That unique 90s time period where any kid could print out bomb making recipes on the school printer from alt.anarchy or whatever, but columbine hadn't occurred yet so we didn't really get in trouble when a teacher found out.
Thankfully there were never any legal implications for my friend with the BBS, but you can be damn sure there were quite a few sleepless nights subsequently as he waited for a knock on the door!
At the time I recall that there were definitely kids into this stuff. Not literal anarchy or violence, they just liked making bombs and setting them off out in the woods somewhere. Homemade fireworks really. They got into the chemistry of it, just nerdy stuff. No harm intended.
Boo.
In high school chemistry, I once superheated magnesium in a covered crucible and then blew on. That was fun.
Just saying * looks around innocently *
We also had all those weekly world news tabloids.. i think some of it just made for weird entertainment.
The pre No Child Left Behind / Zero Tolerance era of school, was a great time. I feel bad for kids today.
The mother of all survivorship biases. We have ample statistics demonstrating that no, plenty of people died.
Christ, can't believe I even have to point this out.