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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.
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 .
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 ...
(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 ...
“Time Bomb Y2K” premieres December 30 at 10 p.m. ET on HBO, which, like CNN, is a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. For more CNN news and newsletters create an account at CNN.com Show comments
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.
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 ...
Y2K Turbine Superbike, a turbine-powered motorcycle launched by MTT in 2000; Y2K, a Swedish designation for the DSB Class MF or IC3, a Danish-built train set; YIIK: A Postmodern RPG, an RPG video game by Ackk Studios; Y2K fashion, a design style, fashion style, and aesthetic that was popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s