To ask what it was like to experience the change from 1999 to 2000?

[2020newstart]

Just that really. I was 10, so don't remember much. But oddly I do remember 9/11 all this talk about the new decade makes me wonder how it was like going from 1999 to 2000? If you're old enough to remember, how was the celebration? It must have been so weird writing the year 2000 on forms when you've been used to writing 19.. since you were born

tbh it was all a bit of an anticlimax

All I remember is that everyone was freaking out about the Millennium bug. And worried that hospitals and traffic lights might stop working.

It really wasn’t that momentous, to be honest. As always, the difference between 11:59:59 and 00:00:00 is just a second.

No big deal really. The predicted y2k computer virus failed to materialise. And writing a different date on your cheques (!!!) was quite easy to get used to.

I was 20. I don't remember it being a particularly big deal to change writing dates. Usually write them as DD/MM/YY anyway so the change from isn't that noticeable.

I remember being with friends in Central London the next morning looking for somewhere to have breakfast after last night’s party.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen it so quiet.

I was only 10 also but I remember being really scared it was the end of the world! And wasnt there a thing about computers all stopping and no one knowing what would happen with them? The millennium bug or something? That's what I remember about it anyway! I probably didnt understand what was being said though

Just the start of another day!!

Everyone thought the millennium bug would cause havoc and some people felt the apocalypse was coming, a bit like Brexit at the moment but caused by a glitch in the system.

I wasn't old enough to officially drink in pubs but did manage to get completely plastered. I agree it was a bit anticlimactic.

The predicted y2k computer virus failed to materialise.

Because a lot of people did a lot of work to mitigate it. It wasnt a hoax.

I remember half the country were wiped out with the flu, myself included it made national news.

We fixed potential y2k bugs before the end of 1999.

DH and I went to one of the chain of beacons, but it was pretty deserted.
I had a cheque book that has 19 pre-written in for the date so that needed to be crossed out.

The Millennium Dome got a lot of flak in the press but quite a lot of it was good.

You're making me feel old, saying you were only 10!

The Y2K bug didn’t happen !!
Other than that nothing was memorable really !

Lots of panic about y2k. Other than that I was shitfaced and can’t remember much about the millennium

Underwhelming. In fact, had it not been for posts here, I would not even have registered it.

Most people were freaking about the millennium bug, computers not working, even the possibilites of planes falling from the sky yep seriously. Somehow life went on as normal.

I on the other hand had just turned 18, and was looking forward to adulthood.

Y2K....It was slightly disappointing that everything kept working.

It was no big deal. Even though we were witnessing not only the turn of the century, but the turn of the millennium!! IIRC there was a big thing locally about someone who had lived in three centuries: 1899, 1900's & 2000.

A huge amount of work, and millions of £ was spent, to stop the millennium bug. It wasn’t something that just “never materialised”

Y2K bug was prevented by lots and lots of people working their arses off for a long time to prevent it happening.

It wasn’t some made up thing, if you read about it you’ll see how much work went into everything running smoothly.

I had a great night off my tits on ecstasy & saw Jesus in the countdown

Last night we were asleep by 10pm

The Y2K bug didn’t happen !

Because it was fixed, not because it didn't happen. Pisses me right off when people say this and all the more when they say Brexit will be fine because Y2K was fine. The worry about Y2K was real and it took a huge amount of work to fix it before it happened

And the ecstasy pills were called millennium bugs

I was poorly for the whole of the Millenium. I was devastated as I was 21, in bed with a gastric flu so i didn't manage 1 drink! All my friends were dressed up for what was the night of our generation and I hear they made the most of it 😐.
Going from the 90s to 00's did feel big back then!

It was exactly the same as any other New Year's Eve. We went to friends, had drinks, food, fireworks, played games, watched the telly and went to bed at 1a.m.

It was like many new year but we did a time capsule and three a party.