How Y2K (kinda) gave us Putin

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Y2K wasn’t just a glitch—it was almost the end of the world as we know it. Governments, companies, and programmers spent hundreds of billions of dollars to stop a crisis that could’ve wiped out financial systems, grounded planes, and triggered nuclear accidents.
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[slidebean]

What do you remember about Y2K? Did you stockpile supplies, or were you just along for the ride? 
Share your best panic stories here 😱

[bosco]

It's so annoying when people try to make out that y2k was a scam. No, the industry worked very hard and fixed the issue. It's almost like big business can solve big problems given enough money and

[Biker]

I worked on large banking y2k projects in London, the amount spent was incredible, but in reality not much would have happened, we found maybe 4 issues that would have been fixed as part of normal BAU.

The consultancies made millions off this, hiring out graduates on £1000 per day to sit around and make reports.

Good times, we earnt and drank a lot.

[craigkenny]

I feel like you guys get screwed by the algorithm! This deserves so many more views

[GeektusMaximus]

I was deployed 500 miles from the North Pole specifically for Y2K, to a military base called Alert in Nunavut as the lone IT support and system admin. The very tip of the most northern island in Canada, the start of a four month tour. They had backups of backups there though, for if the main electrical generating system had gone down. Top of the world, 24 hour darkness and just maybe a Y2k disaster. Course nothing happened.

[jackkraken]

Y2K was one of the few times the outrage helped fix the issue otherwise it was never going to be fixed. Heck I remember reading on a PC magazine that Y2K was said to be our punishment for turning out back on 'God'.

[mateenDemah]

Most underrated channel on YouTube.
I love everything Slidebean puts out.

[timprussell]

Money and an awful lot of hours by us long suffering IT guys and girls.

[ALCRAN]

Years later after Y2K, major governments would collaborate with Mayans to fix the Y2012 calendar bug, averting disaster!
😂😂

[MatthewStinar]

Suddenly I feel the urge to write a sci-fi short story about how a combination of apathy, hubris, and greed causes major societal upheaveal 4 billion years from now as we use AI and virtualization to port legacy code to each successive generation of computing technology. Civilization built layer after layer atop ancient legacy code because the code "just works" and nobody wanted to take resources away from new development to update the ancient code base when it was easier to run it inside a virtual machine and build on top of it. From inside the virtual machine the legacy code saw a familiar ancient computer and from outside the virtual machine the modern software saw a peer with all the modern interfaces it was used to.

[kizito]

Do something on Fanta. The one with the logo you are putting on was sweet

[JackobJackob]

6:08 Video Store in North Korea?

Wow North Korea had video stores in 2000? SHOCKED!

[iamasteriix]

i cannot overstate how ANNOYING these ai slop voices are

[ykprawn]

yea, we fixed a few thousand lines of COBOL to make sure your online banking still sucks in 2024

[escorciav]

holly molly, I format a couple of USB sticks & possibly a HDD to fat32 & I was lazy to setup NTFS or XFS in my mac

[LondonICCJacques]

Will make for a cool movie plot!

Who will play Putin?

[eduncdam]

… or the gpts, or whoever’s in charge… 😂😂😂

[isaacewing]

hahaha, this video is a future warning for "future gpt's"

[anush_agrawal]

I hate to say it but bro fell off😅. But seriously this is one of my favourite videos.

[cristospo]

The thumbnail is bad nobody knows what Y2K means