With the Web, Who Needs Dick Clark?
If you haven’t made plans for ushering in the new millennium, don’t panic: You can always pop the cork at your computer. On December 31, you’ll be able to party along with a live Webcast of one of the world’s biggest New Year’s Eve bashes: the midnight Y2K celebration in New York’s Times Square. In addition to watching the lighted ball drop on your computer screen via streaming video, you’ll be able to toast the new era with celebrants in other global hotspots such as Cairo, Paris and London. (And the morning after, you can point your browser to www.hangovercure.com.) “Times Square 2000 will be the biggest party on Earth, ever,” claims Brendan Sexton, president of the Times Square Business Improvement District, the host agency for the annual ball drop. “This Web site gives everyone a chance to be part of the action.” TimesSquare2000.com was developed by Times Square BID, Times Square Media, and Countdown Entertainment. The site is scheduled to go live Sept. 22 with a public event in, w
