Help for His. project? (Y2K survivors)

[Ark Tallen]

Anyone here old enough to remember Y2K (a bug in 90's computers that made people think that they would all shut off during the new years of 2000) and can said person give me a brief story of what you did/how you handled it? did you believe that the world would end? thanks lol

 

[Artemis Vahl'Nyx]

You see, I was born roughly six days before the end of the world was, in fact, going to happen.
However the universe acknowledged my wondrous potential and, therefore, decided to stay in existence.
#TrueStory

Ahem:
Serious answer time. As stated I was a youngster, born on December 25th, 1999. I don't remember it.
However my parents do. They though it was a totally silly idea and were far to focused on my health to actually consider doing anything about the supposed apocalypse.

 

[Darth Carnifex]

I was four, so...

I think I handled it pretty well.

 

[Ark Tallen]

what a great heart warming survival story xD

 

[Ellie Mors]

what a great heart warming survival story xD

People freaked out, all the normal stuff, but nothing really happened. I think some air liners were shut down for a day, stuff like that, but life went on as normal. But then again I was 7 when it happened.

 

[Alric Kuhn]

I lived in Germany at the time.

It wasn't really a big phenomenon over here as far as i recall, i distinctly remember my mother making jokes about Americans freaking out and such. Other than that it was simply another day for me. Granted, it might have been different elsewhere, my family is pretty lax with all that doomsday stuff.

 

[Preliat Mantis]

My dad was a cop and was in the (still is) National Guard at the time. People were panicking, if not on the surface, at least. My town was small, and technology had just become integrated with everything, you know? For the most part, at least. Data networks, offices, government stuff- all was in danger of going up in smoke, you know? So people were worried. My dad was more worried about looters than the world ending.

I was maybe about five when it happened. It was an interesting time, to say the least.

 

[Jsc]

It was the equivalent of any major media outlet running a big story at that time. It got too much press, too much introspection, and eventually fizzled out the more educated people became about the issue. Mostly it was a big joke about how much we as a modern society rely upon computers to do our work and business. People would laugh and talk about it over coffee in the break room, your boss would shake his head at it's mention, and the tech department disdained the topic with a violent shrug.

It's a great commentary about how the modern media is useless. Other than that? ...Meh.

 

[Mrrew]

I was about 18 months old, so... Yeah.

 

[Alndys]

Was twelve when Y2K hit. There was a lot of hype, my dad got nervous about the computer breaking because he'd spent a lot of money on it, and mom called him a moron. Mom got nervous about the banks breaking and losing all their money, and dad called her an idiot. We woke up January first, and life went on.

Ten years later, I worked in an office and spent a full day reading a 'Surviving Y2K' manual I found on a shelf in the workshop. It was a good day.

 

[Fabula Caromed]

I was ten. I watched the ball drop, went to school, and I think someone said something off-hand at keyboarding class.

 

[Maxie]

I was... Four months old? I probably had crap in my diaper when the computers were all supposed to explode.