• ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.world
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    I think it may have been a little before. April 1999, the premiere of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire? Everyone was talking about it. We were ALL going to be millionaires. We all dressed like Regis for awhile (…right?). The new millennium was right around the corner. Things can only go up from here.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      contestant on final question. It’s super hard.

      “I’m going to use a lifeline to phone my dad. Hey, dad? Yeah. I’m on Who Wants to be a Millionaire and just wanted you to know I am about to win a million dollars.”

      hangs up, gets right answer, wins a million bucks

      Dude was epic.

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      I was working in a cubicle farm at the time, and everybody was on the phone all fucking day for weeks trying to pass the call-in test for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Absolutely no work got done by the entire IT department of a major corporation for that whole time. I’m surprised that show didn’t have a worse effect on the economy than 9/11 or COVID.