Preparing for the Y2K Apocalypse from a bookstore in 1998
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- Опубликовано: 29 дек 2023
- Footage from a Christian bookstore in Irving, Texas from around early November of 1998.
Shots of different titles, customers browsing and purchasing items for the big day at the register.
This video last around 5 minutes.
#y2k
I miss the 90s and prior. Information wasn't bombarding you from all directions at all times. No social media. Widespread internet adoption in it's infancy. No one monitoring or tracking your location and preferences. There was a type of freedom that simply doesn't exist nowadays.
there was social media in the 90s and even late 80s, mailing lists, blogs, and message boards and chat rooms existed, it just wasn't a cultural staple yet.
How did you have more freedom? I mean you made it very obvious you don’t like technology but that’s not holding you back from freedom
@@ajausbajdhqj People feel more free when there isn't a sense of constant monitoring. What about this is hard to understand?
@@RomanDiaries Y’all should be worried about them stealing info n selling it, that’s closer to taking away freedom. OP was talking about how there’s too much info n there’s location tracking, which is just used for giving you info relevant to your location. Acting like all that takes away freedom when really people born in the 70s n 80s just don’t like change n just wanna complain. I mean all this stuff is helpful n if you want to you can get a cheap phone, turn off location tracking, n just use it for texting n email. I just don’t understand how any of it takes away freedom
It was easier to get away with murder then. Today? not so much! 😂
Life was about to change drastically in the 21st century, but not in the ways we were expecting
Right. Y2k would've been better than what was actually to come
I STILL say that the Y2K fear was a YEAR to soon! Looking at it now, it seems like it was more of a foreshadowing of what's to come this century.
@@jadabaker3634 Did you post that comment on a cell phone, tablet, or modern computer? 😂
Mailed comment via postcard to the listed P O Box.
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@@BiometricFileHasBeenCorrupted 🤣🤣🤣
I have a good memory from Y2K. Was on a long 747 flight during the transition from 1999 to 2000.
It was only like 10% booked because most people were afraid that all the planes dependent on computers to fly would crash, we stretched out on the 5 seats in the many empty rows in the middle section in economy class and enjoyed multiple free beers
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It’s amazing how sheep like people are. If they took 5 minutes to research, they’d know Y2K bug was basically non existent
That’s awesome. I remember New Year’s Eve of 1999 well myself. People were out buying canned goods like it was going out of style and of course, nothing happened. It was business as usual.
You lived a bucket list goal of mine! Someday I'm wanting to take a plane across the country during a new years eve and look at the fireworks below. Speaking of which, did you see any fireworks from below? Did you drink on the plane, if so what? Where were you going to coming from?
@@davidslife989 Nah we didn't see any fireworks, probably would have seen some if we'd looked out the many windows we had easy access to, haha, as I mentioned we enjoyed multiple beers at no charge ( no waiting to use the toilets haha ) we were going from the U.S. to Korea.
Holy crap! That woman bought ALOT of books!!
She was going to be prepared! I wonder if she still has all of them?
LOL! It was really the only way to do research back then! It does seem somewhat strange now, but, at least for me, the internet was the last place I ever thought of to do anything. It was very slow and clunky using dial-up. Back then, I still did my shopping in person or physical catalog.
She says she's buying them for a church. A lot of churches have libraries so I would hazard a guess she was buying them for that.
I enjoy the comments claiming Y2K was fake. Y2K was a non-event because of a LOT of hard work in many fields related to technology.
I was reading about how serious it actually could have been just the other day.
Yep. I was in college at the time here in the UK doing a computer course. Oddly I never remember them bringing this up so when my brother in law asked a quiz question in a paper the answer was about Y2K but I'd not heard. And yes, nothing happened as lots of engineers fixed the issues before and some got paid lots to do overtime in case systems went down.
A perfect example of what could happen recently kicked off I think it New Zealand due to a leap year bug. Took down a lot of petrol stations.
Y2K is a abbreviation on the Year 2000. It's sad everyone hates that abbreviation.
My dad recalls cutting the electricity at a Y2K New Year party he was at, and everyone at the party was terrified. Luckily he's an electrician, so he knew how to do it safely. Gotta love pranks haha
Edit: Dang it, I wish I knew more details. I remember my dad told the story, he seemed so proud of himself lol. I just remember him saying there was quite a panic, until he turned the lights back on 2 minutes later. My mom claimed she didn't remember, but scoffed at his 'immaturity'. My dad's always so serious, so it's nice hearing his sense of humor. But yeah, that's actually how I (born in 2000) even found out there was a Y2K panic.
Double edit: I know it wasn't at my dad's house. It was at his friends house. But there was a ton of people there. I don't think anyone had a panic attack or anything, but they were definitely flipping out!
Awesome! Epic prank by your Dad!!
My dad did the same and he’s an electrician 😮😮😅😅
Yeah, just turn the breaker off.
Didn't he play demonic sounds as well just to ramp it up even more
"Guys, the computer systems will think 00 means 1900 and not 2000 when it comes to time and date settings = Will somehow randomly and accidentally launch a nuclear missile"
Well it's not my fault a 200MB hard drive costed 500 squid billion googplex thousand dollars back then, so programmers had to do funny space saving shortcut shenanigans which lead to some BS down the line.
Money is money, even with the world ending
Too funny! My husband was a bit worried about Y2K and I told him not to. I remember all of the hype about this on the news.
Aw man...what a time that was. All that talk about the computers going offline, the grid and planes falling out of the sky. And absolutely nothing happened lol
I know! It was kinda disappointing. I mean, all that hype and then... nothin'. LOL!
Plenty of wacky stuff happening nowadays. It never ends.
It’s basically what happens on a more frequent, periodic basis nowadays
It happened a year later. 9/11
For some reason nothing beats vintage bookstore vibes
We made it through another fast year ! HEALTH is wealth! Happy new year everyone!
I did Y2K remediation & testing in the late 90's for a bank. It was a lot of work but we got it all done on time & I knew everything was going to be fine. I chuckled at the Y2K preppers in the news. Some people were really freaked out about it and thought Y2K was going to be a zombie apocalypse or something.
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Remember watching all those late 90’s ‘In the Year 2000’ bits Conan did on his show. Made ppl I knew who were panicking taking Xanax over Y2K seem even more silly.
Xanax, really?
@@vampirerobot yeah, hypnotherapy was too expensive… all around weird. The Conan bits were amusing for some of them after the fact tho, so it wasn’t all bad😄
@@xevvy6857 Those 'in the year 2000' bits were always hilarious I thought. I think he started doing those in his first year on the air in 93.
@@vampirerobot Never fully committed to watching ‘til ‘97ish; always loved when those segments aired, for sure.
“Is your computer Y2K ready”? is what people were asking.
I remember the stickers on the computer telling you to turn your computer off at 11:59pm on 12/31/99.
I remember it was NYE ‘99 and we were about three hours away from midnight and my cousin and I were at the grocery store picking up a few things and we had not bought into the panic up to that point.
We saw some bottled water while we were there, and were like, why not?
Standing in this line to check out, my cousin starts putting the water back. I’m like, what’re you doing?
And he says to me, that’s just like me, the world’s coming to an end, and I get a case of the cheaps.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Happy 2024, y’all!
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Haha, so how old are you now?☺️
I looked up the book he's reading at 0:25 and it has a 1 star rating on Amazon. Not surprised.
Weird coincidence that I was talking to someone about how we couldn't believe that the fear of Y2K was 24 years ago. Man, time sure does fly!
Watching this channel is equivalent to drinking a cup of hot coffee on a cold winter morning. Keep em coming
Can't believe it was so long ago 😭
Yeah, the days drag on but the years go by so quickly 😔
It’s so crazy that things from just 24 erm 25 years ago look so antiquated. It just goes to show you how fast time and everything around us moves. Wow 😢
I agree. The year 2000 looks so old school even though it’s a new millennium, but there’s some 90’s overlap with the fashion and technology
I remember going away for Christmas during the 1999/2000 Australian summer and coming home in early January, wondering if our computer would work. It was booted up as soon as we arrived home and all was well.
I just discovered your channel and I am OBSESSED with your videos! Watching them is like time travelling! Thank you for your service!
Nice video. What you don't know is that there was no final judgment, because The Terminator sacrificed himself for humanity in a church, pierced by Michael's sword before the 12th bell of Y2K
i’ve actually been working on a project somewhat inspired by this so it’s nice to have some real raw footage from what it was like!
Cool how's your project coming along? What is it about?
I remember my parents hoarded canned food like crazy for Y2K. We had racks upon racks full of it in our basement. I guess canned food was gonna save them from the apocalypse :P
For me it was 18 gallons of water in preparation for a dry tap! Rang in the New year; nothing happened. Made a lot of lemonade
The hype was ridiculous!
I remember the Y2K Apocalypse hype. I remember the 2012 Mayan Apocalypse hype. I was hoping there'd be some apocalypse hype for 2024, I've come to expect it every 12 years. But 2024 so far hasn't had that spark. Maybe I'm just getting old. Maybe I've seen it all already.
We had Covid in 2020 that’s as close to an apocalypse with all the shutdowns and staying indoors😅
@@candy2325 Ah, yeah, can't believe I forgot.
I had a Y2K folder at work. Had to contact vendors such as pc and car suppliers to get signed agreements for them to be responsible for any non working items if the worst happened. That folder was still in my office when the company closed later on.
I used to love that bookstore. I bought my first CD there. If I'm not mistaken it was "Pungent Stench - For God Your Soul... For Me Your Flesh". A truly uplifting, inspirational and heart warming album from 1990.
1998 was the year maury povich administered DNA Paterity tests on his show
Dont worry guys, im from 2023 and its fine
We’ll be in 2024 in 2 days.
😂
Uhh.... sure it is....
@@OnizukaSenseSay well, not fine, but no y2k
@@Dragonflylane77 just y2k23... 😆
totally mundane and completely fascinating
I found it to be quite weird people thought airplanes were going to fall from the sky and I couldn't find duct tape hardly anywhere. I did not have a computer so I didn't even care about all that. I thought we did fine without them before, we will be fine waiting for them to be made again.
The recepit machine sound. Was a constant growing up
I was 3 during the Y2K Apocalypse hysteria
It’s weird how still today they connect Religion and Conspiracy together given how everything is political nowadays Theory’s and Beliefs are totally different things.
I get it. There are a few other Y2K videos on the channel from more mainstream bookstores like B&N and such.
Religion and conspiracy theories both involve magical, irrational thinking. Very much related
Fantastic footage 😊😊
prophecy lady was PREPARED
Wow!
We are continually living through the end times, somehow it never ends 😁
I was 5 years old then. Good times! ❤
I recall 11 23 1998 a commercial aired where an act had passed where tobacco companies can no longer use cartoon characters to advertise their harmful.products😊
I spent Y2K at a beach party on the Texas Gulf Coast. Everything turned out fine.
At this point, I've survived multiple apocalypses! 😂
Young walter white
I remember buying candles and water I’ll never forget being $5.00 short and putting stuff back and the lady behind me yelling saying I didn’t know how to shop rude old lady lol .. this was at key food in Williamsburg Brooklyn NY .. shout out to miss grumpy . Happy new year 🎊 2024
@vampirerobot Can you recall what this raw footage was used for?
The upcoming Y2K
Haunting
In the YEAR 2000!
Good vid
So all you have to say is "it's for the church" and you don't have to pay sales tax?
Just because you buy something “for the church” you don’t pay taxes?! Free loaders.
1998.november the nba had been on lockout the season didn start until feburary 33 games were missed😢
At least that IBM 4694 was patched, unlike some older legacy EPOS systems that rolled back to the starting epoch and printed erroneous dates when Y2K happened. This was particularly of concern in the UK where many retail chains rushed out and renewed their systems, but some did hold on to their old equipment, like the John Lewis department stores. My local one, formerly a Heelas, used their 4683s until they eventually got new equipment by the 2010s.
The 4610s became widespread in the 2000s and they worked on either IBM 4683 or IBM 4694. The Suremarks were angels and the Model 4s were the devil.
The rock had won wwf title at 11 15 1998 survivor series first time. By this point he had been marketed as next face of WWF
Does anyone know if that is the same type of IBM printer that was often times found at Walmarts circa 1995-2000? IDK if this is the model 4.
Yes it is. And it’s the direct homophone of the model 3.
@@liamwatson5125 Awesome thanks. I wonder where I can find a video of the Model 3. Or even more videos of the M4 in action.
IBM 4694 cash register running 3rd party software. It's definitely not IBM's General Sales Application or Retail Application software.
November 1998 saw the inagural year of the WWF hardcore title awarded first to.mankind .the title had been retired by summerslam 2002
Anyone know how much those books people bought then would be worth now?
I laugh now when I look back at this whole Y2K hype! When Dec 31 1999 arrived, I knew nothing was gonna happen and that all this Y2K hype was nothing but that. I looked beyond Y2K then and enjoyed seeing and watching all the New Years Eve get togethers across the whole world with massive crowds of many thousands getting together to celebrate new millennium accompanied with seeing many famous international landmarks through out the world all lit up to celebrate the brand new millennium as well amongst all the AWESOME futuristic special effects, AWESOME light shows, spiced up fireworks and pyrotechnic, many famous bands playing with many exciting concerts and dancing and special show stunts and that all was an AWESOME historic time where the whole world came together as one. I remember one of news reporters saying how great it is that the world came together here and if it could always be this way. December 31 1999 was an AWESOME time worldwide being just the opposite of what was predicted!
On a note: I even remember the movie Y2K where everything went out at stroke of midnight on movie, planes crashing, massive power outages etc..I laugh now when looking back on Y2K movie! Thank you for sharing this about Y2K! Love it!
In an alternate universe, Y2K actually hit and it threw us back 140yrs from 1999 technologically.
Thankfully John Titor fixed it in our timeline.
To those of you who were seeking out Jesus before 2000, the rest of us were sure fooled with that "Y2K" stuff.
I look like Jesus Christ myself.
Proof please, or it's not true.
@@Religious_man I’m not going to send a picture of myself, but I do have long hair, a moustache, and a beard like him.
Ok, boomer.
@@Religious_man I’m not a boomer, I’m a millennial.
Is this a giant religious bookstore?
Christian bookstore
If only it had ended there…
Before Amazon kind of had its upsides lol
I own WWF classic 5 of 1998.VHS collection set which includes WWF Royal Rumble 1998 Wrestlemania 3 29 1998 WWF king of the ring 1998 6 28 1999 WWF summerslam 8 30 1998 survivor series 1998 11 15 1998 7 dollars brand new sealed at an outdoor video game sales event
What’s the name of the bookstore?
It was a Family Christian Stores bookstore
Books and Bibles
Nice content I just turned 18 I remember it was a HUGE DEAL! 👍🏻🇺🇲
i rembember Y2K Happened!
You would have been really young then Brandon, right?
yea@@vampirerobot
I never bought into Y2k crisis to be honest
Looking at Y2K now, it seems like that whole scary thing that was SUPPOSE to happen was more of a foreshadowing of what's to come this century. HOPING the next century is MORE peaceful, respectable, and QUIET.
Was there a sign outside the door warning customers there would be filming in the store? Being filmed like that can be uncomfortable or cringe (except for security cameras which are necessary). It gets awkward when the camera zooms in on people's faces and showing the cash register screen which shows what the customer is purchasing. An interesting and fun way to view history decades later, and very thankful for sharing, but was curious if customers were told of the filming before going in the store.
"Mysterious Bible Codes" oh man, thanks to the jerks who wrote those awful Left Behind novels for popularizing this garbage. The pre-millennium years were full of this crap, but at least back then the misinformation was mostly harmless.
the armaguedon was basically the internet and social media
I remember saying nothing is going to happen it'll be just like every other day
Y2K was the 2nd biggest scare/con job in history.. Made Billions of $ from goods sold.. Wife and I stood in line for 25 minutes at a Convenient store just to buy a case of beer.. Line at grocery store was 2 hours/we left.. #1 being the Mayan Calendar 12/21/12.. I almost got hit, multiple times, by people texting and driving in Nov. and Dec. 2012.. Then it let up.. Hmm, imagine that :^)
I once had met a beautiful woman. Named blanka. Female latina whom was born in november 1998 i only saw her once but she waa very kind❤😊
Bro we’re in the 2020s when’s the next incorrectly predicted apocalypse dropping
And look what happened. They waited a year later to attack...
This world is a joke
Imagine being so gullible that you waste your time, money, and brainpower on silly nonsense like this 😂 🤦🏻♂️
2020 was the new y2k. Just as fake.
I never fell for that stupid conspiracy.
Future trump supporters.
pretty sure they voted for hair sniffing biden
I once had met a beautiful woman. Named blanka. Female latina whom was born in november 1998 i only saw her once but she waa very kind❤😊