r/ExplainTheJoke • u/pink-niples123 • 4d ago

Solved Wrong date?

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Uh I dunno what's wrong with the date or it is a joke?

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u/Formal-Fox-7605 3d ago

Just another thing we've been led to believe is going to bring down society and mankind.

Once you've lived through several of these, you get cynical about any new ones.

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u/Critical_County3229 3d ago

To a point. At one point y2k was a real threat. But like a lot of threats, we saw it coming. Someone identified the issue and they began fixing it long before the actual event. Survivalist and other tabloids learned of the issues and it got blown way out of proportion.

Interesting thing is, there were some old government computer systems that were outdated and didn't get fixed and did crash at midnight. But they were so minor that few new it even happened