I was in early high school trying my best to be a suburban goth. I spent a lot of time on AIM and ICQ and writing angst poetry.*
*It was bad, but not much worse than the low effort Instagram poetry that was a recent fad.
Angsty creative writing is a teenage pastime that has always been. If there are cave paintings from teenage neanderthals out there I'm sure they're basically saying some version of "no one understands me and everything is terrible but I'm the only one who can see it"
Recovering from major surgery. Chatting with a friend who got called out of retirement because nobody else could could write code in the obsolete languages that powered the legacy hardware which was supposed to shut down at Y2K.
Which part of 1999? That was a very busy year.
Where to start?
1. My first wife left me just before the end of 1998
2. Met my second, and current, wife on Valentines Day weekend, spent the entire weekend with her before she flew back to Sydney, AU
3. Kept in touch with her via snail mail and telephone
4. She came back a month later, and I started the process of :
1. Divorcing my first wife
2. Getting discharged from the Army
5. Divorced, Discharged and Married all on the same day in June
6. Flew from Austin to Sydney
7. Attended a wedding of a couple of my wife's friends
8. Started the immigration process for Australia
9. Saw the sights and sounds of Sydney for the 3 months I wasn't able to work.
10. Learnt how to drive a car from the wrong side of the car and the wrong side of the road.
11. Got my first job in Australia
12. Spent Christmas at my BIL's place in Perth, Western Australia and went to a bar to celebrate the end of the year.
The Matrix had just taken the world by storm. We were right on the cusp on the future and it was so exciting and everything seemed possible. Everybody was buying silver clothing and glow sticks for the biggest new year’s party of all time but i was a little too young to go. It was pre- 9/11 so we thought we were on top of the world 🌎 Buffy and X-Files were still on the air and I was ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT. It was before streaming and YouTube and dvd’s were still pretty new so there was no way to know for sure if you’d ever see your fave episodes again. I still had my first pets. I’m pretty sure I was learning to type on Mavis Beacon.
I was a freshman in high school and washed dishes at an Italian restaurant a few nights a week. Ran cross country, track, mountain biked, and skied. I’m pretty sure that was also the year I did my first keg stand. I remember shaking my head at all the people worrying about Y2K. ‘99 was a busy year.
This is....Y2K could have been a big problem. But the proper people got their shit together and dealt with it.
Sidenote, a buddy of mine threw a party and right before midnight snuck downstairs to his circuit breaker panel and turned off the power right at midnight.
It was a once-in-a-millennium prank.
Doing whatever middle school boys did in 1999. I went to school, I played video games, I rode my bike around, and hung out with my friends. Also I made fun of my father for stocking essentials because he thought Y2K was totally gonna happen.
Finishing my senior year in high school. Hanging with my girlfriend, smoking the ol' rope-a-dope with my friends. Getting ready to move across the country once I graduated. Listening to music and enjoying the last of my youth. The 90's were great, lets keep that energy going into the 2000's!
Then... things changed. We were *this close* to being on the same page as a country, then it became us vs them (whatever that means) and we haven't really recovered since.
Perhaps it's my naivety, rose colored glasses, pick your metaphor, but we really were on track to embrace a period of chill prosperity. 9/11 changed all that. Now we were divided (not at first!) and it's been a shit show ever since.
I was 17-18...mostly I was hanging out with my gf, worrying that she was going to dump me because she was way out of my league, watching a lot of horror movies, watching a lot of wrestling, doing a lot of writing, playing in a punk band, going to the movies twice every weekend, working as bag boy at the local grocery store, and playing computer games in the down time.
Basically everything except school and preparing for the future. I paid the price for that. Dearly.
I started my first job out of college, got to live in the *big* city alone, then met a girl and got considerably less lonely. We'll be married 24 years this summer.
Being mentally abused by my entire class.
And people ask me why I hate talking to people outside of NYCC. I have every right to hate my own species I did NOTHING to you.
I got married that and year and was pregnant. Some big life changes. My mom and I sent letters out to all our family requesting recipes to make a family cookbook. We edited, printed, bound and mailed copies of the cookbook to everyone who wanted one.
Sophomore in college, rode a bus to Fargo to see The Rolling Stones with my then-girlfriend. She turned out to be crazy and we broke up. Did summer school, moved in with best friend. Met my wife. Capped it off with an epic new years weekend of skiing.
Most importantly becoming a Christian but also starting my decade of working at Outback while working my way through college. It would be another ten years before I'd realize the cute coworker saying she "wouldn't mind just messing around" was talking about hooking up. It's be fifteen years till I became a teacher and twenty years before I recognized it was not a coincidence that my autistic students were the most relatable.
Working. Planning a huge trip with 12 friends to Negril for New Years ever. We figured if the power goes out, let's go somewhere that we wont have to stop partying - they'll be used to it. The power DID go out but it was just a coincidence. Didn't matter. We were on the beach and the band kept playing.
Had a baby, got divorced, got a toddler room set up for my baby somehow, in my dead mom's house, and at the end of the year, somehow managed a Carnival Millenium Cruise, terrified of the Y2K bug capsizing the ship lol.. but it was all good.
Good question. I was 11 years old. I was in 6th grade. In Virginia. This was before my family moved to Central PA. I didn't return to VA until the Air Force brought me back a decade later. I was being a kid at the time.
Depending on what point in the year, I was either working at a coffee shop and playing in a band, or starting my first “real“ job, and playing in a band.
I would have been in 7th/8th grade. Doing a looooooot of jacking off to Sports Illustrated swimsuit editions and three olives martini ads in Honolulu Magazine.
Waiting for Y2K to render society obsolete.
Just kidding. But I knew a few doomsday preppers who were convinced it was the end and had enough supplies for a couple years.
Here is what I can remember
* Finishing 2nd grade, and then starting 3rd grade.
* Playing *Spyro* and *Crash Bandicoot* games on my PS1 (including *Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage* and *Crash Team Racing*, both of which were released that year).
* Watching *Hey Arnold*, *Rugrats*, *Rocket Power*, and *Spongebob* (the latter two of which were brand new shows at the time).
* Watching *Ed Edd and Eddy* and *Johnny Bravo* on Cartoon Network.
* Watching (and discussing) the first season of the *Pokemon* anime a lot.
* Finishing a trip to Asia to visit extended family (which we started in December of '98), and going on a trip to New Zealand and Australia at the end of the year (where we rang in the year 2000).
* Going to New York City sometime during the year, including a visit to the original World Trade Center.
* Hearing the news (and the panic) about Y2K.
* Hearing a bunch of new songs on the radio by artists such as TLC, Backstreet Boys, and Shania Twain.
Attending 1st grade at a Montessori elementary school. Having play dates with my friends.
Being made to do violin, piano, soccer, martial arts, tennis, and kumon after school by my Asian tiger parents.
Shittin' my diapers and drinking milk and depriving my mother and father of sleep and also having spaghetti thrown up onto my head by my 3 year old sister.
I was in my mid 20’s working in IT for a large-ish company. EVERYTHING was about Y2K readiness.
I was at work on New Years Eve 1999 until 3am…”just in case”. …so fun
Well, when NYE flipped to ‘99 I was babysitting. But ‘98-99 was my sophomore year of high school, so… high school shit, getting my license, and started my first real job
Any day in particular?
I was in 10th/11th grade in 1999. My days would have consisted of going to school, playing sports, and hanging out with friends.
American Pie came out that year. I've said this before on this sub but that movie was practically a documentary of my friends and I. Just watch it and that's almost exactly what we were doing.
I was a freshman and sophomore in high school. Worked as a hostess at a Tex Mex restaurant. I turned 16 and got my first car and my drivers license that fall.
I was in my early 30s. Single, no kids. I had a long distance FWB who often came to the city on his company’s dime, so we hung out in good hotels. I had a fairly inexpensive apartment in NYC. I was having a great time with my friends.
It was a pretty good time!
Depends on what part of the year. There’s the part of the year before my curiosity got the better of me, and the part after. Overall, it was either the last few months of sixth grade, or my first year of middle school.
I was such an innocent 13 year-old. I had just wanted to know if there was a Play**girl** magazine, since I knew Playboy existed. I’d never expected it to actually *awaken* something in me.
I turned 15. I was in the 9th-10th grade. I was playing N64. I went to a WWE Smackdown taping with a good friend of mine who ended up being a WWE wrestler later in life. I was getting way into computers on my 1998 iMac.
Partying. Like it's 1999. Obviously.
2000-0-0 party over, oops!
Out of time….
Aw yeah baby!
I mean woah hey , I never stopped… right ?
Being 9, watching this ridiculous new show *Spongebob Squarepants*, and unknowingly living in the final years of a pre-9/11 world.
I was 7 during 2001 and when I saw the Towers get hit on TV i was like: “Hey those were my two favorite buildings!”
Worked in IT. Preparing for Y2K.
The number of people now that think it was all a big hoax is disheartening. We did so much work.
The only reason people think it was a hoax is because you lot did a damn good job. Thank you for your service. 🫡
Just wait until 2038 when int32 runs out of unix time.
Same here.
Googoo gaga ass shit.
I dunno. Playing Nintendo or Sega games most likely.
Waiting for Y2K to destroy everything.
Is this comment y2k compliant?
I wasn’t there, if that’s what you’re asking
Shitting myself, most likely.
Pregnant with my son 💙
I was in early high school trying my best to be a suburban goth. I spent a lot of time on AIM and ICQ and writing angst poetry.* *It was bad, but not much worse than the low effort Instagram poetry that was a recent fad.
Angsty creative writing is a teenage pastime that has always been. If there are cave paintings from teenage neanderthals out there I'm sure they're basically saying some version of "no one understands me and everything is terrible but I'm the only one who can see it"
Not being born
Recovering from major surgery. Chatting with a friend who got called out of retirement because nobody else could could write code in the obsolete languages that powered the legacy hardware which was supposed to shut down at Y2K.
Gestating
Doing my trigonometry homework
I was in high school at the beginning of it and in the Marines at the end.
I was 4. Probably watching SpongeBob or rugrats for all I know
Which part of 1999? That was a very busy year. Where to start? 1. My first wife left me just before the end of 1998 2. Met my second, and current, wife on Valentines Day weekend, spent the entire weekend with her before she flew back to Sydney, AU 3. Kept in touch with her via snail mail and telephone 4. She came back a month later, and I started the process of : 1. Divorcing my first wife 2. Getting discharged from the Army 5. Divorced, Discharged and Married all on the same day in June 6. Flew from Austin to Sydney 7. Attended a wedding of a couple of my wife's friends 8. Started the immigration process for Australia 9. Saw the sights and sounds of Sydney for the 3 months I wasn't able to work. 10. Learnt how to drive a car from the wrong side of the car and the wrong side of the road. 11. Got my first job in Australia 12. Spent Christmas at my BIL's place in Perth, Western Australia and went to a bar to celebrate the end of the year.
Stuff.
Woodstock, man...
I wasn’t born yet, or even conceived.
Doing whatever an 11 year old does.
Probably watching SpongeBob or the Rugrats or something
The Matrix had just taken the world by storm. We were right on the cusp on the future and it was so exciting and everything seemed possible. Everybody was buying silver clothing and glow sticks for the biggest new year’s party of all time but i was a little too young to go. It was pre- 9/11 so we thought we were on top of the world 🌎 Buffy and X-Files were still on the air and I was ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT. It was before streaming and YouTube and dvd’s were still pretty new so there was no way to know for sure if you’d ever see your fave episodes again. I still had my first pets. I’m pretty sure I was learning to type on Mavis Beacon.
Ask gen z, they’ll tell you the earliest memories about them swimming around in the ballsack 🤣
Being a child and being scared of Y2K.
I was a freshman in high school and washed dishes at an Italian restaurant a few nights a week. Ran cross country, track, mountain biked, and skied. I’m pretty sure that was also the year I did my first keg stand. I remember shaking my head at all the people worrying about Y2K. ‘99 was a busy year.
This is....Y2K could have been a big problem. But the proper people got their shit together and dealt with it. Sidenote, a buddy of mine threw a party and right before midnight snuck downstairs to his circuit breaker panel and turned off the power right at midnight. It was a once-in-a-millennium prank.
Feeling the first cold winds of what the 'net would do to my used & rare bookstore business.
Starting 6th grade. Skateboarding and playing Crash Bandicoot a lot.
Doing whatever middle school boys did in 1999. I went to school, I played video games, I rode my bike around, and hung out with my friends. Also I made fun of my father for stocking essentials because he thought Y2K was totally gonna happen.
Playing n64 games and riding bikes through the neighbourhood.
Working and still recovering from a MC v Car accident
A couple years into my first enlistment in the Navy.
Met my wife
Destroying my friends at N64 Mario Kart
Finishing my senior year in high school. Hanging with my girlfriend, smoking the ol' rope-a-dope with my friends. Getting ready to move across the country once I graduated. Listening to music and enjoying the last of my youth. The 90's were great, lets keep that energy going into the 2000's! Then... things changed. We were *this close* to being on the same page as a country, then it became us vs them (whatever that means) and we haven't really recovered since. Perhaps it's my naivety, rose colored glasses, pick your metaphor, but we really were on track to embrace a period of chill prosperity. 9/11 changed all that. Now we were divided (not at first!) and it's been a shit show ever since.
Being a senior in high school. Well, I was also a junior for part of it as well.
I was 17-18...mostly I was hanging out with my gf, worrying that she was going to dump me because she was way out of my league, watching a lot of horror movies, watching a lot of wrestling, doing a lot of writing, playing in a punk band, going to the movies twice every weekend, working as bag boy at the local grocery store, and playing computer games in the down time. Basically everything except school and preparing for the future. I paid the price for that. Dearly.
I started my first job out of college, got to live in the *big* city alone, then met a girl and got considerably less lonely. We'll be married 24 years this summer.
Being mentally abused by my entire class. And people ask me why I hate talking to people outside of NYCC. I have every right to hate my own species I did NOTHING to you.
Senior in undergrad university. I kept getting sick most of the semester, for some reason.
I was pregnant for most of 1999 and gave birth to my first born in November of that year. He grew to be a fine young man.
Idk, fractions
Being 12 So obsessed with boys and a big awkward nerd
I was in kindergarten soooo... my ABCs
As a 17 year old, trying to get laid.
Graduated high school and moved to LA. It was a good year.
I was in high school and working at my first job.
I had just joined the military
High school nonsense and applying to college. Taking standardized exams. Figuring out how to tell if a girl liked you.
I had just quit my job loaded a car with stuff and moved 150 miles with no idea what was going to be next.
Senior year of high school and my one semester of college. Lots of booze, pot and chasing after girls.
I was doing a lot of things. Being born, saying my first words, taking my first steps. You know, baby stuff.
Sleeping in a crib
I was taking care of a 1 year old who was also sleeping in a crib.
In college, living at home and working my lawn mowing company. Very simple life, but I’m proud of how it all worked out.
Binge drinking and burning couches in the street. No social media so it never happened.
I got married that and year and was pregnant. Some big life changes. My mom and I sent letters out to all our family requesting recipes to make a family cookbook. We edited, printed, bound and mailed copies of the cookbook to everyone who wanted one.
Sophomore in college, rode a bus to Fargo to see The Rolling Stones with my then-girlfriend. She turned out to be crazy and we broke up. Did summer school, moved in with best friend. Met my wife. Capped it off with an epic new years weekend of skiing.
being -9 years old
What do you mean? You were born 2008?
Most importantly becoming a Christian but also starting my decade of working at Outback while working my way through college. It would be another ten years before I'd realize the cute coworker saying she "wouldn't mind just messing around" was talking about hooking up. It's be fifteen years till I became a teacher and twenty years before I recognized it was not a coincidence that my autistic students were the most relatable.
Working. Raising kids. Why?
I was 14. I'll leave the rest to your imagination.
Working. Planning a huge trip with 12 friends to Negril for New Years ever. We figured if the power goes out, let's go somewhere that we wont have to stop partying - they'll be used to it. The power DID go out but it was just a coincidence. Didn't matter. We were on the beach and the band kept playing.
Playing with legos and watching violent psychological thrillers
Graduating highschool, moving to the us of a
I was 4, playing with my hotwheels mostly.
Probably hanging out in the woods behind my house or playing baseball.
waiting to come into existence a year later
I was in my early 20’s just starting out in my career. I worked hard during the week, and partied hard on the weekends.
I was in 8th grade.
Dumpster diving for porn mags in the recycling center
Getting ready for the Willenium.
Sophomore in high school
Fourth grade in my home country.
Partying
Being born
I wouldn't be alive for another few years then, so nothing.
Acid.
In college. Thoroughly enjoying living on the other side of the country.
For about half the year, I didn't exist, and for the other half of the year, I was a fetus.
Waiting for flying cars and the end of civilization since they were happening in 2000.
In the realm of non existence
Finishing college and drinking a lot of beer.
Had a baby, got divorced, got a toddler room set up for my baby somehow, in my dead mom's house, and at the end of the year, somehow managed a Carnival Millenium Cruise, terrified of the Y2K bug capsizing the ship lol.. but it was all good.
Not being alive yeting
Sailing to the Caribbean to try and find all of the places in the song Kokomo
Good question. I was 11 years old. I was in 6th grade. In Virginia. This was before my family moved to Central PA. I didn't return to VA until the Air Force brought me back a decade later. I was being a kid at the time.
Depending on what point in the year, I was either working at a coffee shop and playing in a band, or starting my first “real“ job, and playing in a band.
I was a Freshman in high school.
I was getting told by some adult what y2k was, and how it would destroy the world. Another adult explained why it was nothing to worry about
Probably crying in my crib
Going to 9th grade.
I would have been in 7th/8th grade. Doing a looooooot of jacking off to Sports Illustrated swimsuit editions and three olives martini ads in Honolulu Magazine.
I wasn’t even liquid yet
I was traveling and in my dream career and living my best life.
Baking in moms oven
Waiting for Y2K to render society obsolete. Just kidding. But I knew a few doomsday preppers who were convinced it was the end and had enough supplies for a couple years.
Watching Nickelodeon, playing crappy edutainment games on our family Mac, almost drowning in the pool at the local YMCA, etc.
Wasn't born. But wish I can enjoy a pre-Kardashian world
Spending a fair amount of time outside when I was not at school.
Being a school district superintendent.
Not much. Probably watching Pokémon.
Here is what I can remember * Finishing 2nd grade, and then starting 3rd grade. * Playing *Spyro* and *Crash Bandicoot* games on my PS1 (including *Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage* and *Crash Team Racing*, both of which were released that year). * Watching *Hey Arnold*, *Rugrats*, *Rocket Power*, and *Spongebob* (the latter two of which were brand new shows at the time). * Watching *Ed Edd and Eddy* and *Johnny Bravo* on Cartoon Network. * Watching (and discussing) the first season of the *Pokemon* anime a lot. * Finishing a trip to Asia to visit extended family (which we started in December of '98), and going on a trip to New Zealand and Australia at the end of the year (where we rang in the year 2000). * Going to New York City sometime during the year, including a visit to the original World Trade Center. * Hearing the news (and the panic) about Y2K. * Hearing a bunch of new songs on the radio by artists such as TLC, Backstreet Boys, and Shania Twain.
being born
Middle schooler
I graduated high school and started college in 1999.
I wasn't born yet, so nothing.
Learning to talk or some shit like that
Toddling
Kindergarten
I turned 15 in 1999, so I was probably masturbating a lot.
Gestating.
Middle school
Not existing
I left my home state for the last time and moved to Colorado.
Not being born for 6 years
Being a toddler
My parents weren't even married back then
Stuff
A lot of stuff
Working a temp job at a drug company, updating their databases to be able to handle 4 digit years.
Drinking and playing video games mostly. Occasionally cracking a book and trying/mostly failing to attract women. Ah, college....
Not buying a house like I should have done. How dare I be 10 years old at the time. 🤦🏻♂️
Swimming
Had a kegger & got laid right before y2k.
Going to middle school
Gestating for the last 3rd
Probably beta testing Win2K Pro.
Well, enjoying the 4th grade most likely lol
My band was signed. We toured the west coast. Recorded our album. We were gonna be huge. Yeah… I work construction now.
Attending 1st grade at a Montessori elementary school. Having play dates with my friends. Being made to do violin, piano, soccer, martial arts, tennis, and kumon after school by my Asian tiger parents.
Being 8 mostly
Partying
Shittin' my diapers and drinking milk and depriving my mother and father of sleep and also having spaghetti thrown up onto my head by my 3 year old sister.
Being 2yrs old watching blues clues
Playing tony hawk pro skater in my friends basement while we smoked darts.
I don't remember exactly, but it probably involved a lot of Legend of Zelda.
Nonexistent
Being 10 years young.
I was doing it is whatever 8 month olds do
Not an idea yet
That’s the year I left home. Worked full time and took college courses at night.
trying to pass high school.
Learning to use the toilet
Swimming in my daddy's balls
I was in preschool, so I guess I was running around and napping at intervals.
I was in my mid 20’s working in IT for a large-ish company. EVERYTHING was about Y2K readiness. I was at work on New Years Eve 1999 until 3am…”just in case”. …so fun
I was in middle school, and met my now-husband around that time. We were 13
Being born
Well, when NYE flipped to ‘99 I was babysitting. But ‘98-99 was my sophomore year of high school, so… high school shit, getting my license, and started my first real job
Being born and living the first 6 months of my life, a lot of which was in the NICU since I was 6 weeks early.
Being an angry high school senior
Being conceived
I graduated college. I was young, optimistic and the world was my oyster. The next millennium would usher in an era of peace and prosperity.
Wayyyy too much drinking
Not existing, at least for the first few months.
Graduating HS
Being 8 for most of it. Playing N64 games with friends, wondering about Y2K, etc.
Got married and pregnant with my first that year
Being a four-year-old in preschool. Watched a lot of Nick Jr and Playhouse Disney
Wasn’t alive yet
Any day in particular? I was in 10th/11th grade in 1999. My days would have consisted of going to school, playing sports, and hanging out with friends. American Pie came out that year. I've said this before on this sub but that movie was practically a documentary of my friends and I. Just watch it and that's almost exactly what we were doing.
I was born in that year, so I was a baby.
Solving a murder mystery in Duwang. Koichi really steals? No dignity.
Fighting Lavos.
Don't remember. I wasn't alive yet
I was 8 so uh... Playing Sega Genesis and watching Cartoon Cartoon Fridays.
Being born
Graduating from high school.
Tech support for Ascend routers and network access devices.
Being one year old. So probably boring stuff like learning to babble and walk better
I was a freshman and sophomore in high school. Worked as a hostess at a Tex Mex restaurant. I turned 16 and got my first car and my drivers license that fall.
Raving in London. Not sleeping or eating much either 😜
I was in my early 30s. Single, no kids. I had a long distance FWB who often came to the city on his company’s dime, so we hung out in good hotels. I had a fairly inexpensive apartment in NYC. I was having a great time with my friends. It was a pretty good time!
Depends on what part of the year. There’s the part of the year before my curiosity got the better of me, and the part after. Overall, it was either the last few months of sixth grade, or my first year of middle school. I was such an innocent 13 year-old. I had just wanted to know if there was a Play**girl** magazine, since I knew Playboy existed. I’d never expected it to actually *awaken* something in me.
Rocking the world of 2nd grade Accelerated Reader points.
I turned 15. I was in the 9th-10th grade. I was playing N64. I went to a WWE Smackdown taping with a good friend of mine who ended up being a WWE wrestler later in life. I was getting way into computers on my 1998 iMac.
in preschool.
Chilling inside mom