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46 Things That Happened In 2001 That Still Feel Like Yesterday
2001 is a year that most people remember in two parts: before September 11th and after it. The World Trade Center events cast such a long shadow over everything that followed that the rest of the year can feel like a footnote, which is a strange thing to say about twelve months that were absolutely packed.
The r/25yearsago subreddit exists to fix that. A community dedicated to documenting everything that was happening a quarter century ago, it is a rolling reminder that 2001 was also the year of iPods and Shrek and Destiny's Child and a hundred other things that shaped the culture in ways that are still visible today. Some of these posts will make you nostalgic. All of them will make you do the math at least once and refuse to believe the answer.
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25 Years Ago Today, The Final Episode Of Mr Rogers’ Neighborhood Aired On Pbs And The World Was Never The Same Afterwards
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August 25, 2001. A Heavily Overloaded Cessna 402 Aircraft Crashes Shortly After Take-Off At Marsh Harbour Airport In The Bahamas, Ending The Life 22-Year-Old U.S. Singer And Actress Aaliyah Dana Haughton Along With All 8 Other Occupants
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February 12, 2001. After Orbiting The Object For Nearly A Year, Near Shoemaker Makes A Controlled Landing On The Asteroid Eros—the First Time A Spacecraft Has Ever Accomplished Such A Feat
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October 11, 2001. The Nokia 5510 Is First Announced, The Company's First Mobile Phone With Music Player Capabilities
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September 1, 2000. The Nokia 3310 Is Announced
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25 Years Ago Today, Major Charles Ingram Won £1,000,000 On Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
He cheated his way to victory by his friend and wife both signalling right answers by coughing. He was later denied the winnings, though he claims no wrongdoing
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December 5, 2000. The Daily Mail Infamously Predicts That The Internet May Be A Passing Fad, Citing A Report From The Virtual Society Project Claiming Saturation And Declining Usage Patterns
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September 13, 2000. Mac Os X Public Beta Is Publicly Released
This clean-slate BSD-based OS introduces preemptive multitasking and protected memory into Apple’s consumer line and helps popularize the nascent skeuomorphic/“Aero” aesthetic movement through its Aqua theme
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September 11, 2001. Last Photograph Of The Last Run Of Ladder 118 As It Crosses The Brooklyn Bridge. None Of The Firefighters Would Survive
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March 2, 2001. The Taliban Infamously Destroy 2,000-Year-Old Buddha Statues In Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley
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September 25, 2001. Michael Jordan Announces His Decision To Come Out Of Retirement By Joining The Washington Wizards
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September (14), 2001. The Nintendo Gamecube, Nintendo's 6th-Generation Video Game Console And The Successor To The N64, Is Released In Japan
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September 11, 2001. Suffering From A Hangover And Having Received An Incorrect Departure Time From His Travel Agent, Seth Macfarlane Misses His Flight By 10 Minutes
His plane was the first to crash into the World Trade Center.
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September 10, 2001. The Twin Towers’ Final Night Shot On Wabc-TV. “This Shot I Showing You Lower Manhatten And Everything Is Actually In Pretty Good Shape Now” - Sam Champion
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June 25, 2001. Compaq Announced Their Decision To Phase Out Production Of Chips With The Alpha Axp Instruction-Set Architecture Inherited From Dec In Favor Of Hp And Intel's Itanium, And To Sell The Ip To Intel, Effectively Ending The Once-Promising Technology
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September 8, 2001. 9/11 Hijackers Drink Alcohol And Play Blackjack At Shuckums Oyster Bar In Downtown Hollywood, Florida
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January 7, 1998. Monica Lewinsky Files An Affidavit In The Jones Case In Which She Denies Ever Having A Relationship With President Clinton
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August 24, 2001. Windows Xp Is Released To Manufacturing
In a major step forward, the consumer operating system moves to the more advanced NT kernel, enabling full pre-emptive multitasking and multiprocessor support. Also added are features like Wi-Fi auto-roaming and the new "Luna" design theme
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February 18, 2001. FBI Agent Robert Hanssen Is Arrested For Spying For Soviet And Russian Intelligence
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May 29–june 1, 2001. After Years Of Delays, Intel And Hp Launch Their Itanium "Merced" Cpus
The 1st-gen hardware of their new explicitly-parallel instruction computing-based IA-64 architecture which is aimed for a top-down capture of the computing market. The chips meet a cool reception on releaseIn addition to numerous other issues, repeated developmental delays of the platform (e.g. Merced was originally slated for launch on the same process node back in the second half of 1999) meant that it did not offer a compelling performance advantage compared to its closest enterprise competitors, and (partly due to the dramatic differences between the instruction set architectures and the insufficiency of existing software compilers) emulation of programs designed for the then-rising x86 ISA% proved to be poor, discouraging mass adoption.
%: Also ironically an Intel development, and one which was able to get a foothold into enterprise computing in part due to IA-64/Itanium's delays.
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May 4, 2000. The Iloveyou Virus, Disguised As A Love Letter, Spread Rapidly Via Email, Causing Widespread Disruption And Estimated Economic Damage
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25 Years Ago Today, Wwf Entertainment Bought The Assets Of World Championship Wrestling From Aol Time Warner, Solidifying Wwf’s Monopoly And Changing Wrestling History Forever.
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Phantom Phoenix 1 hour ago (edited)
Weird how some of the "46 Things That Happened In 2001" happened in 98, 99, or 2000
Phantom Phoenix 1 hour ago (edited)
Weird how some of the "46 Things That Happened In 2001" happened in 98, 99, or 2000
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