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The term year 2000 problem, [1] or simply Y2K, refers to potential computer errors related to the formatting and storage of calendar data for dates in and after the year 2000. Many programs represented four-digit years with only the final two digits, making the year 2000 indistinguishable from 1900.
The 2012 phenomenon predicted the world would end at the end of the 13th b'ak'tun. The Earth would be destroyed by an asteroid, Nibiru, or some other interplanetary object; an alien invasion ; or a supernova .
In December 1999 the United States and Russia opened a joint Center for Year 2000 Strategic Stability to try to avert accidental missile launches or nuclear attacks.
In the end, governments and companies the world over spent vast sums of money to fix the computer systems to prevent the Y2K bug from ever becoming a problem. As we all know, 1st January 2000 came and went without any apocalyptic events.
24 lis 2009 · Calling the 2000s “the worst” may seem an overwrought label in a decade in which we fought no major wars, in historical terms. It is a sadly appropriate term for the families of the thousands of...
16 maj 2020 · Several months into the 2000s, a health official in one region of England spotted a statistical anomaly in the number of children born with Down’s Syndrome. The ages of 154 mothers had been incorrectly calculated in January, skewing test results.
Article. Vocabulary. The Y2K bug was a computer flaw, or bug, that may have caused problems when dealing with dates beyond December 31, 1999. The flaw, faced by computer programmers and users all over the world on January 1, 2000, is also known as the "millennium bug."
