Although it's meaningless in the grand scheme. Just a number we humans put on the earths orbit around the sun. Now Halley's comet, that's something to see. Mark your calendar for 2061.
Such a great time to be a coming-of-age teen. I remember being very amazed to experience the turn of a new millennium. Seeing that ball drop made me emotional then...
Idk if it’s weird or no but Sometimes I tear up when realize that I’m not gonna be alive to see the day we turn to a new millennium💔 it really breaks my heart sometimes that I’m not gonna see this see the new year of 2100 too💔 RIP to us
I watch the 2000 ball drop every year on the 31st of December. It gives me chills hearing Clark say “Welcome to 2000!” I almost want to cry because of how special this event was. But to all the people who didn’t experience 2000 like me, only year from now in 2025, we get to see a quarter of a century since 2000! I sure do wish I was alive when it became 2000.
Stray Dog Peopel still party like they did in the 90s? Please tell me where these parties are, I was born in '01 and unfortunately didn't get a chance to experience anything 90s wise😭
Same here. Whatta memory! I was 13 years old and remember running to my computer after the ball dropped, which I left on, and the date sure enough rolled back to like 1917 or something crazy like that. I promptly changed the date and everything was fine lol.
I was there in Times Square 6 hours before the ball dropped. A friend invited for a week in NYC then. I was a few blocks away when the ball dropped. It was amazing to be there! One of the best experiences ever! :)
Brought a tear to my eyes seeing this footage, thinking about everything that's changed since then (including this whole year), and realizing how lucky I am to have lived through the changing of the Millennium up until this point. Just over four hours left in 2020 (GMT-5), and I hope 2021 will be a much better year for all of us. Cheers and Happy New Year everybody.
I hope you were able to be alive before 2000. It was like the death knell for America. I miss the 80's and 90's so much. Like a lost loved one. Oh...oh, if I could go back. Even just seeing Dick Clark, instead of some 🩰💡🩰 guy in a skirt, and sickening agendas. Racism wasn't being used to divide and conquer us, like it is now.
I remember watching this live with my mom, dad and grandparents in 2000. We all were anticipating for the power to go out or something because of the big Y2K scare. I still remember everyone waiting eagerly and with a bit of trepidation before the ball hit. Nothing ended up happening but it was a fun moment in time I'll never forget.
The software was used by many, so not a lot happened, but in some countries, people died. In Canada, a water treatment plant computer(s) dumped what was set at 100 years of poison into the water, and 9 drank their home water and died before word got out enough. In Paris, the moment it struck 12, their computer running the lights went nuts and scrambled the light display. Oddly I have not been able to find a video showing this, but we watched live.
All the TV stations videos did NOT show the ball drop on 2023. This one in 2000 either! I thought it must be a test to see who's honest. But probably testing mind control on the people, various experiments & etc. There's some tiny fireworks around the ball, but NO visible ball drop! Emperor's not wearing any clothes!
@@BaptistJoshua Oh, thanks! I hope they don't delete your comment. I couldn't see the ball actually drop in any TV channels' videos, which I thought was strange, but I thought what you said is the kind of stuff therefore going on. It still seems to be there. Maybe they put it back because of your reply! 😄
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Ah, I remember this like it was yesterday. I grew up in New York. I was 11 that day. I was there with my family everybody was so excited to see the beginning of a new millennium! It's very nostalgic to see Times Square back then. I feel sorrow when I return to New York to visit my family today. Due to what New York has become over the pandemic. I really didn't expect to get emotional over this but it really was a glorious thing to see if you were there! If I could trade now for then, I 100% would. I still remember it being a little windy and it was INSANELY cold outside. I bundled up for that night. Now, I take my kids to see the ball drop every year in NYC. Because of the wonderful memories, it has left me with.
I miss it too sometimes, I haven't been back home in 11 years...all I hear now from friends and family is they wanna gtfo. This was nostalgic to see though, I was 9 when we were at this ball drop.
My mom and I were there together and she died unexpectedly in April in 2020. This footage brought tears of joy in remembering how truly spectacular and exciting this night was!
This was phenomenal that year, I was one of those supposedly 3 million and change there in a tree on 42nd Street off of 6th so I wouldn't get squished like a sardine. A once in a lifetime event. The world won't be this hyped until 2100 and millennium again until 3000.
Now this is excellent coverage, excellent up close camera view of the Ball. Much better coverage than current & past few years when the cameras don’t focus close up on the Ball. Also this 2000 Dick Clark coverage includes a massive amount of interesting & educational information. This is an example of quality TV coverage of a New Year’s Ball Drop. THANKS ABC!!! THANKS DICK CLARK!!!! Wish you were still with us. RIP 💖😀🎉🥳
Actually, this was from ABC News' day-long millennium coverage (anchored by Peter Jennings) as there was no New Year's Rockin' Eve, but at least Dick still called the ball drop.
I know right? He started in the early morning of Dec. 31, i think 4 or 5am, and ended the coverage at 4:00am of January 2000!! He's such an anchor, also did the same thing on 9/11.@@hurkydoesntknow
I remember watching this on tv that night thinking to myself the new future era is here like I was amazed at the thought of what crazy technology would come about starting in the 2000s lol like it was still shocking to me to think that the 90s was over lol I just couldn’t wrap my head around it,
@@brydie191 Congratulations! Treasure these last few months of high school because adulthood is right around the corner and "adulting" is not what it's cracked up to be lol. May you have an amazing future! 🙂
That's because 2000 was the start of the 21st century and 3rd millennium,And it was before 9/11/2001 happened,Way different atmosphere back in those days
won't be anything like this, again :( . it was so much fun watching around the world, going into year 2000. it was like whole world got together for one night and celebrate the new year together. now just not same :( I was 16 years old.
I was only 7 at the time but I remember watching this clear as day. I also remember when midnight hit here on the west coast and everybody in the neighborhood went crazy. A couple of bushes even caught fire.
That moment when you realize you were alive during the ringing in of the New Millennium not many can say they were alive during this is a feeling that can only happen every 100 years to every 1000 years I wish I could live to 2100.
That night (December 31st, 1999), I was in Hicksville, New York (which is on Long Island, in the dead center of Nassau County, about 25 miles due east of midtown Manhattan) at the home of some friends. My then-girlfriend and I had made the trip for that weekend to see our friends there. The next night, my then-girlfriend and I visited Times Square, and there was still a lot of confetti on the sidewalks.
They didn't exist yet but if they did I'm sure they would have it's no different than having out a portable digital camera so comments like this are so foolish
But you could relive that decade right now! (If you’re willing to, which I doubt you won’t and you’ll continue to live on this modern ill-mannered piece of shit world that we’re living in right now.)
watching this from 2019. So trippy to think the 20s will be here again in just a few short months. I hope you all are surrounded by loved ones come the new year.
I am happy to have lived seeing the passage between the two centuries and the arrival of the new millennium. I was only a 12 year old girl but I remember perfectly the emotion and the importance of that event.
I Was Very Lucky To Watch On TV The Once In A Lifetime Major Event The Coming Of The Year 2000! Matt Drudge Said About The Y2K Disaster That Never Happened When The Millennium Began That It Was Like Hearing A Nuclear War Had Been Called Off. I'm Glad I Saw It On TV And Watch The Late Dick Clark Countdown To The Year 2000.R.I.P. Mr.Dick Clark And Thanks For Giving Us A Lot Of Great Memories! I Await Your Reply.
I still remember this like it was yesterday. I was in 10th grade and went to Vermont with my family to visit grandparents. I stood in their carpeted living room and waited for all the power to go out like an idiot thinking Y2K was going to turn off the world. Sad to think what happened less than two years later, in that same city.
It trips me out realizing that this occurred nearly a quarter century ago, being 8 years at the time I have fairly clear memories of just how big this event truly was!
God I miss these simpler and nicer times. People were so chill. Sure there were still a-holes, but not nearly as many. Look at this ball drop compared to 2023. 2023 looks and feels like a funeral. It’s insane. People just zombified and looking at their smartphones and recording things. No one smiling or talking. Everything dark. It’s so dystopian.
I was 7 years old at the time. It wouldn’t surprise me to see this as the biggest one in Times Square to welcome a new year. A great time to witness because we won’t live to see the year 3000.