In the year 2000....

I thought there were supposed to be hover cars... and.... stuff.

wtf happpend?



Whats some of the stuff you remember people saying about the year 2000?

 

the world was supposed to end too


all the computers shut down everything

 

^yep that was what i was gonna say..the world is ending it's just taking it's sweet ass time

 

edit-I didn't read the ? right, sorry.

 

hmm.

I turned 14.

Yay.

 

Fuck hover cars, I wanted hoverboards like in Back to the Future.

 

^ yesssss
now i wanna watch back to the future

 

I almost bought all three of them on DVD at Walmart earlier. It was only $14, but I decided on the movie 'The Illusionist'.

Also, for the future I wanted robot maids like in the jetsons.

 

I bought the Back to the Future trilogy for Xmas.. They are great movies...

 

I was expecting us to have much better prosthetics, like, half man half machine people, people who opted to have electronics meshed with their organic systems
yeah
*nerd*

 

I just remember everyone freaking out about the world ending....and me hoping it would.

 

in back to the future though, they went to the year 2015, so you have a good 8 years yet till hoverboards should be invented.....

 

looks likek i have to make a trip to Wally World

 

I thought this thread was going to be about Conan.

 

There WERE hover cars and stuff, they were just too damd noisy and didn't hover more then a few inches off the ground so nobody was really very interested in them.

japan's got all kinds of monorails all over the place. i can tell you what happened in a nut shell: emotional attatchment to familiar assumptions is what happened.

the engineers did their job where the science was available to support them, but the real life markets didn't give a rat's ass. THAT's what happened!

not as long as bankers and politicians could get fat off of continuing to con people into trying to impress each other by indenturing themselves to a conventional, infernal combustion powered, rubber tyred automobile with a new superfical skin of tinfoil every year.

the alternative tecnologies are out there. you can find them, the real proven and reliable ones, not just the wished for fantasies, with the tool you have infront of you. which itself, started out as being only of intrest to hobbiests. you can find just about all the nuts and bolts you need to make damd near anything short of a transgalactic ufo by noodling arround on the net.

a lot of it just hasn't entered everyday life for the average joe sixpack for no better reason then buisseness as usual having a 'good thing' going for itself, and not willing to trade that for a better thing for all of us.

every year, collage students all over the world build battery powered 'cars' with solar chargers, and then have to get special permits from oil controlled governments just to show them to each other.

i don't know why this doesn't rot more peoples balls like it does mine. i truely do not.

i just have to guess the rectal head possition is what most people are either comfortable with or so enculturated to that nothing else ever occurs to them.

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I remember the world ending and people like building bomb shelters and stocking up on water and shit like that.

My dad had to work on New Years to make sure the computers didn't crash at Energizer.

Fun times.

 

ha! the real y2k bug (from using only the last two digits of the year, the way apps used to do in dos, and more importantly, on the big mainfraims), was that all the bankers and insurance brokers were afraid their computers would start sending checks they'd have to make good on, to people who had already died a hundred years ago.

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because the ppl who would have been building the hover cars were too busy creating new designer drugs, such as crank

 

2000 was a rip off
where are the moving sidewalks and jetpacks?
i want my jetpack dammit

 

Year 2000 was dissapointing. Nothing really cool happened, I think everything got delayed.

On the bright side it was the death of boybands!