I remember people I knew stockpiling canned goods and everything. What a weird time.
And yet still not as weird as people stockpiling toilet paper and boycotting Corona beer in 2020.
We knew that the problem was already solved, but the media kept leaning into the sensational doomerism. That was the first time in my life that I realized that the media might not be unbiased or truthful.
My bank said that like 20% of their clients emptied their accounts lol
Boycotting Corona beer? Here in Germany I have heard that their sales went up when Corona happened.
On December 31, 1999 I saw a truck loaded up with possessions and "HEADED TO THE HILLS GOOD LUCK EVERYONE" painted on the side.
Got that one on pretty much all of my computers
Is that when the unix time int overflows? If so, I gotta get this sticker lol
Edit: confirmed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem, I’m one of today’s lucky 10,000
You can search for Y2038 stickers.
I am pretty much against buying unnecessary shit like this, but... where can I get one?
Which timezone?
We had a LAN Party!
486 proxy box using RedHat and ipchains sharing dialup Internet for about 8 of us in parents basement.
Enjoying looking up websites and seeing odd dates like 19100 show up. Nobody died, outside of Starsiege Tribes CTF.
My sister hosted a party, I was testing my local machine to see if it'd survive, but some asshat party guest decided to pull the house's master breaker at midnight. My test was ruined, and nobody enjoyed the joke.
91 years before Dune
I remember a friend of mine learned some outdated programming language, and got a lucrative temp job preparing mainframes for Y2K.
Y2K is treated like a tempest in a teapot, but it really only was that way because of a lot of work behind the scenes to make it so.
At the end of the day the worst thing that happened to my family was that Dad had to buy a new version of Quicken, because our old copy of 4.0 didn't support 4-digit years... But imagine if that was every Fortune 500 and state government that suddenly couldn't process payroll or invoices, or if power plants or water treatment systems stopped being able to control electronic systems because of a date/time mismatch between the SCADA systems and the operators' terminals? Y2K was a non-issue because a lot of people spent a lot of time going through a lot of code to be sure that critical systems would continue to work as expected.
That "outdated" programming language still runs large parts of the world economy and administration. Cobol will survive humanity, it's like a cockroach.
Oh, yeah. I certainly didn’t mean “outdated” as an insult; only that hardware/software engineers didn’t think their machines would still be in use by 2000.
Office Space was about fixing Y2K.
No, it was a forbidden love story between a man and his stapler.
Porque no los dos
Oh man I’m not very good at Latin.
But I was told that I could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven while I'm collating...
Millions of man hours spent preventing a total disaster, and the only recognition they got was that movie. It's the epitome of "When you do things right people won't be sure you've done anything at all."
Meanwhile, rebels like me were on a long-distance call just to see if we’d get billed for 100 years.
How am i JUST NOW realizing that their y2k warning is not y2k-compliant!?
Me too, and I came into the comments to mention what had just occurred to me, despite having seen this exact image shared at least a half dozen times before.
Dec. 31, 1999 myself and ALL of the employees of the small city that I worked for were all commanded to be onsite by 9:00pm. We spent the night playing cards in the lunchroom. I was being payed double time for playing cribbage. There were plenty of issues on Jan 1 but they were all due to nobody being on shift as they all went home at 7:00am Jan 1, 2000.
Working in IT at the time, we were fairly sure things would be fine by the time New Years Eve rolled around,. Even going so far as to camp overnight outside at the Rose Parade, a wild time on a normal year and ridiculous in 1999 with Colorado Blvd packed with partyers.
The moment came and, of course, nothing really happened...except some GENIUS thought it would be a good idea to set off a giant firework at the college next door, scaring the living shit out of a few thousand people. Good times.
I would never take that sticker off
I had a guy trying to convince everyone that WW3 was going to start because computers on warships wouldn't know what date it was.
"Hey, what's today's date, Bill?"
"What do you mean you don't know? We'd better bomb somebody!"
wtf turn off would do to help??
Probably scared it would crash on y2k
Save all your data. You can just never turn it on again 🤪
A lot of software was updated prior to y2k to be able to cope with dates. But the transition was still difficult for some software.
It's getting pretty late. Are you hungry? Wanna take a bath?
I was there, 124 years ago
I never understood why those stickers were put on computers because it just scared technologically illiterate people which back then was basically everyone.
They 100% knew it wasn't going to be a problem for at least a year before the event because they fixed it. The only computers that would really be affected was anything that wasn't networked, because it couldn't download the update. But if it wasn't networked, then you could just change the time to some earlier point to avoid the issue. Then download the patch as and when you can get it on a disk.
I see BB has a long history of stupid.
I remember some 20 years ago I bought a LaCie Porsche external HDD. It died. Just wouldn’t turn on. The enclosure was pretty firmly built so getting it open wasn’t really trivial. I was at BB and just out of sheer curiosity in what they’d say, I went up to their repair department. Three kids who were supposed to be trained professionals claimed it was not possible to open without damaging the drive. They said they tried several times and all HDDs were DOA out the enclosure.
Not sold. I went home. Took about an hour of prying (I didn’t want to damage anything) but I got the case open to reveal a bargain basement Seagate. Connected. Worked just fine. As I had originally surmised.
Always wanted to see just what they did to theirs to not salvage the internal drive.
When 52x read was top of the line. If we compare SSD to CDs it would be exponentially faster.
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