Imagine how much happier you’d be today if you’d never turned it back on
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Imagine how much happier you’d be today if you’d never turned it back on
I worked for a major manufacturer that had been in business for 100 years.
We spent years trying to fix old programs at work for the year 2000 as the bulk of our programs used two digits to denote the year. We also made sure all our operating systems were year 2000 compliant. There was even a group of us that stayed the night in the office as the date rolled over, because they were afraid what could happen if we missed anything. I remember we had cots, sleeping bags, and emergency food.
So after all our efforts, the only problem we encounted is some retired employees had incorrect age calculations AFTER the date became January 1, 2000. Apparently we missed a small group that were classified differently.
So, not a lot happened.
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@jalefkowit I briefly did phone support for Packard Bell here in the UK in the early 2000s. We took one to bits in training and I couldn't believe how shoddy they were. The power supplies were well below what I'd expect even at the time. It's a wonder they worked at all.
@benofbrown @jalefkowit I used to tell people that Packard Bell was inevitably going to go out of business once everyone bought their first computer, because nobody would buy a second one from them.
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@ophiocephalic @jalefkowit Fun fact: Altman was but 14 on 20000101. Zuckerberg was 15.
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Imagine how much happier you’d be today if you’d never turned it back on
@jalefkowit I've no fⒶckin' idea,
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Imagine how much happier you’d be today if you’d never turned it back on
@jalefkowit
I'm tellin' you, the Y2K computer's got us. We'll face burnin' roads, rivers exploding, calculators transformed into Scud missiles. There's nothing we can do. -
Imagine how much happier you’d be today if you’d never turned it back on
@jalefkowit dear god, yes
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Imagine how much happier you’d be today if you’d never turned it back on
@jalefkowit I had so much fun making this sticker 7/19/24
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Imagine how much happier you’d be today if you’d never turned it back on
@jalefkowit I dunno, I mean... there's a lot wrong with this era we find ourselves in, but I feel like retreating to an imagined golden age is just imitating the enemy.
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I worked for a major manufacturer that had been in business for 100 years.
We spent years trying to fix old programs at work for the year 2000 as the bulk of our programs used two digits to denote the year. We also made sure all our operating systems were year 2000 compliant. There was even a group of us that stayed the night in the office as the date rolled over, because they were afraid what could happen if we missed anything. I remember we had cots, sleeping bags, and emergency food.
So after all our efforts, the only problem we encounted is some retired employees had incorrect age calculations AFTER the date became January 1, 2000. Apparently we missed a small group that were classified differently.
So, not a lot happened.
@Starcade @jalefkowit Yeah, not a lot happened then - because you made it not happen! Thanks, I was at university then, so I did nothing to fix this, but I was glad there were no stray nukes and the world continued to spin as normal.
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Imagine how much happier you’d be today if you’d never turned it back on
@jalefkowit It would have been worse, as I see this on a phone: imagine if this was the only media today.
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@benofbrown @jalefkowit I used to tell people that Packard Bell was inevitably going to go out of business once everyone bought their first computer, because nobody would buy a second one from them.
@mweiss @jalefkowit The craziest thing I remember from that job was the "RPD", residual power drain. If a customer's PC was seemingly dead, no POST, nothing on the screen, we were told to instruct them to disconnect all the cables from the PC and hold the power button down for at least 30 seconds, before plugging the cables back in and turning it on again. When we were told this in training I thought it was complete bullshit, but the number of times I did it on calls and it actually worked blew my mind. I still to this day don't understand how it worked, maybe it was just the process of reseating the cables that fixed it and the 30 seconds was a bit of a white lie to make it seem scientific but yeah, it worked almost every time.
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Imagine how much happier you’d be today if you’d never turned it back on
@jalefkowit I have the updated version if anyone needs
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Imagine how much happier you’d be today if you’d never turned it back on
@jalefkowit@vmst.io Ridiculous middle-endian date format aside, I love the way that sticker is using a two-digit year.
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Imagine how much happier you’d be today if you’d never turned it back on
@jalefkowit they were trying to warn you
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Imagine how much happier you’d be today if you’d never turned it back on
@jalefkowit wait....wait....i was supposed to turn it off?
Welllll Seems all the stuff that gone wrong with the internet might be my fault...i never turned mine off.
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@jalefkowit I have the updated version if anyone needs
@gurkan @jalefkowit got a similar on mine
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Imagine how much happier you’d be today if you’d never turned it back on
@jalefkowit tbh. after leaving m$, meta and former twitter I actually really enjoy computing again
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