The Picard Maneuver to Nostalgia@lemmy.caEnglish • 30 days agoMany of us survived that dark daylemmy.worldimagemessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1534arrow-down18
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minus-squaremeseek #2982linkfedilinkEnglish6•30 days agoSave all your data. You can just never turn it on again 🤪
minus-square@sep@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•30 days agoA lot of software was updated prior to y2k to be able to cope with dates. But the transition was still difficult for some software.
minus-square@Vilian@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglish0•30 days agobut you couldn’t use the computer anymore???
minus-square@sep@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•29 days agoCould not deal with the transition. No issues afterwards. So all machines off the evening before was sop for a lot of companies
wtf turn off would do to help??
Probably scared it would crash on y2k
Save all your data. You can just never turn it on again 🤪
A lot of software was updated prior to y2k to be able to cope with dates. But the transition was still difficult for some software.
but you couldn’t use the computer anymore???
Could not deal with the transition. No issues afterwards. So all machines off the evening before was sop for a lot of companies