By Request - New Years Eve - 1999-2000 - 4/4 -Times Square - Katie Couric, Tom Brokaw -WHDH-7 Boston This should be all of it for NYE recordings unless I find something else that I am unaware of now..
I remember this New Year's Eve like it was yesterday. Was watching this exact coverage of it in my crummy apartment off campus in the US, last semester of my senior year in college, in a hurry to graduate! The MSM (as usual) had been fear mongering about the coming "Y2K" glitch. Jay Leno was cracking his usual jokes. I was 24 years old with my whole life ahead of me! The Y2K scare was all a hoax so it was anti-climactic. "Waiting for tonight" by Jlo reminds me of this era. Now I'm 45 and getting older by the second! Thankfully I gathered a couple more useless degrees, before finally finding my passion (totally unrelated to anything i studied) achieved my dreams of seeing all 7 continents. Antarctica excepted, and enjoyed my late 20's and 30s thoroughly! If I could go back to 2000 and advise myself (or advise those currently in their late teens and early 20s), I'd say, nothing is ever that serious..don't let what you do for a living define you. When you leave or get fired, nobody will even remember you a couple of years down the line! Follow your passion, travel, enjoy the journey, seek God and all will be well. God bless all in your life journeys!
I remember being 19. my mom was freaking out that internet explorer, craigslist, amazon, ebay, and tv was going to disappear, my aunt Nicole was telling my mom to calm down, my dad was like, son of a bitch I will have no work tomorrow. my younger sister was crying.
aaaaaaaaaaaaah the 90s, the years of my childhood. its really interesting to look back on the year 2000 as we are about to enter into an almost decade since then. happy New year everyone. Prospero ano y felicidad!!!!
I'm a Gen X'er who was born in 1978. I watched "ABC 2000" when I was 21 years old. I had to go into the year 2000 and beyond, but if there were such a thing as a time machine, then I could travel to the 1980s and '90s. I'm rounding off to the nearest 50. Once 2025 comes, the marker of the timeline gets closer to 2050 than to 2000.
I was 10 yrs old remembered everything I remember everyone was so scared of the chaos that might arise computer errors, planes dropping from the sky, terrorist bombings including:subways and government buildings, worldwide power outages resulting looting, fighting and increased criminal activity but nothing happened here we are 15 years later.
Amen, man. The 90s were just so much better than the 21st century's been so far. If they invent time travel, there are two places I'd go: May 25, 1977, and January 1, 1990.
Two-Thousand years can't be fully two-thousand years until the 2000th year is complete (there was no year-zero.) So, the next one-thousand years began at the moment of Jan.1, 2001 (1/1/01) - it always does. The last: Jan. 1, 1001 (1/1/01), The next one will be Jan. 1, 3001 (1/1/01...)
But then again a millennium is just an arbitrary period of 1000 years so I mean a new millennium could've started on any year and heck if you make 1 BC to 999 AD then yes in theory you could get a full thousand. But there's two problems with this. The first reason is that it's one year before the epoch started (and even If it was thought that Jesus was born on December 25th, 1 BC the epoch didn't start until more then a week later and again in this case of this year numbering system there's no year 0) so having one BC year and only having 999 AD years wouldn't make any sense (even when it was proved that Jesus was born years before the epoch). The second reason is that 1 BC is not a round number so that means so that would mean that the 2nd-last millennium would have years 1001 BC to 2 BC and they are not round numbers so it can't be calculated this way. HOWEVER there is a solution to this problem. But first it's important to mention that we can't convert AD 1 into year 0 because then we would have to convert every single AD year for the last 2000 years which wouldn't be a big problem for the first 500 years since they were retroactively added in. But for the next 1,500 years after that then all those years would have to be converted and subtracted by 1 meaning that not only 2020 will turn into 2019 but it would screw up leap years and would screw up world events dating for the last thousand years. So no we can't convert AD 1 into year 0 because of how many events happened in the last thousands of years so it's too late to do that. BUT what if instead of converting AD 1 for the year 0 we instead convert 1 BC to the year 0. That would mean the start of the epoch would be a year before AD 1 and would be on Jesus suppose birth year 753 AUC and not 754 AUC (AUC means "in the year of the founded city" which the founded city was rome). Even though that means that every BC year would have to be subtracted by 1 to compensate for the conversion of 1 BC to year 0 meaning that years like 2 BC would become 1 BC (even though it's called -1 in astronomical terms) the thing is that no one knew that they were living in the time before Jesus and all those BC years were retrofitted in AD 731 by Bede and because of this the current year and all AD years would stay the same. So because of this converting all BC years wouldn't matter because not only because nobody didn't know about Jesus (and that his birth date was wrong) but also that years would be in round numbers again meaning that the year -1000 (1001 BC in our calendar) and -1 (2 BC in our calendar) would not only be a full millennium but also it could would end in round numbers. So it would fix the problem of no year 0 and even then before we had exact recorded records events with less records was just estimated with round numbers so adding a year 0 wouldn't change that since we still don't know that much what was happening back then. And when we reach the time before recorded history the BC/AD annotation (or the exact years in general) is dropped completely because then we really don't know what happened back then so we use other epochs instead. So yeah that's the thing, a millennium is just an arbitrary period of 1000 years, using 1 BC as a starting point would mean that millennia would end in years dividable by three 9's, converting 1 BC to year 0 would means the BC millennia would all start and end on round numbers, and it wouldn't matter if we changed 1 BC to year 0. So this sounds like a better system to me and fun fact people like computer scientists and astronomers are already using this idea (in things like ISO 8601 and astronomical year numbering). So yeah it's possible to do this but because that means we would have to reform the Anno Domini system to accommodate for adding in the year 0, the nature of how the number zero is viewed, and that no one is calling for a reform of the calendar era, It's unlike that this would happen anytime soon. But this just shows that you can either count millennia from 0 (or 1 BC in this case unless if we use the astronomical system which it would be year 0) to three 9's, or from 1 to 1000 because of how arbitrary these terms actually are and that this is just a man made creation that has no effect on both nature and the universe whatsoever. So it's just a really arbitrary Idea and concept no matter if you're using either Anno Domini (or the common era) or astronomical year numbering (or ISO 8601).
@MSTS1 I think that most people thought that saying "the year 2000" sounded cooler. While technically right, the people that kept correcting everyone were still party poopers. ;) BTW. this video makes me so homesick for Boston. :(
Funny how people anticipated they year 2000 back then. To me, it was the beginning of the worst era ever. I mean after 2000, everything went downwards. We were attacked a year later, we went to war, our gas prices started to climb up, our economy started going down, etc. I remembered the good old days in 90's, it was such a good time to be alive.
according to the Gregorian calendar, there is a year 0 :P during the year 0, it wasn't called that because the Gregorian calender wouldn't be created for another thousand years.
@electrogeek77 - Yes, I agree. Even if technically correct, it really wouldn't have made much sense to anyone to 'celebrate the new millennium' one year after the arrival of 'The Year 2000'..
Compare what the year 1 looks like to year 2001. A MAJOR technology difference. Now I cant bear to imagine what year 2001 to 3001 would look like..oh boy
see the y2k problem was that they THOUGHT that every thing might shut down but the 2012 problem is that th mayan caladar says its gonna end and the mayans have NEVER been wrong
My dad worked for a bank and the bank had to up date every computer system for the whole bank. He said it was a pain in the butt to do. But on the other hand I remember at the time my dad told me that anyone who had brand new computers were ok. Its people and companies with old computer systems that have to up to date their computer systems. They scrambled to fix things before the new year turned to 2000. If you think about it all that preparation prevented power grid outages world wide.
2000 wasn't the beginning of the millennium. The 2nd millenium AD ended December 31, 2000 and the 3rd millennium and 21st century started January 1, 2001.
