The Y2K scare revolved around the impending outmoding of computer systems around the world. Many software and operating systems were programed using a two-digit date display for the year and the primary concern was that when the year ticked over to 2000 systems would register it as "00" which could lead to logic errors leading to potential crashes. The hysteria was sparked largely by a general ignorance of technology and fears that systems which controlled important infrastructure such as power and utilities could be compromised and fail. Some people even went so far as to theorize nuclear weapons might inadvertently launch or detonate. At the very least people were expecting finances and public institutions to be affected but thanks to the hard work of programmers at the time updates were pushed out in quick order to prevent any such interruptions. I too remember being a kid around this time, and while I understood the context to it all, the hysteria was a bit much to me. I didn't have much concept in regards to infrastructure and civil services, but at the time we were not nearly as reliant on computers. A lot was still done with analog methods and the digital age was taking off but still had a long way to go towards making the transition that we see today.
I understood the premise... but it made no sense to me... like they could have manually changed the dates on specific systems preemptively to test if they would crash... or anything really suspect could have been reset if they were worried about that rollover number injecting itself in another block of digits
@HellNaught like I said, computer illiteracy at the time compounded people's panic about the whole ordeal. Most people had no idea what the Y2K scare was about, they just knew some people were panicked and so they followed suit. The issue was never really how to fix the issue, but how to do it in time for the new year for all the systems that would require it. It was a matter of how much money would be lost on account of a technical oversight and what ripple effects it would have at large. We were not quite so reliant on technology of the digital age like we are now, but it was taking over a lot of things people depended on out of convenience.
5:00 The John Travolta line is a joke about how Pulp Fiction completely saved his career. He hadn’t been in a good movie in quite a was in a definite slump until Tarantino cast him.
Bro! I remember being at my sister's house for that new years and nobody was tripping but literally 10 minutes after midnight all the lights went out in the neighborhood and we started freaking out lmao, turned out someone hit a transformer down the street haha, i was sure it was the end lol
Rod Stewart was 54 years old at the time when this episode aired. 😂 Today, in 2024, Trey Parker, who voiced Old Man Rod in this episode, is now 55 years old. 😂
Nothing huge happened with me that New Year's Eve. But I was working as a manager at Subway that night to close, then an officer came in and asked me how I was doing, and I said I'm fine, then he said "Just so you know, they got us all out there tonight, so if you need us just give us a call." I said okay, and then he left. Then when I got home, I watched a South Park marathon and they ended with a South Park NYE countdown. I'm sure it's on TH-cam already now if you wanna check it out.
16:05 If you remember from the episode “Do the Handicapped go to hell?” And “Probably” God makes an Appearance in that episode to give Satan advice on his relationship with Sadam Hussein and Chris. That is the Canon version of God in South Park 😭😭
After early career smash hits such as "Grease" and "Saturday Night Fever" in the 70s, John Travolta's career experienced a major critical and commercial dip in popularity during the 80s and early 90s, but then he rebounded big in 1994 with the success of "Pulp Fiction," which caused him to explode again in popularity. He remained a big star for the rest of the 90s, going on to headline six more films that broke $100 million at the box office (a big deal at the time) over the course of the next five years, and he got top billing in all of them. ...then his career tanked again in 2000 when he starred in (and produced) "Battlefield Earth." 🤣
John Travolta’s career was “revived” not long before this with Pulp Fiction. However in 2000 it would go back down the shitter with Battlefield Earth. I don’t remember seeing his name a lot after other than romcoms. The Fanatic is unintentionally hilarious in The Room kind of way I highly recommend getting drunk with friends and watching it
Im British, I was 19 when the millennium hit and I took a load of mushrooms and built a fort in my apartment listened to Carl Cox live from Bondi beach! Fricking awesome man.
Fun Fact about Dysfunctional: While touring movie sites on a vacation, Dysfun was standing in the House from Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Looking around, he openly proclaimed that this would be a great looking family restaurant or cafe location. It became a family restaurant, however remembering what Dysfun said, an investor decided to try a cafe. So it became in 2012, the house from the 1974 Texas Chainsaw film became Grand Central Cafe.
Basically Y2K was the idea that computers would crash or cause issues because most of them would process 2000 as 1900 due to only using two digits to store the year in some software. Most companies were aware of this in advance and had updated by the mid-90s, though some things weren't updated for a few days after the event itself. US spy satellites, a few nuclear reactors flagged false alarms because they thought they had been running for 100 years, and someone was charged a 100 year overdue parking ticket. We're due to have another issue in 2038, as 32-bit systems are only designed to keep dates till then. And they'll need replaced with 64-bit ones.
i was like 13 or 14 during the whole Y2K thing... my mom was hella worried about it. She had packed away a bunch of food and water and stuff... full on prepper status back then. lol Man... those were the good old days for sure. The world was so different back then.
I think the issue was that people weren't sure how the computers would handle having "00" as a year in programs that were coded with two digit years instead of four digit years, or something like that. I guess there were actually some systems effected by it, but nothing widespread or important enough to cause any issues.
I turned 15 in 2000, so I was aware of the fear but not much came of it. A few systems in some places were affected, but it wasn’t as bad as people feared I think
I was 17 and remember it. I don't think anyone I know was all that concerned with it. At least not that I was aware of anyway. I'm sure there were some preppers around.
I remember Y2K a lot of people talking about it but never saw anyone do anything out of the ordinary. My parent and family in pretty everyone in general that I knew didn’t buy in to that histeria just remember it the same as any NY parent and neighbors have a small get together countdown with champagne and you could see and hear a lot of fire works around the town.
Mans face during Chefs "explanation" song 😂😂 Btw the John Travolta joke was because he did Grease Lightning in 1978 which was a massive success, and he didn't star in another hit movie until Pulp Fiction in 1994.
I'm from Chile, and here the new millennium was like a second holiday 😅, nothing all that crazy to be honest (Maybe the zone I grew up people weren't really all that existed about it, not sure)
Believe it or not, I thought I would react to the new year 2020 (or 2025) just like everyone did in 2000. It's possible that that I'm wrong! P. S., how would you explain to an eight-year-old boy exactly what a period is? I know everyone will get mad at me for an "important question" a few days before the new year, but I'm curious. P. P. S., RIP Issac Hayes.
I remember Y2K I knew it wouldn't end but yeah the computer thing I remembered all I know I was not tier 2 US Army Rangers I think I started RASP just regular Army at the time we knew nothing would happen.
nah he’s absolutely right - it detracts from real issues like class solidarity. simpletons fall for it, and the two above are on the bottom rung of the ladder.
Everything has pro's and con's 🤦♂️ the main thing is be proud where your from and not just hating people from being a certain place. Everyone in the desert aint a bomber, everyone in the middle east wont shoot their family because the goverment tells them to.
The Y2K scare revolved around the impending outmoding of computer systems around the world. Many software and operating systems were programed using a two-digit date display for the year and the primary concern was that when the year ticked over to 2000 systems would register it as "00" which could lead to logic errors leading to potential crashes. The hysteria was sparked largely by a general ignorance of technology and fears that systems which controlled important infrastructure such as power and utilities could be compromised and fail. Some people even went so far as to theorize nuclear weapons might inadvertently launch or detonate. At the very least people were expecting finances and public institutions to be affected but thanks to the hard work of programmers at the time updates were pushed out in quick order to prevent any such interruptions.
I too remember being a kid around this time, and while I understood the context to it all, the hysteria was a bit much to me. I didn't have much concept in regards to infrastructure and civil services, but at the time we were not nearly as reliant on computers. A lot was still done with analog methods and the digital age was taking off but still had a long way to go towards making the transition that we see today.
I understood the premise... but it made no sense to me... like they could have manually changed the dates on specific systems preemptively to test if they would crash... or anything really suspect could have been reset if they were worried about that rollover number injecting itself in another block of digits
@HellNaught like I said, computer illiteracy at the time compounded people's panic about the whole ordeal. Most people had no idea what the Y2K scare was about, they just knew some people were panicked and so they followed suit.
The issue was never really how to fix the issue, but how to do it in time for the new year for all the systems that would require it. It was a matter of how much money would be lost on account of a technical oversight and what ripple effects it would have at large. We were not quite so reliant on technology of the digital age like we are now, but it was taking over a lot of things people depended on out of convenience.
@@Kamenari37 yea I remember it, I was 12, I just didnt understand the freakout
5:00 The John Travolta line is a joke about how Pulp Fiction completely saved his career. He hadn’t been in a good movie in quite a was in a definite slump until Tarantino cast him.
Bro! I remember being at my sister's house for that new years and nobody was tripping but literally 10 minutes after midnight all the lights went out in the neighborhood and we started freaking out lmao, turned out someone hit a transformer down the street haha, i was sure it was the end lol
Dude that would have freaked me out too lol
7:04 censors the word "ass" -> still says it out loud a couple seconds later 😹
Rod Stewart was 54 years old at the time when this episode aired. 😂
Today, in 2024, Trey Parker, who voiced Old Man Rod in this episode, is now 55 years old. 😂
Also, we just so happened to be pet sitting 2 small dogs belonging to the ex-wife of Rod Stewart.
The reveal of God is still one of the funniest moments in South Park ever!🤣
Well what did you expect a Flying Spaghetti Monster?
I was 18 in 1999 it felt a lot like the 2012 debacle...idk who went nuts but, it was a "let's see what happens" kind of thing.
Nothing huge happened with me that New Year's Eve. But I was working as a manager at Subway that night to close, then an officer came in and asked me how I was doing, and I said I'm fine, then he said "Just so you know, they got us all out there tonight, so if you need us just give us a call." I said okay, and then he left. Then when I got home, I watched a South Park marathon and they ended with a South Park NYE countdown. I'm sure it's on TH-cam already now if you wanna check it out.
16:05 If you remember from the episode “Do the Handicapped go to hell?” And “Probably” God makes an Appearance in that episode to give Satan advice on his relationship with Sadam Hussein and Chris. That is the Canon version of God in South Park 😭😭
12:00 Stan taking hormones? Let’s not forget what happened to Ike when he was mistakenly prescribed athlete’s hormones instead of laxatives. 😆
That was ike wasn't it??
You’re talking about Y2K. I was the same age as you and yes people went nuts! They thought all the computers in the world were gonna crash.
After early career smash hits such as "Grease" and "Saturday Night Fever" in the 70s, John Travolta's career experienced a major critical and commercial dip in popularity during the 80s and early 90s, but then he rebounded big in 1994 with the success of "Pulp Fiction," which caused him to explode again in popularity. He remained a big star for the rest of the 90s, going on to headline six more films that broke $100 million at the box office (a big deal at the time) over the course of the next five years, and he got top billing in all of them.
...then his career tanked again in 2000 when he starred in (and produced) "Battlefield Earth." 🤣
Bro it’s honestly surreal being born in 03, just in time for the DSI and WII and 360
John Travolta’s career was “revived” not long before this with Pulp Fiction. However in 2000 it would go back down the shitter with Battlefield Earth. I don’t remember seeing his name a lot after other than romcoms. The Fanatic is unintentionally hilarious in The Room kind of way I highly recommend getting drunk with friends and watching it
Faceoff was great
he was also the main bad guy in the thomas jane The Punisher movie from 2004
Im British, I was 19 when the millennium hit and I took a load of mushrooms and built a fort in my apartment listened to Carl Cox live from Bondi beach! Fricking awesome man.
Fun Fact about Dysfunctional: While touring movie sites on a vacation, Dysfun was standing in the House from Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Looking around, he openly proclaimed that this would be a great looking family restaurant or cafe location. It became a family restaurant, however remembering what Dysfun said, an investor decided to try a cafe.
So it became in 2012, the house from the 1974 Texas Chainsaw film became Grand Central Cafe.
wtf does that have to do with anything
@ Wow, someone needs the stick removed from their ass. You’re way too uptight.
What. Are u in a psykosis? What is this
@@Tero92 Try again by writing a question that’s comprehensible, otherwise don’t reply anymore.
I was 18, a senior in high school, and I remember quite a few people making a big deal out of Y2K.
Basically Y2K was the idea that computers would crash or cause issues because most of them would process 2000 as 1900 due to only using two digits to store the year in some software.
Most companies were aware of this in advance and had updated by the mid-90s, though some things weren't updated for a few days after the event itself. US spy satellites, a few nuclear reactors flagged false alarms because they thought they had been running for 100 years, and someone was charged a 100 year overdue parking ticket.
We're due to have another issue in 2038, as 32-bit systems are only designed to keep dates till then. And they'll need replaced with 64-bit ones.
15:14 😂That’s what Christian’s should be thinking about the original crucifixion story. “I don’t want this done in my name”.
i was like 13 or 14 during the whole Y2K thing... my mom was hella worried about it. She had packed away a bunch of food and water and stuff... full on prepper status back then. lol
Man... those were the good old days for sure. The world was so different back then.
I think the issue was that people weren't sure how the computers would handle having "00" as a year in programs that were coded with two digit years instead of four digit years, or something like that.
I guess there were actually some systems effected by it, but nothing widespread or important enough to cause any issues.
I turned 15 in 2000, so I was aware of the fear but not much came of it. A few systems in some places were affected, but it wasn’t as bad as people feared I think
Straight up was watched the spongebob y2k vid alone cuz everyone was goin nuts
Watchin*
I was 17 and remember it. I don't think anyone I know was all that concerned with it. At least not that I was aware of anyway. I'm sure there were some preppers around.
I remember Y2K a lot of people talking about it but never saw anyone do anything out of the ordinary. My parent and family in pretty everyone in general that I knew didn’t buy in to that histeria just remember it the same as any NY parent and neighbors have a small get together countdown with champagne and you could see and hear a lot of fire works around the town.
Cartman has too much taco bell. He tore a blood vessel
For anyone wondering how you make a Hormone: easy, you just don't pay her afterwards.
I was 9 for Y2K… that was wild
Lol, this is one of those gems that I always forget. So good! 😂
You're damm right it's a banger, Chef had a BANGER of a song! lol
Mans face during Chefs "explanation" song 😂😂
Btw the John Travolta joke was because he did Grease Lightning in 1978 which was a massive success, and he didn't star in another hit movie until Pulp Fiction in 1994.
I'm from Chile, and here the new millennium was like a second holiday 😅, nothing all that crazy to be honest
(Maybe the zone I grew up people weren't really all that existed about it, not sure)
2 episodes in one day DTV IS THE GOAT!!
2:40 He's had it since season one!
16:04 that cut tho😂😂😂😂
I remember watching this when it came out. Still one on the better episodes of the early seasons!
Funny thing is Rod Stewart is still performing today
Love the vids, it’s actually pronounced Ra-tat-ta ash’s voice actor said it wrong and they just ran with it🤣
Ah the naivety of being a kid.😂
Dude smart people were making money off the Y2K hysteria. I still have a little plush toy Y2K bug I got in late 1999 lol
Bet you all didn't guess that's what god looks like!
Believe it or not, I thought I would react to the new year 2020 (or 2025) just like everyone did in 2000. It's possible that that I'm wrong!
P. S., how would you explain to an eight-year-old boy exactly what a period is? I know everyone will get mad at me for an "important question" a few days before the new year, but I'm curious.
P. P. S., RIP Issac Hayes.
Been a while im this early
For the algorithm
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My memory of y2k was some backstreetboys music video released after midnight...😅😢
120 on pvp track and still no pestilence
D tv your reactions are Really Dope 🎉
Calling god a snitch is wild😢
I remember Y2K I knew it wouldn't end but yeah the computer thing I remembered all I know I was not tier 2 US Army Rangers I think I started RASP just regular Army at the time we knew nothing would happen.
FTA Baby!!
Let's Go!!
Hope you had good holidays Fam!*
* All of you
Is this a re upload?
That's not how hormones works...
Brah! Every 12 years or so, the God danm world is always ending.😂 2000 than 2012 than 2024, at this point, is just a trend.😂
Do you already saw god when Satan talk to god
Can you watch squid games season two maybe on twitch or something? I love your live videos.
....."Chunks"......😂😂😂😂😂
Bro i was eating when i qued this up. damn near threw up and had to put it on pause ffs.
Have you seen or heard of “Venture Brothers “?
By all the gods humanity has ever invented, yes! He's gotta watch Venture Brothers; I think he'd absolutely love it.
Bell gang we here for it
a top 10 episode up next
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Lol😂😂
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Enough with the culture war nonsense. It's weird.
Stop being so soft, it's weird
“Waaaaaaaaaaah” -Mitch Gregory
nah he’s absolutely right - it detracts from real issues like class solidarity. simpletons fall for it, and the two above are on the bottom rung of the ladder.
Stay mad lol
Everything has pro's and con's 🤦♂️ the main thing is be proud where your from and not just hating people from being a certain place. Everyone in the desert aint a bomber, everyone in the middle east wont shoot their family because the goverment tells them to.
South Park OG Christmas shorts please
🙏🙏
Jesus Vs Frosty
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The Spirit of Christmas (Jesus Vs Santa)
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