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I wouldn't call one bug, in one software a "vengeance". Yea, it's widly used, and affected lots of mail but was very limited and had a trivial work-around. But
by edoceo 5y ago
I wouldn't call one bug, in one software a "vengeance". Yea, it's widly used, and affected lots of mail but was very limited and had a trivial work-around.
But, the Y2K issue, back then, was in 1000s of software from 1000s of vendors. The only Y2K affect I remember was the first issue of 2600 in 2000.
- laumars 5y agoIt also wasn’t just the tick over to the year 2000. It was various dates and times around the year 2000 (leap years et al). But the Jan 01 2000 problem was the biggest and most high profile.
- Fatnino 5y agoI remember the laser-tag place near Google (now long gone) would print out your scorecard with a date like 11/24/102
- throwawayboise 5y agoYeah I saw that sort of thing frequently on smaller websites back then as well.
- Pxtl 5y agoIIRC even phpBB would start reporting years as 19100
- withinboredom 5y agoJust imagine if the computing revolution started closer to the beginning of the century instead of the last few decades of it. It would have been cray trying to fix everything.