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

The y2k bug was only ever going to be a bug, not a virus.

In my company we had a big project to go through all our source code and change any date fields from 2 digits to 4. All other companies were doing likewise. If we hadn't done it, some things would have gone wrong, but us software people were organised.

Got shitfaced in Edinburgh and had no luck finding a taxi and cut my feet kicking my shoes off. Other than that and basic texting, no social media and the 2k bug fear it was no different.

@Ditsythespider yep me too! 😷

It was crap. The Thames was supposed to have a massive streak of fire going down it, major celebration in capital city. Well, there was probably a flame the size of a match. And then it took 4 hours to get home because the trains were shit and there were people everywhere.

I didn’t worry about the millennium bug. After all, if data was lost (eg bank accounts, ownership of stuff) it would not have mattered to me. My bank account was almost empty, I owned no house or car!

It was awesome! Best party ever.
The entire year 1999 was great. We had a total solar eclipse. Lots of frenzied the end is nigh predictions.
Y2K was supposed to have planes falling out if the sky. All the banks computers would crash and wipe out any debts we had. ATM machines were supposed to go haywire bad spit out streams of free money. This cult predicted that aliens would reveal themselves and this deep space telescope was knocked out...and a comet meteor did fall to earth.

It was a very exciting time. Of course, nothing came true.

What I remember most was that it was quiet. Hotels were shut, restaurants were shut, pubs and clubs were shut, taxi firms shut down, the roads were empty . It was almost eerie in a way.

We spent it with friends, fairly quietly. There was a BBC broadcast that followed all the time zones in the world seeing in the new year and the one thing I remember standing out to me was the bit at the close of the show where it said 'BBC Production MM' and I remember thinking how weird the roman numerals looked.

Spent the whole of the post Christmas/millennium period in a huge country house which friends had hired along with about 60 other people. It was an absolute blast - lots of ceilidhs and quizzes and long walks. Great fun. The only time I’ve enjoyed New Year.

I was 16. I thought it was brilliant. Ok - so there wasn't a monumental sunrise but it was the start of a new century and a pretty cool thing to witness.

All music that had the years 1999 or 2000 as its main theme instantly became dated

My dd was only a couple of months old so I sat in my bedroom watching the fireworks over the distant city whilst she slept through it in her cot.

I forgot about the planes falling out of the sky fear! How funny looking back on it.

I think we partied like it was 1998.

I went to see the Manic Street Preachers in Cardiff at the Millennium stadium, it was awesome. I was in my early 20's and was quite excited about a new millennium. Weirdest thing was working out what to call the year, noughty, zero, who knows as I was so used to saying ninety-whatever previously.

Or 1999 even

My life is fairly normal nowadays but I went to an amazing party in Sydney with my then boyfriend on Millennium Eve, at the home of a famous film director, there was a pool and a roof terrace where we all watched the fireworks over the harbour. Then went to another friend’s house in Double Bay & had a champagne breakfast & chilled out, watching the other new year’s eves unfold around the world on a big screen tv and alternately dozing by the pool. The fireworks in Paris looked memorable. I wasn’t too worried about y2k bug. But then I was 24, had the world at my feet & it was one of the best nights of my life.

We had a great party and the host, who worked high up in a supermarket’s IT department was on call all night in case the systems went caput! It’s definitely one of the best NYEs I can remember.

It was a complete anticlimax tbh

I was more worried about my video plus not recording my shows because I was celebrating hogmanay in Edinburgh. I just remembered that I was dreading it when I was younger because I knew I would be 29 in 2000 and I hilariously thought that I would be too old to party. Bless.

Drunk, tired then hungover. Like any other NY but with added Moloko.
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We spent it in a holiday let in the Brecon Beacons with about 15 others and a barn full of booze.

The predicted y2k computer virus failed to materialize
It wasn’t a virus. I worked for an IT company and we spent years beforehand working to fix source code to prevent anything going wrong. Everyone in the company was on call that night, nothing went wrong and we all made £££. And got drunk.

Other than that, it was a new year like every other.

My day had a millennium cupboard full of pasta, bottled water etc in case there was a breakdown of society (or at least distribution chains). That was a thing some people did.

I was 12 and I lay in the garden crying at midnight because I thought the world was going to explode once midnight struck 🤣 it was strange writing 2000 on my work at school instead of 19.

Lots and lots of Prince’s song playing....

It was a huge anticlimax and I felt no difference. I was 19, not yet 20.

It was fab, my DH and I went into London early, got front row seats on the Thames. Fireworks were amazing and drank lots of champagne with all the people who were as early as we were.