Remember Y2K?

[Icarus27k]

Seriously, they don't have a concept of it.

[[classic swim]]

I remember my grandpa bitching about it while we were driving to the supermarket. He said it was a bunch of horseshit and I listened to him.

[André Toulon]

I think a lot fewer people believed it than popular opinion dictates......I remember a small panic but IIRC, there were equal parts people hoping all that shit went away for real and were ready to just try the new world.

[scoobdog]

I thought it was more amusing than anything.  The idea that a computer would go haywire over two missing digits is kind of preposterous on its own.  It needed the contextual framing of the Mayan Calendar’s end to give it credence.

[Doom Metal Alchemist]

I loved how people conflated the Apocalypse (or was it armageddon?) with the Y2K bug.