Your a 90's kid if...

I just remember about people uncertain if their computers would survive the change of the millenium because they didn't know if their computers would change from 1999 to 2000 or if there was a bug in their systems adn the computer would malfunction, or start back at either 0000 or 1000.

Funny problems of the past

WRONG!  It wouldn't start back at 0000 or 1000.  The problem was computers were built with 2-digit years.  The year was always "19" + Year, where "+" acted as contatenation if one or both was a string.  It would convert the year to a string, and contatenate.

Therefore, Year in 1985 had the value of 85, so "19" + 85 = 1985.

So when the year would strike 2000, you wouldn't get 0000 or 1000, you'd get the following:

99 + 1 = 100.  Only 2 spots are supported, so the 1 drops off, and it keeps the last 2 digits, 00.  Contatenate that with the string "19" and you get, low and behold, 1900! (NOT 1000 or 0000)

So before the Y2K bug was fixed, computers would go from December 31, 1999 to January 1, 1900, and nothing would work as all files had a date and time attached to it (based on when the file was last saved) and you can't open a file with a future date.  So the computer would think it was January 1, 1900, and you would be trying to open a file dated December 27, 1999, and it would fail.

Once they changed the year from 2 digits to 4 digits, the problem has been solved thru 9999, and who the f*** cares what happens come the year 10,000.  We will all be long dead except Irene Cara, who claims in "Fame" that she's going to live for ever!

my family just popped fire works that night we were like the only family doing it lol fun times 

heres a new one oh no 2014 end of the world run lol

Darn! And I was just getting to like the world, too!

Rest in Peace!

Wrong again. (Beware : nerdy things ahead)

That could have, and has, generated some display problems, but nothing serious - because the internal date, the one the computer stores in memory, whatever its format, would be correct.

The real problem would occur if the computer stored the date as a umber between (say) 0 and 1999 and cycled through (ie 1998,1998,0,1,2,etc.). Then, there would be real problems when trying to determine the number of days between two dates, etc.

This is not the case, because computers think in base 2. So the 'milenium problem', if it occurs, will occur at some date most people would think randomly chosen, not a nice round number as 2000. It will be a round number, but in base 2. See for instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem.

Wtf? base 2 numbers 1999 cycle i lost you guys at just bug

Yep and this time its for reals ok. i have it confirmed by a almost legit book i read from an almost legit author with an almost legit phd in some field he couldn't remember oddly...

Maybe it was in Liberal Arts.

Your homepage gave me cancer...

whose?

Excuse me sir, but isn't it the one they nominate of annoyment? It's supposed to say it's a new sort of now. * 

Well anyway I believe I could sleep without knowing about that.

This is too deep for me and too legit!

Im sorry but this time i am absolutely 100% sure that 2014 will be the end of the world. maybe

Is that a definite maybe?

Yes im sure i think

Very well, Vanessa.

I will now find my hammer and chisel, and etch your words in water!

You know your a 90's kid if you called dinosaurs long necks three horn or spike tail... LOL Land before time.