Y2K-Bug: Where a calendar almost ended the world!
Discover how a small coding shortcut threatened the digital world at the turn of the millennium.
The dark and creepy week comes slowly to an end. Tomorrow there will be another nice energetic final - but today, we give the stage to the best „the world goes down“ tech-mass-hysteria before the raise of AI: the Y2k bug!
Remember the big hype of 1999? With endless discussions, that the world will crumble down, because most calendars in computers only had two digits for the calendar?
It was the fear, that many computer-systems will just fail at 1.1.2000, because computes "would not compute" because of the two digit calendar.
It was a big thing. Maybe the first wave of digital fear, with the potential to "end the world".
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