MyDarkestTimeline01I could do with less of these "once in a lifetime events", please.
morgunkornY2K wasn’t that bad compared to the rest
Comparatively, sure it’s small potatoes.
MimicJarIf anything it was a misdirect.
When the world/news goes crazy, it’s probably not actually that bad. Surprise mothetfucker!
Whenever I hear a new term I have to figure out if it’s really that bad, or just made up nonsense.
shawn1122In hindsight. There was some degree of hysteria at the time, which prompted ended at the turn of the millenia when planes did not fall out of the sky and computer systems did not all fail in unison.
There was that one guy who got charged $60k in late fees at blockbuster though.
the Dot Com bubble burst + World Trade Center in 2001 was another animal
ZeroGravitasNothing personal, I try to correct this view everywhere I see it.
Y2K didn’t happen because a lot of talented engineers worked their asses off to prevent it from happening. It is the bane of IT people everywhere that the working state of the systems they create and maintain is being taken for granted by the public, with barely a thought givem to those who fight bugs, spam, cyber attacks and pure entropy every day. It is in fact a minor miracle of engineering that we’re even having this conversation.
God(or whatever metaphysical force you subscribe to) guard the engineers. Of all types.
And A-women too 😁
OpenStarsReminds me of this funny bit from Louis C.K. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBdwNP7xk_6/
Thank you. I was on the Y2K team.
Thank you for your service. I mean it.
And thank you! I merely followed directions, my first real IT job. But I’m proud to say I was there! As a private if not a general.
Couldn’t agree more and do not in any way intend to diminish the hard work of those that prevented a widespread systems failure.
That’s true, but it is also true that there was a lot of hysteria… A lot of well designed systems were built without the y2k flaw in the first place…
The public should take it for granted, it’s corpo culture that shouldn’t. If IT people had the freedom and option to do the right things early there’s so many situations that would never happen, but oh no profits must increase by 10% yoy or else CEO is replaced.
Y2k was a non event because a lot of time, effort, and money was spent fixing it before the deadline.
The estimated cost of fixing the bug was between 300-850 billion dollars in 2000 - adjusted for inflation that’s about 0.5-1.5 trillion dollars
The estimated worldwide cost of fixing the Y2K bug, according to analysts: Cap Gemini America Inc. — $858 billion; Gartner Group Inc. — $600 billion; International Data Corp. — $300 billion.
skulblakaY2K wasn’t that bad because a billion engineers saw it coming and prepared accordingly. If everyone hadn’t been freaking out about it for years beforehand things could have gone very differently.
Possibly linuxNot really as it would just be another Crowd Strike
Bird flu is scheduled before WW3 so plural plagues
KingJalopy I don’t have that in my calendar for some reason. Fucking Google.
We already had bird flu check your records
We’ve had one bird flu, yes, but what about second bird flu?
A lot of is are 40+ but I appreciate your meaning.
We need to include the Cold War and the nuclear crisis to the list.
Does it really count if they were babies?
Gen X has entered the chat
Inappropriately as always ;)
I was 1-11 in the 80s. Was super aware of nuclear fallout and the Cold War. But my dad had also been gassed in protests against the Vietnam War and used to joke about running toward the blast of the nuclear war ever happened.
I’m technically the last year of Gen X, but definitely fit more with millennials, and couldn’t drink until the year 2000.
Op also forgot the dot com bubble which burst when I graduated high school.
I’m 1 year older than you and feel the same about fitting with millennials.
The most non millennial thing about me is really important though. I was already in my career when 9/11 happened. Having my foot in that door was huge.
I was still in college. I also went part time for 2 years so I was in school with all millennials when I graduated college. I got a good job after, but just as I qualified for 401k contributions 2007 happened and I got canned when the whole company went under.
And you aren’t a millennial.
Eh, 3 months before the cutoff doesn’t really count.
Then what’s the point of a cutoff?
Honestly, anything before 1985 doesn’t feel millennialish.
The cutoff is currently 1980, but generations are just weird retrospective categories anyway. They sorta shift a bit ass new divisions become noticeable.
I can be Gen x if you want, it’s just financially and experientially I’ve lived much more of a millennial’s life.
Harvard’s Joint Center for House Studies disagrees: jchs.harvard.edu/…/defining-the-generations-redux
That being said, the birth years from 1978-1984 seem to comprise a fuzzy cohort with an even more unique shared experience; some have dubbed this “generation Catalano,” “the Oregon Trail generation,” or even “Xennnials.” We each may personally find our experiences here closer to Gen X or Y, but this millennial cusp coinciding with the advent of the Internet has certainly yielded something interesting.
I guess it’s changed since I last looked, but also the fuzzy zone idea fits with the retrospective nature of generations I was talking about.
TIL I’m the Oregon Trail Generation. Probably gonna die of dysentery.
This is a pretty gatekeepy take.
Generations are about your social cohort and shared experiences, not a calendar.
I think late X folks who got the internet in their teen years mostly fit in better with millennials than X. Being able to anonymously talk about anything with people from all over the world while still in your adolescence is something that most Gen X didn’t get, and I think that particular experience is critical for understanding the differences between X and millenial.
The boundary is nebulous enough that social scientists even came up with this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials
I was born in 78, and I definitely have a lot of X characteristics, but when I talk to other people my own age about things like the futility of working hard for recognition from society/employers it becomes really clear that I understand millenials a hell of a lot better than most gen X do…
And gen-x has lived through everything listed and more. Boomers even more. Think gen-x gets to retire? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA good one!
You should talk to those Catholic dudes who have been around since 1840. They have seen some things.
Whenever I meet a fellow Gen X in the wild, they seem to fall into one of two categories. If they were born before the end of the Vietnam War, they are upper middle-class douchebags who film anti-woke TokTok videos in their Dodge Rams. If they were born after the end of the Vietnam War, they are solidly working-class and just quietly depressed about everything.
I’m obviously generalizing here, but older Gen X does seem to be far more Boomerish, and younger Gen X is just… Lost.
Yeah I was going to say, I’m 41 and while I seem more like gen X since I mainly hang around with them and basically grew up around them, I am sadly gen Y.
On a side note, millennial has such a bad connotation around it I prefer to say gen Y. Most people don’t associate their negative feelings about millennials with the term gen Y and it just makes life easier during the rare occasions that it comes up.
BigBluntPapaI think a lot of it is bullshit. I am 45, early 1980. My mom was 17 when she had me. Her parents were Silent Generation, early 1936 and late 1939. Mom and Dad were cusp boomers born in late 1961. Her parents raised me with my cousins who were all 1970-1975 kids. I have two brothers who are cusp gen Y&Z, born in early 1995 and late 1996.
I am firmly Gen X in my upbringing and socialization but when my cousins went off to College I got a bunch of Gen Y friends and my experiences changed. I introduced them to The Meat Puppets and Husker Du and they introduced me to Blink 182 and Gren Day.
My little brothers are Gen Z stereotypes raised by a couple of Gen X stereotypes but technically they are Gen Y and Boomers
My point is the dates don’t mean shit, it’s the environment and the influence. When I talk Generations with people I just tell them I am a Xeinal 1977-1983. It saves me from having to listen to someone tell me I am Gen Y when I have almost nothing in common with Gen Y.
Long unsolicited rant over lol
Looking at the pixels and layers upon layers of compression artifacts in this photo, it wouldn’t surprise me if the original was created at least 5 - 10 years ago, meaning it would have accurately included all millennials at the time it was made.
It’s missing working 3 jobs to survive and still being called entitled and lazy
What idiot was calling you entitled and lazy?
Pre-MAGAts
All of Fox News
“Maybe Millenials should save money instead of spending it on avocado toast” was a very common sentiment at the time.
Fox News was attacking avocado toast? Why don’t they just report the news??
Fox News legally can’t call themselves a news station anymore because of how little of their programming is actually news. It’s always been an opinion broadcast, at best.
The dot-com burst was a recession too.
Oh, and you are ignoring the entire thing where every currency except the dollar was destroyed in the 90s.
Also, history ended in 1986. It seems you didn’t get the memo. It would have been typed and nailed into your local clipboard.
Also, history ended in 1986.
Imagine thinking neoliberal Western Democracy was ideologie’s final form.
They did though! These idiots thought exactly that.
To be fair, it were the Marxists that started with the entire “end of history” bullshit.
Well, summer is within spitting distance, so prepare for a new record. :)
Venus_ZiegenfalleIt iiis what it iiis
SoleInvictusThanks dad.
LucidlethargyYeah, but I think we’re going to get a participation trophy. I’ve been raised to believe this is the case, but that we should not be proud of it, because we’re actually garbage.
Hey! Hey now! I might hit 40 before world war 3. Let’s stay optimistic about this.