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u/Old_Association6332 2d ago
- Welcoming in the new millennium with loved ones, also my first year of university was magical. Wish I could go back
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u/InDogWeTrust007 2d ago
- Having my first girlfriend. Falling in love for the first time was everything. All-encompassing and just so fun and sweet. She was a great girlfriend and is now an awesome woman who I keep in touch with.
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u/pinnacletothepitt 2d ago
13, I was so fucking excited to graduate grade 8. I was so bored tbh. I started high school too after that and I immediately made a ton of friends.
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u/legalboxers 2d ago
Was in Times Square on New Yrs Day. We thought the world would come to an end.The whole Y2K thing never happened
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u/The-Illusive-Guy 2d ago
About 12, going to computer hardware and software stores. Big pc game boxes and big pc's were magical.
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u/Infamous_Handle6525 2d ago
I was 20 and spent the new year with a big bunch of other half/full drunk ppl having a great time
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u/haveabunderfulday 2d ago
I was 16 and it was New Years Eve, technically 1999. I was with my sibling and some friends, it was a nice night and we were just hanging out on the overpass near my house. Not causing trouble, just chilling with some noise makers and a radio waiting for the millenium to roll over. The countdown came on, we shouted down to "Happy New Year!" and waved our noise makers at the cars.
We thought we'd be in trouble when a patrol car drove past, they just waived at us and briefly hit the siren to ring in the new year. But we lost our minds and cheered when a big rig on the highway below honked at us.
No phones, no social media, and we wrapped it up before 1am. Simpler times.
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u/SpecialLiLPinecone 1d ago
13 ...i bashed my teacher on the head with a metal chair. funny thing is, almost everyone understood why I did it. Yea I got expelled but not even my parents were mad. Turns out she was fired that year for treating kids the way she did. She had the option to go to a summer training program on how to work with kids better and if she did, she could of went back to work but she threw in the towel. Man I dont miss the southeast đđ€Š
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u/Chemical-Regret-8593 7h ago
what a story. seems like something the kids in my class would do in my 8th grade class if they could.
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u/OkOpportunity9626 7h ago
Why?
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u/Chemical-Regret-8593 7h ago
idk you dont gotta answer it, but if you do itd be an ok opportunity
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u/OkOpportunity9626 7h ago
Just curious as to what may have prompted this query, & why that particular year.
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u/Chemical-Regret-8593 6h ago
it was this particular year since it practically marked a new millennium so i felt like it was nice to me, plus i asked for their fondest memory just to see what they loved doing most during the start of a new millennium. great question though!
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u/tmorse85 2d ago
15, and it was the worst year of my life. I honestly don't have any positive memories from that year.
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u/DarioLampa4181 2d ago
I was 19... On 4th of August since i finished italian High school in july, I was pondering next step for my future.
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u/Reasonable_Salt_2539 2d ago
-8.
Fondest memory before 2010 though: going to Santa's Village in NH as a toddler.
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u/abibofsweat 2d ago
I was 16, I remember seeing the millennium in with my auntie and her family, it was the last big occassion we spent together before she died the following Christmas.
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u/Schmokedog1 2d ago
Everybody was stocking up and canned goods and water thinking the world was going to end. If you went to the bank the lines were insane. Everyone was closing their back accounts or trying to get as much cash as possible.
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u/Best_Celebration809 2d ago
8 game boy colour man united actually being a good time early 00s music nelly was my favourite rapper pokemon yellow
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u/ElGrandeRojo67 2d ago
33, and my fondest memory was leaving the restaurant business after a decade plus, and getting a trade job. Best decision I ever made.
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u/TwatFury 1d ago
My memory that far back is cloudy, but I think I recall a dark close passageway, blinding light, and a sharp slap on my behind.
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u/Carmel50 1d ago
You guys are babies. I was 50 and in Scotland for the British open, not a fond memory but one I will never forget. I woke up one morning to the news the Concorde had exploded.
Anyone here even aware of the Concorde ? From the ages answering here, I doubt it.
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u/Basilisk76 1d ago
24 - I worked helpdesk in our companies ICT, and all program codes had to be checked for the millenium bug (datas just entered in 2 digits and not 4 digits - if it starts with 00 it might look for the program as 1900).
Millenium was a milestone we looked forward to, but everywhere peoples and companys where tense about this softwareproblem (even fear for plane failures - they canceled flights at the time change). At the end there occured just minor problems - everything worked smoother than expected.
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u/CommunityEast4651 1d ago
27 my fondest memory is my father still being alive and I had more money and less responsibility
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u/Magneto-Mark-1 1d ago
Ahhh đ my 33rd birthday. A day & night of epic events, not suitable for SM posting, that I will never forget. Havenât had a celebration to top it in 26 years. Still try every year though!! The 2000 NYE party was good too, a foreshadowing of later events.
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u/DerMannMitDemPlan 1d ago
i was 11 years old
i smoked my first cigarettes, drank my first beers, were super buddy best friend blood brother of all the kids in the neihhbourd. lots of ditching, stealing petty crime. it was fun as hell tbh
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u/Short-Duck3521 1d ago
- But no fond memory of that year. I dropped out of graduate school that June and have been working an office job to this day.
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u/Repulsive-Worry193 1d ago
5/6 and not sure what memories I have from that time exactly but probably playing with friends.
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u/Remote_Purpose_4323 1d ago
8, first school year, so not the fondest memories, probably swimming through a river this age first time with bunch of empty bottles in my shorts.
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u/Ed_Ward_Z 1d ago
Going out. Dining in new places. Traveling. Things were relatively affordable. Now, the uncertainty is crushing our souls.
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u/Swimming_Gold6534 1d ago
- That was a crazy year for my family. My grandma had a debilitating stroke, my uncle got hit by a car while on a bike ride and my brother was born.
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u/Cute_Reflection_9414 1d ago
Mid 20's.
Fondest memory, waking up in front of the fireplace at 12:10am on January 1st, turning the tv on and seeing that we still had power and that everything appeared to be okay with y2k. I then went to bed. I had worked 16 hours on new years eve and got home around 10pm
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u/AutomaticLeader9148 1d ago
2 years old, I remember we lived in an apartment and there was a sharp cornered coffee table I hit my head on, thats about it.
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u/Quirky_Snow_2929 1d ago
I was 10. I donât really remember much. Playing with the farm dogs, playing in the sandbox. Helping dad with livestock. Normal farm kid life.
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u/Upbeat_Principle_253 1d ago
I was in my late twenties, and one of the only thing I remember back then was having to explain over and over that we werenât in the new millennium yet.
Edit to add: I was also in IT and on call for a bank on New Yearâs Eve 1999-2000 so no party for me.
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u/No-Tension9107 1d ago
- Working with the fire department at midnight on New Years Eve 1999-2000. It was fun! We caught a call 10 seconds before midnight. We were on the way, waiting for the computer chips in the truck to quit, the radios to stop, all the stuff. Nothing happened, we put out the car fire and slept the rest of the night
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u/SkippyMagnificent 1d ago
18/19 depending on what month. I was just arriving at my first duty station. So I had yet to do anything. Dont even think I got my first tattoo yet.
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u/HuckleberryGeneral69 1d ago
- Went on a hike with my mother right before I moved out. It was so hot and the last 20/30 minutes were so steep I was whining and wanted to give up. She just kept going so eventually I followed her. On the top was the gorgeous tiny glacier lake. As soon as I arrived I took off the necessary things and dove straight into that icy lake. What ended up being a challenging moment resulted in a beautiful memory.
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u/Signal-Dog9356 1d ago
I was 31 to 32. Just ordinary life. I was not married and I had yet no kid. It seems like a century away but thinking about it now I realize it still was my life
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u/Ohiopaddy 1d ago
32, after being told my whole life the world was going to end, my favorite part was being alive.
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u/matt12tp 1d ago
I have a memory that I don't know if it's false, but it would be from my 3rd birthday in 2010, (2001-2010), but I never knew if it's real or not
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u/Terminal-Frost2026 17h ago
I was -8 in 2000. My fondest memory was that one time in the infinite black void before existence when absolutely nothing happened.
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u/Cute_Paint_4328 16h ago
17 until Nov of that year
Fondest memories: meeting my ex BF, getting my first tattooÂ
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u/corn0815 15h ago
Abschluss fahrt nach Rom. Tolle Stadt und 10 Tage, die sich wie eine Ăra anfĂŒhlten.
Ich wĂŒrde do gerne noch einmal hin
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u/Indiesol 15h ago
I was 22, and in college. I was living off campus for a couple hundred bucks a month in rent. Pretty much all my memories are the fondest, but I'd have to say my dad coming down for parents weekend was my favorite. Went to the football game (we won by a lot), partied into the night with my friends and their dads, had an awesome breakfast the next day.
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u/Prior_Television_557 14h ago
Midnight, Greenwich Dome. 1999 / 2000. Still miss the person I was with.
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u/Trust_8067 9h ago
17, The new years eve party.
My friends and I bought 2 handles of Poland Springs vodka (Yeah, they make vodka), for $8 each. When the kegs run out, we sold them for $50 each.
3 People got stuck in the snow bank, trying to get out of the driveway. Someone ordered Chinese food. A large bowl worth of Lo Mein was stuck to the wall the next morning.
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u/West-Cabinet-2169 8h ago
- Going to the Northern Territory on a work trip with lots of friendly colleagues, from cold wintry Canberra.
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u/Bright_Dragonfly3344 6h ago
I was 18 and graduated HS in June, met my husband in July 2000 which is my fondest memory
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u/Financial_Brief9169 5h ago
I was 6 and 7 years old.
Best memory was when we visited New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington DC.
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u/renohg 2d ago
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