So do you remember what you were doing 20 years ago today?
I was in the house I lived in with 7 other students at the University of Illinois. I was back from a morning class and I was listening to a cassette tape of the latest Kate Bush album. Then a housemate, Matt (he works for Intel now), came in to my room and said that the space shuttle had exploded.
I went to another class that day, but mostly I spent the remainder of the day in the TV rooms at the Illini Union student center (I wonder if they still have TV rooms there now?).
There's remarkably little about the 20th anniversary in blogs today, but Michelle Malkin has some links. Most interesting is a post on the blog of the woman who was the Flight Surgeon that day.
I was homeschooling that year. I heard it on the radio and went down to see the news on TV. I don't remember if I was programming or writing at the time. I just know I was upstairs at my desk.
-David
Posted by: David Michael | January 29, 2006 at 06:16 PM
On that day, I was in my office at Midwestern Technical Products (now defunct), where I was the Service and Support Coordinator. One of our computer technicians walked to the convenience store and saw the news on the TV they had there. On his return, sounding very concerned, he asked, "Did you hear the news?" What few people remember is that one of the main stories at that time was a pissing match between Reagan and Khadafi, so my first thought was that we were going to war over an imaginary line in the ocean. The shuttle tragedy changed the national focus immediately. (Reagan ended up bombing Libya within 3 months, though.)
Posted by: Gregg Seelhoff | January 30, 2006 at 07:08 AM
I had 11 years, I was trying to program my 1st game with C64 using the great Basic V2.0
I remember that in those days I was getting bad results at school, and my father telling me that I won't get anywhere with "those computers" :)
Posted by: Winter Wolves Games | January 30, 2006 at 02:34 PM