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"I remember walking into a bookstore on January 3, 2000 and all the Y2K books were 95 % off, and laughing my ass off"
y2k by pseudonym2607 January 8, 2010
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Short for "year 2000". Also known as the "Y2K scare" or "Y2K bug".
Since computers only counted the last two digits in a number (e.g. 1984 would be 84), they would reset 1/1/2000 to 1/1/1900. This lead to everyone thinking all of the computers would crash since the PC's wouldn't know what the date was and all the information would be lost forever.
People worried about their money, jobs, houses, loans, all that jazz. We all went berserk and thought we were gonna go back into "caveman times". However, it didn't happen.
Since computers only counted the last two digits in a number (e.g. 1984 would be 84), they would reset 1/1/2000 to 1/1/1900. This lead to everyone thinking all of the computers would crash since the PC's wouldn't know what the date was and all the information would be lost forever.
People worried about their money, jobs, houses, loans, all that jazz. We all went berserk and thought we were gonna go back into "caveman times". However, it didn't happen.
Three minutes before New Year's Day 2000:
Person A: OH FUCK, IT'S Y2K! HIDE IN THE CLOSET!
Three minutes later...
Person A: It's 2000, now what?
Person B: I like yellow things.
Person A: OH FUCK, IT'S Y2K! HIDE IN THE CLOSET!
Three minutes later...
Person A: It's 2000, now what?
Person B: I like yellow things.
y2k by Overstored Milk November 13, 2014