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Post by Milkman Norm on Dec 28, 2019 12:01:34 GMT -5
Twenty years ago this week people were worried that planes would fall out of the sky and every computer would go insane and start WW III. Or something. Anyway it was a more innocent time. Happy Anniversary Y2K compliant gag. You may be gone but you've been missed. (OK not really)
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Dec 28, 2019 12:11:09 GMT -5
32>64
OOPSIE
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Post by Muskrat on Dec 28, 2019 12:14:58 GMT -5
I remember being so bummed out when 12 hit that night and all the power and everything still worked, even as a 13 year old I kinda wanted to see the anarchy.
I was a f***ed up kid
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Post by Sponsored by Groose Wipes on Dec 28, 2019 12:56:49 GMT -5
I need to watch the Y2K episode of Family Guy again for this. One of my most loved episodes.
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Post by Fade is a CodyCryBaby on Dec 28, 2019 13:05:09 GMT -5
I remember being so bummed out when 12 hit that night and all the power and everything still worked, even as a 13 year old I kinda wanted to see the anarchy. I was a f***ed up kid I was 12 and kinda remembered (despite waning hysteria) there were a lot of news reports/voices in the media that were like “Chill. Nothing’s gonna happen”. So my chaotic little self was prepared for it to be business as usual. |
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Post by FinalGwen on Dec 28, 2019 13:09:34 GMT -5
It's a good thing that people worked so hard to stop it from having more disastrous effects than it did.
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Post by MC Blowfish on Dec 28, 2019 13:45:53 GMT -5
I remember seeing infomercials about all of the things that were going to go wrong. They were so helpful trying to sell people those Y2K survival kits.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 28, 2019 16:53:21 GMT -5
It's a good thing that people worked so hard to stop it from having more disastrous effects than it did. I mean it became a joke but it absolutely was a possibility things would have screwed up massively. some Unix things are going to mess up in 2038 for related reasons... though most major systems of it have been fixed. |
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Post by Hit Girl on Dec 28, 2019 17:07:32 GMT -5
Fools!
They got it wrong. It was actually the Y2K20 bug!
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Post by ayumidah on Dec 29, 2019 1:54:47 GMT -5
ugh my mother bought into it, she stockpiled water, canned foods and candles in the basement. My father was with her for awhile, but he eventually brushed it off, and then once it started rolling onto 2000 for other nations, he was like, "See, nothing happened! I knew it wouldn't!" lol. We had canned soups and candles and stuff in bins in the basement for a good year until Mom finally unpacked it all heh
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Post by nm on Dec 29, 2019 2:16:02 GMT -5
The future, Conan?
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Dec 29, 2019 8:47:05 GMT -5
Y2K proved that the bad things we're warned about can be stopped if they're taken seriously by people who know what they're doing. Shame humanity is not willing to do this with other problems and people use Y2K to dismiss warnings from experts as alarmist.
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Post by Fundertaker on Dec 29, 2019 11:25:29 GMT -5
Yes Andy! The future! All the way... to the year 2000! |
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Post by Milkman Norm on Dec 29, 2019 11:46:35 GMT -5
Yes Andy! The future! All the way... to the year 2000! In the yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrr twooooooooooooo thousaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand! In the year two thousand!!! |
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Post by thirteen3 on Dec 29, 2019 11:52:46 GMT -5
All the adult animated shows had an episode about Y2K. And of all the shows on Fox had episodes about the Super Bowl.
Interesting year 1999.
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Post by The Ichi on Dec 29, 2019 12:09:46 GMT -5
I need to watch the Y2K episode of Family Guy again for this. One of my most loved episodes. The My Name is Earl Y2K episode is great too. |
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Dec 29, 2019 12:14:32 GMT -5
I need to watch the Y2K episode of Family Guy again for this. One of my most loved episodes. The My Name is Earl Y2K episode is great too. The Treehouse of horror segment is also pretty great. |
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Post by James Fabiano on Dec 29, 2019 12:38:15 GMT -5
And if you did forget, Cinemassacre will remind you:
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Dec 29, 2019 15:24:14 GMT -5
Twenty years ago this week people were worried that planes would fall out of the sky and every computer would go insane and start WW III. Or something. Anyway it was a more innocent time. Happy Anniversary Y2K compliant gag. You may be gone but you've been missed. (OK not really) You're doing it wrong, friend. You should use Wrestlemania 25th anniversary logic to this thread.... |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 29, 2019 15:59:27 GMT -5
Y2K proved that the bad things we're warned about can be stopped if they're taken seriously by people who know what they're doing. Shame humanity is not willing to do this with other problems and people use Y2K to dismiss warnings from experts as alarmist. Yeah, Y2k and the 2038 problems were/are being treated seriously by people in the tech industry. Did it go a bit extreme from people who didn't fully grasp the problem or those that tried to profit off it, absolutely. To my knowledge no one that was actually working on it expected anything to happen to planes for instance. But it could have caused major problems if the programmers just flat out ignored it. |
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