would happen as we approach the NUMBER_TOKENst century well naturally the year NUMBER_TOKEN would have to be represented as NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN but how would a computer that only stores the last two digits of a year react to that would it read it as NUMBER_TOKEN or would it backtrack and read it as zero and slowly tick back up as the years progress is the year NUMBER_TOKEN or NUMBER_TOKEN now at face value this probably seems like a mixed bag in terms of severity there were those that saw this as just people overthinking how a computer operates if they're making too much out of it it's not going to be anything just another day of course i may be wrong while others saw just how serious the implications of this could be i don't think you have no time because as the year goes on supplies can be less and less keep in mind even at the time computers just don't store dates and times to be organized and keep records they also use these dates and times to make important calculations with data the bank is a great example of this there were fears that on yNUMBER_TOKENk all the money in the banks would be gone and there's a valid reason to think this and it all has to do with computer error it's not like on january NUMBER_TOKENst the money would just disappear from all the saves but instead the bank servers and computers would calculate the money's interest based on the time and date if the computers were to clock back to zero the interest would likely be all over the place that's what people feared and that actually was the case on january NUMBER_TOKENst NUMBER_TOKEN a man in germany very briefly had six million dollars in his bank account with the transaction for the interest on his account dating to december NUMBER_TOKENth NUMBER_TOKEN. the bank was calculating all the interest that had compounded since that date now that was just one bank that didn't update their software on time imagine this on a global scale people see their new account balance they scream a couple of eurekas and now thousands of people are withdrawing huge amounts of money at the bank or maybe you have the opposite problem a bank transaction is read as being dated NUMBER_TOKEN and the computer panics because it thinks it's NUMBER_TOKEN and calculates the interest backwards now people's accounts are in overdraft they panic sell all their assets they take out loans and now the banks are again empty that way this is actually very similar to what happened with the stock market crash in NUMBER_TOKEN but instead it's with computer bugs not only that in japan nuclear energy plants actually had several alarms start to go off a couple minutes after midnight due to the spug what if the same were to happen with missiles and create false alarms of a potential nuclear attack now you probably see where the problem lies and naturally why people panicked and banks and nuclear missiles were only part of it all these issues created by the bug would make the everyday necessities and privileges of society to malfunction or even cease to exist which would lead to anarchy and before you know it full out civil war yNUMBER_TOKENk would be the quick domino effect for the end of the world but let's go back a bit and see what our options are because luckily yNUMBER_TOKENk can be stopped but it's going to take a lot of work and be very expensive this is exactly what people in the late NUMBER_TOKENs were thinking they had to act fast and in many respects they did there's a
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