1:05 You have no idea how much of a jolt you just gave me. I remember that woman, I remember them interviewing her live. I was 7 years old, and that cemented 9/11 for me, for years. The Asian lady with the white face. Wow

The fact that I could see the building fall from the windows of my elementary school is still crazy to me 😩

This is the worst episode of Cheers.

I was 18 when this happened. I had my first real adult job after high school and went for my morning coffee break. I took my first sip of coffee just in time to turn towards the TV in the break room and see the second plane hit. I'll never forget that.

It's incredible that 22 years have passed and we are still getting new footage.

I was about 16 at the time and I still remember it vividly. I saw the 2nd plane crash live on TV. In school all we did was watch the news coverage. Even during lunch time students and teachers gathered around the TVs and watched; shaking our heads in silent disbelief. It didn't matter where you were in America - everyone felt it. It's like everything stopped for an entire day.

I remember that the PM of Australia at the time (John Howard), offered an 'all expenses paid' trip to Australia for all NYC first responders and their families if any of them would like it; a few took him up on the offer and came over. They were treated like rock stars, literally people lining up at the bar they were eating at to buy them their next round of beers. I remember seeing that on the news at the time, but haven't been able to find any old reports about it online since then.

It feels like time goes by so fast I am a 32 year old male born in 1991. I was an elementary school student in 2001. The shock really felt like 23 years had passed. Even now, I still vividly remember New York I live there and I was really scared. It was terrible! Lives lost in 9/11 terrorist attacks With all the victims who lost To the bereaved families Once again, I offer my deepest condolences.

22 years ago of the tragedy on September 11, 2001. R.I.P of those who lost their lives. May they never be forgotten.

It's been 22 years and it still feels like yesterday!

I was 15 and home sick from school with one of the worse colds I’ve ever had while chatting with random idiots on an online chat forum until I heard my mom loudly gasp “oh my god!” I then yelled back from my room “mom is everything ok?” And when she didn’t answer I got up and had a really bad gut feeling and that’s when I saw my worried mom staring at the TV in disbelief and the news coverage of what was happening. This was just one those days in my life that I will never forget.

22 years ago today I was a 9 year old in elementary school in science class and we were watching some nature documentary, and the principle came into the class looking very distraught and told my teacher to change the channel to the news, and that’s when we found out. I remember even us kids sat there in complete shock and silence, and my innocent perception of the world was instantly forever changed. We went home early after, and the school just had a really weird and depressing atmosphere for the rest of that week. RIP to all of the innocent lives that were tragically taken that day.

I'm from the uk and just before 9/11 happened I had bought a D2MAC SAT System with a moving dish that allowed me to watch practically Any Live TV Broadcasts from anywhere in the world and I stumbled over the very first Live streams and watched in absolute horror as events unfolded. I remember saying to my X Misses _"Those buildings' are going to collapse"_ Like Millions of others I watched the whole thing for hours and hours and it was truly horrific. But the thing that TO THIS DAY makes me sick to my stomach (and I'll Never forget it), was when I pointed my moving dish to the middle eastern Live Broadcasts only to see Thousands of people (from different Arab countries), actually 'Celebrating' in the streets. I've Never seen Humans act like such black hearted 'Savages'. That sight changed me forever.

It's still shocking and totally unbelievable over twenty years later. It was a literal and symbolic one-two punch to the western world.

It is odd people are laughing in the background but people , do deal with trauma differently.

Honestly I would have been too sick to eat my lunch had I been in their situation.

I was 16 and really nervous about a driving test that I was supposed to have that day, and as I was eating breakfast I watched the second tower being hit on the news. My mom and I couldn’t believe it, and we were both really worried as we had relatives in New York at that time but luckily were nowhere near the towers. Of course my driving test was canceled and I did it another day but it was a dark day and the world truly changed forever since then. In my mind this is when the 21st century really started.

Bruh, I was just watching your "Hanging out at the arcade in 1981: Part II" and realizing that the 9/11 vid is closer to Arcade '81 than it is to today. I just broke my own brain on that one. The collapse of the twin towers is closer to the release of Mrs Pac-Man.

I was 19 at the time and getting ready for work, and just as I was stepping out of my bedroom and into the living room, I saw live coverage of the event on TV, and my mom and I sat there in disbelief, just shaking our heads. My boss then called me a few minutes later telling me no one is coming to work and life was on pause for the rest of that day.

It was my first year teaching, and only 2nd week, iirc, anyway, I taught art at an elementary school. The librarian from across the hall came to the art room door during a morning class and signaled me over and whispered that a big plane had hit the WTC. At my 10 min break, I went to the teachers’ lounge and the VP was crying and a few other teachers were watching a TV that had been placed in there, most, in stunned silence. Not quite an hour later, (was it 50 minutes between hits?) during another one of my 50 minute classes, the librarian came to my classroom once again to quietly tell me that ANOTHER jet had hit the other tower. Some parents began picking up their children from school after that. I just remember that _I could not wait_ to go home and watch the news. Of, course, not that most of us had to be told to, but the administration sent the staff an urgent email directive instructing us not to discuss what was happening with the students at all, in order to not upset them, as they had no idea what had happened, and naturally, that was for their own parents to do, first…seemingly, so unlike it is nowadays.

I’ll never forget the morning of 9/11. It was absolutely horrific. I can’t imagine what the victims went through that day. I’m assuming this was later that day or even a day or two later. Reason why is the twin tower attacks happened fairly early in the morning. I had not even gotten dressed for the day when the news broke that morning. Most ppl I knew on that day (CST time zone) were driving to work or hadn’t even left for work yet. That looks like full plates of dinner foods in a restaurant or maybe some type of pub that also serves wings or something. Plus most bars aren’t open 7-8 in the morning.

I watched while getting ready for work. I stayed home that day. My boss was unhappy. I still don't care.

I miss the early 2000s Everyone was so happy back then and friendly Today u can’t get a smile from anybody and it’s hard to make friends today 😥 This generation today suxx

Your channel is truly a fascinating time machine

I was on a family vacation during this time and literally in the middle of the ocean off the coast of North Carolina doing some fishing when everything went down. We didn’t know what happened until we got back to the docks. It was so surreal. It was like everything stopped: tv channels were either blacked or showing news, stores closed early, the streets were free of people since they likely were inside watching tv.

I was 5 years old the morning the attacks took place, and I’m 27 now. Having learned what I’ve learned now, I honestly don’t blame the people in this video for boozing and eating. I have no doubt they were devastated like anyone else. But at some point, what else can do you besides watch in horror from a television screen? Might as well mourn with your loved ones and appreciate your time with them at that point.

The truth is, this country hasn’t been ‘great’ since that day. That was the end of the innocence.😓

The people jumping to this day to escape the burning and bodies exploding it what always messed with me. Can't imagine jumping and knowing your about to explode and seeing the ground coming

Just like in the Sears store, you could just FEEL the terror and confusion through this video. That was what 9/11 was, a horrific, confusing day in America.

Thank you so much for also putting your videos in the Internet Archive! This stuff is invaluable!

I was 14 years old in 8th grade history class when this happened. Walking into class my history teacher looked very serious I thought he was mad about something. Then he told us all this might be hard to watch but today will be in the history books from this day on and we watched the news coverage of the attacks for 45 minutes. Weird thing to digest at such a young age. I didn't realize just how serious this was until I went home that day and talked to my parents about it.

I was 14, two weeks into high school. Every class had the news on and we just watched everything unfold. I swear time stopped that day.

I remember getting home from college here in the UK. My Mum was a secretary at a small rehab centre for people with physical disabilities. I turned on the tv & watched in disbelief as the first plane hitting the first tower was replayed. Totally stunned & not sure what to think, I picked up the phone & called my Mum at work & broke the news to her & her colleagues. I just stood watching in total disbelief & shock, while relaying the events unfolding to my Mum & her colleagues until someone got up & turned on a tv at the rehab centre & drew everyone's attention to what was going on. No matter where you were in the world, you never forget where you were or what your were doing when it happened, & realise that the horror & grief you were feeling would have been multiplied goodness knows how many times for the people of the US.

No one told us at school that day until 7th period. I was in 6th grade social studies watching this. Scary day.

23 years ago and its still sad..... R.I.P to all the 2,977 people who died that day and the days after due to fighting symptoms from the debris and smoke and what not.

I'll never forget that numb state of shock and how everyone's differences immediately evaporated.

No one staring at their cell phones. No Karens. No TikTok pranks. No one eating Tide pods. Everyone just sitting there quietly watching the towers fall while living in the moment.

Love all your vids. Great retrospectives back to much simpler times. Keep up the great work.

In the design studio I worked at in the UK, we first heard on the radio that a light aircraft may have crashed into one of the twin towers. As the event unfolded, the boss set up a tv in the conference room and we all stopped work to watch. Then we saw the second plane hit live on air. It was chilling and surreal. We were all discussing what could’ve happened when one of the guys jumped up with his hands on his head and yelled “oh my god it’s collapsed!” then all went quiet. It was eerie. Everything had changed. Never forget it.

No one watching it on the phones with the screen, just watching on the TVs at the bars, or at the stores and malls in 2001.

i had signed up for the Marines a month before 9/11. My recruiter picked me up earlier than usual around 5 am to start my Poolee training and i was curious as to why, when he walked me into the offices there were other Poolees and recruiters watching the news and i saw the 2nd plane hit the second tower. it was one of the most intense moments in my life because i got sent to boot camp right away on Halloween of 2001 instead of my due date i had signed up for.

Eerily similar to the story my grandmother told me. She was working in a bank in the 1960s and there was a little radio in the corner playing music when the infamous “we interrupt this broadcast for a breaking news bulletin, President Kennedy has been shot during his motorcade in Dallas” came over the air. Everyone fell silent and stopped right in their tracks

Who's in a bar at 9:00 AM?

Morning drinkers 🍻🍻

People were still very naive and unaware around this time. No one could admit or understand that it was an inside job. If people had woken up back then, we could have avoided all the garbage of the past 20+ years.

I was at Walmart of all places when this was going down. They were displaying it on the monitors, but at the time I was so out of the loop in terms of news that I really thought nothing of it at just 19yrs old. A lot's changed.

I was just a young boy at the time when this happened. But, I remember thinking to myself, the world is about to change forever, now.

And just like that, every non-sales method of earning a living in the entire country just disappeared...for ten long years... They like to say, "We'll never forget!". For me, these words hold a very different meaning.

I remember that day. I just pulled out of the garage, heading to work where I was going to meet up with a couple other employees and drive together to a meeting. I heard on KNX radio (Los Angeles) that a plane hit the World Trade Center. I decided I had to see this so drove back into the garage and turned on the TV. I watched for a bit and saw the second plane hit, making calls to a couple people to tell them to turn on their televisions (who I woke up at 6:00 am). Eventually I did have to drive to work. We all went to the meeting, but were thinking about other things watching updates on some desktop PCs on the meeting room.

I woke up. Got on the Internet and my friend on MSN messenger said we're at war on USA Soil. I was watching TV when the second plane hit the Towers.

I moved from Connecticut to a few miles down the road from Cumberland Mall 6 months after this video was recorded. Feels like that was 22 days ago, not almost 22 years.

People in a bar at 9am, the true alcoholics!

Is it me or am I the only one that's looking at the portion size of everyone's plate....like they don't serve a nice size portion of food nowadays lol

I was in the 3rd grade and I remember our teacher putting the news on for us all to see. Then going home and seeing the same thing on all televisions throughout the home

I remember that day too. Like many of you I was in school. First year in highschool. Every classroom had the televisions going. We saw it all. Things really felt like they got darker after that happened. A vibe of miasma. Music got more depressing. Kids in my school developed this apathy of not caring. I don't blame them. That day set off a chain of events. And what was it all for? America got its revenge but many people paid a price. Senseless death in the Middle East. Soldiers and innocent citizens. Men, women, and children. I'm not sticking up for the terrorists. Now that the war is over, I still feel empty. Right back to the start Rest in peace our friends. We won't forget you.

It was the same all around the world. Activity stopped while people looked on perflexed at the bewildering attacks.

I was a sophomore in high school and all I remember was worrying about my mom and being sent home early to find her home from work, crying and watching the news on the sofa.

I was at Camp Casey, Korea at a barracks party. Then all hell broke loose and I was on guard duty that night (for us) for a week straight.

Meanwhile, my 11 year old azz was freaking out and was totally convinced a plane would hit my school even though I live nowhere near the targets they were trying to hit. Yay anxiety 🙃

All these years later, and we still haven't closed the fucking border.

Can't believe that was 22 years ago today already! I had just started 3rd grade and my sister 1st. We will never understand why such a terrible plane crash happened in New York and nearly 3,000 people lost their lives far too soon....... This is most likely a day so many Americans will never forget.

In Texas, I wasn’t in school yet. The school called and said not to come. We turned on the tv and I remember them replaying the video of the second plane crash. At 5 1/2 years old, I remember seeing people in the top of the building, but it was after 2011 before I actually found out about people jumping from the building. I remember going into my bedroom to watch Thomas the Tank Engine, and by the time I came out, both building had collapsed.

We went out that night and the clubs were packed. Everybody had seen enough and at some level we were happy to be alive.

Don’t mistake these people’s reactions as indifference. Imagine thinking you’re going to have a nice day eating with friends and this dumbass shit happens. Smh even out of work there is utter chaos.

The clothing is so conservative! Where are all the tattoos?

eating calmly during an emergency 🙄🙄

When Americans got along

D ont think I could sit casually eating as this was going on.

I remember I was 9 year old when 9/11 happen I remember coming home from school and turning the tv on and trying to understand what just happen early that morning it’s crazy to think this happen 22 years ago

I was sick that day and not working. I was 30 years old at the time and stayed in bed. I switched on the TV suspecting nothing and CNN had just begun their coverage of the first plane, maybe 5 minutes after the first crash. At that time I had been on the Twin Towers 5 times and could not believe what I was seeing. I still have the 1999 admission ticket for the observation deck and some pics with me standing in front of that globe on the Plaza, not knowing what was going to happen 2 years later. It feels surreal when I watch these photos!

May the victims r.i.p. ❤❤❤.

Do you guys believe it was an inside job?

Oh wow. I was in Decatur, GA that day. I'm always looking for Atlanta area videos on here but I was surprised to see the channel 2 Action News graphic on the tv screen in the restaurant.

Who took this video of people in a bar while watching the catastrophe on TV.....this seems it was taken just to be shown in the future

Imagine drinking to nine eleven during nine eleven..

i was 4 at the time, and all i remember is my mom being upset and telling me to keep playing with my blocks as she watches tv. i think i remember my dad coming home early from work sometime that day as well

Watch the cameraman zoom into the actors.

The look of sheer horror was on the faces of most. I remember my company closing down because our corporate offices were in New York. Just an awful day, I was working from home as I needed to take my 5 year old to the pediatrician & I remember her saying, mommy are we going to go on fire while we were driving. We were the only ones on the road. The pediatrician office was open the receptionist wanted to watch it on TV & I remember the office manager looking at her aghast wondering why she would even ask that question. The office manager was clueless. The towers had not come down at that point, by the time we left with the doctor the first tower came down. I didn't have time to protect my daughter from the breaking news from CNN and by then we were in shock. After that everything changed for the worst.

I was In Arizona in 2001 I was 6 1/2 Years Old

Rip and thanks to all the heroes we lost from 9/11

Sad day n hard to sleep or eat after 9/11

I remember about 25-30 of us being huddled around a small 12"x 12" b&w TV in our small lunchroom at work. They finally sent us home around 1:30.

I was 17 at the time and at home babysitting and looking forward to my graduation party that coming weekend. O remember my friend calling telling me something was happening in New York. She thought it was a bomb. Not even a minute after turning on the news the second plane hit.

1:04 is insane

I was at work when this happened I thought America was under attack..rip to everyone and condolences to the families..😢❤🙏🏾

Yep,i was in class learning to write cursive with opposite hand,i seen the plane hit the towers as we had a tv set up in class. She was crying and i didnt understand why..

As part of tradition I always watch the Howard stern broadcast in full every 9/11 and listen to News At 11 by CatSystem Corp

After working a 12 hour shift overnight, I came home from work at 7 am Pacific time, September 11, 2001. I turned on the TV to watch the events. Every channel had news of the attacks, even the independent, non-affiliated channels had the news from CNN or a NYC TV channel. I watched until I fell asleep a few hours later.

I Was 15 When This Happened And I Was In My 10th Grade Class They Told Me To Turn On The Tv And We Saw The 2nd Plane Hit All Of Us Was In Shock EVERYONES Mouths Dropped 😮It Was Like We Was Watching A Movie Didn’t Seem Real I Will Never Forget That Sad Day We All Was Sad And Worried And Scared That Day And Im From TEXAS 🌸Rip To Them All That Past Away On That Tragic Day! 9/11/2001

I was 15 years old, secondary high school as I remembered this tragedy in 2001. Malaysia says hello by the way

Never forget and God bless.

I was just shy of 3 years old. My dad was stuck in Puerto Rico at the time as he had been on a vacation

I remember exactly where I was! I was in seventh grade in a music class and we watched on a tv that was hung up in the room

I was on a golf course. It seemed like there was nobody out there and we had the place to ourselves. Then we made the turn and went in the clubhouse and that explained the empty course. The bonus is we had to get back on a military base, we just had the morning off. Spent about 6 hours waiting to get on base. I had only been in for a year at that point, but it was obvious things were going to change. Spent most of the next 4 years deployed.

I remember my father watched this when he got home. He was in silence. (Request: a circuit city video or a target)

I was 16. We were the last class in school to turn the TV on. When we did, one of the buildings was already gone. Things were somber and then I went home. Not the greatest 9/11 story but, since everyone is sharing theirs...

I can’t remember some people’s name but I can remember exactly where I was & what I was doing that day😢

"Loose Change" changed my whole view of this tragedy. I spent the last few years before I turned 18, fuming that I couldn't be a part of OIF1....joined the Army at 18 still pissed about 9/11. Then about 2 years in, "Loose Change" came out, and blew my mind. The fighting spirit turned into disgust towards our government. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. It's like somebody shooting your brother, then telling you they will help you look for him...knowing they did it.

The look of confusion

Doesn’t matter who you are or where you were. If you were born 1993 or later you know exactly where you were & what you were doing when this happened.