..so what were you doing 20 years ago on NYE when we started a new millennium? I was 17 at the time and had a ticket for a lock in at a nightclub in my local town, I vaguely remember it being a very d*unken good night and it being daylight when we left the next morning. Then I popped my cherry later on that day, which makes it very easy to remember! I can't believe how quickly time has passed since then  |
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Ah the millennium bug, I remember companies spending a fortune to protect against it and then nothing happened, what a waste. I didn't even have a mobile phone back then, how different life and social interaction was without them! |
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"Ah the millennium bug, I remember companies spending a fortune to protect against it and then nothing happened, what a waste. I didn't even have a mobile phone back then, how different life and social interaction was without them!"
It was the money that they spent on upgrading IT systems that meant the bug didn’t happen. |
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I was at home as usual.
My dad however, was very d*unk and rang 10 minutes before NY from a street party... where are you I can’t find you, I need to tell you something just in case everything goes boom shortly
erm yep because you’re up north and I’m at home, you just rang me on my home phone !! Never did get out of him what he wanted to say and the world didn’t go boom lol |
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lets see, on NYE 2000 you mean which was the last day of the second millenium.
I do find it quite amazing that most people have no idea of how our calendar works.
In the current system of counting 1BC was followed by 1AD therefore the first decade was years 1 - 10, the first century 1 - 100 second century 101 - 200 and the first millenium started at year 1 and ended at year 1000. By the same reckoning millenium 2 began at 1001 and ended with 2000. The current, 3rd millenium, began with 2001. So all those worldwide celebrations on NYE 1999/NYD 2000 were celebrating the beginning of the last year of the 2nd millenium
But I was out there watching fireworks and drinking far too much anyway and correcting people when they wished me a happy new millenium  |
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I went to an event, the tickets were £60 and it was being touted as almost sold out during the build up.
I get there the ppace isnt full, half the supposed DJs that were booked were not booked and on the day tickets were going for £15.
I did get a BJ in the toilet that night though and went hone with the woman, not all bad really. |
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"lets see, on NYE 2000 you mean which was the last day of the second millenium.
I do find it quite amazing that most people have no idea of how our calendar works.
In the current system of counting 1BC was followed by 1AD therefore the first decade was years 1 - 10, the first century 1 - 100 second century 101 - 200 and the first millenium started at year 1 and ended at year 1000. By the same reckoning millenium 2 began at 1001 and ended with 2000. The current, 3rd millenium, began with 2001. So all those worldwide celebrations on NYE 1999/NYD 2000 were celebrating the beginning of the last year of the 2nd millenium
But I was out there watching fireworks and drinking far too much anyway and correcting people when they wished me a happy new millenium "
You are Mr Logic from Viz and I claim my £5 
Yes I meant when 1999 became 2000. |
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I was wandering around London with my now wife. We'd been together just a few months by then.
We found ourselves at St Paul's Cathedral and popped in, so we ended up seeing in the new year from the cathedral with the insane fireworks going off all around us. Unplanned; memorable.
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"I don’t actually remember, looking back it was a lot of fuss about very little. I think NYE 1999 was a bank holiday but that’s about it."
It wasn't a lor of fuss over very little, there was a lot of work that went on over the few years beforehand to make sure that the world continued to function.
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I as 28
Dinner with my parents/family.
Then I, my ex husband, his family & my 8 yr old climbed a local well known hill.
lots had same idea too
at 12 we had champagne, fireworks, watched fireworks over the local city
came down & went back to my parents/family who were having a party |
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I was hiding under the kitchen table which I'd covered with silver foil. awaiting the big meltdown of all technology ..but it never happened.. so that was a waste of time.. still at least I never had a raging hangover the next morning.. |
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