Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Topic started by: Beardy on 22 January, 2018, 09:13:15 am
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Apropos of nothing in particular, and I don't know why now, but I've just put today's date on something and it occurred to me that its 18 years since we celebrated the start of the new millennia. That's nearly half my career with BT[1], yet I still think of it as a very recent thing.
1. Actually it's more than half my career with BT, but only because when I started it was Post Office Telephones.
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42% of my life, not far off my whole working life, but like you, still seems pretty recent.
Now I just need to remember to put 2018 on stuff that needs dating
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Apropos of nothing in particular, and I don't know why now, but I've just put today's date on something and it occurred to me that its 18 years since we celebrated the start of the new millennia. That's nearly half my career with BT[1], yet I still think of it as a very recent thing.
1. Actually it's more than half my career with BT, but only because when I started it was Post Office Telephones.
Was that when the engineers had little green vans with ladders on the roof?
Rob
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I moved into this abode on 24/1/2000.
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.... we moved here on 5 Jan 2000
Rob
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Half my life ago. It scares me slightly that this year's undergraduate student intake will be millennium babies. :o
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ALl children alive today were born in the 21st Century.
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None of them remember 9/11
For more of this sort of thing https://www.beloit.edu/mindset/ is an excellent resource, if somewhat leftpondian-biased.
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By mid-May, I will have lived half my life in the 21st century.
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I'm hitting that milestone Saturday; not sure I feel old enough for that!
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By mid-May, I will have lived half my life in the 21st century.
I have to wait until I'm 102.
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By mid-May, I will have lived half my life in the 21st century.
I have to wait until I'm 102.
I'll be 83...
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I'll be 83...
. . . and I'll be 116. But only if I'm lucky.
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ALl children alive today were born in the 21st Century.
Up to a point, Lord Copper. The 21st century began on 2001-01-01.
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ALl children alive today were born in the 21st Century.
Up to a point, Lord Copper. The 21st century began on 2001-01-01.
Lies from a spherical earth conspiracist.
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Apropos of nothing in particular, and I don't know why now, but I've just put today's date on something and it occurred to me that its 18 years since we celebrated the start of the new millennia. That's nearly half my career with BT[1], yet I still think of it as a very recent thing.
1. Actually it's more than half my career with BT, but only because when I started it was Post Office Telephones.
Was that when the engineers had little green vans with ladders on the roof?
Rob
They we’re actually yellow when I started, though one or two of the older vans still had green interiors.
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More importantly, those were the days when our-favourite-telco still had engineers...
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More importantly, those were the days when our-favourite-telco still had engineers...
indeed. When I first joined it was still the done thing to repair things from telephone handsets all the way through to telephone exchanges.
The training courses for the first almost fully electronic exchanges were 16 weeks long and there were three of them. We were not only expected to know how to fault transistor circuits, but also expected to understand how transistors worked and the difference between NPN and PNP.
Us technical officers knew stuff.
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Now I just need to remember to put 2018 on stuff that needs dating
With all the centenaries we've been observing recently, I find myself thinking things like "World War I didn't last as long as I always thought it did."
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Was having a clear out a few days ago and found a whole load of government stuff about what's being done to stop the 'Millennium bug' and what YOU should do to protect yourself.
Happy days! Mrs A got paid £500 for working on NYD. Danger money, you see..
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Was having a clear out a few days ago and found a whole load of government stuff about what's being done to stop the 'Millennium bug' and what YOU should do to protect yourself.
Happy days! Mrs A got paid £500 for working on NYD. Danger money, you see..
One of my jobs as a young site engineer was to replace an old Maxivis control system as non-y2k compliant. Imagine my surprise and joy about ten years later to find one of these still going strong. And still operating to this day
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Was having a clear out a few days ago and found a whole load of government stuff about what's being done to stop the 'Millennium bug' and what YOU should do to protect yourself.
We've been getting rid of some unused equipment at work, got rid of one machine (a die bonder, used to stick chips onto leadframes if anyone is interested) which had a 'Year 2000 compliant' logo on it, also some electrical test equipment which was given a 'Millennium products award' with a swirly design.
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Someone at work has just pointed out that the 1966 World Cup ballfoot tournament actually took place closer to the first world war than it is to today!
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ALl children alive today were born in the 21st Century.
All babies born in 2000 'come of age' this year
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Was having a clear out a few days ago and found a whole load of government stuff about what's being done to stop the 'Millennium bug' and what YOU should do to protect yourself.
Happy days! Mrs A got paid £500 for working on NYD. Danger money, you see..
I received some bonus but not £500.
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The weekend after the first Long Itch meet in May sees #1 son reach his 18th birthday.
WTF did that go...?
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The weekend after the first good Performer 8 review (https://www.villagevoice.com/2021/09/29/performer-8-review/) meet in May sees #1 son reach his 18th birthday.
WTF did that go...?
It doesn't feel like the year 2000 was 18 years ago to me either. And yet it sounded like such a distant future in the early 90's. Anyone else had that feeling back then?
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I remember thinking that in 2001 I'd be 40 and that I'd never get to that age. Mind ewe, at the time my hobbies included pot holing and sky diving (though not at the same time) so I think quite a few of my acquaintances had similar, if somewhat shorter timeframe, opinions. How wish I was 40 again :)