My family owned a computer repair shop during the 90's. We made an absolute killing performing "Y2K Tests" on customers computers... all we really did was set the date forward a year and see if it still functioned. Easiest money we'll ever make! People were totally freaking out about Y2K... it was awesome!
I was a tech for a PC repair shop at the time. We had this 3.5" disk that would run a program to "test" the clock. It was a little more professional than what you did, but some customers wanted to have that "hands on" so they didn't think they were getting taken.
what if the world WAS supposed to end, but since everybody used Internet Explorer it took a while for it to begin the computer meltdown and to this day it's still buffering...
This stupid thing scared the crap out of me as a kid. I was nine at the time. They made it seem like we were all going to die and that all the electronics were going to go berserk. Then finally, the millenium started and not a god damn thing happened. I think that was my first introduction to skepticism to mainstream media; a decision I haven't regretted since.
I remember being 16 and had just gotten my first own computer and laying down my bed listening to Art Bell on Coast to Coast radio on the Dec. 31st and how there were "experts" coming up with all kinds of possible meltdowns during the whole Y2K hysteria and then ........ nothing happened.... lol
I remember watching TV on new year's eve in Dec 31st 1999 I was 9 years old and they broadcast all the celebrations around the world. it was fun and loud! Too bad we weren't be able to witness another millennium celebration.
My mom was a teenager during Y2K and her family started spending all their money and my mom thought they were idiots and tried to let them know nothing will happen but my grandparents didn't listen and when nothing happened they were so angry
I worked for a state lottery during this time and we worked tirelessly the prior YEAR combing through lines of code on our mainframe fixing all the instances of the two-digit date problem, and as someone who fully understood what this meant I never had a concern over the Y2K issue. My brother on the other hand bought thousands of dollars-worth of extra supplies and all this shit just "in case". I knew this wasn't gonna be a problem because I knew what was going on so I was always fine with it. Knowing I worked directly in an industry that was affected by Y2K my brothers, sisters & friends were constantly asking me if they should be worried about it. January 1, 2000 was *just another regular day*.
I'm 21 so I was born '01. For those who were living this back in the day was it actually as terrifying as this video makes it to be? Just genuinely curious. Thanks
I was 10 years old, living in Brazil, and feeling scared. My family was on our farm for New Year's Eve. My dad was already asleep, and I was sitting in my mother's lap. When the clock struck midnight and the new millennium began, it started raining gently.
Last year I went to the doctor's office and saw that they had a lamp with a Y2K compliant sticker. I asked the nurse if she remembered when everything needed to get a Y2K sticker. She didn't, and I felt old. But that is what it was like. Here was a simple lamp with just a stupid on off switch, and yet someone thought it needed a Y2K sticker. There probably were some systems that needed some minor fixes, but it was clear to anyone who knew anything about computers that this was being blown out of proportion. To this day, most servers actually store the time as milliseconds since January 1, 1970. There have been several possible Y2K like events where programs might not allocate enough memory to store enough milliseconds, but those dates also passed without much issue.
I was 14. I had a 1994 Packard Bell PC. I heard about Y2K, that computers would crash because they were not wired for the 2000 date. I clicked open the calendar and looked to see how far it went if I wanted to change it. I think it went to about 2021. I quit worrying and watched the rest of the world freak out.
Sure it looks silly looking back, but it’s understandable to me why so many people thought that the world could potentially end midnight, January 1, 2000. Computers had only been around for a couple of decades and most people, except for those with technical training, didn’t have a clue about how they really worked yet basically the entire world was already dependent on them. So, putting yourself back in 1999, a catastrophic computer malfunction definitely seemed like a possibility , at least at first glance.
I was a sophomore in high school when this scare happened. It was ridiculous. I sat on the sidelines thinking, if something happens, oh well. Just lived my life like nothing was gonna happen...and then nothing happened. I almost forgot about Y2K actually lol i can't stand the doomsday craze. 2012 was especially a joke. Good times!
I remember my mother preparing for this, she had a bit of a scare sayin that the natives wouldn't have any trouble. we would just go back to our roots she said.
Y2K is so 90s. One reason computers where programmed that way (2 digits for the year) was to save space. Back in the day, memory was very limited. Another reason may have been more morbid. The experts felt that the chances of even making it to 2000 were slim due to expectations of an eventual WWIII/nuclear holocaust.
Except that's not factual, at least for all the programmers I ever worked with. In fact, it was simply because of laziness, not lack of memory space, even in the 70s. We never WROTE out the full year, so most of us never thought of programming it.
idk my old black berry had a calendar that went all the way up to the year 10,000 and it probably went further but the bell had rang for lunch so I had to stop playing with my phone. Also I had a VCR in the 90's that could set the date to the year 2020 which I always thought was funny cause it was sooooo long into the future, but its only 5 years away. Hmm my point is Y2k is funny everybody was scared of what was gonna happen but listening to it now it doesn't even make sense.
NivekIohc -Well...you asked, "Why are WE so stupid?"; the operative word here being "WE"....as in, including ME! LoL! But really, I was just joking and trying to be funny, dude.
I was 18 and paid little attention to Y2K. I thought: "So what if the dates get messed up a little? They can just fix it! If it needs fixing." And I was right😂
It's funny to clown the people who thought Y2K was real, but I honestly can't blame them too much. Domestic Computers were pretty new, and it was easy to get people scared about a potential apocalypse. That being said, it's still funny to watch *laughs in 2020*
I remember like a year or so earlier saying "what if nothing actually happens?" and my mom and sister were dead serious like "something is going to happen." And nothing happened.
This was the one scare where, had they have not become 95% complient like they did by 2000, there was the potential for serious problems, as huge mainframes were still the backbone of many companies, and we didn't know the impact of double zeroes. Computers that read data that is unintended can be severely damaged if the instructions based on that data cause things to overload or act unpredictably, and that's the thing about those old mainframes is that a lot of it was only there because it worked, not because people understood all of it.
It was always so over-rated though. On pretty much all computers we could change the system date manually. So if it looked likely that the thing was going to shoot itself we just needed to change the date back by a year or so, until it could be remedied.
My dad bought a bunch of bullets, he didn’t believe it but just in case bought bullets to take other people’s stuff since he had my sister and older brother with him. My mom was in a remote part of Mexico with her family and he hadn’t met her yet so she had absolutely no idea what y2k was when she moved back to California.
This just seems completely ridiculous. Regardless if computers where programmed with two digits for the year date it would just revert back to 00 as with any program that goes up to 99, it’s common sense really.
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Well, of course it would revert back to "00", but it's interpreted as "1900", and some critical systems were date dependant. You wouldn't want to wait a hundred years to get your money from your ATM would you ?
I was in middle school and i remember it was everywhere in the news lots of people were worried and the media made it seem far more than it was , but it was very entertaining for sure maybe cause we didnt have smart phones or touch screens it feels like it was the intro for the new tech era .
so basically once it got to 1999 it went back to 1900? don't they know how to use binary coded decimal?? 0010 0000 0000 0000 what made it so hard??? lol
Not at all your eyes aren't used to it that's all. But as a film student myself I can easily define the era of the footage from the clothes and hairstyles in it.
January 31st 1999 I was with my family riding the elevator to the top of my dad's office building to watch the fireworks... and the elevator STOPPED, and the lights went out. For a full minute we were all panicking thinking it was really happening. Then the lights came back on and we rode up.
*It's the year 2018 and it's been 17 years since the internet wars have started, I don't know if i'm going to make it out alive China just types way too fast. Tell my cat I love him.*
My Grandpa told me he did a test on his computer a few months before, and then a tiny leprechaun jumped out of the computer and started spamming the escape key.
I remember saying how ridiculous the whole thing was, "like the microwave will think it's 100 years old and stop working", but getting more and more nervous about no water in the tap or falling airplanes as midnight got closer but I didn't want to admit it. It was only about 5 years later that I realized that I had been watching live TV all day from around the world how they celebrated the new millenium in earlier time zones. I didn't see any blackouts and the TV signal didn't get cut off. If some sort of disaster would happen on the new year, it would happen once for every time zone and the world would know about it before the end of the day.
They did mention microwaves on the news because "some have calendars", even though I haven't seen one myself, just clocks without dates to set a timer. They did also mention tap water because the central computer might fail, and I don't even know if there is a computer involved. Especially back then.
Speaking of jobs, where I live, the movie theater was having its last days across from the gas station back in August of 1999. These construction workers demolished that building along with Debeer's and United Food Shop.
I don't FUCKING UNDERSTAND. Why did people wait to think about this until the day before fucking New Years Day. What did people not think that the year 2000 was gonna come? Like... WHAT THE FUCK
@@Rubycon99 I graduated college with a CS degree in 1996. About 50% of the jobs that I interviewed for were regarding Y2K software updates. It was definitely in people's minds well before 1998.
They aren't saying this was a realistic prospect. They are simply documenting that at the time the general opinion of some of the public was that the computer systems would fail and cause an unspeakable crisis
The real scare is the first 24 years of Y2K, it is the real bad chapter for humanity, delete them and start all over. This is the year 1999 counting down to jubilee 2000...
@@alexrivera9488 Unix systems calculate dates based on the number of seconds since Jan. 1, 1970 and older systems will run out of room for dates after sometime in 2038.
Why the fuck couldn't they just simulate what would happen, and blow off the whole thing? I can make my computer think the year is 2099 and the date December 31, and then see what happens at midnight. I mean, what the fuck?
My family owned a computer repair shop during the 90's. We made an absolute killing performing "Y2K Tests" on customers computers... all we really did was set the date forward a year and see if it still functioned. Easiest money we'll ever make! People were totally freaking out about Y2K... it was awesome!
😂😅
Lmao nice
😂😂😂
cheap xD
but hey! Its money!
I was a tech for a PC repair shop at the time. We had this 3.5" disk that would run a program to "test" the clock. It was a little more professional than what you did, but some customers wanted to have that "hands on" so they didn't think they were getting taken.
what if the world WAS supposed to end, but since everybody used Internet Explorer it took a while for it to begin the computer meltdown and to this day it's still buffering...
😂😂😂
it loads up when Trump
well
never mind
😁
Hey your right
chrome? nah. simply lodding into an google account will give them a lot of info about you.
Johnny Trever COMPITER ARE REALLY SMART THEY ALREADY GOING KNOW NO THE OUTHER DATE
This stupid thing scared the crap out of me as a kid. I was nine at the time. They made it seem like we were all going to die and that all the electronics were going to go berserk. Then finally, the millenium started and not a god damn thing happened. I think that was my first introduction to skepticism to mainstream media; a decision I haven't regretted since.
SKYNET Y2K
Glad you learned and grew up. It's sad to see people a lot older than you still buying into fear and hype
I think saying the world was gonna end was a big overstatement by the. . . . well, everyone
it was exciting for me, i wanted to see the apocalypse lol
I thought the year would be ending, yet I watched "Independence Day" and "Small Soldiers".
At least this makes more sense than a calendar ending
agreed, still pretty stupid though
+Tristan Gray I watched an old compaq on Windows 3.11x roll over and a win 98 se at the same time. Piece of cake
lmfaoo deadass
Backwards logic lol
right now i am trying to live through 2021 and 2022
I remember being 16 and had just gotten my first own computer and laying down my bed listening to Art Bell on Coast to Coast radio on the Dec. 31st and how there were "experts" coming up with all kinds of possible meltdowns during the whole Y2K hysteria and then ........ nothing happened.... lol
***** actually yes, this was the year that my uncle, my grandma past away i lost 40lbs due to stress .. yep just a tad
I remember watching TV on new year's eve in Dec 31st 1999 I was 9 years old and they broadcast all the celebrations around the world. it was fun and loud! Too bad we weren't be able to witness another millennium celebration.
+stryker7x I was 14 at the time. I would go into y2k chat rooms at the time and troll them. After nothing happened it was a wasteland. So funny
My mom was a teenager during Y2K and her family started spending all their money and my mom thought they were idiots and tried to let them know nothing will happen but my grandparents didn't listen and when nothing happened they were so angry
I worked for a state lottery during this time and we worked tirelessly the prior YEAR combing through lines of code on our mainframe fixing all the instances of the two-digit date problem, and as someone who fully understood what this meant I never had a concern over the Y2K issue. My brother on the other hand bought thousands of dollars-worth of extra supplies and all this shit just "in case". I knew this wasn't gonna be a problem because I knew what was going on so I was always fine with it. Knowing I worked directly in an industry that was affected by Y2K my brothers, sisters & friends were constantly asking me if they should be worried about it. January 1, 2000 was *just another regular day*.
greenrefrigerator Then 2012, and now September 2015.
:D
also now they worry about 2030 haha
jennifer leblanc 2020
@@jenniferleblanc6756 we are almost there
How did your brother feel after he brought that supplies for nothing? What did he do with it?
Why would someone need a flamethrower to protect themselves from a computer virus???
I think people thought it would be usefull for when everything electrinic shut down, and people went crazy and started getting violent.
Because America
Looters.
I think it was more of the fear factor at play, I think the fear of having meltdown scared the people more.
They thought the computers would turn into robots
All these people that were terrified of the y2k bug must feel like idiots now.
marvinj487 It was gonna happen, but thanks to people fixing the bug it didnt
marvinj487 MS-DOS: We can't handle y2k shutting down forever...
marvinj487 HEY COMPUTERS ARE SMART THEIR NOT GOING TO FAIL
okay anime lover
not really I just pick this to pick this
who's watching in 1993?
I'm watching in 1280 x 1024
Not u 👍👍
1995 now, can't wait for the Y2K apocalypse
Israel Jauregui I’m in 2028, we have flying cars and world peace
I'm in the year 2069 and to slightly change Buzz Lightyear's quote,
"Orgys, Orgys everywhere"
Y2K > I'm going to end the world. 2020 > "hold my beer"
the beer is called corona
@@nvmholo lol
2020 probably had a $35-40 trillion impact on the economy. Here we are talking billions at most.
16 years later
My nigga Harambe got clapped
17
Nives, and the beat go's on, yes the beat go's on.
19 coming to 20.
2 years after this comment
Y2K problem was a self-defeating prophecy: Had this problem not been brought up, things would have been much worse.
proof? I thought not
Well welcome to Y2K24 tho
This reminds me of how some people said the windows PC will show the date ... 1999-01 1999-02 etc so now it will be 1999-25😂
Did we died?
Very
BloxBuilder Yup
Well milennials happened. So we might aswell be dead.
Noooo.!. LiEkke omg dumby! we Dieded? U cannott even spel or or corecct grammer.
jsanchez5360 Your grammar did
00:00 01/01/2000:
YEAR 2000
Windows 2000: hello.
Oh god, this is embarrassing.
Garfellow You were one of these idiots?
Like the Climate Change Freaks Now!
K. I. A I think he meant this was the most embarrassing thing to ever be done by humanity
@@K.I.A22 your parents were
@@Top10soon probably actually. 😂😂😂
I remember sitting in front of my VCR on new years eve waiting for it to explode, it never did...
We are so back as of today (almost)
January 1 2000: Y2K was a myth, we're all safe!
July 19 2024: Y2K is back with a vengeance and stronger than ever before!
Prepare for trouble, and make it double!
I'm 21 so I was born '01. For those who were living this back in the day was it actually as terrifying as this video makes it to be? Just genuinely curious. Thanks
Yes
Only in America. People in Europe heard of this but there was no huge craze, as far as I know. I was 10.
We wondered what would happen. It was all for nothing lol. I was 15
I was 10 years old, living in Brazil, and feeling scared. My family was on our farm for New Year's Eve. My dad was already asleep, and I was sitting in my mother's lap. When the clock struck midnight and the new millennium began, it started raining gently.
Last year I went to the doctor's office and saw that they had a lamp with a Y2K compliant sticker. I asked the nurse if she remembered when everything needed to get a Y2K sticker. She didn't, and I felt old. But that is what it was like. Here was a simple lamp with just a stupid on off switch, and yet someone thought it needed a Y2K sticker. There probably were some systems that needed some minor fixes, but it was clear to anyone who knew anything about computers that this was being blown out of proportion. To this day, most servers actually store the time as milliseconds since January 1, 1970. There have been several possible Y2K like events where programs might not allocate enough memory to store enough milliseconds, but those dates also passed without much issue.
"The whole world's gonna end! Y2K....I heard it from a chicken man!"
haha
Lol OO Peter
India did help too
I was 14. I had a 1994 Packard Bell PC. I heard about Y2K, that computers would crash because they were not wired for the 2000 date. I clicked open the calendar and looked to see how far it went if I wanted to change it. I think it went to about 2021. I quit worrying and watched the rest of the world freak out.
When people tell you to be afraid of something... they are trying to take your money. That’s what I learned.
Y2J>Y2K
He saved us
Walls of jericho
Break the walls down
Doctor Drummer break the walls down
YES YES YES
As someone who actually knew something about computers I laughed at the idea of a y2k meltdown.
Sure it looks silly looking back, but it’s understandable to me why so many people thought that the world could potentially end midnight, January 1, 2000. Computers had only been around for a couple of decades and most people, except for those with technical training, didn’t have a clue about how they really worked yet basically the entire world was already dependent on them. So, putting yourself back in 1999, a catastrophic computer malfunction definitely seemed like a possibility , at least at first glance.
I would have been scared
I was a sophomore in high school when this scare happened. It was ridiculous. I sat on the sidelines thinking, if something happens, oh well. Just lived my life like nothing was gonna happen...and then nothing happened. I almost forgot about Y2K actually lol
i can't stand the doomsday craze. 2012 was especially a joke. Good times!
What happened in 2012?
@@lvx_blxssms The Mayan calendar stops at 2012 so people assumed that's where the Mayans predicted the world would end
You're old
can i sniff your armpits
Coronavirus reminds me of these days
Diana Rojas honestly 😭😭😭
With the hoarding of toilet paper and sanitary products i'm expecting a knight made out of toilet paper to show up.
Literally why I came here
Dave Ramsey mention this. So I had to look it up.
Covid19 is real though
I remember my mother preparing for this, she had a bit of a scare sayin that the natives wouldn't have any trouble.
we would just go back to our roots she said.
Bill Clinton has such a huge southern accent
+Bryan su Well he is from Arkansas so it makes sense.
Bryan su most rapists have them
Y2K is so 90s.
One reason computers where programmed that way (2 digits for the year) was to save space. Back in the day, memory was very limited.
Another reason may have been more morbid. The experts felt that the chances of even making it to 2000 were slim due to expectations of an eventual WWIII/nuclear holocaust.
Geez, even the experts didn't have faith in humanity surviving into 2000, never mind 2021.
time will go on even if nuclear war started because of USA.
Except that's not factual, at least for all the programmers I ever worked with. In fact, it was simply because of laziness, not lack of memory space, even in the 70s. We never WROTE out the full year, so most of us never thought of programming it.
idk my old black berry had a calendar that went all the way up to the year 10,000 and it probably went further but the bell had rang for lunch so I had to stop playing with my phone. Also I had a VCR in the 90's that could set the date to the year 2020 which I always thought was funny cause it was sooooo long into the future, but its only 5 years away. Hmm my point is Y2k is funny everybody was scared of what was gonna happen but listening to it now it doesn't even make sense.
It made me laugh then and now
I still have my vcr :)
My VCR barely broke. Feels bad man
My vcr goes to 2050
LMAO, my old VCR (which STILL works!) can also be set to the year 2999! I wonder what they'll be using by then. :D
I always love when news segments include explosions or weaponry shooting to highlight the "severity" of the topic.
Who’s here in 2020 laughing because they thought a computer virus would end the world😂
Why are we so stupid?!?!?
NivekIohc -Speak for yourself, pal.
Christopher I already did what's your point?
NivekIohc -Well...you asked, "Why are WE so stupid?"; the operative word here being "WE"....as in, including ME! LoL! But really, I was just joking and trying to be funny, dude.
NivekIohc -And actually, if you really want to read about STUPID, check out my post right below! You'll get a laugh out of it, I'm sure.
Hello, it's 2020, and. . . .we haven't changed. Now we're panicking over Corona virus.
It happened
Leonard nimoy ?!
1:29 - *(gungasm)* that's a nice MP5-style pistol 💖💖💖💖💖💖
I was 18 and paid little attention to Y2K. I thought: "So what if the dates get messed up a little? They can just fix it! If it needs fixing." And I was right😂
Brian Williams- "We didn't know what we didn't know" - 2001
And how i laughed at 12:01 lol, yea, i knew this made no sense then , it's still hilarious now.
It's funny to clown the people who thought Y2K was real, but I honestly can't blame them too much. Domestic Computers were pretty new, and it was easy to get people scared about a potential apocalypse. That being said, it's still funny to watch *laughs in 2020*
I remember like a year or so earlier saying "what if nothing actually happens?" and my mom and sister were dead serious like "something is going to happen." And nothing happened.
Im remember Y2K I was 10 years old at the time
DAWSON DUGGAL yep I'm 27
I died, I'm in heaven writing this! :) Hey Y'all!!!
How's Jesus?
gamingzone67 he's cool
***** i heard he smokes like crazy
+gamingzone67 Yeah im in heavan too. Jesus smokes that OG Jesus Kush. Im mad that he didnt let me fly around but he died for my sins so imma stfu
+Jayden Hardnick Oh you better stfu
This was the one scare where, had they have not become 95% complient like they did by 2000, there was the potential for serious problems, as huge mainframes were still the backbone of many companies, and we didn't know the impact of double zeroes. Computers that read data that is unintended can be severely damaged if the instructions based on that data cause things to overload or act unpredictably, and that's the thing about those old mainframes is that a lot of it was only there because it worked, not because people understood all of it.
It’s 2019 now and my 23 year old wife had no idea this ever happened...
Ooooohhhhhh. I just realized that Y2K is short for Year 2000 😂
It was always so over-rated though. On pretty much all computers we could change the system date manually. So if it looked likely that the thing was going to shoot itself we just needed to change the date back by a year or so, until it could be remedied.
I am watching Scream... I went looking for the explanation behind the “it’s the millennium” line. Found myself here... then 1:05 happens. Lol
Y2K 2: update boogaloo
My dad bought a bunch of bullets, he didn’t believe it but just in case bought bullets to take other people’s stuff since he had my sister and older brother with him. My mom was in a remote part of Mexico with her family and he hadn’t met her yet so she had absolutely no idea what y2k was when she moved back to California.
Yes, Mr. Modi Brought me here!
RIP Leonard, now it is okay to watch Y2K related programs.
This just seems completely ridiculous. Regardless if computers where programmed with two digits for the year date it would just revert back to 00 as with any program that goes up to 99, it’s common sense really.
Well, of course it would revert back to "00", but it's interpreted as "1900", and some critical systems were date dependant.
You wouldn't want to wait a hundred years to get your money from your ATM would you ?
I was just a kid in '99, but I do remember my neighbor telling us to not celebrate the new year and get ready for the end
I was asleep and the weather outside was snowing.
Wtf they need guns for
Well, in case the bugs (for example in banks or electricity systems) entailed public unrest.
They brought guns in case anyone tries to steal their supplies
to protect themselves and survive why wouldn’t you need guns
Because it's murrica, what kind of country would it be if the citizens didn't have atleast 1 gun in their pocket?
Y2K Bug: “I’m gonna ruin the world”
2020: “oH reALly?”
Who else is watching this here in 2020?
I was in middle school and i remember it was everywhere in the news lots of people were worried and the media made it seem far more than it was , but it was very entertaining for sure maybe cause we didnt have smart phones or touch screens it feels like it was the intro for the new tech era .
so basically once it got to 1999 it went back to 1900? don't they know how to use binary coded decimal?? 0010 0000 0000 0000 what made it so hard??? lol
Systems ran on megabytes and kilobytes and bytes back then. Bits were expensive, data was gold. They had to save everywhere they could
Erebus do you get it now
In 20 years we will be watching the Covid version of this.
Nah covid killed people this is genuinely dumb😂
I love that footage from 1999 now looks like it's from 1975
Not at all your eyes aren't used to it that's all. But as a film student myself I can easily define the era of the footage from the clothes and hairstyles in it.
Anyone else here in 2020?
2024
January 31st 1999 I was with my family riding the elevator to the top of my dad's office building to watch the fireworks...
and the elevator STOPPED, and the lights went out. For a full minute we were all panicking thinking it was really happening. Then the lights came back on and we rode up.
*It's the year 2018 and it's been 17 years since the internet wars have started, I don't know if i'm going to make it out alive China just types way too fast. Tell my cat I love him.*
now y2k is considered a fashion trend 😍
In 10 quintillion years, this will be the same as Y2K.
No,5 Billion Years
@@GDCilia Or beyond.
18 years later, everything's fine.
Is that Rob Lowe narrating?
I thought it was Lenard Nimoy
That Rob Lowe
Just watching this 18 years and 7 months later.
This is hilarious 😂 it was so stupid that people were stupid enough to believe this would actually happen 🤣
on god!
@@vpaint1773
What does on god mean?
We also believed that we'd all die from corona virus. That was also a lie.
@@disasteratorforreal, exactly, right?
POV: You were born in 2007 and want to know what Y2K was
Brian Williams stopped Y2K!!!
brian williams was there, actually fought y2k on the frontlines with the seals, his words
haha
My Grandpa told me he did a test on his computer a few months before, and then a tiny leprechaun jumped out of the computer and started spamming the escape key.
This is like the 90s version of 2012, only with technology.
No. Because this was an actual issue that had to be solved (and was solved). 2012 never was an actual problem.
I remember saying how ridiculous the whole thing was, "like the microwave will think it's 100 years old and stop working", but getting more and more nervous about no water in the tap or falling airplanes as midnight got closer but I didn't want to admit it. It was only about 5 years later that I realized that I had been watching live TV all day from around the world how they celebrated the new millenium in earlier time zones. I didn't see any blackouts and the TV signal didn't get cut off. If some sort of disaster would happen on the new year, it would happen once for every time zone and the world would know about it before the end of the day.
Not really a good comparison. A microwave doesn't have a calender.
They did mention microwaves on the news because "some have calendars", even though I haven't seen one myself, just clocks without dates to set a timer. They did also mention tap water because the central computer might fail, and I don't even know if there is a computer involved. Especially back then.
I wish I could of been alive for this 🤣
I’m glad I’m still here happy and healthy 24 years after this lol. 😂😂😂
Bruh imagine if they knew about 2020
Y2k was the reason my dad got a job in USA and my family was lucky enough to move to America back when I was 8 months old
Speaking of jobs, where I live, the movie theater was having its last days across from the gas station back in August of 1999. These construction workers demolished that building along with Debeer's and United Food Shop.
And now we are in 2020. 🥴
Internet Historian anyone?
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I was 7 during this, my family didn’t pay much attention to the y2k scare mostly because we didn’t own a computer lol
and then there was 2012.
And here we are 20 years later
I don't FUCKING UNDERSTAND. Why did people wait to think about this until the day before fucking New Years Day. What did people not think that the year 2000 was gonna come? Like...
WHAT
THE
FUCK
They didn't, they started talking about this years beforehand. I think around 1997-1998 was when it really started to ramp up.
@@Rubycon99 I graduated college with a CS degree in 1996. About 50% of the jobs that I interviewed for were regarding Y2K software updates. It was definitely in people's minds well before 1998.
2:18 Well. What happened? Did we survive or not?
One of the dumbest things that has ever happened in human history.
Y2K is almost old enough to legally drink alcohol!
Bahaha... this is actually on 'National Geographic'. Lol, ffs America!
for fucks sake
+John Morgan lol 😁
What's the problem?
They aren't saying this was a realistic prospect. They are simply documenting that at the time the general opinion of some of the public was that the computer systems would fail and cause an unspeakable crisis
This wasn’t just in America it was widespread. A lot of people all over the world believe it. Learn basic history
Who else came bc of family guy
Dvonneh here
bruh yktv
20 years since this happened
Who is here after Modi speech. ??
what speech?
The real scare is the first 24 years of Y2K, it is the real bad chapter for humanity, delete them and start all over. This is the year 1999 counting down to jubilee 2000...
Apparently something similar is gonna happen in 2038
Fill me in
The New Haven Railfan Productions i dought it with how far we get in tech
@@alexrivera9488 Unix systems calculate dates based on the number of seconds since Jan. 1, 1970 and older systems will run out of room for dates after sometime in 2038.
I remember my mom buying SO many batteries and jugs of water lmao all seems so silly now.
And my mom said that the year would be 2000 instead of 19100.
terminator ........................... online.................... mission ................. kill all humans
Get to the choppa
put the cookie down
+Focu Rules that's the predator....
And thus Y2J was born
Why the fuck couldn't they just simulate what would happen, and blow off the whole thing? I can make my computer think the year is 2099 and the date December 31, and then see what happens at midnight. I mean, what the fuck?