What was you doing during the Y2K era?

A shoutout to the Y2K movie that came out few days ago, it got me the idea of making this thread and asking you all, where was you doing the Y2K moment and what year you would say it started out for you?

For some of you folks in OT, the Y2K era can be pretty subjective how you view it and what you experience. In terms of how I personally define it, I consider it the Millennium bubble like. The period that wasn't truly like the 90s or 00, but rather its own thing if you will. For me it was 1997 - 1999 that I notice things were really kicking things off from gaming, music, technology advance and so much more. 1997 - 1999:

• Pokemon Red/Blue Gameboy
• Men in Black
• Star Wars: Episode 1: Phantom Menace
• Dreamcast
• PS1
• The Simpsons declining showing itself
• The rise of Jerry Springer & the creation of WWF Attitude
• Tamagotchui starts the Digital Pet trends
• Metal, Rock and Nu -Metal were hitting their strive
• The Matrix
• The gaming forums were the golden age
• Apple introducing the iMac
• Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time ahead of its time in 97
• DVD Players arrived in the U.S 97

These are examples how you define Y2K. The Y2K era IMO ended in 2001...especially once 9/11 happened if you ask me.

I remember New Years eve 1999 I was at my neighbors party. We all knew Y2K was not realyl a threat but my neighbor he was big on conspiracy theories and such (he was right-leaning, Rush Limbaugh listener and so forth) and he kept cracking jokes the whole night about it the way people that are feeling insecure crack jokes about things. It's funny in hindsight how scared some people were of Y2K.

Did you see the movie? Was it good? It looks like fun.

God, I remember all of that.

Most of it good! Not so much good now, but I certainly enjoyed it at the time.

Some of those bands and songs and music...we call that "Dad rock" now, apparently. Way to make me feel old.

High school consisted of Columbine and 9/11 for me.

There was definitely an "America before Columbine and 9/11" and an "America after Columbine and 9/11". Not to put a depressing spin on this thread but shit hasn't really been the same since.

I was at college and a remember a girl older than me, about 21 had the greatest ass I have ever seen.

She was deeply pretentious though, one of those upper class Edinburgh people and annoyed the shit out of me as I am in fact, derived from lower class scum.

Her ass was good though.

Also 9/11.

I remember panicking about the banks, stocking up on cans of soup, preparing for the worst etc...

Just kidding. I was a kid, and it was a long time ago, so I remember those years very vaguely.

Still remember thinking N64 and Gameboy was a POS outside of a few games, namely GoldenEye, Zelda, and Pokemon Yellow. I was jealous of my friends who had PS1's.

Was big into music CD's back then as well.

I remember spending New Years Eve in 1999 at my church. Our pastor had this rapture theory that all of the computers wouldn't be able to compute the year 2000. Planes would fall from the sky and basically Jesus Second coming. It truly scared me growing up as a teenager as I honestly felt like paranoid cause of the whole Y2K bug. I had a Dell computer and thought I would need a new system like Peggy Hill from King of the Hill when they did an episode about Y2K.

xennial here. graduated hs in 97, in college to '01

A friend from hs had an off-campus house at his college and threw a party for nye 1999 so was there. really wanted to play a prank where I snuck downstairs and flipped the breaker on the house at midnight, but decided against. His gf at the time brought these year 2000 champaign glasses, made sure to grab one before I left the next day. still got it.

Anyway, it was an awesome time. Internet was still pretty new and felt like an unexplored wilderness before commercialism, advertising, and social media took a giant shit on everything. File sharing started to blow up more w/ increased broadband penetration and the whole napster explosion happened then. I used to run a hotline server in college to share simpsons episodes and trade access to my library for divx movies or other "legally acquired" software.

also the freedom of being young of course.

9/11 and the post 9/11 response pretty much ruined all of that, then we all get bitch slapped by the '08 financial meltdown.

now life is just one crushing defeat after another until you just wish flanders was dead. :)

If you remember that time well, the craze and doom and gloom was everywhere. I don't know if Limbaugh had anything to do with your pal but it seemed like every outlet was all hyped up much like that crap that happened a few years ago with the Mayan Calander and the end of time.

Playing Dreamcast with no worries in the world.

I don't remember. I do remember not being worried about it.

Was definitely up to no good in those years. Was supposed to graduate class of 2000, but had already been long dropped out. Can't even remember what I did that New Years, more than likely just wasted af at some party.

Eventually got my shit together, but the mid 90s through early 00s was just crazy times for me.

Oh yeah. This is before social media and stuff took off, I remember the news cycle at the time being "Y2K, Y2K, Y2K!"

There were more realistic stances like "Will your electricity shut off?"😋 and then more extreme stances like "The movie Terminator 2 is going to become reality: do you know where your children are?" People talking about how nuclear reactors would melt down, etc. etc.

Good times. I miss being able to just turn the TV off and not having to hear about stuff. Internet is cool and all don't get me wrong, but there's no escaping it.

In the woods playing airsoft with friends, watching WWF, playing pokemon, riding dirt bikes

They had airsoft back then? Damn, wish I knew.

I got into paintball for a bit but that shit is expeeeeeeensive.

stupid sexy existential dread Flanders.

I was actually watching WWF. Interestingly, one of my favorite wrestlers was Y2K Jericho.

Also I was midway through Goldeneye 007, and about to finish high school in the summer.