LGR Tech Tales - Y2K: The Year 2000 Problem

Same thing happening with Climate Change. The best case scenario is nothing changes but the deniers will claim that since nothing happened the activists why l were lying

I kept waiting for an Office Space reference, but alas.... :)

That comic strip was very clever.

I have to compliment and thank you for how you speak in this video. I had to turn another one off because the speaker was so obnoxiously trying to stretch out his runtime with awkward, stilted, repetitive narration. Your narration on the other hand was smoth and easy on the ears, as well as entertaining. No saliva sloshing around on the microphone either, which means a lot to those of us with sensory issues.

More content like this please

Now what is gonna happend on the year 10000?

I would have been 8 years old. My mother let me eat raw brownie batter and watch South Park. She was crying and scared when the ball dropped, but by 2AM, we were crashed on the living room floor.

I remember some stocked up on guns and ammo. But all the work that was done got done before 2000 hit, and we noticed nothing really.

Tech Tales is my favorite playlist on the channel, hopefully you will resume the series one day.❤

Can't wait for the Y3K.

I miss LGR Tech Tales

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicy, dangerous animals and you know it."

Was I the only one led here by the Simpsons Y2k episode?

I was there 23 years ago and was disappointed that Y2K didn't happen.




Im still disappointed

How to market your product in the late 90s: Add ‘Y2K’ to the box in a prominent location

Had to find a video about Y2K after watching some old episodes of the Drew Carey Show from 1999. A big plot point in a few of the episodes is characters getting ready for Y2K, based on the scare tactics of the time. They take all their money out of the bank, they buy bulk food, and Drew builds a bomb shelter. At one point, one character genuinely says to another character: "Do you think the world is going to end in 3 months?" That really made me think about how this was a real fear for people at that time. At first I couldn't imagine living like that, but then I remembered I live in the year 2023, and have already lived through 3 or 4 "world ending" events, so I think I understand the fear at that time.

Since my dad worked for PHI "Petroleum Helicopters International" at the time; I wasn't worried about it. So I was just porpered for an 3 day power outage since I knew if it happened the power company wound have power back on by then.

I took it easy. I never understood panic ...

Also it's easy now to say that everyone should have used 4 digit dates to begin with, but those early computers were very low on memory and it's frankly insane that so many of these mainframe programs survived to be an issue in the year 1999...

I was working in IT during this time. There were things that needed to be fixed. The concern was that not all issues were caught. New Year's Eve was on a Friday. I remember being offered triple pay to work on Saturday and/or Sunday to be around in case there were any issues. There were not many, but it wasn't because there was nothing to be fixed to begin with.

People who knew Fortran and Cobol back then made a ton of money.

Also, glad you are least alluded to the 2038 problem.

I was 4 at 2000 and all I remeber everyone just shouting end of the world

i LOVE all the guest voices!

I started working as a programmer in the mid-late 90's. All of my work was short term contracts. Some of those jobs were updating code to prepare for "y2k". I had to review every place a date was used, which was harder than it sounds because dates weren't always stored in date fields. Often the code was fine and only needed minor tweaks to ensure future-proofing. There was one corporation that brought me in and were using an AS/400 for just a very basic inventory database which only 1 or 2 people ever used. I told them they were wasting money on that setup and it wasn't really even worth going through that code. I set them up with a simple Access DB, which I normally hated to use, but in this instance it actually made sense for once. They were happy to retire that server and stop maintaining it.

Apparently, I am Y2K compliant! I'm still (sort of) running.

I had FreeDOS, some variant that booted on a floppy disk. I left my computer on and it did jumped back to epoch time. It was crazy!
Oh and that Cash Register was from Fort Bliss (El Paso, TX). I was stationed there for 7 years, and I have a good feeling that was at the thrift store.

I just remember playing Final Fantasy VIII when the millennium changed. And PS1 didn't have a clock so no worries there. :)

I'm glad I was a kid during that nonsense and just kind of saw that hysteria as noise.

funny to known that WInzoz did a better job here than Unix

Who ever could have had the foresight to have seen that appointing several "Experts" whom aren't held to any sort of standard or limitation as to how many times they can be dead wrong while still donning the title?

We all need to start making plans for Y3K
start by throwing money at anyone who claims they can use a mouse
that's what they did in 99, sorry 1999 lol

Kinda sounds like climate change nuts

I loved this video!

20 years later the corona virus hit instead

ngl im looking forward to the y2k38 problem

I absolutely have one of those Y2K bug plushies

I’m wondering how can something be late if the system shows a date prior to the rental?

If you ever feel bad about putting off your homework assignment or essay to the last minute, at least you can take solace in the fact that basically the entire U.S.A had 42 years to sort this problem, and they literally waited until the last day to do so!

Much much later.... in the year 9999, "OH NOO... Not this again"

I guess there haven't been any more techs to tale. 2 whole years with nothing new from this series.

Do you think the small problems seen on 1/1/2000 (I typed out a 4 digit year for clarity) are a window into what could have happened to the large institutions who spent half a trillion dollars fixing Y2K? Could it really have been pretty bad? I'm sure the experts ran tests, but also, the experts could have seen how lucrative selling bug fixes were too. Hmmm...

I miss this series. I know they take a lot of research, but they were great to watch. Maybe there should be a Tech Tales on the demise of Tech Tales.

I didnt expect to recognize as many of the voices in this as i did

I remember when all the BS about this thensaid the world would end lmao

Actually, that Y2K cookbook might be useful for us people who live in the styx, as we can have no power for an amount of weeks.