It's just one of those regular apocalypses. People like their apocalypses.
Basically a lot of computer systems only used two digits for the year: the 19 was implied. So 80 would be 1980, 90 would be 1990, 00 would be 1900 - oops. They had to change the system so that there was room for the 2000s.
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Date: 2018-11-12 06:40 pm (UTC)Basically a lot of computer systems only used two digits for the year: the 19 was implied. So 80 would be 1980, 90 would be 1990, 00 would be 1900 - oops. They had to change the system so that there was room for the 2000s.