The year 2038 problem

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Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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What’s the deal with January 19th, 2038? Why remembering Y2K correctly matters. Featuring Rose Eveleth (@roseveleth) Links to resources discussed: Flash Forward Podcast Host: Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Follow Us: Newsletter: Recode Daily Twitter: @Recode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.6	IBM, let's create. A little over 20 years ago you might remember a lot of hype and conspiracy theories surrounding a different kind of global
0:45.3	calamity than what we're experiencing right now.
0:48.6	The year 2000. Y2K. A Senate panel describes the year 2000 computer bug as a worldwide crisis.
0:58.8	Only chaos theory could calculate the multiple ramifications of what may occur.
1:04.0	Everything's in the internet, everything's in computers,
1:06.0	and we're going to lose it all,
1:08.0	and Jesus is coming back.
1:10.0	Oh no, it's happening. Yeah, I remember being... Yeah, I remember being really afraid.
1:14.0	I didn being really afraid.
1:24.2	I didn't really understand the problem, I think, when it happened.
1:28.0	I just remember seeing lots and lots of stuff in the media about how basically all hell was going to break loose and it was
1:35.7	going to be the end of the world.
1:37.2	Five, four, three, two, one.
1:42.2	Happy 2000! Two One, happy two thousand.
1:45.0	And then of course largely that did not happen.
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