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What did you do for Y2K?

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connectedgeek | 3 years, 5 months ago
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I spent the same way I have for the past 40 years, with Dick Clark:
Dick Clark Counts Down To 2000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYNDoaEeoHI

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rocknrolla | 3 years, 5 months ago
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My grandpa is a war vet, an he went absolutely crazy when he heard of the "Y2K" bug. He built a shed in the backyard, and lined the roof, ceiling, and walls with aluminum foil. He had it FILLED with ramen noodles and cases of water, and made us all hide in it on new years. I swear I am not making this up! I dunno what he believed was going to happen, but he definitely believed in the "bug" and the shed still stands in his backyard.

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darcy logan | 3 years, 5 months ago
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I made sure I had a full tank of gas. I stocked my cupboard and bought a few gallons of bottled water. I also took out a couple of hundred dollars in cash.

I didn't believe the world would go totally kablam, but I wanted to be prepared if there were a few glitches. I figured I could survive a couple of weeks on what I had and that would be all that was necessary (if that).

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filmkid | 3 years, 5 months ago
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I turned off my computer. That's about it. Didn't think anything would really happen, but in the small chance something went terribly awry, it was sitting on my bed, unplugged and off.

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wabba | 3 years, 5 months ago
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I think its hilarious that people were legitimately scared of Y2K. If it was honestly that big of a concern the government probably would have done something.

As for me, I was sitting on a beach in Hawaii watching the fireworks not giving a damn about anything.

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spoon | 3 years, 5 months ago
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I had to be up at 5am the next morning so I went to bed early and didn't even give a second thought to the concern that some people were having. The Y2K concern was realized far enough in advance that any kind of service that was vital had plenty of time to fix their code so my biggest concern was the local mom and pop shops having cash registers that would work...
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hartwell | 3 years, 5 months ago
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i pre- bought a 6 month supply of insulin.

it was weird to meet my pharmacy deductible in august of 2000.

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djb1202 | 3 years, 5 months ago
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Nothing at all :)

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morriss003 | 3 years, 5 months ago
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From the slope of Mount Haleakela I watched an incredible fireworks light show in the valley of Maui. There were more fireworks from every direction than I have ever seen before or since.

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autodidakto | 3 years, 5 months ago
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I cheated: I set my computer's date to 2000 and saw that nothing happened. Confident, I set it back.

In case you're wondering what the federal reserve did:
http://wfhummel.cnchost.com/cashhoard.html

I hope this has been an offbeat answer for an offbeat question.

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mrnemo | 3 years, 5 months ago
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I played the song 1999 at a New Years Eve party. Damn... I've played that song every New Years Eve since then. I then checked the news, but I was too drunk to make sense of anything aside from the fact that we were all still alive and my bank card still worked.

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bvienneau | 3 years, 5 months ago
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I hid under my desk for 2 hours.... What a waste

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xomgitskamax | 3 years, 5 months ago
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We all had flashlight around us in case something did go wrong. I was scared because i was only 10 years old. I thought we were all going to die.

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girlieq3000 | 3 years, 5 months ago
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I was 11 and I was at my parent's house. My mom had a mild preparation freak out and filled all the sinks with water about 1/2 hour before midnight, because she's a procrastinator and didn't buy any bottled water before or even put water in bottles. Then we sat in the living room and watched tv, and at midnight I unenthusiastically said "woo" and said "told ya so" to my mom..
And then I got disappointed for a few days that something good didn't go down.

I think I had the common sense to know nothing was going to happen.

I think it's hilarious that people thought the earth would be destroyed because nuclear missiles would be going off everywhere. A little date error isn't going to somehow turn into "launch"... And I was 11 at the time. Really now.

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jabba | 3 years, 5 months ago
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I expected nothing to happen, and nothing did happen. 2012 will bring about the same paranoia, but I would be inclined to think that there's more potential for something bizarre to happen in 2012 because those Mayans were pretty clever.

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ssharon | 3 years, 5 months ago
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I remember writing a paper on it in high school before it happened. I didn't do anything special (other than celebrate my birthday), but many companies spent millions of dollars upgrading their systems so that we didn't have any serious problems from the transition.

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mollyfud | 3 years, 5 months ago
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I live in Australia and was in my office getting prepared to run a whole heap of tests with some family and friends of the IT team. At 10pm, New Zealand went over to 2000 and we were watching it on TV. Some jokester decided that right when they counted zero, he pulled the power. Now, yes, the power on our TV shouldn't have gone off if something happened in NZ but it did give us a second of "oh dear" type moment.

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foosed | 3 years, 5 months ago
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No one I knew was particularly worried about it, my dad got out some cash and backed up a few of our more improtant files on the computer, but more as a better safe than sorry precaution than out of legitimate fear.

We had a new years party like usual, and a few minutes before midnight my dad snuck off outside, and as soon as the ball dropped, flipped the main breaker for the house. Everyone at the party just sat there in shocked silence for about 10 secconds, then he flipped it back on and everyone laughed.
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theone | 3 years, 5 months ago
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I lived in Seattle at the time, and there was a credible bomb threat against the Space Needle. So in all honesty, I stayed home like other terror stricken Americans waiting for the bombings, looting and rioting that was sure to come...

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shakespearegeek | 3 years, 5 months ago
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I was "on call", staying in a hotel in Boston right across the street from my office. I was tasked with calling in to the main board hourly to see if I was needed. I was not, and stopped calling at about 2am. The next day at 4pm I was out doing errands with my wife (then fiance), back home, when I got a call from the team, who had apparently been struggling to get the site back up all day long, and they were now calling in reinforcements. I informed them that 12 hours ago I could have actually been in the building helping them and was basically sitting around waiting for the call, which never came. So I ended up having to spend the next few hours dialed in remotely trying to figure out what they'd spent the day already trying.

Technically the bug was not a Y2K issue, just really, really bad timing. Or so they tell me.

I remember those planning meetings so well:

"If something goes wrong, send email to the team."
"What if email is down?"
"Then start calling."
"What if the phones are down?"
"Then drive in."
"What if the traffic lights are out?"
"If email is down and the phones are down and the traffic lights aren't working, people are not gonna be checking their mutual fund balance."
- actual memorable dialogue from one such meeting

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sparkle73 | 3 years, 5 months ago
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Life went on as nothing would change, and it didn't. So the schedule was the same old cycle, like a merry go round. Can't listen to everything you hear, or believe it to be the turth. The earth did not crush into itself so things went on>>>>>

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joeman | 3 years, 5 months ago
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I did fix a lot for code for Credit card processing company.
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chuck006 | 3 years, 5 months ago
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Just in case, we bought some extra groceries and had some cash on hand. And I bought some ammo.

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teff torbes | 3 years, 5 months ago
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I wrote a report on people that were doing stupid things to prepare for Y2K (I was in school at the time) IIRC, one guy thought it would be nuclear armageddon or something, as he had purchased several years worth of food and water supply in barrels. I also wrote about IBM's major push for helping companies with older software get updated... they made a lot of money on this! But, I wasn't an idiot and didn't see any need to do anything about it.

Interestingly enough, I was affected by it very slightly - the store I worked at at the time had time related computer glitches when printing out the data for the day.

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katie10 | 3 years, 5 months ago
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Absolutely nothing.

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easyeboy | 3 years, 5 months ago
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Nothing, as I knew all the time it was the biggest joke! I laughed!

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mollyfud | 3 years, 5 months ago Report

It was only a big joke because of all the work done before hand, too be fair

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daha | 3 years, 5 months ago
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We rented a hotel room in Port Clinton, Ohio, and walked downtown to watch them lower a giant model of a walleye fish at midnight.

As far as emergency prep went, I bought a box of six one-gallon bottles of drinking water, and made sure we had flashlight batteries. That's the kind of stuff you're supposed to have on hand all the time anyway.

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vandal913 | 3 years, 5 months ago
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Got anally probed by an alien in my bomb shelter..with a can of evaporated milk!

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tracebooks | 3 years, 5 months ago
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My dad turned off and disconnected everything in his house from the power grid. Then he turned on his gas generator to power his water-source heat pump so his house would have heat. He completely backed up his computer, after having printed out everything on paper in case after midnight he'd no longer be able access it.

He also bought cases of food, but not water because he had a well at the time and the generator to power his pump. So we are STILL getting gifts of things like salad shrimp, tuna, pickles, lump crabmeat (he's got gourmet tastes), and VERY old cheese.

Then they turned on their battery-powered shortwave radio and listened for news of imminent disaster.

I'm scared to think of how HIS mom would have reacted. She had trouble figuring out her toaster oven...

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