I was planning my transition in 1999 using whatever little information there was out there. Back then there was a website called tsroadmap.com and I think I ready every single page on that website lol.

Quote from: Zumbagirl on April 09, 2017, 06:53:17 PM
I was planning my transition in 1999 using whatever little information there was out there. Back then there was a website called tsroadmap.com and I think I ready every single page on that website lol.

I remember that site, I wore out a mouse going back and forth gleaning information then.

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At a party with friends in Paris!   

I was not real concerned as long as there was not a mass panic and withdrawal from bank accounts and investments.

The main issue was a database problem where the transaction year was stored as a 2 digit number instead of a 4 digit number.  All new dates would be stored with years of "20xx" thus any un-converted records with 2 digit years "xx" could be interpreted as years "19xx".

Once any overlooked computer programs (and data records) were revised to properly recognize the dates there would not be a problem as date calculations use the "Julian Date" format which begins with January 1, 1900 and runs consecutively (12/31/1999 = day 36525 : 1/1/2000 = day 36526).

Thus, there would be plenty of time to correct any problems.  I stayed home.

A line of uncut sulphate, half a bottle of gin, 12 pints of lager with sambucca ->-bleeped-<-s. I blew chunks over a neighbours car the rest is a blur

I deleted my last message because I'm guessing it violated TOS. If this still isn't acceptable, someone please just delete it.

Anyway, I ingested something that is now only legal for medical purposes in my state, and had a panic attack. After the turn, I had my first kiss.

  Stayed home.

Joelene

I dressed up as a prophet of doom in a long white winding sheet and a sandwich board that said "REPENT" in huge letters.  Then I grabbed an hour glass and a tall stick for a staff, and went to a party.  People thought I was funny for approximately .002 seconds.

I danced with my girlfriend, then laughed my ass off when nothing happened.

To this day I don't have the ability to sit down, since there's nothing there to sit on. LOL

The Canadian military was paranoid and I was a generator tech so I was on call all night. I stayed at home and had a beer at midnight what a let down since I was in Halifax a great party city.

I was on a chatroom with several other people, but it was mostly quiet. We were awaiting the time when gravity would stop working and earth would've gotten sent into interstellar space and everything was going to die. Once new years hit I typed "anyone still here?"... And everyone else said something similar too. We all ignored each other for a solid 5 minutes, it was hilarious. I also walked out of my room and jumped and mom looked at me funny... I told her I was wanting to see if gravity still existed, and threw a paper airplane to see if Newtonian physics also stopped. She rolled her eyes, then I went back into my room and continued 'chatting'.

Several people in my family spent a ton of money for the "end of the world" to occur. It was so bad that the local hardware stores (Ace, Home Depot, Lowes, etc) had a huge amount of returned generators in the next few days.

The only Y2K thing I encountered. The power company's automated system sent out bills for "past due" bills dated 19100. It wasn't caught until the morning so only a quarter of the customers received a bill. We got one, and we should have kept and framed it.

I had an old no-name computer with a 30MB HD, 25MHz running windows 3.1 and the date on it was fine.
My old crap Casio watch had the correct time/date too.

You want the real Y2K? 03:14:08 UTC on 19 January 2038. At that point time will "roll back" on computers and start over. The way to fix it is to upgrade hardware & software. Wikipedia has a good article on it. Good thing computers in the last 15 years hardware side are fine and software is getting pushed to 64bit. 64 bit computing should make us good until December 4, 292277026596. So were good for the next 292,277,025 millennia.

However my favorite "end of the world" prediction was 1998. The "year of the beast". In 1998 there were 3 Friday the 13ths that year. 1998 divided by 3 is 666. 

Fri, Feb 13, 1998
Fri, Mar 13, 1998
Fri, Nov 13, 1998

I remember the year of the beast. The extremist christians in my area were keeping their children home a lot, spending all their free time in their churches and condemning anyone who wasn't on a street corner with a bible in their hand yelling at pedestrians and cars that went by. It was hilarious.

I was doing last minute computer date fixes for the year 2000

Stayed home with my girl friend. Waiting for the world to end! Fake news of the day! Lol!

I honestly don't remember, at that point in my life I was drinking heavily and doing things of questionable legality in excess... while underage. So yeah, I think I might have a fair idea what I was doing...

Quote from: Geeker on May 02, 2017, 05:50:40 PM
I honestly don't remember, at that point in my life I was drinking heavily and doing things of questionable legality in excess... while underage. So yeah, I think I might have a fair idea what I was doing...

At least you have an excuse, I was 42& old enough to know better!

I've never been one to make a big deal of New Year's Eve but changing from 1999 to 2000, I felt, deserved a little more of a celebration that watching on TV as the ball dropped in Times Square. Our town had a small celebration at the fire headquarters. It was nice to be with other folks but not be part of the massive crowds in NYC.

I was 12! I stayed up til midnight with my family, watching celebrations happen all over the world on the TV. We also put together a time capsule as a family, which we'll open in 2030.

I remember shortly after midnight going on the internet (it was dial-up!) and seeing if any of my favorite websites were down due to y2k issues. A few of them were! Mostly nothing happened though.

I had just finished with PostGrad school ... in Amsterdam/Netherlands ...
I was hanging out in San Francisco ...
waiting for the Dutch bank (in Amsterdam)
to acquire my Dutch work permit ...
so I could begin working (legally) in Amsterdam ...

My PostGrad specialization was InternationalFinance ...
The European professors (especially in MathematicalSciences)
all felt that the 1990s' US StockMarket "RagingBull"
was a "Bubble that would BURST"

I (vividly) remember going down to a local InternetCafé
& restructuring my investment portfolio on 31Dec1999 ~
primarily by selling almost everything I had had invested in the US StockMarket ...
(The US StockMarket then proceeded to crash in early 2000 ...
right before I was flown back to Amsterdam ...
to start working for the Dutch bank ...)

I spent that NewYear'sEve @ a SF BobbyWeir concert ...
and I wore a (custom-made) GratefulDead Europe '72 top ...

I was a 10 year old child living with my parents in Sweden. My parents had a very big party that newyears eve.