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From millennial perspective Y2K was a no event. Nothing happened and they weren’t developers fixing software to ensure that nothing happened.
I think the bigger picture is missed here - it’s the natural environment that is suitable for humans to exist that has been pillaged, razed, and sold off for cheap while a handful few have become obscenely wealthy as the guardrails that were put in place to prevent/mitigate such environmental extraction are dismantled all in the name of short term gains. While the guardrails can be placed back in relatively quickly, it is the raping and the alternation of the natural environment that is not easily reversed - if even possible at all right now.
That is the real cards current and future generations have to deal with or the lack of…the longer we ignore this issue, the worse it will get. Tragedy of the commons.
But I will also mention that millennials were pretty much sold lies at every turn while growing up.
Hard men make good times ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Generation X lived through the Cold War, the oil crisis, the Powell Memo (the beginning of the corporate takeover), Reaganomics, neoliberal deregulation, the aids epidemic, the threat of nuclear annihilation, Y2K, 9/11, a pandemic, 2 economic recessions, and a possible AI apocalypse along with more nuclear annihilation threats and watches as America turns into a fascist hellscape all before they hit 57 years old.
Yay, we win.
Dot.com bust?
Most of those happened before we were 10 years old therefore we were unaware & unaffected, and Y2K was a big ball of nothing. So I’d say we’re about equally politically traumatized as millennials except we had way funner childhoods 😜
I very much remeber being a kid and having a very cold apartment in winter because the energy costs were sky high. I still layer like I’m in Antarctica every winter and try to never turn up the heat (though that is a meme I guess).
We were the first with video games though.
We were the first with video games though
I’ll never forget Christmas 1979 or 1980 Dad bought the family our first gaming console, an Atari 2600, and I’ll never forget that they said it cost $100, and apparently that was a lot of money back then. My dad was 30 years old and had bought the house we were living in when he was 26 years old, a newly built single -family home in a new subdivision, a 26-year-old supporting a family of 4 on one income 🤯
And they want people to make kids through all of it too.
Y2K wasen’t I big deal to live through… nothing happened. There was more hype for Star Wars episode one
As someone who was working tech in 1999 i will shove forks in your buttocks if you say that again
Lulz, sorry dude. I think I was 12ish at the time. But because of your hard work. It was smooth sailing for me.
I thank you for your service.
It took several billion dollars and basically every computer engineer with the knowledge to make sure Y2K “wasen’t I big deal to live through”.
They saw the storm Coming and plotted a course. Because of that, living through it for me wasn’t a big deal.
It was a pretty big deal, it just didn’t amount to anything. But a lot of people were worried about it.
I know you’re right. I’m just saying living through It as an early teen wasen’t a big deal.
911 and Columbine affected me way more
My friend had one of the very few personal computers that was actually at risk from the timekeeping issue. The only real threat was that some important computer somewhere was forgotten in the patching that happened beforehand and could cause a cascading failure or something. Otherwise I remember a news story about the old people who had headstones that were pre-carved with 19__ in the death date.
“Living through Y2K”? What does that even mean?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem
Hundreds of billions of dollars were spent on mitigation.
Yeah but what does it mean to “live through” that?
Don’t you remember all the computers bursting into flames and every nuclear bombs going off?
I specifically remember how that didn’t happen. Because people did a lot of work, sure; but what could it possibly mean to have “lived through” other people doing work and solving problems?
Can’t be. He’s smoking.
They took that away from us too.
I know that it is one of the most senselessly self destructive acts that one can commit, and that many people think it smells bad, and that it is a representation of class struggle and poor education, but I miss when all of the Cool people that didn’t give a fuck hung out outside of a workplace swapping stories whilst killing themselves at similar rates.
I guess people could stand around and look at their phone for fifteen minutes part way through their shift, but it doesn’t hold the gravity of wincing against a sheet of sleet and recalling the harrowing tale of the Nor’ Easter of ‘95. Or that one time Sheila kicked you out of the apartment for No Reason during the Nor’ Easter of '95.
If I see someone out on a 15 they have their headphones on because they have their reality so bespokely edited that their world is filled with carefully selected music or bantering friends they will never meet.
The shrooms are wearing off, so I should stop yelling at clouds soon.
Smoking is bad and kills you. But it was the last place we had to be social. Now people dont even go outside to smoke cause they just lowkey hit their vape indoors.
I used to think the old timers were lame for talking about “back in my day”, but now i realize what decades of the enshitifcation of everything does to people.
I saw a breadtube that posited that one of the reasons that cigarettes really took off (aside from marketing) is that it gave men and women a reason/excuse to talk.
I believe it was also before any sort of worker’s rights, so most things were highly sexually segregated and everyone just worked until the boss got tired.
Change has been accelerating so the intensity of differences between today and “back in my day” is only increasing with time. Millenials won’t need to exaggerate to get the same effect boomers needed to exaggerate their stories for.
Gen Z will be like, ‘I used to have to ask strangers if they had games on their phones, Alphas get their first tablet as soon as their eyes can focus. Kids nowadays! I was bored for MINUTES at a time, and I didn’t complain!’
This is exactly the reason Billy Joel wrote We Didn’t Start the Fire.
Every generation has its challenges.
Not all millennials are trying to become emo boomers who talk about how much tougher they had it.
Last I checked nobody here died in a tower, and everyone here survived Covid.
Survivoship bias in full bloom
Genius on full display.
Not at all what survivorship bias is.
Enjoy the upvotes from the other self absorbed millennials.
It’s true, some millennials are out here trying to be gen x and shitting on everything and everyone. Undiagnosed mentel illness is a fucking privilege you wankers.
Undiagnosed mental issue here is narcissism if anything.
Before COVID I was lucky to find a warm corner of the refrigerator box before my six brothers came storming back from the mines.
If you talk to someone who died on a tower or by covid you might have a career as a medium.
Add next year’s “biggest il niño in 500-1000” years to the list
I ain’t even thirty and I only “missed” Y2K, ha.
There was a lot of toilet paper and investing in gold.
In retrospect, I wish I had dumped my savings into gold rather than buying that sweet Matrix leather jacket.
Blow jobs are fleeting. Gold is forever.
Don’t forget all the forever wars.
“They” being the Talking Heads?
Same as it ever wasAnd the days go by…
Still easier than people born 100 years ago.
You’re not wrong, but it was easier for people born 60 years ago
Was it? Measles and AIDS. Vietnam and Stagflation and Segregation. Nixon and leaded gasoline and crack cocaine. The height of the Cold War. The forty-year run of de-industrialization. Some of the darkest days of the Civil Rights Movement.
It only seems easy because you didn’t have to live through it.
*If you were white and American
True – but it is seemingly less so today for white americans (an exeedingly large demographic) to be able to afford basic lifestyles.
It does suggest a major shift in affordability if your main christian white majority can’t buy groceries
Shhh, chronically online white youth don’t want to talk about that. Hell if you were a woman you couldn’t even have a bank account on your own until 1974.
if you were a woman you couldn’t even have a bank account on your own until 1974.
That’s not actually true though. The banks were not required to allow women to open bank accounts but plenty did anyway.
So if the bank manager of your town felt slighted that you didn’t go with him to prom he could deny you a next step in life? Yeah. That’s not so bad.
Edit: I’m not saying you are wrong.
Oh for sure, it’s not a sensible way to run things.
There’s advantages and disadvantages of allowing local/personal discretion.
Nah. If you were born in 1966, by the time you turned 30 you lived through Vietnam, the AIDS epidemic, the civil rights movement, Desert Storm, and you spent your entire life with nuclear apocalypse hanging over you in the form of the cold war. And the US economy wasn’t doing great either until the 90s.
If you were born in 66, you were 8 when Vietnam ended. The civil rights movement was pretty much done by 74 as well. You might have fought in Desert Storm, but that was so small and quick the odds of you being there are pretty small. The AIDS epidemic was bad, but if you didn’t live in a major city you likely wouldn’t have known anyone with AIDS. The Cold War pretty was winding down by the time you were born and the threat of nuclear apocalypse was mostly bit really worth worrying about by the 80s.
Aids and nuclear war I agree but for someone born in 1966, they would be too young to be personally affected by Vietnam and the oil shocks of the 70s and by the time the Cold War ended and the 90s came about they’d be earning well . The Simpsons broadcast in 1989 and Homer was a blue collar worker who owned a house on one income with a stay-at-home wife and three kids. That was possible at the time.
But in America, you could afford groceries most of that time.
No, they couldn’t afford groceries then either. Goodness. Like do people forget the oil crisis in the 70’s? Wonder why so many receipes came out about Jello and microwaves?
In fairness, microwaves went mainstream in the 1980s. Most people didn’t have them in the ten years prior.
There’s a joke in the movie “American Hustle”, taking place in 1978, about the lead character getting a $3,000 “Science Oven” as a bribe.
