19-May-2016, 19:54
(19-May-2016, 12:16)Confused Wrote: It would appear that I have reached post #1999. Therefore, logic and mathematics dictate that my next post will hit the big 2000. In a way, I fail to see the significance of the number 2000, after all, no fuss was made at 1000. I also recall the year 2000 and the infamous millennium bug, and we all know what happened there, nothing as it turned out.A bit of topic, but since i was already working in software at that time, i can tell you that nothing happen because a lot of peoples took a lot of time to correct a huge amount of shitty old software before that date. But i can tell you that without that work, half the computer system of this planet would have stopped working at that time, creating a huge mess everywhere.
Next one will be in 2038, when the actual Unix time system will be running out of space. It will be obviously solved before it happen, because the consequence would be even worse.
