What were you up to in 2007?
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
I was coming into my own as an adult.
I'd been in an adult job for a couple of years and I bought a car and started renting my own place. I was able to travel a lot in those days and life was more interesting and affordable, as the 2008 crash hadn't yet occurred and most third spaces were still around and thriving.
It felt like we all had a good future ahead for the most part.
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
All within about a month, early summer:
- working at a startup
- got married
- honeymoon (visited 2 new countries)
- moved into a new job-role
- first IPO
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I did eventually lose the house because of the 2008 crash
I would be interested about the mechanisms behind that, as I only observed it from afar out of Europe.
I then had the impression that for existing houses it was mainly a problem for the banks?
Didn't know that owners like you also were directly affected.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Sort of complex. House values went down so people lost the ability to get credit and a lot of folks lost their ability to sustain their lifestyles. Spending went down. People lost jobs. It was a big downward spiral.
People were unable to move to seek better opportunities because they were underwater on house loans. Ultimately, banks were affected because their customers were hurting.
Edit: oh and I forgot variable rate mortgages. As the economy got worse, payments went up. And this primarily affected folks who could barely make their payments as it was.
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
Still vaguely optimistic I'd graduate from uni some day in the near future and find work as a translator for English and Japanese. (I only stopped trying to graduate 10 years later and I have been paid a lifetime total of 150 euros for translations.)
I was also able to sleep 8 hours most nights. Those truly were the days.
On the upside, I hadn't yet discovered Doctor Who which two years later would, depending on who you ask, either greatly improve my life (quote me) or make me an obsessed weirdo (quote the husband).
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I graduated highschool in 2007.
I was burning CDs off of mp3' I downloaded, someone taught me how to use IRC (internet relay chat). I had a lot of NoFx, and was really getting into Punk music from the 90s. I spent a lot of time downloading/seeding music. I had an old computer I can still visualize.
Internet dating was brand new, and I dipped my toe in. We would have parties with 10-15 people, and played beer pong with beer in the cups, not water, I learned kings cup, and shortly after refused to play it.. but we also played cards a lot, five card stud/draw and Rummy. My group loved card games, we'd play Bullshit and Spoons while wasting late into the night.
For a time, I was going with some buddies Friday nights to the capital city, where they'd have car races, and then we'd be chased away by cops. Not my scene, but it was sort of fun.
Weed wasn't legal and obtaining it was not difficult but more expensive. I paid $60 for an 1/8 for the good stuff, $40 an 1/8 for the shit stuff. Today, there is no shit stuff, least I haven't seen it in over a decade. We made a giant bong out of a water cooler jug, that summer, attaching hoses and gas mask pieces. It took a half to fill the bowl on it, and when we woke up the next morning, the chamber still jad smoke. Ten people, and we couldn't clear it. We used to have "smoking apparatus" competitions. We'd set 20 mins, and you can only use what was in the house to make something to smoke out of. Then see what people came up with.
We'd go swimming and (lol a lot a weed, we were always trying to find place to smoke the more interesting the better) we'd stick joints and lighters into dry empty bottles and swim with it out to the docks at midnight and smoke under moonlight. One time, my brothers friend was on the junior police force or something, and we were at the lake after hours, and he rolled up and hit is siren he had intalled in his geo. We buried the blunt in the sand
only to find out it was him. Aye those days.One night we stayed up and played the longest game of mario party of all time. Nearly 18 hours of mario party, on an old game cube. We set the turn limit to max and just didnt sleep.
But we we're always hanging out with folks. I was a social reject and still had good people always around. There are no pictures really and definitely no videos from that time, only memories. We didn't bring phones with us out to the dock, we didn't post about our adventures. I had a lot of fun. We did some cringe shit, I remember telling my brother's friend, who I wasn't physically attracted to, that I wanted to fuck his mind, like I think back, like girl, what are you doing, and laugh. So much cringe shit, but it didn't matter, and tbf, I meant it in that moment. We often spoke about existential stuff and discussed weird philosophy of 18 year olds trying to find their place and values. I read old books. I still read 100 year old books. We talked about ideas, a lot, while stoned.
Went to college shortly after, got a job, learned my tolerance with alcohol, and yeah.
2007 was an interesting year for sure, I'm only sharing what I did in my free time, which was hang out with buddies, with no cares.
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So, it's your fault? Pitchforks at the ready folks.
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I was 30 but I remember 2007 about as well as you do. I think indie music was good? You could still go to a bar and see a cool band most nights?
Back in those days I only went to bars that had live music, or a pool table. More like ~2010 for me but still. Live bands at the bar was tits.
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
I got engaged 🥰
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
I was an incredibly awkward high school student in 2007. Coincidentally, I think that's the year I really got into alcohol...
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
I think I won most improved in Drama Club? I know I won something. I was in primary school.
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
Backpacked through Europe for a couple of weeks.
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
That would've about been the year that I dropped out of college and quit my job to play world of warcraft every waking hour of my life
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
Runescape
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
My wife and I had just moved 400 miles the previous year and bought a house. She started a new job and we had our first child, who apparently is the same age as you.
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
Toontown I think
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I officially graduated early and was working drywall while taking a light college workload. I crashed my old schools senior day with a 30 block to see my friends who were finishing their last year of highschool and got kicked out lol. What else.. I was going to post hardcore shows at little venues that would close within 3 years and I was a warlock class leader for my world of Warcraft guild, getting bored of 4chan and phasing out of insurgen.CC. I think at this point i also started looking for a fake ID and got recs from coworkers with stolen SSNs but most of the contacts wouldn't bite. I was also playing bass in a metal band but got alcohol poisoning and had to drop out.
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
Eating mushrooms with the homies in the woods instead of going to prom. Zero regrets, would do it again.
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I was sailing the North Atlantic and being black out drunk while ashore. I think I had a couple port visits in the states, but mostly just patrols of Canadian waters
wrote last edited by [email protected]I was sailing the North Atlantic and being black out drunk while ashore.
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
Frolicking around in the evenings while all the other neighborhood kids looked on in annoyance.
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
In highschool with a huge red mohawk and playing bass.
