It's amazing how fast time flies.

Indeed...where are the flying cars?  I want some flying cars!

I know, seems like it wasn't that long ago when it was just starting.

Yeah, it seems like yesterday when I was watching the ball drop on TV for the year 2000 and the Y2K scare. I wonder if they'll make a big deal about the turn of the decade once it gets here.

Yeah, only three more years left.

I was there when the '60s ended, but I don't remember of course because I was eight months old!  Thus, New Years Eve 1979 was an exciting moment for me, and I stayed up to usher in the new decade!
New Years Eve 1989 had me reflecting on the first full decade I could remember.  That was pretty cool. Unfortunately, I was so bombed I was barely cognizant of 12:00 A.M. 1/01/1990.
Of course, New Years Eve 1999 was exciting because it was the end of an entire millennium...WOW!  Plus there was the Y2K panic.  What, oh what, was going to happen when the clock struck midnight?  Nothing really.  I had spent the evening reading Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness."  I checked all the gauges, dials, signals, bells, and whistles, and saw everything was still working.  I yawned and went to sleep.
Once you get into your fourth and fifth decades, the end of a decade loses its novelty.  I doubt New Years Eve 2009 will have any particular meaning for me.
:-\\

New Years Eve 1989 had me reflecting on the first full decade I could remember.  That was pretty cool.


Thats how its gonna be for me New Years Eve 2009. I was born in '88 and I can't really remember the early 90s so the 2000s will be the first full decade I'll remember.

Thats how its gonna be for me New Years Eve 2009. I was born in '88 and I can't really remember the early 90s so the 2000s will be the first full decade I'll remember.

I'm about a year younger than you, so I'm the same. I can't remember when the '80s became the '90s. I can however remember when the '90s became the '00s. Of course when that happened, I was more interested in the turn of the century than the decade. It'll be a different story in 2009.

The Ronald Miller character in the 80's movie Can't Buy Me Love, says something like, by 2010 or so, people will be living on the moon. It's amazing how times flies, and techology soars, but still nothing truly massively, mind-boggingly different.

Yeah, it seems like yesterday when I was watching the ball drop on TV for the year 2000 and the Y2K scare. I wonder if they'll make a big deal about the turn of the decade once it gets here.



Yeah, I know. I remember the whole Y2K thing really well, so its hard to imagine that being almost 10 years old. I guess the hardest thing to believe is that, in the 2010's, the 1990's will have been 20 years ago. That means that the teenagers of the next decade will either be too young to remember the '90s, or maybe weren't even alive in them at all :-\\

Back in 1999, I had several "01-01-00" shirts I used to wear, those were the days.  8)

Back in 1999, I had several "01-01-00" shirts I used to wear, those were the days.  8)



Yeah, I remember those. I also remember those tacky 'countdown to 2000' shirts that had the timer on them listing the excact amount of time until the year 2000 :D

Yeah, I remember those. I also remember those tacky 'countdown to 2000' shirts that had the timer on them listing the excact amount of time until the year 2000 :D


lol.  :D

Yeah, I remember those. I also remember those tacky 'countdown to 2000' shirts that had the timer on them listing the excact amount of time until the year 2000 :D

I used to have one like that. After 2000 arrived, I tried to figure out how to hack it into counting down to other dates. I also have a Y2K snowglobe I bought back in '99. Inside, it has a computer blowing up and little "1s" and "0s" as the snow. I use it as a doorstop now. ;D However, it might be worth some money someday.

The Ronald Miller character in the 80's movie Can't Buy Me Love, says something like, by 2010 or so, people will be living on the moon. It's amazing how times flies, and techology soars, but still nothing truly massively, mind-boggingly different.

I think 20 years ago you'd find today's computer technology pretty mind boggling.  Color monitors with graphics capablities were unknown to the average home computer owner.  "Car phones" were for bigshots!

By the 1950s we were out of Earthly frontier.  Humans always had "frontier," lands beyond and unknown.  Then the whole globe was mapped (except for a few remote places).  Then the spacheshots came.  Sputnik started the space race in 1957.  Yuri Gagarin orbitted the Earth in 1961.  The idea of humans leaving the bounds of our atmosphere went from science fiction to science fact. 

Enter Gene Roddenberry, "Space: The Final Frontier..."
So much of the sci-fi focus in the 20th century was on space travel we assumed man could overcome the challenges of outer space.  Turns out space is a much more forboding enviroment than our runaway imaginations led us to believe.  Even if some NASA scientists understood in 1975 that there would not be Martian colonies in 40 years, the general public certainly didn't.  Thus, we tend to look back to the expectations of previous decades and feel unimpressed with what we have accomplished.  Gauged by space sci-fi, this is certainly correct, but I don't believe that is at all a fair measure.

Yeah, I remember those. I also remember those tacky 'countdown to 2000' shirts that had the timer on them listing the excact amount of time until the year 2000 :D


I remember those, lol. I even considered buying one, but knew I'd look like a dork with it after the year ended (:D), but I now wish I had. That'll be a piece of memorabilia someday.


There's also this "Book about the Year 2000" I got in '99 that talked all about past predictions about the future. It's pretty interesting really, and I'm glad I kept it.

I remember those, lol. I even considered buying one, but knew I'd look like a dork with it after the year ended (:D), but I now wish I had. That'll be a piece of memorabilia someday.


There's also this "Book about the Year 2000" I got in '99 that talked all about past predictions about the future. It's pretty interesting really, and I'm glad I kept it.


I wonder where mine are, I had like 3 different ones.  ;D

But we have Gears of War 2 and 3 to look forward to :D

The Ronald Miller character in the 80's movie Can't Buy Me Love, says something like, by 2010 or so, people will be living on the moon. It's amazing how times flies, and techology soars, but still nothing truly massively, mind-boggingly different.


Never seen that (despite my love of '80s movies), but in a way those "sci fi-esque" predictions make sense if you look at it from a present context. Things had changed so much between, say 1955 and 1980, it would be normal for someone to believe it'd get even more advanced by the time the present was as old as the '50s were then.

Plus, around 1982, things really started to feel like everyone's idea of "the future", since there were home computers (despite being not nearly as useful or commonplace as now) and other hi-tech devices (for that time, especiallly).

Yes, another decade to put behind us. I remember ushering 1990 barely (I was about 7 1/2 years old). 1999 was obviously memorable as the '90s was the first decade I recall most vividly. And, now, of course, the end of the '00s will soon be on its way.  

I just cannot believe how fast time is going by!  It seems like just yesterday, I was graduating high school (1995)....and then all of a sudden it was the year 2000. My ex was one of those crazy people that thought the world was gonna end. He like stocked up with canned goods and freeze dried food... :D ;D  And now, it is 2007....it's hard to believe it. As each year passes, my yearning to go back to my youth grows stronger and stronger.  The whole 2000's have not been a good era for me at all...a lot of drama has occured during the past 6 years...I only hope that the next few years are better than the past ones.

I used to have one like that. After 2000 arrived, I tried to figure out how to hack it into counting down to other dates. I also have a Y2K snowglobe I bought back in '99. Inside, it has a computer blowing up and little "1s" and "0s" as the snow. I use it as a doorstop now. ;D However, it might be worth some money someday.



Really you got one, that's cool. I actually really wanted to get one back then, but for some reason never did. The snowglobe thing is pretty cool too, just wait about 20 or so more years and there'll be somebody dying to buy that stuff on Ebay(if it's still around then,lol)


I remember those, lol. I even considered buying one, but knew I'd look like a dork with it after the year ended (:D), but I now wish I had. That'll be a piece of memorabilia someday.


There's also this "Book about the Year 2000" I got in '99 that talked all about past predictions about the future. It's pretty interesting really, and I'm glad I kept it.



I remember those book things too. I think we might've got one, but if so it's long gone by now :(

I kinda wonder what some of there perdictions for the early 21st Century were, and if they came true or not.

^ I could go back and look, if you want.

Yeah, they mentioned Nostradomus saying there would be a war ("things falling from the sky") in the 7th month of 1999. I wonder if he meant 9/11 or the Iraq War. If so, that would be pretty close. I read about some of his other (at the time) future predictions that apparently turned out true.

Nostradomus? Bah. After seeing this special on the guy I have to say his "predictions" look to be utter B.S. :P

^ I could go back and look, if you want.

Yeah, they mentioned Nostradomus saying there would be a war ("things falling from the sky") in the 7th month of 1999. I wonder if he meant 9/11 or the Iraq War. If so, that would be pretty close. I read about some of his other (at the time) future predictions that apparently turned out true.



I've seen quite a few programs about him, and it is amazing how a lot of his quatrains ended up mentioning things that happened centuries later.

Nostradomus? Bah. After seeing this special on the guy I have to say his "predictions" look to be utter B.S. :P


He is fascinating, but yeah, one common thread I have noticed with psychics predicting (for their time) future events, is that it's usually not revealed to the public until after the date.

Although that could be because they don't want to (a) look silly and shatter people's beliefs in the psychic if it turns out to be false, or (b) panic everyone if it's something catastrophic.

I've seen quite a few programs about him, and it is amazing how a lot of his quatrains ended up mentioning things that happened centuries later.


Yeah, the one event that stands out to me is how his corpse was dug up and moved (why, I forget) in the year 1701. When the coffin was opened, there was a "1701" scratched onto the lid. Then again, there's no way to prove that, so who knows.

Back in 1999, I had several "01-01-00" shirts I used to wear, those were the days.  8)

Today i was looking at our school's 2000 yearbook and somebody had one of those shirts on in one of the pictures.  :D
Also we recently found this stuffed snowman that when you pressed it's hand it would countdown and shout "Happy new year! Welcome to the year 2000!" wow what a nice use of money.  ::)

I just cannot believe how fast time is going by!  It seems like just yesterday, I was graduating high school (1995)....and then all of a sudden it was the year 2000. My ex was one of those crazy people that thought the world was gonna end. He like stocked up with canned goods and freeze dried food... :D ;D 

The world did end.  This is all an illusion.  It's like the way we still see the light from so many extinct stars.  Cosmically speaking, we're in that instant between the time you switch off the lamp and the time the room gets dark.  Un-live your anti-life to the fullest in...
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No, the world was not going to "end" in Y2K. All technology was going to fail.  It became a lame substitute for the mass hysteria about atomic armageddon.  We stopped worrying about that after the Cold War ended.  Then we felt our lives were incomplete without it.  So we latched on to Y2K.
I had friends and family stocking up on canned goods, freeze dried foods, fuel, batteries, hygiene products and so on.  I did nothing.  They asked me, "Aren't you worried about Y2K?"  I replied, "Yes, but I have an easier solution.  I'm getting a beltfed weapon and lots of ammo, then on New Years Day of 2000, I'll be visiting your house, and your house, and your house, and your house.....mwuh-hahahaha!"
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Yeah i know 2001 seems like yesterday but it was 6 years ago! Hard to believe. Its like that Janet Jackson song "Funny How Time Flies".

The world did end.  This is all an illusion.  It's like the way we still see the light from so many extinct stars.  Cosmically speaking, we're in that instant between the time you switch off the lamp and the time the room gets dark.  Un-live your anti-life to the fullest in...
http://mandatemedia.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/twilightzone.gif


No, the world was not going to "end" in Y2K. All technology was going to fail.  It became a lame substitute for the mass hysteria about atomic armageddon.  We stopped worrying about that after the Cold War ended.  Then we felt our lives were incomplete without it.  So we latched on to Y2K.
I had friends and family stocking up on canned goods, freeze dried foods, fuel, batteries, hygiene products and so on.  I did nothing.  They asked me, "Aren't you worried about Y2K?"  I replied, "Yes, but I have an easier solution.  I'm getting a beltfed weapon and lots of ammo, then on New Years Day of 2000, I'll be visiting your house, and your house, and your house, and your house.....mwuh-hahahaha!"
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I wasn't worried really at all...but my damn crazy ex sure was! :D

Ya know, after I saw the 1999 Simpsons Tree-House of Horror with that Y2K cartoon, that's what got me paranoid.

Its the late 2000s now, I feel more futuristic already! hot damn!11

Gen-Xers like me grew up with dystopian notions:
1. Atomic war.
2. Overpopulation/resource depletion/famine/climate change/disease

The pure utopian visions were caput by the '70s.  If we did have "space colonies" in the next millennium it would be in lieu of an inhabitable planet due to the above.  "Blade Runner" (Philip K. Dick via Ridley Scott) was the future vision I latched onto when I was a kid.  That dystopia was set in 2019.  "Blade Runner" was far-fetched in technology (ie. artificial human replicas, space colonies) but not in its ideas: corporate dominance supplanting democracy, overbearing commercial culture, ruinous climate change, rotting civil infrastructure, expansive ghetto wastelands, savage violence in spite of draconian law enforcement, overwhelming depersonalization, etc., etc., etc.

I see dark visions coming to pass in 2007 and it's terribly alienating...