- cross-posted to:
- memes@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- memes@lemmy.world
Heres some internet history for the 25th anniversary of 9/11. One of the earliest memes posted online about the attack. Often called “9/11 what if they’d missed” or “9/11 the happy ending.”
There’s were other versions of it I remember that had the towers bending in multiple directions as other planes attempt to fly into them but they seem to be lost media, aka the Matrix bullet dodging trope.
It was a bit harder to find than I’d assume it’d be. Someone had saved it on youtube and I’ve converted it to gif for posterities sake. The original was probably in Flash which is why it’s so difficult to find these days.


I have it on good authority that after the towers collapsed Trump tower became the tallest building in NYC. In fact, Trump called into a news broadcast to proclaim that hours after they’d fallen.
According to this Wikipedia list, if we exclude everything built after 2001, the Trump World Tower would be #6 just in NYC (after the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, 70 Pine St, 40 Wall St, and Citigroup Center). But it does note that the Trump Tower was the tallest residential building in the world from 2000-2003, a ranking that would not have been affected by the fall of the WTC.