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Worst. Apocalypse. Ever.
I swear. You think the world would have exploded or zombies or SOMETHING with all the hype that went on.
hahahahahah
I blame all the numbskulls who tried to blow this way out of proportion.
Today was more like Mayan Y2K than anything else.
Today was more like Mayan Y2K than anything else.
Not really.
The big deal with Y2K was that people were worried how computers would handle it, since a lot of computers had been designed to handle years as simple two-digit decimal numbers. This was an actual concern that needed to be (and was) addressed. We face a similar situation in 2038, due to the limits of how many seconds a 32 bit variable can track, but that's not likely to be a big problem (though a few systems that deal with dates in the future have had issues already). There was also the usual superstitious BS about the significance of the number 2000, of course.
The whole Mayan thing, on the other hand, is that the Mayans believed the previous world only survived for about 5125 years. Yesterday was the point at which (according to the Mayans) the current world reached that age. So it was sort of a milestone moment. From what I understand, they generally didn't anticipate the current world also ending at that time (though I'm sure they'd have had their own cranks blathering about it, had they survived this long).
There was also a date roll-over type event that happened yesterday, similar to the whole "new millennium" thing (we incremented from 12.19.19.17.19 to 13.0.0.0.0). But, the leftmost digit increments about once every 394 years, so it wasn't a big deal or anything. Until today, I was actually under the impression that that is what all this noise was about, which made it seem incredibly retarded to me, since the world didn't end the other twelve times it incremented (the most recent of which was 1618). I finally looked into it more closely today and realized the bit about the age of the previous world. Derp.
The big deal with Y2K was that people were worried how computers would handle it, since a lot of computers had been designed to handle years as simple two-digit decimal numbers. This was an actual concern that needed to be (and was) addressed. We face a similar situation in 2038, due to the limits of how many seconds a 32 bit variable can track, but that's not likely to be a big problem (though a few systems that deal with dates in the future have had issues already). There was also the usual superstitious BS about the significance of the number 2000, of course.
The whole Mayan thing, on the other hand, is that the Mayans believed the previous world only survived for about 5125 years. Yesterday was the point at which (according to the Mayans) the current world reached that age. So it was sort of a milestone moment. From what I understand, they generally didn't anticipate the current world also ending at that time (though I'm sure they'd have had their own cranks blathering about it, had they survived this long).
There was also a date roll-over type event that happened yesterday, similar to the whole "new millennium" thing (we incremented from 12.19.19.17.19 to 13.0.0.0.0). But, the leftmost digit increments about once every 394 years, so it wasn't a big deal or anything. Until today, I was actually under the impression that that is what all this noise was about, which made it seem incredibly retarded to me, since the world didn't end the other twelve times it incremented (the most recent of which was 1618). I finally looked into it more closely today and realized the bit about the age of the previous world. Derp.
God you're a nerd Rin
Damned straight.