@Haze39 this comment was 3 months again. Sure "things aren't worse". We've got national riots taking place, a political entity wanting to succeed from the Union. Sure please tell how things "aren't worse".
@monster boy Mutant rabbies turns people into zombies but that's still experimental. People where not dependant enough of computers in 1999 for Y2K but now people are helpless without shynet because the banks are all shynet and so Y2K is still coming so I would reserve a front row seat to watch the world burn!
Good to see an optimistic story of people post Y2K. Considering that even by most estimates of how much people spent his setup was on the more modest side, I'm just happy to see that he saw through it like any other day.
I can remember at the break table at work people really worried a few months before Y2K was to arrive. One guy stocked up on ramen noodles. Some of us not really worried. One girl went to a bomb shelter that night. I wasn't too concerned, I just went home and watched cable tv.
So happy he asked “what happened to the food?” in tribute to Larry King’s greatest interview question, but the answer was they had a party and ate it all? What kind of party serves Campbell’s soup, Top Ramen, and canned squash?
Something really happened, it was just prevented. Thank the engineers and programmers that helped changed the database storing from two years into four years.
If he was wrong, he could've eaten his mistake. If everyone else was wrong, what were they going to do, other than panic and starve? You can mock and laugh now, but that mockery and laughter will only last as long as the supply chain does, let alone supplies.
To think this will have been 24 years ago in a few days, i cant stress enough the importance of time management and being wise with what you do with your time, im 30 and not in suxh a good situation due to my lack of time management, but im fixing to get things turned around, also being kind to others, you never know what someone might be going through and maybe a kind gesture lifts them up and they can pass it on to someone else in need 😁
January 1, 2020 - "The world will be a-ok" True...but also preparedness isn't crazy, or weird. It's not about the hazards you're afraid of, but making sure you can provide for your needs, regardless of the disruption. Bad things happen sometimes. We usually come out on the other side just fine, but preparing to meet your needs makes going through it a little more tolerable.
"Preparedness" . That's why I have a goal of paying off my phone bill 5 years ahead of time. So I don't worry about monthly payments. Eventually saving to pay a years advance for a different carrier. . I don't have a family and am homeless but I'm not giving up, I always wanna be prepared but i have different priorities set. Like I don't need many supplies but I need plans for multiple scenarios because being in a hole is ideal for like a month but afterwords things get together and u need to go out
Honestly, with all the other news outlests fear mongering and spreading negativity (real or not idc), its nice to see a news channel talk about everything being ok
I was in a 3 piece cover band getting paid playing two nights a week at a bar for $100, dinner and drinks a show. NYE was supposed our big night. We got paid $300 bucks each plus dinner and drinks and we played for three couples. The bar lost its ass and canceled live music.
Dec 31 2019: "Tomorrow the sun will rise again, and the new year will be okay" or similar. Implying 2020 will be a year like any other? Little did they know.
I was 4 years old during Y2K... I don’t remember much about it tbh. I don’t believe my family thought that anything was going to happen. We just celebrated new years in our apartment like we usually did
0:59 I heard it and still know understand what exactly was theorized on what was to go wrong. Like how exactly would that ruin things and even if something did go wrong did they not think it could be fix at all?
My uncle dived head-first into the hysteria. He cashed out a lucrative pension from the railroad, bought gold coins advertised on TV, and buried them in the yard of his bunker in a remote area. In the months leading up to it, he wouldn't shut up about nuclear-powered satellites raining down on us. After it was over, and nothing happened, we avoided the subject. But he knew. We all knew.
I think the main reason Y2k was such a non-event was the hard work a lot of people did to update software so that it would sail through the transition without a hitch, just so the unknowledgeable could laugh at the effort.
It didn't magically be "okay"... it was hundreds of thousands of hours put in by tens of thousands of engineers fixing millions of lines of code around the world!
1:22 I once talked to an older nurse and she told me about how they required extra staff so she was on for New Year's Eve because they wanted extra help in case stuff did go wrong.
Y2k may have been a non-event, but I was shopping late on 31 Dec 2009. The moment the clock hit midnight, the store's computers crashed and it took something like 40 minutes to clear up the mess.
It's so funny this aired, mocking preppers, just as a global pandemic was creeping around just under people's noses. Almost two years later many more preppers have joined the ranks as there are supply chain issues, hyper inflation, fuel shortages, etc. and god knows what is around the corner. I am sure that guy was joking about the food party. If you prep properly, the food you store should be the food you regularly eat, in quantities you regularly consumer prior to the expiry date.
I was spending the holidays with my family in Mexico during all this, I was 4 then so I didn't know about Y2K until 2009 when I learned about the 2012 prophecy.
When I was a kid living in the state of Georgia i had just turned 1 years old in September of 1999 and the person my mom was married to at the time had brought home some big blue barrels of food because he thought that everything from computers, phones, electricity etc would crash at midnight on January 1st 2000, Needless to say nothing happened and we didn't let that food go to waste because we had plenty of food to eat
I have a niece born in Dec 1999 if the world had ended which I doubt she would have lived only 2 weeks y2k was fun popped firecrackers with my cousins just had a good time as a kid
Y2K did happen. It happened that people fixed the problems. Millions of man hours were spent fixing code that had never been designed to last as long as it did. People consider that it was a hoax. It was not. It just so happened that we fixed everything or pretty well everything.
@@knightsnight5929 A year was not bad. Many took a few years as they had to upgrade their operating system, add more hardware to support that and then the testing was always 2-3 times the rest of the effort combined.
Absolutely true it was a not a hoax. Years were spent upgrading and fixing code to avoid problems. With that said, the technically-retarded media ran with it as an upcoming apocalypse. It was never going to be that, code fixed or not. In fact, the most vulnerable sector of the economy, banking, had been dealing with four-digit years since the 1970's, as mortgages routinely are issued for 30 year terms.
Tell that to the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. They woke up one day and everything had changed. That is to say, it can go either way as no one can predict the future.
I was stressed and subsequently sick during that Mayan calendar dooms day scenario. Since then I’ve learned it’s been a common theme through out history for people to claim the end is nigh, yet I don’t worry. Christ will come when he intends.
I won us a deep fryer on y2k at a y2k function raffle I was a kid at the time.and they had a raffle going and they got kods to pick out the tickets I pulled out one of the folks number out of the barrel.
I remember that fake scare. Art bell played right into it and made money off it. Canned food and water. Lots of money. Bless him I know he's passed but it was a big lie.
I love how only months after this interview, everyone started stocking up again
🤣 yes
It's almost like they want us unprepared...
The irony
@@leftysr2stupid354God shut up
And the story repeated again
"People are filling up on gas because of y2k"
"Are you filling up because of y2k?"
"No, I'm not worried at all."
“Outta gas”
"Why are you filling up your car???
🤣🤣
Stupid fkn quesiton
What a dumb question lol “why are u filling ur car with gas??”
“Because I’m outta gas” 😂
"Why are you filling up your car?"
...
Outta gas
@@brandonlim1861 you have to love it. You really do
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
1999: Dear God the world is ending hold your loved ones
2020: Dear God the world is ending grab the toilet paper
Yet again out of fear, then nothing happened, again. Y2k, 2012 all of it, were still hear and will be for a lot more time despite what is always said.
So true
It's to say that the end of the world will cause by massive fires which will probably be due by the sun exploring
LMGAO
2023: Dear God, PLEASE end the world!
Judging by recent events, I wonder whether he re-stocked.
I dont think so, but I bet he realizes that this to shall pass.
😂🤣🤣😂🤘🏿✌🏿
@@imperialgamerhfx3024 Any day now, right..?
@@imperialgamerhfx3024 any day now........
Two more weeks...
I'm sure he's glad he has all that nowadays and we're still in 2020
@Haze39 this comment was 3 months again.
Sure "things aren't worse".
We've got national riots taking place, a political entity wanting to succeed from the Union.
Sure please tell how things "aren't worse".
2021 now
I hope you're being sarcastic cause most of the food won't be good anymore
2:34 The zombie apocalypse now that’s what I want to see
20 years later: Corona Virus🦠
Yahir Menjivar yup
@monster boy if it evolves it could...
Yahir Menjivar virus 🦠
@monster boy Mutant rabbies turns people into zombies but that's still experimental. People where not dependant enough of computers in 1999 for Y2K but now people are helpless without shynet because the banks are all shynet and so Y2K is still coming so I would reserve a front row seat to watch the world burn!
@@diceroll2843 what??? I....wha...the hells a shynet?
He probably saved a ton of money from food price inflation.
Most stupid question........
" Why are you filling up your car?"
Pantries should be stocked all the time especially now if only as a hedge on inflation.
Very true 👍. We have some seriously tyrannical people running the country at this moment in time. Be prepared for anything.
Good to see an optimistic story of people post Y2K.
Considering that even by most estimates of how much people spent his setup was on the more modest side, I'm just happy to see that he saw through it like any other day.
Media Hype makes everyone panic
it needs to stop
I can remember at the break table at work people really worried a few months before Y2K was to arrive. One guy stocked up on ramen noodles. Some of us not really worried. One girl went to a bomb shelter that night. I wasn't too concerned, I just went home and watched cable tv.
"Reality does not always live up to the hype of fear" 🤔🤔🤔
most realest shit I've ever heard
See you all in 20 years when Coronavirus is treated like a common cold and the world is once again going threw another global dooms day pandemic.
See ya in 19 years
@@glanty I hope the countdown keeps going 🤣🤣🤣
@@reneerenee4034 see you in- ... No lol I'm early....
the next doomsday is war
The only pandemic is you being robbed blind by inflation.
So happy he asked “what happened to the food?” in tribute to Larry King’s greatest interview question, but the answer was they had a party and ate it all? What kind of party serves Campbell’s soup, Top Ramen, and canned squash?
😆 🤣 You got me on that one lol 😆 😂
A white persons
He ate his words
It’s crazy how 2000 people panicked and nothing happened yet people were ringing in 2020 with no worries and Covid happened.
Something really happened, it was just prevented. Thank the engineers and programmers that helped changed the database storing from two years into four years.
If he was wrong, he could've eaten his mistake.
If everyone else was wrong, what were they going to do, other than panic and starve?
You can mock and laugh now, but that mockery and laughter will only last as long as the supply chain does, let alone supplies.
“Reality does not always live up to the hype of fear.”
To think this will have been 24 years ago in a few days, i cant stress enough the importance of time management and being wise with what you do with your time, im 30 and not in suxh a good situation due to my lack of time management, but im fixing to get things turned around, also being kind to others, you never know what someone might be going through and maybe a kind gesture lifts them up and they can pass it on to someone else in need 😁
1:40 omg that Tang powder in his cabinet. It hit me right in the childhood!
Same!
January 1, 2020 - "The world will be a-ok"
True...but also preparedness isn't crazy, or weird. It's not about the hazards you're afraid of, but making sure you can provide for your needs, regardless of the disruption. Bad things happen sometimes. We usually come out on the other side just fine, but preparing to meet your needs makes going through it a little more tolerable.
Y2k was probably a nice injection of awareness about the security of preparedness for many people, even if it was nothing
"Preparedness"
.
That's why I have a goal of paying off my phone bill 5 years ahead of time.
So I don't worry about monthly payments.
Eventually saving to pay a years advance for a different carrier.
.
I don't have a family and am homeless but I'm not giving up, I always wanna be prepared but i have different priorities set.
Like I don't need many supplies but I need plans for multiple scenarios because being in a hole is ideal for like a month but afterwords things get together and u need to go out
Compared to this covid pandemic, y2k is looking pretty good now.
Only 6 comments? That will change quickly
Honestly, with all the other news outlests fear mongering and spreading negativity (real or not idc), its nice to see a news channel talk about everything being ok
it is like when did news become the fear everything channel?
"the zombie apocolypse, now that i would like to see"
july of this year: boy have i got some good news for you
I was in a 3 piece cover band getting paid playing two nights a week at a bar for $100, dinner and drinks a show. NYE was supposed our big night.
We got paid $300 bucks each plus dinner and drinks and we played for three couples.
The bar lost its ass and canceled live music.
Wow it’s so crazy to see how different logos looked back then. Like I can slightly remember some of them but it’s crazy lol
Dec 31 2019: "Tomorrow the sun will rise again, and the new year will be okay" or similar. Implying 2020 will be a year like any other? Little did they know.
I was 4 years old during Y2K... I don’t remember much about it tbh.
I don’t believe my family thought that anything was going to happen. We just celebrated new years in our apartment like we usually did
I was seven years old we just celebrated the new year
If nothing happened then why are we living in a marxist clown world?
I was 3, about to turn 4, I don't remember anything about it
I was 11 and we did the same lol.
I bet you now here in November 2021 he is stocked back up!
Y2K - It brought such joy (and income) to consultancy firms.
Better to have and not need, than not have and be assed out. It is more of a reality today for stocking up to be necessary.
Rather be wrong than hungry.
He was only able to survive because he had cheese balls.
corona virus 2019 2020
They should've waited until this year.
Imagine getting out of your bunker after 20 years and its the pandemic
The irony that this was published on January 1, 2020!
0:59 I heard it and still know understand what exactly was theorized on what was to go wrong. Like how exactly would that ruin things and even if something did go wrong did they not think it could be fix at all?
My uncle dived head-first into the hysteria. He cashed out a lucrative pension from the railroad, bought gold coins advertised on TV, and buried them in the yard of his bunker in a remote area. In the months leading up to it, he wouldn't shut up about nuclear-powered satellites raining down on us. After it was over, and nothing happened, we avoided the subject. But he knew. We all knew.
And I thought the insane stuff going on as a result of the coronavirus was stupid - but this really takes the cake.
I think the main reason Y2k was such a non-event was the hard work a lot of people did to update software so that it would sail through the transition without a hitch, just so the unknowledgeable could laugh at the effort.
It didn't magically be "okay"... it was hundreds of thousands of hours put in by tens of thousands of engineers fixing millions of lines of code around the world!
He was early by 20 years
We like many others stocked up on groceries and gas not because we believed the hysteria but because we knew there would be a shortage and there was.
1:22 I once talked to an older nurse and she told me about how they required extra staff so she was on for New Year's Eve because they wanted extra help in case stuff did go wrong.
Y2k may have been a non-event, but I was shopping late on 31 Dec 2009. The moment the clock hit midnight, the store's computers crashed and it took something like 40 minutes to clear up the mess.
It's going to be a cold, dark winter.
It's so funny this aired, mocking preppers, just as a global pandemic was creeping around just under people's noses. Almost two years later many more preppers have joined the ranks as there are supply chain issues, hyper inflation, fuel shortages, etc. and god knows what is around the corner. I am sure that guy was joking about the food party. If you prep properly, the food you store should be the food you regularly eat, in quantities you regularly consumer prior to the expiry date.
I was playing Dark forces 2 when this was about to happen I remember rushing the game so I could finish it before Y2K lol oh the good old days
I was spending the holidays with my family in Mexico during all this, I was 4 then so I didn't know about Y2K until 2009 when I learned about the 2012 prophecy.
Gonna need that stash soon.
When I was a kid living in the state of Georgia i had just turned 1 years old in September of 1999 and the person my mom was married to at the time had brought home some big blue barrels of food because he thought that everything from computers, phones, electricity etc would crash at midnight on January 1st 2000, Needless to say nothing happened and we didn't let that food go to waste because we had plenty of food to eat
me laughing at this guys from 2020 in 2022
I have a niece born in Dec 1999 if the world had ended which I doubt she would have lived only 2 weeks y2k was fun popped firecrackers with my cousins just had a good time as a kid
I should have stocked on gasoline! Fuck this prices!
Y2K did happen. It happened that people fixed the problems. Millions of man hours were spent fixing code that had never been designed to last as long as it did. People consider that it was a hoax. It was not. It just so happened that we fixed everything or pretty well everything.
Precisely, we planned for over a year, changing out old kit, and altering code.
@@knightsnight5929 A year was not bad. Many took a few years as they had to upgrade their operating system, add more hardware to support that and then the testing was always 2-3 times the rest of the effort combined.
Absolutely true it was a not a hoax. Years were spent upgrading and fixing code to avoid problems. With that said, the technically-retarded media ran with it as an upcoming apocalypse. It was never going to be that, code fixed or not. In fact, the most vulnerable sector of the economy, banking, had been dealing with four-digit years since the 1970's, as mortgages routinely are issued for 30 year terms.
All the conspiracy theorists kept saying the computer folks wouldn't get the switchover in time....wow they were wrong
I was stupidly fooled.
Tell that to the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. They woke up one day and everything had changed. That is to say, it can go either way as no one can predict the future.
$0.99 Evian!! Oh what a time to be alive
Now 2038 is the year that everyone is worried about now
I was five when this y2k thing scare happen. I didn't know about this until I saw family guy
I was stressed and subsequently sick during that Mayan calendar dooms day scenario. Since then I’ve learned it’s been a common theme through out history for people to claim the end is nigh, yet I don’t worry. Christ will come when he intends.
He had a lot of non-perishable food. It's not like the food was gonna go bad in 2 weeks.
Would be funny to see a follow up video of him done in 2024 prepping for the eclipse.
I won us a deep fryer on y2k at a y2k function raffle
I was a kid at the time.and they had a raffle going and they got kods to pick out the tickets
I pulled out one of the folks number out of the barrel.
So do you still prep'
The year 2036 problem is much more likely to cause problems than this ever was.
Nothing new under the sun
Here in the Philippines. A third world country, a poor country I was teenager. Nothing worried us especially the Y2K.
How does something like this start? I remember everyone was losing their sht over it
I remember the Y2K craze back then. Turned out to be nothing! 😄
A party with canned food, top ramen, and spam? I’ll pass.
2 months later...
The world has been broken since Y2K so It did a lot of damage.
He ate it, and he is getting back to the store to restock his groceries 😂
2:18 If only they knew....
Bro this gonna be the new Coronavirus when we find out it was just one simple cure 😂😂😂😂
Wait 5 years. We the 2020 generation will be laughed at
Todd’s nephew’s hairline stayed the same from when he was a kid
Quite a few have a lot of food however less seem to have enough of water.
I just partied like it was 1999!!!😂😂😂😅😅😅
I don't even associate with post 2000
Yeah.. bad year to talk about a bad year
Can you imagine that the end of the world Y2K actually happened?
Thinking about it now, we where pretty dumb and gullible
Experience non the less
EMPs will destroy this 🌎, Y2K isn't over!
We know where the toilet paper went
If only they knew this would be needed in 2020
God if I was there I would be scarred
He shouldn't have eaten that food considering the mass panic buying during COVID.
he got the food 20 years ago though
Truth
I remember that fake scare. Art bell played right into it and made money off it. Canned food and water. Lots of money. Bless him I know he's passed but it was a big lie.
It’s so funny because it was certain people saying the world was going to end with no real evidence
Ahh but you see Y2K DID happen, about 2 months later...
His party probably ruled lol
He literally couldn't lose though. When you stock up and nothing bad happens, you just use your supplies and don't have to buy any for a while.
dude almost didn't age
That's what I was thinking :P Maybe the fountain of youth is canned food :P
Y2K38 will be the next Y2K. That's when all UNIX based systems crash.
I'm just cruising