The Y2K Apocalypse

How was Y2K? Who was Y2K? And also, where was Y2K?
These are all terrible questions.
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[@Synicall]

Today marks 20 years since the Y2K incident Still little to no signs of intelligent life

[@wififan5106]

lol

[@therealestmannyt1029]

Everything went down hill after the 2010s maybe we did die

[@Nuxi10.]

The world ended on 2012, how the hell you are alive

[@marlon.8051]

give 7 more years and there you go

[@marselo.r]

I mean the real shit is y2k38 so don't get too comfy

[@blacklanner5795]

My aunt built a bunker for Y2K. It wasn't finished until 2009. Then she started telling everyone it was prep for the 2012 Mayan apocalypse. *Stupid problems require stupid solutions*

[@feralchangeling97]

What's her current reason?

[@SashaSlvt]

Feral Changeling look at what happens with the sjw and far leftists and i would understand her no problem

[@tintin5428]

Depending on where she's from, she could probably say WW3 and le trump

[@christiankneupper7011]

@@SashaSlvt cultural marxism is going to be the end of us all

[@MrJoeyWheeler]

Eh, doesn't hurt to have a bunker, at least. The only thing it probably won't help for is a flood.

[@googlesuckz2325]

My dad was a computer programmer up to a couple of years ago when he retired. From 1997 to 2000 he spent over 3 years fixing code and editing records to fix Y2K. Our next door neighbor buried 10K and all his family's jewelry and valuables in his backyard on Dec 31. My dad woke up to him digging it up on Jan 1, and laughed at him. Good times.

[@Project_1143M]

They gonna mad at him

[@supergeeky7529]

My mother turned from normal abusive mother to doomsday prepper cause of Y2K. She went legit NUTS for a good few months. Then after nothing happened she swore us all to silence. She was so embarrassed!

[@adisonnanet]

@@zacharytrevino6321 read it again. And read it until you understand what's written.

[@zacharytrevino6321]

@@adisonnanet sorry I can’t read

[@TevelDrinkwater]

I remember applying patches for Y2K in the months leading up to it, and managing some systems that were never Y2K compliant for years after. Y2K was real, the problems were just patched or assessed to be trivial largely. Plus, many critical systems used UNIX epoch time, which records time in second since 1970. UNIX had a Y2038 problem, where the register would overflow. UNIX has long since upgraded to a 64-bit register for time, so should be good until after the sun dies. Thanks to OP's dad and others, the money wasn't wasted, the problem was fixed.

[@TheFigureofspeech]

Y2k is a case study on cramming for a test, then passing, then being like "pssh! that was a breeze i probably don't even need to study next time"!

[@thaliacrafts407]

I hate how right you are

[@ko-Daegu]

There was a computer scientist who talked about it in 1985 tried to warn IBM and US GOV no own listened thou

[@litarea]

is the next test the Unix epoch?

[@archiemisc]

@@litarea Nope, they fixed that within the Linux kernel recently, and other Linux distros have had workarounds for years.

[@septimus4762]

Exactly. "500 billion dollars well spent" is good sarcasm but things could've gone to hell had ppl actually sat on their hands and done nothing. At least, that's what I think. Being sarcastic abt it in retrospect seems a bit unfair to me.

[@heheitor]

"But it's a 2 person bunker"

[@clamstain]

i like to put my feet up

[@yoncafloria1012]

And they were roommates

[@Frank_144]

Does anybody know the song at 5:36?

[@wideclide42069]

@@Frank_144 Darude Sandstorm

[@Pedro-tm6ue]

Classic Harold

[@averyeml]

"everyone thinks the water will stop working, so they stock up on water, and suddenly there's no more supply, which makes more people panic..." Suuuuuuuuuuuper familiar sounding.

[@jebbroham1776]

Humans don't change just because our technology does.

[@hitkid2456]

@Cynical commenter Does it have to? Is it a hallmark of sapience?

[@Rose-hh7mk]

Y2k20

[@harryt2756]

@@hitkid2456 yes lol

[@BigBangAttack-mt6pz]

For real though

[@bassfunkmaster85]

Funny story, my aunt was up watching the ball drop, and once midnight hit, the tv shut off, making her think that the apocalypse was happening. However, she noticed that the electricity was still on and her neighbors had power. She then remembered that my uncle had the TV set to turn off at midnight because he likes to fall asleep to the tv.

[@NewPaulActs17]

but where was your uncle?

[@bassfunkmaster85]

@@NewPaulActs17 he was working that night. He was a shift worker at an oil refinery

[@NewPaulActs17]

@@bassfunkmaster85 terrifying

[@ungurdagda813]

Those must've been the scariest 0.2 seconds of her entire life.

[@bassfunkmaster85]

@@ungurdagda813 unfortunately I think it took a little longer for my aunt to realize what had happened. She’s the sweetest lady, but has her moments 😆

[@disneydreaming0210]

I was born in 2002 and I recently found out that neighbor growing up had a cow because of y2k. I just think that’s hilarious. Now a cow is just chilling in their yard

[@johnseymore4774]

Should’ve named it Y2Cow

[@youknowwhatboi]

So was I!

[@starcraftplayer7084]

Ur a baby. I was 11 when y2k happened

[@branchy7159]

6 yo during y2k, all I remember was was all those disasters movies that came out

[@ElysetheEevee]

@@starcraftplayer7084 Dude same. Almost 12. Jesus I feel fucking ancient.

[@RKNGL]

Him: "All paper currency will disappear!" Me: *Pulls out Dollar* Dollar: ***Deletes itself***

[@Sude3220]

Corrupted Archangel pikachu face

[@jefferyharambe5067]

Corrupted Archangel bruh this happens each time my girlfriend comes over!

[@Rex-ps9bx]

@@jefferyharambe5067 Are you harambes son!!!??!?

[@jefferyharambe5067]

Rex 1 well that would explain what happened to my dad

[@alucardvigilatedismas2868]

*Laughs in loonies and toonies*

[@Shoe0nHead]

my parents didnt believe it was going to happen but they still bought a shit load of water and stored it in the basement. we still have it. lmfaoo

[@themasculinefeminists7600]

Fancy seeing you here. Is everything OK?

[@InternetHistorian]

basement floods parents tell you they're preparing for Y2K

[@PimpNamedDragonBalls]

Hey hey shoe. Individual of culture too

[@jackalope_hunter]

Now i know where the enlightened ones go to hang out.

[@BigBoch]

jackalope_hunter enlightened ones is a pretty cringy term

[@themissinggene]

Thank god we all learned from the mistakes of yesterday and the media no longer whips the masses into a panicked frenzy.

[@trollbreeder2534]

What a hilarious and great joke!

[@ideologybot4592]

Yes, truly. I also really hope your name is Debbie.

[@step5732]

That’s the funniest thing I’ve read in a while! Thank you!

[@ziggle5000]

as long as people are fucking stupid the media will continue to take advantage

[@Esitaro3670]

Yeah, is good to know nobody panics over anything, hahaha....

[@eaglescout1984]

The funniest story I heard on the Y2K bug (or maybe more appropriately, the Y1.9K bug) was in the late 90s, a 105 year old man in Germany receiving a letter in the mail addressed to his parents. The letter said that he was required to be enrolled in school. And it was because the local government still had birthdays in 2 digit year format, so it assumed he was only 5 years old.

[@thebonerfromhell]

I was there. I survived by drinking urine and eating snow. It wasn't my urine, but the snow was definitely mine.

[@littleboxxes]

I was there too. I survived by going to Boston and dropping acid with my friends. Good Times.

[@totallynoteverything1.]

​@@littleboxxes I survived by snorting coke and having sex with filthyfrank in a bunker, good times for some reason during the high, I thought I was a black alien that was rejected by society, huh weird

[@ayemate2945]

@@totallynoteverything1. i was filthyfrank...

[@alphariusfuze8089]

Olah

[@nachosNipples]

hello?

[@Laxhoop]

You think there’s anyone who is actually still in their Y2K bunker to this day? They didn’t tell anyone, they didn’t bring a radio, they’re just still isolated.

[@jakexd5524]

Spencer Whiteway no

[@ziquaftynny9285]

Of course it is possible.

[@cecciostyle]

Nah

[@UmCaraNormalnumPlanetanormal]

Spencer Whiteway If someone actually did that it would make for an amazing headline lol

[@updated5709]

Wait.... Y2K didn't cause a nuclear wasteland to emerge....?

[@RetirededKat]

I can't help but wonder if someone somewhere is unironically living in an underground bunker, completely oblivious to the fact that world hasn't ended yet...

[@sirincompetent758]

at least one person is

[@lithuaniaball]

Guy's gonna be a lot happier than the rest of us

[@silverprimus321boi9]

Hi

[@primo4915]

There's definetly some basement dwellers who haven't left in years, but I doubt a guy has stayed 20 years with no internet and not leaving his house.

[@sirincompetent758]

@@primo4915 a guy definitely has, beans can really make a man stay sane

[@barrjensen]

Met a man October 1999. He asks me to marry him two weeks later. We jokingly say if the world doesn’t end on Y2K. We planned a small wedding. The World didn’t end...we married and we are still married. What started as a joke became 21 years and two children. I think I really was an idiot and thought something would happen.

[@Imjudah-]

Lol

[@ghostlyhousehorrors]

it sounded like atleast it turn out well

[@unsubfrommeplease5527]

Are you happy?

[@thaliacrafts407]

Idiots, destined to meet soulmates, same thing.

[@greenredblue]

Ironically, one of the best ways to form a stable relationship is to (A) be basically tolerable people and (B) for both partners to be aware that the other person really does not mind walking away. I've found that kind of situation tends to force partners to be more appreciative and respectful. It's nobody's ideal, but it's durable.

[@polium6470]

Bethesda was such a fan of Y2K they made there own Y2K19 event in fallout 76

[@alexanderticonuwu7591]

@Michael Borough Little lies and stunning shows, my friend.

[@GamingOnTheSpectrumGR]

@@alexanderticonuwu7591 People buy, money flows friend

[@Stolskai]

@@GamingOnTheSpectrumGR it just works my friend, it just works indeed

[@I_C_.]

their*

[@lorenz0c0rdova65]

Well... Who's laughing now

[@justinsahl1188]

My hometown had a festival for Y2K and some smart guy turned off all the lights just as the countdown reached 0. Needless to say there was panic.

[@CrozierCrow]

That's actually hysterical. What a time to be alive.

[@nickmagrick7702]

awesome

[@mr_dirt3434]

Thats not a smart guy thats a legend

[@jozinek876]

Lmao, people'll fall for anything

[@eninja35gamer46]

That's sounds like something I would do.

[@Jonaegh]

I remember the panic when the Mayan calendar ended at 2012, so everyone went insane on apocalypse setups I specifically remember waking up early the morning of 2012, walking into my parents room, and saying "welp... no apocalypse."

[@ghazghkullthraka9714]

In Australia, we got a brief mention of it on the radio and that’s it

[@Jonaegh]

@@ghazghkullthraka9714 America had full on shows focused on it, apocolypse survival and everything - talked about living in bunkers and tents and stocking up on canned foods... Crazy

[@RozuHanabiraProjectx]

my parent’s southern baptist godparents gave me a religious pamphlet for my birthday on the world ending because of the mayan calendar. that was my whole birthday present. i turned 11. 💀

[@ry4nmaster]

@@Jonaegh breaking news, americans over dramatize everything. In other news, water is wet

[@rogerreger9631]

@@ry4nmaster But does it turn the frogs..............Bi ?

[@bograham6221]

"In Australia some of the vending machines stopped working" Captions: "In Australia some of the vending machines only served pepsi"

[@PETRIXXXX]

based vending machines

[@TycoonTitian01]

Thank you for enlightening me

[@BuiBaoNguyen]

I google it and i found that "In Australia, ticket vending machines of the buses crashed", not vending machine.

[@finlayg9833]

1999: STOCK UP ON WATER 2020: stock up on toilet paper for some reason

[@shneancy220]

one of my friends was stocking up on water, but that was because she thought nobody will be working at the water purification places during lockdown

[@cardboardhawks6783]

Tp is very important for cleaning your cigar maker.

[@marsh346]

They are buying toilet paper bc there a chance what covid-19 can be on towel and paper towel is just too expensive.

[@zetetick395]

Yeah, it'd make sense if we were in the middle of a Dysentry outbreak...Buuuuut...

[@dracocrusher]

Same basic idea, really. Some fringe people freak out and stockpile toilet paper, other people hear the story and the idea of toilet paper being in short supply becomes a meme because it's funny. And now, suddenly, everyone's buying toilet paper in bulk just in-case, so it ACTUALLY becomes a limited resource all of a sudden.

[@kittenbursworthy9613]

This is what happens when people who don’t know how computers work share their theories with people who don’t know how literally anything works

[@Tomahawks360]

Doesnt it sound familiar?

[@DasAntiNaziBroetchen]

@@Tomahawks360 That's literally just working in IT.

[@tylerlackey1175]

Isnt that just Twitter?

[@MsScarletwings]

And here we go all over again with those 5g nuts

[@ForeverLaxx]

Just like with cars. That's why I take mine in every month to get the blinker fluid and flux capacitor looked at. Best 200 bucks I spend each month.

[@tomorrow6]

Everyone knows that the world ended in Y2K and everything since has been a retrospective simulation until some idiot hits a great reset button.

[@maryprince6011]

Best comment on the internet. Thomas: the world needs more of you.

[@Pringlebox]

* starts boarding up window “But it’s a two person bunker...” I love all the small jokes intertwined into actually interesting stories, just found this channel and it’s one of my favorites already

[@EASTNSIM9454]

20 years later, an the media is no different.

[@drpavel9414]

we weren't on lockdown 20 years ago

[@satina1169]

@@drpavel9414 a lot aren't on lockdown either

[@TheBathulk10]

@@sombercandy8275 sure about that?

[@regiodeurse6513]

@@drpavel9414 Does it matter?!?!?! We're ALL GONA DIE CUZ CROWNA OVID🐑-19!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ..HHHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUEEEEEEGHHHH. oh no, wait...

[@regiodeurse6513]

@Shane Ashby was then, is now. no different. Just that it's now equally the exact same homogenized message everywhere you go. Been that way since 9/11 basically...

[@DonutOperator]

Have you been drinking sir?

[@InternetHistorian]

Naturally.

[@Pogxxx]

Internet Historian notice me

[@jizzypuff]

It don't know why I'm surprised you watch internet historian.

[@lukewind13]

Donut bro, Nice to see you getting around!

[@cheesesteak5689]

Donut Operator you are the one that asked him to make more drunk videos

[@SpadesNeil]

I was under the impression that the money spent ultimately played a large role in fixing the more serious bugs before they could happen.

[@KevinSterns]

Some of that money, yes. But vast amounts were wasted. in 1999 I worked as a programmer for a small company. Our product was essentially immune to Y2K. But every last customer called us up and demanded a written statement that we were "Y2K compliant". The company money we wasted fielding those endless phone calls did not contribute to any bug fixes.

[@anonymousalcoholic3648]

well y2k isnt nearly as serious as a buffer overflow wich young and promising C programmers leave in their code LEFT and RIGHT

[@Jjgm69]

​​@@anonymousalcoholic3648wait WHAT!?!? Is going to happen again, is going to happen again... Or, for the first time ?

[@user-vu9ph6nh8z]

Can’t believe I have to wait until 2999 until I can get my hands on a Y3K kit.

[@redline1916]

There's some guy that still thinks the apocalypse is happening all the way in his bunker in the Mojave Desert, I can guarantee you that.

[@Uncle_Sheo217]

Sitting underground in the Mojave really makes you wish for a nuclear winter, doesn't it?

[@axelramirez4681]

@@Uncle_Sheo217 get fucked

[@Tundra-27]

Please tell me it's called vault (insert number here)

[@Lambda_Ovine]

LOL, he´s going to laugh when he finds out nothing really happened.

[@zyrkugilgamesh]

@@-Ano-Ano- They're reciting old ass memes

[@thedeekabides]

"...but it's a _two_ person..." Gold. Absolutely married.

[@bothquickanddead]

This was what broke me.

[@jojimbo136]

@Libertate Veritas lets be honest, Simpsons has done everything at this point. Its easier to perform alchemy than it is to tell a joke they haven't already.

[@remlezar9397]

jojimbo what's wrong with a reference?

[@disruptivegarage]

@@jojimbo136 you would be surprised. The simpsons might have made alot. But they cant make jokes about stuff that they dont know will exist

[@TheBigBenji890]

"But it's a two person bunker..." What a great small detail haha

[@stevemc01]

Scientists and Computer Engineers: “Might be a bit of an inconvenience, but it is fixable within four days after January 1st, 2000…” Media: “WE GON F***ING DIE”

[@Demonslayer20111]

They spent four years fixing it man. Funnily enough, some of the fixes were actually just a workaround that would work for about 20 years. Did those companies and government entities use those 20 years to fix it and or upgrade? No. No they did not. So in 2020, it happened again. Down to the wire, overworked IT personnel fixing a problem that shouldn't exist on outdated equipment that shouldn't still be in use.

[@stevemc01]

@@Demonslayer20111 well to be fair, the four days thing is a reference to the two weeks to flatten the curve thing. We’ve had something like 78 2wk periods by now, but at least COVID has finally reached a roughly manageable state.

[@thatweirdguy369]

My favorite Y2K story is one a teacher of mine told me... He was in college and had gone to a huge party hosted by his friend for Y2K. He and another friend snuck away to the breaker box and waited for midnight. The moment the clock hit 12, they cut the power to the house and laughed their asses off as they heard people screaming from the main room. They rejoined the group just in time to see one dude dart out of the house and run down the street screaming, "It's the end of the world!" You would have the street lights still being on would have tipped him off. Anyways, thanks Mr. A, your class was awesome!

[@rainsparks29]

Trolls of the real world

[@honeyOTU_]

LOL genius!

[@roffylordnow3658]

ThatWeird Guy And who was that teacher? Mr. Albert Einstein.

[@jameslaidler4259]

ThatWeird Guy I was 15. Exactly fuck all happened.

[@Crispman_777]

Did you say goodbye to the teacher because he knew too much?

[@Selfsufficientme]

Unfortunately I remember y2k oh so clearly. At the time I secretly hoped chaos would emerge but alas on that day even my bedside alarm clock still functioned...

[@starcreeper6660]

Self Sufficient Me Feels as disappointing as when the world didn't end in 2012.

[@naiknaik8812]

Star Creeper ikr

[@thewhiteboar3840]

I remember all the expensive computer chips, that almost everyone bought. Indeed, no real chaos erupted. We can only hope, that we will see the world burn. In our lifetime.

[@thegatorhator6822]

EDGE

[@Sevness]

I too remember Y2K in vivid detail... good times... good times... literally nothing like it could possibly happen ever again.

[@ethzero]

Internet Historian emerges from his bunker after 18 years only to stumble into a real apocalypse a few months later.

[@beckercarl]

Y2K dun went off 2 da next level like fr fr 💖 a u t h e n t I c v i e w s 💖 is what got them HUGE!

[@TheRealBernerdBackstabber1]

I cant wait for him to do the history of corona in like 4 years

[@JunguianPhantom]

Lets hope he does, its freaking legendary

[@hannestorstensson8845]

"And then everyone bought all the toilet paper for absolutely no reason at all." Probably Internet Historian, 2024

[@yoyu2567]

@@hannestorstensson8845 ikr why use toilet paper in the first place just use your hand and then wash it

[@notmyrealname7634]

implying it will be over in 4 years

[@nickolas78gr24]

@@yoyu2567 that, makes sense, why don't we do this?

[@lazardjukovic1691]

*Truth is , Y2k was rigged from the start*

[@Shoegazebasedgenre0.]

*Y2K didn't die it was murdered*

[@brutallyhonest123]

Macs weren't susceptible to the error at all...

[@Kazuhira2249]

Ring a ding ding baby

[@trombektango6604]

you mean it was hyped up by corporate man to earn huge in quick time?

[@tmclaug90]

As a 10 year old I struggled to understand how all the computers having a different date was going to be THAT serious.

[@sydneyconcerts902]

the fact a 10 year old was being smarter and more reasonable then most the dumb asses around

[@rchave]

35 now and still same question. Bank interest calculations, maybe? You might lose a month if the computers didn't think time went forward? GPS might give wild results for a split second, until time continues moving forward the next split second?

[@tmclaug90]

@@rchave yea, I dunno, my smart uncle explained it one time and I guess it made sense, but I don't remember exactly what he said.

[@rchave]

​@@tmclaug90 all i ever saw on it was, "computers would get the year wrong, so it's a bug, planes have computers, ergo planes will fall out the sky" and my little brain thinking there may be a logical leap there lol

[@Daniel-yy3ty]

@@rchave well, your little brain was correct as planes were never at risk of falling from the sky, no assurances on the booking system working though 🤣 The "problem" was caused by the media, that either due to ignorance or malice made an Everest out of an hill that had been worked on for years and was mostly flat by the deadline Then grifters took the media fueled panic and run with it The important shit was already fixed, but let's not have facts get in the way of a "good" story/business opportunity >_> The actual problem was for scheduling and other long term systems, like interests or age calculations (you have to be 60 but you are -20. denied) On a side note it's funny that you mention GPS, as it has this exact problem every 20ish years due to how they stored the week value and the first rollover happened mid '99 XD search for "GPS week number rollover" if you want to read on it

[@MrTuneslol]

some people made SO much money "y2k-proofing" companies systems, were talking multiple millions, the amount of money companies were willing to spend to supposedly prevent their entire company from shutting down. I knoe a few people who retired in their 20's from the ludicrous amounts of money they made in just a couple years

[@samvimes9510]

My mom was all paranoid about Y2K. She went around to all these local farms, buying up shitloads of buckets of grain, learned how to make her own bread and canned foods, and started a garden in our backyard. I would laugh, but she made some dopeass bread.

[@MrMortull]

Ultimately a win/win then. Excellent. Glad all that disaster hype was good for something. :)

[@KA-lj3wr]

That must have been some pretty good bread.

[@TheOnlyGeggles]

Yes, very rich in resources indeed. We should harvest her

[@MomsRavioli]

It's almost harvesting season.

[@UmCaraNormalnumPlanetanormal]

Sam Vimes Lol

[@ijpg-fd7qn]

It's entirely possible y2k "survivors" are still in bunkers somewhere...

[@RobertMorgan]

well yeah, where do you think the shadow government that currently runs everything came from? Their $100 billion dollar government apocalypse bunker 8000ft below the Denver Airport's current location only had supplies for 7 years. They emerged in 2007, reasserted control of the actual government behind the scenes, and ran everything ever since. It's how we got Obama. BUT, They couldn't entirely reassert power. Some had forgotten the true power of the shad-gov and rebelled, just enough, that their enemy Donald Trump was allowed to assume power, and now the shad-gov is diminishing daily.

[@nickhansen5386]

Robert Morgan lmao

[@clitcrusader4897]

Imagine they come out this shit seem like blade runner to em

[@RobertMorgan]

@@clitcrusader4897 yes, it's crazy to consider how much of change shock just going from 2000 to now would be. It's not even 2 decades but radically different.

[@carebear5491]

@@clitcrusader4897 not really

[@TheFreakKid12]

It's funny that Y2K was a bigger issue in Fallout 76 than in real life

[@PRDGL_WindyBW]

1:53 My dad was working for South African Airways at the time, and he had to spend his New Years Eve working on fixing on Y2K. He went into the new year extremely tired, but SAA gave everyone who worked through New Year's Eve a relatively big bonus.

[@moseyburns1614]

On the evening of Dec. 31 1999, I was 13 years old and working coat check at a hotel NYE party. I made a couple of hundreds dollars in tips. I bought oh so many pokemon cards.

[@jearmeymorgan8297]

Oh snap! I was 13 as well.. I was at McDonald's with a church youth group most of the night, then after midnight when shit didn't hit the fan we had our church lock in. Pretty boring night compared to what it could have been if I were 18 instead of 13 lol.

[@9Roosh]

I was 6 and trying to sleep. My dad woke me up to start yelling out our 20th floor balcony and make animal noises, because that's what everyone was doing, all the way up to the 28th floor. I make a cock-a-doodle-doo, and had enough of that shit, then i went back to sleep. We were recent immigrants to Canada, and I thought, wtf is wrong with this country.

[@sourpuss5951]

@@9Roosh That was beautiful XD

[@nikolai3620]

How many tips did you get that night? Were you sore the day after?

[@KnightofFunnyJunk]

Imagine during the enevitable riot that occured you would falcon punch a child and steal his Holographic Charizard We Mad Max Now.

[@jameswhite6032]

I remember my dad telling me about this, he worked in the telecommunications industry, and he was told to stay up all night in case the phone lines went down at midnight... and that if he was needed they would call him... they wanted to call him if the phones stopped working. He just went to sleep in the end.

[@icecold1805]

Ah yes, suit-tied problem solving at it's finest.

[@hraesvelgML]

Doesn't sound fake at all.

[@Gohanitos]

Murica best workers in the world

[@reckyourself6948]

@@Gohanitos His pfp is British though

[@09ziyad]

Wow what an apocalypse

[@jayive34]

I read a quote recently, I'm not sure where. But it said: When there's a Gold Rush, start selling shovels. Which is exactly what the people selling those Y2K survival kit did.

[@zackyezek3760]

As a computer programmer, this was an apocalypse we all found especially ridiculous. 1) The vast majority of systems use UNIX time internally, for things like automatically running a program or storing date & time. The equivalent of the Y2K issue won't hit for those systems until 2038, and that only for the old 32-bit systems (largely replaced already). 2) Almost NO code, even for critical and time-aware logic, actually depends on the exact year or date. Your power grid, plane flights, etc. all work just fine if they think the year is 1900. Even bank transactions, in principle, only care about relative times. For GPS this is literally the case. 3) Most software written after the early 1990s didn't even have the bug, anyway. The extreme memory limits for computers were gone by that point, at least for non-embedded, "normal" computers with a recognizable OS and such. And Y2K was an annoying, easily avoided bug in new code. Truly ridiculous things were fears like nukes doing off or planes crashing. The nuke launch system isn't fully computer controlled (for very good reasons), and planes' flight software doesn't need good date code to fly. It all came down to this public fear that ANY significant bug in a piece of software would totally break it. As an insider, I can tell you that IF that was true, none of your laptops or cell phones would EVER work.

[@Demonslayer20111]

Considering the fact that some systems are STILL using the 60s era tech that would have caused issues, I think you have far too much faith in the fact that all 32 bit systems will be replaced. I mean up until recently the air force was still using freaking floppy disks for launch codes. And the ONLY reason they stopped was because they couldn't get enough floppy disks to continue doing so

[@azusattack]

@@Demonslayer20111 60s? Floppy disks were invented in the 70s. And 32 bit machines weren't really commonplace until the late 90s and early 2000s. Yeah, not all 32 bit systems are ever going to be replaced, especially when it comes to industrial machines, but the point is, not every single thing depends on the current date to function. But 2038 is coming up soon...

[@Demonslayer20111]

@@azusattack 60s era tech, and air force using floppies, were two distinct thoughts and were only tangentially related, but allright

[@azusattack]

@@Demonslayer20111 Yeah, I see your point. There are definitely still problems that have to do with outdated tech that never gets updated, and the only justification ever mentioned is that it costs more to update. It's always a money issue in the end...

[@badboya9122]

"The great moments of our time..." *shows Crash Team Racing gameplay* Internet Historian is a man of culture.

[@Abysia]

Indeed. CTR was criminally underrated next to the generic Mario kart

[@Dcfan200]

Eh?

[@thundersoul6795]

@@Abysia And then CTTR happened. The gameplay was pretty damn good, but almost everything else... _Ugh._

[@jozinek876]

But where's HL?

[@GlowZoe]

CTR>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>MK

[@watcheem]

I was 10 years old during Y2K and I remember watching the news here in Sweden. They reported that an elevator got stuck. Rip in peace.

[@ChibiBoxing]

watcheem Truly tragic

[@dumdeedum2000]

watcheem Now Sweden is dying. RIP in peace.

[@ArezDjinn]

It's called Swedistan now, racist...

[@GUYCLIP]

Don't need to remind me thank you very much!

[@sporasparel5032]

GiggleBeard It is a meme

[@dasjuggernaut1]

I remember this. All my friends were freaking out and one night I said "have any of you changed the date on your computers to see what would happen?" Not one had even tried. I showed them I had done it 3 months prior and my computer was working just fine.

[@ScottKorin]

The first time I had to work more than a 40 hr week was to help test that our software didn't glitch due to y2k

[@CreepsMcPasta]

Daddy's home

[@TheShiniestNidoran]

But you are daddy

[@bumble_hd6346]

yo

[@MissInformer]

oh shit its ya boi

[@goobboog699]

Daddy's home from the catacombs with bag a bones of those who wouldn't leave the man alone

[@noahnederlands7642]

Funny to see you here, love your content

[@aaronroberts7174]

Can’t wait until y3k happens

[@jphanson]

Y2K38. Alexa, set a timer for 29 years and 21 days.

[@Seroxm13]

But Y3K is gonna be real :/

[@basswarnow]

You are technically correct, the best kind. We *can't* wait.

[@dwldjon]

Its a shame y2k38 wont do anything at least we have y3k

[@diarykeeper]

Doubt humanity's gonna last another 981 years...

[@levelwithz3779]

@6:13 *The closed captioning is hilarious. He says "some of the vending machines stopped working" but the CC says "Some of the vending machines only served Pepsi."* 😄

[@sarafontanini7051]

A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH

[@samsarex4318]

Hey Pepsi is fantastic

[@beatstar2]

Ah yes, YIIK: A Postmodern RPG

[@SpecialEDy]

My grandparents(in their 70's at the time) sold their land in Santa Fe and bought a farm in Florida in preparation for Y2K. Got chickens, cows, and horses for post apocalyptic society. Grandpa built a water tower, a generator, and stored several thousand gallons of gasoline in old apple cider barrels in his barn. Y2K came and went, but that apple cider tainted gasoline destroyed every fuel injected vehicle they owned. Only the 1940's Ford Tractor and 1960's Ford pickup survived the Apple Cider Gasoline debacle of Y2K. *Update* 11/2020 I sent a screenshot of this to my cousin who actually lived close to my grandparents in florida, this is his reply: "LOL. Fucking Y2K. You know the story about New Years 2000 right? Grandpa was all locked, loaded and prepared for Y2K. Gold buried in the barn (not kidding we dug it up when they moved to Texas) and about 10-20 minutes after midnight a drunk driver struck a power pole on *Redacted* Road knocking out power to the whole area. Apparently Grandpa never talked about it, but you can just imagine. 😂"

[@saber2802]

Should have kept that land in Sante Fe, to be honest, I wonder if your family misses New Mexico.

[@faustianluminary4456]

I hope this story is true, because it's hilarious.

[@Yuilen]

Damn, your grandparents were fucking stupid. Why not just store the gasoline in plastic containers, or metal drums? And buying a farm in Florida? Florida? Good grief.

[@NoLifeGamer1080]

Given a month or two and the gas would have gone to shit anyway. At least it smelled better... maybe.

[@XLightswornknightX]

@@Yuilen I'm from Florida and I can indeed confirm that good grief

[@malikoniousjoe]

You make content? I thought this was your backup channel incase In The Field got taken down

[@ThatBugBehindYou]

Malikonious Joe Haha, it's funny because IH uploads at a depressing rate.

[@EndOfSmallSanctuary97]

It's hilarious watching one of his older videos where he says he's gonna upload like once a week.

[@malikoniousjoe]

We only complain because -we love the guy- Harold needs our support

[@themiller3940]

Malikonious Joe This is his main channel I think lmao

[@SackOfGypsies]

Brody Miller The joke Your head

[@inthso362]

My friends and I went canoeing that weekend, joking about how civilization would be gone when we got back. Things have been so stupid ever since, I'm convinced something happened.

[@fappe908]

Same with 2012. We switched timelines then

[@KillTheJester]

Learning about recent events where people panicked their ass off that turned out to be nothing honestly helps me put current mass hysteria into perspective.

[@LittleWasp]

Mass hysteria is such an embarrassingly stupid thing. I'm glad I was only five years old at the time. I just heard lots of fireworks, got annoyed by all the noise and went to bed. Slept comfily through a once-in-a-millennium event. No regrets.

[@janzacharias3680]

Wasp you were annoyed by fireworks at the age of five? What are you the antichrist?

[@LittleWasp]

Yes. They're loud and bright and noisy. I've never been the sort to enjoy noisy festivities and parties. I prefer to chill out on my own or with close friends. I'm also the anti-christ.

[@spoiledmilk2587]

*wow your such a badass*

[@xxxSlenderManxxs]

theweirdestgingeryouknow your

[@spoiledmilk2587]

Zoroark ゾロアーク oh soryyy no engrish **your'nst'tdve

[@xplinux22]

Y2K was a real problem with real-world consequences and dangers. Things like time-based authentication, file system timestamps, SSL certificates for websites, etc. all rely on incrementing timestamps. But Y2K was never going to be this massive apocalyptic event. As this video shows, it was blown _way_ out of proportion by the media and misunderstood by non-technical people. While everyone was busy freaking out and generating hype, engineers all over the world were silently and diligently getting things fixed. And thankfully, due to their work, nothing really happened in the end.

[@anujmchitale]

And working overtime. We see heroics in comics. But real heroics are doing the job that one is given and making sure it's done. I truly appreciate the work put in by the programmers of that time.

[@brailleme7441]

I was going down the comment section hoping someone would basically this. ☺️ I’m glad someone acknowledged this.

[@ChefBrownSauce]

Nothing happened? Did you not see that one electronic billboard displaying 1900 instead of 2000? Basically the apocalypse

[@mee091000]

Eyal Kalderon Did the engineers really stop all that from happening? I was under the impression that it was just an overreaction and nothing would have went wrong either way.

[@mee091000]

Gustavo Fring Wow, well good job Engineers and Mechanics!

[@VecheslavNovikov]

The hundreds of billions spent was the exact reson it became a non-issue. All the stuff got fixed before it broke.

[@CorelUser]

That isn't proved

[@VecheslavNovikov]

@@CorelUser how much proof do you need?

[@CorelUser]

@@VecheslavNovikov at least one proof

[@drdeesnutts48]

No it was my rock, it keeps Y2k away and thus nothing happened. You're welcome.

[@andyreaver1962]

I love his use of Fallout in his videos. It warms my wasteland heart.

[@QuintonReviews]

When I hear "Y2K Bug" I just think of those really ugly new volkswagens that got released around then.

[@eye2eye899]

Quinton Reviews I did not know quinton watched IH

[@hentaisoldier3191]

Quinton Reviews Stfu. Your reviews suck. You’re like a fatter MundaneMatt.

[@connorh5335]

QUINTON, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?

[@kolbewilliam7542]

This comment is a testament to great content.

[@kepiguither2765]

Quinton I love your reviews

[@Atilolzz]

Patrolling the internet makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

[@Crspss]

get fucked

[@nexus3756]

When I took this assignment I'd hoped there would be more gambling

[@Im_a_Hom0ph0be]

check em im your 111 like

[@Im_a_Hom0ph0be]

also have a nukacola on me cowboy

[@Jetch3]

Atilolzz You lost?

[@societydisorder3864]

1999: Y2K 2020: COVID-19 2029: Apophis

[@NewPaulActs17]

lucifer's hammer

[@NewOrderOfAlexandria]

2012: 2012

[@DaraGaming42]

2038 problem after that, essentially Y2K 2

[@DoobieKeebler]

Mmy dad worked for Apple during the lead up to Y2K & he was VERY worried. Also, on another note, Japan had (or maybe is having?) their own mini Y2K style problem recently. Basically, the time in their computers are all based around the Emperor of Japan. Thus, people in the tech sector became really worried when they found out the Emporor was abdicating the throne that their computers would brick.

[@Alan_One1]

How Y2K personally affected me: I was playing Math Blaster in Jan or Feb 2000 at home and the certificate that you get at the end displayed the year 1900. Needless to say I had to print dat shit out as a souvenir.

[@CarrotConsumer]

Rip my dude

[@bruhbbawallace]

*Tell me you still have it.*

[@d3rkaderk4]

Holy fuck I forgot I played that when I was a kid. Thanks for the nostalgia.

[@bohmel]

*obviously*

[@Overphased]

Pics or didn't happen

[@freakfoxvevo7915]

This, THIS is ancient internet news

[@nastybigJim]

Steven Maiorana his name is "internet historian" for a reason boi

[@Web720]

Now wheres that dancing baby.

[@grimtuesday1939]

oh man dancing baby! it's amazing... creepy but amazing i forgot about that

[@harbl99]

And it was all avoided because of a few ur-nerds from the 70s who loved their scifi and seriously thought about the year 2000 as a real thing when most people were enjoying the fantasia of Kubrick's "2001".

[@MagickGOATee]

True millenials (born in the year 2000 or beyond) will never know of the Bug

[@southwestxnorthwest]

I remember buying a 1MB USB stick from IBM's website for $25; it was the first USB memory stick I'd ever seen and I was so excited to receive it

[@Sden20307]

My grandad was working on Y2K for a British company that very advanced technology, even building parts for NASA and he told me he got payed a very hefty sum just to go around the buildings and change the dates it took him probs about 2 hours but the only reason he got paid so much that night was because they thought that everyone was going to die

[@lonelychameleon3595]

1999 - The end of the world would be terrible. 2018 - Can the world just please end already?

[@stormcrowlegendary3512]

I ask God for it every few days. He says we haven't suffered enough.

[@crushersbutlessedgynow]

Truly

[@TisTheFool]

@@vesperlee no..... God told him we haven't suffered enough. That's not air, it's GOD! 😱

[@paulseitz5749]

Sorry man didn't happen best of luck this year

[@NoLifeGamer1080]

@Daniel Kintigh Lucky, I didn't even know what Y2K was until my grandma was shaking me yelling "it's the end of the world" in spanish right as my aunt turned off the lights. Worst new year of my life.

[@Dsdcain]

The real reason there was fear of Y2K, the porn could have become inaccessible.

[@Tangers3345]

hippysIapper lmao thats the worst kind of jizzing

[@bodhisattva-p]

PWNtang _ nobody likes an unhappy nut.

[@bodhisattva-p]

Km Dev hell people still actively do celeb fakes

[@95TurboSol]

We had 28k dial up back then, it would have taken aprox 1 year to download a 10 second clip lol

[@thomaskelly4855]

My hentai....

[@benbartels6559]

The best part of Y2K, is that no one, in any company’s IT department, ever thought, “why don’t we just try implementing this on a small-scale, shadow copy of the current system. Change the system’s clock and date settings and see just see what happens.” Think of all the time and money that could’ve been saved! But nope the basic task done before updating any programs on any system wasn’t thought of.

[@Abayake]

What? This is what every department did and why people realized there was going to be a problem in the first place though??

[@nathanb011]

@@Abayake No. It’s why most companies didn’t actually do anything about it unless it was necessary. Literally all of the panic was because of the news. Nobody in the backend was actually concerned the world would end.

[@koshu4]

Except, everyone did that, and things broke, which is how we worked out what needed fixing, and this got done beforehand because, amazingly, technology professionals aren't a gang of fucking nitwits.

[@3mKay]

0:25 lol, Malaysia Airlines, nice jab there, almost missed it

[@Deinonuchus]

Actually, that money was well spent. I worked in banking around then. We made damned sure our stuff worked. And it did get me out of jury duty in January 2000, so there's that. And yes, the press were a bunch of irresponsible jackasses playing on people's fears.

[@brandonlyon730]

I see things hardly changed in the news media 20 years later.

[@vexile12]

@@brandonlyon730 indeed

[@SivleFred]

In the science elf video, he mentioned how the use of redundant systems helped New York City bring its data back during the 9/11 attacks.

[@alexeysaranchev6118]

When you think of it, anyone is "a bunch of irresponsible jackasses playing on people's X".

[@anonymousalcoholic3648]

@@alexeysaranchev6118 yeah i prayed on peoples fear during covid, pretended i was panicing just sort of blended in with all the chaos and looted stores LEFT AND RIGHT, didnt get caught for atleast a year, when the government demands you cover your face at the store the thieves will be the richest in town it was a FEAST

[@burnmydxead]

1999 truly was a bizarre summer...

[@wabbojack3257]

Is that a jojo reference PART 6 NEVER

[@dr.badtimes3660]

Never forget Reimi Sugomoto.

[@aditk792]

the moment he said 1999, i immediately continued with "bizzare summer"

[@augusth7975]

When I was born 😂

[@addaccount9246]

JonTron voice ,man 2000 times were weird

[@Jessie_Helms]

Every time I watch this I’m caught by that one idiot. “Would it abolish all paper currency?” How the hell would digital currency stopping make physical currency stop? That’s exactly when hard money would spike in usefulness.

[@steverogers6572]

True, btw anyone can tell me the background song he uses?

[@ThexDynastxQueen]

I like to believe they legit thought computers were gonna make paper money delete itself. Like a mass suicide of paper lol.

[@Maciek123311]

Dude, i remember you making good content, like always.

[@benjabby]

Everyone one always wonders Y2K, but no one wonders how 2K

[@myalt3019]

Underrated

[@user-gu1ed1kb8x]

this is like a stroke until you get the joke

[@blvalverde]

The EA method is to just copy last year 2k and every four years brush up the graphics.

[@LordTyph]

Or where 2K

[@waltercomunello121]

I'm gonna go now

[@sigmundfreud7903]

My if 4chan had been around before 2000, I can only imagine the chaos on /pol/ of it had been around back then.

[@TuckyBlue]

DipsZ what’s /pol/. I’m not a guy on 4chan

[@crabmanMoe]

Mr Kat political message board filled with autists

[@Ghorda9]

/po/ is the mobile strike force of the internet, nobody asked for it but it's there anyway.

[@augustovasconcellos7173]

Well, there was Usenet's alt, which was basically the closest thing the 90's Internet had to 4chan, but no one remembers that shit anymore.

[@Ghorda9]

@PolySaken i doubt that he is in his late 60s/70s

[@cauliflowerconnoisseur2710]

i just remember my dad complaining that if everything went to shit he would be too hungover to do anything so we would all die.

[@CheeseInTheOven]

1799: Goodbye 1700s, hello 1800s 1899: Goodbye 1800s, hello 1900s 1999: WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE AHHHHHHHH

[@mr.dystopian5554]

Cheese In The Oven 1930's ALIENS ARE INVADING HIDE YO KIDS, HIDE YO WIFE!!

[@phoebelovesYOU]

2099: Where the fuck are the flying cars

[@dumbtastical]

Skeletor ULTIMATE We actually could have flying cars but then everyone would have to get pilot's licenses because they're essentially personal helicopters.

[@UmCaraNormalnumPlanetanormal]

Skeletor ULTIMATE Lets hope we atleast got ourselves some jetpacks by the time

[@ImmaLittlePip]

1999 Bizzare summer

[@amunago080]

My uncle was a coder who spent the year fixing banking errors that may of came up. It could of been a real problem but so many people got together and fixed it. Media just made it alot worst though.

[@mxtung4209]

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[@akunekochan]

That's what media do, unfortunately

[@greyaye8565]

@@mxtung4209 Came here for this. Thank you, you beautiful soul.

[@ichkommentiernurkommentare7237]

@@mxtung4209 Thx

[@kittykittybangbang9367]

@@akunekochan “The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” - Malcolm X

[@Soulintent95]

I remember y2k. One of my first memories. I woke up at exactly 12:01 and asked my dad why we werent dead. He was drinking beers with my aunt and i think watching espn so i was even more confused as to how the tv was even working. I was only 4

[@childofnewlight]

I was like... 14? I remember my family talking about it. Our concern was somewhere around a 3? Maybe a 4 at the most? Our biggest worry was losing power in the middle of winter in Michigan, because that just sucks. We didn't really think any of the major large scale issues would be an issue because we weren't idiots.

[@christophervanoster]

4:37 it’s a two person bunker. That’s hilarious

[@userloser4553]

I think that was his actual Gf that was in one of his q&as lol

[@smegmacannon69]

Delete your profile picture. now.

[@skininthegame5236]

I remember this shit. My dumb ass friend in prison thought that his sentence would be erased and he would be a free man on Jan. 1st 2000.

[@_Silenceman]

lmao

[@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012]

There's a reason he's in prison in first place

[@Chris_Husk]

Wait is he in jail....

[@moontoon28]

Is…. Is he still there?

[@skininthegame5236]

@@moontoon28 No, he was released in 2005. He's actually an accountant now lol

[@moomyung9231]

I remember when that happened. A few days before 2000 went to the store with my dad to buy snacks and everyone had carts full of water bottles. It was like Covid but people weren't buying all the fresh vegetables. I was only 12 then and still was laughing at everyone panicking over nothing.

[@samuelgunter]

I'm more scared for Y28, because that's 1900 + 128, and 128 is greater than 127 which is the 7 bit integer limit

[@qbmac2306]

Little did everyone know it would all happen again in 2012.

[@kyrroti9921]

There’s actually a legitimate reason behind Y2K panic. The 2012 panic was from Mayan nonsense.

[@joseangelmonterroza9364]

Kyrroti it wasnt the mayans fault,i'm actually a mayan decendant And live un Cancún, sooo let me tell you.....it was just the en of a cicle in the calendar And the start of another xd

[@Ritokure]

Also the Rapture happened like 4 times as well. So I survived like 5 or 6 "ends of the world". Man, John Connor is a pussy.

[@lightsonitzekioro3918]

I was about 4 when Y2K happened and I was too young to remember it but apparently according to my dad, My mom and dad didn't buy into it but my dad was egging everyone on that it WAS going to happen. So he was trolling everyone.

[@fertxpdqicts9664]

Light Sonitzekioro your father is a great man

[@loonylenny]

Did he mentor you?

[@lightsonitzekioro3918]

Well, Given how he made sure we grew up to be good people...and massive smartasses. I'd say so, yes!

[@MsZsc]

Lucky

[@mr.mushroom2108]

Trolling before it was cool, or a thing.

[@nightowlplant]

As someone born in 1999, the fact i lived through this but obviously had no recollection of it is funny. Even more funny is learning this in college and everyone is like "wtf people actually believed that?"

[@literallypatrickbatemen]

When I saw the picture the picture of Agent Scully on that toaster. Idk why i thought it was so funny. His attention to detail is awesome

[@Slaxbox]

Oh boy, I sure do wonder what they did with all of that money. What a mystery.

[@EpicwinFTW27]

I bet they bought approximately 65 billion 5 dollar footlongs

[@DigGil3]

There were companies who sold bogus patching software. I don't find it hard to believe that a lot of money was spent in "feel good" and pointless measures.

[@EpicwinFTW27]

goddammit my math was wrong. I meant approximately 26 billion 5 dollar footlongs

[@martinsleis3852]

Slaxbox propably Y2K survival kits

[@Agent_Schrader]

What did they do with all of that money then? (I'm sorry if it's too obvious)

[@akirathedon]

★ H I S T O R I C A L ★

[@endplanets]

I got bored and read a contract I was working on. Even in 2017... it called out that all PCs must be Y2K proof.

[@jungleinsectspikewall4474]

I kinda understand the fear in this one. Like if everythint would just shut down and crash that could give some issues

[@enterchannelname2508]

You forget to mention, due to everyone freaking out about y2k they actually found and fixed a lot of potential problems before they happen. Also a couple Nuclear Power Plants alarms went off because of it but I think it was a false alarm.

[@eric3542]

Yeah and there where actually some issues. I remember watching a documentary about it years ago. Some dude was upset because everyone jokes about it now but I think some companies actually did lose money and a couple systems has errors.

[@Kushufy]

Yeah it was a really misleading ending. "500 billion dollars well spent" as if that money wasn't used to fix the problem

[@zissler1]

Stian Jonsen yeah but how much did it really prevent? I’m not sure if we’ll ever know. It fixed something’s but was it really worth the large price tag?

[@jwenting]

indeed. I worked on several systems that definitely would have failed had they not been fixed. While not systems that'd directly cost lives, at least one of them would have made communications a lot harder for emergency services had it gone down, and another would have caused a lot of people to lose their life savings had it failed (which traditionally causes an increase in suicide rates).

[@RaptorNX01]

there was an interview with bill clinton years after the fact, and one of the subjects was about stuff that didn't happen. like terrorist attacks that were prevented. and talking about how people don't know what happens and the work put into preventing disaster. and he brought up y2k in the same context. that people spent so much money, and worked non-stop in the months leading up to 2000.