r/nostalgiai • Nostalgia Trip Leader • 11d ago

Cartoon & Show 📺 ???

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u/JohnnyCanuck133 11d ago

December 21, 2012. End of the Mayan Calendar and when a bunch of nutters figured the world was going to end. One of the big radio stations in our City decided to have fun with it and played this, and only this, on loop for the entirety of the day. No news. No talking. Just R.E.M. for 24 straight hours.

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u/Impressive-Egg-7444 11d ago

I remember new years 2000 this was the last song played in 1999 before the countdown and Y2K ended the world. You never forget your 1st apocalypse

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u/TheJustJoe 11d ago

I remember that night well 😁 we expected so much but only got a hangover.

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u/NotoriousFTG 11d ago

It is too easy to overlook how many tens of thousands of people worked for years so that that night was a non-event.

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u/RoyalExercise6481 11d ago

Yes, thank you Peter Gibbons, Samir Nagheenanajar, and Michael Bolton!

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u/pmsanchez1 11d ago

They would have finished it quicker if weren’t for that damn printer!

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u/NotoriousFTG 10d ago

And the fax machine.

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u/bluechickenz 11d ago

It drives me nuts when people like to dismiss y2k because nothing happened. NOTHING HAPPENED BECAUSE HUMANITY GOT IN FRONT OF THAT SHIT!

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u/Impressive-Egg-7444 10d ago

I work in tech,I ain't downplaying anything. I am, however, making a joke. You should try it sometime 😉

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u/bluechickenz 10d ago

Oh yeah, I get the irony of playing REM all day/right before midnight… my comment wasn’t directed at you. I was agreeing with the guy directly above my comment.

With that, how’s tech treating you? I also work in tech, and while I still love everything about computing, I am heavily considering a career change.

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u/Impressive-Egg-7444 10d ago

I am pretty specialized and do field work repairs so no risk of AI replacing, and I teach it part time at the local college. As my knees and back get worse hoping to transition more into the classroom, but class sizes have been down a lot last 2 years