What was Jow Forums doing on December 31, 1999?
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What was Jow Forums doing on December 31, 1999?
Also, thread theme song:
assembling my megablok set that i had received for christmas from my parents. it was really fun. then i went downstairs and had some bubbly juice and asked my parents stupid questions while we watched TV. so i don't think there was anything Jow Forums related
probably jacking off, same shit I do every other day.
Is OP even aware that a good portion of this board is full of people who where not even born yet in December of 1999?
playing dreamcast during winter break why do you ask op
I was probably on my computer watching Dick Clark's show on the TV that was nearby. Probably playing EQ as well. Since it was the millenium most NYE activities were a bit more aggressive in their production than usual. Couldn't do anything particularly fun since I was only a Freshman in HS and I didn't live close to any friends so I had to run NYE solo my entire youth.
Turning off our computers in preparation for the apocalypse, just months after surviving the 9/9/99 mainframe apocalypse.
i was in county jail
I was masturbating at home to grainy VHS's while my parents were out partying
Y2KY Jelly: So you can fit four digits where you used to only be able to fit two.
molesting a classmate
hey, it's not crime if we were both underage
I was very excited to be alive, to witness human kind entering next millennium.
Me, my younger siblings and my parents were sitting at table, talking and dining, at midnight went outside for fireworks, afterwards watched New year's movies and shows on our new TV, and went to sleep at 2 or 3 am.
I was 11, didn't had PC yet. They were way too expensive in our country.
Watching the New Year's Eve ball drop with my family that haden't completely fallen apart yet.
probably eating screws, when I was three I disassembled my entire bunkbed and put all the screws in my mouth
Nothing special
That's cool, I always liked chewing sponges
I was a fetus back then, so probably nothing too important.
fucking zoomers destroying my board..
underrated toast
regretting not being older to be able to go to the ATMs and see them spit all the cash. Obviously this never happened but still
Just partying with some friends. We had a PC hooked up to the sound system for music and used Napster over a cablemodem to basically take requests in real time.
Absolutely nothing happened to the computer at midnight.
Floating around in my dad's balls
Celebrating the turn of the millennium by taking a bunch of mushrooms with my peeps at a psytrance gig, with zero fucks to give about whether my PC would still be running when I got home two days later.
You faggots should try living for once.
You sound like a washed up tryhard faggot desu
Eating and drinking
I was running this program on my Win98 PC to check for Y2K compliance and fix any issues before the date rolled over.
The program still works on Windows 10, though it doesn't display completely correctly and some of its checks like floppy drive don't work on a modern system.
Sucking on my mom's tit and shitting myself
Sucking my mom's tits
Sipping on my sippy cup watching barney
Getting launched out of my dad's dick like one of those circus clowns in a cannon
I was 2 years old so probably shitting myself
>age: 21
THIS
Watching anime in a hotel. Literally my first time watching anime.
Not being alive. Reminder that zoomers born in 2000 and 2001 are over 18 and can browse Jow Forums
I was playing this and dreaming of becoming a veterinarian when I grew up.
Instead I chose this shit career.
Why did it all go so wrong?
On duty at NAVCOMTELSTA Sicily watching absolutely nothing happen to any of our gear.
They let us go home at something like 2AM.
Ah, Age of Empire was one of the few games that would play on our NT 4.0 systems
Hell... old days UI design looks good
contemplating how to trigger zoomers in 20 years time. It woild be my only revenge as one of the earliest incels. Judging by the butthurt zoomers in thread, my revenge is now complete.
i remember vividly watching my first boxing match and drinking champagne for the first time.
23, I got weened a little late
It takes an extremely strong will to be a vet.
Unfortunately it seems that most of Jow Forums probably wasn't even born then.
probably messing around with graal online.
Being 3 years old, probably running around screaming or something
Was at home playing Digimon World.
Was at my grandmother's, probably playing FFVIII and Tekken 3 that I'd got for Christmas.
speak for yourself
My relatives had a shit ton of fireworks and literally spent hours lighting shit up. Too bad Fireworks are practically outlawed in most parts of Aus nowadays and police patrol like mad for illegal fireworks on New Years.
Yeah, they should kill themselves
was 9 at the time, pretty sure i was playing dreamcast with my friends
we checked his computer at midnight to make sure nothing blew up
went back to dreamcast
i cant actually fucking believe 1999 was literally 20 years ago
fuck.
what a lame 38th birthday.
It worked too. My PC didn't blow up on Jan 1, 2000.
I unironically don't understand why everyone older than 30 hasn't killed themselves already. You experienced the absolute best society was ever going to get, and then 9/11 happened and it has been nothing but bitter shit ever since.
At least the youngfags have only ever known bitter shit.
i grew up in a black majority neighborhood so life has always sucked.
I'm waiting to shoot some Nazis.
>tfw the millennium was literally a million years ago.
1945 ended 74 years ago. maybe it's time to move on, Shekelstein.
Just go outside and shoot randomly. You're likely to hit one.
I know they say history is cyclical and all, but I didn't expect this. It's like we're living exactly 100 years ago.
i was at a campsite with my family
dad let me have a beer, played on the arcade units they had there (forget which games)
I was playing with my trains
Now that I think about it, I was hyper obssessed with trains until I was 14.
I'm not white trash, and Nazis don't really advertise themselves in blue states.
I wasn't even born
Sitting bored and tired in the corner of a shitty hunter's lodge innawoods watching my parents and a bunch of people I didn't know drink and party until midnight before bugging them to go back to the bunks so I could sleep, because I was 14 and a nerd.
You Aussies are awfully sensitive about your ecosystem nowadays, considering at one time you waged a literal war against some big birds (and lost). They even made an entire show showcasing how anal your airports are about what people can bring in, right down to the dirt on your bloody shoes.
>They even made an entire show showcasing how anal your airports are about what people can bring in, right down to the dirt on your bloody shoes.
i've never had a problem with entering australia
>have 10 packs of smokes in bag
>used to be allowed one, recently changed to none
>"anything to declare?"
>"na"
>walk straight out
Australia wants to give invasive fish herpes in order to kill them all, not realizing that herpes is a virus and every new victim of a virus, allows a chance for the virus to mutate.
Imagine if all our seafood died due to Australia's herpes fish plan since Australia can not guarantee their fish herpes plan can not jump species once the virus mutates enough.
cbsnews.com
Imagine having to worry about accidentally eating herpes from your local fish because Australia decided to give their local fish herpes and somehow the herpes spread to every ocean.
Isn't this more like an act of war?
Not sure how you are gonna get a gun through EU parliment's security. If they are reading this, they might have to put Merkel in a bullet proof enclosure like the pope.
>the twelfth day of the thirty-first month over 1900 years ago
What in Ameritardation
I was 11 months old so probably crying
8 playing unreal quake 2 doom 95 and gta 1
wasnt born yet
my old piece of shit ran gta1 at like, 5-10fps
meanwhile my nextdoor neighbour had a voodoo and barely even played games (gta1 supports the voodoo), so damn jealous
>tfw when Matrix called 1999 "the pinnacle of human civilization" they were serious
yea, basically peak
Windows 2000 and the Playstation 2 both came out in 1999. nuff said.
Mind sharing some of ya girls lad?
time square, new york city
people were going nuts, cops locked themselves in 18ft razer wire fences with automatic weapons all back to back watching the crowd
my dad got us pizza
Playing total annihilation kingdoms on the family computer. It was the level where you're a small zhon tribe in the northeast corner of the map and you need to fuck up a giant veruna base near mid-map. Best way to do it was drake spam, btw.
probly sleeping
It was a normal Friday at work, except for worrying about whether the computers would work properly when we came back to work on Monday, which they did.
Breh I had a tnt 16mb turbo le
1024x768 or higher 30fps+ woah
I was in hospital, hooked up to breathing machines.
My brother got me the lego millennial slizer special edition with a motorcycle so I was probably playing with that.
I was in Mexico on vacation with my parents. I was already into computers and shit, but was very very young and I was convinced that we would be trapped in Mexico forever. Obviously, nothing happened. I was scared as fuck though.
I was 17 in high school, at my friends new years eve party.
There were two girls there that I striked out on. First girl was kinda off and on talking, but nothing ever developed. Got the courage to make a move at about 12:30am year 2000, but instead walked in on her fooling around with my friend. They didnt see me so I walked away.
Kinda depressed and couldnt go to sleep. (This is where it is Jow Forums related) Everyone was pretty much passing out. My friend had a copy of The Matrix on VHS. At the time I never saw it but everyone was raving about it. So I figure I'd pop it in and watch it.
I was blown away. Still one of my top 10 favorite movies of all time, only because it made me forget about the shitty situation with the girl, but also I fucking awesome the fight scenes and CGI were at the time.
As far as the 2nd girl, apparently she was in to me big time that I had no idea of. She got dumped by her BF around May 2000, and had already bought all her shit for the prom. I told her I'd go with her if she paid for everything. Kinda treated her like shit. However she agreed.
Turns out she was actually a great person, and told myself that I should maybe pursue this after the prom. My friends planned on a late lunch together the day after prom. I figure I'd get to know this chick better when I'm in the right state of mind during that time. Unfortunately I got so wasted the night before I skipped out on that gathering as I was sleeping all day.
A week goes by, and she was already dating someone else. My friend tells me she was talking to the new dude for a while, and that I was too much of a dick for her to care anymore. So the only event that I had to redeem myself was forever lost.
Later I dropped out of high school, became a drunk.
So there you have it-- 12/31/1999. I am now 37. This will be you lives, zoomers. Take notes.
So you never finished school? Did you still manage to land a job in IT or are you NEET?
i was playing counter strike.
i wish i could go back.
Looking forward to a bright future full of possibilities. Boy did reality hit me like a ton of bricks.
Kek'd
Nothing happened to my pc. I was running W ME
got my GED at 18. Was a degenerate for a good while, until 22 when I had to make a serious decision about where my life was going.
Took a placement test at a community college and enrolled there for a few IT classes. Busted my ass at a warehouse while going to school fulltime. Transferred credits to a 4 year school.
I would not recommend this route. If I had the choice to do it all over again, I would've rather busted my ass in HS, and graduate at 21 as a young professional.
But for those that feel like theyre in a hole, you still have opportunities, but know you will have to bust your fucking ass for it. By the time I graduated the housing market crashed.
I didnt really start my professional career until 29-30, due to the economy. It was all a double whammy.
This is the only true answer anymore.
watched the ball drop on tv and looked at computer to find out nothing happened. i expected nothing and i was still let down.
>dropped out of HS
>complete degenerate for ~10 years doing mechanical turk type shit
>took coding bootcamp
>got development job within 3 months
>employer may be putting me through college
Honestly right now anyone in a rut has very little excuse to not get their shit together, if you have any practical technical experience you have an advantage, and the "#Learn2Code" meme is probably going to burst at some point
Most Jow Forumstards weren't born then, but I was playing vidya as usual and nothing happened.
Was at some new years thing at the park with my family and some other elementary school kids
"That Kid" swore up and down that he was playing a video game and it started glitching out like crazy and the screen melted or some fucking nonsense with no explanation as to why it happened before the date actually changed over
pulled out my game boy to make sure my pokeymans were all still there
everything checked out
You made the better choice, vets are one of the careers with the highest suicide rates
Was playing SC and praying there would be no incident.
I was at a new years party playing super smash bros with a bunch of other kids