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how many of you freaked out over the y2k thing?

2007-02-19 17:38:11 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music Polls & Surveys

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i was fine. until i was sitting drunk on a friend's floor, and someone decided it would be awesome to cut the power just as the ball dropped, lol i was so drunk, and everyone around me including me thought the world was gonna end..

2007-02-19 17:41:50 · answer #1 · answered by Pit Bull Owned! 3 · 2 0

i didn't freak out but i thought some amount of s*it was going to go down

the fear-mongering was unbelievable. now global warming is probably real and people are ignoring it. geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez. stupid humans.

actually though, maybe Y2K would have happened if they hadn't fixed all the computer programming before 2000. who knows?

2007-02-19 17:42:03 · answer #2 · answered by some_one1234 4 · 2 0

I was. I can't even lie...I was on the phone with my bf at the time and we talked right through the new year... we didnt even realize that we had 'made it!' LOL

I wasnt a sucker like some people though. I didnt go out and buy extra meat, water, batteries and all that crap. I was like well, if we come to an end, damnit, we just come to an end...

If you ask me, I think that was conspiricay for business to cash in on some extra money at the time... maybe it was a way to 'secretly' boost our economy, even if it was for a short 2-3 month period...

2007-02-19 17:46:26 · answer #3 · answered by 100% Woman, yes indeed! 3 · 0 0

Nope. But I was living in the country at the time and was always pretty prepared for any SHTF scenario. Grew most of my own food and all that. I was receiving a bunch of computer magazines aimed at those that were IT professionals and they were really worried. I know of one company locally that was flying teams of programmers all over the U.S. preparing computer systems for the big crash. That's okay, a couple of the programmers I talked to said said their bonus checks were as big as there yearly salary so they weren't complaining.

2007-02-19 17:46:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

My former mother-in-law was the worst. She stocked up on supplies. For Christmas that year she gave everyone blankets, flashlights, etc. She just knew that the electricity was going to go out for days, possibly weeks. And the worst part of all was her car. It had a computer in it and she was convinced that it would never run again.

2007-02-19 18:12:27 · answer #5 · answered by Dippy 7 · 1 0

I didn't.
i thought about it for a few and then realized...ok, so If our computers can't understand the year 2000....then well...they'll just display the wrong time...not crash/burn/explode or cause the world to end....duh.
It was funny to watch people though, i was living in a small country town at the time and at the local grocery store people were talking about it.........the conversations went like this........

"Man, our VCRs,TVs/radios/car radios...their all just gonna stop wurkin cause they cain't compute no year 2000...then da whole wurld is gonna end and all.People are gonna be going crazy, we are gonna have to use rain water to survive man"
And I'm thinking to myself..."oh, yea...wow..man what am I gonna do w/o the clock on my car radio.Damn, now my entire car wont start w/o the car radio clock...ooohh nooo??" rotflmfao

2007-02-19 17:49:37 · answer #6 · answered by Dream 5 · 1 0

haha as if anyone would be dumb enough to freak out. no1 seriously thought anything bad was gonna happen, it was all a media stunt. if scientists were really worried they could have turned a computer's clock forward to 1 second before 2000 just to see what would happen

2007-02-19 17:43:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

I was in a crowded train station in Japan, and people were trying to get home on the last trains, to be home before "anything happened". It was chaotic, but I wasn't worried.

2007-02-19 17:44:37 · answer #8 · answered by tankgirl190 6 · 0 0

Sort of. We bought a bunch of canned food, batteries, lots of toilet paper, bottled water and several bottles of bleach. We still laugh about it.

2007-02-19 17:40:29 · answer #9 · answered by The Nana of Nana's 7 · 1 0

I camped out next to an ATM. I was hopping for the best.

2007-02-19 17:42:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

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