Although it's meaningless in the grand scheme. Just a number we humans put on the earths orbit around the sun. Now Halley's comet, that's something to see. Mark your calendar for 2061.
Such a great time to be a coming-of-age teen. I remember being very amazed to experience the turn of a new millennium. Seeing that ball drop made me emotional then...
Idk if it’s weird or no but Sometimes I tear up when realize that I’m not gonna be alive to see the day we turn to a new millennium💔 it really breaks my heart sometimes that I’m not gonna see this see the new year of 2100 too💔 RIP to us
Same here. Whatta memory! I was 13 years old and remember running to my computer after the ball dropped, which I left on, and the date sure enough rolled back to like 1917 or something crazy like that. I promptly changed the date and everything was fine lol.
I was there in Times Square 6 hours before the ball dropped. A friend invited for a week in NYC then. I was a few blocks away when the ball dropped. It was amazing to be there! One of the best experiences ever! :)
I watch the 2000 ball drop every year on the 31st of December. It gives me chills hearing Clark say “Welcome to 2000!” I almost want to cry because of how special this event was. But to all the people who didn’t experience 2000 like me, only year from now in 2025, we get to see a quarter of a century since 2000! I sure do wish I was alive when it became 2000.
Brought a tear to my eyes seeing this footage, thinking about everything that's changed since then (including this whole year), and realizing how lucky I am to have lived through the changing of the Millennium up until this point. Just over four hours left in 2020 (GMT-5), and I hope 2021 will be a much better year for all of us. Cheers and Happy New Year everybody.
I hope you were able to be alive before 2000. It was like the death knell for America. I miss the 80's and 90's so much. Like a lost loved one. Oh...oh, if I could go back. Even just seeing Dick Clark, instead of some 🩰💡🩰 guy in a skirt, and sickening agendas. Racism wasn't being used to divide and conquer us, like it is now.
Stray Dog Peopel still party like they did in the 90s? Please tell me where these parties are, I was born in '01 and unfortunately didn't get a chance to experience anything 90s wise😭
I remember watching this live with my mom, dad and grandparents in 2000. We all were anticipating for the power to go out or something because of the big Y2K scare. I still remember everyone waiting eagerly and with a bit of trepidation before the ball hit. Nothing ended up happening but it was a fun moment in time I'll never forget.
The software was used by many, so not a lot happened, but in some countries, people died. In Canada, a water treatment plant computer(s) dumped what was set at 100 years of poison into the water, and 9 drank their home water and died before word got out enough. In Paris, the moment it struck 12, their computer running the lights went nuts and scrambled the light display. Oddly I have not been able to find a video showing this, but we watched live.
All the TV stations videos did NOT show the ball drop on 2023. This one in 2000 either! I thought it must be a test to see who's honest. But probably testing mind control on the people, various experiments & etc. There's some tiny fireworks around the ball, but NO visible ball drop! Emperor's not wearing any clothes!
@@BaptistJoshua Oh, thanks! I hope they don't delete your comment. I couldn't see the ball actually drop in any TV channels' videos, which I thought was strange, but I thought what you said is the kind of stuff therefore going on. It still seems to be there. Maybe they put it back because of your reply! 😄
Ah, I remember this like it was yesterday. I grew up in New York. I was 11 that day. I was there with my family everybody was so excited to see the beginning of a new millennium! It's very nostalgic to see Times Square back then. I feel sorrow when I return to New York to visit my family today. Due to what New York has become over the pandemic. I really didn't expect to get emotional over this but it really was a glorious thing to see if you were there! If I could trade now for then, I 100% would. I still remember it being a little windy and it was INSANELY cold outside. I bundled up for that night. Now, I take my kids to see the ball drop every year in NYC. Because of the wonderful memories, it has left me with.
I miss it too sometimes, I haven't been back home in 11 years...all I hear now from friends and family is they wanna gtfo. This was nostalgic to see though, I was 9 when we were at this ball drop.
juan Carlos Santa Culma the last 20 years events unfolded 9/11, 2004 tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, Obama becomes the first African American to become president, the gulf oil spill, earthquake in Haiti and Japan, Ebola virus, Paris attacks, trump election, me too movement, Amazon rainforest forest fire
Now this is excellent coverage, excellent up close camera view of the Ball. Much better coverage than current & past few years when the cameras don’t focus close up on the Ball. Also this 2000 Dick Clark coverage includes a massive amount of interesting & educational information. This is an example of quality TV coverage of a New Year’s Ball Drop. THANKS ABC!!! THANKS DICK CLARK!!!! Wish you were still with us. RIP 💖😀🎉🥳
My mom and I were there together and she died unexpectedly in April in 2020. This footage brought tears of joy in remembering how truly spectacular and exciting this night was!
That night (December 31st, 1999), I was in Hicksville, New York (which is on Long Island, in the dead center of Nassau County, about 25 miles due east of midtown Manhattan) at the home of some friends. My then-girlfriend and I had made the trip for that weekend to see our friends there. The next night, my then-girlfriend and I visited Times Square, and there was still a lot of confetti on the sidewalks.
@@brydie191 Congratulations! Treasure these last few months of high school because adulthood is right around the corner and "adulting" is not what it's cracked up to be lol. May you have an amazing future! 🙂
This was phenomenal that year, I was one of those supposedly 3 million and change there in a tree on 42nd Street off of 6th so I wouldn't get squished like a sardine. A once in a lifetime event. The world won't be this hyped until 2100 and millennium again until 3000.
watching this from 2019. So trippy to think the 20s will be here again in just a few short months. I hope you all are surrounded by loved ones come the new year.
I was only 7 at the time but I remember watching this clear as day. I also remember when midnight hit here on the west coast and everybody in the neighborhood went crazy. A couple of bushes even caught fire.
won't be anything like this, again :( . it was so much fun watching around the world, going into year 2000. it was like whole world got together for one night and celebrate the new year together. now just not same :( I was 16 years old.
That's because 2000 was the start of the 21st century and 3rd millennium,And it was before 9/11/2001 happened,Way different atmosphere back in those days
I am happy to have lived seeing the passage between the two centuries and the arrival of the new millennium. I was only a 12 year old girl but I remember perfectly the emotion and the importance of that event.
Actually, this was from ABC News' day-long millennium coverage (anchored by Peter Jennings) as there was no New Year's Rockin' Eve, but at least Dick still called the ball drop.
I know right? He started in the early morning of Dec. 31, i think 4 or 5am, and ended the coverage at 4:00am of January 2000!! He's such an anchor, also did the same thing on 9/11.@@hurkydoesntknow
I remember watching this on tv that night thinking to myself the new future era is here like I was amazed at the thought of what crazy technology would come about starting in the 2000s lol like it was still shocking to me to think that the 90s was over lol I just couldn’t wrap my head around it,
This feels so chilling and exciting. The 90s were all about Nintendo and Sega, the peak of video games, the Disney Renaissance, classic cartoons like Animaniacs, America's glory years, etc. THAT was the exciting part. The most chilling is the things that after ever since 2000. Y2K, 9/11, Covid 19, the recent Trump asassination attempt, and more came in a span of 24 years. But even after all those tragic events, there was a new life. A new millennium. Here we have UA-cam, the internet, a higher security rate, and more. And I respect my time at this moment. ❤
And keep in mind that this is seven years before the introduction of the iPhone, and since then everybody in the crowd came equipped with these innovative devices.
They didn't exist yet but if they did I'm sure they would have it's no different than having out a portable digital camera so comments like this are so foolish
That moment when you realize you were alive during the ringing in of the New Millennium not many can say they were alive during this is a feeling that can only happen every 100 years to every 1000 years I wish I could live to 2100.
I was 21, we had a party in our apartment in williamsburg, Bklyn. It was fun but there was some nervous weirdness in the air because we half believed the entire city would blow up at midnight. I was too scared to go near Times Square that year, just in case. At midnight, we were all wasted & on the stairs leading up to the roof. We got up there, looked at the city skyline & heard the whole city cheering. Then I went inside & immediately fell asleep.
I Was Very Lucky To Watch On TV The Once In A Lifetime Major Event The Coming Of The Year 2000! Matt Drudge Said About The Y2K Disaster That Never Happened When The Millennium Began That It Was Like Hearing A Nuclear War Had Been Called Off. I'm Glad I Saw It On TV And Watch The Late Dick Clark Countdown To The Year 2000.R.I.P. Mr.Dick Clark And Thanks For Giving Us A Lot Of Great Memories! I Await Your Reply.
I still remember this like it was yesterday. I was in 10th grade and went to Vermont with my family to visit grandparents. I stood in their carpeted living room and waited for all the power to go out like an idiot thinking Y2K was going to turn off the world. Sad to think what happened less than two years later, in that same city.
I had just turned 19 that February. Bill Gates left his position at Microsoft PlayStation 2 was released Summer Olympics were held in Sydney Australia ILOVEYOU virus shuts down computers world wide Celebrities we’ve lost this year: Jim Varney Walter Matthau Alec Guinness Richard Mulligan Jason Robards Big Pun Hit Movies: Gladiator Meet The Parents Scary Movie Remember The Titans How The Grinch Stole Christmas Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon X-Men Hit Songs: Eminem - The Real Slim Shady DMX - Party Up Outkast - Ms. Jackson Shaggy - It Wasn’t Me N’Sync - Bye Bye Bye 3 Doors Down - Kryptonite Creed - With Arms Wide Open TV Show Debuts: Curb Your Enthusiasm Malcolm In The Middle Jackass Survivor CSI Gilmore Girls Dora The Explorer
i had just turned 19 that February Bill Gates left his position at Microsoft PlayStation 2 was released Summer Olympics were held in Sydney Australia ILOVEYOU virus shuts down computes world wide don't forget this one!!: Y2K was released during 1/1/2000
But you could relive that decade right now! (If you’re willing to, which I doubt you won’t and you’ll continue to live on this modern ill-mannered piece of shit world that we’re living in right now.)
11:30 That music I saw is from 2000, marking the new era of Globalization around the world and ended the last year: 1999 and I was born in 2007 at July 20th. That was my best moment in the 2017 and starting a new era of 2020, been something different. Today, there's 24 years of the Millenium! Happy New year and a happy 2000 memories!
It trips me out realizing that this occurred nearly a quarter century ago, being 8 years at the time I have fairly clear memories of just how big this event truly was!
I was 7 years old at the time. It wouldn’t surprise me to see this as the biggest one in Times Square to welcome a new year. A great time to witness because we won’t live to see the year 3000.
I was at Epcot in Walt Disney world, Orlando, Florida at age nine during this one in a lifetime moment. Yes I kind of wish I was there but you know what I’ve been blessed to have such a wonderful time during the excitement for the coming of the new millennium.
But even still contrary to popular belief, the 1st Decamillennium (AD 1- AD 10,000) (which the meaning of a decamillennium is a period of 10,000 years) will not end until December 31st, AD 10,000 (assuming if the Gregorian calendar still gets used by then). Remember that the AD system uses ordinal numbers and as result no year 0 exists in the AD ordinal system. Because of this the last year of the 1st decamillennium AD (and 10th millennium, 100th century, and 1000th decade) will be on the year AD 10,000. On January 1st, AD 10,001 it will then be the 1st year of the 2nd decamillennium AD (AD 10,001- AD 20,000), the 1st year of the 11th millennium AD (AD 10,001- AD 11,000), the 1st year of the 101st century AD (AD 10,001- AD 10,100), and the 1st year of the 1001st decade AD (AD 10,001- AD 10,010). But in the astronomical system which uses cardinal numbers and has a year 0 as a result (corresponding to 1 BC in the AD system), The 0's (or the noughties) decamillennium (year 0 AYN to +9999 AYN), the 9000's millennium (9000-9999), the 9900's century (9900-9999), and the 9990's decade (9990-9999) will end on December 31st, 9999. Then on January 1st, 10,000 it will be the start of the 10,000's decamillennium (10,000-19,999), the 10,000's millennium (10,000-10,999), the 10,000's century (10,000-10,099), and the 10,000's decade (10,000-10,009). Yeah what you see over is quite a mouthful because there's so much periods of time being done over here. This is what we have to go with here if we still use Anno Domini and astronomical year numbering by then. And who knows maybe we might not be using it by then because of how many years we would've been in.
I watched "ABC 2000" when I was 21 years old. I was a young adult Gen X'er back then. I didn't wanna go into the year 2000 and beyond, but I had to for reality. Life goes on and so does time. I wish it were possible for me to travel to the past, especially my K-12 school years and beforehand. I graduated from high school in 1997. I'm currently 45. The 2020s are the epicenter of middle-aged Gen X'ers like me. The year 2023 is closer to 2000 by rounding off to the nearest 50. When the calender hits 2025, it's officially rounded off to 2050. I wonder what the future will look like. It's impossible for me to travel to the past. I should be present in every moment and look forward to the future.
People don't realize how special this was you only see this once in a thousand years, we're 977 years away from the year 3000 😂
Already planning.
It's gonna be a hot one!
Literally.
Although it's meaningless in the grand scheme. Just a number we humans put on the earths orbit around the sun. Now Halley's comet, that's something to see. Mark your calendar for 2061.
It’s a completely arbitrary number lol. Depending on how you classify the years in the human timeline you can even say this year is the year “2000”.
976 years to 3000
this is the clearest footage I've ever seen from 2000 ball drop
I know, right?! The magic of studio quality!!
it's too good for 2000
TheNotoriousNoah 😂😂
@@inactive3772 damn
@@SoberSan You must be 12 years old lol ua-cam.com/video/fT4lDU-QLUY/v-deo.html
Crazy to think… 1,000 years of having the number 1 in front ended at that precise moment.
Yup
And the next 1000 years, having the number 2 right there also known as the 3rd millennium began (technically in 2001)
It wasn’t the year 1 in the year 1. People used a completely different calendar then.
Not necessarily. Not in the US at least
Imagine being in January 1st 1000, adding another digit to the year… that won’t happen again until the year 10,000 which is 7975 years away.
The moment you realized this was 24 years ago... Man time goes by fast.
Fr 😔
Watching this 24 years later, brings back good and bad memories, but life goes on!
Yes...😢
And look at how much the world has changed in the last 24 years
25 years ago
That moment when you realize this was 20 years ago
Puffthecarrier1 come 2060 and we will tell our grand kids about this
I can't believe it. also in 2060 I'll be almost 70 years old then
Damn in 2060 I’ll be 60
Tristen Conica I be 65 in 2060
@@tristenconica4666 I be 63 born 97
Such a great time to be a coming-of-age teen. I remember being very amazed to experience the turn of a new millennium. Seeing that ball drop made me emotional then...
Idk if it’s weird or no but Sometimes I tear up when realize that I’m not gonna be alive to see the day we turn to a new millennium💔 it really breaks my heart sometimes that I’m not gonna see this see the new year of 2100 too💔 RIP to us
@@dragonfire9526 I agree 😟
@@dragonfire9526 new millennium won’t be til it hits 3000
2000 is the year I went into high school. It's crazy how many emotional events we managed to go through since then.
@@HippieMagic totally. Life was great. All we cared about was MTV, fast food, and AOL.
the end of the 90s
And the 1900's
And the 20th century including 2nd millennium.
+Super Original Gamer 1001-2000*
+planetX15 1000s is from 1000-1999 do you hear a 1 in the year *2000* aka the year you were born?
Nick Josef and The 20th Century
I still vividly remember watching this live can't believe it's been 22 years 😔
Same here. Whatta memory! I was 13 years old and remember running to my computer after the ball dropped, which I left on, and the date sure enough rolled back to like 1917 or something crazy like that. I promptly changed the date and everything was fine lol.
23 years
@@christopherlmoo it's almost 24
I was there in Times Square 6 hours before the ball dropped. A friend invited for a week in NYC then. I was a few blocks away when the ball dropped. It was amazing to be there! One of the best experiences ever! :)
24 years
Fun times. Before all the security because of 9/11. Simpler happier times.
Hey, at least it's safer now
paul nadratowski have to wait in a long as line here
paul nadratowski we thought we were going to have a peaceful century but 9/11 happened it changed the world forever
@@Frankieefootballmundial Not to mention North Korea threatening the U.S.A by sending off small missles throughout the last few years
That_Casual_Person is all trump fault
I watch the 2000 ball drop every year on the 31st of December. It gives me chills hearing Clark say “Welcome to 2000!” I almost want to cry because of how special this event was. But to all the people who didn’t experience 2000 like me, only year from now in 2025, we get to see a quarter of a century since 2000! I sure do wish I was alive when it became 2000.
Same here 😔
Same here like I was born in 2011 so I wasn't able to expierience the 2000 ball drop
when the ball hit 2000 it gave me chills...
Me too
Same!
why?
@@Tom-TV-vl4tocuz it’s a whole new millennium
@@Tom-TV-vl4toas a middle school student back then, writing 19 on the date was pretty much automatic, then the following week….that’s when it hit
Brought a tear to my eyes seeing this footage, thinking about everything that's changed since then (including this whole year), and realizing how lucky I am to have lived through the changing of the Millennium up until this point. Just over four hours left in 2020 (GMT-5), and I hope 2021 will be a much better year for all of us. Cheers and Happy New Year everybody.
Oof.
@@malcolmmorin Aged like cottage cheese on a sunny day 🥲
time flies...
I hope you were able to be alive before 2000. It was like the death knell for America. I miss the 80's and 90's so much. Like a lost loved one. Oh...oh, if I could go back. Even just seeing Dick Clark, instead of some 🩰💡🩰 guy in a skirt, and sickening agendas. Racism wasn't being used to divide and conquer us, like it is now.
@@benzs2007 No joke bro. I swore I was just 5 years old, but here we are today.
This was the BEST time to be a kid. I was 9 years old back then. Time flies baby
Wish I was a kid in 2000. Should’ve been born in 1990, not 2010.
I was 28.. lol I miss those times (I miss the age even more)... our country was so blessed.
That badass quality is too good for 2000
Cartman Brah i know right
Studio quality, my friends. Studio quality.
It was 480p back then. Now we have stuff like 1080p
Watch Andy Fordham's video celebrating 2000 in London.
Name 1080p is 2012, it’s currently 4K and in like 7 years 8k
When everyone thought the world was gonna end, 15yrs. later we're still partying like its 1999.
we still are.
Stray Dog Peopel still party like they did in the 90s? Please tell me where these parties are, I was born in '01 and unfortunately didn't get a chance to experience anything 90s wise😭
What do you mean? The world DID end in 2000
Its actually 1999 Version 19!
No were not
Coca Cola No Sugar 19 the 1900s.
Everything was so different back then!!! The music, the fashion, no smartphones, no social media, and 9/11 didn’t even happen yet.
ariana336pm A much more simple and innocent world
@@dahum20, Or a more simple and "innocent" America in this case.
Yeah why am i using smartphones am i out of my mind
It wasn't that innocent why do you think 9/11 happened and was planned people were evil and heartless back then as well sadly
9/11 ruined everything
Ahh the balloon hats, Kodak disposable cameras, no cell phones out, it was a good time. Definitely miss those days.
@Bob Martin it's actually 2007
@Bob Martin most people didt get them till 2012
@@TECHLOVER_91 WE CAN STOP ANYTIME WE WANT TO, IT’S JUST THAT PEOPLE AREN’T WILLING TO DO THAT BECAUSE OF THIER FRAGILE EGO’S!
@@TECHLOVER_91 Nice mask clown
@@TECHLOVER_91 you sounding mad corny ngl
2000 was the last time anyone in my immediate family actually stayed up for new years.
Matt S my family still stays up for New Years. We throw parties and go all out during this time.
@@tristenconica4666 same and we do that for christmas too. we exchange gifts at midnight.
Why?
My parents and little sister set their alarm for 11:55 PM and then they go right to bed
A least they made it, I recommend that everybody due Times Square for New Years once in there life.
I remember watching this live with my mom, dad and grandparents in 2000. We all were anticipating for the power to go out or something because of the big Y2K scare. I still remember everyone waiting eagerly and with a bit of trepidation before the ball hit. Nothing ended up happening but it was a fun moment in time I'll never forget.
The software was used by many, so not a lot happened, but in some countries, people died. In Canada, a water treatment plant computer(s) dumped what was set at 100 years of poison into the water, and 9 drank their home water and died before word got out enough. In Paris, the moment it struck 12, their computer running the lights went nuts and scrambled the light display. Oddly I have not been able to find a video showing this, but we watched live.
All the TV stations videos did NOT show the ball drop on 2023. This one in 2000 either! I thought it must be a test to see who's honest. But probably testing mind control on the people, various experiments & etc. There's some tiny fireworks around the ball, but NO visible ball drop! Emperor's not wearing any clothes!
@@valerieann8007 what do you mean?
@@valerieann8007 P.S., someone deleted your comment. I can see it in the notifications, but it is missing in the thread.
@@BaptistJoshua Oh, thanks! I hope they don't delete your comment. I couldn't see the ball actually drop in any TV channels' videos, which I thought was strange, but I thought what you said is the kind of stuff therefore going on. It still seems to be there. Maybe they put it back because of your reply! 😄
RIP Clark, a legend.
Clark is the person speaking is it ?
@@Saifull1991 yes
@@Saifull1991Yes Indeed.😀👍
Wasn't there some conspiracy tied to his death?
Ah, I remember this like it was yesterday. I grew up in New York. I was 11 that day. I was there with my family everybody was so excited to see the beginning of a new millennium! It's very nostalgic to see Times Square back then. I feel sorrow when I return to New York to visit my family today. Due to what New York has become over the pandemic. I really didn't expect to get emotional over this but it really was a glorious thing to see if you were there! If I could trade now for then, I 100% would. I still remember it being a little windy and it was INSANELY cold outside. I bundled up for that night. Now, I take my kids to see the ball drop every year in NYC. Because of the wonderful memories, it has left me with.
oh, goodness. you subject your children to the hellhole that is NYE in Times Square in the 2020s? jeeeeesus. that’s not very kind of you.
I miss it too sometimes, I haven't been back home in 11 years...all I hear now from friends and family is they wanna gtfo.
This was nostalgic to see though, I was 9 when we were at this ball drop.
[Midnight strikes]
[Times Square doesn't suddenly go dark]
Y2K paranoid types: "WHEW!"
6 year old comment with no replies, rare
They thought " maybe" everything would go out or back to 1900 the least.
I was 5 years old at the time. Thanks for the memories Dick!
+Billy Moody Now you are 15 so try to help your mom in the kitchen.Don't be an Internet garbage like other kids.
Alexander Basmajian actually I'm 21 now. don't mention about this mom kitchen thing. it is inappropriate
+Alexander Basmajian 15? I mean.. really nigga?
+Alexander Basmajian go back to your cave
+Jen P you mean in my penthouse? ok, i'll have a nice tea :-)
20 years ago today, incredible .Now is 2020 and how many things was happened in the world since 2000.
juan Carlos Santa Culma the last 20 years events unfolded 9/11, 2004 tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, Obama becomes the first African American to become president, the gulf oil spill, earthquake in Haiti and Japan, Ebola virus, Paris attacks, trump election, me too movement, Amazon rainforest forest fire
Francisco Leon too bad most of which you listed were bad things
sadavocado I didn’t mention any diseases that could happen in year 2020 or even in the decade
Francisco Leon well we’re here now and we got coronavirus to deal with lol
sadavocado worse than Zika virus Ebola and swine flu
Now this is excellent coverage, excellent up close camera view of the Ball. Much better coverage than current & past few years when the cameras don’t focus close up on the Ball. Also this 2000 Dick Clark coverage includes a massive amount of interesting & educational information. This is an example of quality TV coverage of a New Year’s Ball Drop. THANKS ABC!!! THANKS DICK CLARK!!!! Wish you were still with us. RIP 💖😀🎉🥳
"You always make it there, you make it anywhere
Come on, come through, New York, New York" 🥳🥳🎶
Greetz from 🇩🇪
New York
That was the BIGGEST NEW YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WELCOME TO A NEW YEAR, DECADE, CENTURY, AND MILLENNIUM!!!!!!!!!
@Martin Dean Not new century.
Only Year, Decade and Millennium.
@@지렸다-y6b What do you mean? So we're still in the 20th century? lmao
2001 is the first year of the new century. 2000 is the final year of the 20th century
I hope this footage survives to and somehow to 3000.
@@지렸다-y6b This was the first one ever since there wasn't a New Years in time Square in 1900, I think the first one was 1903-1904.
My mom and I were there together and she died unexpectedly in April in 2020. This footage brought tears of joy in remembering how truly spectacular and exciting this night was!
R.I.P. to your Mom I'm so very sorry for your loss 💔🙏🏽🕊️🕊️
RIP to your Mom and her memory
So sorry for your loss.
That night (December 31st, 1999), I was in Hicksville, New York (which is on Long Island, in the dead center of Nassau County, about 25 miles due east of midtown Manhattan) at the home of some friends.
My then-girlfriend and I had made the trip for that weekend to see our friends there.
The next night, my then-girlfriend and I visited Times Square, and there was still a lot of confetti on the sidewalks.
Not a single fuckin' cell phone in sight.
....
livardo these were the times where the the iPhone never existed yet
They had cell phones back this day
@@Sean-hn2vk remember after 9pm it was free service haha
stfu boomer
25 years later watching this on a screen that can fold and fit in my pocket how technology has evolved since then 👏
Dang it’s been exactly 20 years that’s crazy to think about
21*
@@natkuhn8316 that comment was written in 2020.
@@ericmiguel4194 I hate when people do that
@@natkuhn8316 no, 22 years.🤦♂️🙄
23 years omg
I was 17, about to graduate high school. Amazing how time flies…
Same! Too fast!
That’s me right now, 17 and finishing high school in a few months :,)
@@brydie191 Congratulations! Treasure these last few months of high school because adulthood is right around the corner and "adulting" is not what it's cracked up to be lol. May you have an amazing future! 🙂
Seniors Class of 2000 my first born cousin Tweety Andrea Stevens was one of them and giving birth to her 1st born baby in March 2000.
I was born in November 1998 so I was one year and two months old back in 2000. Time really flies.
Me too I was born in November 25 1998
I was born November 21 1997, so I was 2 years and a month old
The best days ever known. Fantasia 2000 was released in Imax Theaters on New Year's Day 2000.
I was born in September 2000 so im proud of this happened in my year
You missed the past melinium by a short time? jeez that must hurt.
When the year 2000 hit I cried ‘till 1am that night wondering how it was 2000.
This was phenomenal that year, I was one of those supposedly 3 million and change there in a tree on 42nd Street off of 6th so I wouldn't get squished like a sardine. A once in a lifetime event. The world won't be this hyped until 2100 and millennium again until 3000.
When you realize that 2040 is closer than 2000
Yeah nowadays I just say the year “22” for 2022 like how people would say “96” for 1996.
@@unitgamex2972 whoa… you’re a trendsetter
@@TheMastermind729 what?
It's going to be here faster than we realize
Don't like that.
*Midnight comes*
*Y2K doesn’t happen*
...WE SURVIVED!!!
God bless those computer programmers for getting us into the year 2000 safe and sound.
@@seanvasquez523 It came 20 years later.
In the form of 2020
Nice profile pic
Here on New Year’s Eve 2024
Wish i was alive to see this. Anyway happy new year!
As a 2006 child I wish I was alive for this. The 1990s sounded so great...
Same, exact same.
@@supizgamerpro101same too
10:08 A MINUTE LEFT!
10:58 10 SECONDS!
11:07 HAPPY 2000!!! 🎇🎆
11:08
I’ll never forget this night. Played wrestle mania 2000 for n64 till 11.58. I was actually afraid
this video footage seriously makes me feel something.
I'll never forget this! Unforgettable! I was 17 soon to turn 18 the day after New Year's Day. Time flies by way too fast!
Enjoy the last seconds of the 90s everyone. You're gonna miss em
Those who was celebrating the new millennium in their 20s then are in there 40 s now. Shows you how fast time flies!
I was 25 in 2000.
@@rjperfetto584 I had turned 25 2 weeks before this
I was 5 going on the tender age of 6.
@@Therealmoseslupai same
@@FederalEmployee Shoutout to you 💯 we had it good
watching this from 2019. So trippy to think the 20s will be here again in just a few short months. I hope you all are surrounded by loved ones come the new year.
So far the 20s suck
@@Riotss take me back to 2019
I remember the 2000s the 2000s were awesome i was 7 yrs old comin into 2000
WWF 1992 u mean early 2000s right cuz I can agree with that
Xl Ranger42 yes the early 2000s were awesome
@ how would u know?
@ for u it was shitty for me it was awesome
@ i was 7
I was only 7 at the time but I remember watching this clear as day. I also remember when midnight hit here on the west coast and everybody in the neighborhood went crazy. A couple of bushes even caught fire.
God bless your soul, Dick Clark... You are sorely missed
That one guy with the disposable camera gets me every time!
Me too!!
where
@@CCT1at 11:15 right after the ball drops lol
won't be anything like this, again :( . it was so much fun watching around the world, going into year 2000. it was like whole world got together for one night and celebrate the new year together. now just not same :( I was 16 years old.
One of the last times that it seemed and felt like everyone was at piece with each other around the world for at least one day then
Ball drop tradition lives on. Though, ushering the year 2000 seems more exciting then the 2020 one
That's because 2000 was the start of the 21st century and 3rd millennium,And it was before 9/11/2001 happened,Way different atmosphere back in those days
If they knew the 90's was the peak of the US, they wouldn't be so excited for the future.
I am happy to have lived seeing the passage between the two centuries and the arrival of the new millennium. I was only a 12 year old girl but I remember perfectly the emotion and the importance of that event.
Actually, this was from ABC News' day-long millennium coverage (anchored by Peter Jennings) as there was no New Year's Rockin' Eve, but at least Dick still called the ball drop.
I remember no Rocking Eve from watching the coverage with my mom that day. Peter Jennings did a great job with the coverage. RIP.
I know right? He started in the early morning of Dec. 31, i think 4 or 5am, and ended the coverage at 4:00am of January 2000!! He's such an anchor, also did the same thing on 9/11.@@hurkydoesntknow
I remember watching this on tv that night thinking to myself the new future era is here like I was amazed at the thought of what crazy technology would come about starting in the 2000s lol like it was still shocking to me to think that the 90s was over lol I just couldn’t wrap my head around it,
I was barely an month old during the start of the new millennium. Its crazy.
Who else is hear New Years 2021?
Piss off.
Here*
2024 now
‘24 here
This feels so chilling and exciting. The 90s were all about Nintendo and Sega, the peak of video games, the Disney Renaissance, classic cartoons like Animaniacs, America's glory years, etc. THAT was the exciting part.
The most chilling is the things that after ever since 2000. Y2K, 9/11, Covid 19, the recent Trump asassination attempt, and more came in a span of 24 years. But even after all those tragic events, there was a new life. A new millennium. Here we have UA-cam, the internet, a higher security rate, and more. And I respect my time at this moment. ❤
And keep in mind that this is seven years before the introduction of the iPhone, and since then everybody in the crowd came equipped with these innovative devices.
Imagine how much changed from 1000 to 2000. Amazing.
Manhattan was just an island with land
good to see people here actually enjoying the moment rather than having their phones out recording
They didn't exist yet but if they did I'm sure they would have it's no different than having out a portable digital camera so comments like this are so foolish
I cannot believe that 2000 is 20 years ago already.....
Time _really_ flies does it?
1980 was 20 years ago at that time.
innit😂
@@marcus2222now it was 40 years ago
2000s quality commentary makes it so much better.
That moment when you realize you were alive during the ringing in of the New Millennium not many can say they were alive during this is a feeling that can only happen every 100 years to every 1000 years I wish I could live to 2100.
Sane here sir, I would have to be a freak 125 to do it, ridiculously highly unlikely.
I was 21, we had a party in our apartment in williamsburg, Bklyn. It was fun but there was some nervous weirdness in the air because we half believed the entire city would blow up at midnight. I was too scared to go near Times Square that year, just in case. At midnight, we were all wasted & on the stairs leading up to the roof. We got up there, looked at the city skyline & heard the whole city cheering. Then I went inside & immediately fell asleep.
This was the only NYE it was worth going out for.
It seemed so much more lively back then. I miss these days so much😭
I was 10 years living in Lima.
3 years later I would start a new chapter of my life: Living in New York City, the greatest city out there!!!
I still remember this like it was almost 25 years ago!
I'm watching the 2018 live show in new York. Complete different world.. : (
seems like back then was more happiness
yeah 9/11 changed alot of stuff!
@@DGoldy303 Osama bin Laden can rot in hell!
Aviix oh fuck off
The 90s ended in 2001. 2000 was the last year we all felt normal.
Just like the 2010s end in March 2020. 2019 was the final year of normalcy with no lockdowns
00s ended in 2011
It goes like
70s end on late 1982
80s end on mid 1991
90s end on 9/11/2001
00s end on December 2012
and 10s end on March 2020
@@r1tzy5551 I couldn't agree more. You are absolutely 💯 correct
Actually, the 90s ended on Dec. 31st, 1999.
1999 was my favorite year
I want it that way
Anyone else wonder since that day from the video. How many of them people have died? Sad life
DIck Clark.
Amir Hali yeah, even though it was 17 years ago
Courtney Does Stuff lol I meant just for New Years
Peter Jennings
Amir especially knowing 9/11 happened not long after
End of the 1000’s most historic period
The 1000s was a great memory
Only OG's remember the 1000 ball drop 💯
@@Ri0Genfr fr
I Was Very Lucky To Watch On TV The Once In A Lifetime Major Event The Coming Of The Year 2000! Matt Drudge Said About The Y2K Disaster That Never Happened When The Millennium Began That It Was Like Hearing A Nuclear War Had Been Called Off. I'm Glad I Saw It On TV And Watch The Late Dick Clark Countdown To The Year 2000.R.I.P. Mr.Dick Clark And Thanks For Giving Us A Lot Of Great Memories! I Await Your Reply.
the best celebration ever
I still remember this like it was yesterday. I was in 10th grade and went to Vermont with my family to visit grandparents. I stood in their carpeted living room and waited for all the power to go out like an idiot thinking Y2K was going to turn off the world. Sad to think what happened less than two years later, in that same city.
I had just turned 19 that February.
Bill Gates left his position at Microsoft
PlayStation 2 was released
Summer Olympics were held in Sydney Australia
ILOVEYOU virus shuts down computers world wide
Celebrities we’ve lost this year:
Jim Varney
Walter Matthau
Alec Guinness
Richard Mulligan
Jason Robards
Big Pun
Hit Movies:
Gladiator
Meet The Parents
Scary Movie
Remember The Titans
How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
X-Men
Hit Songs:
Eminem - The Real Slim Shady
DMX - Party Up
Outkast - Ms. Jackson
Shaggy - It Wasn’t Me
N’Sync - Bye Bye Bye
3 Doors Down - Kryptonite
Creed - With Arms Wide Open
TV Show Debuts:
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Malcolm In The Middle
Jackass
Survivor
CSI
Gilmore Girls
Dora The Explorer
Movies: Chicken Run, and Flintstones in Las Vegas
i had just turned 19 that February
Bill Gates left his position at Microsoft
PlayStation 2 was released
Summer Olympics were held in Sydney Australia
ILOVEYOU virus shuts down computes world wide
don't forget this one!!: Y2K was released during 1/1/2000
Don’t forget Down With the Sickness by Disturbed.
Wcw and Ecw died 1 year later
I'm glad in the later years they added Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World" to the NYE playlist.
I'd love travel back in time and spend my 20s in that era instead of the depressing shitshow we got now
I'm in my late 20s now...
But you could relive that decade right now! (If you’re willing to, which I doubt you won’t and you’ll continue to live on this modern ill-mannered piece of shit world that we’re living in right now.)
Agreed I was 25 in the prime of my life
It's our fault though, every thing one of us.
Happy New year 2024 !🎉 God bless you!🙏
I was 10 years old and I remember we stayed home for this NYE cause my parents thought the world was gonna end lmao
11:30 That music I saw is from 2000, marking the new era of Globalization around the world and ended the last year: 1999 and I was born in 2007 at July 20th. That was my best moment in the 2017 and starting a new era of 2020, been something different. Today, there's 24 years of the Millenium! Happy New year and a happy 2000 memories!
Whos here New Year’s Eve 2020-2021 ✋ 🤪🤚
I get nostalgia just watching this
same here.
The fact this is 24 years ago is nuts
It trips me out realizing that this occurred nearly a quarter century ago, being 8 years at the time I have fairly clear memories of just how big this event truly was!
I was 7 years old at the time. It wouldn’t surprise me to see this as the biggest one in Times Square to welcome a new year. A great time to witness because we won’t live to see the year 3000.
Imagine what it'll be like in 3000
@@jj-ce8bb It probably will be some 5D type of robot celebration with people able to fly into the air to celebrate by that time.
Watching this on New Year’s Day 2024
So no Y2K............. Before the invasion of cell phones and social media. The good ol days.
And cryptocurrency
Ahh the year I turned 25 those where the good ol days
I was 25 years old in 2000. We are still young!
I turned 26 in March 2000.
I was 21 in 2000
@@ravishing-troop5276 I turned 25 in Dec 1999
@@dinamule3073 so what
I was at Epcot in Walt Disney world, Orlando, Florida at age nine during this one in a lifetime moment. Yes I kind of wish I was there but you know what I’ve been blessed to have such a wonderful time during the excitement for the coming of the new millennium.
Makes me tear up
The best new years eve and the most crowded new years eve. And the longest. I cant imagine when its 9999 to 10000
But even still contrary to popular belief, the 1st Decamillennium (AD 1- AD 10,000) (which the meaning of a decamillennium is a period of 10,000 years) will not end until December 31st, AD 10,000 (assuming if the Gregorian calendar still gets used by then). Remember that the AD system uses ordinal numbers and as result no year 0 exists in the AD ordinal system. Because of this the last year of the 1st decamillennium AD (and 10th millennium, 100th century, and 1000th decade) will be on the year AD 10,000. On January 1st, AD 10,001 it will then be the 1st year of the 2nd decamillennium AD (AD 10,001- AD 20,000), the 1st year of the 11th millennium AD (AD 10,001- AD 11,000), the 1st year of the 101st century AD (AD 10,001- AD 10,100), and the 1st year of the 1001st decade AD (AD 10,001- AD 10,010).
But in the astronomical system which uses cardinal numbers and has a year 0 as a result (corresponding to 1 BC in the AD system), The 0's (or the noughties) decamillennium (year 0 AYN to +9999 AYN), the 9000's millennium (9000-9999), the 9900's century (9900-9999), and the 9990's decade (9990-9999) will end on December 31st, 9999. Then on January 1st, 10,000 it will be the start of the 10,000's decamillennium (10,000-19,999), the 10,000's millennium (10,000-10,999), the 10,000's century (10,000-10,099), and the 10,000's decade (10,000-10,009). Yeah what you see over is quite a mouthful because there's so much periods of time being done over here. This is what we have to go with here if we still use Anno Domini and astronomical year numbering by then. And who knows maybe we might not be using it by then because of how many years we would've been in.
It been 20 years since we celebrate the new millennium
Martin Dean How so 🤔
It's now been 24 years
Hits hard knowing this was 24 years ago 😢
I watched "ABC 2000" when I was 21 years old. I was a young adult Gen X'er back then. I didn't wanna go into the year 2000 and beyond, but I had to for reality. Life goes on and so does time. I wish it were possible for me to travel to the past, especially my K-12 school years and beforehand. I graduated from high school in 1997. I'm currently 45. The 2020s are the epicenter of middle-aged Gen X'ers like me. The year 2023 is closer to 2000 by rounding off to the nearest 50. When the calender hits 2025, it's officially rounded off to 2050. I wonder what the future will look like. It's impossible for me to travel to the past. I should be present in every moment and look forward to the future.
I was born the year that you graduated in January, and I have a hard time accepting the fact that I'm getting close to 30!