I Found a Super Weird Instructional Video from 1999

"They put two k's instead of one. Which begs the question... Y2K?" That is the best pun Kurtis has ever made, maybe ever

the why two k joke is legendary. i don’t make the rules. no one will ever make a better joke. this is it.

“Women don’t have much to do with computers” Literally the first ever computing machine was partially made by a woman, Ada Lovelace in THE EIGHTEEN FORTIES!!, who is also considered to be the first if not one of the first programmers, like. My dude. Check your mfuckin facts

To be clear, the Y2K bug absolutely was a thing and a lot of talented programmers and computer engineers worked their asses off to fix the problem. It wouldn't have been the end of the world, but it would have caused a lot of problems if left unchecked.

I’m fucking dying at that clip where everyone thinks the world’s ending and this absolute legend is just like “outta gas” with some dumb lady asking him why he’s getting gas as if there’s any other possible reason....

that fucking “y2k?” joke was so insanely perfect i think died for a second.

I remember we were having a New Year’s party on 12/31/99, and the moment the countdown finished, my dad turned off all the power to the house. The panic from all involved was palpable.

The "threaten your physician" part is batshit, but the whole thing about not being able to get a reasonable amount of extra medication to keep on hand for emergencies is an actual concern for the disability community. A disaster can mean pharmacies not receiving stocks of meds, or us not being able to pick up our refills, but thanks to excessive gatekeeping our lives are put at risk by not being able to plan ahead.

"Why are you filling up your car?" "Out of gas." Is the funniest fucking thing I've seen in months

I don’t even care, that “why two k” joke was the peak of his career. I’m unsubscribing now

Yes we were fine - however it wasn’t because it wasn’t an issue - it is because thousands of people in the IT industry patched all of the systems in time. Believe me it was a major effort that everyone worked on until the final hours. I was present in the healthcare industry during Y2K.

I remember hearing my grandparents talking about how we would have to get horses after y2k, because all the cars would stop working, and let me tell you... I was so. Fucking. Excited. I wanted that damn horse.

So tired of Hollywood casting adults as kids on movies, that kid in "The Last Stand Mixer" was obviously over 15.

Normal people in 2012: OH GOD WE'RE GONNA *DIE* Tumblr in 2012: ayo the oncler is kinda hot

as a pastry cook, i think i would genuinely pass away if all stand mixers stopped working

Fun fact Y2K was a diverted emergency. Things really were going to stop working but a team of computer engineers worked together to fix the issue with the computers and diverted the problem

To be fair, putting the word FOOD on a label makes me immediately suspicious that the contents are not really food.

Reporter: "why are you filling up your car?" Man: "Outta gas!" Wow, riveting journalism!

Aight not to be a nerd but basically, the concern with Y2K was that when the digits flip over to 00, it doesn't just look weird, the computer actually reads it as 1900 rather than 2000. So if you had a medical record of someone born in 1901, then when they visited the hospital next, the computer would think granny caught a cold a year before she was born. It COULD'VE been an issue, but thankfully it's a fairly easy fix. Helps that we had a good amount of warning in advance, seeing as we don't change centuries terribly often.

My anxiety definitely stems from growing up with the media constantly going through apocalyptic messaging. It's just ingrained in me now. Y2k, the blackout, 2012, Sars, 911, covid 19... I'm not sure if there's more but I can remember each of these issues like it was yesterday.