Why did everyone think that in the year 2000

Question

all the computers would stop working?

Answer 1

it was a glitch on 16-bit and early 32-bit software/hardware

it would post jan 1st 19910

or go back to 0

or post 200

an error on the date in computing systems would have been fatal

but thankfully computer and technological monsters like Microsoft(windows 98 SE and the later windows 2000 didn't have this problem) apple and majority of Japanese companies like Sony, Toshiba nec matsushita (Panasonic) and Nintendo took charge of the problem while countries all over the world spent millions to upgrade there internal computing systems

Answer 2

Because people think of crazy things like that over something ridiculous.

All I can remember from 2000 is running around with my cousins and spraying stringy foam over everybody I saw. We had a HUGE party, and I was 8. Enough said.

Answer 3

Wrong section much?

Because they work on a 2 digit system and there would be a possible error after 99 because there is no number next.

Answer 4

Idk people are crazy!! they think the world gona end on dec.21 2012!!Idk about that but hey people are gona think alot of stuff!! Were not gona know when the world ends its just gona pop up on us!!

Answer 5

i don't know. but they think the worlds gonna end in 2012 ... but then again they also though it was going to end june 6, 2006

people are stupid these days.

Answer 6

Probably rummors. My family got our 1st computer in 2000  

Answer 7

i was 6 so i had no clue what was going on

Answer 8

I don't know.

I was six and "partying it up" with my family ahaha

Answer 9

Nope, i didn't I would be sad if they did. I love my computer. lol

Answer 10

it was Y2K

Answer 11

Computers hadn't been programmed to change the first two digits of the year only the last two.

(thats how it was explained to me but I was 7 so it could have been simplified alot.)

Answer 12

Because many computers stored only two digits for the year. Unless they were specifically programmed to recognize '00' as 2000 and '01' as 2001, and so on, they would interpret the '00' as 1900, just as they had interpret the '99' as '1999'.

Many programmers did not expect their programs to continue to be used past the year 2000 when they developed them in the 70s. Even if they did expect it, and did design their software to deal with the rollover, that code was most likely untested.

Fortunately, the problem was well-publicized and well-understood and the vast majority of systems were fixed before the problem caused any harm. However, there were a small number of cases that were not fixed or improperly fixed.

The most amusing glitch was in the U.S. Naval Observatory clock which keeps this coutry's official time. The date was reported as January 1, 19100.

This was actually a different problem. A count was kept internally as "years since 1900". But was displayed as 19<number>. So when the years since 1900 hit 100, the year displayed as 19100.

Fortunately, this was only a display problem. Imagine if this was calculating how much the penalty was on a library book that was borrowed in 1999 and held until 19100, over 17 thousand years later.

Answer 13

This was Y2K right? I think it has to do with the zeros in 2000. I remember my aunt and uncle sold their business, their house, and most of their belongings and moved up north on some mountain and waited for the world to end.  

Answer 14

I have no idea ,

I was 5 that year ,

I didn't own a computer then   .  

Answer 15

they thought all the times would go back to 0 instead of 2000, silly crazies

Answer 16

You wanna know something funny? People think the world is gonna end in 2012 because thats when the Mayan clendar ends. But the truth is it doesn't end it repeats it self, people are really silly.