The First Post on This Board on 2000/01/01

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(1) Who will get the first post onto this board of 2000/01/01, according the earlist global switch over into the new year, and what would its content be ? Leo had a good one from Australia last New Year's Eve.

(2) Who will get the first post onto this board of 2000/01/01, according the board's reference time system, what would its content be ?

-- Count Vronsky (vronsky@anna.lit), October 19, 1999

Answers

Aw gee........where's Jack.......According to the gospel of Jack there will be no first post of the new year.....BECAUSE......drum roll....

Y2K Cannot be fixed!!

-- Craig (craig@ccinet.ab.ca), October 19, 1999.


Its gonna be: "HELP! MY LIGHTS ARE FAAaaaaddddinnnngggg.......

-- . (.@...), October 19, 1999.

I have never said, definitively, what the actual effect of entering 1/1/2000 with computers running broken code will be. I don't know; nobody else does, either. It might be completely innocuous; it might be TEOTWAWKI; it might be somewhere in between. (Personally, I'm planning for a humongous disaster, seems safer somehow.)

73 days.

Y2K CANNOT BE FIXED!

-- Jack (jsprat@eld.~net), October 19, 1999.

i THINK IT WILL LOOK SOMETHING LIKE THIS:

Well, a bitter wind has blown in off the mountains tonight.... nothing seems to be going wro

-- DavePrime (the-tv-guy@hotmail.com), October 19, 1999.


I can see it now...

A guy hunched over his PC, formulating a message to post...

"Well, I'm here in Localville, Anystate, USA and it's all okay---"

The rest, after darkness abruptly befell him along with some silence, was more silence...

-- OddOne (mocklamer_1999@yahoo.com), October 19, 1999.



Looking back on it all, I'm not sure
what I was thinking.

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), January 1, 2000


Looking ahead to some really wild times.
;-)

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), October 19, 1999.


Where the hell are those matche

-- --- (--@--.com), October 19, 1999.

FIRST HERE?

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I have no idea. But it won't be me. I'll be working that night. Or so the story goes.

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I do have a prediction though:

The street price of high-quality, imported, illegal drugs will go up by 3x to 4x by Feb 1, 2000.

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-- no talking please (breadlines@soupkitchen.gov), October 19, 1999.


ZZZzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!

-- BH (silentvoice@pobox.com), October 19, 1999.

No question in my mind that a POLLY will be the first to post, at 12:00:00:01 saying that his lights are still on and what idiots we are and when will we apologize.

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), October 19, 1999.


It will probably be the Pro, and it will go something like this...

"See, you tinfoil morons, I told you nothi....."

(snicker)

watchin' the neighbor...

The Dog

-- Dog (Desert Dog@-sand.com), October 19, 1999.


Danger, Will Robinson!

-- yerfdog (not@real.com), October 19, 1999.

I wonder how many times the 'Server busy...." screen will appear before someone is *able* to make a post. ;-)

-- Wilferd (WilferdW@aol.com), October 19, 1999.

it will be a newbie asking if plastic milk jugs are okay to store water.

-- Carol (glear@usa.net), October 19, 1999.

Actually I expect parts of the Internet will be totally down in the USA between 11:45pm EST and 3:15am EST, AT THE VERY LEAST.

Many companies of all types plan on shutting down, rebooting or something similiar in a time window often noted to be 11:45pm to 12:15 am LOCAL time. Some plan on being down longer. Some dont plan but will be down MUCH longer for reasons outside their planning.

So, parts of the Internet WILL BE DOWN over during the rollover and it wont even take Y2k as a even to cause it.

Think about it.

(and someone please refill my water bowl, I knocked it over.)

-- hamster (hamster@mycage.com), October 19, 1999.



I'm betting that a drunken reveler will hit a tree and knock out the entire west coast. But then again, if the phone lines are busy with people calling to see if the phones work, the internet will not.

-- y2k dave (xsdaa111@hotmail.com), October 19, 1999.

More than likely, a drunken squirrel!

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), October 19, 1999.

Or it could be a drunken squirrel cyber-terrorist.

-- yk2 dave (xsdaa111@hotmail.com), October 20, 1999.

A right-wing fanatic well-armed militia member drunken squirrel cyber-terrorist.

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), October 20, 1999.

Would you guys make up your minds!

I'm still prepping to surf the endless summer, predicted on this forum to commence in November. Did this schedule slip too?

-- flora (***@the.faultline), October 20, 1999.


ham's right.
any servers that do not absolutely have to be for rollover will not be. so don't soil yourself until you're sure...

-- jerry (jerr@polspring.org), October 21, 1999.

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