If You Remember Watching ‘Fight Club’ In A Movie Theater, You’re Probably Still On Twitter
Watching the implosion of Twitter is the moment Gen X has been waiting for since 1999.
Remember going to movie theaters when even the legit ones had sticky floors and creaky seats? They reeked of stale popcorn coated in fresh butter-flavored oil.
As 1999 was coming to a close, I went to see Fight Club in just such a theater. Happily. The perfect timing for this end-of-world scenario, anticipating the mass destruction of Y2K.
ICYMI, Y2K was presented as a very real threat, the end stage for computers around the globe because their internal clocks did not include a date past 1999. The minute 1999 turned to 2000 was shrouded in dark mystery. What would happen to internal operating systems when they reached the end of their programmed lifespan?
No one, and I mean no one, could predict what was going to happen. Ah, those were exciting times—staring into the abyss and praying the banks would implode, thereby erasing your student loan debt, mortgage debt, credit card debt, etc.
Even the idea that your identity might be wiped was thrilling.
