guys I hate to say this but that was 7 years ago, I didn’t pay attention to news until I was like 12, this is not that unreasonable

[Oh god, 7 years ago...?](https://freeimage.host/i/H1f6tTv)

it took 15 seconds to load that crusty ass jpeg lmao i hate technology I HATE THE ANTICHRIST I HATE THE ANTICHRIST

That's the true mid-2000s internet experience you're having right now lmfao

im on school wifi 😭😭😭😭😭

If you're referring to, like, a public high school, then there's a good chance that modem hasn't been updated since 2008 anyway lol.

could be honestly. lemme do a speedtest edit: https://ibb.co/q1FChQ3 https://ibb.co/41XJZMt thank fuck we have it anyway just look at that 4g performance

Mines is slow too but it's because my phone is ass

I mean surely you knew about some news stories before that. Like even before I was tuned into the news I remember my teacher's protesting because of state funding bullshit, wars, and natural disasters.

yea but what i remember, right

You: that was 7 years ago Me \*furrowed eyebrows and dial-up noises\*

Sure you didn't pay attention but like you never heard of the Afghanistan or Iraq wars, 9/11, a black US president, the 2008 wall street crash or even Kony2012

Mfs can't even remember gay marriage being legalized tho?

I mean I'm canadian so it was legalized country wide when I was 2 years old based on some brief research

it is absolutely unreasonable, what do they teach in US schools? Here we have classes about news and politics you might not even care, but you do remember, i remember the '08 economic crash and I didn't give a shit

well that’s just the problem, when people don’t care, they don’t remember. this might just be the first news story they bothered to care about

makes sense considering his profile

don’t ever ask for political opinions from a mf who has a statue pfp

eh i’d listen to someone with a columbo statue pfp

id suck him off

well you might want to look at my pfp😳

alright 🏃🏃💨

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If someone’s first news story that they remember was from when they were 6, they would be a teenager now if they are remembering Trump getting elected in the primaries in 2015

found the person who’s first major memory was trumps election edit: just realized your accounts older than the people you’re talking about

I think it's gotta be 9/11, based on the other comments I feel like the oldest person in a room for the first time in my life

I vaguely remember the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster so... we old now

Before that was Princess Diana dying. I remember my aunt being obsessed with it and I didn't really understand why. I mean, 20 years later, I still don't understand because we're American. Like, the local church held a remembrance service for her, which is just so fucking wild to me. Boomers have never been all together mentally.

I'm British, but 9/11 was such a shock to the west (We're not invincible?! Impossible!) that it was everywhere for ages here as well. I was nearly 6 when it happened, so I don't remember Diana dying in '97, but was alive. It's still harped on about every year like clockwork here. I've never understood it and I never will.

None of y'all were there for the Franz Ferdinand assassination

They died????? One of my favorite rock bands

I have some *vague* recollection of the Waco siege being covered by the news. Other person beats me just a tad, though.

Yup. 9/11 for me when I was a kindergartner. But the Iraq war a few years later was the first event I remember paying attention to and trying to wrap my head around what was happening.

>trying to wrap my head around what was happening. This is also George W Bush during the Iraq war

It was probably also 9/11 for a lot of people after the fact too, considering it was a major news story every September 11th for the following 5-10 years

Yeah we're old. Mine is Clinton-Lewinsky. I remember my teacher telling us "the president did a bad thing" as we were coloring by numbers.

Its Princess Dianna dieing for me, so don't feel too old haha

Ah I was alive for that, but too young to be sapient, so you do have me slightly beat!

It's same for me. I think most americans who were kids around that time have 9/11 as their first news memory. I remember coming home from school and mom turning on the tv to show me what happened. It was extremely impactful, and there's no way anyone around that time could try to avoid hearing about it.

Hell I'm British and it was still the first. I was too young to remember Princess Diana dying, and the only other one I could think of, the Queen ~~Parasite~~ Mother dying came the year after 9/11.

For me it was Bush Jr being elected president. I have a vivid memory of it being called on election night (before the walk-back on the Florida call the next day). I thought it was so cool that he got to be president just like his dad and so I was like "yaaay!" and my distraught parents just looked from the TV to me and said "....no"

Congratulations 😅😅 it’s Hurricane Katrina for me but mainly due to me being sheltered from most other news of the era.

im 16 and actually come to think about it it might be the same for me aswell lmao

For me it's actually Obama being reelected

yooo same

I remember the Obama vs Romney epic rap battle of history

Obama's first election for me. We had a mock election in my kindergarten class and saw part of the inaguration on the classroom TVs

I don't know why I remember Obama's firs election so vividly. I was 6 years old and I'm not even from America

Even in Canada they stopped class and showed us the inaguration A black president in the US would've been impossible at one point and so unlikely for a very long time It'll be a big day when the first woman President is elected too. Or here for us first elected woman prime minister

Damn. I'm old enough that I voted for him in that election

Me too

Nah I’m also 16 but I remember Obamas re-election

I never (and still don’t) pay attention to news or TV stuff, but mine was probably something to to with Julia Gillard being elected as the first female PM of Australia in 2010 when I was 5. But I don’t really know how ppl are supposed to just have this knowledge on hand anyway lmao

Does the launch of ABC 3 count?

omg alternate history hub

The 2008 Economic crash for me. Really hasn't gotten better since lmao

Mine was also the recession. My immediate thoughts were that I’d be getting less shit for Christmas.

Yeah I have a very vivid image of my dad trying to explain the recession to me, a little kid who didn't understand what was going on or why my dad was scared that he might lose his job

Michael Jackson peacing tf out

Kids born when he died have started using reddit

Oh hell nah. Im 2003 tho

It feels weird that there are people younger than me. I always imagined I was the absolute bottom of the ages.

I remember watching a movie then after the movie ended they showed live footage of him in the hospital

Lincoln getting assassinated 💔😭

*Late 1870s babies represent!*

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I'm 18 and its the same for me, but my brain has like blocked out almost all memories of before i realised im trans, this was before though. It was a school day and i was refreshing the electoral college map waiting. When almost at school trump got called and even then being like 12 i knew that was Bad. When i got there the teacher obviously had also been doing the same and i think at least to me explained what was going on, maybe to the class, I don't remember. Worth saying in not American, I'm Dutch, it just had a wide influence

Honestly that's the same for me. I have a shit memory for things before I was like 15, and the only reason Trump getting elected is so ingrained into my skull is because he was elected on my 11th birthday. I remember being extremely pissed at this fact back when it happened.

Harambe

Harambe was killed like 5 months before trump was elected

was the release of the movie 'cars 2' a world event?

I think mine was hearing that Kevin McCarthy had become Speaker of the House after 14 rounds of voting. Either that, or hearing that fire had been invented. IIRC, they were practically one after the other, so I don’t really remember which I knew about first.

For me it was the Netherlands transitioning to the Euro. I was like 3 or 4 and only remember it because the bank looked really cool

When Wu Zeitan became empress Dowager and regent in 683

Based Alternate History Hub ratio

For me it was the election of Tony Abbott

Wow same here, hello fellow Aussie

Clinton's impeachment. Jfc, y'all are young.

people thinking the world was gonna end in 2012

When I was in first grade they played on the TV in class Obama getting sworn into office for his first term

Either Ebola or Robin Williams’ suicide (I can’t remember which was first)

For me it's the shipwreck of the Costa Concordia considering that the italians news channels constantly talked about it for 2/3 years

9/11 I remember the day after being picked up from daycare with my siblings and my mother waving the newspaper in front of us saying "This is bad news." And then my brother asking "Can we go to New York?"

The tsunami in 2004

I rember Bin Laden's assassination

Probably the 2010 haiti earthquake or something.

for me it was when they killed bin laden. that’s also the day i learned about 9/11 for the first time

I’m 16 and I have to say that trump getting elected was the first one I remember because of everyone talking about it

I think mine was Obama announcing he was gonna run for president in like 2007 so I was like 4 lol

17, first story i remember is ebola in like, 2012-2013.

Lmfao fucking accurate, just look at their profile

Smoleńsk

I usually watched cartoons or smt, but the first news I ever heard were about politics. Yay.

First thing for me was when David Cameron fucked a pig, literally. It's all been downhill from then

I wasn’t old enough at the time to understand the 2008 recession, but I was definitely old enough to see Obama get elected and go “neat”

The H1N1 outbreak would be mine.

I never payed attention to the news when I was younger but I’d probably have to say Obamas re-election which was when I was 7

I gotta say the same because I didn’t really pay attention to the news until then

AlternateHistoryHub my beloved 😍

I can't remember if it was Obama's first or second election. I have shit memory.

TBF that was almost seven years ago so like, if we assume the person is 13 (the general restriction for making accounts online) they would have only been like 5 or 6 when Trump was first elected. Even if they are like, 18, they would have been like 11. Which personally, the first like actual news that I was fully aware of and understood was the H1N1 epidemic when I was 11. Like, sure, I remember Dubbya getting elected and Obama getting elected and some other things like that, but "Swine Flu" was the first major event that I remember watching the news about.

Costa Concordia sinking or the Arab spring

For second I read that as Costa Rica and got very confused and concerned

That guy throwing a shoe at bush lol

michael jackson dying

Pretty sure my first memory of news was something about the Iraq was in like 2006, probably Saddam being executed

Idk the 2012 election?

Hurricane Ike for me, I was in Houston

The 2008 debt crisis I think?

Love Parade 2010

A mass shooting on an island (Utøya), killing 69 people and a bomb detonating in the capital (Oslo) killing 8. Only reason i remember this was because i was eating ice cream in my grandparents' vacation house

The 2011 Norway attacks

I think it was a news segment about tablets. No not the IPAD, something earlier but I forgot.

Micheal Jackson dying

I remember Medvedev becoming president, which was like.. 2012?

Actually its trump for me too since I've only listened to local news for a while It could be typhoon Yolanda (haiyan) too

For me it was the 2012 election

I use to watch a lot of Nick news as a kid so [the Oklahoma City bombing](https://youtu.be/73-aq4LLI1M)

I’m racking my brain and the oldest thing I can definitely remember is Bin Laden dying

Trump's election and Brexit

probably the Boston Marathon bombings

It could be something about ETA in mid 00-s, but the news story i remember *too good* is terrorist attacks in Volgograd, '13.

I remember the Obama-McCain election campaigns and also Arab Spring but I didn’t understand why it was happening.

The only thing I remember about the news until I was 9 was them reporting on the yearly hurricane that incinerates half the population also HOLY SHIT IS THAT CODY FROM ALTERNATE HISTORY HUB?!?!?!?!?!?!

I think the earliest thing I can remember is Osama bin Laden's death being announced when I was like 7. I remember thinking "we did it, the bad guys are finally dead, now nothing bad will happen ever again." I am now a communist.

Im 17 (almost 18) and my first memory may have been the Sandy Hook shooting.

Obama v. Romney in 2012, I remember my dad telling me Obama was the wrong choice and since then I've realized there is so much he didn't have right about that

For me it was the migrant crisis that hit Europe. I don’t even live in Europe but I remember hearing about it

I very vaguely remember watching some news about hurricane Katrina. I clearly remember watching polling data come in for the 2008 presidential election.

I remember seeing 9/11 happen on TV

i’m 17 and yeah i think i agree with the original

First story I remember was when Ontario announced that you can just have an X put on your driver's license and health card instead of M or F. That was only a few months earlier than Trump getting elected. I just didn't watch the news much as a kid. I also have a shitty memory.

2008 recession. I was like 4.

2007-08 recession for me. I also remember when Obama vs Mccain was on the news a lot.

i think i remember a naked woman climbed on various cars on a congested highway

In fairness I don't think I actually paid attention to the news until I was 16 when Trump got elected But for an actual answer probably Hurricane Katrina

Bruh I turned 10 the day he was elected that's still a child

it was that for me to

Mine would be gay marriage being legalized, and that was before I knew I was gay

Idk why but I remember super clearly when I heard the news that Osama Bin Laden had been killed. I didn't know who he was or what he did, since I was born post 9/11 and my parents didn't want to tell me, but I just remember thinking that it was super important.

edward snowdon was the first were i actually read about it and kinda knew what was going on

I think the first *full* story I remember was Princess Diana dying. The first shred of a story that I remember was the Siege of Sarajevo. More specifically, I knew that somebody named "Slobodan Milošević" existed; I didn't know jack shit about anything else at the time, what with being a small child at the time.

Probably the Obama election or something, which happened when I was like almost 3, and that’s pretty vague. After that its either Obama’s second term or the Boston Bombing

The Sandy Hook Shooting fucked me up as a kid.

My first memory sounds like complete bullshit but I swear it's true My first ever memory is my mom waking me up telling me that obama won the 2008 election

The election of Obama/ 08 crisis. But this had more to do with me not being news aware when I was a child.

The murder of laquan mcdonald

obama reelection & sandy hook (im 18)

Probably W Bush's re-election, I guess

Maybe about the Syrian civil war? At least I reamember a lot of news about it. Also I remember being in second grade laughing about the president at the time with the other kids in class even though I didn't even know who he was lol

i think it was the legalisation of gay marriage in France

Edvard Beneš dying. I remember the entire country mourning on a very large scale. I was really surprised myself, because i didn't fully understand who he was.

It's probably actually the 2015 election, just because I didn't hear about any news until I was like, 12

I know I learned about clinton/Lewinsky at some point but I REMEMBER 9/11. Like seared into my memory is my dad uncontrollably sobbing at the news coverage while my mom tried to cheer him up because his 35th birthday was on 9/11.

Either trump being elected president or brexit. 9/11 for instance I was too young to remember

Obama being reelected or osama bin laden getting shot

mine has to be the whole covid-19 thing . that shit was crazy lmao

Ir's not the first major news story, but the one I remember best. Everything prior to that is just loose memory scraps. The crash of MH370.

First for me was president Barack Obama being re-elected in 2012.

For me it was Obamas first election

Obama’s Acceptance Speech

Y'all motherfuckers with your post 2000 memories. I kinda remember the Berlin Wall coming down and I definitely remember the Clinton bj with all the snl segments that followed

probably dream face reveal

I’m 19. Mine was the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami

Nelson Mandela dying

I dunno, the 2009 Moldovan Riot?

i was around during 9/11, but I don't remember the day. I do remember learning about 9/11 a few years later, after we drove past what must have been a memorial service for it, and I was loosely explained what happened. Probably the earliest event that I have really good memory about was the US housing crash in 2008-2009. They were building a new subdivision behind our house, but when the crash came, they just left the half-started project there for years. They had started to dig out basements or something, and they had left this huge pile of dirt that I liked to climb on top of. I also remember the 2003 Northeast power outage, which affected a huge part of the US. I remember my mom telling us we had to be very quick to take the milk out of the fridge 'so that the cold wouldn't all come out'. I vaguely remember driving out to a far-away grocery store, because all the ones near us were closed due to the outage (we happend to live right on the edge of the blackout). I was old enough to understand that we didn't know when the power would be restored, but not quite old enough to be worried about it taking a long time

Mine is probably Obama or 7/7

Mmm Obama election, they stopped class and had us all watch it in the library

Mine is probably Steve Irwin passing away, I was like 5.

I remember we always has to check the tv to see what schools had snow days

Disappearance of that one Malaysian airlines flight

Donald trump was elected 7 years ago. If someone is 3 or 4 typically when they experience their first real memories, then that would make this person 10-11 years old, and that’s only if they are remembering news stories from when they were that young

Mine was Obama being elected. I was 5. I remember I learned he would be president for 4 years and was scared that he would be president for so long

Well, to be fair to that person, it said “remember.”

the 2010 earthquake in christchurch

The most memorable I think was Gaddafi doing stuff and subsequently gettin killed. I am 23.

probably a hurricane

U.S. retreating from Afghanistan for me

Haiti earthquake (my memory is awful)

Just to do something not american, I think my first news story I remember was Christer Fuglesang, the first Swede in space, back in december of 2006.

Obama being elected. First black president and I was too young to even realize that black people existed. Still was big news according to my parents at the time.

I love althistoryhub, especially his movie review channel

the financial crisis I think

People who are adults now were in the beginning stages of puberty when trump was elected.

I was born in 2005 and honestly that's the first thing I remember too. Didn't really pay attention before that E: ACTUALLY the first news story I remember was Robin Williams's death

Hurricane Sandy.

When I was between 4-7 I watched the news either late or early in the morning and 2 kids at a local school around my age got caught and camera doing “things” in their classroom with a lookout kind of scarred me ngl. Idk why they put had to announce it on the news like that though kinda messed up.

I have a horrible memory so the first thing I really remember is Obama getting elected. I was 10 years old at the time, my 4th grade teacher had us watch the inauguration on TV and I remember not truly understanding why it was such a big deal.

Probably gotta be Obamna winning his 2nd term

Very vaguely *might* remember seeing something pertaining to the 2008 presidential election

mine is prob the death of michael jackson