Y2K Scare VHS Tapes (Year 2000 Bug Preparedness) - Rental Reviews

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  • Опубліковано 26 гру 2019
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    It's the Year 2000 (+20) on this episode of Rental Reviews. James, Kieran, and Justin jump back 20 years to when Y2K was an actual computer bug that many people were worried about. Well, worried enough to spend millions fixing the problem and selling VHS tapes to scare people at home. Think of the 2012 end of the world scare, but way worse. People were even doing prepper type stuff by collecting food, water, and the basic essentials when the world shut down.
    Check out "SkyCorp Home Video" who made the intro:
    / @skycorphomevideo
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    Special thanks to Maitraya Andrews for sending the movie!!
    VIDEO LINKS:
    Y2K Family Survival Guide with Leonard Nimoy
    Video: • Y2K Family Survival Gu...
    Box art: i.imgur.com/3vBsGjB.jpg
    Y2K Year 2000 Crossroads (Home Preparedness)
    Video: • Y2K Home Preparedness ...
    Box art: i.imgur.com/FBtwInK.jpg
    Y2K "Year To Kill" Full Length Movie (with other trailers)
    Video: • Y2K Year To Kill - Ful...
    Box art: i.imgur.com/50ENdaS.jpg
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  • @JamesNintendoNerd
    @JamesNintendoNerd  4 роки тому +227

    Check out "SkyCorp Home Video" who made the intro: ua-cam.com/channels/IoDNWuAq3wPv11BXbr5xMg.html
    VIDEO LINKS BELOW:
    Y2K Family Survival Guide with Leonard Nimoy
    Video: ua-cam.com/video/ZoiT7PEhJvk/v-deo.html
    Box art: i.imgur.com/3vBsGjB.jpg
    Y2K Year 2000 Crossroads (Home Preparedness)
    Video: ua-cam.com/video/nFS_PRdZVtE/v-deo.html
    Box art: i.imgur.com/FBtwInK.jpg
    Y2K "Year To Kill" Full Length Movie (with other trailers)
    Video: ua-cam.com/video/tIoVcRw9P9o/v-deo.html
    Box art: i.imgur.com/50ENdaS.jpg
    Special thanks to Maitraya Andrews for sending the movie!!

    • @JackHan_0812
      @JackHan_0812 4 роки тому +12

      I love SkyCorp. Many love to them☆

    • @comrade_grigory2133
      @comrade_grigory2133 4 роки тому +5

      Raid 2020

    • @moebro38
      @moebro38 4 роки тому +1

      Holy hell that's awesome! I love these guys. I'm glad they're getting the attention they deserve!

    • @bryanl1984
      @bryanl1984 4 роки тому +2

      Most of Y2K was (Edit: averted / _mostly)_ a joke but, there were _SERIOUS_ concerns about Russia's antiquated Deadhand / Perimeter automatic nuclear retaliation system being patched, as it required human input at regular, time stamped intervals to NOT launch the nukes. Yes, Russia actually has (had?) their entire arsenal hooked up to an egg timer with no human input. Even worse, it was programmed with _really_ obscure, old programming languages with few practitioners and partially was also hardcoded. The CIA took it super seriously at the time. Now, we only need to wory about the Unix date issue launching all of _our_ Nukes!
      Also, I love your guy's content!

    • @PissyKnish
      @PissyKnish 4 роки тому +1

      "Countdown to Chaos" Starring Lou Gossett Jr.* Also the current star of HBO's Watchmen.

  • @InuYugiHakusho
    @InuYugiHakusho 4 роки тому +1064

    "After Y2K, the end of the world had become a cliche." - Max Payne, 2001

    • @Matsonius
      @Matsonius 4 роки тому +56

      funny as hell, it was the most horrible thing i could think of

    • @redseagaming7832
      @redseagaming7832 4 роки тому +5

      I agree I think it was the biggest waste of money ever because this Y2K thing never happened

    • @dreamlandnightmare
      @dreamlandnightmare 4 роки тому +11

      The end of the world had became a cliche long before Y2K. Though the fears were of a religious, rather than a technological, nature, a similar panic occurred on the eve of the year 1000.

    • @sourekpetr
      @sourekpetr 4 роки тому +3

      As a „cobol programmer“ I look forward to 31. 12. 9999 :-D

    • @MaxPayne.
      @MaxPayne. 4 роки тому +4

      I want another Max Payne game.

  • @stealthlord6614
    @stealthlord6614 4 роки тому +411

    When the "Y2K" ball dropped I was litterally playing killer instinct on N64 and didn't see the clock untill like 12:45am

    • @turbo682
      @turbo682 4 роки тому +17

      Killer instinct was on n64?

    • @stealthlord6614
      @stealthlord6614 4 роки тому +11

      The edit on the original is I had to add the am to 12:45AM or it was time stamping

    • @stealthlord6614
      @stealthlord6614 4 роки тому +1

      @Can't Think of a Name I agree lol

    • @codyduchnowsky5063
      @codyduchnowsky5063 4 роки тому +2

      Can't Think of a Name fuck yea

    • @Saixjacket
      @Saixjacket 4 роки тому +6

      Killer instinct Gold

  • @IronHusky81
    @IronHusky81 4 роки тому +278

    I want “Atlantis was taken down by Y2K “ on a t-shirt

  • @covcova
    @covcova 4 роки тому +165

    My uncle dug an enormous hole in his backyard in preparation for Y2K
    He was comforted with the knowledge that if all the computers in the world shut down he could go outside and sit in the hole

    • @alexiswritingvideos
      @alexiswritingvideos 4 роки тому +24

      Justin Cordova Doin’ some good hole sittin’.

    • @mrRufffnTumble
      @mrRufffnTumble 4 роки тому +5

      The procrastinating prepper lol I'll put the bunker in eventually

    • @technounionrepresentative4274
      @technounionrepresentative4274 3 роки тому +3

      Lol. How would that help anything?

    • @nil0bject
      @nil0bject 3 роки тому +12

      @@technounionrepresentative4274 did y2k happen? nope. i think that guys uncle saved us with that hole. unsung heroes

    • @themoralreformchronicles9231
      @themoralreformchronicles9231 2 роки тому

      Justin that is hilarious!! Laughing my but off here lol

  • @higgledypiggledycubledy8899
    @higgledypiggledycubledy8899 4 роки тому +961

    I was studying comp sci in 98 and 99 - there was a huge demand for coders to update old programs. While there was definitely a lot of bullshit, it's worth noting that a lot of problems have been averted by doing a LOT of debugging beforehand. There would definitely have been a significant economic impact if the issue hadn't been adressed. It's kind of ironic: part of the reason this was perceived as 100% nonsense is that we actually anticipated and fixed the problem :-)

    • @jC-kc4si
      @jC-kc4si 4 роки тому +29

      Why can't we do the same thing again and fix healthcare? Maybe have NASA work on this problem.

    • @AirLancer
      @AirLancer 4 роки тому +150

      That's the problem with people. If you actually take proper precautions and prevent something from becoming a problem, they assume that it was never a big deal to begin with.

    • @MisterCasket
      @MisterCasket 4 роки тому +34

      I always say "there WAS an apocalypse coming, but Buffy stopped it!"

    • @RichardMajor86
      @RichardMajor86 4 роки тому +26

      Exactly right. Was seen as a non-issue by most people because it was all fixed

    • @noahheninger
      @noahheninger 4 роки тому +17

      Very good point. Thankfully, we won't have to worry about this again until the year 10000.

  • @Dorelaxen
    @Dorelaxen 4 роки тому +252

    I was working at a game store in '99 and I had someone being dead serious ask me if the GameBoy was Y2K compatible.

    • @Anthonybchannel
      @Anthonybchannel 4 роки тому +6

      Jeez. People were genuinely serious back then

    • @alexiswritingvideos
      @alexiswritingvideos 4 роки тому +18

      Well is it???

    • @rikustorm13
      @rikustorm13 4 роки тому +3

      Lmfao fr?

    • @kenn_k
      @kenn_k 3 роки тому +6

      @@alexiswritingvideos Seriously, this is important information. Who just leaves you hanging like that?? LIVES ARE AT RISK HERE

    • @JerryListener
      @JerryListener 3 роки тому +1

      Holy **** id would have upsold something to that customer..

  • @blackphoenix77
    @blackphoenix77 4 роки тому +188

    Whenever they do a close up on James, that Mac and Me poster is so distracting 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @odkres
      @odkres 4 роки тому +4

      Oh dear god, it's looking at me.

    • @ZayAlexander420
      @ZayAlexander420 4 роки тому +5

      Compared to an action figure of a friggin tree from commando behind the other dude

    • @BenDover-wc8jr
      @BenDover-wc8jr 4 роки тому +2

      The BJ alien

    • @trabucodonosor838
      @trabucodonosor838 3 роки тому

      @@BenDover-wc8jr I loved it when I was younger. Now I switched to Mr. Bucket 😯😮😯😮😱

  • @100domathon
    @100domathon 4 роки тому +41

    That intro was so well done I thought it was actually made back in 1999. Kudos

  • @jdb2002
    @jdb2002 4 роки тому +540

    When James mentioned 32 bits, it brought to mind this scene:
    64 bits
    32 bits
    16 bits
    8 bits
    4 bits
    2 bits
    1 bit
    Half bit
    Quarter bit
    THE WRIST GAMEEEEEE!

  • @sarahmiles
    @sarahmiles 4 роки тому +146

    NYE of 1999...I was at the movies seeing the cinematic classic “Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo”.

    • @jakeredd
      @jakeredd 4 роки тому +2

      Eaaaaaarrs!!

    • @ArcanePath360
      @ArcanePath360 4 роки тому +3

      I remember picking up cigar ash.
      With my anus.

    • @sega32xxx14
      @sega32xxx14 4 роки тому +1

      @@ArcanePath360 ....with the actual hole?!

    • @ArcanePath360
      @ArcanePath360 4 роки тому +3

      @@sega32xxx14 Yep. It was before I dropped my ice cream in the Jacuzzi

    • @System_smasher
      @System_smasher 4 роки тому

      So you wanted it to be the end of the world then?

  • @Jose-se9pu
    @Jose-se9pu 4 роки тому +82

    The late 90s were such a weird time...

  • @matthewfredericks25
    @matthewfredericks25 Рік тому +11

    Computer bugs are the reason the world should never go cashless

  • @pizzatime7433
    @pizzatime7433 4 роки тому +253

    I can't believe that y2k was almost 20 years ago
    Man does time fly fast

    • @yetigriff
      @yetigriff 4 роки тому +5

      Everyday is a gift from the incel geeks who kept us alive.

    • @somerandomguy8541
      @somerandomguy8541 4 роки тому

      I wish It happened

    • @jaelmiguez6284
      @jaelmiguez6284 4 роки тому

      Yea shrek

    • @arashimiyazawa8165
      @arashimiyazawa8165 4 роки тому +3

      It's only actually been a week, but the date broke at midnight and screwed up everything.

    • @MansonX
      @MansonX 4 роки тому

      Theshiny K why such edge

  • @DownFromTheDoorWhereItBegan
    @DownFromTheDoorWhereItBegan 4 роки тому +155

    It’s crazy that almost 20 years have passed and we still use light to see.

    • @scottp.548
      @scottp.548 4 роки тому +13

      I thought for sure we'd be using candles again. 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @neilgeckle6061
      @neilgeckle6061 4 роки тому +4

      dralezero Honestly a perfect simple joke lol

    • @AleK0451
      @AleK0451 4 роки тому +3

      i was hoping we'd have evolved sonar to see with sounds

    • @foxandbarrettshow6916
      @foxandbarrettshow6916 4 роки тому +4

      You speak for yourself mister I'm currently watching this entire flick in infrared

    • @AleK0451
      @AleK0451 4 роки тому +2

      @@foxandbarrettshow6916 infrared is on the light spectrum bruh

  • @samvimes9510
    @samvimes9510 4 роки тому +10

    My mom was absolutely freaked out by Y2K. She made a garden in our backyard, learned how to can foods, started buying huge buckets of grain and water, all sorts of shit. Our garage looked like one of those doomsday prepper's bunkers.

  • @lucavalente6620
    @lucavalente6620 4 роки тому +151

    Seeing this during Corona crisis is something magical xD

  • @galbaum33
    @galbaum33 4 роки тому +64

    When the ball fell in New York, 2/3 of the world were in Y2K already.

    • @HelgaCavoli
      @HelgaCavoli 4 роки тому +3

      Probably 3/4. But yes, exactly.

    • @nicksGLI
      @nicksGLI 4 роки тому +4

      New York doesn't care about anyone else, YET they think we all care about them. Who cares about subway flooding, why is this national news?

  • @sarysa
    @sarysa 4 роки тому +317

    Y2K was a real, albeit exaggerated problem, The thing is, the programmers of the world were aware of it for a few years prior and dealt with it...it never needed to be hyped to the point of being a household term.

    • @Christian-rn1ur
      @Christian-rn1ur 4 роки тому +46

      sarysa This just in, people are stupid and the media have no morals. In other news, shocking discovery that water is wet, but could dihydrogen monoxide actually be bad for you?

    • @handsomebrick
      @handsomebrick 4 роки тому +23

      In defense of the Y2K scare, people dealt with it but there was always the chance that they overlooked something.

    • @sarysa
      @sarysa 4 роки тому +15

      @@Christian-rn1ur Not news to me. :) The thing is, when there's a legitimate potential crisis and something goes down the way Y2K does, people (wrongly) assume there never was a crisis at all...as did the fine hosts of this video. That's all I was commenting about.

    • @A_Black_Sheep94
      @A_Black_Sheep94 4 роки тому +1

      Pentagon propaganda.

    • @promontorium
      @promontorium 4 роки тому +16

      @@LUCKO2022 Yes, it was legit. You dummies are like the logical psychotic opposite of conspiracy theorists. "If it doesn't happen, it was never possible.".
      Total idiocy. OP is right. This whole video is represents an idiotic revision of history. It was a real issue and was solved BECAUSE people took it seriously.

  • @DylanCataldo
    @DylanCataldo 4 роки тому +31

    In 2012 when the world was supposed to “end” I was in a HS English class. Then all of a sudden clocks in the school started spinning non stop for like an hour. The whole class stopped and people were filming like it was their last moments on earth. Of course I knew it was a coincidence and just yelled jokingly: “we’re all gonna die!”

    • @atsundiunstrun9199
      @atsundiunstrun9199 4 роки тому +8

      i remember on the day beforehand i watched my idiot classmates say goodbye to each other
      then on the day it was gonna happen
      i patiently waited the entire day for something to happen
      nothing happened
      i was disappointed

    • @rifter0x0000
      @rifter0x0000 4 роки тому +2

      I actually made plans for the day that was supposed to happen, years in advance. I told friend we should get together and watch the world not end, and we did.

    • @newartmov
      @newartmov 4 роки тому +2

      I think the world changed big time after 2012

    • @craigd268
      @craigd268 3 роки тому +2

      Lol I watched the war of the worlds on that day

  • @adamsfusion
    @adamsfusion 4 роки тому +64

    On the rainwater thing: Really only a couple of states have laws against it and it's due to a really flawed understanding of the hydrological cycle. However, most states allow it, and many of those states provide additional information, plans, and some even give financial incentives to collect rainwater.

    • @PradeepPurple
      @PradeepPurple 4 роки тому +12

      Thats what i figured, it has more to do with the water cycle in a particular area than "goverments forcing us to use supermarkets...MAN!!"

    • @Twinkiman89
      @Twinkiman89 4 роки тому +9

      The one guy who did get arrested and fined for collecting rainwater got in trouble because he collected literally multiple olympic swimming pool's worth of water and was building dams for it. He was only fined $1000 or something like that.

    • @johnbasterson7938
      @johnbasterson7938 4 роки тому +2

      @@Twinkiman89 that's still ridiculous. If I want to save 7 trillion gallons of rain water that's my business.

  • @MikeDest
    @MikeDest 4 роки тому +150

    Takes me back. Also back then everyone had some uncle in their family that would always be like Nostradamus said _______.

    • @concertinamadrigals4058
      @concertinamadrigals4058 4 роки тому +25

      Oh my god, yes... The Nostradamians and the Bible-prophecy fanatics were hilarious back then, then in 2012, it was more of the same...

    • @thebluewhale8891
      @thebluewhale8891 4 роки тому +2

      *the sky is falling, the sky is falling*

    • @concertinamadrigals4058
      @concertinamadrigals4058 4 роки тому +8

      @@thebluewhale8891 ...because the Bible tells me so... OR ...because if you change a few letters, switch the word-order, and take that phrase as referring to such-and-such, Nostradamus wrote it.

    • @handsomebrick
      @handsomebrick 4 роки тому +12

      That is nostalgic, the last I heard Nostradamus taken seriously was like 2004.

    • @nicholastosoni707
      @nicholastosoni707 4 роки тому +5

      Ugh, Nostradamus. Can't hear about his "prophecies" without becoming physically ill.

  • @irishjoe2941
    @irishjoe2941 4 роки тому +517

    Y2J is real and he loves a little bit of the bubbly!

    • @EduCrossHands
      @EduCrossHands 4 роки тому +39

      The best thing about the Y2K, Le Champion!

    • @theitfactorjameswheezer2852
      @theitfactorjameswheezer2852 4 роки тому +1

      Godisempty _ Lol

    • @syedmasroorhussain
      @syedmasroorhussain 4 роки тому +49

      You know what happens when you make a Y2J reference? Do ya....?
      *You just made the list!*

    • @mcFreaki
      @mcFreaki 4 роки тому +28

      @@syedmasroorhussain it's not 2016 anymore get with the times!
      it's la lexicon of le champion!

    • @chefqxe
      @chefqxe 4 роки тому +13

      Jericho champagne is amazingly good too.

  • @QJ89
    @QJ89 4 роки тому +14

    The water stopped running? OK.
    The 3 things I remember the most about Y2K:
    - Sleeping through it
    - That Treehouse of Horror segment where everything feared came true
    - The mint-filled chocolates.
    As for that opening sketch, I'm on the fence as to whether that was real or made up for this.

  • @dingdongbells3314
    @dingdongbells3314 4 роки тому +16

    Please, I NEED a clip of that guy screaming "IT'S ALL GOING TO SHIT" and then slamming all his stuff on the floor and the words *NO HOPE* appearing on the screen.

  • @martinwells5747
    @martinwells5747 4 роки тому +72

    I was 28 in 2000 and Y2K was all over the news for years leading up to it. I remember it well.

    • @tylersmith9868
      @tylersmith9868 4 роки тому +10

      Well I should hope so, you were 28.

    • @KHKsuger
      @KHKsuger 4 роки тому +1

      Tyler and you were 39 back then makes you old af

    • @tylersmith9868
      @tylersmith9868 4 роки тому

      @@KHKsuger I was 10 in 2000.

    • @SonOfTheDawn515
      @SonOfTheDawn515 4 роки тому +3

      I was 13 ya old geezer. I remember one neighbor was legitimately concerned over it. Almost tinfoil hat wearing concerned.

    • @mustang10141980
      @mustang10141980 4 роки тому

      I was 19. Remember it well too

  • @System_smasher
    @System_smasher 4 роки тому +22

    I found a bag of chips that had an expiration date of 1900 on them. Wish I would've saved them.

    • @subliminal128
      @subliminal128 4 роки тому +4

      Roger Miller think that was a misprint lol

  • @Feralsquirrel
    @Feralsquirrel 4 роки тому +26

    The date on my mom's camera rolled back to 1994, which I guess was the year it was made.

    • @mipmipmipmipmip
      @mipmipmipmipmip 4 роки тому +11

      lol a camera where the developers assumed a max 6 year lifespan, damn planned obsolescence

  • @timothyhunt8760
    @timothyhunt8760 4 роки тому +53

    I was tripping on acid on new year's Eve right before the ball dropped.

    • @loganazyma58
      @loganazyma58 4 роки тому +6

      @Jason Rasmussen that's underrated af omg

    • @MansonX
      @MansonX 4 роки тому +3

      I bet your parents were proud of you congrats

    • @TerrenceCallahan
      @TerrenceCallahan 4 роки тому

      @@loganazyma58 agreed lol
      Best of luck w that 2nd ball homie

    • @rifter0x0000
      @rifter0x0000 4 роки тому +1

      I spent most of the second half of 1999 without a day off, including holidays. So when that New Years Eve rolled around and the company wanted people for it, I ended up taking time off to spend with my girlfriend. I was pretty confident the efforts everyone had put forward to prepare for Y2k would be sufficient, and they were.

  • @marcespinoza6068
    @marcespinoza6068 4 роки тому +26

    14:33 I love the look on Justin's face, he's like dude you have no clue what you're talking about.

    • @nothing-2-live-4
      @nothing-2-live-4 4 роки тому +1

      marc reynolds godddd his face 😂

    • @gooberthoreau
      @gooberthoreau 4 роки тому +6

      I thought the same thing. I was like "Dude, in the Midwest this is like a normal part of farming..." then he went on to imply you aren't allowed to grow your own food or something and I couldn't take it. I'm sure he read one article somewhere, or stumbled upon a certain state or city that has hard rules and took that as broad application. I think Colorado has rules for rainwater, but they were like made in the 1800s, so not an industrial conspiracy. The lizard men didn't even arrive in the central US till 1926.

    • @A_Black_Sheep94
      @A_Black_Sheep94 4 роки тому +2

      @@gooberthoreau Some places legitimately don't allow you to have gardens or grow your own food, because of globalism, but those are all eastern and western cities not the midwest.

    • @nothing-2-live-4
      @nothing-2-live-4 4 роки тому +3

      every group of friends has that one conspiracy theory guy who reminds people of things like the rainwater collection and the outlawing of raw milk and stuff.
      I think the closest thing i’ve ever heard to what he’s saying about small at-home gardens is that neighborhood associations very often will not allow you to have gardens and will restrict people to only having grass.

    • @redseagaming7832
      @redseagaming7832 4 роки тому +3

      @@A_Black_Sheep94 my parents have a garden in the back and we have still not been told to stop

  • @MrJackal95
    @MrJackal95 4 роки тому +43

    I can't possibly be the only one thinking that Nimoy in this VHS looks exactly like Jeff Goldblum from The Lost World.

  • @johnralph3704
    @johnralph3704 3 роки тому +20

    People in 2020: making fun of people on how they reacted to Y2K.
    Also people in 2020: panic buying toilet paper because of covid.

  • @LadyCoyKoi
    @LadyCoyKoi 4 роки тому +19

    I was told by friends back in 1999 that in 2000 all gaming cartridges such as NES and SNES would be obsolete and unusable due to something with their outdated chips or internal clocks... LOL. Boy, did I got a lot of SNES and NES games on special back then. Bought a huge box of 100 games for NES for $20. Now that same box would worth over $500 or more on eBay.

  • @RichardMajor86
    @RichardMajor86 4 роки тому +7

    The Y2K problem was really serious. The only reason everything didn’t break was that the computer industry spent years fixing it

  • @Mr.Morden
    @Mr.Morden 4 роки тому +67

    This reminds me of some Jehova's witnesses who were trying to tell me that Y2K could be the apocalypse, they were legit worried. I told them I know how to program computers and there's nothing to worry about. They wouldn't listen though, they were convinced that they should be worried.

    • @Phyrrax
      @Phyrrax 4 роки тому +33

      You tried to reason with Jehovas witnesses? You really shouldve known better.
      I mean they are Jehovas witnesses, even die hard christians think they are dumb and crazy.

    • @kevinthepilgrim
      @kevinthepilgrim 4 роки тому +1

      They were wrong...AGAIN!

    • @danielgyllenbreider
      @danielgyllenbreider 4 роки тому +8

      As long as someone profits from scaring people we will see constant new "alarm reports". Today we have the climate alarmism, which brings billions of dollars into the pockets of corporations and the national budget so that they can lower taxes for the filthy rich even more. The ability to incite mass psychosis is a tragic side of humanity which never seems to go away.

    • @Khronogi
      @Khronogi 4 роки тому +7

      @@danielgyllenbreider except climate change is real, and we can see the real effects of it. And we can see the real causes of it. You would be the jehovah's witness in this case. The person who doesnt listen to science.

    • @woaddragon
      @woaddragon 4 роки тому

      @@danielgyllenbreider you do realize that climate change legstration raise taxes for regulations and violention, right?

  • @jumpman8282
    @jumpman8282 4 роки тому +79

    In 1995, people were afraid of the Internet.
    In 2020, people will still be afraid of the Internet, but for a good reason!

    • @DeeperWithDiego
      @DeeperWithDiego 4 роки тому +3

      Name the reason.

    • @moderizhaan9497
      @moderizhaan9497 4 роки тому +1

      people are not afraid of the internet if they were there wouldn't be millions using it now.

    • @QJ89
      @QJ89 4 роки тому +3

      Especially those who play 'WWE 2K20'!

    • @kenm2709
      @kenm2709 4 роки тому +6

      ironically there is a 2020 virus, but no where in the same realm as the 2000 virus

  • @ebwarg
    @ebwarg 4 роки тому +25

    “I need eight packages of morphine!”
    “No, Mr Lugosi!”

  • @deathsyth8888
    @deathsyth8888 4 роки тому +58

    "Two thousand (two) zero party over, oops, out of time. So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999."
    - Prince

    • @TheStats85
      @TheStats85 4 роки тому +2

      deathsyth8888 good one 👍

    • @Gezere9
      @Gezere9 4 роки тому +3

      Prince was trying to warn us!!!!!!

    • @attackroflchopter4403
      @attackroflchopter4403 4 роки тому +3

      That song scared the shit out of me as a kid

    • @abethepunk
      @abethepunk 4 роки тому +3

      Was it y2k when MTV played that video all night?

    • @fuzer909
      @fuzer909 4 роки тому +3

      Prince was such a genius, sorely missing him now.

  • @GatchamanG4
    @GatchamanG4 4 роки тому +92

    Everyone needs to watch the movie Office Space again.

    • @MLBlue30
      @MLBlue30 4 роки тому +9

      I've cosplayed as Milton, had a stapler and everything lol.

    • @mustang10141980
      @mustang10141980 4 роки тому +5

      Just watched it the other day. Epic movie.

    • @doomswell
      @doomswell 4 роки тому +2

      Nah. It was okay but comedy central killed it for me by airing it three times a week like 2007ish.

    • @Lo-KeyMuzik
      @Lo-KeyMuzik 4 роки тому +4

      If everybody could just go and do that, that'd be great

    • @Amalekites
      @Amalekites 4 роки тому +3

      It's soooo good!

  • @Cyberus85
    @Cyberus85 4 роки тому +17

    Guys Y2K was such a big deal back then it is even mentioned in "Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty" and is part of the lore. I wish you´ve added it...

    • @Rad-Dude63andathird
      @Rad-Dude63andathird 4 роки тому

      I totally forgot that Y2K was used as an excuse for the Patriot AI to get widespread installation.

  • @TheComicRelief9001
    @TheComicRelief9001 4 роки тому +18

    That guy who hoarded tacos must have watched Demolition Man, he knew that Taco Bell was the food of the future

    • @KEVMAN7987
      @KEVMAN7987 4 роки тому +5

      Unless you're in Europe where it's Pizza Hut.

    • @newartmov
      @newartmov 4 роки тому +1

      Huge fucking cans of taco meat and blueberry pancakes... I'd be shitting ten times a day!! Yikes....

  • @TheBattlesword
    @TheBattlesword 4 роки тому +48

    The fact that I was too young to know about the Y2K scare when it never hit warms my heart

    • @isaiah2261
      @isaiah2261 4 роки тому +1

      It was like 2012 from what I remember.

    • @thema1998
      @thema1998 4 роки тому +1

      I was still 1 year old when nothing happened on January 1, 2000.

    • @ThePhantomSafetyPin
      @ThePhantomSafetyPin 4 роки тому +5

      I was just barely in fifth grade, and I remember a lot of it actually. It was some big deal. I thought it was cool and we'd all have to camp or something until it got fixed, and all this weird Skynet shit would happen. I also thought it might be an actual virus or something. Imagine my disappointment when the Terminator did not, in fact, come looking for Sarah Connor.

    • @redseagaming7832
      @redseagaming7832 4 роки тому

      7 years old in 1999 and had no idea about this Y2K nonsense

    • @kristopherguilbault5428
      @kristopherguilbault5428 2 роки тому

      I was the class of 2000. They were actually looking into graduating us before 1-1-2000.. like seriously lol

  • @captaincat4361
    @captaincat4361 4 роки тому +50

    I remember dude got a helleva phone bill cuz of a phone call he was one when it rolled over. Mostly effected some finance stuff but it was really overblown. I mean you get a 20k bill for one phone call can be pain but it was fixed lol

    • @fellowearthling1632
      @fellowearthling1632 4 роки тому +5

      I would like to pretend that their bill was in the negatives, but I remember it actually being tripled or something.

    • @snooks5607
      @snooks5607 4 роки тому +3

      it would've been everyone hitting things like that bill if they hadn't poured billions of dollars into fixing the systems. individually most issues would've been mere annoyances but if rather than coordinated effort they'd fixed the stuff one after the other we might still be at it.. similar to how they're still finding mines from WW2 in populated areas.

  • @flipout9431
    @flipout9431 4 роки тому +13

    Whenever i think the end of the world is coming, i think "damn, i wish leonard nemoy would host a special helping me handle this."

  • @bsmith8166
    @bsmith8166 2 роки тому +4

    it's too bad no one made videos like this about Corona virus

  • @Tigerhawk1981
    @Tigerhawk1981 4 роки тому +28

    remember Y2K The Movie, i think it aired on NBC, about computers at a Nuclear Power Plant going down & causing a Meltdown

    • @nomadcowatbk
      @nomadcowatbk 4 роки тому +2

      they never even reran it

    • @RedBladeVideos
      @RedBladeVideos 4 роки тому +2

      I remember that movie! Was surprised it wasn't mentioned in this video.

    • @Tigerhawk1981
      @Tigerhawk1981 4 роки тому +1

      @@nomadcowatbk I know, it was a good movie too, unlike the ones mentioned in this video lol

  • @MrsKwan-fz6mf
    @MrsKwan-fz6mf 4 роки тому +34

    I was watching the King of The Hill Y2k episode when this came out.

  • @leon_De_Grelle
    @leon_De_Grelle 4 роки тому +8

    The Y2K+38 bug is unixtime epoch time roll over. a common way of keeping time on unix machines was/is storing the number of seconds since jan 1 1970 at midnight which would be 0. an signed 32 bit integer stores this value so it can keep 2^31-1 seconds - it's 31 not 32 because it's a signed value - and after that it rolls back to 1970. imagine the horror of the computers thinking disco sounds good and bell bottoms are fashionable.

    • @GlueC
      @GlueC 3 роки тому +1

      But as a signed number, it would overflow to negative 2^31, so the computer would think we're almost into 1902.
      Most modern platforms have addressed it already, though. Only ancient OSes/software like government systems likely still use unsigned 32 though.... uh-oh.

  • @1mbr0k3ntoys8
    @1mbr0k3ntoys8 4 роки тому +18

    "Whose going to clean up all these planes?" - Marge Simpson

  • @MrCactuar13
    @MrCactuar13 4 роки тому +24

    Guilty Gear's plot is that Y2K actually happens and it's the most beautiful mess in storytelling ever

    • @vguyver2
      @vguyver2 4 роки тому +1

      Oh God, your right. I've completely forgotten that plot point in the game.

    • @MrCactuar13
      @MrCactuar13 4 роки тому +4

      @Pavel Tikhonov Which is literally the same as technology EXCEPT IT'S MAGIC

    • @kaitlynhayes7877
      @kaitlynhayes7877 4 роки тому +3

      Alternate history youtubers are now writing their transcripts of "what if y2k actually happened"

  • @VSDeluxe
    @VSDeluxe 4 роки тому +43

    2038: all Sega 32Xs break down

  • @rig-zag
    @rig-zag 11 місяців тому +2

    My father was actually a "Y2k Conversion Specialist". Before that, he was primarily a computer programmer and had been since the early 80s, but the Y2k Scare necessitated the training of Y2k-Compliant programming, which he did for several months. However once the millennium came and went without incident, he was cut loose by the company who hired him.

  • @zotaninoron3548
    @zotaninoron3548 4 роки тому +7

    The Y2k specialists were generally people close to retirement or brought back out of retirement to work on ancient code bases that used languages like Fortran that people coming out of school wouldn't have learned.

    • @OnlyJustCrazy
      @OnlyJustCrazy 3 роки тому +1

      I think COBOL code was a big issue toward the Y2k issue as well.

  • @darkside7802
    @darkside7802 4 роки тому +15

    Late 90’s, early 2000’s were so good.

    • @SonOfTheDawn515
      @SonOfTheDawn515 4 роки тому +1

      Music, tv, video games... They were awesome.

    • @SonOfTheDawn515
      @SonOfTheDawn515 4 роки тому

      @Maniac Marcus I don't recall playing many LJN games.

  • @tech396
    @tech396 4 роки тому +82

    I was playing soul caliber on dreamcast while my cousins hugged in fear lol

    • @Sh4un1r1k
      @Sh4un1r1k 4 роки тому +6

      We had friends and family over and I was upstairs on the Dreamcast playing Sonic Adventure. No one was concerned at all.

    • @mrcritical6751
      @mrcritical6751 4 роки тому +3

      No offence but your cousins are dumb

    • @rabite831
      @rabite831 4 роки тому +2

      Funny considering Dreamcast can’t keep the date at all

    • @A_Black_Sheep94
      @A_Black_Sheep94 4 роки тому +2

      @@rabite831 Yes it does. Clearly you've never played seamen, which also includes Leonard Nimoy.

    • @GamerBoy870
      @GamerBoy870 4 роки тому

      Are your cousins that stupid

  • @SkyCharger001
    @SkyCharger001 4 роки тому +4

    Banks already felt the Y2K bug in the mid to late 70s due to programs meant to work out estimations for the pay-off of 25+ year investments/loans and thus had plenty of time to fix the issue(s).

  • @geovaughan8261
    @geovaughan8261 4 роки тому +9

    Y2K-99: "DIGITS ROLLING OVER, APOCALYPSE IMMINENT!"
    COVID-19: "Hold my Corona..."

  • @lambda494
    @lambda494 4 роки тому +77

    Y2K edges out 2012 as my favorite end of the world prophecy.

    • @kyleshiflet9952
      @kyleshiflet9952 4 роки тому +1

      Same here

    • @aaronjaggan
      @aaronjaggan 4 роки тому +1

      Tru

    • @badaboum2
      @badaboum2 4 роки тому +5

      My favorite end of the world prophecy is when Spanish fashion Designer Paco Rabanne predicted the Mir space station would crash on Paris in august 1999 because of a solar eclipse.

    • @omikronweapon
      @omikronweapon 4 роки тому +2

      tbf though, Y2K had an actual testable cause and realistic probability of happening. It wasn't people digging up an old calendar and going "this only runs to 20XX, so that obviously means the world is going to end in some mystical way I can't even imagine"
      You can't compare critical technology failing to believing in random superstition.

    • @MistaMaddog247
      @MistaMaddog247 4 роки тому +1

      I expect James to review 2012, yet another crap disaster movie my mom made me sit through and watch on rental night.

  • @sebastiangreenan1774
    @sebastiangreenan1774 4 роки тому +24

    When it comes to Y2K all I think about is The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror segment. "Implied Lisa, or implode?"

  • @TBustah
    @TBustah 4 роки тому +51

    A game was the only thing of mine that was affected too, “Math Blaster”.

    • @degg6423
      @degg6423 4 роки тому +5

      What happened to affect it?

    • @theangryaustralian7624
      @theangryaustralian7624 4 роки тому +5

      @herpos derpos I have to agree...I to hope this fella found some peace

    • @stuartmorris2803
      @stuartmorris2803 4 роки тому +1

      Maths

    • @constructionbootgazer
      @constructionbootgazer 4 роки тому +8

      In search of Spot? Great game.

    • @TBustah
      @TBustah 4 роки тому +3

      herpos derpos I know that was a joke, but the only thing affected was the date. It was actually the same deal as what they were talking about here: there was a certificate you could print out after you beat the game with the date of completion. I didn’t lose any data, and the game still worked fine.

  • @Vinchucca1984
    @Vinchucca1984 4 роки тому +6

    Weird watching this during the whole corona quarantine panic

  • @Bazooka_Sharks
    @Bazooka_Sharks 4 роки тому +71

    I was playing carnivores on computer when the new millennium started

    • @crunkdaddy11
      @crunkdaddy11 4 роки тому +2

      Joseph Meador classic

    • @SonOfTheDawn515
      @SonOfTheDawn515 4 роки тому +2

      I can't remember that long ago. I was probably playing video games like Half-Life, CS, DoD or something on N64.

    • @Bazooka_Sharks
      @Bazooka_Sharks 4 роки тому +1

      @@SonOfTheDawn515 i still hop on CS:go from time to time!

    • @Gaia_Gaistar
      @Gaia_Gaistar 4 роки тому +1

      We were playing Red Alert 2 on PS1. My grandma cut the power as a joke and my aunt freaked out.

    • @bbb462cid
      @bbb462cid 4 роки тому

      Actually, you weren't Joe. Sorry to tell you but almost everyone thinks 2000 was the start of the 21st century. It wasn't. 2001 was. We start counting to ten at one, not zero. When the number ending in zero ends, that's the new decade/century/millennium. So the last day of the 20th century was 31 JAN 2000. Don't take my word for it, google that shit.

  • @chasethecolors
    @chasethecolors 4 роки тому +12

    I love how pissed off Justin was getting here 😂

  • @drosprey
    @drosprey 4 роки тому +4

    I loved when James paused to calculate the 9000BC Bug of Atlantis

  • @TomTravelMusicFood
    @TomTravelMusicFood 4 роки тому +50

    Me and my My Father actually prepared for Y2K we had a food bunker and a spot of land to bug out to. We didnt have to do any major shopping for most of the year 2000 lol.

  • @9023gregb
    @9023gregb 4 роки тому +32

    What an exciting time. I remember being with 4 friends on a group call and we were all blasting Korn's Freak On A Leash simultaneously as the new millennium arrived. Hoping something crazy would happen. LOL

  • @Magnet_MD
    @Magnet_MD 4 роки тому +4

    The rainwater laws are mostly for public health. Lots of bugs and disease and stuff can spawn in stagnant water, and you don't want to encourage people drinking water that might not have been cleaned/purified correctly.

  • @SonyUSA
    @SonyUSA 4 роки тому +3

    You can still collect rainwater just not large quantities lol. They aren't trying to make you dependent, they are stopping other people from hoarding more than their share of the water from your climate. That water is YOUR water too. Private collectors can also lower the water table in places of already low moisture conditions and can contribute to dry brush fires and dyeing vegetation.

  • @m42069583
    @m42069583 4 роки тому +159

    There’s a lot of stupid people out there. Smarter people take their money

    • @YoshMaster
      @YoshMaster 4 роки тому +3

      Titanium PVP best summary of Y2K in a nutshell

    • @TheUballe
      @TheUballe 4 роки тому +2

      Yep... that's an observation applicable to many situations.

    • @9023gregb
      @9023gregb 4 роки тому +4

      A fool and his money....

    • @CapcomGod
      @CapcomGod 4 роки тому +12

      "Planet X will crash into the earth and kill us all!" - og con artists
      "Computers will kill us all in 2000!" - retro con artists
      "Global warming will kill us all in 12 years!" - current con artists
      Some things never change

    • @williamlowery6487
      @williamlowery6487 4 роки тому +8

      A person is smart. People are panicky, dumb, dangerous, and you know it!

  • @tttc
    @tttc 4 роки тому +75

    I love how pissed off Justin is at these tapes

  • @sebastianwcalland3693
    @sebastianwcalland3693 4 роки тому +4

    when this was uploaded, we had no idea what was round the corner

  • @GamingForTheRecentlyDeceased
    @GamingForTheRecentlyDeceased 4 роки тому +6

    I was 14 during Y2K and I remember sitting up at night and being pretty disappointed the world didn't end.

  • @johnny98961
    @johnny98961 3 роки тому +4

    When the ball dropped in 2000 I was playing Tony Hawk Pro skater one lol

  • @walrusArmageddon
    @walrusArmageddon 4 роки тому +6

    The guy in the bunker was kinda right about 2020 after all...

  • @Bluebelle51
    @Bluebelle51 4 роки тому +26

    I remember Leonard Nimoy hosting "The search for Bigfoot" in the 70's

  • @clemire83
    @clemire83 4 роки тому +3

    My father worked at the CIBC headquarters in Montreal in the 70's and they knew and were already prepared for Y2K then.

  • @koushiroizumi0
    @koushiroizumi0 4 роки тому +21

    James, i have 3 words for you: Review RAID 2020!

    • @redseagaming7832
      @redseagaming7832 4 роки тому +2

      What this guy said do it AVGN I know what you're referring raid 20/20 maybe I'll review that in the year 2020 that's actual AVGN quote he better live up to it

    • @Clay3613
      @Clay3613 4 роки тому

      He is, did you see his Twitter?

    • @troyhubbler9874
      @troyhubbler9874 4 роки тому +1

      It's out now

    • @KevyB.
      @KevyB. 4 роки тому

      What the hell is RAID 2020?!!!

  • @WeldonSirloin
    @WeldonSirloin 4 роки тому +34

    0:23
    I can totally relate to this dude even in 2019.

    • @Revick_Revas
      @Revick_Revas 4 роки тому +1

      Many of our lives in a nutshell.

  • @KieronGC
    @KieronGC 4 роки тому +6

    James's Story about when New Years 2000 happened was hilarious.

  • @ErnoSallinen
    @ErnoSallinen 4 роки тому +5

    Y2K was actually a real problem, they just fixed it before it could happen. There were a shit ton of programmers working on that stuff, converting old code to work with more that two year digits. It was never as big of a problem as these tapes made it out to be, but a real problem nonetheless.

  • @jamespriest7328
    @jamespriest7328 4 роки тому +12

    That dude who faced off with the feds had nothing to do with rain water. It had to do with the feds stopping the use of federal lands for grazing, also he refused to pay taxes on the use of that land but his family had been using it for over a 100 years.

    • @angryw4nderer
      @angryw4nderer 4 роки тому

      Fed's can not own land unless listed in the constitution for the United States. Those Nazi Jack boot thugs will pay for what they do, they are domestic terrorist.

    • @jamespriest7328
      @jamespriest7328 4 роки тому +1

      @@angryw4nderer who nazis? And ur right 80% of the land need to be given back to their states

    • @angryw4nderer
      @angryw4nderer 4 роки тому

      @@jamespriest7328
      BLM and any other alphabet agency who are destroying the supreme law of the land are NAZI

    • @jamespriest7328
      @jamespriest7328 4 роки тому

      @@angryw4nderer so the government?

    • @angryw4nderer
      @angryw4nderer 4 роки тому

      @@jamespriest7328
      No the government is Bill of Rights and the constitution for the United States. But the people that make oaths to them and than break that oath are traitors and is TREASON and should be dealt with accordingly.

  • @ShaunDreclin
    @ShaunDreclin 4 роки тому +31

    The most frustrating part of working in IT...
    Everything is working fine: What do we pay you guys for?
    Shit's broken: What do we pay you guys for?
    Y2K wasn't a disaster because a lot of people put a lot of hours into fixing everything **before** it all went wrong.

  • @TheMagicRobot
    @TheMagicRobot 4 роки тому +10

    Best of The Worst isn't the same without Rich Evans' iconic laugh.

  • @procrastigamr
    @procrastigamr 4 роки тому +8

    That phone perspective is giving me reminders of Top Secret.

  • @Mr.Bungle03
    @Mr.Bungle03 4 роки тому +8

    “This lady and her weird sewing circle” LOL

  • @datoorion
    @datoorion 4 роки тому +9

    I remember people completely forgot timezones for a while as well

  • @hamsandwich780
    @hamsandwich780 4 роки тому +2

    James was totally right about the year 2038 bug by the way - James if you ever read this - you can think of a bit as a box that can represent 1 or 0, and each subsequent bit doubles its value - the year 2038 bug is due to the fact that the number of boxes holding the numbers will overflow, and would need a 1 in the next box that doesnt exist, resetting all the values to 0 (causing all sorts of confusion about when it is)

  • @gerasimpetrov5805
    @gerasimpetrov5805 4 роки тому +3

    Tony predicted the Y2K20

  • @MysticMike
    @MysticMike 4 роки тому +3

    Because nothing happen doesn't mean it could never happen. While it was probably over blown on the situation, people worked to make sure nothing would happen.

    • @MrThankman360
      @MrThankman360 4 роки тому +1

      Yea. It’s really easy to mock and judge ppl from the past with knowledge and standards of the present.

  • @michaelgrant6899
    @michaelgrant6899 4 роки тому +40

    Leonard Nimoy wasn't trying to warn us about the Y2K bug, he was trying to warn us about the Keyblade War.

    • @ackbarfan5556
      @ackbarfan5556 4 роки тому +1

      If we’re going Japan nerd references, let’s not forget Digimon Adventure: Our War Game.

  • @alexanderdesmouceaux4395
    @alexanderdesmouceaux4395 4 роки тому +4

    Feels weird watching this videos in the middle of the Quarantine...

  • @IDC-nq9iv
    @IDC-nq9iv 4 роки тому +11

    Y2k was 20 years ago... Well then guess I'm old

    • @ricardodelrivero8432
      @ricardodelrivero8432 4 роки тому +1

      What if Y2K already happened but it wasn't a computer problem but a Millenial people problem, a warning for a new type of society?!?

    • @IDC-nq9iv
      @IDC-nq9iv 4 роки тому

      We need to be far more worried then we thought 😱

  • @robk.6591
    @robk.6591 4 роки тому +16

    Y3K Scares to think about:
    1. Will my Xbox Series 1000 play games from my Xbox Series 999?
    2. Will my caretaker regularly change the fluids in my disembodied head container?
    3. Will CGI Keanu Reeves do John Wick 57 or will they hire a living actor?

    • @retro_jojo3159
      @retro_jojo3159 4 роки тому +3

      They just announced the Xbox Series 1000 will be called "The Original Xbox"

  • @djacana
    @djacana 4 роки тому +5

    Please do “Hobo with a Shotgun “ please please ! You will love it !

  • @bakedboy3265
    @bakedboy3265 4 роки тому +3

    we are actually living the apocalypse right now, it was just 20 years late

  • @whaler3232
    @whaler3232 4 роки тому +1

    I was working night security on New Years Eve in 1999. Just after midnight I had to test the light switches, flush the toilets and run the faucets and radio into the office advising if everything was ok. Our whole staff did this...it was fun listening to everyone radio in. 20 years ago, fuk I'm old.

  • @YanDoroshenko
    @YanDoroshenko 4 роки тому +8

    2037 would be a year when Unix time (measured in milliseconds from 1.1.1970) would overflow the 32bit (4 byte as in megabyte) integer (2^31 - 1) and that would be a real problem. Fortunately it's mostly fixed already by switching to a bigger data type.

  • @DawnOfTheOzz
    @DawnOfTheOzz 4 роки тому +4

    Major props for that Inside Out Boy reference. That one took me way back.

  • @alternity28
    @alternity28 4 роки тому +2

    I feel weird watching this during Covid19 2020

  • @Thespanglerangler
    @Thespanglerangler 4 роки тому +1

    I worked at a Kroger at the time, and we had a Y2K survival section set up with bottled water, batteries, canned food, etc. The next week, we had a sale on bottled water, batteries, canned food, etc.