35 Obsolete Technology Things To Prove How Much The World Has Moved On And Changed

Yep, my first was 66Mhz 486DX2, 4Mb Ram, 40 MB HD and 8bit sound card! And it had a turbo button with a 2 digit display 33/66 and a key lock!

Kind of like a Alien spaceshippy asteroids shoot ‚em game. It was in the bundle with pipe dreams and flying toasters.

Erm, okay, I don't understand :D

The famous After Dark suite….

Unix time. At 03:14:08 UTC on Tuesday, 19 January 2038, 32-bit versions of the Unix timestamp will cease to work, as it will overflow the largest value that can be held in a signed 32-bit number (7FFFFFFF or 2147483647).

Thanks for the explanation 🤗

That is tight! I will look into this!

OnAFreakingRollercoaster, Unix time-keeping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

Thanks 🤗

The reason nothing did is because of years of effort beforehand. If things had not been addressed there was a very high degree of probability that banking systems would just have fallen over, not to mention that chaos of billing for utilities. There was still the possibility that someone had missed fixing a bit with unknown consequences.

agreed. it was no hoax or overreaction. A lot of work went on behind the scenes to make sure software and systems were "y2k compliant"

@DCB, I would counter that there was overreaction directed to consumers. There was no reason for new personal computers to come with that sticker. The teams that needed to work on those legacy systems that controlled our infrastructure were already upgrading or fixing the fault by the time the media got wind of it and blew it out of proportion.

There was plenty of reason for it. Remember this was basically early days of the internet (the dial up years), so updating personal PCs with bug fixes was not the easiest or most common thing to do. No one had any idea what the actual effects the bug would have on home PCs, or what state most PCs were in. The near infinite possible combinations of software and hardware in the consumer market made it impossible to predict what Y2K would or could do to consumer devices.

I think the only notable error I remember hearing about was one very elderly lady getting an automated letter telling her she needed to enrol in kindergarten. So they did a good job.

Thanks for that. I know it was a huge deal but my memory is a bit hazy.

cool! Thanks:)

@Senjo Krane Ignorance is bliss!

I believe that I recall reading the a casino in Sweden shut down, or something like that. For myself, there was one device at my job that I had to reset.