can any oldfags tell us about the era after the 1990's, but prior to 9/11 and the war on terror? what were politics and society like between january of 2000 and early september of 2001? the tech bust, the contested 2000 us election, etc. what was /pol/ like back then? some notable events: > g8 riots in genoa, italy > gradual introduction of the euro currency (1999 to 2002) > the second chechen war > tony blair's re-election (june 2001) > the aol-time warner merger of 2000 (biggest in history to that point) > introduction of windows xp (august 2001) > playstation 2 released (march 2000) > vladimir putin becoming president of russia > first sequencing of the human genome (2000) > the second intifada in israel (october 2000) > the fall of milosevich in serbia (october 2000) > the launch of apple's itunes (january 2001) > the hainan incident between the us and china (april 2001) > the nepal royal family massacre (june 2001) > the uss cole bombing near yemen (october 2000) > the bradford riots in the uk (july 2001) how did /pol/ react to these and other events?
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