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

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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

Some pedants, like me, pointed out that a new century begins with Year 1, not Year 0, so the 21st century wouldn't start until 2001. No one was interested.

I had this discussion earlier with DD about decades. We agree with the logic, but it gets messy when you talk about the 'twenties, 'thirties, etc. So an adjustment is made for semantic reasons. As long as people accept they are wrong in doing this and are being given a pedant's pass we are prepared to let it go....

It was an absolute non-event. I was 27 and went out for a drink with XH. We then went home and went to sleep.

I remember everyone thinking any car dated in the 2000's as really new until at least 2011 including myself

The beginning of a new millennium was exactly 1000 times more exciting than the zero excitement of the beginning of a new year.

And it was already well known way before 31 Dec 1999 that the millennium bug issues had been resolved. So there wasn't even that small element of excitement. The dull pedantry about whether a century starts at 00 or 01 was about as thrilling as it got.

I was sleep deprived with a small baby.
The Millenium Dome got dissed constantly.
Prince wrote a good song that was trotted out again.
Kind of uninteresting otherwise.

Dh earned a month's salary for being on call for three days, but other than that it was the same as any other new year tbh. We stayed in and had a takeaway but he didn't drink. The Y2K thing was only an anti climax because of an the hard work that had gone in over the previous two years or so.

I was 23. Went back to my old university city and rented a flat with friends. Was fun.
Lots of my London friends were in IT or banking and had to work overnight.

For years running up to it everyone went on and on about the millenium and what a big event it was going to be. Then you had all the Millenium Bug stuff and people told us it would be the end of the world, planes would fall out of the sky, modern civilisation would end etc and then when it happened and Armageddon didn't happen it was all a bit meh. No different to any other NYE really.

I remember watching Network 7 (so late 80s) and they interviewed a woman who was going to go on Concorde on millennium evening to celebrate in London and New York. I remember thinking it was so strange to book something so far ahead, but wonder if she did go, she was going with her dad but anything could have happened in the intervening years, babies, pregnancies, work commitments, etc. I find it hard to plan a few months ahead.

I had a 7 month old baby, who had previously slept through at parties, but millennium eve- no chance!! We gave up and went home at 10pm and I haven’t stayed up for the new year since then!

I had a 15 day old baby (pfb) and our street hired a marquee and we had an amazing party - ds was in a sling and slept whilst I celebrated with family friends and neighbours. It was a fantastic night!

We had a street party. It was really good. 10 houses each agreed for their lounge to be a "station" so there was a playroom, a tv room, karaoke room, bar, then 3 courses of food which you had to collect from each house. My mum and a few other neighbours had arranged it. Must have been quite a lot of work. We lived on a cul de sac so had all tables set out for the midnight countdown. My mum and dad duetted to Unchained Melody on the karaoke.

I was 11 and was vaguely aware of the Millennium Bug because my friend's dad had built a bunker with loads of freeze dried food. He donated it to our Scout group for Duke of Edinburgh and the like. Also our local carnival theme in 1999 was Millennium Bug and the competition winner dressed up as a computer, our family were all ladybirds. Ah, memories.

The millennium bug was fixed (and helped raise incomes for computer programmers temporarily).

There was supposed to be a “river of fire” on the Thames but it didn’t happen that I could see.

Most things with millennium in the title (the dome, the bridge) were a bit of a joke.

I got norovirus and spent 1st Jam puking in a friend of my sister’s flat which was ultra-grim.

We went to a friends house and danced to Disco 2000 by Pulp - that’s all I remember.

It is now that I have to adjust to the realisation that someone born in 2000 is going to be 20 this year, because it my mind it wasn’t that long ago!

It was so underwhelming I can't remember anything about it. Much the same as most other NYE nights.

Was 22, We all put in £40 and some people went on a booze cruise so we had a barn full of booze and a dj to see the year in. Enjoyed dancing to pulp disco 2000 😁😁

Yeh it was pretty boring. It was a crappy year of my life anyway. I think most New Years are pretty anticlimactic to be honest though.

It was overrated

Felt slightly more special but not memorably.
I wasn't allowed time off work with the Nhs as it was feared the millennium bug would do ??? what i dont knkw!!!

I know it was the most hungover I’ve ever felt on NYD
aside from that, pretty average

It was totally awesome because I was 20 years younger, with the love of my life, with a load of our friends, pissed our of our heads and dancing the night away.
This year I was snoring and dribbling on the sofa by 10pm.

I was 23. Went to a party at my then-boyfriend's parents so it was fun but relatively tame.

It was weird I guess that we were starting a new millennium but like most things, once it had happened it was the new normal. The run up to it all seemed more dramatic.

I remember the previous NYE in London singing to Prince's 1999 "tonight we're gonna party like it's...NEXT YEAR!" and being really amused and weirded out by that.

I still feel like the 90s is relatively recent. That seems weirder to me, that it's 20 years ago.

I had a 2 yr old and a 6 month old. I don't remember a thing about it!

one thing I remember standing out to me was the bit at the close of the show where it said 'BBC Production MM'

Oh yes me too!

Probably one of the most momentous occasions of my life.
We were at Gatecrasher at a time in life when I was worry free. The drugs were first rate and we partied till around 11am on the 2nd Jan. Nostalgia that those parties bring back is epic.