Current Events > Were you alive for the Y2K chaos?

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Was 13 years old and Weekly World News was my information outlet

I've never been alive

I have a PC copy of Sonic 3 and Knuckles that's Y2K Compatible

I was working a 2200-0600 shift on a squadron operations floor at Osan AB, South Korea... when Y2K came a knocking.

It took out one of our satellite links back to the US for a few hours.

Yes I was 25 when that happened but I can't remember for the life of me what I was doing back then.

I was 28.

I was at a friend's house playing Starcraft LAN.

I was babysitting my cousins while their parents were out partying. While my cousins were sleeping, I discovered Howard Stern and Girls Gone Wild commercials.

I can't quite remember what I was doing at midnight. But I remember people being excited about a new millennium, and then people saying "actually the new millennium doesn't start until 2001"

I also remember thinking the old computer programmers of decades past were idiots to have not accounted for the year 2000, when they built all their code. Wasn't the whole issue that the dates in code only kept track of the last 2 digits for a year? Like they just assumed nobody would use computers in the next century. Or they were just lazy and short sighted

Yeah, nothing too special.

Yes, I was a senior in high school. I didn't really fret over the whole Y2K thing, though. I think by then it was already quashed as much ado about nothing.

Yeah, the computer thing wasn't really a big deal. It was kind of like the 2012 doomsday scare, it was a more of a meme that most people didn't actually take seriously.

It really wasn't that big of a deal.
Like people talked about making sure computer systems were updated before it happened but at actual midnight it wasn't a thing people were actually worried about.

Yeah, down in the bomb shelter.

Yes, the only things I remember actually being a problem were:

• Our school's typing tutor program couldn't handle dates past 12/31/99 which caused the statistics chart screen to show a bunch of gibberish
• My email client displayed the year on new emails as 19100 for awhile

Also I remember a sign at the supermarket saying they reserved the right to limit or deny returns of water and other supplies in the event the world doesn't end

It was a big thing behind the scenes as a lot of companies had to update their stuff. Because that happened, the average person didnt notice anything.

I was 12, I took my N64 over to a buddies and stayed the night.

I don't remember what I was doing back then. Probably playing Playstation 1. I just remember putting a lot of the Y2K crisis books in the comedy section at a book store. I am aware that something happened on a smaller scale perhaps but most of these problems seemed to be fixed before anything major happened. I still find it somewhat comical I guess how much panic there was over it though. I knew somebody's parents who were stockpiling tons of food.

I was playing Road Rash 3D at midnight

Oh yes, I was a mere 22 back then and I didn't have a computer so that was not a concern, the "y2k bug" stuff was nonsense anyway

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But I remember people being excited about a new millennium, and then people saying "actually the new millennium doesn't start until 2001"

Oh so much of this

I was. And it wasn't a thing where I live.

I thought it was a stupid thing to worry about but apparently some people who are really into computers seem to think it was a big deal and we have to thank so many people for saving us from a world disaster (I guess). Or the fact that everything was fixed before it would have became a major problem anyways. I don't know who to believe.

I remember there being Y2K compliant software coming out. There were so many people trying to make money off this supposed catastrophe. I don't remember if I was on the computer at midnight, I probably wasn't. Also I was in my last year of Highschool so there may have been school the next day lol

I was playing Pokemon Blue at my friends house and his parents were giving us way too much champaign for us being 9 at the time.

Yeah I was a senior in high school

was partying with my highschool friends, there was close to zero Y2K panic in my country.

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Ok since well shit as if I knew it was a Saturday! So okay I wouldn't have been in school but geez it could have been a weekday. I don't think it deserved an immediate wat response :D

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Really? It's been too long since I've been in school. It's not like it's Christmas. Fine you got me, again. Ya happy :P

Yeah, I absolutely no idea what I was playing at that time. I know there was a South Park marathon and I had one of the TVs on that

Was in an AOL chatroom, chilling with all my friends and a load of random people. We played a sound file through the chat that caused PCs to blue screen right as the ball was about to drop. It was glorious.

The only "chaos" was that one guy at every party who turned off the breakers at exactly midnight.

I raced 4 wheelers at a beach track in Brownsville TX then that night I had to run inside my hotel because of everyone shooting in the air.

Yeah but I was four so I dont remember any of it

Yes

Yep. Looking at the last twenty-odd years, I'm not entirely convinced the world didn't end back then tbh.

It was uneventful because the USA got to see other countries celebrate New Years with no issues.

I was just a kid back then, and knew nothing about Y2K. I didn't learn about it until I was much older and saw that episode of Family Guy.

I discovered the movie "Pink Floyd: the wall" was a thing and it became one of my favorites.

I had started working at an insurance company and yeah they were concerned about making sure the 2 digit dates had 4. Of course there were some programs that ran on Fortran and they had like 1 guy left that still knew how to program it. Fun times.

Yes, I remember being happy my Pokemon save was fine.

remember news outlets in the us reporting on people(idiots) hoarding supplies in preparation for the rapture

I played DK64 at midnight in the transition from 1999 to 2000 to disprove Y2K to myself.

I was 10.