The Y2K bug, also called the Millennium Bug, was a problem caused by many computer systems representing years with only two digits (e.g., “99” for 1999). When the year rolled over from 1999 to 2000, systems could interpret “00” as 1900, potentially causing errors in calculations, date comparisons, and data storage. Correcting it required a combination of strategies.Organizations worldwide coordinated, especially in banking, utilities, and government systems. This required audits, reporting, and cross-system testing to ensure interdependent systems didn’t fail.The majority of major failures were avoided because of massive preemptive effort.Costs were enormous. Estimates range from $300 billion to $600 billion globally in remediation efforts.Only a handful of minor glitches were reported, meaning the bug was “mostly fixed” before it could wreak havoc.
>>106437970True I was there.
"dude if the computer thinks it is 1900 it will explode dude!"
>>106437970I was there too :'
CHAR(2) YEARCHAR(1) MILLENIUMHere's your 300 000 000 000 billion patch.
CHAR(2) YEARCHAR(1) MILLENIUM
i was there when i was a kid
>year CHAR(2)>year CHAR(4)>9000 gorillion costY2K grift
>>106437970It was a psyop, you fucking moron
A literal psyop run by the CIA/NSA/Mossad to backdoor and infiltrate the infrastructure of majority of industries that relied on computers.
nothing happend to my rigs back then
>>106438105you laugh now but wait more 13 years>>106438124plenty of RTC devices just use 2 digits for year and you can't patch the hardware. somehow I doubt this affected any modern-at-a-time computers, just some various embedded devices that were not updated for decades and relied on hardware features for calendar datetime
>>106441548I remember back then a few months before Y2K I did a full backup and imaged everything on my PC, then set the date post-2000 in BIOS and booted into Windows to see if anything would break (ofc nothing happened)
