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Give it time, I'm sure we'll have Vietnam 2 before long.

Aint it great!

It’s less about the y2k bug itself and more about the cultural phenomenon. It was everywhere, and it was huge, and then absolutely nothing happened. It was the best possible outcome AND the funniest possible outcome.

With stuff like that, it hits different when you live through it and it’s part of popular culture for years. It leaves grooves in the ole neurons.

In contrast I could think about how terrifying the Cuban missile crisis must have been. The fiery end of the world could happen at any moment and everybody knows it. And we even find out afterward that the world was basically saved by one Soviet service member. I can empathize with living through that, but since it happened long before I was born, I don’t have the vivid memories of the actual emotions invading my normal day to day.

Computers were not designed to roll over the year. This would have caused the dates to roll back to 1900 or some day in the past, breaking any logic doing math on dates.

The programming community made huge efforts to fix this problem, and they did across many sectors.

The fact that people don't understand how big of a deal this was is due to the efforts of those that did and were able to correct it.

The media talking about power outages and nukes launching due to Y2K was standard news hype/fear mongering during a crisis with rather boring (to the layman) causes and fixes.

Don't worry. The one happening in 2038 should be worse.

It honestly wasn't. Like yes, it was a real problem, there was a lot of bad, often legacy, code that had to be reviewed and maybe patched. Industrial control code tends to be notoriously bad, and so you never know if this traffic light or that power station is going to glitch out until you dive in

But even as a kid who just knew how to take things apart, I knew it was a nothing burger. Real work went into it, but the fact people in the industry were taking it seriously means there was little actual danger

What year comes after "99"? People would way "00" meaning 2000 but a computer might say "00" meaning 1900 potentially breaking a lot of data systems/bases

Because all software at that point was unable to handle the new date format. Imagine if today, all computer systems had widespread issues at the same time, on the same day. The only reason nothing happened is because people did their jobs.

Hope this helps.

There was A LOT of doom predictions.. from airplanes dropping out of the sky to power being shut off, to possible missile launches.. it was a good time to be a shit talker in those days. Businesses made a butt ton of money selling snake oil "Y2K" checkers for your computer.. crazy time

I know he is a fictional character but Colonel Potter in Mash served in ww1, ww2 and Korea... There are real people that had that experience.

Yes. They do understand. Its just that These events get closer to each other more and more.

Didn't you hear? God emperor Trump made that whole silly India/Pakistan thing go away /s

Does US vs the world in economic war count?

It is almost completely gone

The hole in the ozone layer is recovering due to the bans on CFCs in the 90s. Climate change deniers deny this and insist that it is something that would have happened anyway...

It is not unfair to clock the first bit. But you can't count hypothetical WW3s. That's like Boomers saying they lived through Hypothetical Nuclear Winter.

Also, if we're counting recessions as millennials, you can't neglect the '87 crash and the '01 dot-com bubble. If we're counting plagues, you can't leave out AIDS.

Looking at the pixels and layers upon layers of compression artifacts in this photo, it wouldn't surprise me if the original was created at least 5 - 10 years ago, meaning it would have accurately included all millennials at the time it was made.