We survived Y2K!
It was a close one but my Windows '95 seems to be working properly.
share🤠I remember all the hoopla surrounding Y2K.
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I watched Time Bomb Y2K on HBO and it brought back all of those anxieties. It’s a shame because it put a bit of a damper on the party of the millennium.
shareI just heard about this documentary today. I was still a teenager then and I don't remember if I believed it or not.
shareMy millennium new years was actually pretty good... aside from losing my Virginity in front of 30 people. Oh well, that's what I get for letting my date mix my drink that night. She was a little wild.
shareMy favourite story was about reading how a Russian was worried that his shovel might not work after 1999.
Was it a computerized shovel?
shareIt was a regular snow shovel. He knew it was all bullshit.
shareIt wasn’t though. There were isolated breakdowns, but the advanced warnings worked and most systems were ready.
Here’s a short article about it
https://time.com/5752129/y2k-bug-history/
I was there. I remember it being a nothing burger.
It was funny though.
BEST THING RELATED TO Y2K IS THE MY NAME IS EARL EPISODE....THEY ASSUME THE WORLD ENDED BECAUSE THE WHOLE TOWN IS AT AN EVENT...SO EARL AND HIS GROUP TAKE OVER A DISCOUNT STORE AND ESTABLISH A NEW SOCIETY.
shareI never really feared it in the first place. )
shareYou can thank others for that. https://time.com/5752129/y2k-bug-history/
shareAnd that was the World Trade Centre I believe 2 years before 9/11 happened, also when it did, did it bring the thoughts of Y2K itself to certain minds?
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