I had to ring in the new year sober and at work because of the Y2K sheeple panic. I worked for a large chemical plant and all my Y2K testing and prep was completed months before the new year came. Me and the rest of my team had to stick around until all the teams were done with the verification and system validation so we just stayed there till 4AM playing Quake CTF over the company LAN. It wasn't the new year's bash I wanted, but at least it was fun to play some games on company time and equipment. I made up for it the next year by getting totally fucking wasted and hooking up with my almost second wife, but I dodged that bullet of insanity and got me a good forever wife instead.

All the freaking out that the computers were gonna launch missiles n sheeit

I remember most people didn’t realize the 21st century didn’t start until 2001, it was just a 4 digit change. 2000 was just the last year of the tenth decade of the 20th century. I kept my mouth shut, people are people, there’s no changing their minds. I never saw a single PC crash due to the 1999 bug.

Y2K could have been a very real threat, if nothing was done about it. People knew about it for decades, and it was fixed "good enough" by the time Y2K actually rolled around.