Heres some internet history for the 25th anniversary of 9/11. One of the earliest memes posted online about the attack. Often called "9/11 what if they'd missed" or "9/11 the happy ending."

There's were other versions of it I remember that had the towers bending in multiple directions as other planes attempt to fly into them but they seem to be lost media, aka the Matrix bullet dodging trope.

It was a bit harder to find than I'd assume it'd be. Someone had saved it on youtube and I've converted it to gif for posterities sake. The original was probably in Flash which is why it's so difficult to find these days.

A bit of internet history for the 25th anniversary of 9/11.

This is one of the very first memes/jokes about September 11th to become popular online. Often called "9/11 what if they'd missed" or "9/11 the happy ending."

There's another version of it in which the towers bend multiple directions as other planes attempt to fly into them but it seems to be lost media, aka the Matrix bullet dodging trope.

I actually had to go hunting for it and came across this version which is the original. Someone had saved it on youtube and I've converted it to gif for posterities sake.

The original was probably in Flash which is why it's so difficult to find these days.

In 2000 users on airliner's message board discussed what would happen if an airliner crashed into the World Trade Center.

You can still view the discussion here.

IIRC the FBI did investigate and determined no foul play, nor were any of the terrorist involved in this post in any way. Just a coincidence.

Remember that time someone posted an old photo of a dude they claimed was Elon Musk trying to roll a joint at a babyfur meetup?

I remember.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/elon-musk-babyfur-rumor

A few years back someone posted a photo they claimed was Elon Musk trying to roll a doober while attending a babyfur meetup.

We never got a confirmation from Elon about it but it sure does look like him.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/elon-musk-babyfur-rumor

Need some escapism? Bored with a few hours to kill? Like Gene Wilders voice?

Then you might find this documentary about the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair mildly interesting.

EXPO: Magic of the White City

In 1870 Émile Baudot created a code for telegraphy that used bits in place of dot and dashes. That allowed more words per minute to be transmitted than was possible with morse code.

With Baudot code machines could be built that would automatically decode the signal and type it out as plain english. This technology would be called the teletype machine.

Teletype machines still used this code or variation until they were replaced over a century later.

This is also where the term Baud rate comes from.

Started with old reddit being blocked if you don't sign in. I stopped using Reddit with an account years ago when they banned me for no good reason after I'd spent months building a subreddit that was attracting users (was a state specific sub that wasn't NSFW or selling anything.)

I had gotten around the old reddit ban by using a VPN. At first not every state had this ban on old reddit. Last week that changed. Now every place seems to not allow old reddit unless signed in.

Fine, I'll use new reddit. My god it sucks. It's designed to show you ads every other post. Videos autoplay which lags out some of us users machines/connections. I gave up trying to use it. Tried the app, even with protections turned on it was constantly spying on me so I uninstalled it. Plus the app sucked just as bad as new reddit does.

Since Google search results almost always include a reddit post I still occasionally click on one. I noticed now that anytime I click on one and nav to new reddit then try to click back the page lags for upto 30 seconds. Clicking back more doesn't speed it up. It freezes up. I have to close the tab and start the search over again.

Reddit is death spiraling. That was what pushed me to signup on Lemmy. I suspect we'll see more converts in the coming months.