r/thirtyyearsago

HistoryMaps presents: The Day Earth Broke the Alien Internet
On this day, humanity defeated a fleet of super ultra advanced invading aliens by uploading one extremely stupid bug to their mothership.

The aliens had faster-than-light travel, planet-melting lasers, and a network so powerful it could calculate the movement of every atom in the galaxy. Unfortunately, it could not handle one badly named file called final_FINAL_real_one_v7.exe.

Within seconds, the alien command system crashed, their shields turned into karaoke machines, and the mothership started printing error messages in 9,000 languages. The invaders panicked, tried turning it off and on again, and accidentally deleted their entire empire.

The rest of the world was relieved humanity survived the alien invasion, but slightly annoyed that America immediately named the global victory “Independence Day.”

Historians now remember this victory as the day humanity proved that even the most advanced civilization in the universe is still vulnerable to bad software.

It only feels like 10 years ago 😭

The album that has now been put in discussions vs iLLmatic, like Off The Wall vs Thriller. Funny enough I liked It Was Written more than iLLmatic back then. The. I grew up, I was outside movin’ around, learned a lot from both. There is no It Was Written or Thriller without the albums that got it started. 🫡💯

(To the tune of the 1960s Nancy Sinatra song)

These boots were made for walkin

Back when I was young

These boots have walked so many places

One just lost its tongue

On a related note... anybody know of affordable boot repair in Houston, intown? I still wear these almost on the daily. Still good, that tongue just finally gave up the ghost lol.

They've seen so much cool stuff in 30 years! Hiking in the Appalachians; 35+ concerts; the 2006 March on Washington; walking all over Atlanta, Houston, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Austin; and several more marches I was probably too old to be doing. Also a couple milestone birthdays.

I hope to be buried (cremated) in these, because I don't have kids to pass them down to so they can enjoy how freaking comfortable they are at this point. Maybe they should take them off before they cremate me though, the '90s soles are so freaking indestructible I might burn for a week.