dotInsights | January 2025
Did you know? The Y2K bug, or “Millennium Bug,” was a programming issue caused by storing years with only two digits (e.g., “1999” as “99”) to save memory. As 2000 approached, systems risked interpreting “00” as 1900, leading to potential errors in calculations and data processing. Fears of disruptions in critical systems like banking and […]
Did you know? The Y2K bug, or “Millennium Bug,” was a programming issue caused by storing years with only two digits (e.g., “1999” as “99”) to save memory. As 2000 approached, systems risked interpreting “00” as 1900, leading to potential errors in calculations and data processing.
Fears of disruptions in critical systems like banking and utilities prompted a global effort to update software. In the end, the fixes worked, and major issues were avoided.
If you started your dev career later, have you wondered what it was like to be a programmer in the 90’s?
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