Time Bomb Y2K | Official Trailer | HBO

What a time to be alive.
#TimeBombY2K, an @HBO Original Documentary that examines the 1999 doomsday computer glitch and explores how modern life has been dramatically transformed by the digital revolution, premieres December 30 on @StreamOnMax.
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[@hotbari]

This video makes it look like the people were driving the hysteria. It was the Media driving the fear as always.

[@davethibault6734]

Some will say that it was all overblown and that we wasted our time because nothing happened. When really, programmers and technical experts worked day and night so that nothing would happen.

[@omnimoeish]

Sorry to spoil it for you 24 years later. No one other country spent a dime on Y2K prepping and nothing happened to them either.

[@davethibault6734]

@@omnimoeish I know for a fact that is not true. I wasn't living in the US in '99 and my country spent millions of dollars on being Y2K ready, as did so many other European countries.

[@miguelangelsucrelares5009]

I wonder how it ends.. The suspense is killling me!

[@perryiampietro5785]

HA!

[@ianbauer4703]

LA!!

[@simsreject5925]

Don't spoil it, I'm still watching WW2 in Color. The German Blitzkrieg looks scary, but at least the French have their impenetrable Maginot Line.

[@joeyree22]

My dad was one of the many engineers that worked on Y2K a projects. His project started 1997 and he was “on call” in his office building that night. My mum went with him and they had their own little 2000 celebration, when it all rolled over without a hitch. He was happy to see the end of it! I was 18, and out at a missive gathering partying like it was 1999 😅

[@AGNT-K22]

All i got from this is that i want Matthew Macfadyen to play bezos in something.

[@kingofswing3000]

I keep a book about Y2K on my shelf -- Time Bomb 2000 -- that I've had since 1999. I keep it as a reminder of how things don't always happen the way we think they will. Now, I also don't belittle or criticize Y2K preparedness. A good friend of mind was in the tech sector at the time and basically said things weren't going to get bad but that's because companies like his were spending tons to fix a real tech issue. So, had companies not taken action, while maybe not dystopian, midnight could have brought some major complications. So always prepare for the worse, pray for the best, and live each day like it's your last.

[@greyeyed123]

A small army of programmers saved us so everyone could yawn and say nothing was going to ever happen anyway.

[@EerieV23]

Came here to say this.

[@joeyree22]

My dad was one of them! He was on a Y2K project for 3 years! And he was “on call” in his office building that night. My mum went with him and they had their own little 2000 celebration, when it all rolled over without a hitch. He was happy to see the end of it! I was 18, and out at a missive gathering partying like it was 1999 😅

[@flogtwo]

More like a gigantic army of programmers, lol, but yeah they fixed the 2 digit date issue

[@jasonr375]

I have yet to hear reasonable logic as to why a computer turning a 99 into 00 would crash everything.

[@EerieV23]

@jasonr375 the problem was in many programs the date was tracked as mm/dd/yy. So, when 12/31/99 became 01/01/00, would read as January 1, 1900; not 2000. Think how companies track sales, workers hours, etc. It would cause major issues in every industry. The programers went in and changed it to mm/dd/yyyy so it would read the date correctly.

[@lavoixdevelours]

Those days were crazy. This took my back to it. My brother legit thought the world would end, but I graduated in May of that year. Looking back it seems like some social experiment.

[@dageek1000]

officially the year when human brain has stopped working.

[@uhya-sure8280]

HA...........Ya, pretty close

[@itsmetonylei2540]

good times... I was directly working at a startup that was solving this for business. Everyone made so much money!

[@terranceporter2644]

I predict the sequel will be about 2012 and the Mayan calendar. 😂.

[@TdT2211]

That was such trash! Lol

[@perryiampietro5785]

HA!

[@DJGamingSmash]

Emmerich already made that.

[@siriso007]

Then the next year up is 2030

[@ianbauer4703]

"Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... MASS HYSTERIA!"

[@Linzo24]

I remember (43 year old woman here) - my next door neighbor where I grew up in NJ (he was 6'5 200+ Defensive End for Penn State in the 1960s) - was warning us all before I went off to college in the summer of 1999 - the end of times was coming. He had a FULL set of guns and whatnot - and he was starting to dig a bunker - 'just in case'.

[@higgme1ster]

This looks like a bunch of hokum. I was a technician at MCI telecommunications and we had to swap out PROMs or EPROMS on controller cards on some systems and the programmers created software patches to include the digit 2 in front of the year, especially for customer billing, but that was done in plenty of time to keep phone and data service working just fine. I did have to sit at work that night in the Southeast Regional Long Distance Terminal just so that someone could say that we could respond to any glitch, but I was working the usual night shift anyway like every other night shift. After all, almost all work on the telecommunications grid is done at night when customers are asleep. It was the ignorant journalists who were they fearmongers.

[@DoubleT2323]

It’s the 30th…where is it? I was looking forward to this.

[@PeaceNYC2011]

Can't wait to see this! Congratulations Brian, Peter and your entire team!

[@TdT2211]

I remember that night, I was at the club with my homies Michael Legendre, Nolamite, and the former Dianamite! It was a effing great night!

[@justwatching1980]

They did their job so well that nothing bad happened. If only other things would be so easy. I won't say what other things, but if you think about it a little... if everyone cooperated 20 years later, another problem we faced might not have been so bad...

[@MarcusAurelius7777]

EVERYONE watched Hong Kong at midnight on January 1st, 2000 to see if all the lights would go out - true story - had to be there!! lol

[@eliosottoscritti3352]

ANOTHER GEM OF A SOUNDTRACK BY THE ONE AND ONLY NATHAN MICAY!!!!!

[@dablet]

i was there. 3000 years ago. we camped near ATMs and expected cash to spill all over. sadly, nothing happened.

[@videovaulttv]

I thought this was about Y2J Chris Jericho

[@MomMom4Cubs]

At 16, I was integral to fixing this for our local phone company. I got paid in free long distance phone calls and being one of the last people to sneak into the basement to play with A.D.A.M (the robot that would eventually contribute to the development of AI) for not only the century, but the millennium as well.

[@kevink973]

There were people who were disappointed that the end of the world didn't happen.

[@user-vv9lr2rw5d]

It did. Just not the way we were expecting

[@brahmanspleroma3792]

There will always be people who are disappointed that the world didn't end when they hoped it would.

[@jackchop1576]

I remember everyone freaking out over this.

[@peaceinthemiddleeast4349]

I remember my family was going nuts about Y2K. I remember my reply being. We are going to be okay. People are working on it right now. Plus, I doubt the world ends at 12:30 am NY time.

[@RetroCheating]

The day the world ended! For my Digital Watch haha

[@sohanblues]

best comment

[@IIllIIllIIllIIll]

I'm sure the documentary movie is already done, but PLEASE! Include the Jenny Jones Y2K episode, it's HILARIOUS!

[@Pixietink]

This ws huge!

[@askme3411]

I remember everyone was worried the ATMs would not work besides the computers. No one went out for New Year's (where I lived) that year. Nothing happened.

[@jsmith6629]

This is something I would not miss no matter what appointments I have lined up. This looks extremely interesting.

[@Wayzor_]

paid comment

[@Cosmo87-]

What’s the name of the song at the beginning?

[@pb.pb.pb.pb.]

Does anyone know the songs from the ending credits? It is like a chill electro beat? I tried to Shazaam it, but it didn't work. Please tell me if you know the song name !!! Thanks

[@pawel8365]

"I'm just worried about terrorism" - buddy, there's a whole lot in store for you... just be patient.

[@GrimmBookMedia]

Bezos with hair looks like Kevin Spacey

[@chayannebautista4244]

This is the Story of the Millennium

[@greatwazzoo]

The real problem is the year 2038 problem , also referred to as the year zero problem.

[@youtubesuresuckscock]

No it isn't. It's no different than this. People will update everything and nothing will happen. See, people like you are basically forces of chaos and evil. You just SPEW nonsense without having any real understanding of anything. Stop polluting the internet.

[@allnamesaretaken]

When you grow up during the 80s with all the moral panics, you realised in the 90s that this was nothing more than an extension of that mass hysteria and to this day, people keep being easily manipulated by the media and excessively paranoid who want to sell you something in the name of survival but yet those people cant explain what use that money is to them if all the world is going to fall where money is useless. People have to learn to sit back, look at things objectively from the outside rather than getting caught up in the hype and hysteria.

[@karlhungus5554]

I'm glad the country isn't crazy like it was back in then. Now, everything is perfectly normal. (◔_◔)

[@anthonyw1506]

Funny thing is, even though the world didn't come to an end, a lot of crazy/horrible things has happened since the year 2000. So they kinda got it right lol.

[@beepboop9464]

​@@jon8004 More like since the beginning of civilization.

[@profoundwanderer1441]

Seems like no one really knows just how crazy it was for the people fixing all the coding before Y2K. It was a legit scare, and not just some b.s, because "nothing happened"..

[@jrdoo7x]

not really because i had electronic devices from mid 90's that still worked in the year 2000. The truth was it was no big deal it just a theory that got a life of its own..@@profoundwanderer1441

[@mikemaynard9723]

Spoiler alert….nothing happened.

[@profoundwanderer1441]

Yeah but there were actually pretty big risks. Just because nothing happened, everyone just assumed it was all b.s.

[@user-ProcelsXXI]

The problem of Christian's face turning red.

[@ct6852]

Spoiler Alert: The Willennium went off without a hitch.

[@mart9048]

The world has been broken since Y2K so It did a lot of damage.

[@kylefarrell381]

Y2k was 🎉

[@heathsalter8549]

Pysop...wake up

[@wajidhussain5305]

Americans a gift that keeps on giving 😂

[@tylerduggan7776]

Part of me wonders if it did happen and this is all a sim

[@kykeon]

Look at Jeff Bezos here. Just a simp, nerd guy. Now He is jacked and all.

[@ellDiavolo666]

1:15 seriously is that a young Brittney ?

[@user-vq1wc4oh2m]

bezos is just the luckiest guy to have started an online store. the billionaires are not special

[@midnull]

duh, lol

[@philsurtees]

Complete nonsense. If you think that, then you have no idea what actually happened. He deserves every penny he has *EARNED.* Let me guess, you think Bill Gates was just lucky too?

[@dannydevito5729]

I'm confused. What is HBO

[@simsreject5925]

Well I guess its a good thing the world didn't end in 2000. Or 2012. Now we just have to make if thru Jan 21, 2030, and 19 Jan 2038.

[@user-lo3ro1mb5j]

haha. looks like a good documentary. lowkey wish it happened tho.

[@thebum7559]

Hey man I saw your profile on pornhub and if it's not you... someone took your picture...hahah

[@jimtokheim1422]

Ok, I will say it "Kids these days will never understand".

[@cuongnguyennnZ]

"RỒI CHÚNG MÌNH VẼ CHUYỆN"

[@187mrsmith]

I would have to say everything is not better now because humans are more out of touch with each other more now than ever an rely to much on technology humans are soft an weaker now more then ever

[@chazjones9568]

Ok... I'll watch... Bc I'm bored

[@LoveFactorySweatShop]

proto-QAnon

[@michaelpopely4408]

And nothing happened

[@brahmanspleroma3792]

It's not the destination, it's the journey. XD

[@dethfilmsinc5047]

@@brahmanspleroma3792The journey was like driving on Route 66 arid and dry at first, then it was all uphill.

[@profoundwanderer1441]

Yeah but there were people frantically coding to prevent catastrophe. Sounds like a "conspiracy theory" at this point, because so many people called b.s. 😅

[@uhya-sure8280]

Wasn't too hard to get HBO to buy this one was it Becker! - You have 95% liberal minded at Warner just like yourself

[@GrimmFilmEnt]

Fun ride down the nostalgia road, slightly inconvenienced by the amount of pretentious people in this documentary.

[@biskopdaher]

Hbo and the pdos

[@Whoisdringo]

These are the people today who love right wing conservative conspiracy theories 😂

[@Infamous41]

My kind of pples

[@DopeyDetector]

100% 😂

[@DopeyDetector]

Now they wait for JFK Jr to return

[@TdT2211]

You might be on to something...about that time, our local conservative conspiracist started hocking survival gear...

[@jordangraegin4817]

​@1stresponder383 You still waiting for JFK jr??

[@chadgrov]

We making documentaries on complete nothing burgers? nothing happened.

[@TdT2211]

Nothing burgers seem pretty popular these days...

[@chadgrov]

@@TdT2211 they always were, but everyone didn’t have access to it 24/7 for eternity. Thanks Apple.

[@glassmuxxic]

Nothing happened because thousands of engineers and government administrators spent thousands of manhours fixing systems. If anything, a documentary about very real technical problems being made harder to solve by nutbars and opportunists profiting from the chaos seems more relevant now than ever.

[@Tracer9GTRider8]

The documentary is about all the hype and hysteria and craziness around what turned out to be a complete non-event. So many grifters and scammers took advantage of the nut jobs and gullible.

[@Fubeman]

@@Tracer9GTRider8 Except that is WAS an event. Thousands of programmers and engineers worked tirelessly to make sure that all the vital systems were all updated with some programs being so old and were without any manuals, that guys in their 70s and 80s were brought back in from retirement to help with updates and fixes. My neighbor was one of them. Without these people, many systems could have gone horribly wrong. There were a lot of unsung heroes of this time. Just because "nothing happened" did not mean that nothing was done behind the scene.s Look it up.

[@dee-jay45]

Spoiler Alert: Nothing (significant) happened.

[@lebaron10]

A documentary about society overreacting to a whole lotta nothing. Yawn

[@alexsummers9140]

Y2K was boring. Why have a doc?

[@fascinatedbyeverything]

It was boring because people took it seriously and thus programmers worked tirelessly to fix the problem *before* it happened. If people hadn't taken it seriously then, ironically, there would have been problems. But this is a problem with society....you often don't get credit for preventing problems before they happen, only if you do nothing, let carnage ensue, and *then* fix it.

[@toastedjoe1013]

@@fascinatedbyeverything People with low intelligence can't understand these basic concepts.

[@daelen.cclark]

Y2K aesthetic institute on tumblr brought me here, and I’m glad they did!

[@stevensmith-rb9if]

BORING

[@jerrydandrige1987]

Seems like it was only the yanks going crazy as per usual 😂😂