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Y2K is an Internet aesthetic based around products, styles, and fashion of the late 1990s and early 2000s. The name Y2K is derived from an abbreviation coined by programmer David Eddy for the year 2000 and its potential computer errors .
ILOVEYOU, sometimes referred to as the Love Bug or Loveletter, was a computer worm that infected over ten million Windows personal computers on and after 5 May 2000. It started spreading as an email message with the subject line "ILOVEYOU" and the attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs". [1]
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The Y2K issue was a major topic of discussion in the late 1990s and as such showed up in much popular media. A number of "Y2K disaster" books were published such as Deadline Y2K by Mark Joseph. Movies such as Y2K: Year to Kill capitalized on the currency of Y2K, as did numerous TV shows, comic strips, and computer games.
Y2K—Year Two Thousand; Y2K38—Year Two Thousand Thirty Eight; YAAF—Yet Another Application Framework; YACC—Yet Another Compiler Compiler; YAGNI—You Aren't Gonna Need It; YAML—YAML Ain't Markup Language; YARN—Yet Another Resource Negotiator; YaST—Yet another Setup Tool
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The Worst Passwords List is an annual list of the 25 most common passwords from each year as produced by internet security firm SplashData. [4] Since 2011, the firm has published the list based on data examined from millions of passwords leaked in data breaches, mostly in North America and Western Europe, over each year.
The virus was released on March 26, 1999, by David L. Smith. [3] Smith used a hijacked AOL account to post the virus onto an Internet newsgroup called "alt.sex." [4] It soon ended up on similar sex groups and pornographic sites before spreading to corporate networks.