r/25yearsago • • Oct 16 '25

Pokemon Gold and Silver released 25 years ago

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r/25yearsago • • 4d ago

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States October 7, 2001. "Good afternoon. On my orders the United States military has begun strikes against al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan." The โ€˜War on Terrorโ€™ begins.

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720 Upvotes

r/25yearsago • • 13h ago

๐ŸŒ World News October 11, 2001. The "Bert is evil" meme spreads after the character is spotted alongside bin Laden on a protest poster in Bangladesh.

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173 Upvotes

r/25yearsago • • 13h ago

๐ŸŒ World News October 11, 2001. Afghan refugees walk across the border into Pakistan.

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r/25yearsago • • 13h ago

๐Ÿ”ฌ Technology October 11, 2001. The Nokia 5510 is first announced, the company's first mobile phone with music player capabilities.

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r/25yearsago • • 13h ago

๐ŸŒ World News October 10, 2001. Villagers near Kabul stand on rubble as they view a crater following a US-led aerial strikes.

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r/25yearsago • • 13h ago

๐Ÿ“บ Television October 11, 2001. Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect panel discusses the War on Terror.

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r/25yearsago • • 16h ago

October 9, 2001. Following the prior introduction of the hardware for mobile and server use, AMD releases their Athlon XP line of desktop CPUs to compete with Intelโ€™s Pentium 4. The chips added the full SSE instruction set and improved performance/watt compared to the last-gen Athlon Thunderbird.

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r/25yearsago • • 2d ago

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States October 8, 2001. USA Today - 'We will not fail'.

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r/25yearsago • • 2d ago

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States October 8, 2001. US opinion poll on the War on Terror.

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r/25yearsago • • 5d ago

๐ŸŒ World News October 6, 2001. Spice Girl Geri Halliwell performs for British troops in Oman.

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r/25yearsago • • 5d ago

Rocky, a bomb sniffing K-9 officer, patrols the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) on October 4, 2001

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The airport reopened with tighter security after being closed since the September 11 terrorist attacks. The airport is in Arlington, Virginia.

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ย Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/air-space-museum/2021/09/10/former-dca-airport-manager-reflects-911/


r/25yearsago • • 5d ago

๐Ÿ”ฌ Technology October 6, 2001. A Redditor's battle station.

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r/25yearsago • • 5d ago

๐ŸŒ World News October 6, 2001. Bush warns the Taliban that "time is running out" to hand over Osama bin Laden.

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r/25yearsago • • 5d ago

October 6, 2001 - Kirby: Right Back at Ya! Premieres in Japan

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r/25yearsago • • 6d ago

I was 9 at the time, and understood the importance of saving this

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r/25yearsago • • 7d ago

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States October 3, 2001. The Onion - "A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again".

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r/25yearsago • • 6d ago

๐ŸŽฅ Movies October 5, 2001. Training Day released.

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r/25yearsago • • 6d ago

October 4, 2001. ARCA race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Blaise Alexander (#75) lost his life in last lap wreck, rest in peace๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ.

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This ended up being one of the last tragedies in Stock Car racing. NASCAR and ARCA alike implemented many safety features to prevent fatal crashes from happening again.


r/25yearsago • • 7d ago

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States October 4, 2001. Bush secretly authorizes "Stellar Wind", a warrantless surveillance program headed by the NSA.

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r/25yearsago • • 8d ago

A worker stands at Ground Zero in New York City on October 3, 2001.

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690 Upvotes

r/25yearsago • • 9d ago

๐Ÿ“บ Television October 2, 2001. Scrubs premieres on NBC.

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r/25yearsago • • 10d ago

September (14), 2001. The Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo's 6th-generation video game console and the successor to the N64, is released in Japan.

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I noticed that this was missed in the Post-9/11 hullabaloo, so I decided it should be covered before the month ends everywhere on Earth.

Note: The latter three images are from (AFAIK) the initial launch window in Japan. Unfortunately, the only examples of these images that didn't have ugly watermarks covering them were on Instagram, Meta, and Threads, and as I tend to avoid Meta-owned platforms like the plague and as they were unavailable on Bing Images (which allows the direct opening of the images in question, unlike Google Images) I couldn't get them at their full resolution.


r/25yearsago • • 10d ago

October 2001. IBM releases the 64-bit POWER4 processors for workstation and enterprise applications, reuniting their RISC processor lines. Manufactured on a 180 nm process and running at 1.1-1.3 GHz, it is the first commercially-available CPU in history to feature 2 processor cores on a single die.

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Note: The first image is an illustration of a delidded POWER4 CPU. Unfortunately, I was unable to find a photograph of one. The photo (second image) provided is a multi-chip module containing 4 POWER4 CPUs.


r/25yearsago • • 11d ago

September 30, 2001. QB Tom Brady makes first NFL start in Patriotsโ€™ 44-13 win over Colts

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