Y2K Scare VHS Tapes (Year 2000 Bug Preparedness) - Rental Reviews

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It's the Year 2000 (+20) on this episode of Rental Reviews. James, Kieran, and Justin jump back 20 years to when Y2K was an actual computer bug that many people were worried about. Well, worried enough to spend millions fixing the problem and selling VHS tapes to scare people at home. Think of the 2012 end of the world scare, but way worse. People were even doing prepper type stuff by collecting food, water, and the basic essentials when the world shut down.
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Special thanks to Maitraya Andrews for sending the movie!!
VIDEO LINKS:
Y2K Family Survival Guide with Leonard Nimoy
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Y2K Year 2000 Crossroads (Home Preparedness)
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Y2K "Year To Kill" Full Length Movie (with other trailers)
Video: • Y2K Year To Kill - Ful...
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[@JamesNintendoNerd]

Check out "SkyCorp Home Video" who made the intro: kzbin.info/door/IoDNWuAq3wPv11BXbr5xMg VIDEO LINKS BELOW: Y2K Family Survival Guide with Leonard Nimoy Video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKDMhWqGes19rM0 Box art: i.imgur.com/3vBsGjB.jpg Y2K Year 2000 Crossroads (Home Preparedness) Video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHe2kIOImb-Jqqc Box art: i.imgur.com/FBtwInK.jpg Y2K "Year To Kill" Full Length Movie (with other trailers) Video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnrSh5aIrJ6Db9E Box art: i.imgur.com/50ENdaS.jpg Special thanks to Maitraya Andrews for sending the movie!!

[@JackHan_0812]

I love SkyCorp. Many love to them☆

[@comrade_grigory2133]

Raid 2020

[@merrickv2028]

Holy hell that's awesome! I love these guys. I'm glad they're getting the attention they deserve!

[@bryanl1984]

Most of Y2K was (Edit: averted / _mostly)_ a joke but, there were _SERIOUS_ concerns about Russia's antiquated Deadhand / Perimeter automatic nuclear retaliation system being patched, as it required human input at regular, time stamped intervals to NOT launch the nukes. Yes, Russia actually has (had?) their entire arsenal hooked up to an egg timer with no human input. Even worse, it was programmed with _really_ obscure, old programming languages with few practitioners and partially was also hardcoded. The CIA took it super seriously at the time. Now, we only need to wory about the Unix date issue launching all of _our_ Nukes! Also, I love your guy's content!

[@PissyKnish]

"Countdown to Chaos" Starring Lou Gossett Jr.* Also the current star of HBO's Watchmen.

[@InuYugiHakusho]

"After Y2K, the end of the world had become a cliche." - Max Payne, 2001

[@Matsonius]

funny as hell, it was the most horrible thing i could think of

[@redseagaming7832]

I agree I think it was the biggest waste of money ever because this Y2K thing never happened

[@dreamlandnightmare]

The end of the world had became a cliche long before Y2K. Though the fears were of a religious, rather than a technological, nature, a similar panic occurred on the eve of the year 1000.

[@sourekpetr]

As a „cobol programmer“ I look forward to 31. 12. 9999 :-D

[@MaxPayne.]

I want another Max Payne game.

[@stealthlord6614]

When the "Y2K" ball dropped I was litterally playing killer instinct on N64 and didn't see the clock untill like 12:45am

[@turbo682]

Killer instinct was on n64?

[@stealthlord6614]

The edit on the original is I had to add the am to 12:45AM or it was time stamping

[@stealthlord6614]

@Can't Think of a Name I agree lol

[@codyduchnowsky5063]

Can't Think of a Name fuck yea

[@Saixjacket]

Killer instinct Gold

[@blackphoenix77]

Whenever they do a close up on James, that Mac and Me poster is so distracting 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@odkres]

Oh dear god, it's looking at me.

[@ZayAlexander420]

Compared to an action figure of a friggin tree from commando behind the other dude

[@BenDover-wc8jr]

The BJ alien

[@trabucodonosor838]

@@BenDover-wc8jr I loved it when I was younger. Now I switched to Mr. Bucket 😯😮😯😮😱

[@IronHusky81]

I want “Atlantis was taken down by Y2K “ on a t-shirt

[@toshirodragon]

YES!!

[@lastguyontheleft3828]

Bush did Atlantis

[@higgledypiggledycubledy8899]

I was studying comp sci in 98 and 99 - there was a huge demand for coders to update old programs. While there was definitely a lot of bullshit, it's worth noting that a lot of problems have been averted by doing a LOT of debugging beforehand. There would definitely have been a significant economic impact if the issue hadn't been adressed. It's kind of ironic: part of the reason this was perceived as 100% nonsense is that we actually anticipated and fixed the problem :-)

[@jC-kc4si]

Why can't we do the same thing again and fix healthcare? Maybe have NASA work on this problem.

[@AirLancer]

That's the problem with people. If you actually take proper precautions and prevent something from becoming a problem, they assume that it was never a big deal to begin with.

[@MisterCasket]

I always say "there WAS an apocalypse coming, but Buffy stopped it!"

[@RichardMajor86]

Exactly right. Was seen as a non-issue by most people because it was all fixed

[@noahheninger]

Very good point. Thankfully, we won't have to worry about this again until the year 10000.

[@jdb2002]

When James mentioned 32 bits, it brought to mind this scene: 64 bits 32 bits 16 bits 8 bits 4 bits 2 bits 1 bit Half bit Quarter bit THE WRIST GAMEEEEEE!

[@viscountrainbows6452]

[angry tiny clicking]

[@theangryaustralian7624]

Twas a good time...a better time

[@Sp1derFingers]

Half a byte also known as a nibble

[@audiooddities9982]

I love that episode!

[@alexsilva28]

One of my favorite moments of the modern episodes

[@100domathon]

That intro was so well done I thought it was actually made back in 1999. Kudos

[@covcova]

My uncle dug an enormous hole in his backyard in preparation for Y2K He was comforted with the knowledge that if all the computers in the world shut down he could go outside and sit in the hole

[@alexiswritingvideos]

Justin Cordova Doin’ some good hole sittin’.

[@mrRufffnTumble]

The procrastinating prepper lol I'll put the bunker in eventually

[@technounionrepresentative4274]

Lol. How would that help anything?

[@nil0bject]

@@technounionrepresentative4274 did y2k happen? nope. i think that guys uncle saved us with that hole. unsung heroes

[@themoralreformchronicles9231]

Justin that is hilarious!! Laughing my but off here lol

[@Dorelaxen]

I was working at a game store in '99 and I had someone being dead serious ask me if the GameBoy was Y2K compatible.

[@Anthonybchannel]

Jeez. People were genuinely serious back then

[@alexiswritingvideos]

Well is it???

[@rikustorm13]

Lmfao fr?

[@kenn_k]

@@alexiswritingvideos Seriously, this is important information. Who just leaves you hanging like that?? LIVES ARE AT RISK HERE

[@JerryListener]

Holy **** id would have upsold something to that customer..

[@sarahmiles]

NYE of 1999...I was at the movies seeing the cinematic classic “Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo”.

[@jakeredd]

Eaaaaaarrs!!

[@ArcanePath360]

I remember picking up cigar ash. With my anus.

[@sega32xxx14]

@@ArcanePath360 ....with the actual hole?!

[@ArcanePath360]

@@sega32xxx14 Yep. It was before I dropped my ice cream in the Jacuzzi

[@System_smasher]

So you wanted it to be the end of the world then?

[@samvimes9510]

My mom was absolutely freaked out by Y2K. She made a garden in our backyard, learned how to can foods, started buying huge buckets of grain and water, all sorts of shit. Our garage looked like one of those doomsday prepper's bunkers.

[@adamsfusion]

On the rainwater thing: Really only a couple of states have laws against it and it's due to a really flawed understanding of the hydrological cycle. However, most states allow it, and many of those states provide additional information, plans, and some even give financial incentives to collect rainwater.

[@PradeepPurple]

Thats what i figured, it has more to do with the water cycle in a particular area than "goverments forcing us to use supermarkets...MAN!!"

[@Twinkiman89]

The one guy who did get arrested and fined for collecting rainwater got in trouble because he collected literally multiple olympic swimming pool's worth of water and was building dams for it. He was only fined $1000 or something like that.

[@johnbasterson7938]

@@Twinkiman89 that's still ridiculous. If I want to save 7 trillion gallons of rain water that's my business.

[@DownFromTheDoorWhereItBegan]

It’s crazy that almost 20 years have passed and we still use light to see.

[@scottp.548]

I thought for sure we'd be using candles again. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@neilgeckle6061]

dralezero Honestly a perfect simple joke lol

[@AleK0451]

i was hoping we'd have evolved sonar to see with sounds

[@foxandbarrettshow6916]

You speak for yourself mister I'm currently watching this entire flick in infrared

[@AleK0451]

@@foxandbarrettshow6916 infrared is on the light spectrum bruh

[@sarysa]

Y2K was a real, albeit exaggerated problem, The thing is, the programmers of the world were aware of it for a few years prior and dealt with it...it never needed to be hyped to the point of being a household term.

[@Christian-rn1ur]

sarysa This just in, people are stupid and the media have no morals. In other news, shocking discovery that water is wet, but could dihydrogen monoxide actually be bad for you?

[@handsomebrick]

In defense of the Y2K scare, people dealt with it but there was always the chance that they overlooked something.

[@sarysa]

@@Christian-rn1ur Not news to me. :) The thing is, when there's a legitimate potential crisis and something goes down the way Y2K does, people (wrongly) assume there never was a crisis at all...as did the fine hosts of this video. That's all I was commenting about.

[@A_Black_Sheep94]

Pentagon propaganda.

[@promontorium]

@@LUCKO2022 Yes, it was legit. You dummies are like the logical psychotic opposite of conspiracy theorists. "If it doesn't happen, it was never possible.". Total idiocy. OP is right. This whole video is represents an idiotic revision of history. It was a real issue and was solved BECAUSE people took it seriously.

[@Jose-se9pu]

The late 90s were such a weird time...

[@punishedsnake6141]

Lot cooler than 2020 I think.

[@isrulius]

All times are weird times

[@kryptonitespider-bitedynam7305]

@@isrulius not 1621 in China

[@BrownSugar-bu3nf]

To me '99 felt more like the early '00s than part of the 90s.

[@thewanderingartists]

The best times ever !

[@matthewfredericks25]

Computer bugs are the reason the world should never go cashless

[@pizzatime7433]

I can't believe that y2k was almost 20 years ago Man does time fly fast

[@yetigriff]

Everyday is a gift from the incel geeks who kept us alive.

[@somerandomguy8541]

I wish It happened

[@jaelmiguez6284]

Yea shrek

[@arashimiyazawa8165]

It's only actually been a week, but the date broke at midnight and screwed up everything.

[@MansonX]

Theshiny K why such edge

[@MikeDest]

Takes me back. Also back then everyone had some uncle in their family that would always be like Nostradamus said _______.

[@concertinamadrigals4058]

Oh my god, yes... The Nostradamians and the Bible-prophecy fanatics were hilarious back then, then in 2012, it was more of the same...

[@thebluewhale8891]

*the sky is falling, the sky is falling*

[@concertinamadrigals4058]

@@thebluewhale8891 ...because the Bible tells me so... OR ...because if you change a few letters, switch the word-order, and take that phrase as referring to such-and-such, Nostradamus wrote it.

[@handsomebrick]

That is nostalgic, the last I heard Nostradamus taken seriously was like 2004.

[@nicholastosoni707]

Ugh, Nostradamus. Can't hear about his "prophecies" without becoming physically ill.

[@dingdongbells3314]

Please, I NEED a clip of that guy screaming "IT'S ALL GOING TO SHIT" and then slamming all his stuff on the floor and the words *NO HOPE* appearing on the screen.

[@lucavalente6620]

Seeing this during Corona crisis is something magical xD

[@takeshelter5313]

Yea ikr

[@MrSolidBlakeGaming]

But do you have Mexican beer?

[@mobythelion3882]

Coomer

[@jamescrow4915]

Knowing the coronavirus was brewing while I was watching this piece was the greatest thing to me huge laugh.

[@ARescueToaster]

A lot of parallels, to be sure

[@martinwells5747]

I was 28 in 2000 and Y2K was all over the news for years leading up to it. I remember it well.

[@tylersmith9868]

Well I should hope so, you were 28.

[@KHKsuger]

Tyler and you were 39 back then makes you old af

[@tylersmith9868]

@@KHKsuger I was 10 in 2000.

[@SonOfTheDawn515]

I was 13 ya old geezer. I remember one neighbor was legitimately concerned over it. Almost tinfoil hat wearing concerned.

[@mustang10141980]

I was 19. Remember it well too

[@galbaum33]

When the ball fell in New York, 2/3 of the world were in Y2K already.

[@HelgaCavoli]

Probably 3/4. But yes, exactly.

[@nicksGLI]

New York doesn't care about anyone else, YET they think we all care about them. Who cares about subway flooding, why is this national news?

[@DylanCataldo]

In 2012 when the world was supposed to “end” I was in a HS English class. Then all of a sudden clocks in the school started spinning non stop for like an hour. The whole class stopped and people were filming like it was their last moments on earth. Of course I knew it was a coincidence and just yelled jokingly: “we’re all gonna die!”

[@atsundiunstrun9199]

i remember on the day beforehand i watched my idiot classmates say goodbye to each other then on the day it was gonna happen i patiently waited the entire day for something to happen nothing happened i was disappointed

[@rifter0x0000]

I actually made plans for the day that was supposed to happen, years in advance. I told friend we should get together and watch the world not end, and we did.

[@newartmov]

I think the world changed big time after 2012

[@craigd268]

Lol I watched the war of the worlds on that day

[@LadyCoyKoi]

I was told by friends back in 1999 that in 2000 all gaming cartridges such as NES and SNES would be obsolete and unusable due to something with their outdated chips or internal clocks... LOL. Boy, did I got a lot of SNES and NES games on special back then. Bought a huge box of 100 games for NES for $20. Now that same box would worth over $500 or more on eBay.

[@irishjoe2941]

Y2J is real and he loves a little bit of the bubbly!

[@EduCrossHands]

The best thing about the Y2K, Le Champion!

[@theitfactorjameswheezer2852]

Godisempty _ Lol

[@syedmasroorhussain]

You know what happens when you make a Y2J reference? Do ya....? *You just made the list!*

[@mcFreaki]

@@syedmasroorhussain it's not 2016 anymore get with the times! it's la lexicon of le champion!

[@chefqxe]

Jericho champagne is amazingly good too.

[@MrJackal95]

I can't possibly be the only one thinking that Nimoy in this VHS looks exactly like Jeff Goldblum from The Lost World.

[@QJ89]

The water stopped running? OK. The 3 things I remember the most about Y2K: - Sleeping through it - That Treehouse of Horror segment where everything feared came true - The mint-filled chocolates. As for that opening sketch, I'm on the fence as to whether that was real or made up for this.

[@michaelblaine6494]

Both

[@jumpman8282]

In 1995, people were afraid of the Internet. In 2020, people will still be afraid of the Internet, but for a good reason!

[@DeeperWithDiego]

Name the reason.

[@moderizhaan9497]

people are not afraid of the internet if they were there wouldn't be millions using it now.

[@QJ89]

Especially those who play 'WWE 2K20'!

[@kenm2709]

ironically there is a 2020 virus, but no where in the same realm as the 2000 virus

[@RichardMajor86]

The Y2K problem was really serious. The only reason everything didn’t break was that the computer industry spent years fixing it

[@marcespinoza6068]

14:33 I love the look on Justin's face, he's like dude you have no clue what you're talking about.

[@nothing-2-live-4]

marc reynolds godddd his face 😂

[@gooberthoreau]

I thought the same thing. I was like "Dude, in the Midwest this is like a normal part of farming..." then he went on to imply you aren't allowed to grow your own food or something and I couldn't take it. I'm sure he read one article somewhere, or stumbled upon a certain state or city that has hard rules and took that as broad application. I think Colorado has rules for rainwater, but they were like made in the 1800s, so not an industrial conspiracy. The lizard men didn't even arrive in the central US till 1926.

[@A_Black_Sheep94]

@@gooberthoreau Some places legitimately don't allow you to have gardens or grow your own food, because of globalism, but those are all eastern and western cities not the midwest.

[@nothing-2-live-4]

every group of friends has that one conspiracy theory guy who reminds people of things like the rainwater collection and the outlawing of raw milk and stuff. I think the closest thing i’ve ever heard to what he’s saying about small at-home gardens is that neighborhood associations very often will not allow you to have gardens and will restrict people to only having grass.

[@redseagaming7832]

@@A_Black_Sheep94 my parents have a garden in the back and we have still not been told to stop

[@ebwarg]

“I need eight packages of morphine!” “No, Mr Lugosi!”

[@Feralsquirrel]

The date on my mom's camera rolled back to 1994, which I guess was the year it was made.

[@mipmipmipmipmip]

lol a camera where the developers assumed a max 6 year lifespan, damn planned obsolescence

[@Mr.Morden]

This reminds me of some Jehova's witnesses who were trying to tell me that Y2K could be the apocalypse, they were legit worried. I told them I know how to program computers and there's nothing to worry about. They wouldn't listen though, they were convinced that they should be worried.

[@Phyrrax]

You tried to reason with Jehovas witnesses? You really shouldve known better. I mean they are Jehovas witnesses, even die hard christians think they are dumb and crazy.

[@kevinthepilgrim]

They were wrong...AGAIN!

[@danielgyllenbreider]

As long as someone profits from scaring people we will see constant new "alarm reports". Today we have the climate alarmism, which brings billions of dollars into the pockets of corporations and the national budget so that they can lower taxes for the filthy rich even more. The ability to incite mass psychosis is a tragic side of humanity which never seems to go away.

[@Khronogi]

@@danielgyllenbreider except climate change is real, and we can see the real effects of it. And we can see the real causes of it. You would be the jehovah's witness in this case. The person who doesnt listen to science.

[@woaddragon]

@@danielgyllenbreider you do realize that climate change legstration raise taxes for regulations and violention, right?

[@deathsyth8888]

"Two thousand (two) zero party over, oops, out of time. So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999." - Prince

[@TheStats85]

deathsyth8888 good one 👍

[@Gezere9]

Prince was trying to warn us!!!!!!

[@attackroflchopter4403]

That song scared the shit out of me as a kid

[@abethepunk]

Was it y2k when MTV played that video all night?

[@fuzer909]

Prince was such a genius, sorely missing him now.

[@johnralph3704]

People in 2020: making fun of people on how they reacted to Y2K. Also people in 2020: panic buying toilet paper because of covid.

[@Cyberus85]

Guys Y2K was such a big deal back then it is even mentioned in "Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty" and is part of the lore. I wish you´ve added it...

[@Rad-Dude63andathird]

I totally forgot that Y2K was used as an excuse for the Patriot AI to get widespread installation.

[@System_smasher]

I found a bag of chips that had an expiration date of 1900 on them. Wish I would've saved them.

[@subliminal128]

Roger Miller think that was a misprint lol

[@tech396]

I was playing soul caliber on dreamcast while my cousins hugged in fear lol

[@Sh4un1r1k]

We had friends and family over and I was upstairs on the Dreamcast playing Sonic Adventure. No one was concerned at all.

[@mrcritical6751]

No offence but your cousins are dumb

[@rabite831]

Funny considering Dreamcast can’t keep the date at all

[@A_Black_Sheep94]

@@rabite831 Yes it does. Clearly you've never played seamen, which also includes Leonard Nimoy.

[@GamerBoy870]

Are your cousins that stupid

[@ShaunDreclin]

The most frustrating part of working in IT... Everything is working fine: What do we pay you guys for? Shit's broken: What do we pay you guys for? Y2K wasn't a disaster because a lot of people put a lot of hours into fixing everything **before** it all went wrong.

[@timothyhunt8760]

I was tripping on acid on new year's Eve right before the ball dropped.

[@loganazyma58]

@Jason Rasmussen that's underrated af omg

[@MansonX]

I bet your parents were proud of you congrats

[@TerrenceCallahan]

@@loganazyma58 agreed lol Best of luck w that 2nd ball homie

[@rifter0x0000]

I spent most of the second half of 1999 without a day off, including holidays. So when that New Years Eve rolled around and the company wanted people for it, I ended up taking time off to spend with my girlfriend. I was pretty confident the efforts everyone had put forward to prepare for Y2k would be sufficient, and they were.

[@GatchamanG4]

Everyone needs to watch the movie Office Space again.

[@MLBlue30]

I've cosplayed as Milton, had a stapler and everything lol.

[@mustang10141980]

Just watched it the other day. Epic movie.

[@doomswell]

Nah. It was okay but comedy central killed it for me by airing it three times a week like 2007ish.

[@LoKiMuzik]

If everybody could just go and do that, that'd be great

[@Amalekites]

It's soooo good!

[@captaincat4361]

I remember dude got a helleva phone bill cuz of a phone call he was one when it rolled over. Mostly effected some finance stuff but it was really overblown. I mean you get a 20k bill for one phone call can be pain but it was fixed lol

[@fellowearthling1632]

I would like to pretend that their bill was in the negatives, but I remember it actually being tripled or something.

[@snooks5607]

it would've been everyone hitting things like that bill if they hadn't poured billions of dollars into fixing the systems. individually most issues would've been mere annoyances but if rather than coordinated effort they'd fixed the stuff one after the other we might still be at it.. similar to how they're still finding mines from WW2 in populated areas.

[@TheComicRelief9001]

That guy who hoarded tacos must have watched Demolition Man, he knew that Taco Bell was the food of the future

[@KEVMAN7987]

Unless you're in Europe where it's Pizza Hut.

[@newartmov]

Huge fucking cans of taco meat and blueberry pancakes... I'd be shitting ten times a day!! Yikes....

[@rig-zag]

My father was actually a "Y2k Conversion Specialist". Before that, he was primarily a computer programmer and had been since the early 80s, but the Y2k Scare necessitated the training of Y2k-Compliant programming, which he did for several months. However once the millennium came and went without incident, he was cut loose by the company who hired him.

[@TheBattlesword]

The fact that I was too young to know about the Y2K scare when it never hit warms my heart

[@isaiah2261]

It was like 2012 from what I remember.

[@thema1998]

I was still 1 year old when nothing happened on January 1, 2000.

[@ThePhantomSafetyPin]

I was just barely in fifth grade, and I remember a lot of it actually. It was some big deal. I thought it was cool and we'd all have to camp or something until it got fixed, and all this weird Skynet shit would happen. I also thought it might be an actual virus or something. Imagine my disappointment when the Terminator did not, in fact, come looking for Sarah Connor.

[@redseagaming7832]

7 years old in 1999 and had no idea about this Y2K nonsense

[@kristopherguilbault5428]

I was the class of 2000. They were actually looking into graduating us before 1-1-2000.. like seriously lol

[@lambda494]

Y2K edges out 2012 as my favorite end of the world prophecy.

[@kyleshiflet9952]

Same here

[@aaronjaggan]

Tru

[@badaboum2]

My favorite end of the world prophecy is when Spanish fashion Designer Paco Rabanne predicted the Mir space station would crash on Paris in august 1999 because of a solar eclipse.

[@omikronweapon]

tbf though, Y2K had an actual testable cause and realistic probability of happening. It wasn't people digging up an old calendar and going "this only runs to 20XX, so that obviously means the world is going to end in some mystical way I can't even imagine" You can't compare critical technology failing to believing in random superstition.

[@MistaMaddog247]

I expect James to review 2012, yet another crap disaster movie my mom made me sit through and watch on rental night.

[@leon_De_Grelle]

The Y2K+38 bug is unixtime epoch time roll over. a common way of keeping time on unix machines was/is storing the number of seconds since jan 1 1970 at midnight which would be 0. an signed 32 bit integer stores this value so it can keep 2^31-1 seconds - it's 31 not 32 because it's a signed value - and after that it rolls back to 1970. imagine the horror of the computers thinking disco sounds good and bell bottoms are fashionable.

[@GlueC]

But as a signed number, it would overflow to negative 2^31, so the computer would think we're almost into 1902. Most modern platforms have addressed it already, though. Only ancient OSes/software like government systems likely still use unsigned 32 though.... uh-oh.

[@TBustah]

A game was the only thing of mine that was affected too, “Math Blaster”.

[@degg6423]

What happened to affect it?

[@theangryaustralian7624]

@herpos derpos I have to agree...I to hope this fella found some peace

[@stuartmorris2803]

Maths

[@constructionbootgazer]

In search of Spot? Great game.

[@TBustah]

herpos derpos I know that was a joke, but the only thing affected was the date. It was actually the same deal as what they were talking about here: there was a certificate you could print out after you beat the game with the date of completion. I didn’t lose any data, and the game still worked fine.

[@TomTravelMusicFood]

Me and my My Father actually prepared for Y2K we had a food bunker and a spot of land to bug out to. We didnt have to do any major shopping for most of the year 2000 lol.

[@alexiswritingvideos]

Tom That’s a win win.

[@Tigerhawk1981]

remember Y2K The Movie, i think it aired on NBC, about computers at a Nuclear Power Plant going down & causing a Meltdown

[@nomadcowatbk]

they never even reran it

[@RedBladeVideos]

I remember that movie! Was surprised it wasn't mentioned in this video.

[@Tigerhawk1981]

@@nomadcowatbk I know, it was a good movie too, unlike the ones mentioned in this video lol

[@flipout9431]

Whenever i think the end of the world is coming, i think "damn, i wish leonard nemoy would host a special helping me handle this."

[@zotaninoron3548]

The Y2k specialists were generally people close to retirement or brought back out of retirement to work on ancient code bases that used languages like Fortran that people coming out of school wouldn't have learned.

[@OnlyJustCrazy]

I think COBOL code was a big issue toward the Y2k issue as well.

[@sebastiangreenan1774]

When it comes to Y2K all I think about is The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror segment. "Implied Lisa, or implode?"

[@piplup2009]

"I'm not dead"

[@MrCactuar13]

Guilty Gear's plot is that Y2K actually happens and it's the most beautiful mess in storytelling ever

[@vguyver2]

Oh God, your right. I've completely forgotten that plot point in the game.

[@MrCactuar13]

@Pavel Tikhonov Which is literally the same as technology EXCEPT IT'S MAGIC

[@kaitlynhayes7877]

Alternate history youtubers are now writing their transcripts of "what if y2k actually happened"

[@SkyCharger001]

Banks already felt the Y2K bug in the mid to late 70s due to programs meant to work out estimations for the pay-off of 25+ year investments/loans and thus had plenty of time to fix the issue(s).

[@geovaughan8261]

Y2K-99: "DIGITS ROLLING OVER, APOCALYPSE IMMINENT!" COVID-19: "Hold my Corona..."

[@MrsKwan-fz6mf]

I was watching the King of The Hill Y2k episode when this came out.

[@marcoszavala8898]

Using toilet paper as logs

[@archangeljmj6008]

Kpro? That thing isn't even Y1k compliant

[@piplup2009]

@@archangeljmj6008 "my watch has more memory than that piece of crap"

[@archangeljmj6008]

Lol awesome

[@darkside7802]

Late 90’s, early 2000’s were so good.

[@SonOfTheDawn515]

Music, tv, video games... They were awesome.

[@SonOfTheDawn515]

@Maniac Marcus I don't recall playing many LJN games.

[@poiluparadis]

Kieran going rogue about rainwater was so hilarious.

[@alexiswritingvideos]

Poilu Paradis This conspiracy goes straight to the top.

[@MK-11111]

@@alexiswritingvideos Straight to the top of toinfoil hats.

[@chasethecolors]

I love how pissed off Justin was getting here 😂

[@9023gregb]

What an exciting time. I remember being with 4 friends on a group call and we were all blasting Korn's Freak On A Leash simultaneously as the new millennium arrived. Hoping something crazy would happen. LOL

[@VSDeluxe]

2038: all Sega 32Xs break down

[@finnishmetalfreak]

Good

[@VSDeluxe]

@Will M you dont get the joke. Do you?

[@homelesssheltervidlogg74]

@@VSDeluxe I don't get it either

[@0x8badf00d]

Need to get a 64X then. ;-)

[@A_Black_Sheep94]

It's ok. Emulation.

[@KieronGC]

James's Story about when New Years 2000 happened was hilarious.

[@YanDoroshenko]

2037 would be a year when Unix time (measured in milliseconds from 1.1.1970) would overflow the 32bit (4 byte as in megabyte) integer (2^31 - 1) and that would be a real problem. Fortunately it's mostly fixed already by switching to a bigger data type.

[@Bazooka_Sharks]

I was playing carnivores on computer when the new millennium started

[@crunkdaddy11]

Joseph Meador classic

[@SonOfTheDawn515]

I can't remember that long ago. I was probably playing video games like Half-Life, CS, DoD or something on N64.

[@Bazooka_Sharks]

@@SonOfTheDawn515 i still hop on CS:go from time to time!

[@Gaia_Gaistar]

We were playing Red Alert 2 on PS1. My grandma cut the power as a joke and my aunt freaked out.

[@bbb462cid]

Actually, you weren't Joe. Sorry to tell you but almost everyone thinks 2000 was the start of the 21st century. It wasn't. 2001 was. We start counting to ten at one, not zero. When the number ending in zero ends, that's the new decade/century/millennium. So the last day of the 20th century was 31 JAN 2000. Don't take my word for it, google that shit.

[@m42069583]

There’s a lot of stupid people out there. Smarter people take their money

[@YoshMaster]

Titanium PVP best summary of Y2K in a nutshell

[@TheUballe]

Yep... that's an observation applicable to many situations.

[@9023gregb]

A fool and his money....

[@CapcomGod]

"Planet X will crash into the earth and kill us all!" - og con artists "Computers will kill us all in 2000!" - retro con artists "Global warming will kill us all in 12 years!" - current con artists Some things never change

[@williamlowery6487]

A person is smart. People are panicky, dumb, dangerous, and you know it!

[@clemire83]

My father worked at the CIBC headquarters in Montreal in the 70's and they knew and were already prepared for Y2K then.

[@michaelgrant6899]

Leonard Nimoy wasn't trying to warn us about the Y2K bug, he was trying to warn us about the Keyblade War.

[@ackbarfan5556]

If we’re going Japan nerd references, let’s not forget Digimon Adventure: Our War Game.

[@tttc]

I love how pissed off Justin is at these tapes

[@ItsOnlyNiall]

He's always a party pooper.

[@theundertaler5875]

He's actually pretty entertaining.

[@barrywoodfilms]

Hahahahahaha!

[@cookieshousecannabisco6963]

♥ Justin

[@alexa1591]

He’s probably hungry

[@Bluebelle51]

I remember Leonard Nimoy hosting "The search for Bigfoot" in the 70's

[@mrmanjumac3454]

His video abt how the earth will freeze over and we're facing a global cooling crisis is still on youtube too

[@dmoneystop-motionstudios6284]

Also he was fish man

[@GamingForTheRecentlyDeceased]

I was 14 during Y2K and I remember sitting up at night and being pretty disappointed the world didn't end.

[@bsmith8166]

it's too bad no one made videos like this about Corona virus

[@drosprey]

I loved when James paused to calculate the 9000BC Bug of Atlantis

[@SonyUSA]

You can still collect rainwater just not large quantities lol. They aren't trying to make you dependent, they are stopping other people from hoarding more than their share of the water from your climate. That water is YOUR water too. Private collectors can also lower the water table in places of already low moisture conditions and can contribute to dry brush fires and dyeing vegetation.

[@Mr.Bungle03]

“This lady and her weird sewing circle” LOL

[@1mbr0k3ntoys8]

"Whose going to clean up all these planes?" - Marge Simpson

[@robk.6591]

Y3K Scares to think about: 1. Will my Xbox Series 1000 play games from my Xbox Series 999? 2. Will my caretaker regularly change the fluids in my disembodied head container? 3. Will CGI Keanu Reeves do John Wick 57 or will they hire a living actor?

[@retro_jojo3159]

They just announced the Xbox Series 1000 will be called "The Original Xbox"

[@TheMagicRobot]

Best of The Worst isn't the same without Rich Evans' iconic laugh.

[@Magnet_MD]

The rainwater laws are mostly for public health. Lots of bugs and disease and stuff can spawn in stagnant water, and you don't want to encourage people drinking water that might not have been cleaned/purified correctly.

[@jamespriest7328]

That dude who faced off with the feds had nothing to do with rain water. It had to do with the feds stopping the use of federal lands for grazing, also he refused to pay taxes on the use of that land but his family had been using it for over a 100 years.

[@angryw4nderer]

Fed's can not own land unless listed in the constitution for the United States. Those Nazi Jack boot thugs will pay for what they do, they are domestic terrorist.

[@jamespriest7328]

@@angryw4nderer who nazis? And ur right 80% of the land need to be given back to their states

[@angryw4nderer]

@@jamespriest7328 BLM and any other alphabet agency who are destroying the supreme law of the land are NAZI

[@jamespriest7328]

@@angryw4nderer so the government?

[@angryw4nderer]

@@jamespriest7328 No the government is Bill of Rights and the constitution for the United States. But the people that make oaths to them and than break that oath are traitors and is TREASON and should be dealt with accordingly.

[@procrastigamr]

That phone perspective is giving me reminders of Top Secret.

[@hamsandwich780]

James was totally right about the year 2038 bug by the way - James if you ever read this - you can think of a bit as a box that can represent 1 or 0, and each subsequent bit doubles its value - the year 2038 bug is due to the fact that the number of boxes holding the numbers will overflow, and would need a 1 in the next box that doesnt exist, resetting all the values to 0 (causing all sorts of confusion about when it is)

[@johnny98961]

When the ball dropped in 2000 I was playing Tony Hawk Pro skater one lol

[@ErnoSallinen]

Y2K was actually a real problem, they just fixed it before it could happen. There were a shit ton of programmers working on that stuff, converting old code to work with more that two year digits. It was never as big of a problem as these tapes made it out to be, but a real problem nonetheless.

[@sebastianwcalland3693]

when this was uploaded, we had no idea what was round the corner

[@DawnOfTheOzz]

Major props for that Inside Out Boy reference. That one took me way back.

[@alexanderdesmouceaux4395]

Feels weird watching this videos in the middle of the Quarantine...

[@WeldonSirloin]

0:23 I can totally relate to this dude even in 2019.

[@Revick_Revas]

Many of our lives in a nutshell.

[@koushiroizumi0]

James, i have 3 words for you: Review RAID 2020!

[@redseagaming7832]

What this guy said do it AVGN I know what you're referring raid 20/20 maybe I'll review that in the year 2020 that's actual AVGN quote he better live up to it

[@Clay3613]

He is, did you see his Twitter?

[@troyhubbler9874]

It's out now

[@KevyB.]

What the hell is RAID 2020?!!!

[@Thespanglerangler]

I worked at a Kroger at the time, and we had a Y2K survival section set up with bottled water, batteries, canned food, etc. The next week, we had a sale on bottled water, batteries, canned food, etc.

[@MysticMike]

Because nothing happen doesn't mean it could never happen. While it was probably over blown on the situation, people worked to make sure nothing would happen.

[@MrThankman360]

Yea. It’s really easy to mock and judge ppl from the past with knowledge and standards of the present.

[@grizzlywhisker]

I saw the J. Geils band in concert on new years eve of 1999, everyone was so curious if something would happen or not but I think we all knew it was nonsense.

[@theangryaustralian7624]

I remember my lovely Nanna god bless her soul...freaking out at me when I changed the clock on the computer to 2099 when I was a kid in 1999...dam I miss her

[@whaler3232]

I was working night security on New Years Eve in 1999. Just after midnight I had to test the light switches, flush the toilets and run the faucets and radio into the office advising if everything was ok. Our whole staff did this...it was fun listening to everyone radio in. 20 years ago, fuk I'm old.

[@jimmyju76]

When the hurricane hit here in Houston we were out of power for 2 weeks, some of the funnest time in my life, people outside talking to eachother, everyone bbqing everywhere, ppl helping ppl, was awesome

[@datoorion]

I remember people completely forgot timezones for a while as well

[@WaffleAfterHours]

Definitely an example on how the main stream media jumps on a fear-bandwagon and runs it into the ground. Thank goodness that never happens anymore..........

[@WaffleAfterHours]

Villainous Nice guy I was ignorant in my youth.

[@noahmarshall8726]

Now we have a hate-bandwagon

[@zacwicks8756]

I was 13, and my childhood best friend and I were hanging out. He had this weird habit of using a spotlight to turn off the light-activated streetlights on his street (weird, right?), so we were out after 11pm, turning the lights off, and his mom comes out screaming at us. "Get inside! People are going to think that Y2K is happening!" or something like that. Good times

[@michaeljacquart7791]

My dad worked in the computer sector during Y2K. Ex-military. He said they'd begun updating the computers almost five years prior to reduce the issue. From what he's said, it would've been a good bit worse if they hadn't done these updates but the world would certainly not have ended. Most like banks and digital records would've had issues.