Am I the only one struck by how casually this dude said the phrase 'Russia says this missile strike isn't bug related, so nothing to worry about, although it must have caused untold havoc in Grozny'?
It’s also freak because in that time people were afraid of the end of the world. Meanwhile in 2020 , someone says end of the world, and people just don’t care.
The reason almost nothing happened was because the bug was fixed. Any PC sold after 1994 had a fix in the bios to stop the problem from happening. Windows itself also had a fix. The only risk was really old embedded systems. But all companies everywhere running important software just had these embedded systems replaced or patched if possible. The panic was over nothing but the reason everything went so well was people working hard to fix the problem. Only some really unimportant old embedded systems like 10 year old pin machines broke because nobody bothered to check them for the bug.
We have another Y2K like bug in 18 years time. The Y2K38 bug when 32 Bit UNIX based systems reach the maximum value of a 32 bit signed integer. For most people, it will be a nothing burger (since 64 bit has been a thing on PCs (and Windows uses its own time keeping system) since 2006 and phones since 2013) but again it's the embedded devices that will probably cause a problem.
"Only some really unimportant old embedded systems like 10 year old pin machines broke because nobody bothered to check them for the bug." While I don't know the exact number, was less than 100, there were a number of parents whose testing for genetic defects in their unborn child were given false info due to a Y2K bug. Some abortions were carried out that didn't need to take place and other parents were not properly prepared for their children's needs due to being born with a disability.
Oddly back then I had a crappy windows 95 pc (celeron, 200mhz, 1 gb hard drive) to do school work on. After we entered the year 2000, this computer was screwed with the dates. It would boot up and the date would be set at something like 1946 or 2096 (cant remember the exact date now). I would manually change it to the correct date and when turned off and booted up again, it would revert back to that wrong date. In the end to save myself the hassle I installed some 'Y2K' software that would auto set the date to the correct date. But yeah, overall the Millenium bug was nothing
My old Atari 520 made in the 1980s continued to work. I had a pc with a Celeron 660MHz processor, a 4 or 6 gigabyte drive and Windows 98. The board no doubt post dated 1994 and it was fine. In the 1980s-90s, pcs used to live a bit longer than they do now, so there must have been a fair number of pre-1994 machines around still. Lots of people with old machines and there wasn't a mass outage at all.
I just got hooked up to the internet today with my speedy fast dial up connection! Will my pc stop working once the new year starts? - Posted December 25th 1999
I remember my dad actually had a guy randomly come round to check his TV, microwave, heating and stuff like that in case of the risk. Did anyone else have this? Even at the age of 11 I thought it was a load of bollocks, personally
@@therespectedlex9794He knew more than the mugs worrying their microwave wouldnt work cos they would think they were in 1900 and hadn't been invented yet.
I was 15 at the time. I live in the UK. I remember having to watch this shite live on the BBC. It was on ALL day. A day long programme watching every country welcome in the year 2000.
The Millennium Celebrations were the Greatest New Year's Eve celebration of the Century and the most legendary New Year's celebration in Contemporary history. The 2000 Today: The Great Global Millennium Day Celebration TV Special originated from the BBC, along with the ARTEAR El Trece Television Network of Argentina, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation of Australia, RTL Television and ProSieben of Germany, TF1 of France, the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation of South Korea, the RAI Television Networks of Italy, GMA Network of the Philippines, Canal Once TV of Mexico, TV Asahi of Japan, and the American Broadcasting Company of the United States, monitored the Millennium Bug, which was unfortunately changed into the Millennium Flower that was handled by Miriam Quiambao during the GMA Network special coverage of the 2000 Today International Television special
I just came here for Kamen Rider Ex-Aid...coz the Bugsters (the bad guys) originated in the year 2000, with the Y2K crisis is prevalent. I just wanna know more.
Ha! I'm currently watching Fourze, personally. I've so far finished, in order: Black, Gaim, Ichigo-RX, W, Ghost, Wizard, and Faiz. I'm also watching all the other entries, on and off, with a particular focus on Build whenever a new episode comes out.
@Four Dimensions Social media did exist in 1999. Newsgroups were very widely used. There were forums and msn community groups . The principle was not different.
@Four Dimensions Do you remember LPs? If you cracked or scratched one of them it would end up playing the same phrase over and over and over again. Your posts are a bit like that.
@Four Dimensions Seeing as I understand the similarity between idiotic people on what became known as social media in 1999, and now in 2022 I'd say my comprehension is pretty good. They are the same idiotic people, probably a bit more these days and more of them online for sure. My point is that these people always existed. You are talking to somebody who sent their first e mail in 1987 btw.
@Four Dimensions There have always been stupid people with a lack of education but plenty of opinions. Over the last 20 years it has become easier for them to publish their opinions and inflict their inadequacies on other people via the internet. It has nothing to do with belief in a a god or religion. Your change in a tack from a discussion about social media to religious belief would imply that you require a psychiatric intervention in your life. Yes we understand, you are better than other people because you've got religion. Nothing to do with what was being discussed.
Let’s get ready celebrate.. but meanwhile just a couple of slight issues with a couple of Nuclear power stations playing up, and the Russian’s firing missiles... nothing to worry about,
Oh yes I remember this bullshit bug lol ruined our family xmass that year in 1999 as my dad got paged yo go into work that Xmas day in 1999 for final briefing/training on what to do if it occurred as well as 2 months prior to the millennium my dad got taken away on a months course about the millenium bug and what to do about it if it occurred as it’s cost his company billions.... turned out like what I said as a 9 year old child at the time why wouldn’t a computer be able to ha e going from a 99 date to 00 lol
Fast fact: None of the nations that took part on the 2000 Today: The Great Global Millennium Day Celebration TV special suffered the brutal brunt of the Millennium Bug. Peter Snow and Philippa Forester from the BBC, the principal broadcaster of the 2000 Today International Television special, alongside Cesar Mascetti from the ARTEAR El Trece Television Network of Argentina, Peter Kloeppel from RTL Television of Germany, Mel Tiangco from GMA Network of the Philippines, the late Peter Jennings from the American Broadcasting Company of the United States, and some ANN Anchormen and Anchorwomen from TV Asahi of Japan were monitored the Millennium Bug. In fact, Japan was the only one of the 150 Nations participated on the 2000 Today: The Great Global Millennium Day Celebration TV Special to suffer the wrath of the Millennium Bug
After reaching December 4th at the year 292277026596 CE in the afternoon, all 64 bit systems cause to fail and reach 9223372036854775807 seconds overflow to negative
