Who remembers Y2K....?

Fittle

...when we all thought our toasters/microwaves/tvs/aeroplanes and anything else electrical wouldn't work once the clock struck 12:eek::eek:

That was ELEVEN years ago...and it only seems like yesterday:rolleyes:

kerryman12

well i dont know about yesterday, but I remember it - what a joke.

Biggins

Fittle wrote: »

...when we all thought our toasters/microwaves/tvs/aeroplanes and anything else electrical wouldn't work once the clock struck 12:eek::eek:

That was ELEVEN years ago...and it only seems like yesterday:rolleyes:

Depending on how much drugs some of us took, it was yesterday!

fedor.2.

Biggins wrote: »

Depending on how much drugs some of us took, it was yesterday!

Hilarious:rolleyes:

Biggins

fedor.2. wrote: »

Hilarious:rolleyes:

Do I get another prize?

orourkeda

Their zips rock

amacachi

Yeah it's not like loads of work was done which prevented it from being a big issue, it was aaaaalllllllllllllllll just a myth.

Nolanger

Will Smith's hit single?

pixbyjohn

kerryman12 wrote: »

well i dont know about yesterday but I remember it what a joke.

Similar to Global warming joke.
Big business plan to get you to buy more modern goods.

TeddyTedson

We were so stupid back then to think the end was nigh just because of a few computer digits....It's a ludicrous idea.
...Not looking forward to 2012 though, enjoy 2011 while we can. The sh1t will hit the fan in 2012, just watch.

fonecrusher1

This THE WORLD WILL END IN 2012 bullsh!t is building some serious momentum.

morons.

antodeco

I always remember 2 KY

mistyd

There is no way the world is going to end in 2012, we owe too much money to get let off that easy:P

Nodin

Fittle wrote: »

...when we all thought our toasters/microwaves/tvs/aeroplanes and anything else electrical wouldn't work once the clock struck 12:eek::eek:

That was ELEVEN years ago...and it only seems like yesterday:rolleyes:

I remember having to figure out a comprehensive series of tests, then getting landed to come in to work at 11pm to past midnight to run tests on the poxy system.....

kerryman12

pixbyjohn wrote: »

Similar to Global warming joke.
Big business plan to get you to buy more modern goods.

starting to come around to that idea 2, keep us scared and we will consume more

TeddyTedson

Well I remember hearing about 2012 back in 1999 or 1998.
There is no other end dates after 2012 so I seems more than likely that it's going ahead.

thomasj

If you are a catholic it's December 2011

kerryman12

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Well I remember hearing about 2012 back in 1999 or 1998.
There is no other end dates after 2012 so I seems more than likely that it's going ahead.

wasnt cuba supposed to fall into the sea back in the 90's also?

TeddyTedson

kerryman12 wrote: »

wasnt cuba supposed to fall into the sea back in the 90's also?

Sometimes these things get delayed though I suppose, the magnet poles are 35,000 years overdue to shift.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

the amount of people who are just ignorant to the huge amount of hours that went into fixing the y2k problem is just incredible. Do you really think all those software types were just twiddling their thumbs emailing radio shows about how ****ed it was all going to be?

nothing happened because it was solved ahead of time, not because it was an engineered myth.

Calibos

amacachi wrote: »

Yeah it's not like loads of work was done which prevented it from being a big issue, it was aaaaalllllllllllllllll just a myth.

This mindset of people never ceases to amaze me. Its akin to a Londoner asking why the British government wasted billions of pounds building the Thames Barrier in the 80's....."Cause like, we've neva ad a flood since innit?

Same with the publics response to the possible swineflu pandemic last year.
Why did we waste all those billions of pounds vaccinating people? The pandemic never happened!!

<FACEPALM>

cypharius

pixbyjohn wrote: »

Similar to Global warming joke.
Big business plan to get you to buy more modern goods.

*facepalm*. The thing that gets to me is that it was never called global warming by scientists, what is happening now is exactly what most climatologists said would happen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mauna_Loa_Carbon_Dioxide-en.svg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Satellite_Temperatures.png

That's enough for most people, but by all means, jump on the "Global warming is bull****" band wagon.

kerryman12

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Sometimes these things get delayed though I suppose, the magnet poles are 35,000 years overdue to shift.

ah yes the old magnetic poles theory - discovery chnl has alot to answear for !

TeddyTedson

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

the amount of people who are just ignorant to the huge amount of hours that went into fixing the y2k problem is just incredible. Do you really think all those software types were just twiddling their thumbs emailing radio shows about how ****ed it was all going to be?

nothing happened because it was solved ahead of time, not because it was an engineered myth.

All I know is my clock radio and N64 is still working today and nobody touched them.

cypharius

TeddyTedson wrote: »

All I know is my clock radio and N64 is still working today and nobody touched them.

Neither of those things have internal digital clocks.

Jesus Wept

Lots of monies was made. Load of bollox.

ejmaztec

kerryman12 wrote: »

wasnt cuba supposed to fall into the sea back in the 90's also?

He probably did, but he's still making films, so someone must have pulled him out.

kerryman12

ejmaztec wrote: »

He probably did, but he's still making films, so someone must have pulled him out.

how long where u thinking that 1 up?

CrazyRabbit

Y2K isn't funny. My old portable TV has been showing nothing but old B&W silent movies ever since Jan 1st 2000.

TeddyTedson

kerryman12 wrote: »

how long where u thinking that 1 up?

<21mins I bet:p

ejmaztec

kerryman12 wrote: »

how long where u thinking that 1 up?

About 1.5 seconds.:P

Actually, I thought it up in the Y2K, and have been waiting patiently for someone to mention Cuba in a post ever since, just so that I could confuse everybody with a Cuba Gooding reference.

MGMTea

tenner bets everything will reset to 1:1:1 1/1/1 and we'll all explode, I bet the lot of ye's

Gummy Panda

All I can remember from that night is some girl pushing my head downtown

chicken fingers

Actually AFAIK Y2k affected boards.ie back in the day. It was a few months after I think. Something about post tables getting lost or whatever.

fonecrusher1

Playing playstation 2 with a friend, drinking cheap beer out of a pint glass that had 1999/2000 written on it.

Things have changed since then. Its an xbox360 now.

kerryman12

ejmaztec wrote: »

About 1.5 seconds.:P

Actually, I thought it up in the Y2K, and have been waiting patiently for someone to mention Cuba in a post ever since, just so that I could confuse everybody with a Cuba Gooding reference.

happy to be of assistance

Badgermonkey

Y2K, Swine Flu, Bird Flu, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Beastie Boys blah blah......

If you see an expert on Sky News warning of impending disaster relax, sit back and wait.

And wait.

mikemac

Hype by software companies to sell their solutions

kerryman12

, Swine Flu

dont know about that, all of tha A&E's in cork are over run, calling GP telling them to only send urgent cases.

Thats what my GP told me to-day, for what it is worth.

-Trek-

MGMTea wrote: »

tenner bets everything will reset to 1:1:1 1/1/1 and we'll all explode, I bet the lot of ye's

Your on

GizAGoOfYerGee

Was having a large family do and my cousin turned off the electricity at midnight. Auldfella went apsesh!t. :P

MGMTea

Trekmad wrote: »

Your on

HAHA I WIN, I saw a younfella explode across the street when the clock hit 00:00 pay up

-Trek-

MGMTea wrote: »

tenner bets everything will reset to 1:1:1 1/1/1 and we'll all explode, I bet the lot of ye's

I have not lost this yet

t0mm13b

Yeah, I was working on the mainframe systems back then, and ohhhh, I discovered a bug in COBOL code that handled y2k... then was on-call support in the event any system errors occur :rolleyes:

ro_chez

Biggins wrote: »

Depending on how much drugs some of us took, it was yesterday!

I'd heard about you!...**** this, **** that...but you were on the gear all the time, fair ****in play:)

Son Of A Vidic

Poor oul Y2J (Chris Jericho) isn't the wrestler he used to be alright.

JonB

I cant wait till the idiots who believe in 2012 do something very stupid the day before the world ends and then the next day comes and they realise how ****ed they are!

Scartbeg

At the least the company who make KY Jelly were on the case. I hear that they came out with a new Y2K compliant product called "Y2K Jelly" - it allows you to insert 4 digits into your date...