The Y2K Bug, also known as the Year 2000 Problem, was due to a computer program that was supposed to operate incorrectly for dates and times after January 1, 2000. Supposedly, the computers would not be able to store data from the date “00”, that being “2000”, because they would think that it was the date “1900”. This scare caused people to fear that huge industries and government functions would not be able to work once the bug was in effect.
The public became almost obsessed with the idea of “Y2K”The problem. Some would stock up on supplies, believing that once the virus took hold of the computers, they would not be able to get their essential every day items.
The bug was eventually put into place when computer programmers realized their mistake. Apparently the “Y2K” bug was not going to crash the computer systems at all. In fact, the whole problem had been blown out of proportion in one epic mass hysteria.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y2k
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