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While the world collectively held their breath through December 31, 1999, the Y2K hysteria predated the new millennium by decades. Prince was singing about “two thousand, zero zero, party over, oops, out of time” as early as 1982, and preparations for the great unknown of the 2000s intensified throughout the 1990s.
In hindsight, it was a new year like any other. Why were people scared of Y2K? To put it simply, it was the sobering realization that we had permanently crossed the threshold into a computerized world, and the possibility of even a brief widespread technological issue could signal the end times.
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Good video here sadly 2020 wasn't like this though everyone wished it was.
That's a no. And thumbs down for sticking the salespitch in the middle.
Why did everyone empty 90% of stores of toilet paper In 2020?
@@clonecommando-cn6bo Because most people are full of it and needed to stock up?
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I worked for a bank and loans couldn't be made past 1999 until the programing was fixed.
@@cfcinilopeso you're telling me I should have been taking that bank loan and getting a house instead of being a baby? I knew it
@@No_Budget.Buildsthat’s ridiculous
I was the junior employee in an office. Which made me the IT expert. I tested our computers. All passed save sm old kid we were planning 2 get rid of, plus the machine running the print server, which also had 2 b replaced. So the impact was minimal because we prepared 4 it.
Sorry meant old kit
What about mortgages?
I was an IT manager for a large state for y2k. It definitely was a catastrophe averted by a lot of hard work and a lot of overtime before the date change.
No it wasn't. All it took was to buy a motherboard that was Y2k compliant. Why make up lies? You weren't an IT manager, or you would know that. If changing a motherboard is hard work for you... lol
@@Me4-gc8qsTroll!
@@Me4-gc8qs And if you replace the motherboard, does the software also change miraculously?
When you avoid a disaster, people assume there never was any danger. See also Covid
We had a minor disaster at the library---- books came up as 100 years overdue!!!! No fines were calculated, though.
hahah they would have been only 99 years overdue. If you're going to lie, at least be accurate with your lies.
Y2K on Weird History? Wasn't that just ... oh ...
That was the end of the 90s like 10 years ago, right? Right?!
Wild, ain't it?
Ur a fossil
History is being made everyday.
🙉🙉🙉 LaLaLaLa i can’t here you
That is the problem with good preventative efforts - if they have been well done the result is that 'nothing happens' and everything 'runs smoothly', and then some idiot starts claiming that because 'nothing happened' the preventative efforts were a waste of money.
IT in a nutshell: “The system works, what are we paying you for?” “The system is down, what are we paying you for?”
Indeed. Like the one in here claiming nobody needed to do anything more than change their motherboard. SMH
People do not a appreciate what massive effort this was, and how badly things could have gone wrong. Bonus points: Y2K mitigations likely prevented the total collapse of our banking systems, during 9-11 when the towers fell, destroying or cutting off most of the banking data centers. Backup data centers and redundancy implemented for Y2K meant that nearly every bank smoothly switched over to backup data centers, and banking and commerce continued mostly unaffected.
never knew that
Huh, thats interesting
That is something to really think about and sadly COVID-19 or to be less offended 2020 really dwarfs this and unlike this it really went to a disaster.
@@kellychuang8373 No it's not, he's fishing for likes by from people who know nothing about computers.
@@Me4-gc8qs Anyone claiming to all and sundry that the only required fix for the Y2K problem was a motherboard change isn't in a position to lecture anybody about their supposed lack of knowledge about computers.
In 1999 I worked for an industrial electronic parts store. In late 1999 a lady walked in bringing in an old mantle clock. She was worried that Y2K would do something to it. I explained why she had no problem and she could rest assured that her clock would still work.
But she still didn't believe you?
@@Me4-gc8qs I think I was able to convince her. But it did take a while.
I got calls asking about microwaves, toasters and ovens. "Mam, this is you internet service provider. We don't do toasters."
@@thehangmansdaughter1120 Wow! You must have been more public facing than I was. There were a couple other visitors and calls, but I don't recall the details.
@@daveschmarder-1950 Back then I was tech support for satellite connections.
I have been an IT professional for over 30 years and I remember Y2K very well. The consulting company I worked for at the time made more money in 1999 preparing clients for Y2K than they had in the entire 8 years they were in business. While it was a distinct and definite issue, I for one am glad that preparations and workarounds were in place so the “global computing apocalypse” did not happen.
Yes, and those companies like the one you worked for, would replace the motherboard fix the problem then claim all the hard work programming the pc is the thing that saved them. Please anyone who really worked in IT between 1997 and 1999 knew all you had to was upgrade the motherboard and problem solved. Why lie? Want to look like an IT hero on the internet with people who have been in the IT industry for over 50 years lol.
I was the "computer guy" at the survey/engineering company I worked for, because I was the first guy in the office to replace a hard drive or add memory to a computer several years before. Microsoft put out a Y2k patch that I installed on all the computers that could have been affected.
That was just for the operating system. All of the software that ran on it still needed to be patched independently. Including IBM mainframe code that was all over the place.
That patch never worked. It was cmos and bios that caused Y2K. if your bios and cmos didn't go past 1999 on the calendar the patch didn't fix it. But if your computer did go past that date the patch did nothing. It was a placebo patch to make fools happy.
@@aldousd666 No patch could fix your motherboard if it didn't go past 31 December 1999. All the patches in the world couldn't fix it. If a patch "fixed it" that meant the pc was already Y2K compliant. I can't believe so many fell for this.
@@Me4-gc8qs we ran Bios updates on all the hosts but that wasn't enough.
About 8 years ago, my coworkers and I were discussing past events. Y2K and 9/11 came up. A 14 year old who was hanging around because of his dad (summer break) was totally confused. We had to explain why and what the fear was about and why there was so much panic linked between the two (ie, why people who lived through both mentioned both). It really felt like the world was trying to end with one thing after another. He at least knew about 9/11, but didn't live through it. Never had I felt so old than in that moment.
I felt old when I explained to my kids that man landed on the moon just 6 years before I was born.
I work in IT with databases, and I still deal with weird Band-Aid fixes for Y2K in some legacy systems.
Yes I took over my dads computer systems coordinating company , funny if you google what a computer systems coordinator does you get about 10 different Jon titles , me n you n our kind did the job of about 7 ppl do In today's time. Gen low T/E was failed by us n that's a hard pill to swallow
I'm a nerd, how so??, you have my attention
@@user-bx3tm7ft7h There's numerous variations. Some went to a 3 digit date (i.e. 2001 was year 101). Some dates stayed 2 digits, and used special characters to represent the year (Today could be represented as @40426). Some systems, today is shown in the data as 20571.
The worst fix was a simple IF statement added that simply created a new deadline....like: If DOB_YY < 20 then...
How? It was a motherboard fix. You had to use some shitty ass software if changing the motherboard which holds the date information. Didn't fix it.
I worked at a data center during this time period and the only thing that broke was our electronic door system. The date rolled back to 1900 so all of our door access codes were created "in the future" and weren't accepted. Fortunately we had physical key backups. We put all the codes back in fresh and went about our business. None of the servers or applications we used had any issues after applying any fixes that the vendors provided. This limited impact was thanks to the massive effort put in by many to ensure continued operation of systems worldwide.
Your doors were controlled via 1960s or 70s COBOL or FortG1 locally produces code....like from The Forbin Project or InfoTec in Mannix. Almost every gadget and process control system by the 80s was managed on later languages using UNIX or VMS date (double precision numeric of time +/- 1970-01-01) or microcomputers 1980-01-01. I worked in a large data center too at the time and we didn't write our own SW to control the door locks...but I can see that getting overlooked as a forgotten legacy. We did find programmers that had used old Grace Hopper era text date or 6 digit integer pic clauses in some code. Even newer COBOL had moved on from that in the 80s but still supported the legacy style.
All you had to do was. Wind your cmos back to date when the 1st of January 2000 was the same day of the week. The only issue was the leap day. So funny that none of you experts know this. All of you lie. None of you are IT workers or you would know the same as I do. I had a Pentium mmx chip and motherboard that wasn't Y2K compliant. Wound it back to a year when the 1st of January was the same day and still kept using that pc up until 2004 the next leap year. Why do you all lie?
I was wondering why no one activated their Vault-Tec subscriptions at that time
My father was working (what is now called IT) in a major international corporation in 1999. I remember him telling me that the problem wasn't going to be the end of the world, but it was important to update a lot of computers. He was extremely stressed out and working overtime to get all the computers changed, but his team actually got everything done about a week before New Years, so, thankfully, the world still has baby powder.
Ok if this is true tell me what It was called back then? All it took was a motherboard change. Any person working in IT at a major corporation would know that. Lol. You can lie about a lot things in this world but you can't lie about Y2K. Not to those of who were in IT before 1999.
On New Year’s Eve 1999, as family and extended family were watching the ball drop on TV, champagne in hand, I was in the garage at the breaker box waiting for the countdown to end. The reaction was pretty funny.
Bwa, HAHAHAHA!
😂😂😂
Thats hilarious
Listen, an opportunity like that would only ever happen once in history, and I am glad to have seen the comment from probably one of the only 0.001% of people to ever pull this prank.
Lmao!!! 😂
* LaBamba voice * "🎶In the year two thousand.... In the year two thousaaaaaand...🎶"
There already is a song with that n without the labamba voice or "the bomb" funny how ppl were calling a song " this is the bomb" n it took about 40 yrs later for ppl to pick up that idiom for English
Gonna party like it's 1999.
Do we have to wait 501 years before you quote Evens and Zagger? Or is it Zagger and Evens?🤔
@@WhatIsayIsStupidI was thinking Conan O'Brian. Also, first thought was Zagger and Evens
And Andy Richter.@@handleyourowntool
My hubby made a killing doing "Y2K Compliance" service on computers. He was freelance at the time, so it was a boom for us. We went out for new years, but made sure to be home by midnight, just in case of any weirdness. 😊
Yeah, my Dad was the same. He made a year's salary in 3 months.
My cousin (R.I.P) said that he was not worried about Y2K because there was no way in the world big corporations and banks would lose all the money they stood to lose if they did not do something about it.
I remember Y2k. I was alittle over 10 when the hysteria around that happening when the clock struck midnight at 2000. What made it slightly scary was i remember legit news stations covering it like it might actually happen. I wasn't so scared as much as confused. Also happy my parents didn't buy into it and wasted money on survival kit nonsense or something. lol
Wat about wen ppl were setting off fireworks n a bunch of ppl were shook ,I was 21 yrs old when it happened
Same. I was not quite 9 years old when the Y2K panic set in and i dont recall being scared so much as confused. Thankfully my mom and stepdad are fairly intelligent folks and didnt buy into it, so we just went about life as pretty much normal.
Yeah really scary time not unlike 2020 which is a real disaster and is way different than Y2K.
It was real. It's just that we all spent billions of dollars and countless hours patching it ahead of time. There was no disaster because we spent years doing a lot of fixing.
Please read other people's comments. Many have family members or were personally involved in all the fixing the computers required to *not* cause all manner of problems - some report problems that did happen. This was not an empty threat, but an actual danger that was averted with the effort of thousands of engineers and technicians.
I worked at Best Buy in 1999. September 9th - 9/9/99 - was viewed as a dress rehearsal for Y2K. It was also the day that the Sega Dreamcast was released. People were losing their shit when our check verification systems went down and we had to call each one in. Oh boy people thought we’d be screwed.
It's good to know that, knowing now that 9/9/99 would crash some systems, that Sega has never been good at "launching" anything. PSO2 used to fill up your drive with garbage files if your internet dared to hiccup...
In brief it would have been a problem if it hadn't been fixed way in advance, which it thankfully was.
I remember it vividly 😂. I was 13 at the time and we were at my aunts house for a family party. My goofy ass uncle went downstairs and when we rang in the new year he turned the circuit breaker off lmao we all screamed then the power came back on. My mom was like where’s Joe (her brother) then we saw him coming back upstairs and we all died laughing 🤣
hey i think i saw his comment, too 🤣a joke like that only comes around once, EVER, not even once in a lifetime.
I was 10 when Y2K happened, and all my friends' parents were stockpiling and buying generators. My dad (a Vietnam vet, born in 1944) was questioned by some how he was preparing and he just said, "I've got several gallons of water in my pickup, and I've got shotguns for hunting, and poles for fishing. We'll be just fine. " 😂 I miss that man, he was awesome.
I like your Dad. Mine was similar and I miss him terribly.
I remember the Y2K scare all too.Well I was a teenager in florida where conspiracy theories are born and lived as true
One man got 100 years worth of late fees after renting a movie from Blockbuster on Dec 31.
nice joke but be careful idiots like you might believe it.
Hey Weird History, are we gonna get more Timeline?
I was an IT engineer at the time working for a large electric company. We had updated everything to y2k compliance years before y2k. It took a lot of updates but there was no panic on our part.
I had to show up to work for my office job on Jan 1, 2000. They ordered bagels and I ended up stacking old print out reports to be sent for off site storage.
Clearly this episode was written for people under 30 who do not remember Y2k, LOL
That’s the point of history to preserve it for those who weren’t there
This makes no sense at all.
In 1999 my dad had credit card debt he was hoping the computers would crash so he didn't have to pay it off 😊
ah the narrator is back
My man, there he is.
Y2K was the milestone of how gullible the public could be. All of my machines and software was Y2K compliant. (Many programs I wrote used a base of 1980 to do date calculations, so will fail in 2081. They can complain all they want when it happens, lol.
I love it! Trolling from the great beyond! 😂
Yes sadly not all disasters turned out this way like 2020 and also the inflation and rampant theft and shortages we're dealing with now.
I worked in a hotel back then and New Year's Eve was always the wildest night, where there were would be a few guests who would try to cause trouble and pathetic parents who would let their kids go wherever they wanted on their own to face whatever fate. 12/31/1999 was the only time in my life I ever vomited from anxiety. Amazingly, it ended up being the smoothest NYE that I worked there. No trouble at all even though the hotel was sold out.
I was a contractor with a large government agency for Y2K. There were definitely issues that would have caused major problems.
Only if the mother board on the pc's were built before 1996. In 199 any company with a computer that old would have had problems regardless of Y2K.
@@Me4-gc8qsIn 199 anybody with a pre-1996 computer would have been fed to the lions as a heretic.
Everyone was worried and I was drunk! It was a great party🎉
I was getting drunk for the first time at 12 years old. World was ending FTW!!!!
I was waiting to collect the money from all the bets I had saying Y2K was a hoax. And not one person honored the $1000 bet I had with them. I would have made $32000 that day if people were honest.
@@Me4-gc8qs I think my ex-husband had some of those bets going on too, and nobody paid him up either.
A+ video! LOVE IT! What a crazy phenomena!
Prison doors in Canada failed? Did the inmates just shut the door themselves and say "Surry!"
I was in Hight school in the 1990's I was taking BASIC programming. That was the first Time I head about the y2K Bug. Our teachers was saying that Older programming language will be important in the up coming years to reprogram system for the year 2000, This was around 1993 1994 I heard this. Burning New Years Eve on 2000. I was working at a water plant. We had people calling all day asking is the water was safe or not.
Power line went down in my town we thought it was real. Rip Doug, Stacey, Bob, and Bob's dog Lil sciddles.
Attended a New years eve party in 99, at midnight, someone stepped outside, fired a shotgun into the air, and the entire town went black. He had unknowingly shot one of the main power lines into town in half. Everyone thought Y2K had indeed happened 😂😂😂
🤣🤣 The power in our small town was once cut off because of a dead possum at the substation.
Cave city AR.??? Lol
@@jjboozer64 Me or OP? If it's me, Masterton, New Zealand.
@thehangmansdaughter1120 There was a guy who blew up a substation at midnight in that area. Had the same effect of legitimizing Y2K that year. Was crazy. Lol
Seems silly now. I knew people who had "end times" level food storage and defense arsenals. I took a wait and see approach. Sure glad I didn't panic.
So did I and bet all those nutjobs a $1000 that nothing would happen. Not one of those know it all's have paid me yet. I want my $32000! yes, I had that many bets going at once!
I remember. I worked in IT and we did a ton of Y2K remediation. Thanks for sharing.
I love seeing a code example in a video that isn't HTML or CSS :P good job :)
I was 13, and I remember staying up and watching the news and the Ball dropping just waiting on everything to fall apart. I don't think I thought it would happen.
I remember being up in the hills at a friend's house. We all counted down, 3, 2, 1... We all looked up at the lights, and when they stayed on we wildly cheered!!! Good times!!
I remember everyone in our area in the Midwest that everyone was going out buying generators.
My ex worked on this issue for two years before the deadline. He is a software engineer.
I was in my early forties when Y2K happened. Lots of people panicked but I just had a New Year's Eve party like usual. 😁
I worked on a team that spent 8 months completely rewriting an insurance cash reserve system that projected costs and reserves 18 months into the future. It was scheduled to fail in mid 1998 because the projection for that time were out to January 2000. Tests showed that mayhem would ensue for each day we were late. We made it with only a few hours to spare and mayhem was averted. We took the old system offline but kept it running, and spent the next few days watching it crash and burn just for fun.
A single $99 motherboard would have fixed all that. Nice story though. It will fool those with no knowledge of pc's before 2000, but those of us who worked with pc's knew all it took was a new motherboard. Oh, wait that's not a 100 percent true. My bad. If your processor was a 486 or older built before 1995 it would be a problem but it you had a Pentium all it took was a new mother board. Average of $99(Australian) to fix. How come none of you IT experts know this? All of you lying? oops correction. I just found out that first Y2k compliant cpu's came out in 1994.
@@Me4-gc8qs No, a $99 motherboard wouldn't work on a 1968 IBM mainframe. We had to reverse engineer reams of COBOL source code so it would run on PC-based client-server architecture.
Our dept worked for at least two years testing our insurance policy issuance program for our company, there were many people at companies doing the same thing. Be thankful that all this work resulted in the “ho hum, big deal over nothing” that resulted. I did get double time on New Years for doing final testing. And we got to go home after a couple hours because it all worked correctly :)
Totally remember this. You can call the hyteria around this chaos. Now, everytime I see a zipper pull with Y2K on it , it brings back this memory 😝
Glad you’re getting over that sinus infection, my man. You sounded terrible the other day. ❤
Imagine there was widespread social media back then? Could’ve been a lot worse.
The term social media didn't come about until about 4-5 years after Y2K.
Bloody hell, you're right. People were freaking out enough without the echo chamber of stupidity whispering in their ears.
@@thehangmansdaughter1120 as if anything has really changed. Now there's just more echos in the chamber.
I remember going through a lot of code at work for the Y2K problem and finding some that would, in fact, not handle the rollover correctly. We fixed it. What was irritating is afterward people saying it wasn't a big deal and that it was needless panic, but it's because people put so much effort into fixing codebases that things were relatively glitch-free. IT has become a utility, not unlike your power or phone, so the amount of effort to keep it going is largely behind the scenes. If you don't see overt issues, then we're doing our jobs!
All software relies on your bios for dates. If your Bios was y2K compliant the software would adjust to it... It was a problem known since the 50's any software after 1970 was written to accommodate for it. If the software didn't you bought cheap and nasty software.
I was online, on AOL dial-up. I thought if something happened I would know immediately.
I remember as a young kid going through that. It was a mini Covid event with people going semi crazy buying stuff at the Store. Toilet paper rampage.
6:54 One of my friends and apartmentmates had a computer exactly like that, we would share it to look up things on the computer (I did not have a computer at the time).
Even on the modern cloud systems I work on, when you’re talking in the scale of millions of users, it can take a lot of maintenance work to keep up to date. With the combined salary of the team doing the work, it absolutely adds up quick. Wall Street would absolutely spend millions, without a second thought, on getting away from Y2K! (Plz slow down the release cycle Kubernetes people I’m so tired lol)
Not mentioned here was that a considerable amount of Y2K compliance was performed in India. Much of the changes were pure drudgery. That plus the fact that the costs of India programmers was so low compared to US programmers made it desirable to "offshore" the work. Because these changes were updates and not new functionality, the time difference wasn't a big deal. Teams in India could do most of the work during their daylight hours. US companies discovered that Indian software professionals were really good. So post Jan 1 2000 more and more work was off-shored. Around this time, massive investment was made in undersea fiber-optic communications links, which made interactions between the US and India much more efficient. The rest, as they say, was weird history. US employment patterns changed significantly after Y2K for these reasons.
I still remember the Y2K craze. All that happened in my town was that the lights flickered a little, then stabilized when the new year rolled around. Then, we danced the night away.
Great. An event I lived through, and in a small part acted to prevent, is now being shown on a history-focused KZhead channel.
I remember it. It was crazy. I worked at a grocery store at the time and people were buying everything off the shelf. We made a lot of money from all the overtime. People were renting dozens of movies. Of course the next day people were trying to return all the extra food and water they bought. I remember more the best fireworks for New Years ever and partying and singing like it was 1999.
I was on probation from 1996-2000. My probation was due to discharge on February 14, 2000. So the last time I reported and paid fines was in January 2000. When I made my last payment, my receipt read that owed all the money from the last 4 years. The lady at the counter told me it was due to the Y2K problem and not to worry about it.
I was site manager for the Y2K Factory Automation Systems at Intel's D2 fab in Santa Clara, CA. Despite extensive testing and code changes, Intel identified the first Y2K issue at the wafer fab in Israel. It didn't stop production, but it did cause an error in a report. A quick fix by the software vendor, and the rest of the factories were able to install the fix with zero impact. All the other systems either didn't need fixing, or the fixes were a non-event.
Y2K was a hardware issue not a software issue. lol Why make this up?
At midnight Jan 2000, I went outside and turned off the main breaker to our house where about a dozen or so of our friends had gathered for the event. When I flipped the breaker, the house went dark and some people screamed and freaked out till I turned it back on and got a big laugh out of it😅😅😅
I remember at my prior company, a major financial company, we had to work around the clock on 12/31 and 1/1 at their corporate HQ. They actually catered it and treated it like a party! Luckily there were no issues, and we all had a great time!
And all they had to was update the motherboards which contained the problem to begin with. I call BS on your story.
Thank you for taking this seriously. Even though I was no longer working that year, I had worked with computers in the previous couple of decades and knew how fragile some systems were (no "could be" about it!) Thanks to the _extremely_ hard work of all the world's nerds (😉), nothing bad happened. The press was unbearable at the time and even though I'd not been working with tech for some years, I knew what they were saying was bunkum. Hoarding, etc., was just something Hubby (who also had worked in tech - in avonics - earlier in the decade) and I kept laughing at. Thank you IT peeps, you were awesome!
I remember the only thing that happened was my dome light came on all by itself in my car parked in my driveway. 🥴
Uhh, as someone who lived through Y2K and remembers it well, I'm pretty sure the solution actually had something to do with Chris Jericho coming to the WWF to fight The Rock. If I remember right, it involved replacing the Y2K problem with the KY Jelly Plan. A rare miss for weird history.
The 9/9/99 anecdote hits home as I turned 19 that day and my great grandfather turned 99 on the same.
I worked for IBM Canada back then and had to come in on New Years day, just in case. One thing I recall is they provided us with lunch and the beef seemed to be made from shoe leather! 🙂 However, I had tested all the software I was responsible for well before then, so I knew my stuff would be ok. Also, that 2 digit date issue lasted well after punch cards, even into PC software in the 90s. I remember some software had a setting for what range the two digit year applied to.
I literally just watched wall street today and you put a still from the movie in this video lol
You should do a timeline video on the year 2000. That would really be helpful!
I was 30 and pregnant. My son was due in March of 2000, bit was born in January. He received some baby shoes from a shoe store. My husband paniced a bit and we had can corn and green beans for monts. 😂
They should make a sequel to A Bug's Life about the Y2K Bug.
We had a new years eve party at my uncle's house that year, and he was known for his pranks. At midnight he cut the power to the whole house. 8 year old me thought it was hilarious, my computer engineer auntie did not.
I survived Y2K and the Killer Bee invasion (I was in south Texas; the epicenter of the feared Killer Bees invasion)
I was 11 when the year 2000 rolled around. I remember thinking Y2K meant the end of the world. LOL
Bummed to see the mid-video ads now
I was 21 and lived in Canada, both things seeming to insulate me from the worst of the panic. I had no money to lose or power to go off.
The same reason they believed the Mayan calendar, and the plandemic. They believe whatever their TV tells them, and are prone to panic.
8:35 Medical Stockpiling, especially for pills, is a common phenomena experienced by nurses.
I remember people being scared to go out on New Years Eve. I spent NYE in South Central Los Angeles at a rave with 20k people tripping balls. Best night ever.
I remember being online on Quake 3 servers. Many of us thought it was the pinacle of internet gaming and y2k was going to reset all the progress that was made. The excitement over the internet still working was rediculous. We are still here! The process continues! We had fun with it but it was the next year with what happened in New York that would mess up the internet for some. I couldn't get a stable connection for months after that event. I just about gave up online gaming. Looks like esports will never take off I thought. Suppose I will just go get a second job and make more money. Maybe join another band to play guitar in.
😂😂😂
I am a programmer and remember it well. Someone in Swedish military warned that they could not guarantee that planes would not fall from the sky and tanks drive around in circles. Well - quite an expectation. I'm a Dane. We worked hard, tested and retested. Eventually I was at ease with the it-systems I worked on - various it for hospitals. We had one error a few weeks after newyear - very small. And one before - a very embarrassing one (of my making). An old lady got a computed age above 100 years. When she denied she was met with something like: But the computer says that ... I asked the staff to apologize to the "senile" lady on my behalf. I think this is the first story/video that I've seen, that tells things correctly. Thanks a lot!
I worked offshore on deep water research vessels, it was quite a job for us to make sure everything worked during this period (as we worked 24hrs every day). We also had a problem with our GPS systems as they were due to reset on August 21st, 1999. It was months of work to roll out fixes and even hardware updates to ensure we could continue operating.
how does it make you fell to know all your company had to do was update the motherboards and CPU's. How dumb were IT experts back then.... I knew from 1994 it would be a problem and I never studied IT until 1998 lol. There is some dumb people on this planet.
@@Me4-gc8qs In the case of my company most of the updates were performed by software or firmware upgrades sent to us by the manufacturers or software developers. I do not think there was a single piece of equipment that we had to change the motherboard or CPU, I do not think you realise that not just PC's were affected by this problem, so LOL right back at you.
4:10 Agreed. 11:37 Oh, yeah! Everyone was waiting for the world to end!
At the time, I wasn't really thinking the Y2K issue was as bad as people were thinking it was (I also didn't realize how freaked out people were), but I was also only 11-years-old when the millennium changed. I didn't know, or even think about, how much stuff ties in with computer codes. It's interesting to learn this situation helped prevent other events from having worse/additional catastrophes.
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I literally understood the Y2K problem as a child. I remember when 1990 was rolling around when I was 7 years old, I asked my mom an obscure question about what they'll do about the paper personal checks that had the "19" imprinted on them when 2000 comes around. I was literally thinking about Y2K as a kid for such a minute thing 😂
I was a computer programmer and mainframe operator for the government of British Columbia in the 1990s and to make sure the money kept flowing (both in and out) we were prepared for the Y2K date issue years in advance - didn't want people to think they didn't have to pay their car insurance bill in January 2000 because of some computer bug :) :) :)
I never quite understood the panic around this, so when I woke up the morning of the first day of the new year, it was business as usual. The worst that happened was that my parents updated their emergency food supply!
At the time I was a little more concerned about a "prediction" my grandfather on my mother's side got from a fortune teller that proclaimed something about "...the year 2000 - no man will ever see...!" Haha!
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If you can remember all of this, you just know you're getting old (me too).
Please do Timeline 2000s!
Why? Who wants to be reminded of that?
@@Me4-gc8qs Why do you care?
It still tickles me that the whole world celebrated the Millennium a year early. In recognition of this oversight, by Law everyone must now celebrate their 21st birthday when they turn 20.
Really? 2001 is not the start of the 2000's Moron!
I remember all of the fear-mongering that came with Y2K. It did help to sort out the loonies from the rest.