What were doing the night before Y2K?

[calldrdave]

I was on the "response team" at the local newspaper. I even have a sweatshirt to prove it, but too lazy to post it. We had a fun party without booze. Everyone brought some food and we watched videos of our weddings (long story)

Clock struck midnight and a frantic call from the sports department:

Caller "OMG. It's happening. I was in Photoshop and I got a Type -36 error on my Mac"
Me "Well, that's usually a hard drive write error. Did you perchance not have the syquest mounted?"
Caller "Oh yeah. I do that all the time. Do you think this is Y2K related"
Me "Did you put in the syquest now?
Caller "Yeah. It's working now, but I still think this isn't just a coincidence"

Only call of the night. Of course I was salary, so no extra pay.

 

[carrcomp]

I was drinking ginger ale and pretending it was champagne like what my parents had.

My dad kept making fun of the Y2K bug right up until that moment, but part of him I think was secretly afraid it might make my mother miss Bingo time on her computer.

Then I went to bed, and didn't think about it.

 

[pceinc]

I was at my mother's house with my wife and kids. She had some longtime friends over. I was sleeping on the couch in another room when I heard everyone screaming the countdown. I jumped up and went into the garage. When they got to 1, I cut the main power to the house. All i could hear was "Oh ****!" and then the sound of gunfire from the local village idiots. It didn't take them long to realize I cut the power but it was still funny.

Earlier that day before I was selling Y2K cards like hotcakes. Lol.

 

[Moltuae]

and then the sound of gunfire from the local village idiots

Wow!

They have to make do with fireworks over here.

 

[AndyM]

No idea, I was 6.

^^^ In bed sucking your thumb lol... Young-un!

Andy

 

[gunslinger]

I was working as a correctional officer.

 

[alluseridsrejected]

I was at the Federal Reserve Bank In Dallas Tx, which is 1 of the 3 main federal reserve data centers. I was a systems programmer on a Y2K contract with the Fed to keep their mainframe systems running.

 

[HCHTech]

Babysitting my employer's two servers & 20 workstations. One was a NetWare box for the office network, the other was an NT database server. We did actuarial analysis & pension administration. After all the effort, I wanted to see it work with my own eyes at midnight.

There was certainly hyperbole from the media, but the whole reason there wasn't a problem in the end was because of the herculean effort by legions of tech folks. I was co-chairing an industry group at the time and there were a lot of meetings with the developers about changes that had to be made, and how to complete them in time. It was no small effort. It was a non event because the issue was recognized and money and labor was expended to fix what was necessary. Never got a t-shirt, but there is a coffee mug in a dusty box somewhere commemorating the event.

 

[datadatau]

Was sitting in the command centers at a Cargill facility looking at the massive amounts of contingency logs, and coding that we had changed for the pending doom and gloom, only to be presently surpised that only 1 line of code was missed in a scan gun program that had to be fixed, but nothing critical.

Treated to team to all you can eat pizza, filet minion, and all the fixings.

 

[SOHOtechRob]

Baby sitting my NT 3.51 and Exchange 5.5 servers. Nothing broke. Big worry and planning and it all went well without a hitch.

 

[citizensmith]

I was here https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...3876m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0!5m1!1e4 @ 751 SU

 

[Kitten Kong]

The thread has been cleaned up. Please keep posts on track.

Apologies for halting the thread, but we had some admin issues behind the scenes which needed amending. These have now been fixed, so the thread is back open again.

Thanks everyone.

 

[SilverLeaf]

The thread has been cleaned up. Please keep posts on track.

Apologies for halting the thread, but we had some admin issues behind the scenes which needed amending. These have now been fixed, so the thread is back open again.

Thanks everyone.

Thanks Nige. My apologies to all (yes, including Gunslinger, and especially the OP) for my momentary lapse of good judgement.

 

[jzukerman]

I think I was at a lan party. I know I did one or two on New Years. Just can't remember if it was Y2k or not.

 

[mlcomputers]

I was working on the Customer support desk for Jersey Telecom in the Channel Islands. The only query all night was a problem with an ISDN connection that was non y2k related. The company paid us a shed load of money for the inconvenience of working that night and laid on a full buffet in the office together with a bottle of Champagne for each member of staff to take home. I cannot believe it was 15 years ago!!

 

[Kitten Kong]

Thanks @Moltuae, have done so

 

[frase]

Using my commodore 64

 

[Ed_Zipper]

I was doing stand-up in the bustling metropolis of Dubuque, Iowa. But I kept the 1k for the gig.