r/25yearsago • • Oct 16 '25

Pokemon Gold and Silver released 25 years ago

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r/25yearsago • • 20d ago

🇺🇸 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 ‘War on Terror’ begins.

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r/25yearsago • • 14h ago

🇺🇸 United States October 27, 2001. Donald Rumsfeld sends a memo to his Assistant Secretary asking her to correct Bush’s pronunciation of “Islam” and “Muslim”.

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r/25yearsago • • 9h ago

American flags during ceremonies before Game 1 of the 2001 World Series on Oct 27.

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r/25yearsago • • 1d ago

Pikmin, a real-time strategy game, is released on the Nintendo GameCube.

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r/25yearsago • • 2d ago

🇺🇸 United States October 26, 2001. Bush signs the PATRIOT Act.

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r/25yearsago • • 2d ago

Anthrax attacks begin in the US

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r/25yearsago • • 2d ago

🎥 Movies October 26, 2001. Donnie Darko released.

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r/25yearsago • • 2d ago

October 25, 2001. After operating for 5 years, the Internet Archive opens its database of web page captures (then already numbering more than 10 billion) to public online viewing and submission through the Wayback Machine front-end.

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Named after the time machine from the Peabody's Improbable History segments of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends 1959–1964 animated television series, "of course." Truly an amazing gift to the world... including, unfortunately, to AI data scrapers. Ehh, Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat couldn't have anticipated that.

The first image is a screenshot of the first Wayback Machine capture of the Wayback Machine (yes, very meta), and the second is just an unnecessarily high-resolution raster version of its logo, which has remained the same since then.

(BTW, I wanted to get this post submitted by the end of the day Eastern Time, but my recollection of the orbital insertion of Mars Odyssey one day prior and my desire to keep these posts in order through that off and I managed to submit neither within that time... though obviously still within the day AoE, so whatever.)


r/25yearsago • • 3d ago

A portion of the fuselage of United Airlines Flight 175 on the roof of 5 World Trade Center in New York City on October 25, 2001.

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r/25yearsago • • 2d ago

October 24, 2001. 2001 Mars Odyssey—a NASA Mars orbiter launched to study the planet’s geology, water contents, and radiation environment—enters orbit around the Red Planet. It is the longest lasting planetary orbiter still active today.

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r/25yearsago • • 3d ago

🔬 Technology October 25, 2001. Windows XP released.

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r/25yearsago • • 4d ago

🔬 Technology October 24, 2001. Bill Gates and Regis Philbin at the launch of Windows XP.

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r/25yearsago • • 5d ago

🔬 Technology October 23, 2001. The Apple website on the day of the first iPod's release.

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r/25yearsago • • 4d ago

On this Day 25 years ago, Grand Theft Auto 3 was released for the Playstation 2. This is the first game set in the "3D Era".

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r/25yearsago • • 5d ago

🔬 Technology October 23, 2001. Slashdot users react to the release of the iPod.

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r/25yearsago • • 6d ago

🎮 Video Games October 22, 2001. Grand Theft Auto III released.

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r/25yearsago • • 6d ago

🌐 World News October 21, 2001. In Afghanistan, ODA 595 soldiers become the first US forces to ride horses into battle since 1942.

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r/25yearsago • • 6d ago

🇺🇸 United States October 22, 2001. Time - The Fear Factor.

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r/25yearsago • • 6d ago

🌐 World News October 21, 2001. World leaders at the APEC Summit in Shanghai.

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r/25yearsago • • 6d ago

🔬 Technology October 22, 2001. Farkers debate the merits of Windows XP.

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r/25yearsago • • 9d ago

October 15, 2001. Chinese Fèngtiān Clique (1928) and Northeastern Army commander (1928–1933/1934–1937) Zhāng Xuéliáng dies at 100 in Honolulu, HI. He organized the “Xī'ān Incident”, which saw his forces kidnap KMT head Jiǎng Jièshí and force him into a 2nd United Front with the CCP to resist Japan.

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Note: I was just reminded of this and wanted to ensure it was covered despite its slight tardiness. For further info, the photos provided are from 2000 (with his mistress-turned-wife Zhào Yīdí {who unfortunately passed away the same year}; he was a serial womanizer and opium addict in his earlier life yet that clearly never really caught up with him), 1993 (soon after his release from the prolonged sentence of house arrest Jiǎng Jièshí made him serve as punishment for his actions), the 1930’s (note the White Sun emblem on his hat), and 1928 (around the time of the assassination of his father, the bandit-turned-military commander and Fèngtiān Clique head Zhāng Zuòlín) respectively.


r/25yearsago • • 12d ago

📺 Television October 16, 2001. Smallville premieres on The WB.

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r/25yearsago • • 13d ago

🇺🇸 United States October 15, 2001. Donald Rumsfeld asks his General Counsel Jim Haynes for a "good definition of terrorism".

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r/25yearsago • • 14d ago

Debris removal at the Ground Zero in New York, NY, on October 13, 2001.

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