | |||
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"Actually tell a lie. 9/11 wasn't my first. I remember everyone panicking over Y2K and how the world was going to end lol " And a ell of a lot of work was done to make sure that it didn't. The problem was all down to the fact that an awful lot of systems were still running COBOL programs on mainframes and with COBOL, it is necessary to define the date fields - i.e., you need to allocate memory space for it. When a lot of these programs were first written back in the 1960's, nobody envisaged that they'd still be in use 30 to 40 years later. Just to explain how it works. A computer can only process the information it is given. If you have defined a date as being DDMMYY, you've only allocated memory for two numbers for the year. Now imagine that you have a piece of software that is running calculations based on someone's age. When the last two digits of the year are greater than those of the persons date of birth, no problem. But when you pass into a new century, the computer doesn't automatically know that 00 actually means 100 etc. and so you start to get problems, which is why a lot of COBOL and CICS programmers were earning a lot of money leading up to the year 2000 to go through all the lines of code and change the YY to YYYY. You're welcome | |||
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"Moon landing. We were all ushered into the school hall to watch it on that special tv set. Which meant television back then. " You were at school very early in the morning then! I fell asleep staying up to watch it around 2.30 am | |||
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"Queens silver jubilee , not so much on the news but getting a commemorative mug at school" I still have that mug ! No idea why | |||
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