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More like 80s babies, since we were actually old enough to remember those first two things
I was born in 1992 and remember it all.
But you're over 30
I can imagine the hysteria you were going through as an 7/8 year old experiencing Y2K. Glad you made it through
Born in '83, I don't remember anyone bothering with it too much. It was all over the news and such, sure, but I don't recall anyone I knew caring about it all that much; both adults and children.
I'm 40 now and living through all this crap has definitely taken a toll. I didn't get into a house until last year, so I missed the cheap housing, and I've been significantly affected by most of this. I still live paycheque to paycheque, and I have no significant savings or retirement money put away.
I have had a pretty strange experience in life though, even compared to my peers. I dropped out of HS, then after about 5 years got my highschool equivalency, went to college, did two different two year programs in about 5 years (there's a story there too, it should have been 3-3.5 years, ended up closer to 5), got into some disappointing jobs, unemployed for a while a couple of times for nontrivial amounts of time each time.... it's been a ride. I'm fairly stable now, though my financial situation is fairly fragile. With the new recession/inflation, it's causing some stress and worry.
Life. Fucking life.
If 9/11 made you hysteric, you have bigger problems. Downvote if you're a big american baby.
A child had no idea nor would they have been immediately directly effected by Y2K. In fact, no one except software engineers at the time get to claim that as anything, because they fucking stopped it from hitting anyone.
Born in 91, actively interested in computers from a young age. Y2K was mindless media panic over nothing. Tho it was fun hearing older kids being like “I want to be on my computer when the Y2K hits so I can be sucked into the internet!”
It was in the news, it wasn't some programmer inside joke lol.
Born 1992, I remember it all too. I already knew how to program BASIC, build a computer, knew more than the regular folk my age.
My friends even knew about it, enough to understand what it was about without much or any experience.
It was in the news because the news wanted views and it WAS an important event. It still hurt NO ONE like the other actual disasters from history, thanks to software engineers.
It was only a predicted and avoided disaster, not one normies suffered through. Even if you've never been to NY, the US's response to 9/11 made the world a worse place for everyone. The world was better off after software engineers fixed the bugs and shortcomings that would have been Y2K.
Y2K was not a disaster that actually happened. It was predicted and prevented, unlike the others on the list. "Living through it" is no more enlightening than saying, "I was alive Dec 31st, 1999.".
Who and what are you disagreeing with me about? And why are you telling me what I already know, I don't get your point?
I was born in 94 and I remember 9/11. I remember the turn of the millennium cause I remember finding it hard to write 2000 instead of 199X in my school book, but I don't think I was aware of Y2K
Yeah and add on a nuclear disaster for us europeans as well please.
The 80's were from 1985 to 1995.
Nope.
1981 to 1989
Closer.