Do You Remember The Millennium Bug?

@gudheart (12659)

February 4, 2016 7:40am CST

I remember when I was in school and everyone was scared about the year 2000 approaching rapidly because of the millennium bug. It was said by the news and government that all electrical devices would shut down in that year and that we would have a huge issue crisis. I lived through the non existent crisis and it was a load of rubbish! Nope the electrical devices did not stop and the days carried on as normal...thankfully! Were you scared about the Millennium bug?

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@salonga (27775)

• Philippines

4 Feb 16

i remember that but i did not panic just as others. i was really doubtful that their fears would happen and i was right.

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@gudheart (12659)

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6 Feb 16

I was young at the time and I was scared of what was going to happen.

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@topffer (42155)

• France

4 Feb 16

I have never been scared by a bug. Angry, yes

. The only thing that I noticed was that a few software were not able to set or display correctly the date after 1/1/2000, and I looked for patches/updated versions

.

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@gudheart (12659)

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6 Feb 16

Yep, nothing serious :D

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@TiarasOceanView (70020)

• United States

4 Feb 16

Yes I do remember it Gud. It did not affect me.

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@TiarasOceanView (70020)

• United States

6 Feb 16

@gudheart Yes I also remember that lolz

@gudheart (12659)

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6 Feb 16

Luckily it was not as bad as they were making out!!

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@LadyDuck (502208)

• Italy

4 Feb 16

Yes, I remember the millennium bug, it was not a joke, some old software are unable to display the date correctly, but they released patches to solve the problem.

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@gudheart (12659)

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6 Feb 16

It was nothing major though :D

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@simone10 (54180)

• Louisville, Kentucky

7 Feb 16

I do remember that and wasn't really scared about it but I did take a huge sigh of relief when nothing happened.

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@simone10 (54180)

• Louisville, Kentucky

9 Feb 16

@gudheart I know a lot of people were really scared.

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@gudheart (12659)

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9 Feb 16

@simone10 I remember too. I was in high school and remember teachers talking about it too.

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@gudheart (12659)

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8 Feb 16

I was glad nothing major happened either. I was young so was scared.

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@Drosophila (16568)

• Ireland

4 Feb 16

yep! I definitely remember it, but no, I never understood the rationale behind it.. so was not scared

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@gudheart (12659)

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6 Feb 16

I was a little worried as I did not fully understand it as I was quite young.

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@Drosophila (16568)

• Ireland

6 Feb 16

@gudheart lol I still don't understand the rationale behind it xD

@Marcyaz (35316)

• United States

4 Feb 16

Yes, I remember the millennium bug and how the predictions were that all electronics would stop. As usual nothing came of it. I think the only thing was some dates weren't displayed properly.

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@gudheart (12659)

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6 Feb 16

It was all nothing at all apparently!!

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@Marcyaz (35316)

• United States

6 Feb 16

@gudheart I never heard of anything happening from that date.

@youless (114117)

• Guangzhou, China

8 Feb 16

Yes, at that time there were many worries about the millennium bug. People even thought it was the end of the world. But it turned out to be fine. Nothing went wrong. I think the scientists had already enough time to cope with this issue. As we are living in a world with computers.

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@gudheart (12659)

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8 Feb 16

It was a scary time, but thankfully it was nothing serious :D

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@zebra2222 (5268)

• United States

6 Feb 16

I was not concerned about it. Just a lot of hype.

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@gudheart (12659)

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8 Feb 16

I think maybe most were like you and not bothered lol

@celticeagle (189820)

• Boise, Idaho

4 Feb 16

I wondered about it but I was afraid of it. Curiousity got to me.

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@gudheart (12659)

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6 Feb 16

I was too, the fear of the unknown lol

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@celticeagle (189820)

• Boise, Idaho

6 Feb 16

@gudheart ...Yes. That is awful.

@marlina (154103)

• Canada

8 Feb 16

They sure did a good job at scaring people in those days. Yes, I was scared.

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@gudheart (12659)

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8 Feb 16

I was quite young so that is why I was quite scared too.

@Morleyhunt (21741)

• Canada

4 Feb 16

I wasn't particularly worried about Y2K as the millennium bug was called.

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@gudheart (12659)

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6 Feb 16

I was as it was reported alot in the news.

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@Morleyhunt (21741)

• Canada

7 Feb 16

@gudheart the media does an excellent job of driving people into a frenzy. I take so much of what is reported with scepticism.

@Scindhia (1906)

• India

5 Feb 16

I remember that. It was called Y2K bug or something like that. I couldn't recall exactly and it created a lot of panic. The situation was similar to the panic created by the belief that world would end in 2012 according to mayan calendar. But we are still here,isn't it?

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@gudheart (12659)

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6 Feb 16

I don't quite get the panic too but I think it was said tech crisis was to occur doing that year.

@Angel_15 (670)

• Manila, Philippines

5 Feb 16

It really was a problem back then. We just didn't feel it much because people put a lot of energy and resources into fixing the problem.

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@gudheart (12659)

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6 Feb 16

I don't think it affected most people.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

4 Feb 16

I think it is normal have such bugs in the system. There are always ways to fix it. Some people could create such things, it is controllable nowadays.

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@gudheart (12659)

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6 Feb 16

Yep. People are clever enough now to be able to fix most tech issues.

@akalinus (44366)

• United States

5 Feb 16

Yes, I remember it well. I had a small grocery store down in my basement to make sure I could feed my kids. I think we ate mushroom soup for months. It was much ado about nothing. Everyone was waiting for planes to crash and life to grind to a halt but it was pretty normal. Everything was open and running about as smoothly as it would on any other day.

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@gudheart (12659)

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6 Feb 16

We also made sure we stocked up on a few things just in case.

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@JudyEv (381837)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Feb 16

I remember all the hype and worry but it didn't affect anyone that I knew and our workplace continued as normal.

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@gudheart (12659)

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6 Feb 16

Same here...everything continued as normal :D

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@fishtiger58 (29819)

• Momence, Illinois

4 Feb 16

I was working and taking care of my kids. I thought at the time is was just a bunch of hoohaaa

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@gudheart (12659)

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6 Feb 16

lol guess you were right LOL

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