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New Years Eve ?? Gosh no , before 2000 ( 16 whole years ago ) we never even knew it was a new year . We lit the stubby candles when it got dark to find the stairs and spent most of the winters under a down eiderdown in bed . Ah yes , the good old days of yore 16 years ago
I have worked with a couple of people under 21 who do seem genuinely surprised that we had mobile phones, home computers, games consoles, digital TV and so many more things pre 2000. They had some beliefe that most of the modern technology either didn't exist until around 2001 or everything we had was huge! I sometimes wonder if it's psychological because of everything being 'last century' I was once talking and mentioned I left school in 1993, they were almost Mind. Blown. at the thought! |
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1999, People were still ''high'' on tony blair becoming p.m., remember ''things can only get better .........'' ?
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NYE on Sydney Harbour has always been the place to be
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I last went out on New Year's Eve on December 31, 1987. I expect the main difference now is that everyone's probably filming the celebrations on their mobiles.
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Nope, it was pretty much the same ...... Cept we used to get scottish style ''hogmany specials'' on tv, we should be very grateful those hav vanished ........
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I last went out on New Year's Eve on December 31, 1987. I expect the main difference now is that everyone's probably filming the celebrations on their mobiles, now.
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NYE on Sydney Harbour has always been the place to be
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Like most things, NYE has gone downhill since the millennium.
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I'm curious. How did people celebrate New Year before 1999? Was it even celebrated at all? I'm 20, so every New Year's Eve for me has always been hyped up to the max, with everybody determined to have as much fun as possible. I hate it, if I'm honest. I gathered that only really happened after the millennium, or am I wrong?
Barring the 31st December 1999 into 1st January 2000, which really was an event, they've all been celebrated in much the same way. I don't think it really changed that drastically after 2000, compared to before. |
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Some classic DS replies here. For what it's worth, let me say that I would've absolutely loved to have grown up in the 90s especially. The modern world scares me.
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We all danced round singing "Tonight we're gonna partay like it's 1999"
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I last went out on New Year's Eve on December 31, 1987. I expect the main difference now is that everyone's probably filming the celebrations on their mobiles.
Never again, wasn't a bit enjoyable. |
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But but but did Australia exist before 2000 ?
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Some classic DS replies here. For what it's worth, let me say that I would've absolutely loved to have grown up in the 90s especially. The modern world scares me.
![]() There were definitely few fireworks on New Years Eve until the bong of 2000. Apparently until 1974 New Years Day was not even a holiday date either but a regular day. Funny really when you consider all the celebration will be for the fact a number 6 becomes a number 7. AND NOBODY SHOULD STILL BE SAYING TWO THOUSAND AND SEVENTEEN!!! IT'S TWENTY SEVENTEEN. |
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I think people had only just started celebrating Christmas and that was pretty reluctantly.
I guess your treat on Christmas Day would have been the Dixon of Dock Green Christmas Special and a bowl of sage & onion gruel. ![]()
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But but but did Australia exist before 2000 ?
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But but but did Australia exist before 2000 ?
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Has New Year stop?
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Has New Year stop?
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A question to pose to the OP
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I have worked with a couple of people under 21 who do seem genuinely surprised that we had mobile phones, home computers, games consoles, digital TV and so many more things pre 2000.
They had some beliefe that most of the modern technology either didn't exist until around 2001 or everything we had was huge! I sometimes wonder if it's psychological because of everything being 'last century' I was once talking and mentioned I left school in 1993, they were almost Mind. Blown. at the thought! ![]() The first New Years Eve I can remember was in 1979 going into 1980 when I was put to bed and the last thing I said to my mum was "See you next decade". I also remember in the latter days of 1979 when writing the date in my school books and itching to be able to write 1980 as soon as possible because it would be so modern. One thing to this day that always happens when I awake to New Years Day is expecting to feel somehow different and things to be slightly changed because it's now a brand new fresh untainted year with a shiny new number. |
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I do remember us all being outraged at being charged £2 a pint on new years eve 1999. They added 20 p on to pay the bar staff extra.
I doubt you'd get a small coke for that these days in a pub |
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Actually, if anything, New Year feels less "special" than it was. That in part is because a lot of people who are inclined to go out already do so nearly every Friday and/or Saturday during the year anyway. So it's "just another night out".
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I remember New Years eve 1979 (I was 16). My parents went out to celebrate the new decade and I stayed at home and drank gin. I was a bit poorly afterwards and have hated gin ever since!
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Nope, it was pretty much the same ...... Cept we used to get scottish style ''hogmany specials'' on tv, we should be very grateful those hav vanished ........
I don't know of it's still allowed but I do recall a lot of people would go swimming in Trafalgar Square's Fountains |
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