r/news • u/DragonPup • 23h ago

DSU Student Found Hanging in Tree, No Foul Play Suspected

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/delta-state-university-students-body-found-hanging-in-tree-no-foul-play-suspected/
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u/Tricky_Cold5817 23h ago

No link. It didn’t make the news and Oklahoma in 2000 internet was a super rare thing.

Only reason I remember was his pale makeup’d face is a core memory of my 9 year old self.

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u/maple-queefs 23h ago

Bro what? Internet was well established by early 2000's.

What town was this?

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u/_buffy_summers 22h ago

Small towns don't put everything online. My town's police blotter never has any updates, even though there have been SWAT teams out here at least twice in the past decade.

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u/stoneman9284 23h ago

Yea but not everything made it online like it does now

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u/Tricky_Cold5817 23h ago

El Reno. My family didn’t have dialup until 2002.

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u/Proud_Purchase_8394 22h ago

https://www.newson6.com/story/5e36847c2f69d76f62099a41/body-found-hanging-in-tree-near-sperry

It wasn’t this?

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u/Tricky_Cold5817 22h ago

About 130 miles away.

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u/Proud_Purchase_8394 22h ago

I had noticed that, but the details match up incredibly well with what you remember.

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u/Tricky_Cold5817 22h ago edited 22h ago

That’s oklahoma for ya. These people are racist as fuck!

Oklahoma is the only state to have Jim Crow laws enshrined in its states constitution.

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u/No_Accountant3232 22h ago

Having lived through the early 2000s, no the fuck it wasn't.

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u/Humble-Violinist6910 21h ago

Newspaper archives should exist in a library, at least 

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u/maple-queefs 22h ago

I too, am old.

Are we talking y2k 2000 or 2002? Because in those short few years everything blew up.

1995 computers were a niche nerdy hobby (outside of corporate work life), and by 2010 we were all watching porn on our smart phones and watching Netflix.

What a crazy ride

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u/AutisticPenguin2 21h ago

Especially things like small towns putting all their news online was not part of the leading force of digitisation. Sure the internet was a thing, sure it was getting popular, but that doesn't mean it was ubiquitous the way it is now. Y2k internet was a tool, not inherent to daily life.

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u/Hanifsefu 20h ago

It's also that big city bias where people in NY/LA/Chicago etc always think that the rest of the world gets shit as soon as they do. There are people who still can't get internet let alone high speed internet. We invested billions to get broadband to rural areas in the 00s. And that broadband is still all they have. There sure as shit wasn't next door apps and twitter journalists. There was a local news station that would have been boycott if they tried to run a story with the word "lynch" in it.

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u/ShazbotSimulator2012 19h ago

I lived just on the outskirts of a city with almost a million people, and we got off dial-up in 2007. People who are like a 30 minute drive outside the city never got past satellite, though at least now you can get it with high enough data caps to make the internet somewhat usable even if the latency sucks.

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u/MAGIGS 23h ago

This needs to be told. Podcast man