attakid101 | 267 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 You guys remember that sh*t? I was a kid at the time and never really gave it much thought until I saw a couple adults freaking out about it. My friend’s dad was stockpiling water and bought a wood stove. That’s when I started feeling worried. I tried to convince my parents to take it seriously but they weren’t buying it. Clock struck midnight and there wasn't a single nuclear zombie to be found. Kinda disappointing when you think about it. Hard to believe it was 20 years ago.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,761 Administrator · Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 They did not, no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabonga | 2,314 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 We didn't - but I remember looking at a guy who lived in an apartment across the street dumping like 50 gallons of water out on the lawn on New Years Day. That was pretty awesome. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesRobot | 5,786 Events Team · Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Nope. I partied like it was 1999. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH | 4,895 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 (edited) Nope, not at all. Back then my forum du jour was a place called Nightly.Net, which I found because they had an active Star Wars forum. When the clock rolled over, it showed the date as “1/1/100”. That was the only thing after the New Year that I saw that was a true Y2K bug. Edited January 1, 2020 by RH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fox | 1,665 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 It was pretty widely reported everything would be fine, so there wasn't going to be like widespread panic. We usually spent New Year's with my grandparents but decided to fly home beforehand "just in case" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estil | 1,261 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 (edited) 7 hours ago, Wandering Tellurian said: We didn't - but I remember looking at a guy who lived in an apartment across the street dumping like 50 gallons of water out on the lawn on New Years Day. That was pretty awesome. Planeteer Alert!!! There's nothing "awesome" about wasting perfectly good water Edited January 1, 2020 by Estil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabonga | 2,314 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 34 minutes ago, Estil said: Planeteer Alert!!! There's nothing "awesome" about wasting perfectly good water At least he put it on the lawn where it did some good rather than dumping it down the drain or on the street to go into the storm drains. And contrary to popular belief you can't keep water lying around in jugs and expect it to remain potable for any length of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estil | 1,261 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Well, I guess when you put it that way... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link | 2,708 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 No. But a lot of stuff could have actually got cocked up if there wasn’t a scramble to get things fixed before it was too late. After 20+ years of ignoring what was known to be a coming problem, of course. https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a30338692/y2k-panic/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estil | 1,261 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 AVGN and Pals did a neat Y2K video; can you believe Mr. Spock of all people hosted one of the Y2K programs/tapes??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkTone | 984 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Didnt know it was a thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Count | 526 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Nah, my family didn't buy in to the scare. I do recall unplugging my desktop though, haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart010 | 1,705 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 I remember new PCs around that time had labels on them marketing them as “Y2K ready” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulpa | 3,488 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 I had to coordinate a bunch of shit at work because we were going to have legit issues. Not like planes dropping out of the sky or anything, but a lot of our stuff needed updates. That was a pain in the ass, but we were ready. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m308gunner | 352 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 No but I remember an article in the local paper showcasing a family that had stockpiled rations and water for the event. Personally spent the evening with some friends outdoors enjoying.. certain... naturally grown... botanicals. Yeah, that's the ticket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kguillemette | 1,543 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 My parents did not. I think I was excited more to see Chris Rock hosting the MTV movie Awards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkchylde28 | 1,546 Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 Nope, although a friend's parents did. They had a bunker's worth of stuff "prepped" and ended up having trouble using or getting rid of it all after the fact. My parents stayed up to watch the ball drop then went to bed while my brother and I stayed up a few hours more to watch any incoming reports of the pending robot uprising. Sadly, we only saw reports of a few, seemingly random, slot machines, ATMs, gas pumps, etc. glitching, but beyond that everything proceeding as normal. Oh well, maybe next year, SkyNet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teh_Lurv | 254 Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 (edited) Nope, but I think that was due to my family not being very tech-savvy. One of my college roommates reported long lines at the ATM on New Year's Eve. People were withdrawing a few hundred dollars "just in case". I'm kind of annoyed at the Y2K revisionism that has gone on in the years since 2000. People believing that because Y2K didn't live up to the hype of bombs going off or civilization collapsing that is was all a hoax or conspiracy by tech companies to sell computers. Edited January 2, 2020 by Teh_Lurv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captmorgandrinker | 1,649 Administrator · Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 On 1/2/2020 at 11:22 AM, Teh_Lurv said: Nope, but I think that was due to my family not being very tech-savvy. One of my college roommates reported long lines at the ATM on New Year's Eve. People were withdrawing a few hundred dollars "just in case". I'm kind of annoyed at the Y2K revisionism that has gone on in the years since 2000. People believing that because Y2K didn't live up to the hype of bombs going off or civilization collapsing that is was all a hoax or conspiracy by tech companies to sell computers. Had the banks not acted a couple years in advance, that part of it could have gotten pretty messy. Especially if people were as card reliant as they are today. Back then debit cards weren't really in use like they are now; it was just your ATM card. The part that sucked for people in the IT industry is that every company shot their budget on getting everything Y2K ready, so in 2001 consulting companies were laying off staff left and right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,400 Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 My dad works in a hospital. I remember having to be there at midnight with him for the "party" making sure the world didn't end. It didn't. It was very boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarzombie | 924 Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 My dad worked for the software security for the NYSE and I remember him coming home very late a lot of times in late 1999. Aside from that I wasn't concerned. It seemed like if the company was concerned they went out of their way to fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH | 4,895 Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 What got me the most about all of that scaremongering, at least in the US, is that we start to celebrate they New Year, what, 17 hours after the day had tripped already on the international dateline? That meant that if things worked out well for Australia... China... India... we'd be good. However, if things went south in those regions, we could have just shut down our critical systems and brought them up one at time and fixed issues more gracefully. Granted, I was certain everything would have went just fine, but even in the very-unlikely, worst case scenario, those of us in North and South America had a considerably buffer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splain | 2,560 Editorials Team · Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Nobody will admit to anything. I was a teenager so nothing was about to happen to me directly, and my family didn't stockpile anything, but I was aware and curious. I remember a lot more people being worried about it than will admit it nowadays. I at least understood what the issue was, and it was funny to talk about it afterwards with people who knew absolutely nothing about computers, saying "I knew nothing was going to happen." ...you did? You knew that?? And of course not a soul 20 years later will ever say "oh I was terrified of Y2K!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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