The Year 2000

I like that music video

 

Game changing album for me that came out in 2000. Also the year I became what some may call a "barefooter"

 

Remember Papa Roach, Godsmack and Fuel. I loved them back then. I was into Three Doors Down and Matchbox Twenty. I would watch MTV in the early hours before school. I remembering a snow day just watching videos and early Jackass.

 

i can remember that i hadn't been on hip forums for very long, less then a couple of years.
oh i remember zen-bazaar still being live, or just going off line,
which was how i found this place.

the internet being still being only around a decade old, was still a land of freedom, hope and opportunity.
yes i remember porn sites from strange parts of the world i'd never heard of,
but more then that, much more, was that corporate marketing hadn't yet taken over,
anyone could have and keep a url, without having to pay protection to our corporate masters to do so.

that meant it wasn't a place to watch television, but to tell your own visions, and share them with ordinary people like yourself.
anyone with a computer and a modem and a browser, owned the internet as much as any corporate network or marketing agency.

 

I have this memory of standing in a lunch line in my elementary school cafeteria, staring at one of those white painted brick-like walls, and being filled with panic at the fact that it would never, ever, ever be 1999 again.

I guess that is pre-2000 but close enough.

 

Twas a pretty big year for me......I: Finished school & started sixth form, started lifting weights (mostly sit-ups & curls...lol), started listening to a lot of Dad rock & powerballads + I remember getting drunk on beer & alcopops on the Millenium New Years eve with my Dad.

 

2000 I performed in a National Baseball showcase in Florida and got selected to the US Junior Olympics Baseball team. But it was across country and expensive af, so there were a few months between the selection and tournament and the deal was I had to maintain a certain level GPA and my dad's lawyer friend would help pay for it.

I hated school at that point, I basically just played Sports, Music and Video Games. Needless to say I didn't maintain the GPA, in hindsight it would have been cool but at the time I mostly took it in stride with teenage apathy.

 

in the year 2000 i was 52. and i could look back at the book 1984, which had hung like a sword of damoclese over the western world throught much of my childhood and adolescense,
and be thankfully aware that it hadn't happened quite like in the book. at least, not for most of us, in the u.s. though many aspects of it, were already out of date by the mid to late 70s.

like i said, 2000, dispite dire predictions, and all the bs about a year being that even numbered, felt like a myracle year, like we were really on the brink of achieving world peace.
and i still believe we would have, if the events of late 2001 hadn't happened, and its just too hard for me to imagine this wasn't deliberately, to prevent it.

and not by islamists nor liberals who had nothing to gain by preventing it either.

 

Y2k
I did not stockpile shit. My generator sat out in the shed under a pile of junk I did not even bother to go look at it.
And looky here we all are

Glad I did not buy into that

 

by the year 2000, my dad had died in 91, and i had married in 96.
i wasn't paying much attention to the main stream of popular music, though i did notice such things in passing.
may tastes were more into exploring the byways of electronic space, filk, celtic and world beat.

trying to illustrate my imagination with 3d autocad, having not yet discovered blender and its animation capabilities.
i was still beating my head against the tendencies of win 95 to crash if you didn't hold your mouth just right.

 

I remember when I was a kid ( earlie 70s ) 2000 sounded like a long time in the future . now it sounds like a long time ago .

 

Time goes by fast too fast if you ask me. I have had people pass away since then that I was very close too. I also stopped talking to a few or they stopped talking to me.

 

Yeah man. I had my whole life ahead of me in 2000. I was just in my teens. I had bad influences, new music, my first relationship. No body pain, decentish back, didn't have to worry about a mobile phone or phone cards. Cds were still printed, console games didn't need a download to play a new game, plug in and play, simple. Did dumb things, did fun things, did memorable things. Would I give it all back? Shit yeah, bro. Gimmie dat!

 

when you live long enough, you begin to realize, that things which haven't happened yet, will become things people who haven't been born yet, will be saying "remember when".
the scary part, is once you've reached half your expected lifespan, how quickly this whole thing goes wizzing by.

 

I rang in New Years in 2000 at a Christian concert lol. Just a little christian punk rock show at a local church. It was the only place my mom would let me go and stay out past midnight. And I had such a huge crush on all those christian punk rock boys hahah. Good times.

We all sort of held our breath during the countdown, expecting the lights to go out and for modern society as we knew it to collapse...but nothing happened of course

 

Drunk in New Year's Eve in Times Square 2000, before the cops checked backpacks at blocked off streets. Got online with an AOL/Compuserve bundle and hung out in AOL chat. Joined MySpace and had crazy sex that year. Tinder ain't got shit on those times, lol.

 

i don't know about you, but i haven't stopped.

 

No. Me either.
Stupid is stupid does.

 

i missed out on most of the stupid things, because i never could see much point in them.
which is not to say i haven't done a few, or in any way imagine myself immune to doing so.
i would have liked to have had a lot more sex when i was younger, especially when i was 'under age',
and this was in the 60s when i was. but that was a long time ago, even a couple of decades before 2000.
now its just a pretty thought but i could really care less.

if i live to be 104, the year 2000 would then have been the exact halfway point in my life.
there's no way i expect to. in another ten years i'll be 80, in 20 i'll be 90, in 30, that would be an absolute miracle.