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Episode #122- Should We Trust Nostradamus? (Part I)

Our Fake History

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The Y to K Bug

Y to k bug was a real thing, but it was also a very fixable thing. Many computer systems were adjusted well ahead of the apocalyptic date and very few rienced any glitches at all. Rumors circulated that on midnight on january first, two thousand, our world would simply cease to function. Some predicted massive power outages. Others cho not to fly for fear that airplanes would fall from the sky after onboard computer systems failed. There was even a genuine worry that nuclear war could break out as the result of the glitch.

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