In the 1960s and 1970s, computer space was expensive. One cost-cutting measure was to render the year as two digits instead of four. So, for example, a computer would recognize the year 1974 as just "74". This works great until you get to the year 2000, which the computer will render as "00" and mistake for 1900.
Why is this a problem? Well, let's say there's a library with a non-Y2K compliant computer. You check out a book on December 21st, 1999. The book is due on January 3rd, 2000. The next day, you return the book and the library computer says you owe them millions of dollars in late fees. How can this be? Well, the computer recognized the current date as 12/22/99, the date the book was due as 01/03/00, and concluded the book was 99 years overdue. Now imagine the same kind of errors affecting other "date-sensitive" programs, such as the computers in charge of bank accounts.
You see, those computers were intended to work short-term and no one expected them to still be in operation by the year 2000. After all, they would be outdated by then. But many of them were still in operation and thus had to be updated to recognize four-digit years. Billions of dollars were spent correcting the problem.
The problem was overhyped to the public as a technological apocalypse, leading to the popular perception that Y2K would cause planes to fall from the sky and other such nonsense. To this day, debates rages as to whether the money spent on Y2K prevented the crisis or if there just wasn't that much of a crisis in the first place.
According to the experts at F-Secure, the "Y2K Virus" is just a misnomer given to the Y2K bug by media personnel who didn't completely understand the problem.
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January 1, 2000.
In the 1960s and 1970s, computer space was expensive. One cost-cutting measure was to render the year as two digits instead of four. So, for example, a computer would recognize the year 1974 as just "74". This works great until you get to the year 2000, which the computer will render as "00" and mistake for 1900. You see, those computers were intended to work short-term and no one expected them to still be in operation by the year 2000. But many of them were still in operation and thus had to be updated to recognize four-digit years. In the 1990s, billions of dollars were spent on this effort. The problem was overhyped to the public as a technological apocalypse, leading to the popular perception that Y2K would cause planes to fall from the sky and other such nonsense. To this day, debates rages as to whether the money spent on Y2K prevented the crisis or if there just wasn't that much of a crisis in the first place.
Well i think people were scared of Y2K cuz they crazy. They be thinking that something wuz gonna happen, but nuthin DID!
Y2K A World in Crisis - 1999 was released on: USA: 15 November 1999
There is no y2k movie yet!
According to the experts at F-Secure, the "Y2K Virus" is just a misnomer given to the Y2K bug by media personnel who didn't completely understand the problem.
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Some words that rhyme with "Y2K" are "kayak," "payback," and "way back."
Russ Kelly has written: 'Y2K: An equal opportunity destroyer' 'Y2K'
"Y2K" was the year 2000. A "Bugatti" is a car. Your question makes no sense.
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The cast of Y2K - 1998 includes: Rachel Cronin as Wendy Allison
Y2K - 1999 TV is rated/received certificates of: Argentina:13
Yes. All versions of Windows from Windows 95 on are or have patches to make them compliant with Y2K.