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@@phil-change247tg8 I don't know with which mental gymnastics you connected these two occurrences. they got NOTHING to do with each other and are entirely different issues
@@vipbaepsae I wasn't trying to connect them, I was just trying to say that "the worst problems come out unexpectedly" meaning to say that if something we'd imagine to be so bad is going to happen in a 100 years, we have enough time to make it a small one.
I was born in 92 so I remember a lot of the panic. My mom is a conspiracy theorist meanwhile my dad was an electrical engineer. My mom honest to god thought the apocalypse was about to come, that hell on earth was going to arrive and basically the entire book of Revelations would happen. Meanwhile my dad knew that it was based on the bug and computer based. It was crazy seeing both ends of the spectrum of reactions. (they ended up getting a divorce later, go figure) Honestly seeing my mom's (and similar people's) reactions made 2020 so much easier when everyone was freaking out.
Must've been an American thing. I'm older and remember nothing. Literally nothing happening. Business as usual. Home life the same, school life the same, new year came and went like any other day. It was nothing but extreme hyperbole and people massively overreacting to something they didn't understand. The issue was patched well in advance and Y2K was barely a blip in the 0.0001%'s radar.
I laughed at it during the pandemic because I always thought that people would panic-buy food. I was wrong and now I have to wonder where our priorities lie and what this says about the human race as a whole 😅
If we're not eating then we don't need as much toilet paper (aka what goes in goes out). I never understood why it would take priority over food and water - we can't function without those and we can make substitutes for soft paper on rolls if we really have to. TMI but I've had to use things like kitchen roll, tissues and a wet soapy sponge (changed regularly) during the pandemic as loo roll was in short supply. It was annoying and I'm greatfull to have toilet paper again but it's not The most essential item to have although it's convenient.
@@CookedOnions that's irrelevant. If Aliens made computers and left them here for us to use, we would use them to cause problems. Kind of like how we cause problems with everything we get our hands on.
@@robertkerr4199 I wouldn't worry about it, Seeing as how faulty AI is being as of now, and the fact that it's intelligence is actually rotting more and more as it learns, it'll never be perfect. I don't believe there's gonna be a real tale like "I have no mouth and I must scream" for example. Eventually they'll call it off, it's probably just a "fad" like everything else that eventually becomes outdated.
Just a little perspective from someone who lived through this (I actually was in high school during Y2K) - the media was NUTS. Most PEOPLE however, especially those NOT in a city, did a little to prepare, but not much. For example, our family of five bought ONE extra multi-roll pack of toilet paper, extra batteries, and filled the car with gas. We lived in a very rural area, so we always had full freezers (unless it was time for a big shop - but we were couponers and shopped sales, so things rarely got that low), home canned veggies from the garden, and plenty of pantry/ shelf stable stuff we could cook with. Our area almost all used gas or wood stoves to heat (and we were up not extremely far from Buffalo NY), so heating wasn't an issue, and we had a gas stove as well. I even knew how to manually light the pilot light on it, so it wasn't like we couldn't light the stove in an emergency. Because of where we lived, we always had 'snow emergency' kits around - extra blankets and warm clothes, candles for both light and heat, matches and lighters, several backup gallons of water to drink on a shelf, at least one manual can opener in the kit, and some cards/ games and books (I had younger siblings). Mostly, as someone who was a teenager, but also very into computer stuff (later became my career) I saw the issues, but also saw that it was being handled and the panic was out of proportion.
Same here. I went to an ATM and pulled about $400 in cash just in case credit card POS readers and, well, ATMs didn't work for a little bit. The media made it out to be the end of the world, with airplanes falling out of the sky and ICBMs launching themselves.
In 1999 i would have just turned 10yo 3mths before the year 2000. And i still don’t remember how chaotic things were. But then again, my family was poor and wasn’t even thinking all this panic and craziness going on.
1999: Worldwide panic over a potentially devastating computer bug heralding the turn of the millennium; nothing major actually happens 2024: A single company pushes a faulty patch on a random Friday afternoon; all hell breaks loose
As someone who lived through it, I only remember this freak out really being a fringe thing. But the mainstream media hyped it up to make it seem like it was common. Kind of like they do with woke culture now days.
I was 17 and legit stole a car to go to a Y2K party. We had a blast and I even washed put premium gas in car and returned it while the owner never knew. GREAT PARTY
Friends souped up Alfa Romeo was stolen, likely for a job of some sort. It was found just 4 days later, parked in police station parking lot, tank full of gas and even some extra coins on the console tray. The only damage was in the ignition and car alarm (quite early model), the lock on the door (this was mid 90s) was picked very expertly, no scratches could be seen without a magnifying glass. He was very pleased to get his baby back in such good condition, he took the coins and gas as a weird tip! So, people definitely appreciate a considerate thief :) Ps. We wondered the meaning of the coins for years, only thing we could come up with was that they mustve needed them for a parking meter. Nothing else makes sense.
Computers did not base memory storage on the date. But all new saved information would have the wrong year, But even than the year is so off it would be easy to spot. It was blown so far out of proportion by people who knew next to nothing about computers. Come at me.
100%. I figured at worst there might be a few minor inconveniences, like credit card POS machines not working. People building survival bunkers and stuff were more of the lunatic fringe, but that stuff grabs the attention of TV news, which perpetuated the cycle.
@@6thwilbury2331For 2038 we already have a plan set out, not to solve the issue but to solve it later. In fact way later. About “292 billion years to overflow-approximately 21 times the estimated age of the universe.” I used quotes because I took it from Wikipedia.
Y2K was a hoax developed by author Peter de Jager. It became well known that the panic was based on an article he wrote, but the fear had gotten hold of everyone. I worked in IT at the time and we KNEW it was a hoax. We worked with MAINFRAME computers, the machines that supposedly were susceptible to the date code issue, and most of these machines were running COBOL, a business computer language that used a two digit date code. Re-programming the COBOL around this issue involved writing a simple OS subroutine, which only had to be applied to the mainframe, because it ran all the terminals connected to it. (Early use of "Cloud"). End of crisis. But everyone was in such a panic (there were several end-of-the-world books and TV movies made), and computer manufacturers fanned the flames of hysteria -- for obvious reasons -- sales of new computers skyrocketed, and they sold a lot of computers to replace those that were "sure to fail". The company I worked for spent over a million dollars replacing office computers that did not need to be replaced. They were stand-alone personal computers - both Windows and MACs. Of course, the computers that were "sure to fail" were Windows machines, not MACs. Windows was very much a clunker in those days anyway, but not enough of a clunker to destroy the world! And the machines worked just fine after the new years. The next release of Windows fixed the bug anyway! But the power of hysteria will not be mocked! People who KNEW Macs had a four digit date code (and thus were unaffected) went ahead and insisted that MACs be updated too! (Why should Apple lose out on the money grab?) Oddly all those computers that were "sure to fail" -- kept right on working just fine after Y2K -- and some computers are collectibles today -- not because of Y2K -- but because of nostalgia. I had a Commodore 64 and 128 and they worked just fine for many years later until I gave them to a friend. There are people today who still become hysterical when Y2K is mentioned as a hoax, because they got caught up in it, and don't want to admit they got fooled. They are usually the most belligerent and emotional on the topic. Want another hoax? Try the "electromagnetic leakage" issue with CRT computer monitors! This was another attempt at a hoax, this time about electromagnetic radiation leaking from CRT monitors. HITACHI took the lead on this one and admitted that monitor sales were dismal - CRT monitors were as reliable as TV sets, and no one was buying a "new model" every year. Sio they had to stimulate sales. Enter the "electromagnetic radiation" scare. They sold all sorts of crap to deal with this non-issue, but it came to a halt when HITACHI sold a number of CRTs with "electromagnetic shielding" that had nothing in them to shield electromagnetic radiation. Flat screens were in their infancy at the time.
Oh wow! At 8:06 that's KRON channel 4 in the SF Bay Area. That footage in front of the church is right in front of my aunt's house where I spent a lot of my childhood! And it's also the house we celebrated the Y2K new year in when the ball dropped! How oddly fitting for this video! 😅😅😅
Next time you see your network administrator at work, thank them. It was the hard work of people like them that implemented fixes preventing any problems.
I had a teacher in highschool who worked on the y2k bug. He did let us know that the panic was indeed valid but luckily they had programmers work extremely hard to fix the bug.
For the record though, having actually lived through Y2K it's easy to exaggerate based on some sensational media articles. In reality at that time most of the world had barely even gotten online by the late 90s, and computers weren't running things entirely on automation.
It wasn't a concern for personal computers. Personal computers had been made at a time when the memory constraints had been Moores lawed out. It was all of the things -machines- that are in the background doing the heavy lifting out of sight when we do common things like use an ATM or pay a gas bill. These computers were likely based on IBM servers that for the price someone paid to have them is ridiculous to think a Y2k bug would affect them. Or similar machines that run stuff in the background.
I lived through it too and there were very few people engaging in this hysteria. The media really tried to pump it up, but people still didn't pay attention. It reminds me of how they push woke politics now even though most people just aren't interested in that nonsense.
i worked in a semiconductor cleanroom, and we DID have equipment that broke when it rolled over to 2000. I always laugh when people say nothing broke because there was definitely equipment that did.
It was neither extreme. We had plenty of time. We were always gonna be ready. I guarantee you the only ones to have problems were those who didn't bother to update their systems. The only thing that could have turned the world upside down was stupidity and that has almost ended the world times beyond count.
I totally remember this. I remember sitting in a chair in the living room of my parents' apartment. I was a 19 year old college student, in a small town in Western PA waiting for the world to just end once it hit midnight on January 1st. I watched the clock, when the time hit 12:00 midnight and nothing happened, I felt a sense of relief and disappointed. We were played. BIG TIME! Thanks for this video Visual Venture. It brings back wild memories.
love you visual venture but I wished I saw this published before I turned in a research paper about the y2k bug for one of my computer science classes claiming “It doesn’t seem that bad” a year ago 😭
Because some old code was written with very tight limitations, and those create weird effects. Imagine a book where a letter was erased somewhere, causing all the later letters to shift back one spot, but somehow the spaces and punctuation stay in the same place. Every affected word is now missing its first letter and has the first letter of the next word added to the end. How easily would you be able to read it? That is basically what people were worried the microwave might be dealing with in the extreme case, except it isn’t as smart as you are and can't figure out messed up information. So each button does something random and the display is completely messed up, making it basically unusable.
@@asynchronousongs I know that is how some computers work. In particular old Gameboy games frequently had glitches that could be caused by overflowing memory addresses pushing out other loaded memory.
Is it just me or was it primarily Americans worried about this? Maybe I was unaware as I was a little kid but like in my country it didn't seem like how you're describing of the awful scaremongering on TV and ppl stocking up on essentials.
Tbh, I'm an American and I don't think myself or my family worried about it -- I was a 90's baby and used a computer quite a bit for games and such...But I don't recall my parents every saying we needed to stock up on everything because of some computer bug. xD We were also in a small town anyway, so idk if news really spread to us or only big cities, or y'know...We just didn't care. :P
Canadian, for me, I remember it being more of a quirky explanation of why IT professionals were in demand. I was today years old when I discovered the doomerism.
I still don’t understand how “computer will think it’s 1900 not 2000” equals “they will not work normally anymore” like how is that the conclusion we got to 😭 i genuinely will never understand
I remember this and I swear the amount of people I met who were DISAPPOINTED it didn't happen outweighed the relieved ones. We just partied and weren't surprised nothing happened. I don't think anyone I hung around with actually believed it was a real threat. Thankfully.
I was a teenager when this happened, and my mom was a software manager. I would come home asking her if it was true that planes were going to fall out of the sky, and she'd laugh and say no. She knew there were fixes going in across the industry and wasn't worried.
Y2K was a WILD time 😂😂😂😂 My parents literally had an “end of world party” on NYE ‘99 lolololol. And then the overwhelming empty feeling when you woke up on 01-01-00 and realized nothing actually happened. 😂😂😂😂
I was born after the year 2000, but I am aware of how impactful y2k was. you knew it was that way because there was *merchandise*. i actually have picked up a y2k bug plush from a flea market kinda recently.
Ah yes, that ONE time a computer bug made the Soviet Union fire some missiles. Luckily, they were not intentional, so the Soviets rang us up and told us to intercept them.
@niizumika_ Obviously. Troglodyte. I’m talking about the actual 1960’s incident where a computer bug fired Soviet missiles. And did you know computers existed since the mid 20th century?
0:33 y2k was not a mistake, the computer worked as intended. the problem was the lack of foresight. this issue has global impact but it was a minor issue and easy to fix. even this video title is hyperbolic. also, a glitch is different from a bug.
I was a teenager in high school when the Y2K scare was talked about...it was hilarious when nothing happened in my area...now that I am in my early 40's, I am still laughing because nothing really happened
Yeah. You can bet your bottom dollar that it was never that big of a thing. The media went nuts over a nothing burger, the world went crazy cos the media told them to, and IT buffs thanked their lucky stars, because people with more money than sense paid them a fortune to right a few lines of code. LOL
That’s scary. I remember the time this one computer bug killed a lot of people on a Boeing plane because it was programmed by accident to make it so that when the plane’s nose is going down, you can’t pull it back up (the plane crashed and it was a really rich plane with a lot of people).
that's not what MCAS was. it WAS on purpose and was meant to fix the issue caused by the change in location of the engines on the new plane. the problem is boeing didn't TELL anyone about it so no pilots were trained on it, so additionally they were not taught how to turn it off if it malfunctioned, which is what happened because it was coded without a failsafe/backup.
I spent 2 years searching for and fixing Y2K bugs. Funny thing is the only thing that bit us was a Y1999 bug. I fixed that one too, but it was not serious and kind of amusing. The good fix was to go to a 4 digit year (good till year 9999), but some companies used a modified century saying saying any year before 50 or sometime 70 was in the 2000's. These will come unglued randomly over the next hundred years.
Thanx for your insight. As a somewhat computer literate person, couldn't they change a computers bios to force all programs written on it to comply with a 4 digit year? Why does it seem that it was a hands on edit every program every time a year is called for in a calculation?
@@629Justme It's not the hardware, it's the software. If the program/database only uses 2 digits for year, it's not something a hardware change can fix. You have to scour _all_ the code and change _every_ place 2 digits are used. Some of this code was 30+ years old using obsolete languages. Some of this code wasn't changed. Instead, new code was added to interpret years 51 as 19xx. This, of course, just moved the problem to a future time.
i think the most intresting thing is that it didn't affect entire world, like i can ask people around me what was Y2K and no one will know because no one had computers and no one cared about this
Gotta remember that it "DID" affect the entire world. But just like today, much of why we are able to take for granted so much stuff is because someone is taking care of business behind the scenes to "make" it all work. Y2k was a hit on businesses and governments around the world. Behind the scenes understanding the problem gave a years head start to fix the problem so there would only be minor issues. Just like it when you use the internet possibly over a thousand miles -literally miles- of interconnectivity has to be functioning to make it work. Behind the scenes technicians and engineers worked so it just works. They are the "essential" workers of the computer world that only get credit when something can go or goes wrong.
Well done, I was in college I think when this was going to be a thing, I was studying computer science and was a big hardcore and code nerd, I knew for the most part things were not gonna blow up
My mom and I went to a party at her church and it rocked. Also, years later, I worked at a cafe, where the cash resister actually did revert to the 1900's, but it wasn't computerized, so it was no big deal. That is actually the only thing I remember seeing that actually did that.
I remember all the paranoia. I had a cabin I would go to some New Years so I just went there. But I had no fear. We had known about it for many years and I was confident all the critical SW was fixed.
I lived through it and the vast majority of this is just media fear mongering. The vast majority of people really didn't pay attention or care. My group of friends laughed about it quite a bit, but none of them took it seriously. It's kind of like how the news media wants you to think people support woke culture crap, when almost nobody wants anything to do with that nonsense.
1st of Jan 2000 had my phone ringing with a local video rental shop owner screaming about a software update he didn't do on his rental database. I fixed it & it was very real the guy is now a very good friend.
Crowdstrike was caused by a bad Microsoft update. That same update took down my two Windows computers when Windows insisted on installing this "update" to protect me from malware! Yeah, worked just great it did!
It was not a bug or a glitch. It was a design flaw, and the fix was straightforward. While the public was freaking out, computer professionals were fixing the 2-digit date flaw. Long before 12/31/200, computer IT professionals knew everything would be fine.
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Honestly, thank you for mentioning all the hard work that went into averting the disaster! I was 9 going into 2000, and I vividly remember hiding under my blankets in bed, unable to sleep on New Year's Eve, because I'd spent the past year+ having constant anxiety about the end of the world. At nine years old. And then all I'd hear about for years after was that it was a hoax. As an adult -- and a programmer -- I now know about the millions of man-hours it took to keep the bug from being a major problem, and am always 100% ready to throw hands the minute someone calls Y2K a hoax. The preparedness paradox, combined with sensationalist media making it sound like it was going to be the end of the world, has done every IT professional responsible for preventing it a huge disservice. Not to mention it setting a precedent for people being unwilling to prepare for or attempt to mitigate OTHER imminent disasters... like the public health crisis that's still ongoing despite what most people seem to think.
While I was born during this panic, I was too young to really know what was going on or remember the situation. But looking at the story, it's pretty funny in retrospect. There were reports of this potential problem as early as the 1960s, but experts weren't concerned, expecting updates and new technology to resolve the problem long before it arose. So nobody paid the whole date issue much attention until it was pointed out there was less than a decade before it came up and the problem hadn't been resolved. And studies after everything happened showed that the issue was drastically blown out of proportion. There had been updates to programming and such that made it so that storing 4 digit years wasn't as big of a deal as people were claiming, people just hadn't gone through the effort of actually implementing the fix. And doing so would take a lot of time and effort, moreso than if they had done so sooner. And to blow it out of proportion even more, most of the computers that didn't fix this issue in time ended up... Not doing anything. The biggest issues were some businesses having files deleted too soon or being saved out of order and a couple of hospital databases accidentally reported a couple of new babies as being born a century ago. And even the prospective problems were heavily exaggerated, with experts having known some of those problems wouldn't happen. Planes wouldn't suddenly think it was a century ago and fall from the sky, they'd just show the wrong date, for example.
I worked for a large international ISP and on new years eve 99 i spent all day at the office till about 6am eastern in case things blew up. It wasnt all bad as timezones in europe started to roll into 2000 and no major issues we started to drink and play computer/board games
In hindsight of the July CrowdStrike incident, a mass crash of that scale really is a giant headache. I work in the airline industry and was lucky to be off that day but my coworkers all said it was like the apocalypse with people stranded at the airport. banking, hospitals, even grocery stores across the country got affected too. a friend of mines said that handwritten boarding passes made a reappearance that day. For an industry that relies so heavily on automation and technology, it's a nightmare. If you ever cover this incident, I'm sure it'd be a very insightful video.
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I'm old enough to remember this and it's just so funny bc everyone was so paranoid and scared and then NOTHING happened
The reason nothing happened is because MANY people worked behind the scenes for YEARS to fix the issue
Then 9/11 happened, a problem no one actually expected. That's why the worst problems come out unexpectedly.😶
@@phil-change247tg8 I don't know with which mental gymnastics you connected these two occurrences. they got NOTHING to do with each other and are entirely different issues
@@vipbaepsae I wasn't trying to connect them, I was just trying to say that "the worst problems come out unexpectedly" meaning to say that if something we'd imagine to be so bad is going to happen in a 100 years, we have enough time to make it a small one.
History is stranger than fiction, truely
I was born in 92 so I remember a lot of the panic. My mom is a conspiracy theorist meanwhile my dad was an electrical engineer. My mom honest to god thought the apocalypse was about to come, that hell on earth was going to arrive and basically the entire book of Revelations would happen. Meanwhile my dad knew that it was based on the bug and computer based. It was crazy seeing both ends of the spectrum of reactions. (they ended up getting a divorce later, go figure) Honestly seeing my mom's (and similar people's) reactions made 2020 so much easier when everyone was freaking out.
Excellent perspective on 2020!
Must've been an American thing. I'm older and remember nothing. Literally nothing happening. Business as usual. Home life the same, school life the same, new year came and went like any other day. It was nothing but extreme hyperbole and people massively overreacting to something they didn't understand. The issue was patched well in advance and Y2K was barely a blip in the 0.0001%'s radar.
Honestly you couldn’t blame her. You can’t trust the authorities nowadays.
@@ContentEnjoyer-gm3ky yet this is an extreme overreaction that may cause additional unnecessary problems
I was born in 91 and had no idea what all the fuss was about 😅
It's funny to think that the toilet paper hoarding is an universal chaos response
I laughed at it during the pandemic because I always thought that people would panic-buy food. I was wrong and now I have to wonder where our priorities lie and what this says about the human race as a whole 😅
If we're not eating then we don't need as much toilet paper (aka what goes in goes out). I never understood why it would take priority over food and water - we can't function without those and we can make substitutes for soft paper on rolls if we really have to. TMI but I've had to use things like kitchen roll, tissues and a wet soapy sponge (changed regularly) during the pandemic as loo roll was in short supply. It was annoying and I'm greatfull to have toilet paper again but it's not The most essential item to have although it's convenient.
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Shrek said it best. "I have to save my ass" 😂
I love how computers have caused so much problems not because of itself, but because of us
I mean, WE are the ones who makes computers. Of course it's on us.
That's called foreshadowing in the biz. AI is going to destroy us.
@@CookedOnions that's irrelevant. If Aliens made computers and left them here for us to use, we would use them to cause problems. Kind of like how we cause problems with everything we get our hands on.
@@robertkerr4199 I wouldn't worry about it, Seeing as how faulty AI is being as of now, and the fact that it's intelligence is actually rotting more and more as it learns, it'll never be perfect. I don't believe there's gonna be a real tale like "I have no mouth and I must scream" for example. Eventually they'll call it off, it's probably just a "fad" like everything else that eventually becomes outdated.
Humans misusing the tools they build? Say it ain't so 😂
Using toilet paper as currency....hell, at least *one* of the Y2K predictions came true 😅
Soon enough my friend, soon enough. With Biden at the helm its certainty. 😂😂
That’s exactly what I was thinking lol
Who used it as a currency in 2020? Never heard about it
XD I was about to say, huh, now doesn't that sound familiar....
??? how?
Just a little perspective from someone who lived through this (I actually was in high school during Y2K) - the media was NUTS. Most PEOPLE however, especially those NOT in a city, did a little to prepare, but not much. For example, our family of five bought ONE extra multi-roll pack of toilet paper, extra batteries, and filled the car with gas. We lived in a very rural area, so we always had full freezers (unless it was time for a big shop - but we were couponers and shopped sales, so things rarely got that low), home canned veggies from the garden, and plenty of pantry/ shelf stable stuff we could cook with. Our area almost all used gas or wood stoves to heat (and we were up not extremely far from Buffalo NY), so heating wasn't an issue, and we had a gas stove as well. I even knew how to manually light the pilot light on it, so it wasn't like we couldn't light the stove in an emergency. Because of where we lived, we always had 'snow emergency' kits around - extra blankets and warm clothes, candles for both light and heat, matches and lighters, several backup gallons of water to drink on a shelf, at least one manual can opener in the kit, and some cards/ games and books (I had younger siblings). Mostly, as someone who was a teenager, but also very into computer stuff (later became my career) I saw the issues, but also saw that it was being handled and the panic was out of proportion.
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Same here. I went to an ATM and pulled about $400 in cash just in case credit card POS readers and, well, ATMs didn't work for a little bit. The media made it out to be the end of the world, with airplanes falling out of the sky and ICBMs launching themselves.
People were freaking out for no reason.
In 1999 i would have just turned 10yo 3mths before the year 2000. And i still don’t remember how chaotic things were. But then again, my family was poor and wasn’t even thinking all this panic and craziness going on.
My family just did nothing for Y2k, bc they knew to be not worried about it (well that's what my dad told me)
1999: Worldwide panic over a potentially devastating computer bug heralding the turn of the millennium; nothing major actually happens
2024: A single company pushes a faulty patch on a random Friday afternoon; all hell breaks loose
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In 2024 y2k happened on half of computers, planes was disoriented and other
2038: Thank god we are not using any 32-bit computer for anything important, right?
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Looking back, the whole Y2K scare was ridiculous lol
Yeah.....dumbness😅😅😅
Imagine being scared of just 2 digits turning to 0s 😂
As someone who lived through it, I only remember this freak out really being a fringe thing. But the mainstream media hyped it up to make it seem like it was common. Kind of like they do with woke culture now days.
People spending 25k on potted meat , and all I wanted was school to be canceled.
The fact, schools are open to this day 🥶
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A video about Y2K, loving this.
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I was 17 and legit stole a car to go to a Y2K party. We had a blast and I even washed put premium gas in car and returned it while the owner never knew. GREAT PARTY
Friends souped up Alfa Romeo was stolen, likely for a job of some sort. It was found just 4 days later, parked in police station parking lot, tank full of gas and even some extra coins on the console tray. The only damage was in the ignition and car alarm (quite early model), the lock on the door (this was mid 90s) was picked very expertly, no scratches could be seen without a magnifying glass. He was very pleased to get his baby back in such good condition, he took the coins and gas as a weird tip! So, people definitely appreciate a considerate thief :)
Ps. We wondered the meaning of the coins for years, only thing we could come up with was that they mustve needed them for a parking meter. Nothing else makes sense.
That might explain why my dad’s car was mysteriously in good condition.
@@ContentEnjoyer-gm3ky Hope he isn't to upset
Legendary lol
@@janemiettinen5176 Damn that is a hell of a story
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Computers did not base memory storage on the date. But all new saved information would have the wrong year, But even than the year is so off it would be easy to spot. It was blown so far out of proportion by people who knew next to nothing about computers. Come at me.
absolutely right, fear mongeres are the worst
100%. I figured at worst there might be a few minor inconveniences, like credit card POS machines not working. People building survival bunkers and stuff were more of the lunatic fringe, but that stuff grabs the attention of TV news, which perpetuated the cycle.
Come to think of it, what's your take on the Y2038 thing? Legit worrisome? Or just a more inconvenient version of Y2K?
@@6thwilbury2331For 2038 we already have a plan set out, not to solve the issue but to solve it later. In fact way later. About “292 billion years to overflow-approximately 21 times the estimated age of the universe.” I used quotes because I took it from Wikipedia.
Y2K was a hoax developed by author Peter de Jager. It became well known that the panic was based on an article he wrote, but the fear had gotten hold of everyone. I worked in IT at the time and we KNEW it was a hoax.
We worked with MAINFRAME computers, the machines that supposedly were susceptible to the date code issue, and most of these machines were running COBOL, a business computer language that used a two digit date code. Re-programming the COBOL around this issue involved writing a simple OS subroutine, which only had to be applied to the mainframe, because it ran all the terminals connected to it. (Early use of "Cloud").
End of crisis.
But everyone was in such a panic (there were several end-of-the-world books and TV movies made), and computer manufacturers fanned the flames of hysteria -- for obvious reasons -- sales of new computers skyrocketed, and they sold a lot of computers to replace those that were "sure to fail".
The company I worked for spent over a million dollars replacing office computers that did not need to be replaced. They were stand-alone personal computers - both Windows and MACs.
Of course, the computers that were "sure to fail" were Windows machines, not MACs. Windows was very much a clunker in those days anyway, but not enough of a clunker to destroy the world! And the machines worked just fine after the new years. The next release of Windows fixed the bug anyway!
But the power of hysteria will not be mocked! People who KNEW Macs had a four digit date code (and thus were unaffected) went ahead and insisted that MACs be updated too! (Why should Apple lose out on the money grab?)
Oddly all those computers that were "sure to fail" -- kept right on working just fine after Y2K -- and some computers are collectibles today -- not because of Y2K -- but because of nostalgia. I had a Commodore 64 and 128 and they worked just fine for many years later until I gave them to a friend.
There are people today who still become hysterical when Y2K is mentioned as a hoax, because they got caught up in it, and don't want to admit they got fooled. They are usually the most belligerent and emotional on the topic.
Want another hoax?
Try the "electromagnetic leakage" issue with CRT computer monitors! This was another attempt at a hoax, this time about electromagnetic radiation leaking from CRT monitors.
HITACHI took the lead on this one and admitted that monitor sales were dismal - CRT monitors were as reliable as TV sets, and no one was buying a "new model" every year. Sio they had to stimulate sales.
Enter the "electromagnetic radiation" scare. They sold all sorts of crap to deal with this non-issue, but it came to a halt when HITACHI sold a number of CRTs with "electromagnetic shielding" that had nothing in them to shield electromagnetic radiation.
Flat screens were in their infancy at the time.
Oh wow! At 8:06 that's KRON channel 4 in the SF Bay Area. That footage in front of the church is right in front of my aunt's house where I spent a lot of my childhood! And it's also the house we celebrated the Y2K new year in when the ball dropped! How oddly fitting for this video! 😅😅😅
The turn of the century came and nothing happened. 😂
Well the century did just turn 😉
Unfunny though, Sept 2001 was a really bad day in New York.
Next time you see your network administrator at work, thank them. It was the hard work of people like them that implemented fixes preventing any problems.
Great information and visuals man, keep up the great work! 😁🔥💜✨
I had a teacher in highschool who worked on the y2k bug. He did let us know that the panic was indeed valid but luckily they had programmers work extremely hard to fix the bug.
Dude, these mini-docs are so good that they actually put me in a really good mood. Keep it up, this is definitely something you excel at.
05:55 well, they were not wrong. Just off by 20 years.
I was there in Y2K i do not remember it being this bad. i remember Prince party like its 1999.
For the record though, having actually lived through Y2K it's easy to exaggerate based on some sensational media articles. In reality at that time most of the world had barely even gotten online by the late 90s, and computers weren't running things entirely on automation.
It wasn't a concern for personal computers. Personal computers had been made at a time when the memory constraints had been Moores lawed out. It was all of the things -machines- that are in the background doing the heavy lifting out of sight when we do common things like use an ATM or pay a gas bill. These computers were likely based on IBM servers that for the price someone paid to have them is ridiculous to think a Y2k bug would affect them. Or similar machines that run stuff in the background.
I lived through it too and there were very few people engaging in this hysteria. The media really tried to pump it up, but people still didn't pay attention. It reminds me of how they push woke politics now even though most people just aren't interested in that nonsense.
The more advanced the technology, the more devastating the problems.
nothing happened tho
@@gdzenox2 Because people worked hard to prevent a problem BEFORE it happened. Unlike the ai thugs working towards it.
Or not, as it turned out.
i worked in a semiconductor cleanroom, and we DID have equipment that broke when it rolled over to 2000. I always laugh when people say nothing broke because there was definitely equipment that did.
It was neither extreme. We had plenty of time. We were always gonna be ready. I guarantee you the only ones to have problems were those who didn't bother to update their systems. The only thing that could have turned the world upside down was stupidity and that has almost ended the world times beyond count.
0:15 that lady is still working for that news channel lol
she single?
I totally remember this. I remember sitting in a chair in the living room of my parents' apartment. I was a 19 year old college student, in a small town in Western PA waiting for the world to just end once it hit midnight on January 1st. I watched the clock, when the time hit 12:00 midnight and nothing happened, I felt a sense of relief and disappointed. We were played. BIG TIME! Thanks for this video Visual Venture. It brings back wild memories.
Yeah, I was 17 in love, with my girlfriend at the time. I was curious is all. Totally tech inept lol
"suggested people stockpile toilet paper"
sounds a lot like 2020
love you visual venture but I wished I saw this published before I turned in a research paper about the y2k bug for one of my computer science classes claiming “It doesn’t seem that bad” a year ago 😭
How would a microwave, somehow thinking it's 100 years earlier, behave any differently?
Because they thought, that the Power plants doesnt work anymore because of the computers
Yeah something like a microwave doesnt even display a year in the first place. Im sure many other devices would have been fine
Because some old code was written with very tight limitations, and those create weird effects. Imagine a book where a letter was erased somewhere, causing all the later letters to shift back one spot, but somehow the spaces and punctuation stay in the same place. Every affected word is now missing its first letter and has the first letter of the next word added to the end. How easily would you be able to read it? That is basically what people were worried the microwave might be dealing with in the extreme case, except it isn’t as smart as you are and can't figure out messed up information. So each button does something random and the display is completely messed up, making it basically unusable.
@@corvididaecorax2991if you actually believe that's how computers work you have no idea what you're talking about
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I know that is how some computers work. In particular old Gameboy games frequently had glitches that could be caused by overflowing memory addresses pushing out other loaded memory.
The toilet paper hoarding was foreshadowing for 2022
They were 20 years early on that one.
2020, the lockdowns were lifted in 2022. Although it does feel so long ago 😂😂
Is it just me or was it primarily Americans worried about this? Maybe I was unaware as I was a little kid but like in my country it didn't seem like how you're describing of the awful scaremongering on TV and ppl stocking up on essentials.
Tbh, I'm an American and I don't think myself or my family worried about it -- I was a 90's baby and used a computer quite a bit for games and such...But I don't recall my parents every saying we needed to stock up on everything because of some computer bug. xD
We were also in a small town anyway, so idk if news really spread to us or only big cities, or y'know...We just didn't care. :P
Canadian, for me, I remember it being more of a quirky explanation of why IT professionals were in demand. I was today years old when I discovered the doomerism.
LOL. Yeah,in the UK no one cared.
Omg!! This is so Y2K core, nuclear fallout!! 😍
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I still don’t understand how “computer will think it’s 1900 not 2000” equals “they will not work normally anymore” like how is that the conclusion we got to 😭 i genuinely will never understand
the thumbnail says
“this is the end of the world”
button says
“ok”
The crazies part is the number who say it was a scam - they obviously never coded or leaned anything on a computer past a pile of games & social media
I remember this and I swear the amount of people I met who were DISAPPOINTED it didn't happen outweighed the relieved ones. We just partied and weren't surprised nothing happened. I don't think anyone I hung around with actually believed it was a real threat. Thankfully.
I agree. The news really tried to hype the fear train at the time, but most people either didn't care or were excited about it.
I was a teenager when this happened, and my mom was a software manager. I would come home asking her if it was true that planes were going to fall out of the sky, and she'd laugh and say no. She knew there were fixes going in across the industry and wasn't worried.
Y2K was a WILD time 😂😂😂😂 My parents literally had an “end of world party” on NYE ‘99 lolololol.
And then the overwhelming empty feeling when you woke up on 01-01-00 and realized nothing actually happened. 😂😂😂😂
I was born after the year 2000, but I am aware of how impactful y2k was. you knew it was that way because there was *merchandise*. i actually have picked up a y2k bug plush from a flea market kinda recently.
Commodore Amiga did not have this problem. Its always had 4 digits.
Finally, a retrocomputer guy! I have a C64, a 1990s computer, and a PDA.
Nothing happened. What's more funny, no one thought anything WOULD happen. Small town Iowa, we laughed at it
Ah yes, that ONE time a computer bug made the Soviet Union fire some missiles. Luckily, they were not intentional, so the Soviets rang us up and told us to intercept them.
Said this BEGORE the video began.
*BEFORE
Fucking spellcheck.
do you know that the soviet union stopped existing in 1991
@niizumika_ Obviously. Troglodyte. I’m talking about the actual 1960’s incident where a computer bug fired Soviet missiles. And did you know computers existed since the mid 20th century?
@@ContentEnjoyer-gm3kyComputers have existed since the early 19th century.
0:33 y2k was not a mistake, the computer worked as intended. the problem was the lack of foresight. this issue has global impact but it was a minor issue and easy to fix. even this video title is hyperbolic. also, a glitch is different from a bug.
Started expecting disappointments.
Left without a single one.
V.V. really cooked
I was a teenager in high school when the Y2K scare was talked about...it was hilarious when nothing happened in my area...now that I am in my early 40's, I am still laughing because nothing really happened
Yeah. You can bet your bottom dollar that it was never that big of a thing. The media went nuts over a nothing burger, the world went crazy cos the media told them to, and IT buffs thanked their lucky stars, because people with more money than sense paid them a fortune to right a few lines of code. LOL
The new studio looks great!!!
Thanks! I was still experimenting with lighting. In a couple more videos I’ve got it dialed in 🙌🏼
you cooked with this one. great video
That’s scary.
I remember the time this one computer bug killed a lot of people on a Boeing plane because it was programmed by accident to make it so that when the plane’s nose is going down, you can’t pull it back up (the plane crashed and it was a really rich plane with a lot of people).
that's not what MCAS was. it WAS on purpose and was meant to fix the issue caused by the change in location of the engines on the new plane. the problem is boeing didn't TELL anyone about it so no pilots were trained on it, so additionally they were not taught how to turn it off if it malfunctioned, which is what happened because it was coded without a failsafe/backup.
nothing in aviation is ever an accident
This really shows the old saying, "If something breaks you need to fix it, even if you dont want to, you have to."
Oh yeah, that old saying. LOL
I spent 2 years searching for and fixing Y2K bugs. Funny thing is the only thing that bit us was a Y1999 bug. I fixed that one too, but it was not serious and kind of amusing. The good fix was to go to a 4 digit year (good till year 9999), but some companies used a modified century saying saying any year before 50 or sometime 70 was in the 2000's. These will come unglued randomly over the next hundred years.
Thanx for your insight. As a somewhat computer literate person, couldn't they change a computers bios to force all programs written on it to comply with a 4 digit year? Why does it seem that it was a hands on edit every program every time a year is called for in a calculation?
@@629Justme It's not the hardware, it's the software. If the program/database only uses 2 digits for year, it's not something a hardware change can fix. You have to scour _all_ the code and change _every_ place 2 digits are used. Some of this code was 30+ years old using obsolete languages.
Some of this code wasn't changed. Instead, new code was added to interpret years 51 as 19xx. This, of course, just moved the problem to a future time.
that’s so cool! i wonder why i didn’t learn that in american history because this seems huge!!
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i think the most intresting thing is that it didn't affect entire world, like i can ask people around me what was Y2K and no one will know because no one had computers and no one cared about this
Gotta remember that it "DID" affect the entire world. But just like today, much of why we are able to take for granted so much stuff is because someone is taking care of business behind the scenes to "make" it all work. Y2k was a hit on businesses and governments around the world. Behind the scenes understanding the problem gave a years head start to fix the problem so there would only be minor issues. Just like it when you use the internet possibly over a thousand miles -literally miles- of interconnectivity has to be functioning to make it work. Behind the scenes technicians and engineers worked so it just works.
They are the "essential" workers of the computer world that only get credit when something can go or goes wrong.
Well done, I was in college I think when this was going to be a thing, I was studying computer science and was a big hardcore and code nerd, I knew for the most part things were not gonna blow up
at the path you're at, you might actually make it to 750k by the end of the year.I hope you do. Love your videos!
My mom and I went to a party at her church and it rocked. Also, years later, I worked at a cafe, where the cash resister actually did revert to the 1900's, but it wasn't computerized, so it was no big deal. That is actually the only thing I remember seeing that actually did that.
Love the new set-up! 🤩🤩
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Im gonna watch this while eating pizza. Im not sharing.
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How do you not have 1 million yet man?! Great job and video as always. ❤
I remember all the paranoia. I had a cabin I would go to some New Years so I just went there. But I had no fear. We had known about it for many years and I was confident all the critical SW was fixed.
You make such good videos! Keep up the amazing work man 🔥🔥🔥
19:36 wouldn't that mean the woman was 122 years old during this and if the computer though it was 1900 then she'd still be 12?
I was born in 2000, and this never happened.
Didn't think people were so gullible, back than.
If you were born in 2000 then how would you even remember it. And most of the prep was BEFORE y2k not after
than what?
Unfortunately.
I lived through it and the vast majority of this is just media fear mongering. The vast majority of people really didn't pay attention or care. My group of friends laughed about it quite a bit, but none of them took it seriously. It's kind of like how the news media wants you to think people support woke culture crap, when almost nobody wants anything to do with that nonsense.
IT professionals the under appreciated heroes. Even today.
If IT professionals do their job properly, you don't know they've done anything at all.
2:00 oh okay
9:42 okay
20:57 silly guy
1st of Jan 2000 had my phone ringing with a local video rental shop owner screaming about a software update he didn't do on his rental database.
I fixed it & it was very real the guy is now a very good friend.
I 100% thought this was a video about Crowdstrike.
Side note: why not donate the hoarded food before it goes out of date so you can not only reclaim space but help people who might actually need it?
Crowdstrike or y2k
Y2K is the greatest example of the expression, “an ounce of prevention beats a pound of cure.”
Bro got a silver Playbutton with 64K subs?!
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@@QTLouie 😄
I was born 02 but i have heard about this multiple times and i find it truly fascinating
Y2K did happen, just 24 years later with Crowdstrike
Crowdstrike was caused by a bad Microsoft update. That same update took down my two Windows computers when Windows insisted on installing this "update" to protect me from malware! Yeah, worked just great it did!
Crowdstrike was caused by a bad _Crowdstrike_ update. Microsoft does a lot of stupid things, but this one wasn't their fault.
It was not a bug or a glitch. It was a design flaw, and the fix was straightforward. While the public was freaking out, computer professionals were fixing the 2-digit date flaw.
Long before 12/31/200, computer IT professionals knew everything would be fine.
Yay! another video
I love your videos so much they are apart of my routine as an autistic person now I find every topic you talk about so interesting but I wouldn’t be able to watch it if it was another TH-camr talking about it I love your videos never give up and always live up to your dreams big ups visual venture
Honestly, thank you for mentioning all the hard work that went into averting the disaster! I was 9 going into 2000, and I vividly remember hiding under my blankets in bed, unable to sleep on New Year's Eve, because I'd spent the past year+ having constant anxiety about the end of the world. At nine years old. And then all I'd hear about for years after was that it was a hoax. As an adult -- and a programmer -- I now know about the millions of man-hours it took to keep the bug from being a major problem, and am always 100% ready to throw hands the minute someone calls Y2K a hoax. The preparedness paradox, combined with sensationalist media making it sound like it was going to be the end of the world, has done every IT professional responsible for preventing it a huge disservice. Not to mention it setting a precedent for people being unwilling to prepare for or attempt to mitigate OTHER imminent disasters... like the public health crisis that's still ongoing despite what most people seem to think.
Nothing like watching one of your favorite TH-camrs with some good food.
I have a feeling I know what this is about.
Edit: Why did my comment become a copy-pasta? 😂
I have a feeling I know why!
I think I speak for everyone when I say we are gonna go ahead and need you to make all your vods 4-5 hours long ;) Love listening
That's fascinating to know about.
I honestly love this channel
Finally! A new upload:)
First
These are the types of videos I leave in my watch later playlist forever but I’m choosing to watch this one instead of abandoning it
I feel like I know what this is about.
It's either Crowdstrike or y2k
@@TotallyNot_D4Ny2k isn’t a computer bug though
@@Herb-E069ohh mb
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00:01 video start btw
No shit sherlock
Thanks, thought it was at 10:61
thanks bro I thought it started in the prehistoric era
DAMN. I didn’t know that. that’s like earth shattering news
thanks man
While I was born during this panic, I was too young to really know what was going on or remember the situation.
But looking at the story, it's pretty funny in retrospect. There were reports of this potential problem as early as the 1960s, but experts weren't concerned, expecting updates and new technology to resolve the problem long before it arose.
So nobody paid the whole date issue much attention until it was pointed out there was less than a decade before it came up and the problem hadn't been resolved.
And studies after everything happened showed that the issue was drastically blown out of proportion. There had been updates to programming and such that made it so that storing 4 digit years wasn't as big of a deal as people were claiming, people just hadn't gone through the effort of actually implementing the fix. And doing so would take a lot of time and effort, moreso than if they had done so sooner.
And to blow it out of proportion even more, most of the computers that didn't fix this issue in time ended up... Not doing anything. The biggest issues were some businesses having files deleted too soon or being saved out of order and a couple of hospital databases accidentally reported a couple of new babies as being born a century ago.
And even the prospective problems were heavily exaggerated, with experts having known some of those problems wouldn't happen. Planes wouldn't suddenly think it was a century ago and fall from the sky, they'd just show the wrong date, for example.
The Wonderhoy! epidemic was epic lol
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@@SingerSofiaBrook exactly.
Fear is a great control tool
I remember people getting mad because companies weren't taking back generators 😅
Its either about crowstrike or Y2K
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Pov: You like this comment because you are reading this in your head
get off the internet lil bro
you’re also in the internet 😂
@@Herb-E069 I don't think you understood what i meant but ok
Lol
Got emmm
Yo the new background is sick
I worked for a large international ISP and on new years eve 99 i spent all day at the office till about 6am eastern in case things blew up.
It wasnt all bad as timezones in europe started to roll into 2000 and no major issues we started to drink and play computer/board games
Bro cooked again! 🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥
In hindsight of the July CrowdStrike incident, a mass crash of that scale really is a giant headache. I work in the airline industry and was lucky to be off that day but my coworkers all said it was like the apocalypse with people stranded at the airport. banking, hospitals, even grocery stores across the country got affected too. a friend of mines said that handwritten boarding passes made a reappearance that day. For an industry that relies so heavily on automation and technology, it's a nightmare. If you ever cover this incident, I'm sure it'd be a very insightful video.