Y2k Hope or Hype
You wake up in the morning of January 1, 2000, and you look at your alarm clock, the infamous flashing 12:00. Why didn’t it go off? There was no storm last night, no power outages. The world’s biggest problem has just begun, the millennium bug has spread across the globe. You try to call your friends, no dial tone. Could this Twilight Zone episode be happening? Possibly, but we don’t know for sure. Could the predictions of the year 2000 be true or a lot of scare tactics for the public? There are quite a few issues to deal with in this world wide dilemma.Most people don’t know the reason behind the Y2k bug. Most people will say, “This won’t happen, they have it all under control.” Even if it doesn’t, you better be aware of it. Everyone around the world is computer dependent, no matter how you look at it. First, let’s look at the problem. Back in the 60’s and 70’s when computers were being “born” they were very expensive, and in order to save memory costs, we designed computer codes to read only two digits instead of four. The computer reads dates as MM/DD/YY, so for the date March 8, 1999, the computer would read it as, 03/08/99. What will happen if we input Jan. 1, 2000? Will 01/01/00 appear as Jan. 1, 19
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Approximate Word count = 1168
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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