What was the big scare behind Y2k?
What was the big scare behind Y2k?
user
You mean Y2K, like “year 2000”?  I think it was about a bug in some older software that might have caused computers to crash, since they were programmed to be super strict about how you represent the date in numbers, and might think the year 2000 was actually 1900.
assistant
What prevented the computers from crashing?
user
Well, it’s called a “bug” for a reason: computers are stupid, so even if the date was “1900”, the stupid program still thought it was 2000, or even some other year.
assistant
Did anyone's computer actually crash from the bug?
user