Post #1114375
2026-04-13 02:05 UTC
It was an amazing time. Remember how Prague was "cool"? Budapest was the low-fi version of that — more real. Underground bars, street signs being changed, nobody spoke English, absolute mayhem. If it wouldn't be pretentious I'd write a small memoir of that time: ↵
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@shriramk@mastodon.social 2026-04-13 02:05
Within a period of *one month*, I experienced: - bomb scare at the airport - Pope's first visit (to a *very* Catholic country) - Iron Maiden's first visit - the Russian putsch (Yeltsin on the tanks), which reverberated hard in Hungary - Unix coming East for the first time ↵