#millennium bug

[littlefleamart]

(source)

[thisisrealy2kok]

Y2k-ready Duct Tape Outfit

[byruit]

In the late 1990s, IBM established Year 2000 Conversion Centers to tackle the Y2K problem, where many computer systems could fail due to date misinterpretation.

These centers helped organizations identify and fix Y2K issues, offering services like code conversion, testing, project management, and training.

With a global reach, IBM collaborated with tech companies, industry groups, and governments to ensure systems were updated and ready for the new millennium.

Their efforts successfully mitigated potential disruptions and set a precedent for managing large-scale IT challenges.

[arconinternet]

Is Your Computer Ready For The Year 2000? (Video, 1999)

In a Microsoft-funded video, Bill Nye takes on the millennium bug. You can watch it here.

You can download multiple versions of the mentioned CD-ROM here.

You can see my Tumblr post about, and link to, THE article about the Y2K problem here.

[krjpalmer]

PC Magazine October 6, 1998

This issue’s editorial take on “the millennium bug” warned there were “unknown unknowns” out there, but insisted that “everything electronic will stop working forever” amounted to a myth.

[valtharr]

So, I had a really fun worldbuilding idea, but my knowledge of certain things is limited, so:

Are there any IT people, computer specialists, or even sociologists (professional or hobbyist) who want to talk to me about the Y2K bug?

[isaacsapphire]

I wanted to sleep through New Years 2000, but my family had a dog and I ended up on "make the dog not awoo when the neighbors inevitably set off fireworks at midnight" duty. This happens to me every single New Years if there's a dog in the house.

no fucking awoo. no awoo right now. its late. its not awoo time. its sleeping time. go the fuck to bed.

[iltaccuinodegliappunti]

Fragilità umana e tecnologica: la lezione di CrowdStrike

“Se una farfalla smette di battere le ali nel cyberspazio succede un terremoto nelle nostre vite, in qualunque parte del mondo”: così esordisce Gabriele Romagnoli su Repubblica oggi in edicola. Parole sagge. Continue reading Fragilità umana e tecnologica: la lezione di CrowdStrike

[cataldodarker]

DISCOVER³⁰ (2/3)

11/30 - Avete ragione tutti

Artisti: Canova

Data di rilascio: 21-10-2016

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by cataldo reviews music (@cataldodarker)

12/30 - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Artisti: Pink Floyd

Data di rilascio: 05-08-1967

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by cataldo reviews music (@cataldodarker)

13/30 - Inner Song

Artista: Kelly Lee Owens

Data di rilascio: 28-08-2020

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by cataldo reviews music (@cataldodarker)

14/30 - MILLENNIUM BUG

Artisti: PSICOLOGI

Data di rilascio: 12-06-2020

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by cataldo reviews music (@cataldodarker)

15/30 - Crowded House

Artisti: Crowded House

Data di rilascio: 01-08-1986

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by cataldo reviews music (@cataldodarker)

16/30 - Heartbreaker

Artista: INNA

Data di rilascio: 04-12-2020

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by cataldo reviews music (@cataldodarker)

17/30 - THE S(EX) TAPES

Artista: FLETCHER

Data di rilascio: 09-09-2021

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by cataldo reviews music (@cataldodarker)

18/30 - i,i

Artisti: Bon Iver

Data di rilascio: 09-08-2019

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by cataldo reviews music (@cataldodarker)

19/30 - Titanic Rising

Artista: Weyes Blood

Data di rilascio: 05-04-2019

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by cataldo reviews music (@cataldodarker)

20/30 - The Money Store

Artisti: Death Grips

Data di rilascio: 23-04-2012

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by cataldo reviews music (@cataldodarker)

[atdoop]

some wigglypaint fanart of something i found while looking through old geocities gifs recently. it's called a millennium bug, created by someone who went by "oges". a little bit about where i found it and a link to the original below.

i've been looking through a ton of old internet stuff recently, trying to track down the origin of this silly little gif:

(still no luck there, earliest instance of it i can find is a deactivated tumblr blog)

while looking i was linked to gifcities, an internet archive project trying to preserve pretty much every gif on geocities. i don't remember what i searched, but when i saw the bug i was instantly enamored. it's such a cute little design, and i thought what the creator wrote about them was really heartwarming and sweet.

so of course i had to adopt my own and take care of it!! here's the original, they came in a bunch of colors but only the pink one was archived. i cleaned it up a bit and got rid of a bunch of extra white pixels, so if you want your own feel free to save it ^_^. i think it'd be nice to carry on their legacy a little bit...

and of course, here's the link to the original page if you're curious (warning for flashing lights if you go to their home page)

[littlefleamart]

(source)

[thisisrealy2kok]

The Glitch That Threatened The World by Matt Cole

[byruit]

[cipheramnesia]

The Millennium Bug (2013) is, for me, a brand new entry on my short list of "please stop telling people to watch Cabin In The Woods" movies. I have a long standing grudge over the degree to which CITW is lionized as a great tribute to horror, despite largely showing little to no understanding of the genre in general, nor much in the way of respect to its audience.

So you can imagine how amused I was when Millennium Bug kicked off by immediately front-loading multiple unique horror subgenres into the opening act. While CITW attempts to throw every single subgenre into the blender of the slasher/cabin tropes, giving itself the usual Whedon smug pat on its own back, Millenium Bug wears its clear subgenre stereotypes on its sleeves. Which is both for better and for worse.

As a gruesome slasher / monster mash-up flick, it suffers from many of the major flaws you might expect - particularly because it draws on the redneck murder clan for one of its subgenre story elements. It is a movie where the subtext goes unexamined, and you'll know immediately whether or not you need to tap out within the first ten to twenty minutes. But if you're willing to leave the social elements less examined, what remains is a movie that's having an absolutely incredible and delightfully practical effect fueled time playing around in all the silliness to be mined from its three core concepts.

To return to the comparison, CITW relies heavily on metatextual genre awareness of the audience and the characters. However, in attempting to be ironically detached from the genre cliches, it betrays its own lack of understanding of the material. It's a movie that's 80% less clever than it constantly tries to remind the audience that it thinks it is. In contrast, Millenium Bug has what feels like virtually zero metatextual genre awareness to the characters, and no ironic detachment whatsoever. It does expect an audience to know what's up with the redneck murder clan, monster movie, slasher, and holiday themed subgenres - not to mention doing a nice job at hearkening back to older models of horror as you might get pre-millenial. You will find lots of gore, giant rubber and latex monsters, people acting in the most absurd ways and all of it delightfully cradling you in the comfort of a film that doesn't talk down to you, or expect you, as the audience, to be above it all.

It's hard to call it great or even good, I can't do any of that in good conscience. This is not one of those movies where I want everyone to see it, which I think will be fun and exciting for the casual horror movie viewer, or anyone who is looking to get into horror but doesn't want to get hit with a bunch of triggers and the like. I love recommending all those types of films, but this ain't it. The Millennium Bug is for the deep in the much horror movie fan, it's The Ritual by way of Frank Henenlotter - and if you got that reference you probably wanna see it regardless. It's garbage, but it's our garbage.

[krjpalmer]

BYTE July 1998

This issue’s cover story took the “millennium bug” seriously, although it hadn’t (yet) joined those online who’d egged themselves on to insisting all electrical power would go out at the stroke of midnight, it would never be turned back on again, and whatever was actually being done to address that impending existential crisis wasn’t enough. BYTE itself, though, wouldn’t survive to the millennium or even to the next month. According to Wikipedia, McGraw-Hill sold its publishing arm due to declining advertising sales (BYTE was much thinner this year than it had once been), and the company that bought it immediately shut the long-running magazine down, although its web site apparently endured for another decade on a subscription basis for most of that time.

[keo-k]

I THOUGHT IT WAS A JOKE BUT MARIK REALLY DOES HAVE THE TIGHTEST LEATHER PANTS ON AND HIS WHOLE ASS MIDRIFF ON DISPLAY HUH

also the way thief king bakura opened his jacket to show marik his millennium ring? im sat here like "am i watching yugioh or am i watching a porn parody"