My random tales:

One night, playing bunch of Halo, I got an Xbox 360 voice message. “Message to all recent players. Fukushima nuclear power plant just exploded. You should stock up on iodine tablets.” (I almost sent back a message saying “thanks for your concern, but I’m in the Chernobyl fallout zone and I turned out just fine thank you”)

Pluto photographs from New Horizons? Frigging NASA retweet. (Edit: Actually I think it was a retweet of someone making a Disney meme about Pluto the Dog)

Most recently, I got a random Discord message from a British YouTuber I follow saying “the Queen just died, please be respectful and stuff”.

  • Rose@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Might as well share my weirdest proto social media thing.

    9/11.

    (I’m in Finland. This happened in the afternoon.)

    I was leaving work. I distinctly remember a coworker being alarmed about news.

    I turned to the usual news source. Slashdot. Massive bloody thread about airplanes hitting the World Trade Center.

    OK, that’s pretty bad.

    I finally turn to TV news. …OK, stuff is far more in flames than I expected. I think I caught one of the towers collapsing in live TV.

    But the following days, my primary news source about 9/11 was, actually, IRC! There was a channel on Freenode where a bot posted headlines about 9/11 investigations. Because the actual news websites were bloody dead under the massive traffic.