we fucked up by turning them back on
@rabcyr I have this sticker on my work MacBook 😂😂😂
@rabcyr The real Y2K fault was the friends we made on the way
@rabcyr <sigh> Agreed. Shoulda kept the Motorola brick phone too.
@rabcyr that we did... That we did...

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I have a "portable" computer called an Osborne that I have not turned on since before 12/31/1999. I'm sure it would be fine but there's really no reason. It uses 5.25 floppies and 3.5 diskettes. Not a lot of things being distributed for that machine anymore.🤪Of course, I played Zork on it and was able to log on to work remotely in 1981.

@waoac @rabcyr : I wrote a program that simulated a row of light-sensitive cells in a horseshoe crab’s retina, demonstrating Mach bands on one of those. That was in 1985.
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we sometimes take for granted the simple pleasures.. like of having descriptive vocabulary like "floppies", ", "diskettes", and "zork"'s to throw around.
@rabcyr Such a blast from the past! What's a Best Buy? 😏
@rabcyr What I remember best about 12/31/99 was the surprise when Boris Yeltsin announced his resignation and his successor, Vladimir Putin. I had a very bad feeling about it.
@rabcyr do you remember this, what a shite show. Hubs worked for Vz in publishing, gawd what went into backing up everything before. Life went on, don’t know one person that had a pc crash, traffic lights still worked, power wasn’t lost, tv still showed ball dropping. What did we in the US have to worry about….all the times zones before us survived.
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@rabcyr lol, remember when Y2K was Alex Jones’ whole thing? He wailed about the sky falling. And then it all turned out fine, and he floundered for a bit, but then 9/11 happened? And here we are
@rabcyr …but we did party like it was 1999!
@rabcyr blast from the past, this one 😁