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

I was at R.A.F Bruggen in Germany and the party was bloody fantastic, the next day was just normal, just like today

The world didn’t end, there was no trumpet fanfare, but it was the year the people started going for it with fireworks at midnight.

Meh, no biggie.

@DeanImpala67 I still don’t know what to call it!

God I feel old reading this! Same as others have said IME - it was no more momentous than any other NYE really.

There was a massive amount of hype leading up to it, much of which was about the so-called ‘millennium bug’ which was supposedly going to re-set clocks in every computer causing massive chaos & disruption. In the event, none of that happened.

On the night, the big national event was the opening of the Millennium Dome (now the O2 in Greenwich), on which the government had spent billions. The event was a complete fiasco with guests including celebs, VIPs and national newspaper editors queuing for hours in the cold & rain. The exhibition inside the dome was, by all accounts, underwhelming and the papers gave it a brutal kicking.

I had a brilliant night. I was 16 and went to watch a rock band in the back room of a pub. I drank snakebite, wore about 50 bracelets and burgundy lipstick and smoked a cigar. Life was good!

Anti climax. All that “ we’re going party like it 1999” stuff but in fact no one had a better party organised than any other year frankly.
Myself and then boyfriend decided to go up to London but fireworks were underwhelming, cold, dark, expensive and had to walk miles back to find a train.

The predicted y2k computer virus failed to materialise

That's because thousands of programmers around the world worked nonstop for several years to stop it from happening.

1999 was very YOLO.

It was a great year for me. I finished 6th form. I watched the eclipse in Ayia Napa. I moved out. I got my first proper job, and relationship.

The world was supposed to end on NYE, which obv it didn't. I remember what I did that NYE, I couldn't tell you with certainty exactly which year was what for most others.

We had the world and our lives in front of us.

Great times. Amazing to think that was 20 years ago. And of all that has happened since.

I worked for the tech support team of an IT co. I was paid quadruple time to be in work between 10pm NYE and 6am 1st Jan to deal with any issues on our govt contracts. We played scrabble most of the night, ate a lot of Chinese takeaway and then went home to bed.

It were shite.

No planes falling from the sky, no millenium bugs, nothing. I was say at my.pc at the time working, it switched over and I waited for a crash, an issue, nothing happened.

Oh the best part of the Millenium was the Crunchie Champagne bar

"The predicted y2k computer virus failed to materialise". It wasn't a virus, it was a media created name (the millenium bug) for the fact that no failsafe was built in to a lot of IT software that had a flaw in the programming date. It didn't "fail to materialise"... IT departments worked on it for years prior, patching systems and developing updates to stop it from causing a massive failure of national infrastructure

We worked like crazy to make sure all the code at work still functioned. I remember panicking a bit because the ATM ate my card on Jan 30th And I couldn’t get to a bank before close so I couldn’t pull out any cash. I wanted to have at least some in my wallet just in case the computers died.

Then we left on a vacation because it was a “big” year and felt like we should do something, but like every Nye it was all build up.

Not much had a party (family) couple of rows then it was 2000 didnt feel any diffferent-thin i wrote 19 a couple of times by accident then got used to it

Oh and i got married that year

I had just turned 21 and after all the hype about Y2K and computers crashing, it was a massive anticlimax.

so-called ‘millennium bug’ which was supposedly going to re-set clocks in every computer causing massive chaos & disruption

It wasnt the so-called millennium bug. It was a bug. It was identified and a lot of people did a lot of fucking work to make sure none of the things that could have gone catastrophically wrong did go wrong.

I can't believe people are so ignorant about this and keep spouting the bollocks about it being a big fuss over nothing.

The Millennium bug was very real.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/31/millennium-bug-face-fears-y2k-it-systems

I was one of those who spent years beforehand working to mitigate its effects. Just because nothing major went wrong on the stroke of midnight Dec 31 1999, doesn’t mean that nothing went wrong .

It was fine. There was a lot a worry beforehand about the date change and how it would affect computers, but due to a lot of preparation and forethought by the whole computer industry nothing major happened.

Some people stockpiled food and water in case of emergencies. These did not happen and the world just carried on turning.......

I spent about a year of my career in meetings about mitigating the notional impact of the possibly non-existent millennium bug and how to prepare for something that might never happen. The amount of work was IMMENSE and then....nothing happened. It was hilarious.

1999 NYE was massively overhyped to the point that lots of people stayed home in our area to avoid queues/traffic/entry fees to pubs etc.

I remember it all seemed quite exciting at the time, but looking back it really wasn't any different to any other NYE. I did spend the first night in my new home which was still a building site, as I wanted to live there from the new Millennium, it seemed important at the time

The Y2K computer thing stopped one of our accountancy programmes working as it simply would not go beyond a 1999 date, so a colleague had to devise a spreadsheet that did the same job. The company didn't fix it, or had ceased to exist, but anyway, it wasn't upgraded and died with the millennium.

Was pretty anticlimactic tbh - then again I was only 14 so wasn't as if I was raving or drinking. I was in the grips of anorexia so I remember my mum putting on this huge spread and I ate an apple and drank a glass of white wine and felt pissed

My uncle let off a massive firework that went over the house and we never saw it

Prince 1999, Robbie Williams millennium and Pulp disco 2000 were overplayed in the lead up to it. I was only 17yo so hung out with friends. Going out everything seemed to be triple the price and no one wanted to be at work. Other than that it seemed much the same as a normal NYE. The millennium dome was mocked a lot in the run up. I never went so can't say what it was like.