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The Y2K issue was a major topic of discussion in the late 1990s and as such showed up in most 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.
But in a bit of revisionist history, the Y2K bug is real — so real, in fact, that every electronic device and appliance bands together into freakish robotic monsters in order to kill the teens ...
Time Bomb Y2K is a 2023 American documentary film directed by Marley McDonald and Brian Becker. An all-archival film, it explores the year 2000 problem , and the mass hysteria surrounding it. It had its world premiere at True/False Film Festival on March 3, 2023, and was released on December 30, 2023, by HBO .
The upshot though, is that today, Y2K is remembered as a panic—an irrational hysteria that gripped the world. There are still tons of questions about why today’s outage was so potent and ...
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- As we address the tragedies of Covid-19, we should learn from past calamities, whether epidemics or economic collapse. But we can also learn from a crisis that was ...
The podcast is a six episode documentary that premiered on November 13, 2018. [3] The podcast is hosted by Dan Taberski and produced by Pineapple Street Media and Topic Studios. [4]
The Year 2000 computer problem has become a punchline in recent years, but the CrowdStrike outage shows the joke's on us.
As part of Y2K compliance work that was carried out in 1998, the CRTL was modified to use unsigned 32-bit integers to represent time; extending the range of time_t up to 7 February 2106. [30] PostgreSQL since version 7.2, released 2002-02-04, uses 64-bit integers for the "timestamp without time zone" data type.