Relive Your Y2K Freakout In 19 Steps
New Year’s Eve, 1999: You embrace for the impending demise of civilization. Or just nothing.
New Year’s Eve, 1999: You embrace for the impending demise of civilization. Or just nothing.
The “leap second” was a one second adjustment made to the atomic clock tonight at 23:59:59 UT (just before 8pm ET). After it went into effect tonight, half the internet — including Reddit, FourSquare, Yelp, LinkedIn, Gawker StumbleUpon, and more — came crashing down. The outages were mostly (thankfully) brief. Here’s how it happened.
The Week magazine’s Bad Opinion Generator gives you a taste of what the world would be like if cool people did not exist.
Ten years ago, the end of the world was upon us, and people like Captain Spock and Jesus (see below) warned us of the dangers of the Y2K bug, the millenial threat that would make our ATMs explode or whatever!!! But who could blame a level-headed person who just wanted to make sure their family had garbage cans full of water in case of a technological apocalypse? More Y2K scare videos here. Watch Video ›
Is 2012 the next Y2K? The Mayan calendars say so. So remind me on December 31st, 2011 and I’ll stock up on canned vegetables. And prayers. Because the world is ending.
