Nov 28, 2022 · Think avionics in aircraft (the B52 is like 70 years old, 30 year old aircraft are common), the sewage pump under your street, the xray machine at the hospital, your car, …

Oct 22, 2023 · So, as someone who barely remebers the year 2000, I've seen the Family Guy and Simpsons epsodes on Y2K and how ridiculous some of the potential 'consequences' could be …

Y2K was resolved through a lot of tedious work in the last eight months of 1999. In certain industries (particularly the utilities and finance industry and their "supply chains"), there were …

A big part of the issue during Y2K was that things were less standard and many companies had their own sub-par implementations of dates and times. I believe that happens somewhat less …

Aug 22, 2023 · The unofficial Scratch community on Reddit. Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children and a coding language with a simple visual interface that allows young …

Dec 27, 2023 · OP misread the NatGeo page as well. It attributes the notion that the Y2K bug was "barely a problem at all" to unnamed skeptics and then goes on to list a number of ways that …

TIL the “Y2K bug”, wherein people feared computers glitching on the 1st of Jan 2000 and crushing the global economy but never happened, was a real crisis that was averted with $500B dollars …

Jan 5, 2024 · A subreddit about Y2K (also known as Cyber Y2K, Futuristic Y2K, or Kaybug), an aesthetic that was prevalent in pop culture from 1998 to 2004 and, to lesser extents, 1997 and …

May 25, 2022 · Y2K remediation was a big help in my career. A consulting house hired me on to upgrade 486 processor pc’s to Pentium (which was easier way to fix y2k than firmware …

The reality is that the Y2K bug was a serious problem that was resolved by many dedicated IT people spending many sleepless nights fixing shit. I worked in technical writing at the time, and …