WHat exatcly was Y2K?

Question

Does everyone remeber Y2k?
That big virus or whatever it was that was supposed to do huge damage in year 2000...

Did it like work or not, i was like 9 so i don't remember much.

Answer 1

It worked mostly as hysteria and a "junk-food news" story.

Supposedly all these programs and hardware devices had only 2 digits to store the year, so when 1/1/2000 came electricity would shut off, planes would crash, banks would go crazy calculating interest, and all this horrible stuff would happen that never did.

Not that we didn't have to spend a lot of time and money looking at the computer programs. But generally we did this well ahead of time and were ready. There WERE a few "glitches" here and there (one program we used at work said the year was 19100) but nothing anywhere near what people predicted.

Answer 2

The source of the problem was that many programs running on computers counted the years in 2 digits, so 1996 is known to the program as 96. The difference between 961231 and 970101 is counted as 1 day difference. So far so good.

But what about the difference between 991231 and 000101? That was the millennium bug. This didn't count 1 day but a hundred years. Imagine what it did to computers counting your mortgage, or the days remaining for a prisoner to be released?

The solution was simple enough but sometimes difficult to implement. Change to 2 years digit to a 4 years digit. Many programs, like AT-M's for example, where written in Cobalt, an old computer language. There were far more cobalt programs than annalists to deal with it. These guys made a fortune with the millennium bug.

A second, minor but was thee leap year. Every 400 years a leap year is skipped. The 29th of February 2000 never existed, although dividable by 4. This one made far more havoc than the millennium bug that didn't do any damage at all. The world could celebrate the 1st of January 2000 in light and sound, not in chaos and darkness as some annalists predicted because of a program bug.

Answer 3

You see ''k'' stands for 1000.So y2k was nothing but ''year 2000''
Even i was 9 that time but i soon came to know everything as i grew old.

The Year 2000 problem (also known as the Y2K problem, the millennium bug, and the Y2K Bug) was the result of a practice in early computer program design that caused some date-related processing to operate incorrectly for dates and times on and after January 1, 2000. It engendered widespread concern that critical industries (such as electricity or financial) and government functions would cease operating at exactly midnight, January 1, 2000, and on other critical dates which were billed as "event horizons". This fear was fueled by the attendant press coverage and other media speculation, as well as corporate and government reports. Companies and organizations world-wide checked and upgraded their computer systems. The preparation for Y2K thus had a significant effect on the computer industry. No significant computer failures occurred when the clocks rolled over into 2000. Debate continues on whether the absence of computer failures was the result of the preparation undertaken or whether the significance of the problem had been overstated.

Answer 4

The Year 2000 problem (Y2K, Millennium Bug, Millennium Virus) came about due to programming practices involving the use of 6 digit dates (dd/mm/yy) vs. 8 digit dates (dd/mm/yyyy). This results in the possibility of a date such as 31 being misinterpreted (is it 1931 or 2031?). Thus, any computer program which deals with 6 digit dates is susceptible to the Y2K problem.

The Y2K problem had a significant effect on the computer industry. No significant computer failures occurred when the clocks rolled over into 2000.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

it got people to buy a lot of things that they didn't need(food-fuel-guns-water)
IT'S THE END OR THE WORLD or so some thort(the wankers)

Answer 7

it did nothing.