Do You Remember The Y2K Frenzy? (19)
secretagent09: Seven pictures depicting the fear people had when the New Years Eve ball dropped on December 31, 1999.
What was Y2K all about ....
Wow! Yes! I do remember! What was Y2K all about ....
I was working as a language teacher in the UK and was married with a nerwork manager!
It was panic! Panic! Panic! Because all the 'technicians' would then be responsible for restauring the alleged ensuing cahos!
Which never happened!
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I remember it. I was all geared up to watch the chaos and there wasn't any. 
Ity was such an anti-climax.
Ity was such an anti-climax.
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secretagent09: Seven pictures depicting the fear people had when the New Years Eve ball dropped on December 31, 1999.
What was Y2K all about ....
At work, We thought a lot of our unsupported automated systems that couldn’t be updated, at work would fail. These systems ran on Earlier IBM and DEC Computer Operating system platforms .What was Y2K all about ....
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HarbalEsquire: I remember it. I was all geared up to watch the chaos and there wasn't any.
Ity was such an anti-climax.
Thanks for writing chaos! Ity was such an anti-climax.
I wasn't sure where the h went in English
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Thank you Selene, Harbal and Galrad for posting.
BTW Selene ... no worries about our opinion of "soul". I don't get offended when people have a difference of opinion with me.
Now, back to the end of the world in 1999
I was scared to death at that time. I remember holding my breath when the ball in New York was falling. I expected all the lights to go out, for people to cause a stampede trying to get out of the corral they have for viewers of the crystal ball. I worried if I would still have a job.
Today is the first time that I read what the software problem was and I still don't understand it
The question is, will the same panic happen in 2999............if there is still an Earth?
BTW Selene ... no worries about our opinion of "soul". I don't get offended when people have a difference of opinion with me.
Now, back to the end of the world in 1999
I was scared to death at that time. I remember holding my breath when the ball in New York was falling. I expected all the lights to go out, for people to cause a stampede trying to get out of the corral they have for viewers of the crystal ball. I worried if I would still have a job.
Today is the first time that I read what the software problem was and I still don't understand it
The question is, will the same panic happen in 2999............if there is still an Earth?
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secretagent09: Thank you Selene, Harbal and Galrad for posting.
BTW Selene ... no worries about our opinion of "soul". I don't get offended when people have a difference of opinion with me.
Now, back to the end of the world in 1999
I was scared to death at that time. I remember holding my breath when the ball in New York was falling. I expected all the lights to go out, for people to cause a stampede trying to get out of the corral they have for viewers of the crystal ball. I worried if I would still have a job.
Today is the first time that I read what the software problem was and I still don't understand it
The question is, will the same panic happen in 2999............if there is still an Earth?
BTW Selene ... no worries about our opinion of "soul". I don't get offended when people have a difference of opinion with me.
Now, back to the end of the world in 1999
I was scared to death at that time. I remember holding my breath when the ball in New York was falling. I expected all the lights to go out, for people to cause a stampede trying to get out of the corral they have for viewers of the crystal ball. I worried if I would still have a job.
Today is the first time that I read what the software problem was and I still don't understand it
The question is, will the same panic happen in 2999............if there is still an Earth?
2999 I wonder!
How old will our boned be by then?
Over 1000 years old!
I think chances are if humans didn't become extinct they'll be doung interstellar travelling and the technology would advanced enough to stop any space shuttles from falling out of the sky
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Biggest disappointment ever
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Track16: Biggest disappointment ever
I thought this thread was a bit boring myself. But I wouldn't go that far------ This thread is Archived ------
I can't remember yesterday let alone 1999.
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Rogerandout: I thought this thread was a bit boring myself. But I wouldn't go that far
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Track16: Biggest disappointment ever
What was a disappointment? This thread or the fact that what they projected would happen at midnight in 1999 didn't happen?------ This thread is Archived ------
secretagent09: What was a disappointment? This thread or the fact that what they projected would happen at midnight in 1999 didn't happen?
Not the thread. I want chaos lol, and it was nothing to it.------ This thread is Archived ------
Rogerandout: I thought this thread was a bit boring myself. But I wouldn't go that far
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secretagent09: What was a disappointment? This thread or the fact that what they projected would happen at midnight in 1999 didn't happen?
What I should have done was thrown a house part and about 5 minutes before the count down, leave the crowd and go to the circuit breakers and when everyone counted down, I would kill the power and make everyone think the world was ending 
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Track16: What I should have done was thrown a house part and about 5 minutes before the count down, leave the crowd and go to the circuit breakers and when everyone counted down, I would kill the power and make everyone think the world was ending
OMG that would have been the ticket but also might have caused a few heart attacks. The screaming would sound like cheering on New Years Eve.Do it next time Track
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I remember that!! The Denver television station we were watching went to snow for 5 seconds at midnight then came back on. My Web TV Plus unit survived.
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KarloradoFL: I remember that!! The Denver television station we were watching went to snow for 5 seconds at midnight then came back on. My Web TV Plus unit survived.
We all survived but it was touch and go for the month of December. Reporters, experts, scientists, electricians, they all had us building bomb shelters as you saw in the link I provided, buying Coleman lanterns, stocking up on food. It was more frightening than when Khrushchev was in power.------ This thread is Archived ------
secretagent09: We all survived but it was touch and go for the month of December. Reporters, experts, scientists, electricians, they all had us building bomb shelters as you saw in the link I provided, buying Coleman lanterns, stocking up on food. It was more frightening than when Khrushchev was in power.
You haven't realized all the other hyped threats fall in this same category, yet.I ignoried it. Never been into any version of numerology.
BTW, Mr. K wasn't nearly the bad guy Stalin was; just an apparatchik with fears of his own.
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What was Y2K all about ....