2022年11月28日 · 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, …

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 …

2023年8月22日 · 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 …

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 …

2023年12月27日 · 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 …

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 …

2020年6月19日 · Y2K wasn't a false alarm - it was a serious bug with how years were stored and calculated (specifically using only 2 digits instead of 4) and it was going to cause issues come …

2024年1月5日 · 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 …

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 …

The Y2K computer bug was a very real threat to global IT infrastructure and the only reason “nothing happened” was countless hours of work put in by computer specialists in the late …