The Y2K Apocalypse

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  • How was Y2K? Who was Y2K? And also, where was Y2K?
    These are all terrible questions.
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  • @Shoe0nHead
    @Shoe0nHead 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20425

    my parents didnt believe it was going to happen but they still bought a shit load of water and stored it in the basement. we still have it. lmfaoo

    • @themasculinefeminists7600
      @themasculinefeminists7600 5 ปีที่แล้ว +928

      Fancy seeing you here. Is everything OK?

    • @InternetHistorian
      @InternetHistorian  5 ปีที่แล้ว +5025

      basement floods
      parents tell you they're preparing for Y2K

    • @PimpNamedDragonBalls
      @PimpNamedDragonBalls 5 ปีที่แล้ว +316

      Hey hey shoe. Individual of culture too

    • @jackalope_hunter
      @jackalope_hunter 5 ปีที่แล้ว +227

      Now i know where the enlightened ones go to hang out.

    • @BigBoch
      @BigBoch 5 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      jackalope_hunter enlightened ones is a pretty cringy term

  • @Selfsufficientme
    @Selfsufficientme 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3718

    Unfortunately I remember y2k oh so clearly. At the time I secretly hoped chaos would emerge but alas on that day even my bedside alarm clock still functioned...

    • @starcreeper6660
      @starcreeper6660 5 ปีที่แล้ว +193

      Self Sufficient Me Feels as disappointing as when the world didn't end in 2012.

    • @naiknaik8812
      @naiknaik8812 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Star Creeper ikr

    • @thewhiteboar3840
      @thewhiteboar3840 5 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      I remember all the expensive computer chips, that almost everyone bought. Indeed, no real chaos erupted. We can only hope, that we will see the world burn. In our lifetime.

    • @thegatorhator6822
      @thegatorhator6822 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      EDGE

    • @Sevness
      @Sevness 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I too remember Y2K in vivid detail... good times... good times... literally nothing like it could possibly happen ever again.

  • @googlesuckz2325
    @googlesuckz2325 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5335

    My dad was a computer programmer up to a couple of years ago when he retired. From 1997 to 2000 he spent over 3 years fixing code and editing records to fix Y2K. Our next door neighbor buried 10K and all his family's jewelry and valuables in his backyard on Dec 31. My dad woke up to him digging it up on Jan 1, and laughed at him.
    Good times.

    • @Project_1143M
      @Project_1143M 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      They gonna mad at him

    • @supergeeky7529
      @supergeeky7529 2 ปีที่แล้ว +262

      My mother turned from normal abusive mother to doomsday prepper cause of Y2K. She went legit NUTS for a good few months. Then after nothing happened she swore us all to silence. She was so embarrassed!

    • @adisonnanet
      @adisonnanet 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@zacharytrevino6321 read it again. And read it until you understand what's written.

    • @zacharytrevino6321
      @zacharytrevino6321 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@adisonnanet sorry I can’t read

    • @TevelDrinkwater
      @TevelDrinkwater 2 ปีที่แล้ว +100

      I remember applying patches for Y2K in the months leading up to it, and managing some systems that were never Y2K compliant for years after. Y2K was real, the problems were just patched or assessed to be trivial largely. Plus, many critical systems used UNIX epoch time, which records time in second since 1970. UNIX had a Y2038 problem, where the register would overflow. UNIX has long since upgraded to a 64-bit register for time, so should be good until after the sun dies.
      Thanks to OP's dad and others, the money wasn't wasted, the problem was fixed.

  • @bassfunkmaster85
    @bassfunkmaster85 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1728

    Funny story, my aunt was up watching the ball drop, and once midnight hit, the tv shut off, making her think that the apocalypse was happening. However, she noticed that the electricity was still on and her neighbors had power.
    She then remembered that my uncle had the TV set to turn off at midnight because he likes to fall asleep to the tv.

    • @NewPaulActs17
      @NewPaulActs17 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      but where was your uncle?

    • @bassfunkmaster85
      @bassfunkmaster85 2 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      @@NewPaulActs17 he was working that night. He was a shift worker at an oil refinery

    • @NewPaulActs17
      @NewPaulActs17 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      @@bassfunkmaster85 terrifying

    • @ungurdagda813
      @ungurdagda813 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Those must've been the scariest 0.2 seconds of her entire life.

    • @bassfunkmaster85
      @bassfunkmaster85 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@ungurdagda813 unfortunately I think it took a little longer for my aunt to realize what had happened. She’s the sweetest lady, but has her moments 😆

  • @DonutOperator
    @DonutOperator 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3158

    Have you been drinking sir?

    • @InternetHistorian
      @InternetHistorian  5 ปีที่แล้ว +629

      Naturally.

    • @Pogxxx
      @Pogxxx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Internet Historian notice me

    • @jizzypuff
      @jizzypuff 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      It don't know why I'm surprised you watch internet historian.

    • @lukewind13
      @lukewind13 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Donut bro, Nice to see you getting around!

    • @cheesesteak5689
      @cheesesteak5689 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Donut Operator you are the one that asked him to make more drunk videos

  • @CreepsMcPasta
    @CreepsMcPasta 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1883

    Daddy's home

    • @TheShiniestNidoran
      @TheShiniestNidoran 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      But you are daddy

    • @bumble_hd6346
      @bumble_hd6346 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      yo

    • @MissInformer
      @MissInformer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      oh shit its ya boi

    • @goobboog699
      @goobboog699 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Daddy's home from the catacombs with bag a bones of those who wouldn't leave the man alone

    • @noahnederlands7642
      @noahnederlands7642 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Funny to see you here, love your content

  • @TheFigureofspeech
    @TheFigureofspeech 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1734

    Y2k is a case study on cramming for a test, then passing, then being like "pssh! that was a breeze i probably don't even need to study next time"!

    • @thaliacrafts407
      @thaliacrafts407 2 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      I hate how right you are

    • @ko-Daegu
      @ko-Daegu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      There was a computer scientist who talked about it in 1985 tried to warn IBM and US GOV no own listened thou

    • @litarea
      @litarea 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      is the next test the Unix epoch?

    • @archiemisc
      @archiemisc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@litarea Nope, they fixed that within the Linux kernel recently, and other Linux distros have had workarounds for years.

    • @septimus4762
      @septimus4762 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Exactly. "500 billion dollars well spent" is good sarcasm but things could've gone to hell had ppl actually sat on their hands and done nothing. At least, that's what I think.
      Being sarcastic abt it in retrospect seems a bit unfair to me.

  • @themissinggene
    @themissinggene 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3134

    Thank god we all learned from the mistakes of yesterday and the media no longer whips the masses into a panicked frenzy.

    • @trollbreeder2534
      @trollbreeder2534 2 ปีที่แล้ว +199

      What a hilarious and great joke!

    • @ideologybot4592
      @ideologybot4592 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Yes, truly.
      I also really hope your name is Debbie.

    • @step5732
      @step5732 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      That’s the funniest thing I’ve read in a while!
      Thank you!

    • @ziggle5000
      @ziggle5000 ปีที่แล้ว

      as long as people are fucking stupid the media will continue to take advantage

    • @Esitaro3670
      @Esitaro3670 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Yeah, is good to know nobody panics over anything, hahaha....

  • @blacklanner5795
    @blacklanner5795 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18926

    My aunt built a bunker for Y2K. It wasn't finished until 2009.
    Then she started telling everyone it was prep for the 2012 Mayan apocalypse.
    *Stupid problems require stupid solutions*

    • @feralchangeling97
      @feralchangeling97 5 ปีที่แล้ว +971

      What's her current reason?

    • @SashaSlvt
      @SashaSlvt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +686

      Feral Changeling look at what happens with the sjw and far leftists and i would understand her no problem

    • @tintin5428
      @tintin5428 5 ปีที่แล้ว +508

      Depending on where she's from, she could probably say WW3 and le trump

    • @christiankneupper7011
      @christiankneupper7011 5 ปีที่แล้ว +162

      @@SashaSlvt cultural marxism is going to be the end of us all

    • @MrJoeyWheeler
      @MrJoeyWheeler 4 ปีที่แล้ว +318

      Eh, doesn't hurt to have a bunker, at least. The only thing it probably won't help for is a flood.

  • @justinsahl1188
    @justinsahl1188 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13279

    My hometown had a festival for Y2K and some smart guy turned off all the lights just as the countdown reached 0.
    Needless to say there was panic.

    • @CrozierCrow
      @CrozierCrow 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1844

      That's actually hysterical. What a time to be alive.

    • @nickmagrick7702
      @nickmagrick7702 4 ปีที่แล้ว +246

      awesome

    • @mr_dirt3434
      @mr_dirt3434 4 ปีที่แล้ว +920

      Thats not a smart guy thats a legend

    • @jozinek876
      @jozinek876 4 ปีที่แล้ว +195

      Lmao, people'll fall for anything

    • @eninja35gamer46
      @eninja35gamer46 4 ปีที่แล้ว +160

      That's sounds like something I would do.

  • @disneydreaming0210
    @disneydreaming0210 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1585

    I was born in 2002 and I recently found out that neighbor growing up had a cow because of y2k. I just think that’s hilarious. Now a cow is just chilling in their yard

    • @johnseymore4774
      @johnseymore4774 3 ปีที่แล้ว +200

      Should’ve named it Y2Cow

    • @youknowwhatboi
      @youknowwhatboi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      So was I!

    • @starcraftplayer7084
      @starcraftplayer7084 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Ur a baby. I was 11 when y2k happened

    • @branchy7159
      @branchy7159 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      6 yo during y2k, all I remember was was all those disasters movies that came out

    • @ElysetheEevee
      @ElysetheEevee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@starcraftplayer7084
      Dude same. Almost 12. Jesus I feel fucking ancient.

  • @RetirededKat
    @RetirededKat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3219

    I can't help but wonder if someone somewhere is unironically living in an underground bunker, completely oblivious to the fact that world hasn't ended yet...

    • @sirincompetent758
      @sirincompetent758 2 ปีที่แล้ว +228

      at least one person is

    • @lithuaniaball
      @lithuaniaball 2 ปีที่แล้ว +494

      Guy's gonna be a lot happier than the rest of us

    • @silverprimus321boi9
      @silverprimus321boi9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Hi

    • @primo4915
      @primo4915 2 ปีที่แล้ว +137

      There's definetly some basement dwellers who haven't left in years, but I doubt a guy has stayed 20 years with no internet and not leaving his house.

    • @sirincompetent758
      @sirincompetent758 2 ปีที่แล้ว +144

      @@primo4915 a guy definitely has, beans can really make a man stay sane

  • @Synicall
    @Synicall 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6719

    Today marks 20 years since the Y2K incident
    Still little to no signs of intelligent life

    • @wififan5106
      @wififan5106 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      lol

    • @therealestmannyt1029
      @therealestmannyt1029 4 ปีที่แล้ว +126

      Everything went down hill after the 2010s maybe we did die

    • @kadson10
      @kadson10 4 ปีที่แล้ว +125

      The world ended on 2012, how the hell you are alive

    • @marlon.8051
      @marlon.8051 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      give 7 more years and there you go

    • @marselo.r
      @marselo.r 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I mean the real shit is y2k38 so don't get too comfy

  • @averyeml
    @averyeml 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13106

    "everyone thinks the water will stop working, so they stock up on water, and suddenly there's no more supply, which makes more people panic..." Suuuuuuuuuuuper familiar sounding.

    • @jebbroham1776
      @jebbroham1776 4 ปีที่แล้ว +754

      Humans don't change just because our technology does.

    • @hitkid2456
      @hitkid2456 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @Cynical commenter Does it have to? Is it a hallmark of sapience?

    • @Rose-hh7mk
      @Rose-hh7mk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Y2k20

    • @harryt2756
      @harryt2756 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@hitkid2456 yes lol

    • @BigBangAttack-mt6pz
      @BigBangAttack-mt6pz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      For real though

  • @eaglescout1984
    @eaglescout1984 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

    The funniest story I heard on the Y2K bug (or maybe more appropriately, the Y1.9K bug) was in the late 90s, a 105 year old man in Germany receiving a letter in the mail addressed to his parents. The letter said that he was required to be enrolled in school. And it was because the local government still had birthdays in 2 digit year format, so it assumed he was only 5 years old.

  • @barrjensen
    @barrjensen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +819

    Met a man October 1999. He asks me to marry him two weeks later. We jokingly say if the world doesn’t end on Y2K. We planned a small wedding. The World didn’t end...we married and we are still married. What started as a joke became 21 years and two children. I think I really was an idiot and thought something would happen.

    • @Imjudah-
      @Imjudah- 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lol

    • @ghostlyhousehorrors
      @ghostlyhousehorrors 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      it sounded like atleast it turn out well

    • @unsubfrommeplease5527
      @unsubfrommeplease5527 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Are you happy?

    • @thaliacrafts407
      @thaliacrafts407 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Idiots, destined to meet soulmates, same thing.

    • @greenredblue
      @greenredblue 2 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Ironically, one of the best ways to form a stable relationship is to (A) be basically tolerable people and (B) for both partners to be aware that the other person really does not mind walking away.
      I've found that kind of situation tends to force partners to be more appreciative and respectful. It's nobody's ideal, but it's durable.

  • @goldepele6460
    @goldepele6460 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3661

    "But it's a 2 person bunker"

    • @clamstain
      @clamstain 5 ปีที่แล้ว +212

      i like to put my feet up

    • @yoncafloria1012
      @yoncafloria1012 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      And they were roommates

    • @Frank_144
      @Frank_144 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Does anybody know the song at 5:36?

    • @wideclide42069
      @wideclide42069 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@Frank_144 Darude Sandstorm

    • @Pedro-tm6ue
      @Pedro-tm6ue 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Classic Harold

  • @Laxhoop
    @Laxhoop 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7366

    You think there’s anyone who is actually still in their Y2K bunker to this day? They didn’t tell anyone, they didn’t bring a radio, they’re just still isolated.

    • @jakexd5524
      @jakexd5524 5 ปีที่แล้ว +184

      Spencer Whiteway no

    • @ziquaftynny9285
      @ziquaftynny9285 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1453

      Of course it is possible.

    • @cecciostyle
      @cecciostyle 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Nah

    • @UmCaraNormalnumPlanetanormal
      @UmCaraNormalnumPlanetanormal 5 ปีที่แล้ว +973

      Spencer Whiteway If someone actually did that it would make for an amazing headline lol

    • @updated5709
      @updated5709 5 ปีที่แล้ว +629

      Wait.... Y2K didn't cause a nuclear wasteland to emerge....?

  • @LordGreasefire
    @LordGreasefire 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1154

    I remember the panic when the Mayan calendar ended at 2012, so everyone went insane on apocalypse setups
    I specifically remember waking up early the morning of 2012, walking into my parents room, and saying "welp... no apocalypse."

    • @ghazghkullthraka9714
      @ghazghkullthraka9714 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      In Australia, we got a brief mention of it on the radio and that’s it

    • @LordGreasefire
      @LordGreasefire 3 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      @@ghazghkullthraka9714 America had full on shows focused on it, apocolypse survival and everything - talked about living in bunkers and tents and stocking up on canned foods... Crazy

    • @RozuHanabiraProjectx
      @RozuHanabiraProjectx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      my parent’s southern baptist godparents gave me a religious pamphlet for my birthday on the world ending because of the mayan calendar. that was my whole birthday present. i turned 11. 💀

    • @ry4nmaster
      @ry4nmaster 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      @@LordGreasefire breaking news, americans over dramatize everything.
      In other news, water is wet

    • @rogerreger9631
      @rogerreger9631 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@ry4nmaster But does it turn the frogs..............Bi ?

  • @bograham6221
    @bograham6221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +435

    "In Australia some of the vending machines stopped working"
    Captions: "In Australia some of the vending machines only served pepsi"

    • @PETRIXXXX
      @PETRIXXXX 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      based vending machines

    • @TycoonTitian01
      @TycoonTitian01 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you for enlightening me

    • @BuiBaoNguyen
      @BuiBaoNguyen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I google it and i found that "In Australia, ticket vending machines of the buses crashed", not vending machine.

  • @RKNGL
    @RKNGL 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7778

    Him: "All paper currency will disappear!"
    Me: *Pulls out Dollar*
    Dollar: ***Deletes itself***

    • @Sude3220
      @Sude3220 4 ปีที่แล้ว +113

      Corrupted Archangel pikachu face

    • @jefferyharambe5067
      @jefferyharambe5067 4 ปีที่แล้ว +140

      Corrupted Archangel bruh this happens each time my girlfriend comes over!

    • @Rex-ps9bx
      @Rex-ps9bx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@jefferyharambe5067 Are you harambes son!!!??!?

    • @jefferyharambe5067
      @jefferyharambe5067 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Rex 1 well that would explain what happened to my dad

    • @alucardvigilatedismas2868
      @alucardvigilatedismas2868 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      *Laughs in loonies and toonies*

  • @polium6470
    @polium6470 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3178

    Bethesda was such a fan of Y2K they made there own Y2K19 event in fallout 76

    • @alexanderticonuwu7591
      @alexanderticonuwu7591 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      @Michael Borough Little lies and stunning shows, my friend.

    • @GamingOnTheSpectrumGR
      @GamingOnTheSpectrumGR 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@alexanderticonuwu7591 People buy, money flows friend

    • @Stolskai
      @Stolskai 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@GamingOnTheSpectrumGR it just works my friend, it just works indeed

    • @I_C_.
      @I_C_. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      their*

    • @lorenz0c0rdova65
      @lorenz0c0rdova65 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Well... Who's laughing now

  • @tomorrow6
    @tomorrow6 3 ปีที่แล้ว +162

    Everyone knows that the world ended in Y2K and everything since has been a retrospective simulation until some idiot hits a great reset button.

    • @maryprince6011
      @maryprince6011 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Best comment on the internet. Thomas: the world needs more of you.

  • @SpadesNeil
    @SpadesNeil 3 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    I was under the impression that the money spent ultimately played a large role in fixing the more serious bugs before they could happen.

    • @KevinSterns
      @KevinSterns 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Some of that money, yes. But vast amounts were wasted. in 1999 I worked as a programmer for a small company. Our product was essentially immune to Y2K. But every last customer called us up and demanded a written statement that we were "Y2K compliant". The company money we wasted fielding those endless phone calls did not contribute to any bug fixes.

    • @anonymousalcoholic3648
      @anonymousalcoholic3648 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      well y2k isnt nearly as serious as a buffer overflow wich young and promising C programmers leave in their code LEFT and RIGHT

    • @Jjgm69
      @Jjgm69 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@@anonymousalcoholic3648wait WHAT!?!? Is going to happen again, is going to happen again... Or, for the first time ?

  • @thebonerfromhell
    @thebonerfromhell 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2537

    I was there. I survived by drinking urine and eating snow. It wasn't my urine, but the snow was definitely mine.

    • @littleboxxes
      @littleboxxes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      I was there too. I survived by going to Boston and dropping acid with my friends. Good Times.

    • @totallynoteverything1.
      @totallynoteverything1. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      ​@@littleboxxes I survived by snorting coke and having sex with filthyfrank in a bunker, good times
      for some reason during the high, I thought I was a black alien that was rejected by society, huh weird

    • @ayemate2945
      @ayemate2945 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@totallynoteverything1. i was filthyfrank...

    • @alphariusfuze8089
      @alphariusfuze8089 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Olah

    • @nachosNipples
      @nachosNipples 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      hello?

  • @thatweirdguy369
    @thatweirdguy369 5 ปีที่แล้ว +685

    My favorite Y2K story is one a teacher of mine told me...
    He was in college and had gone to a huge party hosted by his friend for Y2K. He and another friend snuck away to the breaker box and waited for midnight. The moment the clock hit 12, they cut the power to the house and laughed their asses off as they heard people screaming from the main room. They rejoined the group just in time to see one dude dart out of the house and run down the street screaming, "It's the end of the world!" You would have the street lights still being on would have tipped him off.
    Anyways, thanks Mr. A, your class was awesome!

    • @rainsparks29
      @rainsparks29 5 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      Trolls of the real world

    • @honeyOTU_
      @honeyOTU_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      LOL genius!

    • @roffylordnow3658
      @roffylordnow3658 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      ThatWeird Guy And who was that teacher? Mr. Albert Einstein.

    • @jameslaidler4259
      @jameslaidler4259 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      ThatWeird Guy I was 15. Exactly fuck all happened.

    • @Crispman_777
      @Crispman_777 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Did you say goodbye to the teacher because he knew too much?

  • @Pringlebox
    @Pringlebox 3 ปีที่แล้ว +272

    * starts boarding up window
    “But it’s a two person bunker...”
    I love all the small jokes intertwined into actually interesting stories, just found this channel and it’s one of my favorites already

  • @PRDGL_WindyBW
    @PRDGL_WindyBW 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    1:53 My dad was working for South African Airways at the time, and he had to spend his New Years Eve working on fixing on Y2K. He went into the new year extremely tired, but SAA gave everyone who worked through New Year's Eve a relatively big bonus.

  • @lazardjukovic1691
    @lazardjukovic1691 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2292

    *Truth is , Y2k was rigged from the start*

    • @Shoegazebasedgenre0.
      @Shoegazebasedgenre0. 5 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      *Y2K didn't die it was murdered*

    • @brutallyhonest123
      @brutallyhonest123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Macs weren't susceptible to the error at all...

    • @Kazuhira2249
      @Kazuhira2249 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Ring a ding ding baby

    • @trombektango6604
      @trombektango6604 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      you mean it was hyped up by corporate man to earn huge in quick time?

  • @malikoniousjoe
    @malikoniousjoe 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2656

    You make content? I thought this was your backup channel incase In The Field got taken down

    • @ThatBugBehindYou
      @ThatBugBehindYou 5 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      Malikonious Joe
      Haha, it's funny because IH uploads at a depressing rate.

    • @EndOfSmallSanctuary97
      @EndOfSmallSanctuary97 5 ปีที่แล้ว +120

      It's hilarious watching one of his older videos where he says he's gonna upload like once a week.

    • @malikoniousjoe
      @malikoniousjoe 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      We only complain because -we love the guy- Harold needs our support

    • @themiller3940
      @themiller3940 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Malikonious Joe This is his main channel I think lmao

    • @SackOfGypsies
      @SackOfGypsies 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Brody Miller The joke
      Your head

  • @ethzero
    @ethzero ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Internet Historian emerges from his bunker after 18 years only to stumble into a real apocalypse a few months later.

  • @TheBigBenji890
    @TheBigBenji890 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "But it's a two person bunker..."
    What a great small detail haha

  • @redline1916
    @redline1916 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2940

    There's some guy that still thinks the apocalypse is happening all the way in his bunker in the Mojave Desert, I can guarantee you that.

    • @Uncle_Sheo217
      @Uncle_Sheo217 5 ปีที่แล้ว +467

      Sitting underground in the Mojave really makes you wish for a nuclear winter, doesn't it?

    • @axelramirez4681
      @axelramirez4681 5 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      @@Uncle_Sheo217 get fucked

    • @Tundra-27
      @Tundra-27 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Please tell me it's called vault (insert number here)

    • @Lambda_Ovine
      @Lambda_Ovine 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      LOL, he´s going to laugh when he finds out nothing really happened.

    • @zyrkugilgamesh
      @zyrkugilgamesh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@-Ano-Ano- They're reciting old ass memes

  • @kittenbursworthy9613
    @kittenbursworthy9613 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3202

    This is what happens when people who don’t know how computers work share their theories with people who don’t know how literally anything works

    • @Tomahawks360
      @Tomahawks360 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Doesnt it sound familiar?

    • @DasAntiNaziBroetchen
      @DasAntiNaziBroetchen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +182

      @@Tomahawks360 That's literally just working in IT.

    • @tylerlackey1175
      @tylerlackey1175 4 ปีที่แล้ว +113

      Isnt that just Twitter?

    • @scarletwings8301
      @scarletwings8301 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      And here we go all over again with those 5g nuts

    • @ForeverLaxx
      @ForeverLaxx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Just like with cars. That's why I take mine in every month to get the blinker fluid and flux capacitor looked at. Best 200 bucks I spend each month.

  • @tmclaug90
    @tmclaug90 2 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    As a 10 year old I struggled to understand how all the computers having a different date was going to be THAT serious.

    • @sydneyconcerts902
      @sydneyconcerts902 ปีที่แล้ว

      the fact a 10 year old was being smarter and more reasonable then most the dumb asses around

    • @rchave
      @rchave 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      35 now and still same question. Bank interest calculations, maybe? You might lose a month if the computers didn't think time went forward? GPS might give wild results for a split second, until time continues moving forward the next split second?

    • @tmclaug90
      @tmclaug90 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@rchave yea, I dunno, my smart uncle explained it one time and I guess it made sense, but I don't remember exactly what he said.

    • @rchave
      @rchave 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@tmclaug90 all i ever saw on it was, "computers would get the year wrong, so it's a bug, planes have computers, ergo planes will fall out the sky" and my little brain thinking there may be a logical leap there lol

  • @TheFreakKid12
    @TheFreakKid12 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    It's funny that Y2K was a bigger issue in Fallout 76 than in real life

  • @Atilolzz
    @Atilolzz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9555

    Patrolling the internet makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

    • @Crspss
      @Crspss 5 ปีที่แล้ว +148

      get fucked

    • @nexus3756
      @nexus3756 5 ปีที่แล้ว +141

      When I took this assignment I'd hoped there would be more gambling

    • @Louis_Thorpe_Brother_Blaise
      @Louis_Thorpe_Brother_Blaise 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      check em im your 111 like

    • @Louis_Thorpe_Brother_Blaise
      @Louis_Thorpe_Brother_Blaise 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      also have a nukacola on me cowboy

    • @Jetch3
      @Jetch3 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Atilolzz You lost?

  • @finlayg9833
    @finlayg9833 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3589

    1999: STOCK UP ON WATER
    2020: stock up on toilet paper for some reason

    • @shneancy220
      @shneancy220 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      one of my friends was stocking up on water, but that was because she thought nobody will be working at the water purification places during lockdown

    • @cardboardhawks6783
      @cardboardhawks6783 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Tp is very important for cleaning your cigar maker.

    • @marsh346
      @marsh346 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They are buying toilet paper bc there a chance what covid-19 can be on towel and paper towel is just too expensive.

    • @zetetick395
      @zetetick395 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Yeah,
      it'd make sense if we were in the middle of a Dysentry outbreak...Buuuuut...

    • @dracocrusher
      @dracocrusher 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Same basic idea, really. Some fringe people freak out and stockpile toilet paper, other people hear the story and the idea of toilet paper being in short supply becomes a meme because it's funny. And now, suddenly, everyone's buying toilet paper in bulk just in-case, so it ACTUALLY becomes a limited resource all of a sudden.

  • @dasjuggernaut1
    @dasjuggernaut1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I remember this. All my friends were freaking out and one night I said "have any of you changed the date on your computers to see what would happen?" Not one had even tried. I showed them I had done it 3 months prior and my computer was working just fine.

  • @stevemc01
    @stevemc01 2 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Scientists and Computer Engineers: “Might be a bit of an inconvenience, but it is fixable within four days after January 1st, 2000…”
    Media: “WE GON F***ING DIE”

    • @Demonslayer20111
      @Demonslayer20111 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They spent four years fixing it man. Funnily enough, some of the fixes were actually just a workaround that would work for about 20 years. Did those companies and government entities use those 20 years to fix it and or upgrade? No. No they did not. So in 2020, it happened again. Down to the wire, overworked IT personnel fixing a problem that shouldn't exist on outdated equipment that shouldn't still be in use.

    • @stevemc01
      @stevemc01 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Demonslayer20111 well to be fair, the four days thing is a reference to the two weeks to flatten the curve thing.
      We’ve had something like 78 2wk periods by now, but at least COVID has finally reached a roughly manageable state.

  • @EASTNSIM9454
    @EASTNSIM9454 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4286

    20 years later, an the media is no different.

    • @drpavel9414
      @drpavel9414 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      we weren't on lockdown 20 years ago

    • @satina1169
      @satina1169 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@drpavel9414 a lot aren't on lockdown either

    • @TheBathulk10
      @TheBathulk10 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@sombercandy8275 sure about that?

    • @regiodeurse6513
      @regiodeurse6513 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@drpavel9414 Does it matter?!?!?! We're ALL GONA DIE CUZ CROWNA OVID🐑-19!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ..HHHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUEEEEEEGHHHH. oh no, wait...

    • @regiodeurse6513
      @regiodeurse6513 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Shane Ashby was then, is now. no different. Just that it's now equally the exact same homogenized message everywhere you go. Been that way since 9/11 basically...

  • @thedeekabides
    @thedeekabides 4 ปีที่แล้ว +916

    "...but it's a _two_ person..."
    Gold. Absolutely married.

    • @bothquickanddead
      @bothquickanddead 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      This was what broke me.

    • @jojimbo136
      @jojimbo136 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @Libertate Veritas lets be honest, Simpsons has done everything at this point. Its easier to perform alchemy than it is to tell a joke they haven't already.

    • @remlezar9397
      @remlezar9397 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      jojimbo what's wrong with a reference?

    • @disruptivegarage
      @disruptivegarage ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jojimbo136 you would be surprised. The simpsons might have made alot. But they cant make jokes about stuff that they dont know will exist

  • @levelwithz3779
    @levelwithz3779 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    @6:13 *The closed captioning is hilarious. He says "some of the vending machines stopped working" but the CC says "Some of the vending machines only served Pepsi."* 😄

  • @ScottKorin
    @ScottKorin ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The first time I had to work more than a 40 hr week was to help test that our software didn't glitch due to y2k

  • @badboya9122
    @badboya9122 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1865

    "The great moments of our time..."
    *shows Crash Team Racing gameplay*
    Internet Historian is a man of culture.

    • @Abysia
      @Abysia 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Indeed. CTR was criminally underrated next to the generic Mario kart

    • @Dcfan200
      @Dcfan200 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Eh?

    • @thundersoul6795
      @thundersoul6795 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Abysia And then CTTR happened. The gameplay was pretty damn good, but almost everything else... _Ugh._

    • @jozinek876
      @jozinek876 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But where's HL?

    • @GlowZoe
      @GlowZoe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      CTR>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>MK

  • @ijpg-fd7qn
    @ijpg-fd7qn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +687

    It's entirely possible y2k "survivors" are still in bunkers somewhere...

    • @RobertMorgan
      @RobertMorgan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      well yeah, where do you think the shadow government that currently runs everything came from? Their $100 billion dollar government apocalypse bunker 8000ft below the Denver Airport's current location only had supplies for 7 years. They emerged in 2007, reasserted control of the actual government behind the scenes, and ran everything ever since. It's how we got Obama.
      BUT,
      They couldn't entirely reassert power. Some had forgotten the true power of the shad-gov and rebelled, just enough, that their enemy Donald Trump was allowed to assume power, and now the shad-gov is diminishing daily.

    • @nickhansen5386
      @nickhansen5386 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Robert Morgan lmao

    • @clitcrusader4897
      @clitcrusader4897 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Imagine they come out this shit seem like blade runner to em

    • @RobertMorgan
      @RobertMorgan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@clitcrusader4897 yes, it's crazy to consider how much of change shock just going from 2000 to now would be. It's not even 2 decades but radically different.

    • @carebear5491
      @carebear5491 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@clitcrusader4897 not really

  • @KillTheJester
    @KillTheJester ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Learning about recent events where people panicked their ass off that turned out to be nothing honestly helps me put current mass hysteria into perspective.

  • @inthso362
    @inthso362 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    My friends and I went canoeing that weekend, joking about how civilization would be gone when we got back.
    Things have been so stupid ever since, I'm convinced something happened.

    • @fappe908
      @fappe908 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Same with 2012. We switched timelines then

  • @moseyburns1614
    @moseyburns1614 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1134

    On the evening of Dec. 31 1999, I was 13 years old and working coat check at a hotel NYE party. I made a couple of hundreds dollars in tips. I bought oh so many pokemon cards.

    • @jearmeymorgan8297
      @jearmeymorgan8297 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Oh snap! I was 13 as well.. I was at McDonald's with a church youth group most of the night, then after midnight when shit didn't hit the fan we had our church lock in. Pretty boring night compared to what it could have been if I were 18 instead of 13 lol.

    • @9Roosh
      @9Roosh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      I was 6 and trying to sleep. My dad woke me up to start yelling out our 20th floor balcony and make animal noises, because that's what everyone was doing, all the way up to the 28th floor. I make a cock-a-doodle-doo, and had enough of that shit, then i went back to sleep. We were recent immigrants to Canada, and I thought, wtf is wrong with this country.

    • @sourpuss5951
      @sourpuss5951 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@9Roosh That was beautiful XD

    • @nikolai3620
      @nikolai3620 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      How many tips did you get that night? Were you sore the day after?

    • @KnightofFunnyJunk
      @KnightofFunnyJunk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Imagine during the enevitable riot that occured you would falcon punch a child and steal his Holographic Charizard
      We Mad Max Now.

  • @samvimes9510
    @samvimes9510 5 ปีที่แล้ว +271

    My mom was all paranoid about Y2K. She went around to all these local farms, buying up shitloads of buckets of grain, learned how to make her own bread and canned foods, and started a garden in our backyard. I would laugh, but she made some dopeass bread.

    • @MrMortull
      @MrMortull 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Ultimately a win/win then.
      Excellent. Glad all that disaster hype was good for something. :)

    • @KA-lj3wr
      @KA-lj3wr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      That must have been some pretty good bread.

    • @TheOnlyGeggles
      @TheOnlyGeggles 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yes, very rich in resources indeed.
      We should harvest her

    • @MomsRavioli
      @MomsRavioli 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It's almost harvesting season.

    • @UmCaraNormalnumPlanetanormal
      @UmCaraNormalnumPlanetanormal 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sam Vimes Lol

  • @societydisorder3864
    @societydisorder3864 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    1999: Y2K
    2020: COVID-19
    2029: Apophis

  • @beatstar2
    @beatstar2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Ah yes, YIIK: A Postmodern RPG

  • @TheRealBernerdBackstabber1
    @TheRealBernerdBackstabber1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13709

    I cant wait for him to do the history of corona in like 4 years

    • @JunguianPhantom
      @JunguianPhantom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +337

      Lets hope he does, its freaking legendary

    • @hannestorstensson8845
      @hannestorstensson8845 3 ปีที่แล้ว +876

      "And then everyone bought all the toilet paper for absolutely no reason at all."
      Probably Internet Historian, 2024

    • @yoyu2567
      @yoyu2567 3 ปีที่แล้ว +170

      @@hannestorstensson8845 ikr why use toilet paper in the first place just use your hand and then wash it

    • @notmyrealname7634
      @notmyrealname7634 3 ปีที่แล้ว +215

      implying it will be over in 4 years

    • @nickolas78gr24
      @nickolas78gr24 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@yoyu2567 that, makes sense, why don't we do this?

  • @jameswhite6032
    @jameswhite6032 5 ปีที่แล้ว +949

    I remember my dad telling me about this, he worked in the telecommunications industry, and he was told to stay up all night in case the phone lines went down at midnight... and that if he was needed they would call him... they wanted to call him if the phones stopped working. He just went to sleep in the end.

    • @icecold1805
      @icecold1805 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Ah yes, suit-tied problem solving at it's finest.

    • @hraesvelgML
      @hraesvelgML 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Doesn't sound fake at all.

    • @Gohanitos
      @Gohanitos 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Murica best workers in the world

    • @reckyourself6948
      @reckyourself6948 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Gohanitos His pfp is British though

    • @09ziyad
      @09ziyad 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wow what an apocalypse

  • @user-vu9ph6nh8z
    @user-vu9ph6nh8z 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Can’t believe I have to wait until 2999 until I can get my hands on a Y3K kit.

  • @Maciek123311
    @Maciek123311 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dude, i remember you making good content, like always.

  • @watcheem
    @watcheem 5 ปีที่แล้ว +385

    I was 10 years old during Y2K and I remember watching the news here in Sweden. They reported that an elevator got stuck. Rip in peace.

    • @ChibiBoxing
      @ChibiBoxing 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      watcheem Truly tragic

    • @dumdeedum2000
      @dumdeedum2000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      watcheem Now Sweden is dying. RIP in peace.

    • @ArezDjinn
      @ArezDjinn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      It's called Swedistan now, racist...

    • @GUYCLIP
      @GUYCLIP 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Don't need to remind me thank you very much!

    • @sporasparel5032
      @sporasparel5032 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      GiggleBeard It is a meme

  • @SpecialEDy
    @SpecialEDy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8967

    My grandparents(in their 70's at the time) sold their land in Santa Fe and bought a farm in Florida in preparation for Y2K. Got chickens, cows, and horses for post apocalyptic society. Grandpa built a water tower, a generator, and stored several thousand gallons of gasoline in old apple cider barrels in his barn. Y2K came and went, but that apple cider tainted gasoline destroyed every fuel injected vehicle they owned. Only the 1940's Ford Tractor and 1960's Ford pickup survived the Apple Cider Gasoline debacle of Y2K.
    *Update* 11/2020
    I sent a screenshot of this to my cousin who actually lived close to my grandparents in florida, this is his reply:
    "LOL. Fucking Y2K.
    You know the story about New Years 2000 right? Grandpa was all locked, loaded and prepared for Y2K. Gold buried in the barn (not kidding we dug it up when they moved to Texas) and about 10-20 minutes after midnight a drunk driver struck a power pole on *Redacted* Road knocking out power to the whole area. Apparently Grandpa never talked about it, but you can just imagine. 😂"

    • @saber2802
      @saber2802 5 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      Should have kept that land in Sante Fe, to be honest, I wonder if your family misses New Mexico.

    • @faustianluminary4456
      @faustianluminary4456 5 ปีที่แล้ว +176

      I hope this story is true, because it's hilarious.

    • @Yuilen
      @Yuilen 5 ปีที่แล้ว +268

      Damn, your grandparents were fucking stupid. Why not just store the gasoline in plastic containers, or metal drums? And buying a farm in Florida? Florida? Good grief.

    • @NoLifeGamer1080
      @NoLifeGamer1080 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Given a month or two and the gas would have gone to shit anyway. At least it smelled better... maybe.

    • @XLightswornknightX
      @XLightswornknightX 5 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      @@Yuilen I'm from Florida and I can indeed confirm that good grief

  • @3mKay
    @3mKay 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    0:25 lol, Malaysia Airlines, nice jab there, almost missed it

  • @jayive34
    @jayive34 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I read a quote recently, I'm not sure where. But it said: When there's a Gold Rush, start selling shovels. Which is exactly what the people selling those Y2K survival kit did.

  • @aaronroberts7174
    @aaronroberts7174 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2588

    Can’t wait until y3k happens

    • @jphanson
      @jphanson 5 ปีที่แล้ว +105

      Y2K38. Alexa, set a timer for 29 years and 21 days.

    • @Seroxm13
      @Seroxm13 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      But Y3K is gonna be real :/

    • @basswarnow
      @basswarnow 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      You are technically correct, the best kind. We *can't* wait.

    • @dwldjon
      @dwldjon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Its a shame y2k38 wont do anything
      at least we have y3k

    • @diarykeeper
      @diarykeeper 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Doubt humanity's gonna last another 981 years...

  • @Alan_One1
    @Alan_One1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +148

    How Y2K personally affected me:
    I was playing Math Blaster in Jan or Feb 2000 at home and the certificate that you get at the end displayed the year 1900. Needless to say I had to print dat shit out as a souvenir.

    • @CarrotConsumer
      @CarrotConsumer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Rip my dude

    • @bruhbbawallace
      @bruhbbawallace 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      *Tell me you still have it.*

    • @d3rkaderk4
      @d3rkaderk4 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Holy fuck I forgot I played that when I was a kid. Thanks for the nostalgia.

    • @bohmel
      @bohmel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *obviously*

    • @Overphased
      @Overphased 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Pics or didn't happen

  • @DoobieKeebler
    @DoobieKeebler 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Mmy dad worked for Apple during the lead up to Y2K & he was VERY worried.
    Also, on another note, Japan had (or maybe is having?) their own mini Y2K style problem recently. Basically, the time in their computers are all based around the Emperor of Japan. Thus, people in the tech sector became really worried when they found out the Emporor was abdicating the throne that their computers would brick.

  • @Soulintent95
    @Soulintent95 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I remember y2k. One of my first memories. I woke up at exactly 12:01 and asked my dad why we werent dead. He was drinking beers with my aunt and i think watching espn so i was even more confused as to how the tv was even working. I was only 4

  • @CheeseInTheOven
    @CheeseInTheOven 5 ปีที่แล้ว +258

    1799: Goodbye 1700s, hello 1800s
    1899: Goodbye 1800s, hello 1900s
    1999: WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE AHHHHHHHH

    • @mr.dystopian5554
      @mr.dystopian5554 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Cheese In The Oven 1930's ALIENS ARE INVADING HIDE YO KIDS, HIDE YO WIFE!!

    • @phoebelovesYOU
      @phoebelovesYOU 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      2099: Where the fuck are the flying cars

    • @dumbtastical
      @dumbtastical 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Skeletor ULTIMATE We actually could have flying cars but then everyone would have to get pilot's licenses because they're essentially personal helicopters.

    • @UmCaraNormalnumPlanetanormal
      @UmCaraNormalnumPlanetanormal 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Skeletor ULTIMATE Lets hope we atleast got ourselves some jetpacks by the time

    • @ImmaLittlePip
      @ImmaLittlePip 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      1999 Bizzare summer

  • @xplinux22
    @xplinux22 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1812

    Y2K was a real problem with real-world consequences and dangers. Things like time-based authentication, file system timestamps, SSL certificates for websites, etc. all rely on incrementing timestamps. But Y2K was never going to be this massive apocalyptic event. As this video shows, it was blown _way_ out of proportion by the media and misunderstood by non-technical people. While everyone was busy freaking out and generating hype, engineers all over the world were silently and diligently getting things fixed. And thankfully, due to their work, nothing really happened in the end.

    • @anujmchitale
      @anujmchitale 5 ปีที่แล้ว +177

      And working overtime.
      We see heroics in comics. But real heroics are doing the job that one is given and making sure it's done. I truly appreciate the work put in by the programmers of that time.

    • @brailleme7441
      @brailleme7441 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      I was going down the comment section hoping someone would basically this. ☺️ I’m glad someone acknowledged this.

    • @ChefBrownSauce
      @ChefBrownSauce 5 ปีที่แล้ว +165

      Nothing happened? Did you not see that one electronic billboard displaying 1900 instead of 2000? Basically the apocalypse

    • @mee091000
      @mee091000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Eyal Kalderon Did the engineers really stop all that from happening? I was under the impression that it was just an overreaction and nothing would have went wrong either way.

    • @mee091000
      @mee091000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Gustavo Fring Wow, well good job Engineers and Mechanics!

  • @cauliflowerconnoisseur2710
    @cauliflowerconnoisseur2710 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    i just remember my dad complaining that if everything went to shit he would be too hungover to do anything so we would all die.

  • @childofnewlight
    @childofnewlight ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was like... 14? I remember my family talking about it. Our concern was somewhere around a 3? Maybe a 4 at the most? Our biggest worry was losing power in the middle of winter in Michigan, because that just sucks. We didn't really think any of the major large scale issues would be an issue because we weren't idiots.

  • @LittleWasp
    @LittleWasp 5 ปีที่แล้ว +220

    Mass hysteria is such an embarrassingly stupid thing. I'm glad I was only five years old at the time. I just heard lots of fireworks, got annoyed by all the noise and went to bed. Slept comfily through a once-in-a-millennium event. No regrets.

    • @janzacharias3680
      @janzacharias3680 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Wasp you were annoyed by fireworks at the age of five? What are you the antichrist?

    • @LittleWasp
      @LittleWasp 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Yes. They're loud and bright and noisy. I've never been the sort to enjoy noisy festivities and parties. I prefer to chill out on my own or with close friends.
      I'm also the anti-christ.

    • @spoiledmilk2587
      @spoiledmilk2587 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      *wow your such a badass*

    • @xxxSlenderManxxs
      @xxxSlenderManxxs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      theweirdestgingeryouknow your

    • @spoiledmilk2587
      @spoiledmilk2587 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Zoroark ゾロアーク oh soryyy no engrish **your'nst'tdve

  • @Dsdcain
    @Dsdcain 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1330

    The real reason there was fear of Y2K, the porn could have become inaccessible.

    • @Tangers3345
      @Tangers3345 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      hippysIapper lmao thats the worst kind of jizzing

    • @bodhisattva-p
      @bodhisattva-p 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      PWNtang _ nobody likes an unhappy nut.

    • @bodhisattva-p
      @bodhisattva-p 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Km Dev hell people still actively do celeb fakes

    • @95TurboSol
      @95TurboSol 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      We had 28k dial up back then, it would have taken aprox 1 year to download a 10 second clip lol

    • @thomaskelly4855
      @thomaskelly4855 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My hentai....

  • @krull1981
    @krull1981 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just linked someone this vid on Twitter.
    They said they didn't know what Y2K was so i was like "LOL! What are you 12 years old or something?" and they said "No i'm 21". I felt old, sad and did a little cry.
    Good vid though mate.

  • @andyreaver1962
    @andyreaver1962 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love his use of Fallout in his videos. It warms my wasteland heart.

  • @freakfoxvevo7915
    @freakfoxvevo7915 5 ปีที่แล้ว +817

    This, THIS is ancient internet news

    • @nastybigJim
      @nastybigJim 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Steven Maiorana his name is "internet historian" for a reason boi

    • @Web720
      @Web720 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Now wheres that dancing baby.

    • @grimtuesday1939
      @grimtuesday1939 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      oh man dancing baby! it's amazing... creepy but amazing i forgot about that

    • @harbl99
      @harbl99 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And it was all avoided because of a few ur-nerds from the 70s who loved their scifi and seriously thought about the year 2000 as a real thing when most people were enjoying the fantasia of Kubrick's "2001".

    • @MagickGOATee
      @MagickGOATee 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      True millenials (born in the year 2000 or beyond) will never know of the Bug

  • @lonelychameleon3595
    @lonelychameleon3595 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5343

    1999 - The end of the world would be terrible.
    2018 - Can the world just please end already?

    • @stormcrowlegendary3512
      @stormcrowlegendary3512 5 ปีที่แล้ว +280

      I ask God for it every few days. He says we haven't suffered enough.

    • @crushersbutlessedgynow
      @crushersbutlessedgynow 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Truly

    • @vesperlee
      @vesperlee 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@stormcrowlegendary3512 you asked air?

    • @TisTheFool
      @TisTheFool 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@vesperlee no..... God told him we haven't suffered enough. That's not air, it's GOD! 😱

    • @paulseitz5749
      @paulseitz5749 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Sorry man didn't happen best of luck this year

  • @azravalencia4577
    @azravalencia4577 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The fact the programmer actually just built a 16-bit system to (mostly) fixed the problem make the chaos really just waaay fun to watch lol.

  • @silvertail7131
    @silvertail7131 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wow. I lived through it and I never knew anyone had... panicked like that. My mother worked in... effectively tech disaster control for a bank. Y2K had her and her whole department pulling regular hours and nightshifts for a fortnight, but there was no... panic. It was a significant problem, everything was built on the foundation of technology with a limited year, there was a lot to fix... or else, I guess yeah, a whole lot of technology could fail to work. But it always seemed like a problem that was... a whole lot of work to fix, but not exactly complicated beyond the scale.

    • @DanieleGiorgino
      @DanieleGiorgino 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You don't...need to...use so many...ellip...ses

  • @sigmundfreud7903
    @sigmundfreud7903 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2779

    My if 4chan had been around before 2000, I can only imagine the chaos on /pol/ of it had been around back then.

    • @TuckyBlue
      @TuckyBlue 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      DipsZ what’s /pol/. I’m not a guy on 4chan

    • @crabmanMoe
      @crabmanMoe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +183

      Mr Kat political message board filled with autists

    • @Ghorda9
      @Ghorda9 4 ปีที่แล้ว +123

      /po/ is the mobile strike force of the internet, nobody asked for it but it's there anyway.

    • @augustovasconcellos7173
      @augustovasconcellos7173 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Well, there was Usenet's alt, which was basically the closest thing the 90's Internet had to 4chan, but no one remembers that shit anymore.

    • @Ghorda9
      @Ghorda9 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @PolySaken i doubt that he is in his late 60s/70s

  • @qbmac2306
    @qbmac2306 5 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    Little did everyone know it would all happen again in 2012.

    • @kyrroti9921
      @kyrroti9921 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      There’s actually a legitimate reason behind Y2K panic. The 2012 panic was from Mayan nonsense.

    • @joseangelmonterroza9364
      @joseangelmonterroza9364 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Kyrroti it wasnt the mayans fault,i'm actually a mayan decendant And live un Cancún, sooo let me tell you.....it was just the en of a cicle in the calendar And the start of another xd

    • @Ritokure
      @Ritokure 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Also the Rapture happened like 4 times as well. So I survived like 5 or 6 "ends of the world".
      Man, John Connor is a pussy.

  • @Sden20307
    @Sden20307 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    My grandad was working on Y2K for a British company that very advanced technology, even building parts for NASA and he told me he got payed a very hefty sum just to go around the buildings and change the dates it took him probs about 2 hours but the only reason he got paid so much that night was because they thought that everyone was going to die

  • @endplanets
    @endplanets 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I got bored and read a contract I was working on. Even in 2017... it called out that all PCs must be Y2K proof.

  • @burnmydxead
    @burnmydxead 5 ปีที่แล้ว +754

    1999 truly was a bizarre summer...

    • @wabbojack3257
      @wabbojack3257 5 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Is that a jojo reference
      PART 6 NEVER

    • @dr.badtimes3660
      @dr.badtimes3660 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Never forget Reimi Sugomoto.

    • @aditk792
      @aditk792 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      the moment he said 1999, i immediately continued with "bizzare summer"

    • @augusth7975
      @augusth7975 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      When I was born 😂

    • @addaccount9246
      @addaccount9246 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      JonTron voice ,man 2000 times were weird

  • @Deinonuchus
    @Deinonuchus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +644

    Actually, that money was well spent. I worked in banking around then. We made damned sure our stuff worked. And it did get me out of jury duty in January 2000, so there's that. And yes, the press were a bunch of irresponsible jackasses playing on people's fears.

    • @brandonlyon730
      @brandonlyon730 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      I see things hardly changed in the news media 20 years later.

    • @vexile12
      @vexile12 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@brandonlyon730 indeed

    • @SivleFred
      @SivleFred 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      In the science elf video, he mentioned how the use of redundant systems helped New York City bring its data back during the 9/11 attacks.

    • @alexeysaranchev6118
      @alexeysaranchev6118 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      When you think of it, anyone is "a bunch of irresponsible jackasses playing on people's X".

    • @anonymousalcoholic3648
      @anonymousalcoholic3648 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@alexeysaranchev6118 yeah i prayed on peoples fear during covid, pretended i was panicing just sort of blended in with all the chaos and looted stores LEFT AND RIGHT, didnt get caught for atleast a year, when the government demands you cover your face at the store the thieves will be the richest in town it was a FEAST

  • @Digital-Cajun
    @Digital-Cajun 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I lived deep country in 2000, I was 20. I had a love of computer language and already knew we just had to change the calendars, nothing more. I told my friends about it, one of which worked as maintenence for the small power substation a few miles away.
    We turned it off at 11:59 for about 5 minutes. The next day, we found that nobody had a reaction aside from "guess we're hunting and fishing more than usual".

  • @MrTuneslol
    @MrTuneslol 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    some people made SO much money "y2k-proofing" companies systems, were talking multiple millions, the amount of money companies were willing to spend to supposedly prevent their entire company from shutting down. I knoe a few people who retired in their 20's from the ludicrous amounts of money they made in just a couple years

  • @christophervanoster
    @christophervanoster 3 ปีที่แล้ว +718

    4:37 it’s a two person bunker. That’s hilarious

    • @userloser4553
      @userloser4553 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I think that was his actual Gf that was in one of his q&as lol

    • @smegmacannon69
      @smegmacannon69 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Delete your profile picture. now.

  • @QuintonReviews
    @QuintonReviews 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3017

    When I hear "Y2K Bug" I just think of those really ugly new volkswagens that got released around then.

    • @eye2eye899
      @eye2eye899 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Quinton Reviews I did not know quinton watched IH

    • @hentaisoldier3191
      @hentaisoldier3191 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Quinton Reviews Stfu. Your reviews suck. You’re like a fatter MundaneMatt.

    • @connorh5335
      @connorh5335 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      QUINTON, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?

    • @kolbewilliam7542
      @kolbewilliam7542 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      This comment is a testament to great content.

    • @kepiguither2765
      @kepiguither2765 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Quinton I love your reviews

  • @nunyabusiness7477
    @nunyabusiness7477 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Well I remember New Year's during Y2K. I was outside with my dad and his buddies shooting guns because why would I want to hang out inside with my sister, mom and a couple of other girls. Right when the ball dropped we flipped the main breaker outside the house. The resulting panic almost tore the house apart. Lol

  • @jungleinsectspikewall4474
    @jungleinsectspikewall4474 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I kinda understand the fear in this one. Like if everythint would just shut down and crash that could give some issues

  • @ModdedMoon
    @ModdedMoon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2064

    I was born October 4th 2000
    But I was a week late
    Meaning I was due around September 27-29
    So 9 months from that date to the day I was conceived would have been around
    December 30th -ish 1999
    Which may conclude
    ...I was a Y2K baby

    • @nolovedivision3882
      @nolovedivision3882 5 ปีที่แล้ว +115

      Incognito Mode *slow clap*

    • @greeby4709
      @greeby4709 5 ปีที่แล้ว +310

      End of the world sex

    • @loiba
      @loiba 5 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      Let me save you some future embarrassment because eventually your friends will have kids and realize your little story is b.s. Due date is not 9 months (39 weeks or so) exactly from the conception date. Due date is calculated at 40 weeks from the woman's last period. Delivery on the due date means you are giving birth at 38 weeks. If you were born October 4th, you would have been a normal term baby if conceived on or around December 31, 1999. Babies are considered at term (or on time) between 37-42 weeks. A doctor would have given your Mom a 40 week due date, if you were "a week" late it's likely you were 41-42 or more weeks late. Sorry also for you that you missed an epic party on December 31, 1999.

    • @wesleygaray2666
      @wesleygaray2666 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Aye ma dude i was october 23rd 2000 whats going homie

    • @dardydo4002
      @dardydo4002 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Congratulations

  • @amunago080
    @amunago080 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4172

    My uncle was a coder who spent the year fixing banking errors that may of came up. It could of been a real problem but so many people got together and fixed it. Media just made it alot worst though.

    • @mxtung4209
      @mxtung4209 3 ปีที่แล้ว +140

      OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF OF

    • @akunekochan
      @akunekochan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +148

      That's what media do, unfortunately

    • @greyaye8565
      @greyaye8565 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      @@mxtung4209 Came here for this. Thank you, you beautiful soul.

    • @ichkommentiernurkommentare7237
      @ichkommentiernurkommentare7237 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@mxtung4209 Thx

    • @kittykittybangbang9367
      @kittykittybangbang9367 3 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      @@akunekochan “The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” - Malcolm X

  • @moomyung9231
    @moomyung9231 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I remember when that happened. A few days before 2000 went to the store with my dad to buy snacks and everyone had carts full of water bottles. It was like Covid but people weren't buying all the fresh vegetables. I was only 12 then and still was laughing at everyone panicking over nothing.

  • @polish_filipino
    @polish_filipino ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I just watched season 4, so season 5 appearing was a wild twist

  • @akirathedon
    @akirathedon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +559

    ★ H I S T O R I C A L ★

  • @skininthegame5236
    @skininthegame5236 3 ปีที่แล้ว +525

    I remember this shit. My dumb ass friend in prison thought that his sentence would be erased and he would be a free man on Jan. 1st 2000.

    • @_Silenceman
      @_Silenceman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      lmao

    • @ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012
      @ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012 2 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      There's a reason he's in prison in first place

    • @Chris_Husk
      @Chris_Husk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wait is he in jail....

    • @moontoon28
      @moontoon28 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Is…. Is he still there?

    • @skininthegame5236
      @skininthegame5236 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@moontoon28 No, he was released in 2005. He's actually an accountant now lol

  • @ashurad_fox5991
    @ashurad_fox5991 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Funny thing is... A programmer at the time could just make a simple code of what we use in increment numbers now. (Which is common) Then just test them for themselves
    Example template:
    x=0;
    If(x

  • @shaider1982
    @shaider1982 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Interestingly, the NR1, a US Navy nuke submersible, had experienced computer problems since they only had 1 digit to represent the year, expecting it to be replaced by then (1970 in this case). They had to call up one of the orignal engineers who worked on it to solve the problem.

    • @josephmathes
      @josephmathes ปีที่แล้ว

      That's a stupid programmer. Why would you store the date as an ASCII character? Store it as an int and it will cover 256 years instead of 10

    • @shaider1982
      @shaider1982 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@josephmathes hardware limitations, the submersible was launched in 1969.

  • @luminaeus
    @luminaeus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2174

    General public: THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WE COULD ALL DIE!
    Programmers: I put our software on a test machine and set the clock to an hour before Jan 1st, 2000. I watched it tick over and it works fine.

    • @ErectedGasCan
      @ErectedGasCan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      LMAO 😂

    • @memesrdreams4854
      @memesrdreams4854 4 ปีที่แล้ว +247

      That's the thing. While the public was freaking out, the eggheads and boffins spent their time making sure nothing bad would happen.

    • @flowerbud5139
      @flowerbud5139 4 ปีที่แล้ว +147

      @@memesrdreams4854
      Bet 99% of the programmers were like
      "Man an impromptu break because of hysteria is great."

    • @matthewmorrison3745
      @matthewmorrison3745 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@flowerbud5139 They also made thousands.

    • @RooftopRose079
      @RooftopRose079 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@flowerbud5139 Agreed. In fact, can we make this happen again? I could use another break. It'd be the one time I'm not banging my head against the desk trying to decipher code with little to no documentation.

  • @Slaxbox
    @Slaxbox 5 ปีที่แล้ว +761

    Oh boy, I sure do wonder what they did with all of that money. What a mystery.

    • @EpicwinFTW27
      @EpicwinFTW27 5 ปีที่แล้ว +184

      I bet they bought approximately 65 billion 5 dollar footlongs

    • @DigGil3
      @DigGil3 5 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      There were companies who sold bogus patching software. I don't find it hard to believe that a lot of money was spent in "feel good" and pointless measures.

    • @EpicwinFTW27
      @EpicwinFTW27 5 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      goddammit my math was wrong. I meant approximately 26 billion 5 dollar footlongs

    • @martinsleis3852
      @martinsleis3852 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Slaxbox propably Y2K survival kits

    • @Agent_Schrader
      @Agent_Schrader 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      What did they do with all of that money then? (I'm sorry if it's too obvious)

  • @southwestxnorthwest
    @southwestxnorthwest 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I remember buying a 1MB USB stick from IBM's website for $25; it was the first USB memory stick I'd ever seen and I was so excited to receive it

  • @tinklenipples9103
    @tinklenipples9103 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "advanced a.i."
    *shows the zucc shutting down*