# Where were you in the year 1999?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-the-year-1999/691378
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 22, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-the-year-1999/691378 "2014-06-22T19:25:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2014, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-the-year-1999/691378/21 "2014-06-23T01:39:08Z")
I was working in Siberia for an NGO. They were worried about Y2K so they paid for me to leave Russia over New Years. I went to Estonia and had a blast, the next year I started dating the woman who I would marry and that holiday weekends was one of my last as a single guy.
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2014, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-the-year-1999/691378/22 "2014-06-23T01:54:37Z")
I didn’t have no teeth, and no eyes. Which made partying difficult.
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### Author:  [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2014, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-the-year-1999/691378/23 "2014-06-23T01:59:28Z")
Working at a different company doing a different job. Still lived in the same house as I do now, but it was smaller then.
My kids were in primary school. A mate did a lot of work prepping companies for the Y2K thing that everyone was scared would make planes drop out of the air and computers crash.
Can’t remember exactly what I did on new years eve, I think I was up at the parents place in country NSW. If all tech stopped working overnight, no one up there would have noticed for weeks.😃
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### Author:  [@Silvorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silvorange)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2014, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-the-year-1999/691378/24 "2014-06-23T02:14:02Z")
I was frustrated with my living situation. I had moved back with my mom and little sisters “temporarily” in 1995, but Mom was having serious health problems and needed me around. I was working second shift as a CNA, going to college part-time, and planning my wedding. My first nephew was born that fall. I am back living in the same house now, with my husband.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2014, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-the-year-1999/691378/25 "2014-06-23T02:21:49Z")
I am disturbed by the OP referring to 1999 like it was some far off era.
I said goodbye to everything I had known and moved to Australia that year. It was a risky move that I wouldn’t be brave enough to try again. I struggled a bit, but with help (and only with help) from others I got on my feet and did okay.
I also joined the SDMB that year.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2014, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-the-year-1999/691378/26 "2014-06-23T02:24:11Z")
My mother was still alive, and I was living here with her, to help take care of her medical problems. Professionally, I was selling prints of my photography through my store on eBay, and constructing art work that is nothing like what I’m doing now. And I was stocking up on canned cat food, my one concession to Y2K.
I was active on SDMB, but not officially a member.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2014, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-the-year-1999/691378/27 "2014-06-23T02:33:06Z")
I was with my dickhead boyfriend. Still in college, just starting up my business.
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### Author:  [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2014, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-the-year-1999/691378/28 "2014-06-23T03:17:57Z")
I was here as always.
Both of my parents died in 1999.
I remember it all too well.
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### Author:  [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2014, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-the-year-1999/691378/29 "2014-06-23T03:51:11Z")
1999 was very memorable year for me, perhaps ranks as one of the most nostalgic and favorite years of my little more than quarter century life so far.
I was 12 years old, in sixth and seventh grade, I started getting serious attention from girls at school, which really boosted my self esteem and ego. I remember the first day of seventh grade this girl who I hardly knew prior came over and gave me kiss on the cheek and a hug. Just great.
For some reason during that year I was tutored in math after school, either by my father, a neighbor, or an older friend. But never before or after.
Personally it was great times for me.
In terms of events, I remember protests being held near my school when the U.S/NATO bombed Belgrade. Also recall Columbine shootings in Colorado.
I know about many world events in 1999, however those two really caught my awareness as a 12 year old back then.
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### Author:  [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2014, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-the-year-1999/691378/30 "2014-06-23T03:52:32Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> I am disturbed by the OP referring to 1999 like it was some far off era.
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> I said goodbye to everything I had known and moved to Australia that year. It was a risky move that I wouldn’t be brave enough to try again. I struggled a bit, but with help (and only with help) from others I got on my feet and did okay.
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> I also joined the SDMB that year.
I know right? Just 15 years ago.
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### Author:  [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2014, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-the-year-1999/691378/31 "2014-06-23T03:55:19Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#):
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> I didn’t have no teeth, and no eyes. Which made partying difficult.
Care to elaborate?
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### Author:  [@CatherineZeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatherineZeta)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2014, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-the-year-1999/691378/32 "2014-06-23T07:02:59Z")
I was in 5th grade. My parents had just bought the house I lived in until I was 18 and I had switched elementary schools. Switching schools wasn’t a big deal though, I made friends easily. Y2K was sort of a big deal and all the computers in the school were “Y2K Proofed.” On New Years (2000) my friend slept over and we came up at midnight to watch the ball drop and Bill Clinton speak. I remember he had already started looking very old and we thought his hair looked blue.
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### Author:  [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2014, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-the-year-1999/691378/33 "2014-06-23T07:14:47Z")
Finished Uni, graduated, job hunted (successfully!) and moved to the other side of the country to live with my future-ex-husband.
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### Author:  [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2014, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-the-year-1999/691378/34 "2014-06-23T12:01:11Z")
I quit uni in Feb and went backpacking. Spent a little over 8 months backpacking through South-East Asia, then headed for Europe near the end of '99
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### Author:  [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2014, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-the-year-1999/691378/35 "2014-06-23T14:02:12Z")
> [@Terr](#):
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> I remember making lots of $$ off the Y2K stuff working as a freelance programmer. Oh and making absolutely ridiculous gains in the stock market (most of which were gone later). CMGI anyone?
Ditto, except for the stock market stuff. Made a big ol’ bucket of loot from Y2K.
Good times, good times.
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### Author:  [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-the-year-1999/691378/36 "2014-06-23T14:23:08Z")
I had just started my current job. I was new to SW FLA and enjoying my new “beach” lifestyle. On a low budget since I was just begining to earn real money.
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### Author:  [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2014, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-the-year-1999/691378/37 "2014-06-23T14:36:01Z")
My wife died on January 29, 1999.
On December 31, 1999, the variety band I had been in for ten years played its last and best-paying gig, and we played the Prince song.
In between, a lot of grief and a lot of mindless programming work for Y2K.
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### Author:  [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-the-year-1999/691378/38 "2014-06-23T14:41:37Z")
I was an undergraduate at Purdue University. Internet, mega bookstores, and fancy coffee drinks made life really, really, really sweet. It was a good year for me.
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-the-year-1999/691378/39 "2014-06-23T15:07:59Z")
• celebrated my 5th wedding anniversary with the love oft life, Mrs Piper
• working in the same job as now, prepping and arguing three major court cases ( won 2 out of 3)
• watching Columbine live on CNN
• father-in-law died after a long illness
• Sandra Schmirler announced she had cancer and went downhill quickly
• working on Y2K prep at the office
• discovered the SDMB, which in addition to being fun in itself, taught me how to use the Internet
• closed out the year at two New Year’s parties with friends
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2014, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-in-the-year-1999/691378/40 "2014-06-23T15:12:25Z")
It was my last year of junior high, and it was the time when I was briefly popular. I’d just started being talkative. I’d lost a lot of weight due to being on Adderall. I think it also made me more physically coordinated.
Looking back, I realize it wasn’t as great as I thought it was, but I know I was happy then, at least for the 1999 semester.
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