Originally posted by kaskade
Y2k....2000....for all you STUPID< people, had to do with the BINARY CODE. It had to do with the COMPUTERS, if it was going to reset, and shut itself
down and basically become "confused" they never said it was going to END. They said that technology might come to a halt, and THAT would possibly
end, and we would have to re-build.
2012 has NOTHING like that, NO CLAIMS that the binary code will shut down.
Close, but that is not exactly what it was about.
We used to use two digit years to save on disk space. Back then, if you recall, no one had even heard of a Gigabyte Hard drive, and if you had a 500
Meg HD you had a top of the line system. Databases also used these two-digit years, again to save space, and to increase search speed. The fear was
never that the world was going to end, or that even anything really bad was going to go wrong with most systems, simply because on most systems the
year has no effect on the functioning of that system. They knew there were going to be some billing snafus, and such, but we worked to fix most of
that stuff leading up to Y2K. The only systems that folks were worried about where ones that used time in some critical equations. For example, a
navigation system that took speed X time X direction, etc… Those were the first systems that were fixed and checked before Y2K.
But you are correct, comparing Y2K to any other doom, is comparing apples to oranges.