I have a similar one on my computer. But 2038.
Millions of man hours preventing catastrophe only to be met with the perpetual refrain “What do we pay you for?”
Those people deserve to be as honored as those who worked in the space program, but all the recognition they got was the movie Office Space.
Quit my last job because i was tired of people saying I was just jacking off all day while I was making sure things ran well and fixing shit all day. Now it’s turning to shit as expected and I’m really jacking off all day😃.
I worked on an ISP helpdesk in 1999 (including New Year, to my disgust), and we had dozens of people call in during the next few days because systems they relied on to run their businesses had failed.
The fact they were calling an ISP about their accounting software is probably an indicator of the type of thinking that caused their problem.
Thid is the same bullshit as anti-vax i hope you know. When a bunch of people work their asses off to prevent a tragedy and when it is averted everyone acts like its a total waste of time or some kind of conspiracy.
Excellent prank by best buy, there’s no month 31, silly goobers
I’m America they use imperial units.
American calendar has about thirty months with 12 days each.
it’s confusing
I was a nerd in high school with no friends and all I wanted as midnight approached was for Y2K to not interrupt my Team Fortress Classic match.
It didn’t. And I laid waste to my digital foes.
Best Buy
This is fine. Booting the computers back up the next morning is shere we all went wrong!
This reminds me, a local man built a bunker with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment and food in preparation for Y2K apocalypse. When it didn’t materialise, he eventually died and my dad bought some old steel things at estate auction. We cannot for the life of us figure out what these things were for.
Some sort of rack? Too short for hanging meat. Made of steel. About 5 of them. It’s really been bugging us.
They look like frames for either a shell of something or potentially as forms for concrete pouring (doubt that though).
So they probably go together to make the skeleton of some kind of shelter or vehicle.
Planning ahead for Mad Max situation, just find a working big rig and start welding those parts on wherever, slap on some fetish gear and you’re ready for war.
Don’t knock it. Iron Man’s armor gained sentience because of the Y2K bug kicking in at the same time he was hit by lightning. It spirited him away to an island to ‘protect’ him, and became obsessive about it, to the point where it created an artificial heart for him to replace his damaged one. It also killed Blacklash, while Tony was trapped inside, unable to take control. Beat him like a motherfucker. To death, I say. Serious business, that Y2K.
I didn’t know much about y2k, I was just a kid and my family wasn’t tech savvy and hated the idea of me ever touching a computer, which given my hobbies now is extremely ironic, but I know enough about the IT field to know a lot of people worked very hard to fix it.
I don’t know the extent of how bad it would have been, I’m a Linux hobbyist, not a technical engineer, but I’m sure it would have been bad.
Honestly, there’s tons of people here far more qualified than me who could probably tell you how bad it would have been.
It would’ve been a lot less catastrophic than people made it out to be.
Pro tip: the Unix epoch rollover is coming, too! OOOOooooOOOOOoooo
I miss 1999
My guy over here with a 52 speed.
Load-speed flex.
Y2K is why PROLOG devs are paid so much.
