"Ten Years Ago I Was..."

[CaptMurdock]

...working at a HMO, in the contracts department, living in Garden Grove with my wife and two sons.

We went to a friend's house for New Years', wondering if there was going to be anything to this Y2K thing. So much for that.

 

[-aggie-]

Living with the girlfriend from hell.

 

[sushi]

Living with the girlfriend from hell.

I remember those days -- girlfriend from hell.

At least we weren't living together.

 

[obeygiant]

Living and attending grad school in San Francisco.

 

[nick9191]

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[Mitthrawnuruodo]

10 years ago I was 29 and had just finished the first semester of College.

Taking computer engineering seemed like a good idea at the time, but because of the 2001 IT crash, when I still had a year left in school, I actually had to get by as a student/freelancer until a year and a half ago, when I - aged 38 - got my first ever regular job...

I was unaware of MacRumors (the site began in February 2000) and Mac rumors in general, but had already owned a few Macs.

And that...

Actually I didn't stumble upon MR until I started researching a new Mac purchase in 2003, and didn't register/start posting until 2004 from the very iBook i got, during the duller lectures in History/Religion, that I took after I finished my computer engineering degree...

 

[roadbloc]

A child with dreams of being a rock star.

 

[Melrose]

10 years ago I stayed up 'til after 3 in the morning listening to the radio because they had their DJs in each timezone across the US and had the new millennium come in over and over and over again. That Chumbawamba song was the first song I heard in 2000.

 

[yoppie]

Ten years ago, I was living the easy life. I was a high school student with no bills and no obligations other than excelling in school work. I miss those days.

 

[Doctor Q]

I was on the verge of the last full year of the rest of my life.

Wow! You should write an autobiography! Although I'll probably wait for the movie to come out, if you don't mind.

 

[63dot]

Living and attending grad school in San Francisco.

Wow, GGU by any chance? If so, maybe we know each other since that's a small venue. If it's SF State, then we probably don't know each other.

 

[flopticalcube]

That Chumbawamba song was the first song I heard in 2000.

Tubthumping?

 

[Forsaken]

In January of 2000 I was 3 turning 4 in April.

Nothing special.

 

[yoyo5280]

... I was a 5 year old becoming more american.

 

[Surely]

...... in Toronto for the holidays and New Years, visiting with my family and friends. A couple of days later, I was on my way back to Chicago for the start of the next semester.

 

[Telp]

I was 8. In 3rd grade. Probably watching Futurama... Ten years really doesn't sound like a lot but that feels like such a long time ago...

 

[obeygiant]

Wow, GGU by any chance? If so, maybe we know each other since that's a small venue. If it's SF State, then we probably don't know each other.

Nope, right around the corner at Academy Art. I bought a lot of software at your bookstore though.

 

[63dot]

Nope, right around the corner at Academy Art. I bought a lot of software at your bookstore though.

Cool. Do you remember the kind of hidden nightclub across the street from 536 Mission in the paid parking garage and lot? Though not well known, it had the Doobie Brothers' tour airplane, sans wings, inside of the club.

 

[Zombie Acorn]

I was 15, probably playing a video game with friends at this time at night.

 

[Mars478]

4. And at Argentina with my blood family and watching my dad blow up fireworks. It was pandemonium in Mar del plata. I remember tons of people died that night.

 

[fireshot91]

I was 6 years old, and in India.

 

[OutThere]

I was 11 years old, in 6th grade. A week earlier I had just unwrapped a brand new Lime Green G3 iMac DV, a christmas gift from my parents and my first computer all to myself, so I was probably glued to that. I remember I spent hours playing "Bugdom" and pissing off my parents tying up a phoneline dialing up to the internet.

A far cry from this year's new years spent bar crawling NYC til 5am...

 

[eawmp1]

Pre-kids, with better reading vision, and more hair/less grey, and just establishing my practice.

 

[Maserati7200]

I was 6 years old, in first grade. I wanted to stay up for the new millennium everyone kept talking about but ended up falling asleep. I was watching The Angry Beavers (on Nickelodeon, when Nick was actually good) and it was about 11:30 PM when I fell asleep. My last memory of 1999 was watching the Angry Beavers Theme song and the part when they walk up the stairs. I was so annoyed the next day because I missed the new year. Then everyone kept telling me that the real new millennium is 2001, i didn't believe that for a second because I knew it wasn't true. My how fast time flew by. I still can't believe 2000 was ten years ago. In fact my status on fb is: "it's going to be 2010 soon, wow. Really?? Was 2000 really 10 years ago? doesn't feel that long ago. Being a young person I guess 10 years would feel long but I guess it doesn't. this means people born in 1990 are becoming 20 years old, and everyone is growing up. it all happens so fast..."

And I have a question for those who were in high school around that time: how was the transition from being a teen to a full blown adult?

 

[Melrose]

Tubthumping?

That be the one, yup. It's pretty much the only Chumbawamba song, really...