eli5: How did we solve the Y2K bug? : r/explainlikeimfive - Reddit
Nov 28, 2022 · Think avionics in aircraft (the B52 is like 70 years old, 30 year old aircraft are common), the sewage pump under your street, the xray machine at the hospital, your car, radio transmitters, missile control systems, telecommunication equipment, industrial machines in factories, ship navigation systems - the list goes on. This is the real Y2K bug.
ELI5: What exactly was the danger of the Y2K bug - Reddit
A big part of the issue during Y2K was that things were less standard and many companies had their own sub-par implementations of dates and times. I believe that happens somewhat less today, because no-one wants to write a new date-time library when superior and full-featured libraries already exist and are easier to use.
Was the Y2K bug a real threat or a giant hoax? : r/AskHistorians
Dec 27, 2023 · OP misread the NatGeo page as well. It attributes the notion that the Y2K bug was "barely a problem at all" to unnamed skeptics and then goes on to list a number of ways that the Y2K bug would have been serious if it hadn't been mitigated.
ELI5: What was the Y2K scare? and was there any validity to it?
May 1, 2014 · Maybe Y2K never had the potential to be a doomsday scenario, but at the same time, nobody wants the computer that manages their power grid to suddenly bug out because of a foreseeable issue. (As to why they stored only two digits: Limits in computers at the time, storing 2 digits as opposed to 4 for dates actually opened up a not-insignificant ...
ELI5: How did we "solve" the Y2K problem? Was our solution
Y2K was resolved through a lot of tedious work in the last eight months of 1999. In certain industries (particularly the utilities and finance industry and their "supply chains"), there were legal requirements to enumerate every system that used or stored dates, and then obtain certifications from each and every vendor that the system had been ...
Y2K was actually a serious problem and a lot of people worked
The reality is that the Y2K bug was a serious problem that was resolved by many dedicated IT people spending many sleepless nights fixing shit. I worked in technical writing at the time, and developers at my company spent several weekends trying to get dates working.
The Y2K 'Bug' - was it really a thing? : r/retrobattlestations - Reddit
Oct 22, 2023 · So, as someone who barely remebers the year 2000, I've seen the Family Guy and Simpsons epsodes on Y2K and how ridiculous some of the potential 'consequences' could be (planes dropping out of the sky, etc.) and we all remeber that ad with Leonard Nemoy - but was Y2K an actual concern or a marketing oppurtunity and a thing created by tech companies to make a quick buck on complience testiing?
Time Bomb Y2K - documentary on HBO about the Y2K bug
Jan 5, 2024 · A subreddit about Y2K (also known as Cyber Y2K, Futuristic Y2K, or Kaybug), an aesthetic that was prevalent in pop culture from 1998 to 2004 and, to lesser extents, 1997 and 2005. We also allow posts that aren't futuristic or sci-fi, but have late 90s to early 2000s vibes. Early Frutiger Aero and Metro (pre-2009) posts are allowed as well.
How to get "Y2K bug" achievement : r/Progressbar95 - Reddit
Aug 22, 2023 · The unofficial Scratch community on Reddit. Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children and a coding language with a simple visual interface that allows young people to create digital stories, games, and animations.
ELI5: What was the Y2K fear all about? : r/explainlikeimfive - Reddit
May 25, 2022 · Y2K remediation was a big help in my career. A consulting house hired me on to upgrade 486 processor pc’s to Pentium (which was easier way to fix y2k than firmware updates). That 6 months of work got me placed in several big companies (Intuit, Sun). I landed at a job with a pension so I consider myself lucky from y2k.