Quote (Jacknimble @ Feb 11 2011 09:43pm)
Y2K survivor here, bunch of nonsense, go about your life with no further regard on the subject, complete waste of your beautiful mind
I'm fairly certain that Y2K was a legitimate problem. The thing is, people spent a decent part of the 90's updating computer codes to avoid the problem. An analogy of what happened is if you were driving a car and seeing a tree up ahead that if you hit it will undoubtedly total your car, so before you get there you turn your steering wheel and stay on the road.
Another similar (though fundamentally different) event is known as the Y2K38 problem, where 32-bit operating systems hit their maximum Time variable, and so they'll revert to January 1st, 1970. Luckily this problem's pretty much been avoided already by switching everything to 64-bit operating systems. I plan on keeping my 32-bit XP disk though so I can see what happens on January 19, 2038 at 3:14:07am.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem