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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.
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My bank said that like 20% of their clients emptied their accounts lol
went over to my friends house on new years eve around like 6 or 7pm. His step dad was in the living room cleaning all this guns. He was absolutely convinced that as soon as midnight struck society would crumble and mass looting/killing would begin. he also stocked up on can goods, TP, beer, etc. I was like 16 at the time and he offered me one of his guns to take home to “protect your family”. I kindly refused.
Boycotting Corona beer? Here in Germany I have heard that their sales went up when Corona happened.
I’m referring to news items like this one.
But, while looking for a source on that, I found a couple of articles (Snopes and PolitiFact) that say it’s fake news.
So, this much 🤏 faith in humanity restored, I guess.
Here in Germany, Corona Beer was never that big, so I guess the amount of people who bought it because they had just noticed it for the first time is higher than the amount of people who would have bought it but didnt because of the disease.
It was probably just Trump supporters. Those guys eat all the gloom and doom stuff up because they actually really hope the world’s going to end, as it’s the only way they’ll ever end up on top.
On December 31, 1999 I saw a truck loaded up with possessions and “HEADED TO THE HILLS GOOD LUCK EVERYONE” painted on the side.
December 31st 1999, I was at a house party in Lexington, KY. We had a few radio stations playing for ambiance. Once we realized that at least 2 were playing Prince “Party like it’s 1999,” we tuned as many radios as we could. Turned out that 6 stations ended 1999 with Prince, and started 2000 with “It’s the end of the world as we know it,” by REM.
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?
got mine at the last chaos communication congress so you’ll probably wont be able to get the exact one. These look very similar and even have a 100% licensed best buy logo on them
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.
Shazbot!
I need an APC pickup!
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.
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.
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.
Wonder if we’ll see similar stickers around 2038
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??
Save all your data. You can just never turn it on again 🤪
Probably scared it would crash on y2k
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.
but you couldn’t use the computer anymore???
Could not deal with the transition. No issues afterwards. So all machines off the evening before was sop for a lot of companies
I still can’t believe this shit was real.
Like the massive oversights that happened. The blatant incompetence of like every single computer nerd in the world.
All because not one fuckin person thought about what happens when you run out of number space for the date.
I feel like someone should’ve been excommunicated over this shit.
The blatant incompetence of like every single computer nerd in the world. All because not one fuckin person thought about what happens when you run out of number space for the date.
I take it you were still in nappies back then. Because it wasn’t incompetence at all, it was a simple trade off. Storage space and memory on early computers was expensive and very limited. This is rather like IPV4 - who would have guessed WAY back then that there would be more than a bajillion individual IP devices? For Y2K, we’re talking mainly 1960s-1970s, so it’s partly “hey, we have 40 years to deal with this”, which programmers in the late 70s and 80s were well aware of and began dealing with. The issue with the Y2K scare was way over-hyped… it was really just legacy systems that were any kind of actual problem. The whole “turn off your computer” thing was utter nonsense.
I remember hearing all the hype and decided to take my poor 486 running win 3.11 and checked the date in the bios, went further in the future than that pc lasted, set the date to 2000 then booted to windows. the only issue I saw was that the stuff I saved in 2000 had the date 19;0. Fun times
Naturally! I did the same. I was administering a bunch of servers so of course we ignored the hype and just… shocking, I know… tested it.
This is rather like IPV4 - who would have guessed WAY back then that there would be more than a bajillion individual IP devices?
Except the response to this wasn’t “Let’s figure out a timecode that uses letters instead of numbers and has accuracy down to the femtosecond and enough space for 10^20 years.” IPv6 was massive overkill.
What was it that Bill Gates said as late in the game as the 90s?
“500Kb of memory should be enough for anybody.”Moore’s Law sucker-punched everybody.
But yeah, they all seemed to be thinking small. And really narrow.
It’s getting pretty late. Are you hungry? Wanna take a bath?
