Collection of Lame Jokes

[jtbell]

Who's got nostalgia for Y2K?

Of course, nobody on the Internet knew he was a dog until the book outed him!

 

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[DaveC426913]

Who's got nostalgia for Y2K?

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Of course, nobody on the Internet knew he was a dog until the book outed him!

And no one knew toilet paper was going to run until 2020...

 

[sbrothy]

Who's got nostalgia for Y2K?

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Of course, nobody on the Internet knew he was a dog until the book outed him!

I know (or at least strongly suspect) that Y2K problems isn't the real issue here. Nevertheless, I remember being issued with a bunch of paper, the thickness of several telephones books (anyone know what a telephone book is anymore?), with C code, in small font on both pages, being asked if I would please use my free time to scan through it and see if there should be any problems.

I mean why on paper? And my free time?!

I'm glad I'm retired.

 

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[WWGD]

I know (or at least strongly suspect) that Y2K problems isn't the real issue here. Nevertheless, I remember being issued with a bunch of paper, the thickness of several telephones books (anyone know what a telephone book is anymore?), with C code, in small font on both pages, being asked if I would please use my free time to scan through it and see if there should be any problems.

I mean why on paper? And my free time?!

I'm glad I'm retired.

You scanned toilet paper?

 

[sbrothy]

You scanned toilet paper?

It might as well have been.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

It might as well have been.

I just used the same solution for Y2K, that we used for Y1K.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The moon landing conspiracies are back again thanks to Kim Kardashian.

Pure lunacy!

 

[fresh_42]

I just used the same solution for Y2K, that we used for Y1K.

The Euro was introduced in 1998 here. That meant a lot of examination of very, very old mainframe code in banking software, esp. as notations were swapped from the price of one dollar to the price of one euro. Checking the Y2K problem was a byproduct. I had never imagined seeing real-life assembler code before, but I did. At least it gave me the rare opportunity to watch Sylvester fireworks at the 21st level over the town.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The Euro was introduced in 1998 here. That meant a lot of examination of very, very old mainframe code in banking software, esp. as notations were swapped from the price of one dollar to the price of one euro. Checking the Y2K problem was a byproduct. I had never imagined seeing real-life assembler code before, but I did. At least it gave me the rare opportunity to watch Sylvester fireworks at the 21st level over the town.

Only announced much later, we did have a Y2K related national defense system fail

This is from Google AI, but I remember when this information was released, which is how I knew to look it up.

One significant US defensive system experienced a failure shortly after midnight UTC on January 1, 2000 (which was still Dec 31st, 1999, in the US time zones). A ground-based computer failure temporarily blinded several US spy satellites.

The system, an intelligence processing station at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, went offline for two to three hours. The problem wasn't with the satellites themselves, which remained under control, but with the ground station's ability to process the incoming information due to a Y2K-related error in a software patch.