Remember Y2K?

[claidheamhmor]

So, what were you doing when Y2K rolled around?

Like many of my colleagues, I spent Y2K at my company's data centre, alert for any issues. We didn't have any; everything had been patched and resolved long before, and a goodly number of forests used up in creating paperwork.

10 Years After Y2K -- Stories From the IT Battlegrounds

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[azziria.livejournal.com]

We had a 6-week old baby (DD) so we hadn't gone away for New Year, we were at home in Cambridge. At midnight we wrapped up and went out onto our balcony to listen to the fireworks going off all around us (we couldn't actually see any, only the flashes in the night sky - it was just like being on the edge of a war zone). On New Year's Day I learned that an old friend had died the day before in a climbing accident in Majorca (the trip we would have been on if it hadn't been for the baby). So my memories of Y2K are bittersweet.

[claidheamhmor]

Sad news of the climbing accident. :( I can certainly understand the bittersweet...

[ihlanya.livejournal.com]

No you bloody didn't!!! We all spent New Year at YOUR place waiting for the world to end!

[claidheamhmor]

Hey, I was on shifts - I may have been home right then, but I'd been in and out of the data centre.

[ihlanya.livejournal.com]

So it's your fault the world didn't end :D

[claidheamhmor]

I'm sorry, I'll try to do better in 2012...

[ihlanya.livejournal.com]

*snort of laughter*

[claidheamhmor]

But I'll be sure to be at the Drakensberg when I do it, because that'll be the highest point in the world...

[ihlanya.livejournal.com]

Ereneth and I burst out laughing at that!! We were very obviously the only Saffa's in the audience.

[pcb.livejournal.com]

I was woken by the midnight fireworks.

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

I wasn't in IT yet (that would be the next year) so I spent it at a party. The guy who'd broken up with me a couple weeks prior was there too and we ended up getting back together that night... for about a week. Heh.

The only Y2K error I experienced was that I'd taken a group of young opera singers up to the Panhandle (about an 8 hour drive) for some performances earlier in the month, and our hotel stay was triple-charged on the company credit card due to Y2K.

[ubet-cha.livejournal.com]

I worked that night. They gave me a champagne glass full of sparkling Apple juice. None of our UNIX servers had any problems, however three programs on the AS/400(s) did.

[capnoblivious.livejournal.com]

Heh. I was in the UK (having escaped the US South), suffering from what I dubbed the Apocalypse 'flu - including genuine end-of-the-world hallucinations.

[windrider-09.livejournal.com]

Went to a murder mystery dinner set during New Year's eve. I was on standby so periodically, had to go to the foyer in my late 19th century dress to check my cellphone for calls.

Fortunately, nothing happened.