#Y2K bug

[complicatedbutchic]

Yum.

[shiftythrifting]

Plush at the Erie Amvets.

[sourcxs]

where do you want to go today?

(22/3/2024)

[jax0n]

[deramin2]

It's very hard to have lived through Y2K actually understanding what the problem was + what it took to keep people safe and take seriously any plot about how the protagonists stop a bad thing from happening that threatens the world and then everyone calls them heroes and is so greatful.

Bullshit. The heroes stop a bad thing from happening and everyone will immediately tell them everything they did was worthless and they were clearly overreacting because see a bad thing didn't happen after all. So clearly they were just making it up for money and attention and because they're afraid of unrealistic things.

Nearly every person you meet will try to convince you it was a hoax because the catastrophe didn't happen. The whole point of stopping things is that they don't happen. If they happened then they wouldn't have been stopped. The best possible outcome of correcting the single biggest administrative fuckup in computing is that nothing breaks and everything gets to be boring again. If it breaks then you didn't fix it (some things did still break, proving it was a real concern, but nothing super critical.)

So I don't connect with fantasies where horrible things are stopped before someone gets really hurt and everyone throws a victory celebration. Dragons existing are far more likely. The people saved will shit-talk those efforts for the rest of time and treat those who worked their asses off like fools. Gratitude is an utter lie.

And if you reading this were brought up to think Y2K was a hoax, go read about what really happened. You've been lied to for a quarter of a century by fools who were kept safe enough to keep their skepticism. It's always easier to sleep at night thinking you're just automatically safe from widespread incompetence than face the reality that people's judgement can be profoundly flawed and might take a monumental global cooperative effort to stop before it's too late.

Y2K was so clearcut and it's still denied. So I could have told you 25 years ago that climate change, capitalism, and global pandemics would be out of hand since they're actually complex.

"There were no consequences!"

There were heroes to thank for that, and no one has ever truely cared.

[goobersplat]

Y2K Bug by Image Masters

I was born in the year 2000 so I missed the Y2K scare, but I think it’s interesting, so yeah. Sorry if I made you feel old saying that 😂

[thisisrealy2kok]

Y2k-ready Duct Tape Outfit

[nofollowgame]

🔶 collecting stamps in No Follow 「game」 :: File #000005

REMEMBER 📌 Turn your computer off b4 midnight on 12/31/99.

[posthumanwanderings]

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[thesoftclubstoic]

Break out your shiny sneakers and futuristic sunglasses – these bleak political times need some retro-futuristic optimism.

via i-d.co

[pacificus-pacificator]

If only…

The ferocious evangelical churches (mostly US-based) that were hell-bent in trying to convert me since my teenage years predicted that such an “event” would take place in the Year 2000. What the hell happened?

Twenty-five years later, and the religious nuts are getting crazier and crazier. What happened to the “deus ex machina” that was supposed to take them away, and leave the rest of us in real peace and freedom?

It could be that it was the “deus ex machina” that had the Y2K bug, after all. Or an asteroid got in the way of the “father-ship” like the iceberg did for the Titanic. Who knows?

One thing is for certain: It is practically impossible to convert me into following any political or religious ideologies.

Credits and kudos to the cartoon creator-s.

Text and commentary by Razz © The Anthropoïd Poët 2025

[llamaisllama777]

Mood.

[byruit]

In the late 1990s, IBM established Year 2000 Conversion Centers to tackle the Y2K problem, where many computer systems could fail due to date misinterpretation.

These centers helped organizations identify and fix Y2K issues, offering services like code conversion, testing, project management, and training.

With a global reach, IBM collaborated with tech companies, industry groups, and governments to ensure systems were updated and ready for the new millennium.

Their efforts successfully mitigated potential disruptions and set a precedent for managing large-scale IT challenges.

[trilobiter]

After midnight on December 31, 1999, my friends and I went around the house to ceremonially check out everything we thought might have a computer chip in it, to make sure the Y2K Bug hadn't gotten it. We were 12 and it was silly, but it seems like it would have made a half-decent New Year's tradition if it weren't so precisely time bound.

[firstshowing]

Y2K monster! It's alive! From the official trailer for Kyle Mooney's horror comedy Y2K: https://onfs.net/3AGWYeX This is going to be good. 📹📟📺

[thisisrealy2kok]

"The Miseducation Of Y2K" by honest