• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Meanwhile, rebels like me were on a long-distance call just to see if we’d get billed for 100 years.

  • kender242@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    We had a LAN Party!

    486 proxy box using RedHat and ipchains sharing dialup Internet for about 8 of us in parents basement.

    Enjoying looking up websites and seeing odd dates like 19100 show up. Nobody died, outside of Starsiege Tribes CTF.

  • xia@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    5 months ago

    How am i JUST NOW realizing that their y2k warning is not y2k-compliant!?

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I remember people I knew stockpiling canned goods and everything. What a weird time.

    And yet still not as weird as people stockpiling toilet paper and boycotting Corona beer in 2020.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      We knew that the problem was already solved, but the media kept leaning into the sensational doomerism. That was the first time in my life that I realized that the media might not be unbiased or truthful.