It's the end of the world! .. Again.
Another Doomsday scenario in which civilization itself will crumble. The only real difference between this scenario and all the other doomsday scenarios that have been plaguing Humanity since the beginning of time (indeed have been more provident in the ''Christian, Islamic era'') is that so many people took Y2K seriously.
My own grandparents had prepped for Y2K. They had bought copious amounts of food, gallon drums worth of gasoline and water. They had their whole basement ready for the day of judgement that never came. The only bright side is nothing they bought went to waste. They just used up their stock in their everyday living. went to the grocery store, rotated there old supplies and maintain a constant amount of baking Goods and a crap ton of orange juice. It was kind of nice, I could go over to their house and if I wanted to make an entire cake, I could. there was never a need to worry about the right ingredient. Everything was there. The gasoline got used up in the cars and I think my grandfather ended up using the water on his lawn for the next few years. The only real negative where the mice who would wiggle their way into the storage room and try to make a living inside a box of puff wheat squares. Pain in the butt those little buggers are. But then they were a nuisance before the whole Y2K Fiasco.
And now Leonard Nimoy standing in front of a green screen is going to inform us on our best course of action to defend against the Y2K Menace. Sometimes I think Y2K was just a fun substitute for the commie 4S threat. What the Soviet Union gone people needed a new thing to cower in fear of. The Rapture was 2000 years in the making and I think people are starting to lose heart. So now we need to create new threats. How about a computer Mount function ? Computers are strange machines that nobody understands and it's going to be a few years before people really start using them in their everyday life. It's perfect tell everybody that a 19 becoming a zero is the biggest catastrophe they could ever befall them.
How are our computers going to deal with the switch from 1999 to 1900. They'll think we're living back in the old days they're going to start giving us old silly looking hats and insisting that we invest in Radio stock. I don't even know if there was Radio stock in the 19 hundreds,
Was Leonard Nimoy in need of financial aid? Did he do this because he actually believed in it? I don't see what he's so concerned about with the end of the world. He's Jewish. He's already saved he doesn't even have to go to Mount Zion when the rest of the world realises the one true faith. He's fine.
My biggest problem with this video is how it's produced. It has this weird ambient music and uses lots of dark colors and flashing images makes everything look super extreme and scary. Why are you not scared? Don't you know the end of the world's coming. You have to listen to us, you have to take heed we need to fix the computers! It's the year 2000! What is a young me going to do in 3 years when our family gets a computer (for 1 year) and the only thing I use it for is to play mini golf on a games website sponsored by Oreos. I remember that being a particularly fun mini golf game but our computer could barely process the site. Or perhaps that was just are lousy Internet connection.
Oh here we are there bringing up the micro chips. What strange devices are these weird things even though they've been in computers for at least 30 years by this point and should be well known to anybody.
And of course it's the corporation's fault with their bureaucratic undertones. Do we know which corporations or exactly what form of bureaucracy there on about. No of course not , we don't want to bring up any actual facts it's funner just to speculate everything . why think when you can imagine.
The funniest thing of all is that any actual problems that came about with the Y2K bug were created mainly by the patches put in to secure them in the first place. And they were practically no real world problems. Apparently a few bus machines didn't work at one point a couple websites had incorrect dates for a little bit and one poor bastard somewhere in the States was charged over $1,000 for renting a movie for over a hundred years but these were all very minor things that could easily be fixed and were within a week.
So in other words one guy down in the United States got really screwed over and somebody said hey that's probably not correct let's see how much you actually owe us probably a dollar fifty.
I'm looking forward to the next World catastrophe. Will it be cold-war number 2, some sort of economic collapse or is it the outcomes of global warming. The last one is something that I'm actually concerned with. Not in the sense that it'll be like some horrible movie where the world decides it's had enough of humanity and tries to literally kill us.
But I'm more bothered by the increase in natural disasters and the fact that where I live used to be free of tornadoes. But every year of those funnel clouds got a little closer and I get a little bit more concerned. If my house gets hit, what will happen to my crappy comic book collection? Or my old commemorative plate with a picture of Pope John Paul II done. I'd be a bit upset if that got broken .
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