Why did so many people fall for the Y2K scam?
i was playing everquest when y2k happened and my character was deleted
>>107248177I was drunk as fuck because my cousin gave me too much vodka, I puked in my shirt an 23:59
>>107248109>the floor never becomes dirty, why did we fall for the "cleaners" scam
>>107248109pajeets
if you werent end of the century partying and sat at your computer you should have killed yourself then anyway
Y2K was real and it's the reason Western civilization collapses immediately after the year 2000.
y2k was predictive programming for 9/11
Americans are predisposed to turn anything into a cult-like event.New flu? END OF THE WORLD CONFIRMED. LET'S BUY ALL TOILET PAPER TO MAKE SURE WE GO TO HEAVEN!
>>107248109Because people weren't much smarter 20 years ago than they are now.
>>107249082heaven do be havin' dat toilet paper tax tho
Most people aren’t programmers much less knowledgeable about the Fortran shit that ran the planet. TV and newspaper media was the way 95% of the world got their news in 1999.
>>107248109>prepare for problem>problem averted>wtf it's a scam!I love retards.
>>107248109If you need to ask, the answer is usually "LEAD IN WATER LEAD EVERYWHERE"
>>107250772this. it's smugbait for leftist skeptics
>>107250940they've been injecting that into newborns since 1984
>>107248109lemmings on a cliff test
>>107248109I remember there were mice sold as y2k compliant.
>>107248109My grandma was all in on the fear of Y2K, my dad hit the breaker on midnight when we were all celebrating. Pretty devilish if you ask me :v)
>>107251089It was technically correct. Like gluten free water.
It was a real problem in COBOL where people just used PIC 99 for the year.Your average computer doesn't run COBOL code but a lot of financial institutions and governments did.
>>107251137And airports and hospitals and.. A lot of them still do but most hospitals are now eternally stuck with some XP and W95 machines in their networks.
>>107249082yeah like when christcucks wouldnt shut the fuck up about rapture or when christcucks thought june 6th, 2006 was the day the devil would come to earth. basically its all religious nutjobs being retards and the bottom half of the population actually listening to them.
>>107251162didn't people sell all their stuff few months back thinking they're ascending or some shit
>>107251159That won't be a problem until 2038 and they'll have upgraded by then.
>>107251137Why did boomers decide to use 2 digit numbers for the year in the first place? Did they not realize that the century would change in a few decades?
>>107248109Same reason people fell for the covid vaccine. Idiots.
>>107251202Why did Grace Hopper decide to use Decimal notation?The programmers in the 60s didn't think their code would still run thirty years later and wanted to save some space on the punched cards.
>>107248109If the P3s of the time supported x86, which could obviously work with 32 bit numbers then why did anyone worry about the number becoming 2000? Even with a reduced width a theoretical cpu capped to 2048 would still have a usable calendar for another 48 years.
>>107248109Tech illiteracy
>>107251202this was back when there were paradigm shifts every 2 years and moore's law
>>107251245cuz the ICBMs still ran on nintendo NESes and 5 inch floppies
>>107250772Same thing with COVID
>>107248109It wasn't a scam, quite a bit of work went into ensuring people weren't affected.
>>107248109It wasn't. the bugs were mostly fixed, by a lot of hard work.>nothing ever happensin the West, due to the hard work of white men such as myself (I too, like these miracle workers, am a white man - a proud race to be sure!!!)
>>107252497There was no such thing as a NES, it was actually called The Nintendo System.
>>107252700Yeah but you're a worthless sack of diabetes, you haven't done a day of work in your miserable life.
>>107248109It wasn't a scam per se, some stuff did go down, but the vast majority of important systems got patched well before the "deadline". the fear was overhyped but not completely unfounded
>>107248109John Titor fixed it before returning to his time.
>>107248109>stock template xer engagement baitDEAD INTERNET
the only scam was the whole "your nintendo isn't gonna work after the clock strikes 12" which alot of people were throwing around.
>>107248244>HAPPY NEW YEAR->BLEEEEEEGGHHHH
>>107248109There are old operating systems that say it's 1925. It was a problem but they fixed it.
>>107248109who's ready for Y2.038Kgod help me if i'm still at my work during that shit storm...
>>107248109>turn it off for a day>nooooo I can not live without my interwebs for a full dayIt wasn't like this back then. We did survive. There was also the infamous "friday the 13" virus: if you turned on your computer on that date, it would wipe it clean. Nobody took any chances with their antivirus or the fact taht it sounds completely made up, they just went offline that day. Good times.
