Current Events > Did you freak out over the impending "Y2K bug"?

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I did. >_>

To be fair, I was 11.
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I was 14, so no.
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No. Even at 13, I knew people were way over-exaggerating what would happen.

Mikablu posted...

No. Even at 13, I knew people were way over-exaggerating what would happen.

Aww, little baby Mika is younger than me :D
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>:l

at the age of 2 i didnt think it was that big of a deal
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no, but my dad made us unplug the computers from the internet
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No. We didn't even own a compute so 12 year old me didn't really comprehend how bad it could be or give a fuck.
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I wasn't born yet
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I was a few days out from turning 10, and it made no sense to me. I knew people who were worried about it, and the exchange always went like this;

Them: "All the computers are going to die because they can't roll over from 1999 to 2000!"
Me: "Why not?
Them: "Uuuuuuhhhhhhhhhh"

I was far more concerned with our New Years Eve tradition of eating Lobster to care about some supposed problem that nobody could even explain to me.
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I had a passing concern that the power might go out for a couple of hours or maybe even a couple of days, but I never expected Armageddon because of a computer's calendar rolling over.

Doe posted...

I wasn't born yet

Heh. GameFAQs has users that are younger than the site itself.

CrimsonAngeI posted...

I was 14, so no.

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I was seven, turning eight and didn't even know it was a thing people worried about until after 2000 already passed.
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when you was 4 during y2k but GFaqs users outage you by 10+ years
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
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I was smart at the time. People freaked out saying planes were going to come crashing down and more. Just based on my mind saying "I can't see how planes would come crashing down just because we lose power when they have fuel", I was never fearful of the idea. It just made zero sense to me.
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I was 15 at the time and was too busy playing Dreamcast to care
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I didn't hear/know about it until awhile after so nah. Also you saw my topic & made this one after you saw it right?
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I was 17 at the time, and I knew it was being greatly overexaggerated. Like, people were expecting devices that don't even keep track of the date to fail for some reason.
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Not at all. Didn't freak out over the 12-21-2012 Mayan calendar thing either.
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Croutonman posted...

Not at all. Didn't freak out over the 12-21-2012 Mayan calendar thing either.

My sister was convinced the world was going to end and insisted we do nothing but stay home on the 21st. I admit I was a little nervous, but was pretty sure nothing was going to happen.
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The Eon8 thing was more fun than the Y2K scare.
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Yes. Mostly because I was nine and a couple of my parents' friends talked about nuclear holocaust while I was in earshot. That plus the dream scene from Terminator 2 fucked me up for a while there.
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Briefly. Then my dad told me it was nonsense so I carried on with my day.
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Duncanwii posted...

Croutonman posted...

Not at all. Didn't freak out over the 12-21-2012 Mayan calendar thing either.

My sister was convinced the world was going to end and insisted we do nothing but stay home on the 21st. I admit I was a little nervous, but was pretty sure nothing was going to happen.

Lmfao

Yeah some clueless barbarians were able to predict the world's end.
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Why did people fear the debut of Y2J?

NocturnalLight posted...

Why did people fear the debut of Y2J?

Computer clocks wouldnt turn over for some reason and society would collapse.
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I was 16, and I thought it was hogwash. My English teacher was going on about how the world was going to change, and planes would crash, the Internet would shut down, and we'd be thrust back to civilization like it was in the early 1900's.

I think he was trolling us though, he had a habit of playing pranks to file people up, and was quite the jokester. I think he might've just been exaggerating to try and fear monger the kids that believed it, and honestly, I wouldn't put it past him to do such a thing.
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Coffeebeanz posted...

I was 15 at the time and was too busy playing Dreamcast to care

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I can't remember anything substantial before the 2000s so the paranoia of the Y2K bug seemed so ridiculous when I learnt about it in high school. You have old people complaining about how the English literature and society is being dumbed down by the youth with words like bae and lit but they were in hysterics over an outdated computer calendar system smh
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NocturnalLight posted...

Why did people fear the debut of Y2J?

Because they didn't want to accept that they'd been living in mediocrity and were in need of saving.


#SaveUsY2J

I was 11 and I was actually using my computer online at the time the New Years hit. I heard a lot about it but I didn't really care. I got a little rush right before the big moment was supposed to happen and then I was kinda disappointed
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Fuck no, I was 14 at the time and that night I was about to have sex my first time.

CrimsonAngeI posted...

I was 14, so no.

nativengine posted...

Fuck no, I was 14 at the time and that night I was about to have sex my first time.

Now I'm imagining you getting cockblocked by the apocalypse
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Not really. Nobody did a particularly good job of explaining it to me, so I never saw the problem.I literally remember a teacher saying this:

Just think of what it will do at banks, when suddenly the computers think it's 1900! George Washington was alive then! Everyone's account will get erased because they're not born yet!
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DevsBro posted...

Not really. Nobody did a particularly good job of explaining it to me, so I never saw the problem.I literally remember a teacher saying this:

Just think of what it will do at banks, when suddenly the computers think it's 1900! George Washington was alive then! Everyone's account will get erased because they're not born yet!

That's..um... There's so much wrong with that it kind of hurts a little.
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That's..um... There's so much wrong with that it kind of hurts a little.

It was the moment when I realized, as a 4th grader, that the whole thing was grossly misundrstood and probably few to none of the things people feared were legit.
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Nah, but I was kinda hoping it would happen just to set technology back.
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iosifsvoboda posted...

nativengine posted...

Fuck no, I was 14 at the time and that night I was about to have sex my first time.

Now I'm imagining you getting cockblocked by the apocalypse

LOL, would've saved me from dating that crazy bitch for 5 months.

i wasnt alive but it sounds stupid as fuck ngl
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Mr Hangman posted...

It's not that it was exaggerated exactly, it was going to be a problem, so they warned people about it, so they got it fixed, so then it wasn't a problem. That's good, more things should go that way. There is a year 2038 problem coming up.

There is no 2038 problem. There was one, but it was fixed when epoch time started getting tracked in 64 bit integers.

Some legacy software that no one cares about will break. Nothing of any value will be affected.
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My family was moving on that day and I remember my mom bought alot of candles just in case the power went out. We all sat by the TV and watched the countdown waiting to see if anything happened.

The power did go out but that was my dad playing a prank. I was 10 at the time.
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