Remember Y2K?

[Grin]

Well, it's nearly ten years since the world was in a major panic about Y2K. People were stockpiling food, water, weapons, candles, generators, and so on. I had a six month supply of water in the garage.

What were you doing to prepare for the downfall of civilization? Were you scared? Or didn't you believe a word of it?

 

[Peter Parka]

Didn't believe a word of it, did precisely fuck all to prepare for it.

 

[itsmeJonB]

I was hoping something would happen, chaos excites me

 

[freakofnature]

I didn't believe any of the Y2K hype. 2012 on the other hand...WE'RE DOOMED!!!! :willy_nilly:

 

[Springsteen]

Like most things, all hype and no end result. Load of crap.

 

[Grin]

My head told me it was all crap.... but I was still a little bit scared.

 

[Dana]

No FFS I was only 20, you can not expect me to remember what it was like to be that fucking young!

 

[flopstock]

We checked every piece of equipment we had and replaced or modified what wasn't ready for the big event. Most folks I talked with at the time, did the same. You didn't want to be the IT person who ignored it and then had issues. Upper management was concerned - that made it a top priority for the foot soldiers.

What I find amusing is that for all the money spent preparing, no one is now comfortable saying they prepared. We had nearly two years of loud advance alarms for folks to take care of it and turn it into a non issue for most of us.

I don't pretend to be the smartest person when it comes to stuff like this. I just made sure my corner of the world was current. The testing was simple - push the computer ahead and see how it handled processes. If it didn't, you fixed or replaced it. Simple
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[GuesSAngel]

i really didn't care what was going to happen...but time flies, it feels like yesterday.

 

[pjbleek]

I was up in Canada...hiding from America's Most Wanted

 

[cam elle toe]

My dad had died a few days before,...so I was with my mum watching the fireworks on TV.

I did NOTHING to prepare for an event I knew wasnt going to happen...and I can remember laughing at "doomsdayers" stocking up.

 

[Dana]

it was only 9 years ago IJS... if you don't remember y2k hopefully you were drunk cuz u should be on here.

 

[dt3]

it was only 9 years ago IJS...

Well, it's nearly ten years since the world was in a major panic about Y2K.

 

[Dana]

HEY fuck you, I'm still adjusting to 2010. LOL

 

[ClicheGuevara]

I was 18 at the time and I think I was trying to convince some girl on new years eve that we should have sex because the world could end at midnight. . Guess who went home alone that night? And not dead?

 

[Ertragen]

Didn't believe it. I knew better. People panic about the stupidest things.

I only panic when I run out of cheetos.