Who remembers Y2K....?

Fittle · 31-12-2010 05:28PM #1

...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 · 31-12-2010 05:31PM

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

Biggins · 31-12-2010 05:31PM

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. · 31-12-2010 05:32PM

Biggins wrote: »

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

Hilarious:rolleyes:

Biggins · 31-12-2010 05:32PM

fedor.2. wrote: »

Hilarious:rolleyes:

Do I get another prize?

orourkeda · 31-12-2010 05:33PM

Their zips rock

amacachi · 31-12-2010 05:34PM

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 · 31-12-2010 05:35PM

Will Smith's hit single?

pixbyjohn · 31-12-2010 05:36PM

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 · 31-12-2010 05:36PM

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 · 31-12-2010 05:41PM

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

morons.

antodeco · 31-12-2010 05:43PM

I always remember 2 KY

mistyd · 31-12-2010 05:44PM

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 · 31-12-2010 05:45PM

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 · 31-12-2010 05:46PM

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 · 31-12-2010 05:48PM

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 · 31-12-2010 05:50PM

If you are a catholic it's December 2011

kerryman12 · 31-12-2010 05:50PM

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 · 31-12-2010 05:53PM

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 · 31-12-2010 05:53PM

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 · 31-12-2010 05:54PM

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!!

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cypharius · 31-12-2010 05:55PM

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 · 31-12-2010 05:56PM

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 · 31-12-2010 05:58PM

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 · 31-12-2010 05:59PM

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 · 31-12-2010 06:04PM

Lots of monies was made. Load of bollox.

ejmaztec · 31-12-2010 06:11PM

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 · 31-12-2010 06:14PM

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 · 31-12-2010 06:18PM

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

TeddyTedson · 31-12-2010 06:18PM

kerryman12 wrote: »

how long where u thinking that 1 up?

<21mins I bet:p

ejmaztec · 31-12-2010 06:19PM

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.

Who remembers Y2K....?

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