The Y2K Nopocolypse

In the age of Fox News and the manufactured fear industry, the Y2K bug "crisis" seems almost quaint. While it was certainly exploited by Christian evangelists and others, there was a core of genuine uncertainty.

"When programmers began their work with the first wave of commercial computers in the 1960s, computer memory was expensive, so they used a two-digit format for dates, using just the years in the century, rather than using the four digits that would be necessary otherwise—78, for example, rather than 1978. This worked fine until the century changed.

"As the turn of the twenty-first century approached, computer engineers realized that computers might interpret 00 as 1900 rather than 2000 or fail to recognize it at all, causing programs that, by then, handled routine maintenance, safety checks, transportation, finance, and so on, to fail. According to scholar Olivia Bosch, governments recognized that government services, as well as security and the law, could be disrupted by the glitch."

In the event, there were no problems.The world transitioned into the new millennium without a digital apocalypse. Now, if we could only get MAGA to understand that the immigration "crisis," the debt "crisis" and the crime "crisis" are just manufactured crises by Fox and Trump.

https://angrybearblog.com/2025/01/no-the-earth-did-not-stand-still-january-1-2000#more-171234