A Moment In Time...

[Hal-9000]

I was thinking the other night (it's true..) that this generation witnessed something amazing.

On Jan 1/2000...the year changed, the decade changed, the century changed and we entered a new millennium.

It was too bad that most of the world was focused on the Y2K scare, fearing that computers wouldn't work/would reset/would blow up etc...

It was one moment in time, that 900 years of future generations will not witness.





I feel special :)

[Teh One Who Knocks]

It's the year 5775 on the Hebrew calendar :-k

[DemonGeminiX]

So let's get a party going (let's get a party going)
Now it's time to party and we'll party hard (party hard)
Let's get a party going (let's get a party going)
When it's time to party we will always party hard!!!

:headbang:








8-[

[Hal-9000]

If they didn't make the Mayan calendar weigh 30 tons and keep dropping the facking thing....the world would have ended a few times before now.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

I was thinking the other night (it's true..) that this generation witnessed something amazing.

On Jan 1/2000...the year changed, the decade changed, the century changed and we entered a new millennium.

It was too bad that most of the world was focused on the Y2K scare, fearing that computers wouldn't work/would reset/would blow up etc...

It was one moment in time, that 900 years of future generations will not witness.





I feel special :)

Thanks to Y2K, I made a ton of dough

[Noilly Pratt]

I remember back then thinking it was pretty profound to see the old odometer roll over from 1999 to 2000.

For Y2K I was forbidden to take vacation between December 25th and January 1st. I had to go in bright and early on the 1st and ensure the computer systems were working.

A full day's pay for 2 hours of running around an office of 250 empty desks/offices to find that only 1 system, an ancient cattle brand license PC running DOS reset itself to 1900 (I worked in agriculture) so it wouldn't issue licenses. They re-hired the retired programmer to redo the program for thousands! They shelved it 2 years later.

My other offices I supported in various locations told me they wouldn't give me keys / alarm access to their building, so I had to phone them on the 2nd - no problems.

I got an extra week off, so I thought that was cool.

[Hal-9000]

Thanks to Y2K, I made a ton of dough

How so, did you make the dough....Joe?

[Hal-9000]

I remember back then thinking it was pretty profound to see the old odometer roll over from 1999 to 2000.

For Y2K I was forbidden to take vacation between December 25th and January 1st. I had to go in bright and early on the 1st and ensure the computer systems were working.

A full day's pay for 2 hours of running around an office of 250 empty desks/offices to find that only 1 system, an ancient cattle brand license PC running DOS reset itself to 1900 (I worked in agriculture) so it wouldn't issue licenses. They re-hired the retired programmer to redo the program for thousands! They shelved it 2 years later.

My other offices I supported in various locations told me they wouldn't give me keys / alarm access to their building, so I had to phone them on the 2nd - no problems.

I got an extra week off, so I thought that was cool.

I bought my first pc the end of 2002...Windows 98 offline :lol: Then in 2003 I took the leap and entered the wonderful world wide web of donkey porn

[dmni]

Ah the good old Y2K bug. Lets not forget we need to start planning for the Unix epoch bug. Party like its 2038, nice little retirement cash generator for the IT industry :-)

[Noilly Pratt]

I got a Commodore Vic-20 for a high school grad present, then gave that to my bro and bought a Commodore 64, then in '86 decided Computers were the career for me and in '88 got a diploma from college.

I assembled my own 286...before the internet there was BBS's you dialed into for your...er...pictures of vistas.
http://i58.tinypic.com/smd8c4.jpg

Then leapt up to the 486/33mhz, and Frankensteined it to 99mhz and on and on I went...

[PorkChopSandwiches]

How so, did you make the dough....Joe?

Everyone was upgrading there systems to prevent the Y2K issues, I was that guy at a few different companies. I still work at the one I developed a transportation system for :dance:

[Hal-9000]

In 2000, I was a redneck who thought he would never use or own a computer....football, chicks, partying...wtf would a guy need a home pc for? :lol:

[redred]

i believe i was very drunk when the clocks rolled the year over to 2000 and didn't care if my mobile worked again :lol:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

The new millennium didn't start until January 1st, 2001 :-k

[Hal-9000]

The new millennium didn't start until January 1st, 2001 :-k


:slap:

[Goofy]

i believe i was very drunk when the clocks rolled the year over to 2000 and didn't care if my mobile worked again :lol:

Strange, i've a feeling i did the same thing :-k

[Hugh_Janus]

I don't think I even had a computer back in 2000 :-k

[Goofy]

I don't think I even had a computer back in 2000 :-k

I had at least 3, a Spectrum ZX128k, Amiga A600 and a shitty PC :lol:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

My first computer was a Commodore 64

[Goofy]

My first computer was a Commodore 64

A few of my mate's had one, i had the Spectrum :sad2: One good thing about the Speccy was that Multi Player Soccer Manager worked fine, it used to crash after 5 or 6 seasons on the C64 :lol: (important things to consider when you're a footy loving kid)

[PorkChopSandwiches]

My first computer was a Commodore 64

Mine too

[Goofy]

Why don't you C64 kids go get a room [-(

















:(

[Noilly Pratt]

:dance: Load "$",8,1
http://i57.tinypic.com/2w1t6hj.gif

[Hal-9000]

:(

the thread was more about a generation experiencing a moment that occurs every 1000 years.....not Tubgirl recollections :lol:

[Noilly Pratt]

OK - back on track...My English cousin phoned me at 4pm, December 31st 1999 (midnight for him), sounding very "beery" and reported that he still had electricity, and telephone. Then he hung up mid-sentence. :)

[FBD]

I got a Commodore Vic-20 for a high school grad present, then gave that to my bro and bought a Commodore 64, then in '86 decided Computers were the career for me and in '88 got a diploma from college.

I assembled my own 286...before the internet there was BBS's you dialed into for your...er...pictures of vistas.
http://i58.tinypic.com/smd8c4.jpg

Then leapt up to the 486/33mhz, and Frankensteined it to 99mhz and on and on I went...

my dad always brought stuff home from work, I remember the 80086 with two 5.25" floppies and no hdd :lol: I used to dig through books and write the games in basic and shit. by the time 98 came around, computers were the obvious choice since I was already buggered off of that physics degree by then.

y2k was so dumb, I got paid 30 bucks an hour to go make sure programs were compatible :lol:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Why don't you C64 kids go get a room [-(

















:(

:nana: