(September 17, 2009 at 10:41 am)binny Wrote: Like Y2K. Remember that shit? The world was going to come to an end then too. Very dumb. The clocked ticked, the years 2000 came and nothing happened. Just like it will in 2012.Actually Y2K was a real computing problem brought about by many computer systems using 2 digits to store the year rather than 4 (99 rather than 1999). Since many computers used these dates in calculations, they needed to increase by 1 as the year passed. This worked for every year prior to 2000, but on the Millennium the year went from 99 to 00, putting out all the calculations by -99.
But I'm still going to stock up on canned goods and weapons.
Only a few systems were affected in the end, due to some clever people spotting the problem beforehand and encouraging system upgrades that used 4 digits rather than 2.
