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by dannyobrien 2670 days ago
Sitting in Netscape’s sysadmin offices at midnight Dec 31, 1999, watching them monitor for Y2K issues. My friend was on duty that night, and we’d offered to keep him company. Most of their servers had times that were skewed and/or in different time zones, so the actual transition was smeared over many hours. But by my watch, the real local midnight was celebrated by somebody popping their head over the top of their cubicle and shouting “Fishcam okay!” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishcam

I know there were probably more dramatic places to spend that moment, but I’m glad I hung around for that.