What happened to the Y2K scaremongers?

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Oh innocent times of five years ago when the bug would destroy civilization. Gary North talked about doom, destruction and the return of Christ to cleanse the sinners. Now he sells autoresponders.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 March 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

They probably just found something else to worry about, I do hope thay didn't see Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 6 March 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus fixed the bugs?

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 6 March 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Chemtrails. It's the coming thing.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 6 March 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, don't laugh at Y2K paranoia. It funded a lush lifestyle for me for about, oh, a year and a half or so!

― The River Kate (kate), Saturday, 6 March 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

a friend's father in law was so worried about Y2K that he moved out into the countryside, to escape the starving mobs that would lay waste Sandycove. I gather he started talking about how Y2K would actually take a while for its full effects to be kicked in, and then gradually shifted to claiming that the world's financial system was about to collapse for other, unexplained, reasons.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Saturday, 6 March 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Chemtrails. It's the coming thing.

They've been saying that for years now! It was like the New York rock scene of the nineties. "It's D-Generation! No it's Jonathan Fire*Eater! No, um, er..."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 March 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

answer to this thread: they're in DC right now, talking shit about the middle east.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 6 March 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Ed Yourdon seems to have buried all reference to his past there (but to his credit he did admit he was wrong about Y2K soon after it was apparent nothing bad was going to happen).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 March 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

This is indie and corny, but I was always kind of astonished by that Apples in Stereo song (Y2K) and just how thoroughly assured Bob Stereo was that everything was gonna be just fine.

― Aaron A., Saturday, 6 March 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

They faded back into the woodword with the cockroaches.

― 57 7th (calstars), Saturday, 6 March 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Now they're all worried about the 2038 bug...

http://www.2038bug.com/

It's in the hardware!!

― Dale the Logged Out, Saturday, 6 March 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

oh i'll be dead by then anyway

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 6 March 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

The precise date of this occurrence is Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038. At this time, a machine prone to this bug will show the time Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901, hence it is possible that the media will call this The Friday 13th Bug.

The terror.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 March 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I bet that a lot of the Y2K survivalists-types are still in their shelters thinking that outside it's like The Omega Man.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 7 March 2004 05:10 (twenty-one years ago)

twenty-one years pass...

https://epochalypse-project.org

― trm (tombotomod), Monday, 27 October 2025 17:01 (four months ago)

Apparently if you’re willing to temporarily brick your Smart TV you can just set the date to February 2038 and watch the whole thing crash. Important to have the manual around so you can perform a factory reset

― trm (tombotomod), Monday, 27 October 2025 17:12 (four months ago)

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