The Great Y2K

People living in the ancient world thought about the future cyclically. They thought that times would shift from a golden age to a dark age and eventually recover. People started thinking about the future linearly during the Renaissance. Since then we have been a part of this continuum that gradually advances upwards until it reaches a peak where it can't go any further. At the peak a great disaster will occur, such as the apocalypse. Or like...

Y2K

The main problem facing Y2K was the concern that computer clocks wouldn't be able to rollover from x99 to x000. Somehow this fear sparked apocalyptic theories associated with Y2K like the ones discussed in this video:


Video courtesy of Everything is Terrible!

Of course nothing scary happened on January 1st 2000. It has only been a decade since the great Y2K and the time has definitely given us all better perspective on how stupid it really was.