That Time the World Almost Ended

[@TheScienceElf]

Hey everyone, Thanks for another great year on this channel! Have a Happy New Year, and may all of your devices be Y2K19-Compliant. Best wishes, The Science Elf

[@viggokalman7256]

Happy new year to you too!

[@mix3k818]

Y2K38 may become a new problem for 32-bit Unix systems. Don't rest so easy just yet.

[@aKuBiKu]

Thx! Hope u will have a happy new year too!

[@sbanner428]

So glad you uploaded again!!

[@TheTechnoGuy18]

Thanks! I hope that your 2019 will be awesome!

[@WTDProductions]

I was born December 30, 1999. I’ve been told the hospital was chaos...and then nothing lol

[@MollyMoller]

congratulation! you have 48 hour to live!

[@tysoncook5152]

WTD Productions hey that's my birthday too

[@0x7f2c]

i was born january 1st (a day after)

[@MaxonerousX]

WTD Productions The real question is whether or not you consider yourself a 90s kid

[@SKOER1337]

Heyyy, December 30th, 2002 here!

[@canwehit100subswithnovids7]

Imagine If there is someone still inside a bunker somewhere oblivious to the fact the world is still the same

[@kats5980]

There probably is blowing us

[@imadeyoureadthis1500]

there was a dude that stayed in a bunker for like 17 years because of it and he just came out like last year

[@OwenKufta]

What is a tick tock?

[@ronnievega3155]

#THEYMADEAMOVIEABOUTTHIS

[@haydenthecactus2004]

@@ronnievega3155 what movie?

[@hakpeth9292]

Was 10 years old a the time. Thought 'the Millennium bug' was a giant robotic insect coming to crush us all.

[@aze480]

Was I really smart or is everybody else a tard?

[@GreggyMcfly]

I really didn't care and I was 10 years old. I do remember I had Windows 3.1 though. Fun times.

[@kyototo.]

Would’ve been exciting honestly.

[@thund3rcl4p2]

@@GreggyMcfly How about MS-DOS & Windows 95?

[@zsin128]

haha bug

[@JustinY.]

You mean it didn't end in 2012?

[@m0m02k]

Justin Y. WHY ARE YOU EVERYWHERE I GOOOOOOOO

[@jaxecxll2802]

I cant escape u

[@lovevictini]

AHHHH EVERY VIDEO YOU ARE THERE

[@TheKorosachi]

Hi justin, nice to see you again

[@xboys_archive]

Justin Y. Y2K was actually scary I remember I was 7 my parents were kinda scared bout it and my grandma was like we're all gonna die

[@matt4193]

Oh wow. Coding the program to say "it will stop working in 6 months. good luck" and then leave the job just so other has to fix it. I'm speechless.

[@JollyJuiice]

"fuck this shit im out"

[@97Giorgos97]

Programmer of the year award!

[@dinidusamaranayake3266]

She like “Nah sercw this man. I’ma work somewhere else ya know CNN spreads fake news anyway”

[@SangoProductions213]

It's actually pretty common in the industry.

[@maj746]

Smart move

[@NoLifeGamer1080]

I remember the Y2K bug. I was 9yo and the whole family was at my aunt's house for the new year. We were all having fun and Y2K keeps coming up but nobody would tell me what it was so I continued playing with my cousins. at 11:58pm 12/31/99 we were all in the living room because "some people like to shoot guns at night and a bullet my come down and kill you." 11:59pm everyone was quiet other than my cousins and I (keep in mind were all around the same age and ignorant of the scheduled apocalypse.) 12:00 am 01/01/00 My grandma who's sitting next to me grabs me by the shoulders and starts screaming *"IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!!!!! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE, THE MISSILES ARE COMING, THE WORLD ENDED"* in spanish. At the same time my aunt thought it would be funny to turn off the lights. So now I'm in a dark living room, scared out of my mind, equally confused, and beaing shook like crazy by an insane grandma screaming "it's the end of the world." Shit you not, I've never experienced fear like that in my entire life. So I did what any 9yo would probably do in that situation and screamed as hard and loud as I could until she let go. Can't honestly say I remember much after that but that was the day I learned how high pitch noises can damage hearing and how to hate my family. Happy 2019 everyone :D

[@decadegamers562]

What is wrong with your family

[@NoLifeGamer1080]

@@decadegamers562 Don't know, don't care. I stopped visiting or spending any time with them years ago. The messed up part is that's just one of the list of things my family thought would be "funny."

[@decadegamers562]

@@NoLifeGamer1080 I feel bad, that's not right

[@Ejisnwoais]

*what* *the* *fuck*

[@petargrigorovski3975]

100th like

[@checkmyplaylist6879]

Only 90's kids remember their parents saying *ALRIGHT, GET IN THE BUNKERS IN THE BASEMENT!!!!*

[@florbingo9871]

*_"born in the wrong generation"_*

[@acteaon9378]

*40's kids

[@florbingo9871]

@@acteaon9378 them to

[@CrispDeepFried]

Cold War boys

[@NoLifeGamer1080]

No bunkers or basement where I live. I was just shook like a dead baby while my grandma screamed at the top of her lungs "it's the end of the world" in spanish.

[@h1k0usen13]

So that's why people were afraid of the change to year 2000. All the times I've read about it, this Y2K bug was never mentioned. Great video!

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

It's so weird that there are people graduating high-school who weren't even around for 9/11, let alone the Y2K bug.

[@BaronVonQuiply]

@@user-vn7ce5ig1z I still remember where I was when they announced that Elvis had died. Not born yet. That's where I was. Missed it by a few years.

[@jacobbacker1793]

This will be the last year that people were born before 9/11 and graduate high school

[@nikiyerbamate]

Baron von Quiply funny joke????

[@melissacooper4282]

I was twenty years old when they were talking about the Y2K thing. I wasn't too worried about it. I did wonder if the lights would go out or something. Anyway, the ball was dropped, 2000 came, and the world didn't end.

[@neurov9790]

I can only imagine the amount of memes that would come out of Y2K if it were to happen now.

[@maxcheston9115]

If Jesus had been born 20 years later

[@nicholas8484]

lol

[@MDLuffy1234YT]

Actually, there's a similar bug that's bound to happen on January 19th, 2038 at exactly 3:14:07 UTC due to the 32 bit integer responsible for keeping track of how many seconds have passed since 1/1/1900 overflowing. And also, there will never be an overflow error once we upgrade that integer to 64 bit, at least for another 292 billion years.

[@dieSpinnt]

@@MDLuffy1234YT What you done is timeless! You didn't watch the video, because exactly what you sell here as news was covered in the video ... **Facepalm** But also thanks. Good intentions are more important than lazyness, heheheheheheheeeee

[@Megavoltron4]

When 2038 comes we shall get the memes lol

[@SpiderMiner]

us fellow 2000s kids never would never have known of y2k.

[@MrBassmann15]

Same with us late 90s kids. I was born in 1996 and too young to remember anything that happened in both 1999 and 2000 but I do remember 2012.

[@jefftparker]

Born in 89. Thought the world was going to end at 10 years old.

[@SpiderMiner]

Alexander Backert I also vaguely remember 2012

[@dw4353]

SpiderMiner25 same I was 11 at the time I remember hearing conspiracies so I went to the bathroom hugging a photo of my family I cringe every time I think of that moment

[@spectrxu4441]

my mom told me about it and said it wasn’t really an issue

[@dunebasher1971]

Even today, you'll find idiots who don't understand that the reason why nothing bad happened with computers at midnight on 01/01/00 was that a lot of clever people had spent the last few years working behind the scenes to fix everything to ensure that nothing bad happened.

[@writerpatrick]

There were a few minor problems but companies tended to fix them quietly so the actual effect will never be known.

[@rjonboy7608]

I was one of them. I learned to reprogram computers 20 and 30 years old in dead programming languages. I worked on airport computers, they were worried about planes being grounded. Maybe even having to land without instruments or radios. The odd thing to me is how disposable everything has become. Those old computers were robust, expandable, upgradable, and easy to repair.

[@martinmendiolamm]

@@rjonboy7608 I bet that was fun lol But as far as expandable and upgradeable what exactly do you mean? I'd think that nowadays it would be far easier to upgrade a pc than back then

[@mathewmantas]

@@martinmendiolamm Maybe more fixable i guess, because the components were way bigger than what it is now...

[@aikou2886]

@@martinmendiolamm I'm guessIng they said it because components were standarized instead of propietory and prone to failure (programmed obsolescence) just like today's technology.

[@chrisjames1507]

When you realize the earth is supposed to end every year

[@LuisPerez-wx9jk]

Chris James on point

[@bleak9157]

What do you mean? Im just trying to understand this sorry.

[@K14297]

Mason Lewis people think that something new will cause the world to end each year e.g. asteroid or black hole, nuclear warfare, planet collision. Anything.

[@itachioftheleaf5580]

Not earth humans are supposed to end every year

[@unliving_ball_of_gas]

The year 2020: C O V I D - 1 9

[@elijahpepe]

It ended when EA bought it,

[@mix3k818]

or Activision

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

or Ubisoft

[@Vitorio582]

I guess people didn't get the joke

[@peashooterman3]

@@lancedejesus6402 what's a joke

[@velocity3593]

2k was a game company

[@binozia-old-2031]

That’s why all the computers at my school were made in 2000

[@Wm7forthewin]

lol

[@CoolDude-ot7cm]

Lul

[@seriousguy9509]

Lell

[@tobiasceccardi6449]

Lal

[@Bocsaphoto]

LQL

[@caber3892]

boogers.

[@Niiue]

wow nice 60 seconds reference

[@bavarianmapper4566]

S O U P T I M E

[@sherrihall5479]

G O O D S O U P

[@autumn0378]

Soup for days!

[@merasmusgaming7147]

*S O U P*

[@kamuidrome.]

Ah finally 2005, year of the gamer

[@patuator5454]

Chungas

[@halathhusnee]

Chugus are you dead yet

[@joshuapurdy7065]

Nah that was 2007

[@theevildrummingsithlord1492]

And year of "American Idiot" (well that was 2004)

[@refthegeneric]

2005 the year i was born i am a tru gamer

[@Slaxbox]

Dates often come with weird bugs. They can drain your account, leave you stranded or give you a virus. You could even end up having a kid if you don't use a patch. Good joke, right? Right.

[@zeldajerk]

Doctor I'm pregnant. Do you wanna know why? Why? No seriously I have no idea, I don't know, is it because I didn't put a password in my phone? Was my body was hacked?

[@technosaber9281]

Lmao

[@luisgonzalez5482]

@@zeldajerk it was backdoored. Through the front. _Wait...-_

[@maki49574]

But there are no viru... oh shit!

[@jamesslick4790]

Technically, "Y2K" was is not a "bug" or "error", But a shortsighted design element.

[@star-manrainbowstar336]

All bugs and errors are caused due to a shortsighted design element. Is the same thing.

[@sgillman16]

It's understandable. We all thought 2000 was a fake year and would never come. At least I did, lol.

[@QuarioQuario54321]

The original Xbox does not support XX00 years. Therefore, it’ll 2100 will be read as 2001. The DS and 3DS clock back to 2000 at 2100. Windows 3.1 does support 2000, but not 2100. 12/31/2099 just repeats forever. 2100 might be rendered as a leap year when it won’t be. 10000 will be a problem for digits, and so will every power of 10. Year number might be a problem in 2048, 4096, 8192, and every power of 2 year. For Unix time, there can be problems in 2038 where it’ll go to December 3, 1901. That’ll only really affect modern computers(in 2019) though. Unsigned ones go to 1970 in 2104 I think. 64-bit will experience this in hundreds of billions of years, so this does nothing to our descendants.

[@Nightcaat]

Also, the Wii can’t go past 2035.

[@lmcgregoruk]

The PS3 system software is based on FreeBSD.

[@MapleMilk]

@@joebidenVEVO The real gamers don't stop after death. They rise up from the dead

[@Mesquite_]

@@joebidenVEVO retro gamers maybe

[@henryrichard7619]

I remember setting the date in Animal Crossing to December 31st, 2099 and watching it roll over. Good times. I don't think anything actually interesting happened.

[@papabones8753]

"It would be ridiculous to imagine that the code they had written would be used 25 years away" This is so funny knowing how the industry actually works. It can get really stupid with companies having 30+ year old hardware mass stocked in case their main hardware fails.

[@Architector_4]

True. ATMs in a bank near me all use Windows XP! lol

[@jontmusiteur55]

It's a common misconception. Control systems used in manufacturing, power and utilities don't get routine software upgrades, the control hardware and software usually stays the same for the lifetime of the plant it was written, planned and designed for, and only altered when something in the plant changes. They don't usually use desktop operating systems either, but real-time operating systems as a desktop OS can't handle scheduling potentially hundreds or thousands of signals signals coming in and out of the production side of the plant every second. Each with its own time tag. Which is more than a little important in an RTOS, the way file and memory management are important on a desktop OS. The power plant I was working at used one of those RTOSes and it wasn't Y2K-ready until early 1999, and the final tests weren't complete until around September.

[@9HighFlyer9]

But when the programs were written it was early in computer history. There was no reason to believe their code was still going to be used. And obviously they didn't know that because they wouldn't have written the code that way.

[@jontmusiteur55]

@@9HighFlyer9 Not necessarily. Some plants built in the late 80s and even nineties were built using RTOS control systems that were not yet Y2K compliant, but with guarantees for Y2K compliance in the contract with the system supplier and the cost of conversion planned into the purchase price of the control system. That might sound a bit daft, but alternative control solutions that would have been Y2K-compliant would have been unsuitable for that particular kind of plant. The thing is, unlike an ordinary desktop that might have say 5 or 6 peripherals at most, the computers used in a distributed control system have to be wholly backwards-compatible with hundreds or thousands of "peripherals" (pressure valves, temperature gauges, and motors, actuators and pumps with their own programmable logic controllers, so anything that does something in a plant), some of which might or might not need to be Y2K-compliant, each sending in different information in different amounts that the DCS has to understand and respond to properly for the plant to run normally. This might illustrate the point: Remember how some even new printers worked with Windows 9X but not WIndows 2000 or XP? That might be an (expensive) inconvenience for a desktop user, but it's catastrophic for a control system in a plant where you can't just go in and replace peripherals that the computer no longer understands with another make or model. FDisc: I wasn't directly involved in the transition, but I was coaching German engineers in explaining what they needed to do and their progress to the English-speaking owners of the plant at progress meetings, so this is how it was explained to me.

[@rjonboy7608]

True that! Back in the day they built those systems to last. They were easy to fix, could be upgraded and expanded. Modern stuff is so...disposable.

[@TayePurks]

My mom said on New Year’s Eve 1999 (I was only 17 months old) she went to the store with me in the stroller and everyone was rushing to buy bottled water and canned food and the lines were extremely long because of this. People were also telling her to “protect the baby” (me) when Y2K comes. It’s funny how the general public does nothing until the last minute and then gets scared. My mom said she looked at all those people and thought to herself “you’re all so stupid” lmao

[@nexenojustice552]

That’s the biggest flaw of Humans, we do nothing until it bites us in the butt.

[@dominicpryor8444]

the human race is doing the same thing right now with climate change. wont care until its too late :(

[@f.m.m6706]

lol foreshadowing the coronavirus shopping thing 🤣🤣

[@sgillman16]

I say the same thing to people walking around in masks and buying toilet paper. Stop watching tv. It's there to instill fear and control you

[@dagdbot83]

Your mom is one of the people with common sense

[@Toxked]

I recall one company sent out a letter saying that they are Y2K compliant and everything on it was dated for 1900. That was an error with the printing.

[@BBC600]

Toxked LOL 😂

[@Toxked]

@@BBC600 as nutty as it seems now there were people that thought all this would happen. The media hyped it and people thought the laws of physics would stop.

[@BBC600]

@@Toxked Yeah I had the opportunity to speak with a nurse about Y2K and she was telling me about how she was at the hospital as extra assistance just in case something did happen. I agree with this video though that perhaps if the larger systems weren't checked that some of the smaller "funny" errors could have caused problems. I was mainly laughing at the fact that the company took all that time and effort to write a letter and then said letter got printed with the very error they were writing about. I believe on The Computer Chronicles (which I watched online years after it first aired) Stewart Cheifet showed a credit card which he was issued with a messed up expiry date.

[@Toxked]

@@BBC600 yes, something could happen. What is interesting is when there is an "issue" happens. Most of the time people panicking causes more damage then the original problem would have.

[@DimitriosChannel]

Was it those, TPS Reports? ;-)

[@colonelyungblonsk7730]

2000 the computer doesn't recognize a date change 2100 the computer becomes president of the entire world,

[@mmcplus1947]

welcome to the year 19100! we have Dreamcast´s! 128mb compact flash cards! AND WINDOWS2000!!!!!

[@drone_better7757]

*Windows 19100.* Fixed that for you.

[@exodous02]

I think W2K came out earlier, the betas started coming out in 1998 and I used a burned copy of the latest beta until the second big patch of XP came out.

[@hsuhorn]

AZZlyTHE AZZhole now it’s the year 19119

[@memelordish6002]

Windows 2000 exists.

[@mmcplus1947]

This is my most liked comment and it's not even the funniest joke I made

[@RaianNSX]

Actual story: My grandma was called by IBM to help prepare for Y2K. She spent a whole week there, sleeping on a bag and eating takeout

[@agonleed3841]

Lol. She was fucking at work. Excuse not to come home She did her job, sure. But she was definitely fucking

[@ianlee6903]

whos here in 2999 watching and waiting to see what happens

[@colonelyungblonsk7730]

some say we're going to be invaded by Mars in 3000

[@tomoluis_01]

Nah watching this in 9999.

[@colonelyungblonsk7730]

@@tomoluis_01 one year before the Rapture

[@tomoluis_01]

General Leopold Horchigli p̷̢̝̩̘͉͕̤̱̥̮̼̮̪̠̥͎͆̈͐̀̇̿̔̉͌̏͑͘̚͘̕͜͝ͅl̷̝̥͔͖̲̞̥̘͕̑̋̈͆̉͑̕͝z̶̛͓̪̽̔̄͐̒̈̊̏̀͘̕ ̴̨̡̧̡̲̥̯̥͓̮̭̠̞̙͉̄͒̈́̿̌̚̚͝h̸̢̡̙̪̣͇͈̺̫͕̘̰̞̫̳͔̀͂́̈͌̿̕͜͜͝͝͠ē̵̦͙̗̙̭̖̩̣̠̉͘͘͜l̸̨̢̤̬͍͍̯̱̲͉͉͍̓̋̈́̃̾̋̀̽̇̕̚͠p̶̡̻͈̯͙̭̮̥̖̣̱͚̞̭̞̩̺̰͓͓̈́͗͂̉̽͐͆͠

[@kierarose3341]

Nah watching this. In 99999999999999999

[@unfinished8kt]

my dad sold our house and all but one car, moved us to a trailer on a farm he'd been preparing for a year and we stayed there for a week. i didn't know it then but he spent my college savings on all that mess. i was so mad when i found out.

[@andrewrobeson9129]

Keigerthetiger doubt

[@OisinEmerald]

LOL

[@pepe_extendus6528]

damn

[@raindrop5082]

You have a bad dad.

[@beezertwelvewashingbeard8703]

I would not publicly admit that.

[@uno6254]

*can you predict when karen will give back my kids?*

[@mazzystars]

Jesus we dont know fam

[@shelbiehrrs]

*the kids took Karen*

[@Ejisnwoais]

@@shelbiehrrs jesus....

[@crispyboi3505]

@@shelbiehrrs no Karen took the man which took the kids but the kids took the mab

[@imbadatnames818]

Never

[@Versaucey]

Welcome back to "Why is this video always in my recommend"?

[@dickurkel6910]

Nah, I'm happy it was, it was really interesting and I watch other videos concerning topics such as this so it makes sense for it to pop up in my recommendations

[@thegreatdnova2641]

Ikr

[@exoticcats6119]

Yup

[@jennymarker]

Welcome back again to “why the fuck are you always in the comments in every video????”

[@mikellogs3535]

I love that this shows up

[@dizzyikea]

After losing my job in the late 90's and nothing else on the horizon i went out as a self employed IT consultant, this went very well and i soon had a few solid streams of income. One of these streams was as support for a FSTE 100 company with many sites across Europe. I would basically cover holiday leave and provide extra support as BAU staff were engaged in rollout projects in the ever growing IT infrastructure in the dot.com bubble. Then the Y2K panic started and i was engaged to visit countless sites around first the UK, then into Europe, to test all the mission critical equipment and software. This was one of the most enjoyable and lucrative jobs i had in my life (and almost stress free). The company was a holding company and so had at least 10, i'm sure it was more but this was 20 years ago so i forget exactly but different companies it had purchased. They all used different systems (microsoft,lotus,ibm,unix and linux) on different networks (10baseT,ethernet,serial) and i was charged with making sure they would all survive the Y2K. The actual testing was quite simple, set the clock forward. Some hardware failed even at that stage as the bios could not handle it, easy fix buy new hardware. Some software failed again solution upgrade the software or migrate to something else. In the approximately 2 years i did this over many many sites across Europe only 2 systems across all the sites could not easily be made Y2K safe. One was a Aston-Tate Dbase database for lab results which i just rewrote in Microsoft access. The other was a Unix machine in a lab in the back of beyond in one site which i manged to patch even though this was the first time i had even seen Unix. So new years eve 1999 rolled by and all night i was expecting a phone call (i shouldn't have as i was a lowly contractor) didn't stop me having more than a few beers :).Guess what..... Nothing happened So 1999-2000 really was a closing chapter in my life and the start of a new one as now i was unemployed again!

[@joesterling4299]

I feel your pain. I felt it then for sure. Influx of foreign IT workers + Y2K solved + 9/11 = hard times.

[@Crowe90]

Boy I can’t wait for that blast from the past reboot

[@drone_better7757]

You mean the Beast from the East.

[@starzod8557]

you mean yeast from the least

[@darklinggolem]

And that's why computers after 2000 have MM/DD/YYYY rather MM/DD/YY

[@fakefirstnamefakelastname8305]

DarklingGolem50 What about 9999?

[@louc4765]

HolaSoyAndree By then either the world would have ended already (war) or that technology will be so advanced that it will be a non issue...

[@mattyiannielli2067]

Fakefirstname Fakelastname What about 10000?

[@ShadowSneak.]

@@mattyiannielli2067 it convert like a normal year

[@mattyiannielli2067]

Steven Serrano Yeah technology by then will definitely be controlled completely by then.

[@mix3k818]

That was a risky thing. Lucky us, the Y2K bug was not that impactful besides an Australian airport...

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

A power-plant in the mid-west shut down for a few minutes. (I miss the days when rebooting only took a few minutes.)

[@StevenGreenGuz]

The only reason that the Y2K bug wasn't that impactful was because a lot of people worked to ensure it wasn't.

[@writerpatrick]

It is possible they deliberately shut down during the time change to avoid a problem.

[@michaelsanchez1361]

Next bug: Unix bug, year 2038.

[@stargirl3352]

Only for systems that use the 32 bit timestamp, most have probaly upgraded to the 64 bit timestamp.

[@ElectrofizzStudiosCo]

@@stargirl3352 Ahah yeah about that...

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

Maybe consumers will have 64-bit systems by them, but a lot of corporate/enterprise systems, as well as many embedded systems will still be 32-bit. Look at how many ATMs still us XP… *_ATMs_* !

[@Frignothanks]

This, so much software stores UNIX time as a non-signed 32 bit integer. A lot of 32bit microcontrollers and PLCs will not be replaced by then, I garuntee it.

[@stargirl3352]

@SirWaffleOfSyrup Yeah... That is probaly right.. I've even seen some 'important' systems use DOS.. But if so, this systems should fail in my opinion or they should be forced to upgrade them.

[@johnnylee5226]

The world actually ended on the release of KZbin rewind 2018, exactly dec 6 2018.

[@DylanPickleGaming]

now we have all descended into hell, feasting only on content from the Paul brothers and youtubers that haven’t been relevant since 2010.

[@kierarose3341]

Yes

[@thisissaah_3536]

but, waitaminute, didn't JaidenAnimations save us from the end? no really, she snuck a pewds chair in the rewind.

[@wutadam]

The day before smash ultimate released! 𝖠𝗇𝖽 𝖺𝗅𝗌𝗈 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖽𝖺𝗒 𝖻𝖾𝖿𝗈𝗋𝖾 𝗆𝗒 𝖻𝗂𝗋𝗍𝗁𝖽𝖺𝗒.

[@broddajanes6910]

@@wutadam Oh, your birthday is 1 day away from mine :O

[@v1mz]

The last three characters on the video URL is DMY just like DDMMYY

[@basemaus3728]

@@NGC7009 ILLUMINATI WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION

[@basemaus3728]

@@NGC7009ILLUMINATI KNOWS YOUR LOCATION

[@basemaus3728]

@@NGC7009 ILLUMANITI HAS TELEPORTED YOU TO CTHULu

[@NGC7009]

@@basemaus3728 Chill

[@randyisftw]

theres a 50 Cent music video with "ASS" at the end of the url lol

[@LightBluly]

I was a baby during Y2K so idk what exactly happen or the reaction to the public. I do know about 2012 event. The day before doomsday, it was on the news everyone prays that nothing happen. I think the movie 2012 is the reason why people were panic.

[@mickels2020]

LightBluly - 2012 was such a shitty but hilarious movie. It was made just to scare people

[@GrapeCheckerBoard]

The Mayan calendar predicted that the world would end in 2012. The movie was made to capitalize on the fear of the world ending on that year.

[@nikolugo]

I remember not being nervous on New Year's Eve until I went to my great grandma's house and when it was starting to get close to the New Year by Grandma's started to pray in Spanish she was starting to freak out my cousins I was sitting in the living room with my eyes closed tired getting real nervous when the countdown was getting close to the new year until I heard hear one of my uncles yelled out Happy New Year I open my eyes relieved that nothing bad happen so I got up and start celebrating and having a good time lol the good old days

[@shrimpbisque]

I was so mad at my grandpa for falling for the apocalypse hype around this when I was a kid. Even my dad got roped into it, and they had us stock up on apocalypse food. It took us three months to get through all the taco-flavored fake meat he bought.

[@thespicyice6748]

Lol

[@yuckydude]

This was right before my 16th birthday. I was at a party at someone's farm in the mountains. When the electrical grid didn't fail and Jesus didn't arrive we were kind of relieved but kind of disappointed that something apocalyptic didn't happen.

[@sherrihall5479]

*ERROR I FORGOT WHAT YEAR IT IS* **now detonating all nukes**

[@pathacker4963]

It was an hysterical time. Some got rich and others just went bananas.

[@neutronstar6739]

"Time to make a business out of this."

[@neonavarro918]

*sells bananas, gets rich*

[@pathacker4963]

@@neonavarro918 lol, except bananas don't last very long, so they weren't considered survival gear.

[@MrPomegranX]

Everyday is the end of the world some way or another to some people.

[@LSqre]

That's... Morbid...

[@RatedMforMeenie]

You okay, bud?

[@MrPomegranX]

This was not something dark. I was making a joke about the fact that people always tell you that the “end is today because so and so said so” or some other bullshit like that.

[@combinationpizzahutandtaco3782]

🅱️ruh that’s deep

[@aa898246]

yeah i swear like every year is being called the end of the world lol

[@ArcticaTheFox]

XD I remember that. My mom was so confused why everyone was freaking out. Turns out everything was fine.

[@zsin128]

gud mum

[@shadowflame5007]

Even tho i wasn't alive to see this whole Y2K thing, god these people got way too worked up over this.

[@tracyaideyan6994]

Ikr

[@guy8384]

*Anyone remember when the internet,reporters, ect. Said that the world would end on 2012 lol?*

[@hellothere6728]

Guy I remember

[@thisisntreal8263]

But have you felt alive since

[@pitaya4151]

From 2012-2015 EACH year in Bulgaria I remember seeing "the world would end!" on TV. Funny times.

[@PackardKotch]

I wish it had because we wouldn’t worry about fortnite ruining kids.

[@thisissaah_3536]

yeah. i was born may 20th, 2006. i was born 6 years, 7 months, 1 day before people thought the mayan calender expired.

[@d7lta]

*remember when people were selling “y2k protected” laptops*

[@akadommy]

lol

[@cheedam8738]

LOLL THAT'S FUNNY ASF

[@albertjackinson]

That was a thing?!

[@janreiafrica]

The world will end when the first time machine was made and there's gonna be a r- Sorry. Wrong worldline.

[@awnnerd]

Our OS/2 email server went nuts. Some things DID screw-up.

[@ToTheGAMES]

OS2!

[@awnnerd]

@@ToTheGAMES Nothing else ran CC-Mail properly. Multi-tasking wasn't a "thing" on Wintel at the time ;-)

[@vicfanelli8918]

@@davidvasey5065 He means crazy

[@awnnerd]

@@davidvasey5065 I was working PC support at the time, not servers, but apparently it stopped working properly with CC Mail, and told the Novel server that it's database was corrupt. Sorry I can't provide more info, but as I said, wasn't my area!

[@javianjohnson8746]

This is a VERY WELL explained video! I was actually born in 1999, so I’ve never experienced it, only heard about it online and in stories. Thanks for this!

[@aequitas8749]

I wonder when the next "apocalypse" date will be.

[@aturchomicz821]

2020 is the time if ma death

[@CoolBird420]

January 22nd

[@marekmichalovic8711]

You can find out here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events

[@gorillaman283]

2038, which is when the time in many digital systems cannot store a larger value as a signed 32-bit binary integer. Like Y2K, if this isn't fixed, there are major devastating consequences, considering most computers in the world are based off Unix. As long as it is treated seriously, like Y2K, it can also be prevented.

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

The 2038-bug will be even more profound because the Unix epoch underpins most time/date libraries on most platforms, not just Linux. On the other hand, 32-bit systems are already being replaced with 64-bit systems at a fairly rapid clip, so other than (extremely) legacy systems, and perhaps embedded systems (which is actually a much bigger problem than people's home computers), most should be ready by 2038.

[@Jalter-kun]

People in 1999 "The world is going to end!" Corona 2020 "Hold my beer."

[@slyware-171]

So underrated

[@ARMORXV]

I don't remember much about my family being scared of Y2K, but I do remember that time the world was supposed to end in 2011. I was at my high school prom and once the night was over, we all walked out into a thick foggy parking lot and it was kind of unsettling. Thankfully, the only thing that ended that night was my hopes and dreams of getting with my high school crush lol

[@michaela5928]

Can’t wait to make my kids in 20 years watch videos on the 2020 toilet paper shortage

[@АндрейСитников-ь8о]

3:00 imagine your computer stuck in 1969 lmao

[@billlarson4636]

Thanks for creating and posting this video. My son (17) brought it to my attention. I (53) often talk to him about how impactful it was to companies and the government. This video does a nice job explaining the situation to a new generation. It was indeed a crazy time. IT departments were doubled in size in a matter of months. Salaries sky-rocked. My company set up cots in the cafeteria leading up to the date to accommodate round the clock coding and testing. Besides being an opportunity for India tech workers, many companies promoted women to lead Y2K initiatives - a demographic previously discriminated against for management positions in IT. In the end, there was little disruption and the common reaction was: "it was a false alarm". But it was a not. Rather, IT professionals rose to the occasion and saved the modern world. A couple editing notes: at 14:53 the graphic shows a Homeland Security logo alongside FEMA. That department did not exist until after 9/11 attacks. Also the issue was rarely referred to as the "Y2K bug". Rather it was called the "Y2K problem" or most commonly the "year two thousand problem".

[@SverreMunthe]

I got a new job in 1998 and the only thing that happened was that I was allowed to swap out all the servers, routers and switches in the local network. A great time for Dell, HP, Cisco and other companies selling network and computer stuff. 😂

[@AliceTheSpider]

I mean since we see some insignificant system affected, it could be way worse without panic. It's maybe just a invisible victory

[@writerpatrick]

One of the strategies of companies was to update their systems with new equipment. Companies spent a fortune modernizing. Of course it also was a good excuse to modernize anyway.

[@Legobuilder9000]

Wonder if something similar will happen for Y10K

[@festivalboat9068]

Jinx it my Dude

[@XENON2028]

nothing happens really, if your using windows its cpu usage will spike to 100 and thats it

[@elitecereal]

what about Y1M

[@Aureus07]

Nah humanity learned from the mistake they would have switched it to dd/mm/yyyyy by then

[@gavinthecrafter]

That's so far out in the future that I'm not sure computers as we know them now will even exist at that point

[@FBI-le1py]

I hope Justin Y is not here.. *DAMN NINJAS*

[@jahinzee]

He is.

[@vladimirlenin4080]

*Oh, you mean December 2012?*

[@CadgerChristmasLightShow]

12/21/12

[@CadgerChristmasLightShow]

@@TR2000LT look it up bruh, the actual "end of the world" day was supposed to be December 21st, 2012. Not the 12th. It was 12/21/12.

[@aimwell8813]

2012 ended in the summer I think

[@CadgerChristmasLightShow]

@@aimwell8813 oh yeah, I forgot about that. Pretty crazy when the year 2012 ended that summer.

[@theblinkstykrab3106]

12 oclock, 12 minutes, 12 seconds too

[@austinwood2818]

Windows XP is gonna have a Y10K bug

[@BA-en1ef]

Lol

[@SATOTEHDOOD]

1999: the world was gonna blow up 2019: the world was fine

[@mattyiannielli2067]

CJ - 2020: the world was still fine

[@Ldakk]

Matty Iannielli Jan 5th, 2020: war is about to start

[@Alexg3433]

Ldkj not really

[@BitShot]

Matty Iannielli 2020: *oops*

[@mrhk4833]

Matty Iannielli ohhhhhh helllll noooo

[@massimolisoni4990]

Great job! This is the perfect video about y2k I was waiting for!

[@alaskagyal]

I'm kinda sad I missed that, it would've been so cool. Well, I've got modern tech, so it's ok!

[@reallugia97]

lol "OH NO THE COMPUTER ISN'T GOING TO KNOW WHAT YEAR IT IS, THAT MEANS MY WATER ELECTRICITY AND EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BREAK!!!!" lmao

[@dr.syedmuhammadmanazer-ul-414]

❌ Error: Cannot process date "01, 01, 00". Nukes deploying in 20 seconds.

[@awlomthesheepermen]

Wait so the idea of the Indian tech support came because of y2k

[@wedrownysowianin9387]

I believe it was planned that way. Make them ubiquitous in IT for a bogus crisis, then when the crisis passes no one questions their presence so it doesn't make the news when a company forces its staff to train their replacements and no one thinks its ironic when Microsoft lays off tens of thousands of workers then calls for exactly that many new H-1Bs.

[@joesterling4299]

Yes. As a programmer, I went from getting signing bonuses in the 90s to hard times in the new century, partly because of the massive influx of new IT people (and also because of the 9/11 devastating effects on . . . well, everything). Once Y2K was handled, we were all competing for fewer jobs.

[@awlomthesheepermen]

Joe Sterling I’m sorry fam, I hope eventually your wages get better

[@dogbones1284]

This video was so good I started getting more scared of the vid ending than the world

[@Andrew-sv3ck]

My dad worked at a large bank at the time. This video doesn’t quite hit how absolutely panicked everyone was for the y2k bug. Everyone was terrified that all bank records would be lost. He said that all of the IT guys were working more than 80 hours a week testing things. Absolute panic.

[@mix3k818]

Don't rest that easy. The Y2K38 bug still exists in 32-bit UNIX systems (MacOS, Linux, BSD etc.)

[@OhMyKMPR]

I highly doubt that this bug will cause much trouble. macOS hasn't had support for 32-bit since 2011. Linux and BSD work on 32-bit hardware but a lot of distributions drop support for them because nearly every machine has been 64-bit since like 2008 (at the latest).

[@TheDevil259]

@@OhMyKMPR Don't forget that a lot of embedded systems (ATMs for example) still use 32-bit Linux. So it could be a problem if they aren't updated in the next 19 years.

[@TheCandoRailfan]

By 2038, I'd be surprised if anything in serious use is still 32-bit. In 2018, 32-bit is already on the way out, 2038 is 19 years away. I'm 19 years old (trust me, 19 years is a long time). When I was born, 16-bit computers were still around but on the way out, and 19 years later, they are no longer in practical use. 32-bit is in the same position now as 16-bit was in 1999, it's still around but on the way out, 19 years from now it won't be in practical use. Not to mention, I think most operating systems use an unsigned variable for UNIX time, meaning the issue won't be until 2106.

[@BaronVonQuiply]

I have it on good authority that John Titor saved us from that. Funny how he didn't seem to know about 64 bit computing though.. coulda saved a trip.

[@nonnnth]

19 years is so far away, they probably replace all 32 bit systems by then.

[@luisgonzalez5482]

The $91k late fee lmao. It certainly was a disaster. For those poor souls that rented movies/books at least.

[@carsonfball4]

My first job was fixing potential Y2K issues. Nothing catastrophic would have happened if these weren't fixed (e.g. planes would not have fallen out of the sky). At most, people would have been inconvenienced when their paychecks said that they were issued much earlier than they really were (and other related issues). Also, there was no error. There was lack of foresight that old code and computer hardware would be used in the year 2000 (which could be viewed as bugs), but there were no errors. And even if there were, that would be "errors" (plural) not "error" (singular) as it wasn't just an issue in one piece of hardware or code. Most code that I have seen would have reverted back to 1900, not 19100 or 100. The reason for this is that, since it was only set to handle storing a 2-digit year, anything beyond two digits would be dropped. So, when 1900 was added to the two digits to get the current year, it would be 1900 (1900 + 00). That's not to say that some code wouldn't have treated this as 19100 or 100 (or even 2000), but none of the code that I was fixing would have done that. If code was able to successfully use more than two digits for the year, then it probably would have just continued to work properly in the first place. Any 19100 seen in the wild were most likely results of a fix gone wrong. I have seen this in code fixes where someone prefixed the string "19" to the new date 100 and got the string "19100". Adding strings to numbers is allowed in languages that are not strongly typed. What they would have meant to have done was add 1900 (the number) to 100. Edit: I forgot to add, that my first job was as a COBOL programmer. You mentioned that there are still jobs looking for COBOL programmers and I can honestly say that I'm glad there are fewer and fewer of these every year.

[@Tall_Order]

1999 was my Senior year and I remember my High School friends joking about how the next year will be 1900 and time itself would go back to that. People would be driving Model Ts, TV would disappear, clothing styles would go back to top hats and canes, etc.

[@milk7360]

ha your friends were idiots. Model Ts were released in 1908

[@Tall_Order]

Can't really expect much of 90s kids in the 90s before wikipedia existed. lol

[@sayanmalakar8438]

10:32 just imagine yourself as that guy. I bet that guy was crying and laughing at the same time.

[@zeroeffortmemes]

Well one of the biggest Y2K failures actually occurred this year, Jan1 2020 in New York City - The entire parking payment system went down for several weeks.

[@jerry3790]

What I don’t get is how people thought the date being displayed wrong would somehow cause planes to crash.

[@rjonboy7608]

It wasn't really that planes would crash, though there was a lot of sensational reports. It was that the air traffic computers and on board instruments computers would crash, leaving the planes grounded. It was unlikely they would be allowed to fly at such a risky time, but if they did they would have to land without instruments, possibly without radio contact with the airport. Not good.

[@priyanshupradhan4388]

it is still an underrated channel

[@deltabeta5527]

Is your nick name Priya?

[@priyanshupradhan4388]

@@deltabeta5527 nope

[@DDAO730]

I thought it was the time the Emoji Movie came out.

[@cletusismynigga8046]

Boi

[@mattyiannielli2067]

The Emoji Movie was an underrated movie.

[@thecoolguy4553]

@@mattyiannielli2067 no.

[@attackdoge2003]

I thought I was safe until he mentioned a y38k.

[@thefox5301]

You are as most of not all systems are 64bit

[@brothinkhecarti69]

Y3K

[@Aaroncarter55726]

I remember my parents freaking out about Y2K when I was 7 years old and nothing happened. Now it’s 2021 and too much happened.

[@twenty1gunz-893]

I remember around 2012 my dad was acting kinda strange and saying “just remember I love you” stuff like that while we were on our way to my moms house so he could drop me off. He actually took me to McDonald’s and chuckecheese even though he was really broke and almost couldn’t even afford food for home but he took me anyways. He was genuinely afraid the world was going to end and he actually didn’t tell me that the world was going to end till I was about ten which explained a lot. Rofl writing this just made me realize how much my dad actually cares, I’m seriously crying rn oof bye

[@ZeryArtzTM]

Omega LOL

[@joshuasingletary9703]

When your born after 2000 and wondering why the computers arent flat screen

[@9nikola]

"The Time the World Almost Ended" Which time, you say? Please specify.

[@thisissaah_3536]

(i get the joke, dont woosh me.) 12/31/99-1/1/00.

[@show3rge1sussy46]

1/1/2012

[@idea7957]

12/23/2012

[@mattyiannielli2067]

December 31, 1999 11:59:59 PM to January 1, 2000 12:00:00 AM Y2K!

[@confusedaf1112]

*insert the day the Corona virus pandemic started*

[@lptotheskull]

"That Time the World Almost Ended" "Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?"

[@RebelTaxi]

6:46 Action 4 News woooot wooooot

[@akachan1.241]

How do you only have 3 likes but your famous

[@HenryFlansberg]

I didn’t expect to see you here

[@johncholmes643]

I partied like it was 1999 that day

[@LeBonkJordan]

I like this video because it's informative and thorough and doesn't have any sponsor shilling or "don't forget to subscribe" nonsense. Just a well-made video with no strings attached.

[@97Giorgos97]

Thank You India, Very Cool!

[@thepedrothethethe6151]

13:58 Nice Kurzgesagt reference. Better I start stocking some of those calendars, in case of my machine not working properly.

[@NGC7009]

ummmm

[@jlpt9960]

* THIS IS THE BRAIN OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM THE DENDRETIC CELL*

[@PolychromaticZero]

imagine panicking over the change of 4 numbers into another one that was completely normal

[@AidenGibson1]

Now people, Y2K was a big event even thought I was not alive. People spent hundreds of dollars on supplies they did not need. And trust me. I know coders are working on the 2100 bug.

[@mikosoft]

I was 17 at the time and I remember it pretty well. I already knew about computers and I wasn't worried much because I knew our OS at home was fine and that people are working on making sure everything works. Oh, and I'm from Europe so we didn't get nearly half as much panicked and overblown reporting as the US got. I was still nervous when the New Year's Eve came that year but nothing special happened, as was stated in the video. All the expectations were washed away by the mundaneness of the next days.

[@MaximNightFury]

Just think, there's gonna be another kind of apocalypse when the 32-bit max integer in time gets here unless they either a) all upgrade to 64-bit devices, or b) provide a fix for the issue, if not already provided

[@glitchy_weasel]

13:25 He explains it

[@MaximNightFury]

@@glitchy_weasel I kinda figured that out my dude

[@DC.....]

Brilliant Mini documentary it was good to relieve this crazy time.... Hope you do more of these mini documentaries about past times

[@System-br1tx]

My computers date is 9/10/1397 and boii some apps really hate it

[@rishnadoproductions]

Ami Hoosin does this mean constantinople hasn’t fallen!!!??!!???!!?!!?

[@LechuKawaii]

@@rishnadoproductions We have a lot of time to destroy the Ottoman Empire and prevent constantinople from falling

[@System-br1tx]

Thats the persian calendar bois.

[@Robin-bd2ox]

why didn't they just gently yeet themselves out of their window when 2000 came, that would have been a lot more entertaining

[@generalchaos6]

Let me swooce right outta here!

[@jnathano5320]

Spoke too soon.

[@vamtheanomaly]

It was a bad point in my life. I had recently become single again, 29 years old, unemployed, and living with a friend who worked so much I was hardly even noticeable. He had a rag tag trailer that despite my efforts, he didnt care how messy and shitty it looked. He had dial up at least and as I sat there on my 33k modem it was Dec 31, 1999 11:55 am. I remembered waking up later as was the norm for a bum like me and said, "Oh wow only 5 more minutes until the apocalypse!" I lightly chuckled and remembered how despite my loser status, I was still more sane than most of the panicky population. I looked at the clock at 11:59 and then 12:00 rolled around. I had windows 98 SE and...nothing happened to my expectation. At this point with all the mass drama, I knew that one day...I could control the world.

[@SantiagoMonroy5]

2038 and 2050 is next... Well nothing will happen im sure

[@osraikar3283]

What what ???

[@tenshi_amachi]

Greedo Nah, the UNIX will only affect 32-bit computers. 64-bit won’t get destroyed.

[@tenshi_amachi]

Greedo Oh ‘kay. xD

[@ccricers]

If any file systems use 32 bit timestamps they will be affected by the 2038 problem

[@Makoto03]

I remember this. I was a kid at the time and the adults i knew were terrified about this. I didn't really understand it at the time. Glad nothing happened though. lol

[@MaxonerousX]

StringerNews1 The douchiness wasn't necessary though

[@joesterling4299]

@StringerNews1 Nothing catastrophic would have happened in any event. Accounting errors would have been fixed ASAP. Utilities would have been restored even sooner. The internet was not essential in 1999, so it could have weathered glitches and outages. And no system was designed to blow up or fall out of the sky because of an abnormal date change.

[@GSaiNikhilBiPC]

My family owned a computer repair shop during the 90's. We made an absolute killing performing "Y2K Tests" on customers computers all we really did was set the date forward a year LOL and see if it still functioned. Easiest money we'll ever make! People were totally freaking out about Y2K it was awesome like WOW😎!

[@bazzcs]

Spectacular video very informative! By the way the ACTUAL video starts at 0:00