{"id":177048,"date":"2014-12-15T00:27:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T00:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/12\/15\/lynchy8-faisdm-the-most-calamitous\/"},"modified":"2018-09-12T18:07:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T18:07:06","slug":"lynchy8-faisdm-the-most-calamitous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/12\/15\/lynchy8-faisdm-the-most-calamitous\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-177048 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/12\/15\/lynchy8-faisdm-the-most-calamitous\/attachment\/177049\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tumblr_n8nzgzouWk1qfc4wlo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tumblr_n8nzgzouWk1qfc4wlo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tumblr_n8nzgzouWk1qfc4wlo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/lynchy8.tumblr.com\/post\/105166288809\/faisdm-the-most-calamitous-jibini\" target=\"_blank\">lynchy8<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/faisdm.tumblr.com\/post\/104832446530\/the-most-calamitous-jibini\" target=\"_blank\">faisdm<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/the-most-calamitous.tumblr.com\/post\/104829362114\/jibini-top-lotad-breeder-chocogoat-what\" target=\"_blank\">the-most-calamitous<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/jibini.tumblr.com\/post\/104645119701\/top-lotad-breeder-chocogoat-what-why\" target=\"_blank\">jibini<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/top-lotad-breeder.tumblr.com\/post\/104639628877\/chocogoat-what-why-someone-pls-explain-to-me\" target=\"_blank\">top-lotad-breeder<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/chocogoat.tumblr.com\/post\/104639529514\/what-why-someone-pls-explain-to-me-pls-i-wasnt\" target=\"_blank\">chocogoat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>what. why? someone pls explain to me pls i wasnt born yet in 1999 why turn computer off before midnight? what happen if u dont?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>y2k lol everyone was like \u201cthe supervirus is gonna take over the world and ruin everything and end the world!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the oldest I\u2019ve ever felt. Right now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN YOU WEREN\u2019T BORN YET IN 1999.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ahh the Millenium bug.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t a virus, it was an issue with how some old computers at the time were programmed to deal with dates. Basically some computers with older operating systems didn\u2019t have anything in place to deal with the year reaching 99 and looping around to 00. It was believed that this inability to sync with the correct date would cause issues, and even crash entire systems the moment the date changed.<\/p>\n<p>People flipped out about it, convinced that the date discrepancy between netwoked systems would bring down computers everywhere and shut down the internet and so all systems relying on computers, including plane navigation etc. would go down causing worldwide chaos. It was genuinely believed that people should all switch off computers to avoid this. One or two smart people spoke up and said \u201cum hey, this actually will only effect a few very outdated computers and they\u2019ll just display the wrong date, so it probably won\u2019t be harmful\u201d but were largely ignored because people selling books about the end of the world were talking louder.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, <strong>absolutely nothing happened<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny story. I took my exams in Summer 2000 and the papers are all prepared in advance. On my IT written paper was the question \u201cname two problems caused by the millennium bug\u201d. One hundred and eighty confused sixteen year olds sat in that exam hall knowing full well that an A was now impossible.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lynchy8: faisdm: the-most-calamitous: jibini: top-lotad-breeder: chocogoat: what. why? someone pls explain to me pls i wasnt born yet in 1999 why turn computer off before midnight? what happen if u dont? y2k lol everyone was like \u201cthe supervirus is gonna take over the world and ruin everything and end the world!!!\u201d This is the oldest &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/12\/15\/lynchy8-faisdm-the-most-calamitous\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[726,261,19304,19303,676,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177050,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177048\/revisions\/177050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}