The year 2000 from a past perspective

[darren]

One thing i remember was talk of the millennium bug.

All these odd things were gonna happen.

Of course it ended up just a normal day nite.

[Victoria O'Keefe]

The local newspaper Editor's response to the elderly regular writer:

"Neville Chamberlain also hoped for world peace".

[George 1978]

Also getting back on topic, looking on the newspaper archive at old editions of my local paper, a regular letter writer wrote in back in the 1980s and looked forward to "King Charles III" sending her a telegram for her 100th birthday if she lives that long. She was in 80s at the time, and passed away in 1992, over 30 years before Charles became King!

[George 1978]

George was joking...

Yes, he was...

[Victoria O'Keefe]

George was joking...

[Richard1978]

He looks familiar, but I can't quite put my finger on who he is...

Paul Eddington as Jim Hacker from Yes (Prime) Minister.

[Victoria O'Keefe]

[George 1978]

He looks familiar, but I can't quite put my finger on who he is...

[Victoria O'Keefe]

I'm not a politician...

[George 1978]

That stereo looks like a cooker.

A 1960s version of Cilla Black came to mind there for some reason after I saw that picture on the previous page.

[Semi42]

Knew the millennium bug was tosh at the time,
I declared that as soon as the clock hit midnight at 2000, no more ciggies! Not smoked since l9
was that disco stereo a home made thing Victoria? Can’t recall seeing that in the Argos catalogue lol

[Victoria O'Keefe]

Main thing i miss about 1979 is my disco stereo and Robin Williams.

[Arran]

I remember the Millennium Bug from the late 1990s, then waking up on 1 March 2000 feeling very relieved that the world hadn't catastrophically ended due to software failure. Note: 1 March 2000 is a critical date. 2000 was a leap year meaning that the Millennium Bug could bite twice.

In 1999 some inspectors went round my primary school putting Y2K compliant stickers on computers and other machinery - including things that were not electrical.

[George 1978]

And now Queen Elizabeth II has passed away and Charles is now King, I suppose now the TVS clip was not too far off the truth now.

I suppose that back in 1990, we didn't assume that the late Queen would have a record-breaking reign that she would have had, and that Charles would have ascended to the throne sooner than he did.

[80sChav]

Re: The year 2000 from a past perspective

Thinking back even (after a few days upon reading this thread0, even saying that 1989 was nearer to 2000 than than 2020 is or even 2015 being 15 years in to the Noughties is un-real for "1989 speak"

I don't think that even in the late 80s to early to mid 90s I or any of my family gave the year a 2nd glance in terms of it moving from the 1000s to 2000s (though now through not having a normal life and through Lockdown and Restrictions) I find myself watching Classic Coronation Street on ITV of an Afternoon (which is up to 1996 and yeah admitted in parts it is dated - but parts not) and even the other day Alf Roberts mentioned to Audrey that meetings had been penned in to discuss the The Year 2000 ... then he went on to say 2I'll probably not make it/be here by 2000" and the irony was neither Alf himself in character or Bryan Mosley made it to see 2000

Watching back now is an "insight" as it was like the Programme was caught between two Time Traps of the 80s and 90s with 1996 still only being 7 years on from when the Macdonald clan was introduced in 1989 - which seems an awfull long time 7 years to 1996 (though it is not, but it is compared to 4 years from 96 to 2000 or is equal in regard to 2003 (just entering the Richard hillman period), but of course then compare it to Grange Hill and Julie Corrigan's Year-intake in 1990 and how she got bullied and picked on in Year 7 (or First year ) as it was then and i remember meeting Margo at my Local Panto in late 96 (and she sent a lovely letter and Cast Card after) , but it was noticeable how differing Margo Selby was then - though it is to be expected .... but is still a suprise

An other comparison is Only Fools and Horses from the "Jolly Boys Outing" in 89, up until 1996 and the last great great episodes (with the Triolgy) which ultimately signalled the Trotters had made it as Millionaires before the late great John Sullivan made them bankrupt in 2003 (that does'nt seem the same scale from 89 to 96 as it is from 96 to 2002/03 - still just at the start of the Noughties) or at least the time-scale does'nt seem the same

A further personal comparrison was when I first began College a 2nd time in 95 and I had a steady Girlfriend but also had "designs" on another (a sort of mutual friend) who I pursued but it never came to the me dating her (even though we both basically were Free agents0 but we left our last lessons Summer of either 95 or 96 (I am certain it was 95) and was Horticulture/Enivromental studies and emails/Mobiles were still in their extreme infancy then - so lost touch 9though I guess we could have chatted on the Colleges own built in system on PCs) but we did'nt

Never then did i think i'd not see her for a full 7 years nearly or more or less as I saw her walking down the Street in our Home-Town and just shouted ** Sandy and she said yer it's me!!

Talk of a love story and that we had been a-part 7 years with only minimal chit-chat through mutual mates about how is ** Sandy etc or **Ian and that shows the gravity of the years difference from my own personal experiences of the slow lmid to late 90s half of the decade

At least though I can counsoul myself she said on at least 2 seperate occasions (one in the 90s) the other a 2nd time after we met up again after 2002 that she agreed "a different time and a different place and we would have been B/f and G/f - but then she started dating an Army guy - so I was'nt going to compete on that 1 with him - but alas too we both know we held a torch for each other nad always will at that silly age of 21 (for me v 19 for her) and that what they term the "crazy in love period" added to the great Brit-Pop era of the mid to late 90s of course too (it just felt like my Mum/Dad felt) in the 60s

80sChav