The Simpsons: The Millennium bug (Y2K)

[@chickencurry420]

Everyone's talking about the stoplight shooting lasers (which was pretty funny) but I love the planes dropping straight down, not in a nose dive, but a full on belly flop

[@Pomodorosan]

took me a minute to understand you meant "planes"

[@StupidCommenterYT]

not even breaking just plop

[@ironcito1101]

And remaining intact.

[@blipman17]

This actually happened once. If you're a pilot of a Boeing 787 and you leave it running for 248 days without restarting the entire plane and all equipment, it'll overflow a timecounter in the generators. Since all controlls on such an airplane are electrically actuated hydrolics, it'll just course correct and literally fall out of the sky. Solution, mandatory turning off and on every 30 days according to the manual. This resets the timecounter and ehh... yehh, just don't forget it. Edit: sorry this has not happened yet with a Boeing airplane. They just found this bug when looking through the code investigating a different bug that caused a plane to crash for a different reason. According to FAA the Boeing code is really bad, so I'm exclusively flying Airbus now.

[@hotelmario510]

And not breaking apart on landing.

[@MrLTiger]

I like how they all know "that's Homer Simpsons' computer!"

[@IronMan-tk8uc]

Springfield's main man 😅

[@BarberJ95]

The federal government did do some program to update and prepare for Y2K so I love the idea that Homer was appointed compliance officer and probably briefed on the risks and trained but wholly disregarded and forgot it all lmao 😂

[@oz_jones]

I mean he is on first name basis with the NBC cleanup crew.

[@JorgeCruz-eo7js]

0:33 Oh God It's Spreading!!

[@jimhuffman9434]

Who else could it be? Most people would have already fixed their computers, but Homer...

[@AJBiskit]

You know what, it’s been 23 years and I still have no idea why Nelson was in the school at midnight on New Year’s Eve…

[@Finsternis..]

To copy his butt, obviously.

[@DashingSteel]

He's a kid from a rough single-parent house and his mother was probably out for "work". It was either this or sitting home alone eating cheerios with tap water and crying.

[@hauntedhoody2976]

@@DashingSteelgod that’s sad

[@richardphillips1971]

Mmm yes i was just wondering that

[@justinokraski3796]

Detention?

[@okjeffy6581]

When I was a kid, i thought this all started because the guy dropped his microphone and I was scared of dropping microphones for years.

[@that_one_random_1]

Bruh (btw should had say this before but I didnt say it in a mean way)

[@CQCN]

You really were something else

[@Drogba757]

This comment rules. 😂

[@TobyTBD]

DON’T DROP MICROPHONES

[@aaronwilson9465]

Please don't drop microphones. Especially the wireless ones. Unless it's a 58. Those things are tanks.

[@MdW4177]

That standard "error" siren is just perfect...never fails to make me laugh...

[@BrokamaGay]

Same for their version of the hunting music from Planet of the Apes

[@chengliu872]

2:42: I love how the traffic light was somehow shooting lasers.

[@zachstudios567]

Also was my favorite detail

[@donotvisitmeagain]

This spreads the year of 1900 and its disease at 0:36.

[@mennymoto]

Thankfully many people worked hard to prevent it

[@troodon1096]

Yep, that's definitely something that happened in the video clip.

[@evaaugustking541]

0:36 1900?

[@texaswunderkind]

My tinfoil hat-wearing uncle cashed out his pension, bought gold coins from an infomercial, and buried them in the yard. He thought the satellites all had nuclear power supplies, and that they would fall out of the sky and detonate like nuclear bombs. He wouldn't shut up about it. After nothing happened, he sheepishly emerged from his bunker, and we never spoke of it again.

[@swishfish8858]

My uncle was normal-crazy and filled a bathtub with water. No reasoning, just "we're gonna need water rations to survive what's coming".

[@rm3141593]

Ok, That's genuinely very funny! To be fair there were a lot of unknowns. And that gold wasn't a bad investment idea. 👍

[@lastEvergreen]

Hopefully he kept the gold. Worth double now.

[@Arkantos117]

@@swishfish8858 It's really not that crazy to fill your bathtub when you think something might happen.

[@Ryarios]

But he ended up with a bunch of gold…

[@rockycuro7737]

Honestly its cute that Homer actually looted a gift for Marge. I thought he would've looted something for her that he actually wanted

[@Puggalug]

Perhaps this non-canon Homer is feeling PTSD from that bowling ball he bought her.

[@Zorak9595]

Maybe he wanted Marge to go Brazilian.

[@Matkin222]

Like a bowling ball with a liquid centre

[@rocket_sensha4337]

@@Puggalug homer was allways caring of his family. He was just dumb and kinda impulsive. He'd allways know when he messed and would ammend for his errors.

[@thekinginyellow1744]

It is taken for granted that he only looted she shaver after he stuffed the trunk full of Duff!

[@wjzav1971]

If the guys at the computer center knew Homer Simpson by name, simply by looking at the Springfield Power Plant Icon, it makes you wonder why they didn't check on him like months before and make sure that he did his job, and if not, do the job for him.

[@ZoKtorR]

0:48 I love the dissonant , creepy rendition of Auld Lang Syne. This show was something.

[@Ian-ot7up]

Came here to say the same thing! Definitely something I overlooked watching it as a kid. You know that was recorded just for the show.

[@GeorgeP1066]

For those too young to remember, this is almost exactly what the start of the year 2000 was like. Thankfully they got it all sorted out in time for 4th July and we all just moved on with our lives.

[@deadmeatjb]

I remember seeing planes drop out if the sky, i had a fear of flying until September 11th when I got a fear of landmarks

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

@@deadmeatjb ha

[@okjeffy6581]

@@deadmeatjb LOL WHAT??!!!

[@kreuner11]

Actually most of the repairs started 1997-1999 and people thought the bug never existed since everything got fixed

[@marietighe6328]

Aw it's sweet that you got it figured out for an AMERICAN holiday... rest of the world is bowing down in honour....🙄

[@judedeluca4408]

Considering Homer destroyed the world is anyone really surprised Lisa chose to bring Marge with her to Mars

[@Darkstar263]

I love how she instantly chose Marge to go with her.

[@bursegsardaukar]

Well, she saved Marge and Maggie.

[@Mickelraven]

Like she didn't even hesitate

[@vincentfichtler7758]

​@@MickelravenI mean she loves her dad and brother but not that much.

[@ninjaguyYT]

​@@vincentfichtler7758I might be projecting due to my sister, but I don't think she loves Bart. Just tolerates him.

[@paulgrove1407]

I started working as a Junior Programmer in 1998 and probably spent the entire time until 2000 working on Y2K projects. The amount of man hours we put into sorting that mess out was staggering. The world would not have collapsed if we didn't. But the year 2000 would have been a unholy mess that would have cost us Trillions to sort out.

[@piccalillipit9211]

It really annoys me that people claim it was a big nothing. It was a big nothing because a lot of people worked very hard to make it a big nothing. The power station near us in the north of England something happened on the first and the entire power station shut down, but the grid didn't collapse because of the power stations didn't shut down.

[@Narutonarutonaruto85]

IT is a thankless job. If you do your job just right nobody knows you did anything at all.

[@mistermann4163]

Sounds weird that you wouldn't program past 1999 to 2000 to begin with given that's basic counting along with every other device at the time knowing how time works.

[@adrianthoroughgood1191]

​@@mistermann4163it's because the year was stored as a 2 digit number on some systems. 98, 99, 00. Then you get problems with 0 being numerically less than 99 when you compare 2 dates. This code was written half a century ago and people at the time assumed it would have been replaced by a new version before it became a problem.

[@jorenmartijn]

@@mistermann4163the problem was a lot of devices counted using two digits instead of 4. So 99 should’ve gone to 00 but not all software could handle that.

[@itzbebop]

I'm gonna tell my kids that this was historically accurate and exactly what happened

[@Kohl293]

“I was gonna loot you a present!” That’s actually really sweet

[@Introbulus]

And then he actually did.

[@PetitTasdeBoue]

Easier when it's not with your money lol

[@Mickelraven]

0:49 I love how Homer's reaction is just "uh-oh". He knew he f--ked up but still doesn't really take it seriously.

[@neves5083]

The fun part is that people worked around the clock to solve the problems and when they did, the public was like "so the world did not end, you were all exaggerating" lol

[@memesfromdeepspace1075]

Solve the problem????. Heh he he😅😅they just move it to long in the future 😂😂😂😂

[@neves5083]

@@memesfromdeepspace1075 yeah we cant make computers count to infinity just yet lol

[@OptimusPhillip]

As someone whose parents worked on Y2K prevention, this is 100% true. But even if nothing had been done, it probably wouldn't have been the end of the world. It could've been disastrous, sure, but by and large, life would still go on.

[@chriswhitmore3835]

@@memesfromdeepspace1075 Not that long. Unix end of era is 19th January 2038.

[@Lilitha11]

People were exaggerating. I remember people did actually say the thing about planes falling out of the sky. I am pretty sure no plane was ever in danger of falling out of the sky due to it. That said, it would of caused problems.

[@OctavioGaitan]

I still remember New Year's Eve 1999. It was around 12/31/99. I was only 8 and had no idea why everybody was in such a panic (my parents included). My dad bought a lot, and I do mean A LOT, of food, because of the Y2K scare at the time. We'd spend New Year's Eve together huddled up in a basement with my parents crying and waiting for the supposed "end of the world" to start. My brother and I, still confused, would just count down to zero until finally, BAM! the year 2000 came along. Things got a bit crazy for a few seconds, but afterwards, everything was fine. My parents felt completely dumbfounded that the world didn't end, afterwards, we just went on with our normal lives. I will NEVER EVER forget that night.

[@derrickpatten7252]

Almost 23 years post Y2K... I wonder how we ever survived.

[@SgvSth]

At least we are safe. Until Y2K36. And Y2K38.

[@Iffy350]

@@SgvSth Those ivory tower egg heads have screwed us again.

[@donotvisitmeagain]

@@Iffy350 0:00 friday, december 31, 1999 0:36 monday, january 1, 1900

[@HarokuSion]

And yet they kinda got the whole bit with computer chips in everything part kinda right.

[@Mythraen]

We survived?

[@ironcito1101]

In the final days of 1999 and early days of 2000, I remember seeing a package of sliced ham which had an expiration date in the year 100, and a bus ticket with a similar "cosmetic" error.

[@hotelmario510]

I love the minor-key rendition of "Auld Lang Syne" that plays while the computers go haywire.

[@richard84738]

"Wonders? Or... *Blunders*?" That is legit a great line.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

LOL it was "Wonders? Or... Wounds?" in the german dub x3

[@Jartran72]

Wunder? Oder Wunden? Nah that is trash, but most of the time word plays between languges don't work. Except for the Simpsons movie where Schwarzenegger said something as the president, that was well translated into german

[@ROBANN88]

oooh, i always thought he ended that with "Plunders" cause of the looting

[@Darkstar263]

"Implied Lisa?...Or Implode?"

[@InsertCreativeusername_]

​@@Darkstar263"mom make him stop"

[@captaincavemonkey]

we were having a new years party at my house and I went down into the basement and turned off the power right at midnight, the screams of fright... ah that was as sweet as any candy

[@WhatAreYouBuyen]

There's something about the lighting effects on old simpsons that just looks really good, maybe it's the glow or the blue hue, but it looks great

[@MegaZeta]

Homer’s pennants might have been the best recurring gag of this entire era of the show

[@bartlett247]

He was putting the local pennant maker's kids through college

[@raymondm.9954]

He had a pennant in the October 22, 2023, episode.

[@TheCandiceWang]

Pennance.

[@MSB3000]

I have fond memories of being genuinely terrified by this when I was a kid.

[@justcallingitasitis7274]

Meanwhile on July 19, 2024....

[@AnimatedAdvocate]

Meanwhile on August 16, 2024....

[@itsvictoroyedeji]

Crowdstrike in 2024

[@Ejexion]

Ned wearing the Beatle boots and him being guilted for doing so is hilarious.

[@codyleslie478]

"But I was going to loot you a present."

[@ellenkingsley]

"Whose gonna clean up all those jets?" "There goes the clothes line"

[@Bucking_Fastard]

I love these jokes where they use the contrast of something serious/absurd, like the planes falling down, and something everyday/mundane, like the clothesline. There was a similar joke, where they were watching TV, and the announcer suddenly goes: "We interrupt this programme for a special report." and Homer's reaction being: "*gasp* Someone found my keys!"

[@sweduck8453]

Woah you watched the video? So did I!!

[@Okay-qx3du]

Happening now in 2024

[@johnoneill1386]

"That can't be true, honey! If it were, I would be terrified!" Logic McSimpson

[@h.a.9880]

That horror-version of Auld Lang Syne is amazing.

[@The-Man-On-The-Mountain]

I love how the first idea Homer had was to loot a gift for Marge, and he actually did.

[@SIG1911]

Who’s here after Y2K (A24) trailer

[@anubusx]

Was thinking the same thing.

[@bsgtrekfan88]

Yes...as someone who lived through it . . . Y2K was really like Maximum Overdrive!

[@KarlSturmgewher]

Homer forgot to fix his own computer at the plant. As a result, the world's back in the stone age.

[@toxicghost58]

The revolving restaurant spinning out of control was always something that bothered me. It's one thing to go on one of those at the carnival, but it's another for it to randomly happen to you in public. Also, I know everyone is interested in the traffic light shooting lasers, but are we gonna ignore that the MAILBOXES are running around?!

[@troodon1096]

Not the MAILBOXES!

[@cainster]

Wizard did it.

[@CinemaDemocratica]

I especially loved the part of this episode where Homer had to fight a man-sized chicken who tried to give him an expired coupon.

[@victinim2512]

0:17 Holy crap Homer actually correcting Lisa. Cause yeah that's not how computers work.

[@stephaniethepenguin5442]

I resisted these for 30 years! Why'd I wear them today?!

[@kennethpasalo5010]

If 2000, you will say “Happy New Year!!!!” If 1900, you will say “Happy New- what?”.

[@cnote2458]

That can’t be true If it were. Id be terrified 😂. The way Homer understood what Lisa said and the consequences. Always tickled me as he did not accept it as real logic and understand his responsibility fully.

[@mollari2261]

24 years later this is happening for real. Is Homer the CEO of Crowdstrike?

[@dramaticScar]

1:44 23 years and I still don’t understand why that guy was holding on to that helicopter that way

[@ninjaguyYT]

If he lets go, he flies out and breaks his neck.

[@dramaticScar]

@@ninjaguyYT ok that much I understand but why was holding on to it in the first place

[@ceu160193]

@@dramaticScar Probably to not fall.

[@dramaticScar]

@@ceu160193 ok… But what acrivity could he be doing in 1999 that could involve him hloding in to the back of a helicopter in the first place?

[@granixo]

This is gonna be October 2025 when Windows 10 expires

[@DavidFrostbite]

The Space Needle UFO was just gold

[@A2goddess]

I got a dream in 1999 where a nuclear missile hit as the ball made touch down.

[@richardpaull6526]

Oh here we go.

[@4acae86]

As someone that lived through this, I can tell you that this is pretty accurate.

[@tomorales]

Yep, exactly how it happened.

[@jimhuffman9434]

@@tomorales I actually stayed up all of December 31, 1999 just to see if the world would end. I was sorely disappointed

[@itsconnorstime]

The mailbox running away always got me.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

i always loved the traffic light lasers and the waffle iron xD

[@deplorabledegenerate2630]

You know Lisa you could have just rolled your eyes at the dad joke instead of immediately getting combative.

[@lewismcelroy6946]

Who's here after outage last night ? Another Simpsons prediction

[@xr6lad]

Always cracks me up the Seattle tower spinning scene and everyone being thrown against windows!

[@DiggitySlice]

That's not the Seattle tower (it's called the Space Needle btw) that's the Springfield revolving restaurant

[@xr6lad]

@@DiggitySlice it’s a comment on a cartoon but thanks for the lesson.

[@ChrisManley1994]

“Oh no…it’s happening.” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@kennethpasalo5010]

@@ChrisManley1994 Dick Clark was died.

[@Connor838]

Absolutely. Doing what now? [ All ] Happy New… Wha…? Oh, no. It’s happening. Uh-oh. [ Tires Screeching ] [ People Screaming ] Hmm. [ Chuckling ] Hey, this milk’s broken! It’s got a computer chip in it. Everything does. [ Screaming ]

[@robertdeffenbaugh9004]

What’s interesting is Y2K has been predicted since 1958.

[@donotvisitmeagain]

The rest of the video should be normal speed and 0:36 should be 0.25x speed forever!

[@Wh40kFinatic]

It wasn't 'predicted'. It was understood, and *a lot* of effort went into preventing it from happening.

[@worldcomicsreview354]

There's also the Showa 100 problem in a few old Japanese computers, and in the thirties Linux is going "run out of seconds" or something.

[@Finsternis..]

​@@worldcomicsreview354Imagine basing your time format on "seconds since" and not expecting to ever reach the biggest count you can represent doing that. "Look. we made all this effort to enable you to put your close button on the left side of the window, but we never stopped to think if a critical system variable may be too small for what we intent to do with it".

[@enikinyshitpostcentral]

they even predicted the fucking smartfridge

[@adamr-4343]

The best part is Police chief telling everyone they’re looting the mall

[@music-channel69]

Best Part: The year changing from 1999 to 1900.

[@kennethpasalo5010]

@@music-channel69 No 2000.

[@AnimatedAdvocate]

Say goodbye to 2023 and welcome to 2010 It happening that people celebrate in August 15, 2024 at 6 o'clock in the Netherlands but now every buildings demolished and rebuild it back!

[@imkrisyoung]

The Y2K panic…I remember it well! 😅

[@Devol101]

I like the idea that everyone came to, and left, church while leaving that pilot trapped inside the spinning helicopter

[@quattordicimontenapoleone3113]

As someone who worked in IT at the time, this doesn't even come close to how bad it could've been if even a single line of incorrect code was overlooked.

[@aquilleswinkler5051]

Indeed, My parents and friends thought it was no big deal just some news scare campaign or something, but they had no bloody idea just how much work the world did to make it so this wouldn't happen when 2000 rolled in.

[@swishfish8858]

Sure, but I mean this is clearly exaggerated to _some_ degree, right? Like your coffee maker or your car wouldn't have reacted that way if one network node wasn't fixed. IoT wasn't a thing yet, at least not in the wider consumer market.

[@quattordicimontenapoleone3113]

@@swishfish8858 It was highly exaggerated. There was an unknown in terms of embedded systems, but mostly it was about banking systems and the like.

[@Geolaminar]

​​@@swishfish8858this is a joke. Everyone knew nothing rolled over in 2000. Most will actually roll over in 2038 when 32-bit Unix time ends.

[@thunderspark1536]

​​@@aquilleswinkler5051As someone who does IT work, it's more about the people actually having an incentive to fix something than actual coding. The programs used to change years don't often have centuries or beyond mapped out because it's functionally useless most of the time. While it takes a while to apply such a change across lots of systems, the actual fix is fairly minor. (For reference there's actually a y2038 bug that is exactly the same thing, but like the y2k issue, it'll just be quietly fixed once said banks and whatnot see they may lose some money.) The average human is going to break their own computer in far word ways than a century bug could.

[@alexshank1414]

Anyone notice how Homer’s head swells in size when he says “Implode”?

[@sumthingwikked4257]

Foreshadowing.

[@TheCandiceWang]

Lol

[@renaissance18]

incoming panic mode LOL

[@WackoMcGoose]

Dilbert did an episode about Y2K as well. Apparently, Wally used to be a really good programmer (and the only one in the company that still knew COBOL), so with a bit of hypnoregression courtesy of Dogbert (plus a monkey that types with his tail), they managed to fix the bug just before the mainframe exploded from the hydraulic (?!) pressure.

[@fire_eye]

Happy new- HUH?

[@mcsonicteam]

I dunno why but I found the traffic lights shooting lasers the funniest.

[@gooberjr73official]

*they predicted it*

[@worldcomicsreview354]

2000: Imagine if the internet suddenly disappeared! It would be chaos! 2023: Imagine if the internet suddenly disappeared! We'd all be holding hands, dancing through the meadows and singing "born free"!

[@lautarogomez9711]

Oh the irony...

[@chubbycatfish4573]

Read about the Year 2038 problem aka Y2k38

[@girlgarde]

Yeah, some people blame the internet for all the social and political chaos in the world and seem to think that without the internet, we'd be living in a golden utopia which is a load of crap as the world had various problems long before the internet.

[@Yewtewba]

​@@chubbycatfish4573TIL. I wonder if it will pass with zero issues

[@dudejoe24]

that or more chaos since everything is computer based now and if we lose it all most would just go nuts and riot

[@RicklessSanchez]

Anytime Apocalyptic will return either your present day or your grandchild.

[@reachsavitation]

0:33 OH GOD! ITS SPREADING!

[@AeroHybrid]

Anyone came here from the A24 trailer?

[@jaredwilson5505]

Oh dear the power outage 0:50

[@danielfietkau733]

That is exactly what everybody expected to happen 1999/2000 😂

[@Gredddfe]

I knew a guy who worked in control circuits, and he and his team had to go around replacing all the outdated devices at each sewerage substation around the city. Not the end of the world, but a big problem if suddenly all the toilets started backing up.

[@troodon1096]

Toilets backing up is one of my greatest existential fears.

[@deraile]

_"...Or implode",_ said Homer smugly, as his cranium ever so slightly widened.

[@G1ingy]

I didn't notice this watching as a kid, but watching it now, I can hear that it's playing a spookier renditon of Auld Lang Syne when things start going to hell.

[@ncwordman]

Ah, the sweet and innocent days of Y2K. Besides the fear of society breaking down, killer bees were apparently on the way to the U.S. I don't know whatever happened to them.

[@remeyrune6009]

I'm still in a bunker waiting to come out, it must be a mess up there after the collapse of Y2K.

[@USMC49er]

1:39 You and your stupid moon waffles destroyed me!

[@fedos]

Last realistic Treehouse of Horrors ever.

[@ErickTun]

Crowdstrike 2024

[@SevereTurbulence]

Yup 👍

[@Nahasapasa]

The real problem will occur when the year goes from 9999 to 10000

[@lisvender]

If human society is still intact by that point, they will have earned a miracle

[@bicknell67]

Those laser beams coming out of the stoplights was so cool.

[@1950dallas]

Perch Perkins: 8, 7, 6- We wanna thank Kelp Kettle Mayonnaise, oh LOEDY, what a mayonnaise! SpongeBob, Patrick, Sandy, Mr. Krabs, Squidward, Fred, Harold, Gary, Pearl, Mrs. Puff, Plankton, Bubble Bass, Larry The Lobster: 5, 4, 3, 2- (NETWORK ERROR) Fish #1: That’s SpongeBob SquarePants’s Computer. Fish #2: Oh Jeffery Jellyfish, it’s Germ Virus spreading! (the clock turns from 2019 To 2020) Everyone In Bikini Bottom: Happy new YEAR! Perch Perkins: It worked! (everyone cheering) SpongeBob SquarePants: Yes!

[@legueu]

I had an old computer (no Internet) running Windows 3.1 and I let it reach 2000 to see what happened. Everything worked just fine, even with the weird dates.

[@oldtwinsna8347]

The y2k issue had nothing to do with personal computers. it was back end systems that powered commerce and industry, using system infrastructure designed in the 1970s or even earlier. Even during that time, much of the code was orphaned in terms of maintenance so it was a big deal item.

[@legueu]

​@@oldtwinsna8347 The biggest patch of all time?

[@MadChickenPictures]

A single faulty computer would not corrupt every other computer in the world.

[@asdfssdfghgdfy5940]

It’s a tv show bro. Also technically one computer could corrupt every computer in the world that is connected to the internet. Things like MYDOOM and ILOVEYOU in the past have affected a lot of computers. Obviously this is a technicality though so it would be extremely difficult to infect every computer quick enough. Also the y2k clock issue definitely couldn’t cause it, but the point of this episode is that lots of people thought it would. I have no idea why I’m lecturing you on this though instead of just writing, bro, it’s a fucking tv shoe

[@texaswunderkind]

Nope. Any interfaces between systems would reject any invalid transactions.

[@Eidako]

Have to agree the "any computer could corrupt every other computer" argument was dumb, but there's a legitimate explanation for a computer in a nuclear power plant causing mayhem. Although many computers have internal clocks, they rely on external time servers to ensure their clocks are synchronized (this was a less frequent practice in 1999, but much more common today). The time servers are regulated by atomic clocks, so there's a finite number of them and are generally owned by national laboratories, e.g. something you might find at a nuclear power plant. So if a time server suddenly began reporting it was the year 1900, all of the computers that get their time from that server would also flip over to 1900.

[@fezguy89]

Thats_the_joke.mp4

[@Game_Hero]

thatsthejoke.jpeg

[@Arielnovak]

Simpsons already did it!

[@marcelolibermandeloreto5252]

The fact that its shiff wiggam that say to everyone to loot the mall is too funny

[@battlehenge4]

The trimmer mowing the lawn. 😂🤣

[@janvanhoyk8375]

perfectly cut krusty groan at the end

[@Eidako]

A fun bit of trivia: this has a good chance of happening for real on January 19, 2038. The Y2K bug was isolated to a relatively small number of boneheaded programming errors. On the other hand, the vast majority of computer systems are reliant on something called time_t, which is a counter that tracks the number of seconds since January 1, 1970. Traditionally this was a 32-bit integer, and still is on many different systems, particularly 32-bit processors (which tend to go into embedded devices, e.g. anything that's "Internet of Things"). The maximum number of seconds a signed 32-bit integer can hold is 2,147,483,647, which added to the year 1970, is 2038. On that day every impacted system will travel back in time to December 13, 1901, and fun things will ensue.

[@simonn2045]

Plenty of those systems people will be retired before then too

[@swishfish8858]

​@@simonn2045Ah, but: - The important ones won't be, major governments and large corpos run on "if it ain't broke" as a matter of cost-cutting - There's no guarantee that we'll be using a bigger datatype standard by then, perpetuating the problem

[@stfletch]

I actually think it will be December 13th, 1901, which the clocks will revert too. Which is kinda funny since that was a Friday 13th.

[@FrogworfKnight]

That's why there has been a shift to 64 bit systems everywhere. The problem is already well on the way to being solved.

[@redstonerelic]

Time T is also know as UNIX time

[@ToxicTurquoise454]

The day the light went out of the daytime sky...

[@gerardorodriguez7500]

Homer forgot to debug his computer

[@MrRiddler6]

the perfect time to say "You had one job to do."

[@DDRhappiness17]

Lmao! That Lady Remington shaver scene

[@JacobKinsley]

This scene was always strange to me because it was like, wouldn't the Simpsons be fucking SCREAMING and stressed the fuck out