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   thegreatape (thegreatape@thechimp.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 02:30:45 JST thegreatape
   I went to look up Y2K yesterday to try and remember the reasoning behind all the computers shutting off. This is what google pulls up if you just put in "y2k".
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 02:30:43 JST Sexy Moon

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     @thegreatape what do you want to know though, I was working at the time to mitigate it at a company.
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     Jolly Rancher (not_br549@jollyville.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 04:24:31 JST Jolly Rancher

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     • Sexy Moon
     no computers shut off, but there was a lot of behind-the-scenes work on it. I was one of the cow-orkers in that effort, although we only found a few small potential glitches.
     Y2038 has more potential -- after that, I think there's a Y2044 possible happening.
     But then again,
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     thegreatape (thegreatape@thechimp.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 05:54:09 JST thegreatape

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     Yeah I was just remembering how wild it was to live through. My mom filled up the bathtubs with water and hoarded ramen expecting society to collapse as soon as the times square ball dropped. I was SO relieved it was bullshit.
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     Snugglefist (snugglefist@freezepeach.online)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 05:54:10 JST Snugglefist

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     That could be due to it being a big nothingburger after no small amount of hysteria. Short answer, if you're still looking for it, is only two digits being allocated to the year in storing a date so that some systems would end up behaving as if we had just rolled back to 1900. This is what the character Peter Gibbons says he does at work in the movie Office Space.