Y2k malarky, didn't really know that is what they called it but I know I heard about that the stories of the world coming to an end, I was still a baby around that year and I don't even know what was going on around me, might still be crying for milk then or maybe I was actually crying for milk when the whole stuff was happening, when I heard the story, I was like who came up with such story and how did people even believe such, I was just laughing and imagining lot of things then because I later saw a comedy toon about it.
The comedy was about a pastor that suddenly announce on the alter that he receive a confirmation from God that the world will come to an end within so day and only few people will be accepted into heaven which means no space, he gave them option that they can't kill themselves or they will end up in hell, chaos was everywhere and people were donating to the church with the hope of keeping their treasure in heaven, until one of them die and he was told by the angel that the pastor is just spreading rumours just to be rich, it was kind of funny but somehow related.
When I read the news online, it was started all the rumor started because of an computer based error which they tagged as the millennium bug, they were not sure if the date and time will either change or reset back to 1900, so fear spread and nothing spread fast than rumors, I don't want to imagine how people will be running up and down, trying to spend all their wealth or dash them out, some will have to start fulfilling their wishlist if they can. But something came to mind, what if the world actually ended at that moment, wont the rumor be true and what will their reaction be in the spirit realm
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There's a Y2K38 coming up for UNIX in 2038. Similar problem.
I was in high school at the time. It was a real problem and luckily around 1996-1997 people started taking it seriously. Programmers of old systems were taken out of retirement to help. If they hadn't taken it seriously and had the prep time the world wouldn't have ended but more likely global society would have been set back at least a decade if not more. Payments wouldn't have been processed. Supply chains would have ground to a halt. If you want to imagine what a bad case scenaruio for Y2K would have been imagine the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant disaster happening multiple times. As the Earth turned, each time zone having at least one nuclear power plant haviing computer failure as the clock struck midnight.
The problem began with punchcards in the early days of computers. A standard computer punchcard had eighty digits. Programmers figured out that for a year number that had to be in the data they could leave out the 19- saving sparing two of the eighty digits. For example, if you invested $1000 in 1970 and wanted to calculate what you would have in 1972 by leaving out two ones and two nines for the years that's four digits on the punchcard saved. As computers progressed those old programmers taught the new programmers how to save memory by having the data assume a two digit date occurs in the 1900s. So those programmers went on and by the 1990s a whole bunch of computers were assuming that instead of 2000 it was 1900. In the investment example, the computer would be calculating your $1000 investment in 1970 and calculating what it would be worth in 1900. Or the Social Security office would stop paying you because how could you be eligible for retirement in 2000 when it's 1900 and you won't be born for another 35 years?
Keep in mind that even by the 1990s a lot of computer networks were interconnected so even if most were "Y2K compliant" a network or two not set up would be propagating the 1900 error to the functioning networks
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wow that was a lot to handle, cant imagine if those moment will be chaotic or not because humans are easily scared during this kind moment. I had to reach about Three Mile Island nuclear power plant disaster, our gen z generation really didn't have any idea about the thing of the old and how disastrous it could be.
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