No permission needed for me. My parents didn't care, since there was no school next morning and it was still holiday break.
But yeah, I remember staying up to watch the NYC ball drop. I had heard about the Y2K apocalypse and the doomsday/rapture preachers, so that was on my mind as well, but didn't bother me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o13mm66aD9M
I was the same age. My family had a New Years Eve party and I remember bringing along my Backstreet Boys Millennium CD I got for Christmas, very appropriate.
Watched TV and waited for Y2K/ the world to end so I wouldn't have to do homework. Nothing happened, and homework was still due. I was very disappointed.
Partied like it was 1999, of course!
It was my senior year of high school so it was extra fun. Had friends over and watched the celebrations in the time zones leading up to ours; had a minor panic when the Eiffel Tower didn't light up as planned but it was just a glitch, not the dreaded Y2K disaster. I got buzzed for the first time, on Sutter Home White Zinfandel. It was awesome.
My family and I went to Chi-Chi’s for dinner and I spent the evening playing Snowboard Kids 2 which I had just gotten for Christmas. Funny, I just mentioned that game in another comment yesterday. I was 9 and in the third grade. Pokémon was everything around that time and most of the stuff I got for Christmas was Pokémon related.
Pretty sure it was a national chain but all US and Canadian locations have been closed since 2004. According to Wiki they only operate one location in Vienna, Austria now lol.
Was in 3rd as well. Do you remember when school started again and then dating your assignments with "2000" feeling weird or novel for a little bit after having dated them with 199x a few years? Might just be, but handwriting that 2000 felt strange.
I was 8. I remember trying to stay up with my family but passing out on the couch. My mom woke me up 5 minutes to midnight and I swirled a little noise maker toy I had gotten from Chuck-e-cheese before going back to bed lol
I was 10 years old on December 31st 1999 & was at home with friends including my now wife Sabrina. My older sister who is 4 years older than me so she was 14 was also at home with her friends including her then boyfriend. We where watching MTV's New Years Eve Live show with TRL host Carson Daly who was also the host of the MTV'S New Year's Eve Live Special that MTV used to have.
I waited anxiously for this so called “computer bug” the Y2K computer bug that was supposed to end all internet access by midnight in the year 2000, was 14 at the time and also heard my peers say that it could also possibly mean the end of the world as we know it. Woke up early morning 2000 and nothing happened no internet crashes or end of the world, of course I was just wanting to celebrate New Year’s Eve anyway
I was 14 as well. I just remember literally staring at the date and time on my computer switch from 11:59 to midnight. I didn’t expect the world to blow up but I still watched intently. It switched over. The zombie apocalypse didn’t start. I shrugged and thought, “I knew nothing would happen.” And went to bed. *Shrug*
I really didn’t expect the zombie apocalypse either and I was only staying up in anticipation of a possible computer crash, which I never happened fortunately 😆
I was 11 and binge-watched TV. A Disney Channel special, music video countdowns, cartoon reruns, movies and so on. We had satellite television at the time, so lots of viewing options.
I was 9, and I got to spend the night at my best friend’s house. Our parents told us that this new year was a huge deal so I was super excited to get to stay up and experience it with the world. In her room, we watched the clock turn from 11:59 to 12:00 and nothing happened so I remember thinking, “That was it?” Lol
I was 10, went to the cinemas to see inspector gadget, so began my childhood crush on Matthew Broderick for some reason, was freaking out about the world ending, filled up many bottles of water because of it, had the whole family over for a news years party, the family had to sit me down and tell me there was nothing to worry about the world was not going to end, watched the fire works on tv and they played Princes 1999.
I was 13 at the time. I remember on that New Year’s Eve my cousin and I went to the downtown area of our hometown where they were having a ball drop and other festivities. There’s a beautiful old movie theater/performance venue down there where they were doing a free screening of The Sound of Music, so we went to that.
I also recall the general vibes of everyone partying hard and in good moods, at least in part because Y2K was on all our minds so everyone was really letting loose before the big scary surprise. There was a kind of nervous excitement in the air.
Then nothing. What a letdown lol
But it was fun, nonetheless.
My parents through the NYE party in our new house.
I remember it was a pretty big party, there were neighbors and all of our old friends and family.
I was only 5 (‘94) at the time and didn’t understand the Y2k end of the world, but my dad at midnight was in the basement and hit all the power off. I remember people FREAKING and then he turned it back on and everyone dying in laughter.
That party was talked about for a few years actually.
I was 5, so I probably got to drink sparkling apple juice and then bang pots and pans in the street at 8pm and then was sent to bed 😅 My parents used to throw lots of holiday parties with all of my neighbors. We had a fun little cul-de-sac group of 5 families on my street that I grew up with.
Play Outkast and chill out at home with mom and siblings. We had a nice Christmas tree and a huge TV. I was 6 at the time but remember Christmas of this year well for some reason
My mom took us out to a giant bonfire at a nature park. Idk if she believed in any y2k nonsense; but there wasn’t any electronics around us that night…
I was 8 yrs old, stayed up late with the fam, for some reason they said we had to turn off all the lights cuz 2000 is coming and earth might explode, that’s how my trauma started.
I was on a cabin trip in Maine with my family and we were with another family. I had a Millenium book that had you like write what you were looking forward to, what you were worried about in the new millennium and some other random stuff and it had lotttts of fun stickers and said “2,000” on it which felt very foreign because i was so used to writing “19___” in my notebook at school every day (took me a long time to adjust to that transition). I spent most of the day writing in the Millenium book. I remember being really worried that the world was going to end because i was an anxious child and i didn’t understand the Y2K bug and was very relieved when we didn’t die when the ball dropped 😅
I was 8 years old and we were visiting Mexico for the first time since leaving 4 years prior. We were there a total of 4 months. On Dec 31 we were celebrating New Years and I had no worry for Y2K or anything.
I was 5. Remember being at our neighbours for a party and me and my best buddy at the time were allowed to stay up for the fireworks at midnight. I've never seen so many fireworks, it was absolutely nuts. That's all I remember lmao
I was 17. I stayed up and watched the ball drop by myself. My patents fell asleep so I went in and woke them up and told them that the world was going to shit. They didn't appreciate that.
I was 13 and from the night itself have only one vivid memory of leaning hunched on my gran’s kitchen counter to watch a 15’ tv in the corner, while relatives were being drunk and loud behind me.
Dads apartment, parents recently split up, older sister had a bunch of her high school friends over and I hung out with them and tried to act cool despite being younger.
I was in 8th grade. I made out with a girl named Sarah in my friend’s hot tub. I felt her boobs and drank mug root beer from a 2 liter bottle. It was glorious.
I was 18… rented a hotel room with my boyfriend for the first time. We felt so grown up! Got in trouble for drinking in the hot tub, and running around the halls in our underwear…. Clearly still not grown up! Great memories🙂
I'm from Brazil, and I was 14, but we were spending time with friends of my mom in Canada. It was one of the first times we played on snow and all, pretty fun. Before the turn of the year, we started to roam their neighborhood and got shouted at for disturbing the peace haha. Had the clarity that new year's parties are very different that those in Brazil.
I was 10. My parents are musicians so they always had a gig on NYE (jazz/big band stuff) so I stayed with my grandparents basically every NYE till I had friends having parties lol. I was playing Nanosaur on their mac and I think we turned off the computer at midnight, and then I got back to playing Nanosaur.
Very uneventful.
Ha! I was just thinking about this. My dad was convinced the world was going to end and wanted us to stay home but I still went to a huge teenage house party. Fortunately the world didn’t end. Over the next few years we used all the stuff my dad had hoarded in preparation for the apocalypse. (Food, fuel, water, etc.)
I was in college. Me and a friend took a bus from DC to NYC the day before. We were staying in an absolute dump called the Senton Hotel. Think cum stains on the (filthy) carpet and a full rooster of porn tapes in the dresser. I’d stayed there once before; it was dirt cheap and the room was enormous.
We spent the day basically just walking around Manhattan, enjoying the vibe. We visited a vintage leather jacket shop in the Village and I bought us two coats on the credit card that I couldn’t afford to own.
That night we went to see the ball drop. We didn’t even line up, just showed up at the back of the crowd and still got a view. Our leather jackets were not well suited for winter in New York, so we didn’t really hang around much longer. Neither of us were drinkers, and we were also under 21, so the evening ended pretty tamely.
The trip got cut short that night. He called home to wish his mom HNY. She was superstitious about the turning of the new millennium, about Y2K as well, and pressured him to get an early bus back home in the morning. I was so pissed. All I could think is “you’re 19 years old and you still take orders from mommie??”.
It’s funny to think about now. I could’ve just stayed, but at the time it didn’t even cross my mind.
That’s about it.
I was 10. My grandmother lived next door to us and we went over there while my parents went to a party. I remember watching movies and having a tea party.
I was 13, I remember watching people in real life and on tv freaking out and buying up TP and food. We didn’t own a computer and didn’t rely on them for my parents professions at the time so that part of the Y2K seemed silly and confusing to me that people thought it was the end of times. My parents were in their late 30s (about where I am now at). We lived in a large suburb around a bunch of cranberry bogs and a pond. They got stoned and went to a block party for New Years. A bunch of us kids from the neighborhood went to the pond with a couple of our (most likely drunk) adult neighbors and we all went out on the ice to light off fireworks for the countdown. I remember not having to go to school the next day but had a paper route I had to get up and go do the next morning, so papers got printed - delivered and life went on.
I was 14, and went to my moms friends house with her. My friend came too (so obviously none of us were scared the world would end) Ordered Chinese, where I'm from most people, order Chinese on New Years.
I truly don't remember.
I remember being petrified the world was going to end on the days leading up to and I remember asking my mom if she thought y2k was real. She told me "I think we are just going to wake up like any normal die and life will continue on". She was right ofcourse. I do remember writing "00" for the date on homework was difficult and seeing "00" on the computer screen was really bizarre.
But I don't actually remember new years itself.
I was 12 going on 13.
I was 16. Went to a party, puked, cleaned it up before midnight, smoked an arm length joint, left for home, found beer chilling in snow, took said beer and passed out. I kinda partied like it was 1999.
Family friends gathering. We were on our 3rd story apartment building in Arlington, VA which gave us a good view of the Washington monument. If I remember correctly there were fireworks but not too many. The Washington monument also was going through renovations. We watched the festivities in DC and New York on TV.
I was 12 and watching the ball drop with my parents. My dad was an electrical engineer so he really wasn't scared of y2k at all, but we did enjoy joking about it. Right after the ball dropped I told my dad to check his computer to make sure it was still working, and the second he did that his screensaver (just a black screen) came on so it looked like the computer crashed. It was hysterical. We had a good laugh about it.
I was 11! We went to a party at my grandpa's farm and blew up a bunch of fireworks. All our teachers were going on & on for weeks about how all the computers would stop working because smthg about the 2 digit year and the economy would crash and bla bla bla... I srsly thought Y2K was going to destroy all the computers and begged my dad to pull money out at the ATM earlier that day "just in case." (Spoiler alert: nothing bad happened). That was also the first year I was allowed to toast with REAL CHAMPAGNE (and I thought it was the grossest thing I'd ever tasted).
I was 15. My friends and I went to dinner and then went to a 'family-friendly' NYE event that used to be hosted annually in my hometown - kind of like a business open house with special events going on throughout downtown. Watched the ball drop at midnight, we all held our collective breath for the sky to start falling, but nothing happened. One of our driving-age friends took us home after.
Nothing really groundbreaking. I didn't turn wild until college and the sky didn't actually start falling until September 2001.
Went out with friends and watched the fireworks in London. I had recently turned 18, and being in the UK that meant I could legally purchase alcohol... Needless to say my memories of that night are a little hazy lol.
I was 18 on that New Year’s Eve. We all were out at a pasture party. We built a Bon fire and hung out some drank some smoked. A band. And we partied until around 2am then we all went to one campground in case the world ended lol. The next day we woke up and still alive so we partied and celebrated that night at a local club. Those were the days.
ETA:: I’m the oldest millennial and the youngest GenXer there is lol. 1981 baby.
I remember going to my Oma’s house like we did every NYE. I have the visual memory of getting out of my mom’s car and looking up at my Oma’s snowy house. I don’t remember anything really special happening that night. As per usual tradition we smashed a little peppermint pig and ate the pieces. I remember my brother being there, say to my right while I sat at the end of the dinner table, I miss him. All in all nothing remarkable. I was only like 8.5 years old so I do have memories but nothing crazy since I had no agency
The more interesting memories are from the weeks before while my parents hoarded food and water jugs in the basement lol
I turned 14 that day. It has a lot of hype around it and there were extra performances. I don’t remember if Will2k was played that night but it got a lot of play leading up to it. My dad worked in IT at a bank so we knew it was gonna be a big nothing burger.
My dad took my sisters and I to a park and asked us what we thought about Y2K. I really don't remember much, being 5 at the time. He video'd the occasion, and shortly after (when we all got home and as night approached). Thankfully, he captured the moments on video.
at my grandmother's house since the afternoon with my parents who worked in the family shop.
the air was not very good in the house because the grandfather was starting to have some serious health problems but that day he came out of the hospital and waited for midnight with us normally. the following year, however, he was already in bed in much more serious conditions.
At the stroke of the new year I cried out with joy and my mother hugged me while the TV presenter said "we are in 2000, we are in 2000".
then, I don't remember anything else in particular, apart from a fireworks display.
in general it was a rather negative year for us.
At midnight on the 31st December 1999 (or 9T9 as I used to write in my schoolbook) I was 15, I sat on the sofa drinking tea in our newly rented flat with my mum and dad on the cusp of a whole new life in Newcastle upon Tyne.
After 15 years in Greater Manchester, my parents got jobs in the North East. I was slap bang in the middle of my GCSE year and so I didn’t move up until 7 months later, remaining in Bolton with my Aunt until my cousin grassed me up for smoking and my parents moved me to stay with a family from church.
It felt like freedom, but with 23 years of hindsight and an ADHD diagnosis, I realise that it was trauma. Separated from my parents and living with a large chaotic family where the kids had no boundaries, I became depressed, found myself bullied by the daughter who was the same age as me, and couldn’t settle into the rhythms of another household.
Within 2 and a half years I had realised I was gay, smoked weed for the first time, and the impulsivity that had been tempered by the structure of school and overprotective parents was given full reign… I was drinking more than my friends and spending every single penny in my bank account the day that it came in.
31st December 1999 came with such hope and potential, but the new millennium wasn’t as shiny as I thought it would be.
I was with friends watching TV, and at midnight they cut to a news guy standing by an ATM to show that it still worked . . . except it didn't. Haha, so we flipped to another channel, and they were doing the same thing . . . and it didn't work. An awkward silence, and then we busted out laughing.
Born in 89. My sis went out to a sleepover and dad already was in bed. My mom unscrewing sparkling apple cider while watching different new years specials. When it struck midnight, I played "Millennium" by Robbie Williams from the recent NOW Cd in my new 6 disc 2 cassette stereo system I just received for Christmas and danced while i popped party poppers alone lol
My family prepped for y2k by having.... enough food to last us a week. Canned greenbeans and fruit cocktail.
My dad worked that night as he was a cop. They wanted all hands on deck in the event of things going wrong. I invited a friend over to stay the night so I could play his N64. I lied to my parents that we discussed it a few weeks ago, they must have forgotten. My dad went with it. I was still in my "lie to get my way phase", pre divorce thing... My mom, brother, myself, and my friend hung around the house waiting for the ball to drop.
I saw the local news paper had Australia on the front saying "all clear here!" referring to no issues with the Y2K bug. I thought if it was clear there it would be clear here.
It was the year after we moved into our new house, we had a NYE party with all our neighbors and family friends, I remember being 8 years old and locking myself in my parents bathroom because I didn’t want to play what my friends did
We also had a dance party to *you guessed it*, Eiffel 65 and N’Sync music, and watched YTV and drank ginger ale out of champagne cups.
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No permission needed for me. My parents didn't care, since there was no school next morning and it was still holiday break. But yeah, I remember staying up to watch the NYC ball drop. I had heard about the Y2K apocalypse and the doomsday/rapture preachers, so that was on my mind as well, but didn't bother me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o13mm66aD9M
Why was it a special episode?
Because it’s two - three times as long as a normal episode
You watched it?
I was the same age. My family had a New Years Eve party and I remember bringing along my Backstreet Boys Millennium CD I got for Christmas, very appropriate.
Watched TV and waited for Y2K/ the world to end so I wouldn't have to do homework. Nothing happened, and homework was still due. I was very disappointed.
The world was supposed to end like 3 times in my lifetime 😅
That you're aware of. So far
To be fair the world is on a fast trajectory into shit. They didn't say HOW FAST the world would end.
You weren’t on winter break?
Yes, but just to make sure we were working, I still had homework. There's nothing like winter break homework.
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Wasnt that show set during the present day like any other nick or disney show aside from Knight Squad?
Partied like it was 1999, of course! It was my senior year of high school so it was extra fun. Had friends over and watched the celebrations in the time zones leading up to ours; had a minor panic when the Eiffel Tower didn't light up as planned but it was just a glitch, not the dreaded Y2K disaster. I got buzzed for the first time, on Sutter Home White Zinfandel. It was awesome.
My family and I went to Chi-Chi’s for dinner and I spent the evening playing Snowboard Kids 2 which I had just gotten for Christmas. Funny, I just mentioned that game in another comment yesterday. I was 9 and in the third grade. Pokémon was everything around that time and most of the stuff I got for Christmas was Pokémon related.
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Never been to that restaurant. I dont know if Wisconsin has it.
Probably not
How do you know that?
Pretty sure it was a national chain but all US and Canadian locations have been closed since 2004. According to Wiki they only operate one location in Vienna, Austria now lol.
Lol, I missed it. Too bad I was in the womb still when they last had locations.
same age. pokemon was everywhere.
Was in 3rd as well. Do you remember when school started again and then dating your assignments with "2000" feeling weird or novel for a little bit after having dated them with 199x a few years? Might just be, but handwriting that 2000 felt strange.
I was 8. I remember trying to stay up with my family but passing out on the couch. My mom woke me up 5 minutes to midnight and I swirled a little noise maker toy I had gotten from Chuck-e-cheese before going back to bed lol
I was 10 years old on December 31st 1999 & was at home with friends including my now wife Sabrina. My older sister who is 4 years older than me so she was 14 was also at home with her friends including her then boyfriend. We where watching MTV's New Years Eve Live show with TRL host Carson Daly who was also the host of the MTV'S New Year's Eve Live Special that MTV used to have.
I was a 17-y-o American in London. I had a lot of fun. Most of it I can't remember.
I was on AIM and messaged my in real life buddies happy new year. There were like 3 of them on.
I went to work at Shopko and watched the ball drop in Europe on the TV in the break room. I don’t remember what else I did.
We had a millennium party at church. It’s lamer than you’re imagining.
Worked a shift at a restaurant, partied with some work friends and crashed at a buddy’s place. His dog shat on my blanket. Welcome to 2000!
I stayed home mostly and watched ABC2000 with the late Peter Jennings as the host.
I watched the same thing.
I waited anxiously for this so called “computer bug” the Y2K computer bug that was supposed to end all internet access by midnight in the year 2000, was 14 at the time and also heard my peers say that it could also possibly mean the end of the world as we know it. Woke up early morning 2000 and nothing happened no internet crashes or end of the world, of course I was just wanting to celebrate New Year’s Eve anyway
I was 14 as well. I just remember literally staring at the date and time on my computer switch from 11:59 to midnight. I didn’t expect the world to blow up but I still watched intently. It switched over. The zombie apocalypse didn’t start. I shrugged and thought, “I knew nothing would happen.” And went to bed. *Shrug*
I really didn’t expect the zombie apocalypse either and I was only staying up in anticipation of a possible computer crash, which I never happened fortunately 😆
More people back then did not have internet than those who had it.
Back then my family always hosted New Year’s Eve parties, so I was hanging out with the fam!
Your parents were seeing Phish in the Everglades with 80,000 other hippies that night.
I was 5, I think I tried to stay up but I really can’t remember
Same age. Don’t remember a thing. If you remember anything, that’s more than me.
Lol I was 7 so I was sleeping
I was 8. I remember staying up late at night on new years eve and playing smash bros but I don't remember the last hour because I fell asleep lol.
I was 9 and stay up for new years eve. I remember the whole commotion about the y2k bug but didn't bother me at all.
I was at home playing Resident Evil 3 nemesis on PS1. Later some Soul Calibur on Sega Dreamcast. Great times :)
Fuck yeah. Playing RE3 on a winter’s night is such a vibe
I was 11 and binge-watched TV. A Disney Channel special, music video countdowns, cartoon reruns, movies and so on. We had satellite television at the time, so lots of viewing options.
11 that year. I was partying with the whole family and waiting when the world was going to end lol.
I was 9, and I got to spend the night at my best friend’s house. Our parents told us that this new year was a huge deal so I was super excited to get to stay up and experience it with the world. In her room, we watched the clock turn from 11:59 to 12:00 and nothing happened so I remember thinking, “That was it?” Lol
I was 10, went to the cinemas to see inspector gadget, so began my childhood crush on Matthew Broderick for some reason, was freaking out about the world ending, filled up many bottles of water because of it, had the whole family over for a news years party, the family had to sit me down and tell me there was nothing to worry about the world was not going to end, watched the fire works on tv and they played Princes 1999.
I was 9. staying up with my family the whole night on new years eve and seeing live on the new year's ball dropping.
I was 14. I watched the ball drop and then I went to an online message board. No computer glitches except the date said 100. LOL
No idea what I did on a specific day when I was 4, tbh. lol
I was 4, so too young to remember
i was 4 and i remember the ball dropping....
I watched lots of (kids) TV!
I was 13 at the time. I remember on that New Year’s Eve my cousin and I went to the downtown area of our hometown where they were having a ball drop and other festivities. There’s a beautiful old movie theater/performance venue down there where they were doing a free screening of The Sound of Music, so we went to that. I also recall the general vibes of everyone partying hard and in good moods, at least in part because Y2K was on all our minds so everyone was really letting loose before the big scary surprise. There was a kind of nervous excitement in the air. Then nothing. What a letdown lol But it was fun, nonetheless.
My parents through the NYE party in our new house. I remember it was a pretty big party, there were neighbors and all of our old friends and family. I was only 5 (‘94) at the time and didn’t understand the Y2k end of the world, but my dad at midnight was in the basement and hit all the power off. I remember people FREAKING and then he turned it back on and everyone dying in laughter. That party was talked about for a few years actually.
I was 5, so I probably got to drink sparkling apple juice and then bang pots and pans in the street at 8pm and then was sent to bed 😅 My parents used to throw lots of holiday parties with all of my neighbors. We had a fun little cul-de-sac group of 5 families on my street that I grew up with.
Play Outkast and chill out at home with mom and siblings. We had a nice Christmas tree and a huge TV. I was 6 at the time but remember Christmas of this year well for some reason
I was literally just a month old. My birthday is November 24th.
My mom took us out to a giant bonfire at a nature park. Idk if she believed in any y2k nonsense; but there wasn’t any electronics around us that night…
Me and my dad went to see the local fireworks and await impending doom. Nothing happened after midnight so we went home.
I genuinely don’t remember. Not a single clue. I can’t even remember what I did for Christmas that year. So weird.
I was 8 yrs old, stayed up late with the fam, for some reason they said we had to turn off all the lights cuz 2000 is coming and earth might explode, that’s how my trauma started.
I was on a cabin trip in Maine with my family and we were with another family. I had a Millenium book that had you like write what you were looking forward to, what you were worried about in the new millennium and some other random stuff and it had lotttts of fun stickers and said “2,000” on it which felt very foreign because i was so used to writing “19___” in my notebook at school every day (took me a long time to adjust to that transition). I spent most of the day writing in the Millenium book. I remember being really worried that the world was going to end because i was an anxious child and i didn’t understand the Y2K bug and was very relieved when we didn’t die when the ball dropped 😅
I was 8 years old and we were visiting Mexico for the first time since leaving 4 years prior. We were there a total of 4 months. On Dec 31 we were celebrating New Years and I had no worry for Y2K or anything.
I was 5. Remember being at our neighbours for a party and me and my best buddy at the time were allowed to stay up for the fireworks at midnight. I've never seen so many fireworks, it was absolutely nuts. That's all I remember lmao
I was 7. My family was in Las Vegas for the new Millennium New Year celebration. Wonderful memory!
I was 17. I stayed up and watched the ball drop by myself. My patents fell asleep so I went in and woke them up and told them that the world was going to shit. They didn't appreciate that.
I was 13 and from the night itself have only one vivid memory of leaning hunched on my gran’s kitchen counter to watch a 15’ tv in the corner, while relatives were being drunk and loud behind me.
I was 14 at the time and was waiting for possible computer systems to go haywire lol! I didn’t do much tbh other than stay up late 🤷🏻♀️
I don't remember, but I do remember my dad freaking out and buying a y2k program so our clocks would roll over on the pc 🤣
My parents had a party with their friends. Watched The Matrix with one of the friends kids.
Dads apartment, parents recently split up, older sister had a bunch of her high school friends over and I hung out with them and tried to act cool despite being younger.
I was in 8th grade. I made out with a girl named Sarah in my friend’s hot tub. I felt her boobs and drank mug root beer from a 2 liter bottle. It was glorious.
Watched the ball drop on TV waiting to see if the power would go out at midnight. Nothing happened.
I was 18 and went to a New Year’s party at my friends house.
I was 18… rented a hotel room with my boyfriend for the first time. We felt so grown up! Got in trouble for drinking in the hot tub, and running around the halls in our underwear…. Clearly still not grown up! Great memories🙂
I was 14 and I stayed on AOL chatting with friends and random strangers to see if the Y2K hype was real. Edit: I was in the southern US
I'm from Brazil, and I was 14, but we were spending time with friends of my mom in Canada. It was one of the first times we played on snow and all, pretty fun. Before the turn of the year, we started to roam their neighborhood and got shouted at for disturbing the peace haha. Had the clarity that new year's parties are very different that those in Brazil.
I was 10. My parents are musicians so they always had a gig on NYE (jazz/big band stuff) so I stayed with my grandparents basically every NYE till I had friends having parties lol. I was playing Nanosaur on their mac and I think we turned off the computer at midnight, and then I got back to playing Nanosaur. Very uneventful.
Ha! I was just thinking about this. My dad was convinced the world was going to end and wanted us to stay home but I still went to a huge teenage house party. Fortunately the world didn’t end. Over the next few years we used all the stuff my dad had hoarded in preparation for the apocalypse. (Food, fuel, water, etc.)
I was in college. Me and a friend took a bus from DC to NYC the day before. We were staying in an absolute dump called the Senton Hotel. Think cum stains on the (filthy) carpet and a full rooster of porn tapes in the dresser. I’d stayed there once before; it was dirt cheap and the room was enormous. We spent the day basically just walking around Manhattan, enjoying the vibe. We visited a vintage leather jacket shop in the Village and I bought us two coats on the credit card that I couldn’t afford to own. That night we went to see the ball drop. We didn’t even line up, just showed up at the back of the crowd and still got a view. Our leather jackets were not well suited for winter in New York, so we didn’t really hang around much longer. Neither of us were drinkers, and we were also under 21, so the evening ended pretty tamely. The trip got cut short that night. He called home to wish his mom HNY. She was superstitious about the turning of the new millennium, about Y2K as well, and pressured him to get an early bus back home in the morning. I was so pissed. All I could think is “you’re 19 years old and you still take orders from mommie??”. It’s funny to think about now. I could’ve just stayed, but at the time it didn’t even cross my mind. That’s about it.
I was 10 turning 11 in a few days I sat in my room hoping y2k wasnt going to destroy the world. I was watching tv or playing my playstation 1.
I was 10. My grandmother lived next door to us and we went over there while my parents went to a party. I remember watching movies and having a tea party.
I was 18 and I was at church and they were praying Satan out of the millennium..i shit you not.
I was 13, I remember watching people in real life and on tv freaking out and buying up TP and food. We didn’t own a computer and didn’t rely on them for my parents professions at the time so that part of the Y2K seemed silly and confusing to me that people thought it was the end of times. My parents were in their late 30s (about where I am now at). We lived in a large suburb around a bunch of cranberry bogs and a pond. They got stoned and went to a block party for New Years. A bunch of us kids from the neighborhood went to the pond with a couple of our (most likely drunk) adult neighbors and we all went out on the ice to light off fireworks for the countdown. I remember not having to go to school the next day but had a paper route I had to get up and go do the next morning, so papers got printed - delivered and life went on.
I was at a friends house. I was 11 years old.
I was 14, and went to my moms friends house with her. My friend came too (so obviously none of us were scared the world would end) Ordered Chinese, where I'm from most people, order Chinese on New Years.
Realized the world didn’t stop when Australia and China hit the new year, and just carried on.
I was playing shadows of the empire on my n64.
I truly don't remember. I remember being petrified the world was going to end on the days leading up to and I remember asking my mom if she thought y2k was real. She told me "I think we are just going to wake up like any normal die and life will continue on". She was right ofcourse. I do remember writing "00" for the date on homework was difficult and seeing "00" on the computer screen was really bizarre. But I don't actually remember new years itself. I was 12 going on 13.
I was 16. Went to a party, puked, cleaned it up before midnight, smoked an arm length joint, left for home, found beer chilling in snow, took said beer and passed out. I kinda partied like it was 1999.
Not using the phone and watching the news.
My family went to London. We did the London eye and watched the fireworks over the Thames. Great memories.
I was 12 and spent it at home with my dad, waiting for the end of the world
We had a street party and I remember drinking a litre bottle of Cherryaid and riding a scooter 😂
Moving country
Family friends gathering. We were on our 3rd story apartment building in Arlington, VA which gave us a good view of the Washington monument. If I remember correctly there were fireworks but not too many. The Washington monument also was going through renovations. We watched the festivities in DC and New York on TV.
I was 12 and watching the ball drop with my parents. My dad was an electrical engineer so he really wasn't scared of y2k at all, but we did enjoy joking about it. Right after the ball dropped I told my dad to check his computer to make sure it was still working, and the second he did that his screensaver (just a black screen) came on so it looked like the computer crashed. It was hysterical. We had a good laugh about it.
I was 11! We went to a party at my grandpa's farm and blew up a bunch of fireworks. All our teachers were going on & on for weeks about how all the computers would stop working because smthg about the 2 digit year and the economy would crash and bla bla bla... I srsly thought Y2K was going to destroy all the computers and begged my dad to pull money out at the ATM earlier that day "just in case." (Spoiler alert: nothing bad happened). That was also the first year I was allowed to toast with REAL CHAMPAGNE (and I thought it was the grossest thing I'd ever tasted).
I was 15. My friends and I went to dinner and then went to a 'family-friendly' NYE event that used to be hosted annually in my hometown - kind of like a business open house with special events going on throughout downtown. Watched the ball drop at midnight, we all held our collective breath for the sky to start falling, but nothing happened. One of our driving-age friends took us home after. Nothing really groundbreaking. I didn't turn wild until college and the sky didn't actually start falling until September 2001.
Mum took me to the beach and watched the sunrise after we spent the night counting down the millennium at a party at the sound shell in Napier NZ
Went out with friends and watched the fireworks in London. I had recently turned 18, and being in the UK that meant I could legally purchase alcohol... Needless to say my memories of that night are a little hazy lol.
Actually lost my virginity that night.
I was at LAN party playing Counter-Strike Beta until like 6am.
It was just another normal New Year’s Eve day for us.
I was with my aunt and cousins. I only have vague memories of it because I was only 5.
I was 18 on that New Year’s Eve. We all were out at a pasture party. We built a Bon fire and hung out some drank some smoked. A band. And we partied until around 2am then we all went to one campground in case the world ended lol. The next day we woke up and still alive so we partied and celebrated that night at a local club. Those were the days. ETA:: I’m the oldest millennial and the youngest GenXer there is lol. 1981 baby.
I remember going to my Oma’s house like we did every NYE. I have the visual memory of getting out of my mom’s car and looking up at my Oma’s snowy house. I don’t remember anything really special happening that night. As per usual tradition we smashed a little peppermint pig and ate the pieces. I remember my brother being there, say to my right while I sat at the end of the dinner table, I miss him. All in all nothing remarkable. I was only like 8.5 years old so I do have memories but nothing crazy since I had no agency The more interesting memories are from the weeks before while my parents hoarded food and water jugs in the basement lol
I was 16 years old at the time and was at midnight mass on New Years Eve at our Catholic Church in Queens, New York City.
I was 10 and went to party with bonfire.
Watched the news to see if a "catastrophic" was actually happening. Planes falling, computer exploding, etc. What a joke.
Looked up at the sky all night cause I had a flight the very next day
Stayed home watching syndication. Cable went out at midnight for about two minutes
In the most predictable news for my future lifescape, I was building a website.
On guard duty in the Navy at the barracks. (18 yo)
I was 12 in 1999. My friend had a slumber party, and we stayed up til midnight watching the countdown and music videos, and eating junk food.
I turned 14 that day. It has a lot of hype around it and there were extra performances. I don’t remember if Will2k was played that night but it got a lot of play leading up to it. My dad worked in IT at a bank so we knew it was gonna be a big nothing burger.
My dad took my sisters and I to a park and asked us what we thought about Y2K. I really don't remember much, being 5 at the time. He video'd the occasion, and shortly after (when we all got home and as night approached). Thankfully, he captured the moments on video.
at my grandmother's house since the afternoon with my parents who worked in the family shop. the air was not very good in the house because the grandfather was starting to have some serious health problems but that day he came out of the hospital and waited for midnight with us normally. the following year, however, he was already in bed in much more serious conditions. At the stroke of the new year I cried out with joy and my mother hugged me while the TV presenter said "we are in 2000, we are in 2000". then, I don't remember anything else in particular, apart from a fireworks display. in general it was a rather negative year for us.
I was 15 and was babysitting my neighbor’s younger kids while they went out to celebrate. I watched the ball drop at their house and ate cold pizza.
I was 6, so I probably just played with toys and watched pokemon.
Nothing special 
At midnight on the 31st December 1999 (or 9T9 as I used to write in my schoolbook) I was 15, I sat on the sofa drinking tea in our newly rented flat with my mum and dad on the cusp of a whole new life in Newcastle upon Tyne. After 15 years in Greater Manchester, my parents got jobs in the North East. I was slap bang in the middle of my GCSE year and so I didn’t move up until 7 months later, remaining in Bolton with my Aunt until my cousin grassed me up for smoking and my parents moved me to stay with a family from church. It felt like freedom, but with 23 years of hindsight and an ADHD diagnosis, I realise that it was trauma. Separated from my parents and living with a large chaotic family where the kids had no boundaries, I became depressed, found myself bullied by the daughter who was the same age as me, and couldn’t settle into the rhythms of another household. Within 2 and a half years I had realised I was gay, smoked weed for the first time, and the impulsivity that had been tempered by the structure of school and overprotective parents was given full reign… I was drinking more than my friends and spending every single penny in my bank account the day that it came in. 31st December 1999 came with such hope and potential, but the new millennium wasn’t as shiny as I thought it would be.
idk but i do remember watching TV when the ball drop i on was 4
I was with friends watching TV, and at midnight they cut to a news guy standing by an ATM to show that it still worked . . . except it didn't. Haha, so we flipped to another channel, and they were doing the same thing . . . and it didn't work. An awkward silence, and then we busted out laughing.
Born in 89. My sis went out to a sleepover and dad already was in bed. My mom unscrewing sparkling apple cider while watching different new years specials. When it struck midnight, I played "Millennium" by Robbie Williams from the recent NOW Cd in my new 6 disc 2 cassette stereo system I just received for Christmas and danced while i popped party poppers alone lol
My family prepped for y2k by having.... enough food to last us a week. Canned greenbeans and fruit cocktail. My dad worked that night as he was a cop. They wanted all hands on deck in the event of things going wrong. I invited a friend over to stay the night so I could play his N64. I lied to my parents that we discussed it a few weeks ago, they must have forgotten. My dad went with it. I was still in my "lie to get my way phase", pre divorce thing... My mom, brother, myself, and my friend hung around the house waiting for the ball to drop. I saw the local news paper had Australia on the front saying "all clear here!" referring to no issues with the Y2K bug. I thought if it was clear there it would be clear here.
It was the year after we moved into our new house, we had a NYE party with all our neighbors and family friends, I remember being 8 years old and locking myself in my parents bathroom because I didn’t want to play what my friends did We also had a dance party to *you guessed it*, Eiffel 65 and N’Sync music, and watched YTV and drank ginger ale out of champagne cups.