An archived thread from Something Awful on the morning of 9/11
326 replies, posted
Well guess what, I've been reading today, because all the memories and feelings about 9/11 I've had, and I read that the first tower will be fully completed before this year ends :smile:
Damn, some of those comments are incredible inappropriate and dumb.
[QUOTE=junker|154;40322213]Damn, some of those comments are incredible inappropriate and dumb.[/QUOTE]
Would you expect anything less from the internet in 2001?
[QUOTE=Ezhik;40321896]Well it's a different country and continent, so they didn't react with live footage of every second of it. Also it seems to be a satellite version of the channel broadcast in the US - the logo is different, at least, and it explains those adverts.[/QUOTE]
I figured they wouldn't cover every second at least at first. Though it sort of confused me because there were American ads inserted in the broadcast. I thought I accidentally click a link for CNN or something. Apparently it happens again hours later.
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;40318658]Better not listen to this then.
(Honestly surprised this wasn't posted yet)
(Also if you have never listened to this before and you aren't desensitized to this sort of stuff, this will probably give you nightmares)
It's weird to go back and read everything in that thread.
Freaky[/QUOTE]
This is the most disturbing thing I have ever seen..
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;40318658]Better not listen to this then.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbOzSeu6sJA[/media]
(Honestly surprised this wasn't posted yet)
(Also if you have never listened to this before and you aren't desensitized to this sort of stuff, this will probably give you nightmares)
It's weird to go back and read everything in that thread.
Freaky[/QUOTE]
This one hits pretty hard too, almost feels surreal when the tower goes.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mz0_x7313I[/media]
If you don't want to go through and read the whole thing, I made a sparse summary (pages 1 - top of 16) of things unfolding in the Something Awful thread, not like reading the whole thing but if you can't spare the half hour, these are the things that got me:
[sp]The thread was made at 5:52 AM.
It takes 15 minutes for someone to suggest terrorism.
22 minutes for Osama Bin Laden to be mentioned.
At 26 minutes someone comments “Watch Bush start a f*cking war”
41 minutes sees someone suggest that it “won’t change government policies” …
It took 50 minutes for someone to notice the date as the 11th of the 9th, or 9/11
54 minutes before someone mentions they feel physically ill (followed by several others)
55 minutes: “My dad works in the world trade center…”
At 6:56 AM just over an hour after the thread started someone says “I doubt it will become a war” …
The pentagon is reported as being hit.
6:57 AM poor taste jokes drop off dramatically as the events start to hit home.
An hour and 6 minutes in someone says they’re still glad this doesn’t happen every day like in some countries; fears for people of Middle Eastern decent in the USA.
Two minutes later at 7AM it is announced by a poster that one of the towers has collapsed.
7:04 AM “Thousands of people just died on live TV.”
7:27 AM The second tower falls.
7:28 AM Someone comments that retribution will wait until we have “intelligence, good intelligence.”
7:31 AM A fourth aircraft is reported having crash landed in a field.
Sometime later:
“… in case people are going to bed feeling uneasy…”: “I saw the nation work together [today] in a way I never thought it could. I look forward to things getting better from here on out.”
Another person: “I woke up at 3:30 in the morning. The events of yesterday were all so fantastic, and surreal, I was hoping they were a dream. Sadly, they were not." [/sp]
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;40322222]Would you expect anything less from the internet in 2001?[/QUOTE]
*Would you expect anything less from the internet?
I love digging through old stuff on the Internet. Years from now this thread will be archived for future historians to look for, serving as a reminder of what horrible events unfolded on that day.
I remember my friend told me when this happened he woke up to his dad laughing his arse off watching it on tv because they are from Yugoslavia and fucking hated america :v:
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;40318658]Better not listen to this then.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbOzSeu6sJA[/media]
(Honestly surprised this wasn't posted yet)
(Also if you have never listened to this before and you aren't desensitized to this sort of stuff, this will probably give you nightmares)
It's weird to go back and read everything in that thread.
Freaky[/QUOTE]
I had never seen that video before. I thought I would be prepared for whatever was in it.
Now I want to go throw up
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;40322523]I had never seen that video before. I thought I would be prepared for whatever was in it.
Now I want to go throw up[/QUOTE]
I knew what was coming, especially when the looped video changed. I knew I didn't want to watch the rest, but couldn't bring myself to stop.
[QUOTE=Swebonny;40315531]Sad.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=kaukassus;40315748]fuck man :([/QUOTE]
[img]http://puu.sh/2Cd4p[/img]
Was surprisingly easy to find
[url]http://www.truegamer.net/SA_911/911%20SATHREAD/wtc-march.html[/url]
(for anyone who didnt see the post they quoted on the actual site, this is the same guy)
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;40322523]I had never seen that video before. I thought I would be prepared for whatever was in it.
Now I want to go throw up[/QUOTE]
Those last words have been ringing in my head since I watched it. I think I need to go to bed for the night..
jesus fucking christ the video of the south tower collapsing. people are crying in the background, and the hysteria.... i feel terrible.
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;40318658]Better not listen to this then.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbOzSeu6sJA[/media]
(Honestly surprised this wasn't posted yet)
(Also if you have never listened to this before and you aren't desensitized to this sort of stuff, this will probably give you nightmares)
It's weird to go back and read everything in that thread.
Freaky[/QUOTE]
When it ended, I just didn't do anything for about 5 minutes. The recording may be nearly 12 years old, but it left me in a kind of shock from the end.
I remember it happening live when I was 4 years old. It is one of the only times I can remember my mum crying, and genuinely sounding scared and worried.
i don't remember much about 9/11 past hearing about a plane hitting a tower in the morning and people thinking it was an accident. maybe i blocked it out.
I would've been 12 at the time
I only knew one person in the states (half brother) and he was in Texas so I was basically disconnected from the whole thing for years until I got into the internet and read more first-hand accounts of it
to be honest even to this day it's something that has never really affected me emotionally although I can empathize with those who are affected
I remember when I sit in the kitchen when the news german news reported what happened. I was barely 10 years old and did not fully grasp what happened, my mother told me that it is horrible. Besides it's less emotional for europeans.
[QUOTE=Dissolution;40322597][img]http://puu.sh/2Cd4p[/img]
Was surprisingly easy to find
[url]http://www.truegamer.net/SA_911/911%20SATHREAD/wtc-march.html[/url]
(for anyone who didnt see the post they quoted on the actual site, this is the same guy)[/QUOTE]
Found this in that thread, very interesting. The guy worked for Verizon at the time and posted this a bit after 9/11 I believe.
[quote]
Well, I work for Verizon in NYC on Pearl Street, which is about six blocks away from the WTC. I was in my office when the first plane hit, and my buddies on another board posted about it. Pretty much everyone in my office went to the elevator bay to watch. It was horrible to see, but it was just an accident, you know? So that was how I had a picture perfect view of the second plane hitting. at that, they evacuated our building. I'm right across the street from One Police Plaza,and the cops out there were asking anyone who knew first aid to go to the towers. I'm an EMT, so I went.
The following is my next post on the other message board I frequent, after everything happened:
quote:
I am alive
But barely.
I got to the WTC before any of the collapses. I had treated several people for minor injuries, a few burn patients and a guy who had a sucking chest wound from jet shrapnel, I turned to help a woman having an asthma attack and heard this gigantic cracking sound. Looked up to see tower number one break and fall. Got trampled and fell, wound up essentially across the street from the WTC, burind in about 8 inches of soot and ash, thinking I was going to die any second. I got hit in the head and back by fist-size pieces of concrete, and then stood up as the rain of rocks stopped. I was choking on ash, throwing up and trying not to pass out. I made it to a police cruiser, jerked the door open and got inside.eventually i made my way down the street to a bar and got inside just in time to see the second tower collapse on tv.
The bar i was in actually straddled the entire block, it had windows on both adjoining streets. A gigantic wave of debris came rushing down, cracked the glass on both sides and engulfed un in complete darkness.
Eventually i made my way uptown, the EMT's decided I wasn't going to be able to help more than i was going to slow them down, bloodied up and all.
So i'm in another Verizon building, this one on east 30th street. I'm more or less ok, covered in bruises, scratches and blood (mine and mr. sucking chest wound's), my right ankle is about the size of a grapefruit and I think I may have cracked a rib. Other than that, I'm ok. They've got a new set of clothes and some hot food on the way for me, and if they ever open up the port authority, i should be getting home tonight.
Don't try and call me, my cell phone is off line as i lost my charger in the debris of the WTC, as well as my one and only car key, and my daytimer with checks and whatnot. Thankfully I had my pass, my bus ticket, my wallet and my cell phone in my pockets. (big pockets)
I'll write again later...
Chuck/CSD
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I think I was around 9-10 years old at the time. The school kept it pretty quiet what was happening but you noticed more and more kids being picked up. My mom eventually picked me up from school.
She was surprised I didn't know what was going on and explained calmly that the towers were hit and my dad was in one of the towers and she was took me to see if we can go over there cause we had no idea what happen to him.
I'll never forget the smoke I saw in the sky as we travelled across a bridge to get into the city. However, they blocked us from entering and we had to go back home. We did get the news my dad was a live and fine via phone at home and he came back home safely.
He was so red, his clothes in sweat, and obviously shaken when he came home assuming he ran quite a lot and tense. We had friends in the neighborhood coming over and making sure my dad was alright.
That was a crazy day.
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;40318658]Better not listen to this then.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbOzSeu6sJA[/media]
(Honestly surprised this wasn't posted yet)
(Also if you have never listened to this before and you aren't desensitized to this sort of stuff, this will probably give you nightmares)
It's weird to go back and read everything in that thread.
Freaky[/QUOTE]
I don't remember 9/11 at all. I was five at the time, but I have no recollection of where I was or what I was doing, thinking, or feeling at the time.
That video hits me fucking hard, though. Just, fuck. Genuinely depressing.
[QUOTE=Radical Rebel;40315796][video=youtube;ULHCBsWt14g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULHCBsWt14g[/video][/QUOTE]
It's really jarring to hear how quickly things go from "Maybe it's some idiot pilot" to "Oh my god we're under attack"
[QUOTE=Zeke129;40322737]I would've been 12 at the time
I only knew one person in the states (half brother) and he was in Texas so I was basically disconnected from the whole thing for years until I got into the internet and read more first-hand accounts of it
to be honest even to this day it's something that has never really affected me emotionally although I can empathize with those who are affected[/QUOTE]
I was 9 at the time. I remember watching it on TV. It made me surprisingly angry, which is kind of weird since I live half a world away from the US.
The next few months was spent retaliating against Al Qaeda by playing anti-Osama flash games.
[url]http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/waronterror[/url]
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;40315304]Facepunch is much more clean, in my opinion due to that.[/QUOTE]
hahahha....no.
SA has much larger range of opinions and views, owing to most the people on there being quite a bit older than the average FP user. While that leads to both more sophisticated and crasser viewpoints respectively, there's also a hell of lot less drama and teenage-esque BS on SA, because that type of behavior pretty much earns you an instant permaban on SA.
You're also much more likely to get people who have been active in fields that users have questions about, and even the odd celebrity or two (Clancy Brown, Harlan Ellison, Steve Harwell, Patrick Rothfuss, a couple guys from Obsidian and Relic). FP really has hardly anything like that by comparison.
[quote] disturbing [/quote]
The calls from the airplanes still in the air are just as bad. Discovery and History run two shows that are literally just reports and calls without narration or context. Pretty chilling.
[quote]I reckon there'll be 300+ dead[/quote]
Sadly he was off by 2300, but I guess at that point the towers hadn't collapsed and people didn't realize how bad it was going to get.
I didn't really care at the time, all I know is we had to be silent for a minute in class or something
[quote]OMFG ANOTHER EXPLOSION ON THE TOWERS!
Another explosion at the base! Those towers are going down![/quote]
[QUOTE=27X;40323787]
The calls from the airplanes still in the air are just as bad. Discovery and History run two shows that are literally just reports and calls without narration or context. Pretty chilling.[/QUOTE]
There is a call from the airplane that crashed into a field after the passengers hijacked it back.
[QUOTE=matt.ant;40315206]I wonder how many threads Facepunch would have if it happened nowadays, the Boston Marathon one had 2,000 people viewing at one point[/QUOTE]
No one cares what Facepunch thinks.
Also at least half of that thread was people bitching about the original title.
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