Y2K all over again
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just found a reddit that suggested to check out this nntp thread:
<font face="arial,sans-serif" size="-1">Computer bugs in the year 2000</font>
http://groups.google.com/group/net.bugs/browse_frm/thread/64696a1b035aab72/9d78b6a94111c70e?tvc=1#9d78b6a94111c70e
Pretty entertaining.
<font class="fixed_width" face="Courier, Monospaced">She pointed out that fixing it would require expanding the demand
deposit master record format, a mammoth undertaking. About a billion
COBOL programs would have to be recompiled.</font><font class="fixed_width" face="Courier, Monospaced">First, I modified the daily demand deposit program with code that
checked for the date and about mid-1979 started printed warnings on the
console of what would happen come new year. Then the systems analyst
and I got new jobs. This is known as stepwise interactive development.</font>hahahaha. heres another good one:
<font class="fixed_width" face="Courier, Monospaced">Forecasting programs are already encountering this sort of problem.
1975 was a bad year for 25-year forecasts... </font>hahaha... hahah... ha.. ehrm.
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Ahh, how I would like to send an e-mail to all those people just to see how many people still have the same e-mail address nearly 25 years later...
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TRWTF is Google Groups changing their URL format so often. I guess this forum will live longer than the URL pattern they currenty use.
Just for reference: the starting message ID (which can be searched from Advanced Search) is
820@reed.UUCP (omg the message-ids were really short at that time...), currently resulting in this link when you search for it:(I guess this link will also live longer than the "new" link scheme...)
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@Evo said:
Ahh, how I would like to send an e-mail to all those people just to see how many people still have the same e-mail address nearly 25 years later...
None, probably. Every message I checked used the .uucp pseudo-domain, indicating the user is on the UUCP network, and their real email address is a bang path.
Computer bugs in the year 2000