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Supposedly, on January 1, 2000, the world was going to be destroyed by a computer glitch known as the "Millennium Bug"note Technically a misnomer, as the new millennium started in 2001, not 2000 (also referred to as "Y2K" or the "Year 2000 problem"). This bug involved numerous computer systems misinterpreting the year 2000 as 1900, resulting in planes falling out of the sky, satellites going wrong and all the calculators going to silicon heaven; the most extreme fears involved an accidental nuclear war, or even machines coming to life and attacking humans like something out of The Terminator. Most of the actual problems were just cosmetic, such as programs displaying the year after "1999" as "19100," or desktop internal clocks resetting to 1981 as a crash-preventing exception. Here's the background: in the early days of computing, computer memory and disk space was extremely expensive. By comparison, a gigabyte of RAM (roughly 1.4 million kilobytes) for your computer is maybe $15 today, and a two-terabyte (about 20,000 times 100 megabytes) hard drive (about the size of two packs of playing cards) might be $100 or less. But back in 1970, one kilobyte of RAM was about a thousand dollars, a 100-megabyte hard drive (about the size of a dishwasher) might have cost $12,000, and replacement disk packs (a foot high and the circumference of a dinner plate) were around $800 (for comparison, a brand-new VW Beetle was just under $2,000). So computer programmers needed to find ways to use less internal RAM and disk space in storing information on a computer. One way to save money was to store dates in short form; so all dates were typically stored internally in six digits (punctuation was added at display time), so November 27, 1960 was coded as 112760. Now, a month later, you can get by adding 1 to the second digit. The new date is later than the original one. However, if you have a date of November 15, 1992 (111592) and add eight years to it, you get 111500 or 111600, depending on how it's stored, which, if the program wasn't prepared for it, would not read it as 2000, but 1900. Either the difference between the two is a negative amount or instead of eight years' difference being computed, 92 years are computed. The issue here is that if you bought something and charged it to your credit card on the last week of 1999 and your bill came in a month later, you might get billed for 99 years of compound interest at 21%. It'd be like the Evil Counterpart of the Compound-Interest Time Travel Gambit. This was especially considered serious in the case of process software. Say you're cooking chemicals in a plant that runs 24/7, where you have to heat a batch for exactly 37 hours at 1200 degrees, then move to the next process. When the calendar turns over, either the batch gets kicked out too soon or it sits in too long and potential explosions could occur, or perhaps a batch of something that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to make (and would have been sold for several million) is ruined. Or a system checks the date, realizes it's been running for 99 years with no maintenance, and shuts itself down for safety. If it happens to be the equipment that runs the electricity for your grid, you've got no power in the middle of winter (or summer in the Southern Hemisphere, which is just as bad if not worse, since at least you can heat your house without power; air conditioning pretty much needs electricity, and no AC means heatstroke in many places). There were also other potential scenarios, all worst case. Of course, planes, satellites and calculators didn't do that, much to the joy of aviators, astronomers and calculus students. But the bug was an opportunity for writers to come up with doomsday stories, and a few of them even wrote about actual insects (groan-worthy as that may sound). Some newspapers even had a weekly column in their tech section throughout 1999, detailing how things were going in the battle against the bug. Finally, January 1, 2000 arrived. Aside from a few glitches here and there, not much happened — certainly nothing that could be called "apocalyptic". Nowadays there's a retrospective debate on whether Y2K was blown out of proportion by people looking for an excuse to panic, by the computer industry that was looking to sell people upgrades to their hardware and software with the promise of Y2K compatibility, or by people looking for an excuse to damn the demon computer; or if the disaster was indeed a possibility and was only averted by thousands of man-hours of programmers (mostly COBOL, which isn't really used for safety-critical software) working tirelessly to avoid a technological apocalypse. Although some dangers such as planes falling out of the sky were pretty much fabricated,note The only real possibility for that is if said plane was taking off or landing and the computer crashed. If it was cruising in the air, the pilots would have plenty of time to switch to manual control and fly it themselves if needed. the effects on the economy of a plausible worst-case scenario would still have been immeasurable. In addition, the Y2K preparations also had the effect of causing a lot of companies to rethink their emergency plans, helping them get back on their feet faster after events like 9/11 and the 2003 Northeast US blackout. The fears over the bug did lead to companies purchasing new hardware sooner than they otherwise would have, leading to a tech boom followed by a bursting tech bubble in the early 2000s. A lot of work in the late 90s went into reprogramming retrograde systems worldwide so that they no longer depended on two-digit years in their dates, meaning there was an extent to which Y2K was as much quietly prevented by coders and developers as it was overhyped by mass media. Regardless of the aftermath, Y2K nonetheless provided an interesting look into the mindset of people who are faced with an oncoming problem of global proportions. The Millennium Bug is one of the more famous examples of an Overflow Error. For the sequel to the Bug itself, watch for the Year 2038 problem (when the UNIX system time integer exhausts its 32 bits). Fortunately, by that point, we'll certainly be using 64-bit time;note And we won't have to worry about THIS issue until the year 292,277,026,596. however, many embedded systems still use 32-bit time as of now. Due to increasingly rapid change of digital technology, especially on embedded systems, they tend to be replaced for low prices (or in the case of offline museum material, have the time rewinded). And if you're willing to wait much longer, refer to the Year 10000 problem, as clocks aren't used to handling five digit year numerals. |
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Real Life Comics had a little fun with this. The gang was geared up for a gaming marathon on New Year's Eve to laugh at those overly worried, only for the last panel to go dark. In the next strip, it turned out the fuse just blew and they geared up to play, only for it to end with going dark again when midnight actually rolled around. Negative Continuity brought it all back to normal the next day. | |
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Promethea has one of these, with the added bonus that the bug affects a very popular intelligent material called Elastagel, which is used in everything including clothing. It gives a whole new meaning to the term "fashion victim" when your own pants turn on you. | |
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Fallout 76 has an example that straddles the line between being a Video Game example and a Real Life example. When 2019 rolled around, the nuke silos locked up with a countdown timer of 9,999 hours (over a year) along with other bugs related to the nuclear silos. The nuclear silos normally lock after use and then unlock after a set period of time. However, there was a problem within the programming of the game where it wasn't prepared for the new calendar year, causing the silos to be locked indefinitely. This problem has since been patched out of the game. | |
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Digimon: Apparently, the vaguely-insectoid character Millenniummon (a time-traveling being with the power to destroy time) is supposed to be a personification of the bug. This is likely, as the game which introduced the character was released in December 1999. Diaboromon (who was created by Millenniummon) also fits. |
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Math Blaster: In Search of Spot actually has the Y2K bug in it. The printable certificate you receive at the end of your mission gives the date, which will be "1912" if you completed it in 2012. Considering the game was made in 1994, making the decade digit changeable was a total waste of effort. | |
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One episode of Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego took this even further when Dr. Belljar was worrying over this: | |
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Sluggy Freelance Torg and Zoë once tried taking a time machine into the future to see if Y2K would affect beer distribution. Unfortunately, the time machine itself was not Y2K compliant, so they ended up somewhere in the Middle Ages instead. When the year 2000 began, most of the main characters fell into comas. This turned out to be because of their nervous systems being infected with otherwise harmless nanites that suffered from the Y2K bug. |
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Referenced in Alias when Sydney and Vaughn go undercover as Russian spies preparing for a mission as Deep Cover Agents in America. During a party, they make small-talk and reference the Y2K bug, and are subsequently scolded for being too stereotypical. | |
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FUBAR: Episode 6 the protagonists end up lockd in a Cold War-era bunker, with the ventilation system also failing so they only have a few hours to escape before they suffocate. They escape by exploiting the fact that the computer that runs the bunker's systems was not booted up since 1989 and thus was never upgraded to deal with the Millennium Bug, causing it to crash once they set the computer's calendar to December 31, 1999 and have it count down to midnight. | |
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The season 2 finale of The Worst Witch (1998 series of course) was titled "The Millennium Bug". While the episode in fact had nothing to do with computer systems, it does involve the head of governors trying to transform the school from a fantasy castle into a Magitek academy. The theme of tradition versus technology was very much feeling the influence of the panic surrounding Y2K. | |
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Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space. Intrepid Reporter Buster Kincaid says it's not the first time the world government has hyped up a non-existent threat, like "...those bugs from Sector Y2K in the year 2000." | |
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The Simpsons: The "Treehouse of Horror X" segment "Life's A Glitch, Then You Die" has doomsday on New Year's Day 2000, but the bug is actually caused by Homer's inability to ensure everything went smoothly. It's actually portrayed fairly realistically for a few seconds, with Springfield's clock being reset to 1900, but is followed by almost everything with a computer chip (including traffic lights and even a carton of milk) becoming sentient and attacking humans, eventually leading the world's greatest celebrities to escape and colonize Mars (while all of the world's worst are hurled into the Sun so the gene pool will be free of mediocrity) as Earth descends into nuclear war. | |
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In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, the bug was used as an excuse for the Patriots to implant a secret code into major computing systems around the world. | |
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One of the early central plots of Kevin & Kell is that Y2K was a cover set up by the birds to disguise their intentions to reprogram the computers to run the world in their place. | |
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Rose is Rose had a similar sequence where Rose's mind briefly shifted everything to 1900. | |
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Entrapment is set on New Year's Eve 1999. A sizeable part of the heist involves computers, so yes, the Y2K bug is mentioned. | |
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The children's comic The Dandy took the concept of the Millennium Bug and anthropomorphized it into a strange insect. The comic had numerous characters interact with it; one Winker Watson story for instance involved a robotic teacher being destroyed by a student handing in a photocopy of the bug as homework. | |
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Guilty Gear Xrd reveals that the event that led to the banning of technology as we currently know it (known in-universe as "Black Technology") and the subsequent discovery of magic took place at the end of 1999; the "Dawn of Revival" was the attempt of the Universal Will to enter Earth through our communication technologies, resulting in all electronics malfunctioning and widespread natural disasters followed by a period of societal instability until the global adoption of magic. | |
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Office Space mentions the Y2K bug as one of the reasons that the company won't be looking close enough at their finances to notice the protagonists' plan taking place. Based on one of his conversations with Joana, Y2K preparedness was apparently a big part of Peter's job at Initech. The movie was filmed before all the hysteria set in, so Y2K is portrayed as a boring bit of minutiae rather than a global catastrophe. | |
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Oscar in Corner Gas thinks the Millennium Bug could still happen, despite the show airing from 2004 to 2009 and taking place during those years. | |
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In Sisterland, Kate is worried about this, but Vi tells her, "That Y2K stuff is bullshit. My meditation group was talking about it, and we've all gotten messages that the transition will be peaceful." | |
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In between episodes of Animaniacs on The WB, Kakko, Wakko and Dot fixed the Y2K bug for the whole network, ensuring you'd still be able to watch them every Mondak, Tuesdak, Wednesdak, Thursdak, Fridak, and Saturdak. | |
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King of the Hill dealt with this in the episode "Hillennium", in which usually sensible Hank catches Dale's paranoia and begins working with Dale and a hardcore survivalist to prepare for the event, and gives Peggy a grandfather clock as a Christmas present instead of an iMac, as the grandfather clock would still be able to tell time afterwards. The Aesop of the episode is Hank learning not to fear the future. | |
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Referenced in Torchwood during a flashback to 1999, as Jack talks about encountering one that had "18 legs stacked with poison". | |
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In the first episode of Opposite Sex, there's an announcement at a school assembly that the school is now Y2K compliant. This would have been just a passing reference if the show had debuted in the fall of 1999 as planned; but since it was delayed until the summer of 2000, it became instantly Hilarious in Hindsight. | |
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One of the modern-day episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess reveals that the bug was yet another plot by Ares to get Xena back on his side. With the world in ruins, a hero like her would be needed again, so she'd want to be as strong as possible. | |
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Kamen Rider Ex-Aid manages to make Y2K a plot point in 2017, nearly two decades after the scare. When the subject is brought up, the protagonists comment that nothing really happened, only to be informed that it's actually the cause of the current threat; it affected a server at a video game company and somehow created a virus (of both the technological and biological kind) capable of bring video games to life. The villains since have spent years experimenting with this virus and its Reality Warping capabilities, including infecting a Patient Zero to have it incubate for a decade. | |
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Penny Arcade also had some fun with this. | |
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Referenced by Max Payne in his unique manner: | |
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The My Name Is Earl episode "Y2K" has the characters reminiscing about their experience directly after the millennium, where they lived in the local supermarket, believing themselves to be the only survivors of the aftermath of the millennium bug. | |
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At the end of the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough, the government spies on Bond with an infrared scanner while he's having sex. The newly appointed Q (John Cleese) tactfully kills the feed and says, "It must be a premature form of the millennium bug." | |
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In the summer of 1999, WWE started airing vignettes featuring a "Countdown to the Millennium". On the August 9 episode of Raw is War, the Countdown appeared on the screen during the Rock's promo on The Big Show. When it ended, pyro went off and Chris Jericho debuted. In Jericho's promo, he called himself the "new millennium for the WWF", and ended by saying, "The new millennium has arrived in the WWF, and now that the Y2J problem is here, this company, from the front office idiots to all the amateurs in the dressing room, including this one [pointing at The Rock], to everybody watching tonight will never, EVER be the same again!"note "Y2J problem" was later simplified to "Y2J". | |
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In Turning Red, Mei has a sticker on her flute case that says "Y2K-A'OK" in reference to this given that the film takes place in 2002. | |
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Since Schlock Mercenary takes place a thousand years in the future, the characters are missing some key details. One person says that secret government ad agencies killed the internet, and another says that no one knows what happened since the internet was broken. There is an actual historian who could probably set them straight, but no one asks her. | |
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A Superman crossover (collected in the "Endgame" trade) had Brainiac seizing the Y2K bug to try and take over the world. | |
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In the "Temporal Insanity" issue of PS238, time traveling superhero Captain Chronos believes that if he went past December 31, 1999, his time machine would be destroyed because he downloaded an encyclopedia from that year into his brain; apparently, it didn't explain the Y2K bug very well. He did note that Tyler (from 2005 or so) did not look particularly post-apocalyptic. | |
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xkcd alluded to this. | |
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MAD had a lot of fun with this. In one Melvin & Jenkins strip, Melvin is appropriately skeptical of claims that the world will end on New Year's Day 2000, but Jenkins does a Groin Attack on a police officer and tells the officer's partner that he can't be arrested, since he was never born. The panic over the Y2K bug was listed as the stupidest event of the year 1999. A brief paragraph mocked the people worrying what will happen, while an illustration shows Times Square descending into chaos during the New Year's Eve celebration. |
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An infamous Iron Man storyline has one of the eponymous heroes' armors gaining sentience partly due to the Y2K bug and going on a rampage of sorts. It was later RetConned into his armor being infected by Ultron. | |
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Discussed on the radio in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, which is set in 1998. | |
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Steins;Gate has this happen in some of the timelines that Okabe sees. | |
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One two-part Batman story had him and Fate (Jared Stevens) teaming up to fight the insane false prophet Malochia, who had been possessed by an Eldritch Abomination that Fate called "the Spirit of 2000". According to Fate, this being lived off the fear that mortals had of the numerous doomsday scenarios suggested by the approach of the new millennium, and would gain enough power to trigger a real apocalypse if not stopped. | |
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In General Protection Fault, the entire team was forced to spend New Year's Eve at the office in case their servers had a problem due to Y2K. The arc was more about the party that the programmers were forced to skip in order to show up, and the fact that they got snowed in for a couple days afterwards than the Y2K bug itself - everything started up perfectly. | |
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The Quinton Reviews episode "That Time the World Ended" brings up the Y2K problem, which was fairly well-defined ("computers think it's 1900 and go haywire"), to contrast it with the numerous contradictory Mayan Doomsday predictions. | |
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One episode of Sports Night had Jeremy crash the studio's computer system during a Y2K compliance test. | |
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The NCIS episode "Enemies: Domestic" featured a "flashback" to 1999,note Of an event that would have taken place before the show actually debuted when Vance talks about getting the office computers ready for Y2K. | |
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After Y2K, obviously. The world becomes a Mad Max wasteland after the Y2K bug destroys civilization, ultimately leading to the reinvention of all technology based on vacuum tubes instead of integrated circuits. The final plot arcs of the series involved the Techno-Talking Babes using Time Travel to transmit an "inoculation" against the bug to the internet of 1999, and author Arthur C Clarke taking the world hostage with his "Real Millennium Bug" — an attack which shut down all mechanical devices — in order to force the world to acknowledge that the Millennium didn't really start until 2001 (Which millennium is the "real" one has nothing to do with the Y2K bug: Clarke was just being pedantic.) | |
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Sid from The Cool Kids mentions that he came out as gay to his wife on New Years' Eve 1999, when he freaked out over Y2K and blurted it out. | |
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This is thought to be the cause of worldwide loss of broadcast power and communications in The Dire Saga. It's actually engineered by a group of artificial intelligences attempting to pin down a separate set of artificial intelligences to be killed. | |
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The DCU had a massive in-universe effort to make all of their cyborg and robotic superheroes Y2K compliant. Unfortunately, they forgot Robotman, whose WWII-era robotic body went on a rampage after New Year's Eve. | |
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In Futurama, Fry's father is shown to have a degree of paranoia regarding Y2K (he had previously been obsessed with Dirty Communists). When the head of Conan O'Brien starts telling a Y2K joke in the year 3000, Bender points out that it was fixed 900 years ago. Do the math yourself to figure out why this is funny. |
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DanceDanceRevolution 3rdMIX (1999) gave us End of the Century, complete with lines such as, "Some people think the Year 2G is so [scary], let's wait and see/The World will [shut] down, most won't admit". | |
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The Dilbert cartoon had an episode about the company trying to prepare for the bug. Of course, despite the doomsday preparations by some characters, the episode does portray Y2K fairly realistically. The only reason it's even an issue for Dilbert's company at all is because everything is dependent on the one computer that isn't Y2K compliant: an exceedingly old, COBOL-running mainframe that, in a move that even the Pointy-Haired Boss himself admits was stupid and short-sighted, didn't get replaced when it should have been. Fixing it was merely a matter of going in and making some minor alterations on certain lines of code. Of course, the only person capable of making those alterations is the notoriously-lazy Wally, and everyone else has to persuade him to do the upgrade. |
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The ending of the arcade version of Fatal Fury has the screen display text reading that Geese Howard dies on the date the player beat the game, except that the first two digits for the year are always 19, as showcased in the two playthrough videos from 2008 and 2013. | |
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The original Backyard Baseball also contains a Y2K bug. Upon beating the game, your name will be entered into the Hall of Fame with a date on the achievement as well, with the date written in a MM/DD/YY format. If an award is obtained and your computer's internal clock is any day past 1999, it will instead read as MM/DD/(Year-1900). So, if you won it on, say, January 15, 2003, it would read as 1/15/103. Curiously, the team photo doesn't suffer from any such bug, correctly displaying the year as "20XX Team Photo". Even more oddly, the record book also doesn't have this problem, despite using the exact same date format as the Hall of Fame! | |
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The plot of Fading Hearts features the Y2K bug having actually wreaked chaos and destruction around the world to the point that the main character is one of many "Y2K orphans". Despite this, it seems to have had no effect on society or technology, serving more as a Hand Wave for why the characters don't have any parents. | |
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In Kid Radd, the Big Bad is the Seer, a virus that was set to go off at the start of 2000 (but decided not to do so, in favor of a grander scheme). While not the same as this bug, the inspiration is clear. It's subtly implied that his creator created them specifically to make the Y2K bug real, along with calling them "Cool Ragnarok". |
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The original lyrics of "Blank File" by Sonata Arctica refer to the Y2K bug: "You're a slave among the slaves, waiting for Y2K with a fear". For the Ecliptica album remake, the word was changed to the more general "future". | |
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FoxTrot (written by a tech-savvy author) had a lot of fun with this. One strip in particular has Jason and Peter discussing it, and Peter remarks, "What's the worst that could happen in a comic strip?" In the last panel, everything's shifted to 1900, with Peter drinking from a milk bottle rather than a can of soda and Jason reading an article about the Wright Brothers. Rose is Rose had a similar sequence where Rose's mind briefly shifted everything to 1900. |
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Idioteque by Radiohead. | |
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An episode of Mad About You, had Paul dreaming that Einstein gave him a mathematical formula which he is eventually convinced will solve the Y2K problem. | |
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The subject of the Doctor Who Past Doctor Adventures novel Millennium Shock. Of course, in this case, there are aliens involved. | |
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The Famous Jett Jackson's Show Within a Show Silverstone had an episode about the villains using this to their advantage. | |
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A Walk Among the Tombstones is updated from the early Nineties in the novel to 1999, with the attendant Y2K apocalyptic hype, perhaps to show the World Half Empty of the Anti-Hero isn't so bad as he thinks. | |
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Mentioned in the second chapter of Unimaa to establish quickly that the "present day" is December 1999 - in fact, another similar problem is mentioned as well: | |
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An episode of Millennium (1996) managed to combine Y2K and the Columbine incident. Somehow it worked. | |
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The GURPS supplement GURPS Y2K covers millennial disasters in general (not just the Y2K bug), but was deliberately released with that title as a cash-in in late 1999. | |
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The Authority featured a rather... different take on the Millennium Bug, with God (here represented as a massive alien superorganism) returning to Earth in the last days of 1999 and trying to reset its environment to the factory defaults, which would render the planet uninhabitable. While the Authority manages to stop it, leader Jenny Sparks succumbs to her own version of the bug - the same powers that have made her nearly god-like for the past eighty-plus years have also doomed her to die on the stroke of midnight on January 1, 2000. | |
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A story hook in Demon: The Descent puts forward the idea that the reason the Internet and the global economy didn't collapse is because the God-Machine installed an Angel (called "Y2K") that is constantly adjusting and correcting. Player characters can find the angel and extract some favors from it, but at the risk of distracting from its work. | |
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Hypnospace Outlaw takes place in a simulacra of late 1990s internet, so this eventually comes up as a plot point. A late chapter of the game takes place on New Year's Eve. The date bug isn't a problem at all, but other dire issues make themselves clear on New Year's 2000 nonetheless. | |
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The Family Guy episode "Da Boom" has the Griffin family getting ready to celebrate New Year's Eve, but Peter groups them all into a shelter he built, believing the Y2K stories. It turns out to be true, as the bug causes every nuclear missile in the world to launch and destroy civilization. | |
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In Yami no Aegis, Koumoto Youji was originally hired to prevent damage from it. | |
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A flashback episode of Star Trek: Voyager ("11:59", which premiered in 1999) has Janeway's ancestor quip that the bug didn't even turn off a light bulb. | |
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MacGyver (2016) features an episode where a Russian extremist group secures an unexploded Cold War-era Soviet nuke and threatens to use it. Disarming it turns out to be much harder than expected as not only does it use a unique coding language and hardware, it's also not Y2K-compliant (unsurprisingly, given everyone believed that the bomb would be used or destroyed well before the turn of the century). In the end, Mac and his team — unable to stop the bomb's countdown then and there — instead alter the system clock to buy them 100 more years before it explodes. | |
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In The Suburban Jungle, Dover arranged for Tiffany to get hired as a Y2K debugger. When she pointed out that she had no idea how to fix it, he explained that the Y2K Bug is just a scam to ensure job security for programmers. | |
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Interview with the Vampire (2022): Lampshaded by Daniel Molloy in "...After the Phantoms of Your Former Self" after Louis de Pointe du Lac declares that he hasn't committed a homicide since the Turn of the Millennium. | |
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There was a Sabrina the Teenage Witch novel where all magic in the universe is on the verge of disappearing because a giant clock in the Other Realm would stop working at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day 2000. After hearing about how computer programmers were getting around the Y2K bug by writing new code, Sabrina decides to build a new clock by gathering several artifacts from famous people throughout history. | |
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A 1996 Dilbert strip featured Dogbert offering to make the company's computers Y2K compliant. It was a scam, as he outright told the Pointy-Haired Boss that the fix was only guaranteed for one year. The PHB still turned him down: "Why should I care? The year 00 is before I was born." Bob the Dinosaur was introduced as a COBOL programmer brought out of retirement to fix the Y2K bug. Also came up when Dogbert posed as a doomsday prophet and told people that 2000 would be the end of the world because It's big and round! The Animated Adaptation had an entire episode on the subject, as listed below. |
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In the Cold Case episode "Resolutions", the Victim of the Week and his friends discuss their fears over the Y2K bug before he is killed on New Year's Day 2000. | |
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