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

I remember being disappointed that the Y2K bug had been dealt with so well. I had high hopes that my credit card debt and student loan debt would vanish overnight. What a let down when this didn't happen

Lovely formal dinner party to mark the moment - dressed up - lots of champagne - and the world was exactly the same next morning as back in the 20th century!

Nothing really special - just the same old new years eve.

I wasn’t working that night as we’d completely rewritten the IT system I was working on two years earlier, partly because of Y2K but also because it was 25 years old then. Friends who did work got paid an absolute fortune.

I was 24, lived in London, & was lucky enough to have a friend who leased a dickensian-looking warehouse on the Southbank near the Clink for his web-design company.

They threw the most epic party, & we watched the Thames fireworks from the balcony.

Staggered to the tube & home massively, ridiculously pissed.

Best NYE I've ever had.

Coming on to say about the Y2K - it was years of work before hand and we had already gone through the EURO changes.

I was very nervous about electronic/electrical things not working.

But my ex and I spent the evening in drinking champagne and watching Titanic. Funnily enough yesterday wasnt too dissimilar, but with DC watching paddington 2. Much better company!!

I was 19. I think it gave pubs the idea they could get away with charging. We bought tickets to a pub in town and had a decent enough night. I do remember a huge amount of media build up. It did feel significant.

As an aside - although people's life savings didn't vanish and planes didn't fall out of the sky, it's not true that there were no problems at all...

www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/sep/14/martinwainwright

I had a tech job so was pretty confident that nothing y2k would happen and it didn't.

I watched the fireworks in Central London and we walked home drunk.

There was lots of live TV coverage, as 2000 'came in' in places all around the world.
They all involved counting & fireworks & shouting.

I worked in a very small hospital wing that was in a separate location from the main hospital.
We and our patients had to move into the main wards for the weekend before and after New Year, so we wouldn't be on our own if the millennium bug hit.
We'd still have been up sh*t creek if it had hit, imo.

I was 15. My friend had a house party and lost her virginity while we all had a sip of her dad's whiskey and told ourselves we were drunk. Then we all ran around outside for a bit and I fell in a ditch.

I can't say I've ever had a similar New Year's Eve, so it was definitely unique.

There were celebrations. The city I live in had a big outside party in the City Centre. There were fireworks on the Thames on London at midnight for the first time but they were not as spectacular as the ones they have now. Companies had to do a lot of preperation to make sure there was no impact from the Millennium Bug. People played 'Party like its 1999' a lot. There was a lot of optimism.
Apart from that the only difference was to remember we were in the 21st and not the 20th Century.

Anticlimactic! I was 16 and my sister and I stayed up for the first time ever (mum and dad never did the NYE thing, bed at 10pm as normal).
If I remember correctly, we ate some of those microwavable pizzas, a bottle of Hooch and went to bed once the fireworks finished.

We did visit the Millennium Dome later that year, but I don't remember much about it TBH. It got a lot of flak, but it was alright I thought (through the eyes of a sheltered 16 year old from a midlands market town).

All I remember is that everyone was freaking out about the Millennium bug.

That's what I remember the most. But I also remember there was a lot of work to make sure it didn't happen. It wasn't just some weird hoax going around but something for the experts to mitigate so we weren't affected. I was only 13 but had a huge interest in computers and researched it to see what it was all about. I also had a cousin who worked in programming and we would chat about it.

Other than the millennium bug, I don't remember too much but we didn't have the social media to make a huge deal about it.

I had a wonderful time. I got married in 1999, and so our New Year celebrations were full of love and excitement.
It felt like we were on the verge of something... I found it very odd to start using 20 instead of 19, and it made me feel very old all of a sudden (I was 26)

Ah, the 'bug' - I spent months beforehand insisting that nothing was going to happen but work were so worried about it that my boss was put on call for NYE/NYD We had done lots of prep and testing beforehand as PP have said, and nothing happened.

On the night itself, I recall going to see some friends for a bit and then we went home for midnight itself, stood outside with a neighbour watching the fabulous fireworks. We did something remarkably similar last night, but without the friends - just a family event.

I had the best NYE ever in Africa, it was hot, we danced all night had a BBQ, played cricket at sunrise, slept a bit once it was light, got up had a swim and salad for lunch. Awesome!

My friend made a lot of money working on the Y2K.

They all knew it was a load of rubbish and would never happen.

Made him rich though

I’d forgotten all about the Millenium Dome. We went to the exhibition and it was fairly rubbish from memory.

I’m also a bit that people consider it part of history when it seemed like 5 years ago

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 was one of the many people working on projects to make sure our company systems could cope with the change from 99 to 2000. It’s amusing when people more recently talk about it like it was scaremongering and it could never have been a problem! Apart from that it was just a normal new year to me. As I was 20 years younger I didn’t just lie about in my PJs the way I did last night.

I was 21 and spent NYE 1999 at my then-boyfriend's (now DH) house with his family.

I also remember watching other countries bringing in the new year (millenium) on the TV, so by the time it got to our turn, it felt somewhat anticlimatic as we'd already seen so many countdowns to midnight and fireworks.

My husband's aunt and uncle went to London for the fireworks, I think. Can't remember what they thought of it.

When I went back to work everyone was given these massive lollipops with Y2K on them, handed out by the IT department, as our systems hadn't gone down. I appreciate there was a heck of a lot of work behind the scenes to avoid that happening.

Yes, to what someone else said with MM looking strange at the end of BBC programmes.

I also remember the solar eclipse in 1999. I watched the partial eclipse in London, where it just went slightly murky. My brother went to France to see it (although I think he said it was cloudy there). I wish I'd gone with him, but I'd literally just started my first job after graduating and I didn't feel I could take the time off.

My kids mentioned y2k being a hoax recently and I had to correct them and explain that I made great money from the preparations.

I was ill, it was boring

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.

Hello mum! Is that you?