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

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  • Опубликовано: 26 дек 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 года назад +227

    Check out "SkyCorp Home Video" who made the intro: ruclips.net/channel/UCIoDNWuAq3wPv11BXbr5xMg
    VIDEO LINKS BELOW:
    Y2K Family Survival Guide with Leonard Nimoy
    Video: ruclips.net/video/ZoiT7PEhJvk/видео.html
    Box art: i.imgur.com/3vBsGjB.jpg
    Y2K Year 2000 Crossroads (Home Preparedness)
    Video: ruclips.net/video/nFS_PRdZVtE/видео.html
    Box art: i.imgur.com/FBtwInK.jpg
    Y2K "Year To Kill" Full Length Movie (with other trailers)
    Video: ruclips.net/video/tIoVcRw9P9o/видео.html
    Box art: i.imgur.com/50ENdaS.jpg
    Special thanks to Maitraya Andrews for sending the movie!!

    • @JackHan_0812
      @JackHan_0812 4 года назад +12

      I love SkyCorp. Many love to them☆

    • @comrade_grigory2133
      @comrade_grigory2133 4 года назад +5

      Raid 2020

    • @merrickv2028
      @merrickv2028 4 года назад +1

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

    • @bryanl1984
      @bryanl1984 4 года назад +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 года назад +1

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

  • @InuYugiHakusho
    @InuYugiHakusho 4 года назад +1064

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

    • @Matsonius
      @Matsonius 4 года назад +56

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

    • @redseagaming7832
      @redseagaming7832 4 года назад +5

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

    • @dreamlandnightmare
      @dreamlandnightmare 4 года назад +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 года назад +3

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

    • @MaxPayne.
      @MaxPayne. 4 года назад +4

      I want another Max Payne game.

  • @stealthlord6614
    @stealthlord6614 4 года назад +409

    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 года назад +17

      Killer instinct was on n64?

    • @stealthlord6614
      @stealthlord6614 4 года назад +11

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

    • @stealthlord6614
      @stealthlord6614 4 года назад +1

      @Can't Think of a Name I agree lol

    • @codyduchnowsky5063
      @codyduchnowsky5063 4 года назад +2

      Can't Think of a Name fuck yea

    • @Saixjacket
      @Saixjacket 4 года назад +6

      Killer instinct Gold

  • @IronHusky81
    @IronHusky81 4 года назад +276

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

  • @blackphoenix77
    @blackphoenix77 4 года назад +187

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

    • @odkres
      @odkres 4 года назад +4

      Oh dear god, it's looking at me.

    • @ZayAlexander420
      @ZayAlexander420 4 года назад +5

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

    • @BenDover-wc8jr
      @BenDover-wc8jr 4 года назад +2

      The BJ alien

    • @trabucodonosor838
      @trabucodonosor838 3 года назад

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

  • @higgledypiggledycubledy8899
    @higgledypiggledycubledy8899 4 года назад +960

    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 года назад +29

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

    • @AirLancer
      @AirLancer 4 года назад +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 года назад +34

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

    • @RichardMajor86
      @RichardMajor86 4 года назад +26

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

    • @noahheninger
      @noahheninger 4 года назад +17

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

  • @Dorelaxen
    @Dorelaxen 4 года назад +250

    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 года назад +6

      Jeez. People were genuinely serious back then

    • @alexiswritingvideos
      @alexiswritingvideos 4 года назад +18

      Well is it???

    • @rikustorm13
      @rikustorm13 4 года назад +3

      Lmfao fr?

    • @kenn_k
      @kenn_k 3 года назад +6

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

    • @JerryListener
      @JerryListener 3 года назад +1

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

  • @covcova
    @covcova 4 года назад +163

    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 года назад +24

      Justin Cordova Doin’ some good hole sittin’.

    • @mrRufffnTumble
      @mrRufffnTumble 4 года назад +5

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

    • @technounionrepresentative4274
      @technounionrepresentative4274 3 года назад +3

      Lol. How would that help anything?

    • @nil0bject
      @nil0bject 3 года назад +12

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

    • @themoralreformchronicles9231
      @themoralreformchronicles9231 2 года назад

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

  • @100domathon
    @100domathon 4 года назад +40

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

  • @sarahmiles
    @sarahmiles 4 года назад +146

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

    • @jakeredd
      @jakeredd 4 года назад +2

      Eaaaaaarrs!!

    • @ArcanePath360
      @ArcanePath360 4 года назад +3

      I remember picking up cigar ash.
      With my anus.

    • @sega32xxx14
      @sega32xxx14 4 года назад +1

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

    • @ArcanePath360
      @ArcanePath360 4 года назад +3

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

    • @System_smasher
      @System_smasher 4 года назад

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

  • @jdb2002
    @jdb2002 4 года назад +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!

  • @Jose-se9pu
    @Jose-se9pu 4 года назад +82

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

  • @samvimes9510
    @samvimes9510 4 года назад +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.

  • @DownFromTheDoorWhereItBegan
    @DownFromTheDoorWhereItBegan 4 года назад +155

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

    • @scottp.548
      @scottp.548 4 года назад +13

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

    • @neilgeckle6061
      @neilgeckle6061 4 года назад +4

      dralezero Honestly a perfect simple joke lol

    • @AleK0451
      @AleK0451 4 года назад +3

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

    • @foxandbarrettshow6916
      @foxandbarrettshow6916 4 года назад +4

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

    • @AleK0451
      @AleK0451 4 года назад +2

      @@foxandbarrettshow6916 infrared is on the light spectrum bruh

  • @pizzatime7433
    @pizzatime7433 4 года назад +252

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

    • @yetigriff
      @yetigriff 4 года назад +5

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

    • @somerandomguy8541
      @somerandomguy8541 4 года назад

      I wish It happened

    • @jaelmiguez6284
      @jaelmiguez6284 4 года назад

      Yea shrek

    • @arashimiyazawa8165
      @arashimiyazawa8165 4 года назад +3

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

    • @MansonX
      @MansonX 4 года назад

      Theshiny K why such edge

  • @QJ89
    @QJ89 4 года назад +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 года назад +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.

  • @galbaum33
    @galbaum33 4 года назад +64

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

    • @HelgaCavoli
      @HelgaCavoli 4 года назад +3

      Probably 3/4. But yes, exactly.

    • @nicksGLI
      @nicksGLI 4 года назад +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?

  • @MikeDest
    @MikeDest 4 года назад +150

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

    • @concertinamadrigals4058
      @concertinamadrigals4058 4 года назад +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 года назад +2

      *the sky is falling, the sky is falling*

    • @concertinamadrigals4058
      @concertinamadrigals4058 4 года назад +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 года назад +12

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

    • @nicholastosoni707
      @nicholastosoni707 4 года назад +5

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

  • @DylanCataldo
    @DylanCataldo 4 года назад +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 года назад +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 года назад +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 года назад +2

      I think the world changed big time after 2012

    • @craigd268
      @craigd268 3 года назад +2

      Lol I watched the war of the worlds on that day

  • @matthewfredericks25
    @matthewfredericks25 Год назад +11

    Computer bugs are the reason the world should never go cashless

  • @martinwells5747
    @martinwells5747 4 года назад +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 года назад +10

      Well I should hope so, you were 28.

    • @KHKsuger
      @KHKsuger 4 года назад +1

      Tyler and you were 39 back then makes you old af

    • @tylersmith9868
      @tylersmith9868 4 года назад

      @@KHKsuger I was 10 in 2000.

    • @SonOfTheDawn515
      @SonOfTheDawn515 4 года назад +3

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

    • @mustang10141980
      @mustang10141980 4 года назад

      I was 19. Remember it well too

  • @marcespinoza6068
    @marcespinoza6068 4 года назад +25

    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 года назад +1

      marc reynolds godddd his face 😂

    • @gooberthoreau
      @gooberthoreau 4 года назад +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 года назад +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 года назад +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 года назад +3

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

  • @lucavalente6620
    @lucavalente6620 4 года назад +151

    Seeing this during Corona crisis is something magical xD

  • @LadyCoyKoi
    @LadyCoyKoi 4 года назад +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.

  • @MrJackal95
    @MrJackal95 4 года назад +43

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

  • @System_smasher
    @System_smasher 4 года назад +21

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

    • @subliminal128
      @subliminal128 4 года назад +4

      Roger Miller think that was a misprint lol

  • @ebwarg
    @ebwarg 4 года назад +24

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

  • @adamsfusion
    @adamsfusion 4 года назад +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 года назад +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 года назад +8

      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 года назад +2

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

  • @sarysa
    @sarysa 4 года назад +316

    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 года назад +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 года назад +23

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

    • @sarysa
      @sarysa 4 года назад +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 года назад +1

      Pentagon propaganda.

    • @promontorium
      @promontorium 4 года назад +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.

  • @irishjoe2941
    @irishjoe2941 4 года назад +517

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

    • @EduCrossHands
      @EduCrossHands 4 года назад +39

      The best thing about the Y2K, Le Champion!

    • @theitfactorjameswheezer2852
      @theitfactorjameswheezer2852 4 года назад +1

      Godisempty _ Lol

    • @syedmasroorhussain
      @syedmasroorhussain 4 года назад +49

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

    • @mcFreaki
      @mcFreaki 4 года назад +28

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

    • @chefqxe
      @chefqxe 4 года назад +13

      Jericho champagne is amazingly good too.

  • @Feralsquirrel
    @Feralsquirrel 4 года назад +25

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

    • @mipmipmipmipmip
      @mipmipmipmipmip 4 года назад +11

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

  • @timothyhunt8760
    @timothyhunt8760 4 года назад +53

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

    • @loganazyma58
      @loganazyma58 4 года назад +6

      @Jason Rasmussen that's underrated af omg

    • @MansonX
      @MansonX 4 года назад +3

      I bet your parents were proud of you congrats

    • @TerrenceCallahan
      @TerrenceCallahan 4 года назад

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

    • @rifter0x0000
      @rifter0x0000 4 года назад +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.

  • @RichardMajor86
    @RichardMajor86 4 года назад +7

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

  • @GatchamanG4
    @GatchamanG4 4 года назад +92

    Everyone needs to watch the movie Office Space again.

    • @MLBlue30
      @MLBlue30 4 года назад +9

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

    • @mustang10141980
      @mustang10141980 4 года назад +5

      Just watched it the other day. Epic movie.

    • @doomswell
      @doomswell 4 года назад +2

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

    • @LoKiMuzik
      @LoKiMuzik 4 года назад +4

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

    • @Amalekites
      @Amalekites 4 года назад +3

      It's soooo good!

  • @jumpman8282
    @jumpman8282 4 года назад +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 года назад +3

      Name the reason.

    • @moderizhaan9497
      @moderizhaan9497 4 года назад +1

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

    • @QJ89
      @QJ89 4 года назад +3

      Especially those who play 'WWE 2K20'!

    • @kenm2709
      @kenm2709 4 года назад +6

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

  • @Cyberus85
    @Cyberus85 4 года назад +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 года назад

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

  • @deathsyth8888
    @deathsyth8888 4 года назад +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 года назад +2

      deathsyth8888 good one 👍

    • @Gezere9
      @Gezere9 4 года назад +3

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

    • @attackroflchopter4403
      @attackroflchopter4403 4 года назад +3

      That song scared the shit out of me as a kid

    • @abethepunk
      @abethepunk 4 года назад +3

      Was it y2k when MTV played that video all night?

    • @fuzer909
      @fuzer909 4 года назад +3

      Prince was such a genius, sorely missing him now.

  • @Mr.Morden
    @Mr.Morden 4 года назад +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 года назад +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 года назад +1

      They were wrong...AGAIN!

    • @danielgyllenbreider
      @danielgyllenbreider 4 года назад +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 года назад +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 года назад

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

  • @flipout9431
    @flipout9431 4 года назад +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."

  • @TheComicRelief9001
    @TheComicRelief9001 4 года назад +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 года назад +5

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

    • @newartmov
      @newartmov 4 года назад +1

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

  • @captaincat4361
    @captaincat4361 4 года назад +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 года назад +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 года назад +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.

  • @TheBattlesword
    @TheBattlesword 4 года назад +48

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

    • @isaiah2261
      @isaiah2261 4 года назад +1

      It was like 2012 from what I remember.

    • @thema1998
      @thema1998 4 года назад +1

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

    • @ThePhantomSafetyPin
      @ThePhantomSafetyPin 4 года назад +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 года назад

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

    • @kristopherguilbault5428
      @kristopherguilbault5428 2 года назад

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

  • @rig-zag
    @rig-zag 11 месяцев назад +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.

  • @johnralph3704
    @johnralph3704 3 года назад +19

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

  • @Tigerhawk1981
    @Tigerhawk1981 4 года назад +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 года назад +2

      they never even reran it

    • @RedBladeVideos
      @RedBladeVideos 4 года назад +2

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

    • @Tigerhawk1981
      @Tigerhawk1981 4 года назад +1

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

  • @MrsKwan-fz6mf
    @MrsKwan-fz6mf 4 года назад +34

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

    • @marcoszavala8898
      @marcoszavala8898 4 года назад +1

      Using toilet paper as logs

    • @archangeljmj6008
      @archangeljmj6008 4 года назад +1

      Kpro? That thing isn't even Y1k compliant

    • @piplup2009
      @piplup2009 4 года назад +2

      @@archangeljmj6008 "my watch has more memory than that piece of crap"

    • @archangeljmj6008
      @archangeljmj6008 4 года назад

      Lol awesome

  • @leon_De_Grelle
    @leon_De_Grelle 4 года назад +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 года назад +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 года назад +18

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

  • @sebastiangreenan1774
    @sebastiangreenan1774 4 года назад +24

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

  • @9023gregb
    @9023gregb 4 года назад +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

  • @geovaughan8261
    @geovaughan8261 4 года назад +10

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

  • @bsmith8166
    @bsmith8166 2 года назад +4

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

  • @VSDeluxe
    @VSDeluxe 4 года назад +43

    2038: all Sega 32Xs break down

  • @SkyCharger001
    @SkyCharger001 4 года назад +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).

  • @zotaninoron3548
    @zotaninoron3548 4 года назад +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 года назад +1

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

  • @darkside7802
    @darkside7802 4 года назад +15

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

    • @SonOfTheDawn515
      @SonOfTheDawn515 4 года назад +1

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

    • @SonOfTheDawn515
      @SonOfTheDawn515 4 года назад

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

  • @MrCactuar13
    @MrCactuar13 4 года назад +24

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

    • @vguyver2
      @vguyver2 4 года назад +1

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

    • @MrCactuar13
      @MrCactuar13 4 года назад +4

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

    • @kaitlynhayes7877
      @kaitlynhayes7877 4 года назад +3

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

  • @TBustah
    @TBustah 4 года назад +51

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

    • @degg6423
      @degg6423 4 года назад +5

      What happened to affect it?

    • @theangryaustralian7624
      @theangryaustralian7624 4 года назад +5

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

    • @stuartmorris2803
      @stuartmorris2803 4 года назад +1

      Maths

    • @constructionbootgazer
      @constructionbootgazer 4 года назад +8

      In search of Spot? Great game.

    • @TBustah
      @TBustah 4 года назад +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.

  • @chasethecolors
    @chasethecolors 4 года назад +12

    I love how pissed off Justin was getting here 😂

  • @tech396
    @tech396 4 года назад +82

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

    • @Sh4un1r1k
      @Sh4un1r1k 4 года назад +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 года назад +3

      No offence but your cousins are dumb

    • @rabite831
      @rabite831 4 года назад +2

      Funny considering Dreamcast can’t keep the date at all

    • @A_Black_Sheep94
      @A_Black_Sheep94 4 года назад +2

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

    • @GamerBoy870
      @GamerBoy870 4 года назад

      Are your cousins that stupid

  • @lambda494
    @lambda494 4 года назад +77

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

    • @kyleshiflet9952
      @kyleshiflet9952 4 года назад +1

      Same here

    • @aaronjaggan
      @aaronjaggan 4 года назад +1

      Tru

    • @badaboum2
      @badaboum2 4 года назад +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 года назад +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 года назад +1

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

  • @Mr.Bungle03
    @Mr.Bungle03 4 года назад +8

    “This lady and her weird sewing circle” LOL

  • @clemire83
    @clemire83 4 года назад +3

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

  • @Bazooka_Sharks
    @Bazooka_Sharks 4 года назад +71

    I was playing carnivores on computer when the new millennium started

    • @crunkdaddy11
      @crunkdaddy11 4 года назад +2

      Joseph Meador classic

    • @SonOfTheDawn515
      @SonOfTheDawn515 4 года назад +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 года назад +1

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

    • @Gaia_Gaistar
      @Gaia_Gaistar 4 года назад +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 года назад

      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.

  • @TomTravelMusicFood
    @TomTravelMusicFood 4 года назад +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.

  • @KieronGC
    @KieronGC 4 года назад +6

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

  • @Bluebelle51
    @Bluebelle51 4 года назад +26

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

    • @mrmanjumac3454
      @mrmanjumac3454 4 года назад

      His video abt how the earth will freeze over and we're facing a global cooling crisis is still on youtube too

    • @dmoneystop-motionstudios6284
      @dmoneystop-motionstudios6284 3 года назад +2

      Also he was fish man

  • @GamingForTheRecentlyDeceased
    @GamingForTheRecentlyDeceased 4 года назад +6

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

  • @Magnet_MD
    @Magnet_MD 4 года назад +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.

  • @drosprey
    @drosprey 4 года назад +4

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

  • @SonyUSA
    @SonyUSA 4 года назад +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.

  • @koushiroizumi0
    @koushiroizumi0 4 года назад +21

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

    • @redseagaming7832
      @redseagaming7832 4 года назад +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 года назад

      He is, did you see his Twitter?

    • @troyhubbler9874
      @troyhubbler9874 4 года назад +1

      It's out now

    • @KevyB.
      @KevyB. 4 года назад

      What the hell is RAID 2020?!!!

  • @TheMagicRobot
    @TheMagicRobot 4 года назад +10

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

  • @ErnoSallinen
    @ErnoSallinen 4 года назад +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.

  • @procrastigamr
    @procrastigamr 4 года назад +8

    That phone perspective is giving me reminders of Top Secret.

  • @sebastianwcalland3693
    @sebastianwcalland3693 4 года назад +4

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

  • @WeldonSirloin
    @WeldonSirloin 4 года назад +34

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

    • @Revick_Revas
      @Revick_Revas 4 года назад +1

      Many of our lives in a nutshell.

  • @alexanderdesmouceaux4395
    @alexanderdesmouceaux4395 4 года назад +4

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

  • @walrusArmageddon
    @walrusArmageddon 4 года назад +6

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

  • @m42069583
    @m42069583 4 года назад +159

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

    • @YoshMaster
      @YoshMaster 4 года назад +3

      Titanium PVP best summary of Y2K in a nutshell

    • @TheUballe
      @TheUballe 4 года назад +2

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

    • @9023gregb
      @9023gregb 4 года назад +4

      A fool and his money....

    • @CapcomGod
      @CapcomGod 4 года назад +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 года назад +8

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

  • @datoorion
    @datoorion 4 года назад +9

    I remember people completely forgot timezones for a while as well

  • @hamsandwich780
    @hamsandwich780 4 года назад +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)

  • @johnny98961
    @johnny98961 3 года назад +4

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

  • @Vinchucca1984
    @Vinchucca1984 4 года назад +6

    Weird watching this during the whole corona quarantine panic

  • @djacana
    @djacana 4 года назад +5

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

  • @DawnOfTheOzz
    @DawnOfTheOzz 4 года назад +4

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

  • @IDC-nq9iv
    @IDC-nq9iv 4 года назад +11

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

    • @ricardodelrivero8432
      @ricardodelrivero8432 4 года назад +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 года назад

      We need to be far more worried then we thought 😱

  • @poiluparadis
    @poiluparadis 4 года назад +49

    Kieran going rogue about rainwater was so hilarious.

    • @alexiswritingvideos
      @alexiswritingvideos 4 года назад +4

      Poilu Paradis This conspiracy goes straight to the top.

    • @MK-11111
      @MK-11111 4 года назад +4

      @@alexiswritingvideos Straight to the top of toinfoil hats.

  • @tttc
    @tttc 4 года назад +75

    I love how pissed off Justin is at these tapes

  • @Thespanglerangler
    @Thespanglerangler 4 года назад +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.

  • @whaler3232
    @whaler3232 4 года назад +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.

  • @MysticMike
    @MysticMike 4 года назад +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 года назад +1

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

  • @ShaunDreclin
    @ShaunDreclin 4 года назад +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.

  • @theangryaustralian7624
    @theangryaustralian7624 4 года назад +5

    I remember my lovely Nanna god bless her soul...freaking out at me when I changed the clock on the computer to 2099 when I was a kid in 1999...dam I miss her

  • @themoviedealers
    @themoviedealers 4 года назад +2

    Good to see Kieran's "The MAN won't let you collect rainwater" conspiracy theory batshittery debunked in real time.

  • @robk.6591
    @robk.6591 4 года назад +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 года назад +3

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

  • @johnry6086
    @johnry6086 4 года назад +34

    The Irish guy on the left is woke a.f.

    • @shuruff904
      @shuruff904 4 года назад

      That's Mac.....
      He's got an Irish name I guess lol

    • @isrulius
      @isrulius 4 года назад

      What makes you think he’s Irish?

    • @commonsensei8719
      @commonsensei8719 4 года назад +2

      Yep and see how sleeping Justin gives him a dirty look everytime he says some woke stuff

  • @seijuruhiko
    @seijuruhiko 4 года назад +2

    I remember being so fucking afraid when the year 2000 hit, I think I was fourteen at the time. I watched Y2K documentaries and the news would cover it, but then it came and went with zero issues. It did teach me not to buy into mass hysteria from the stupid news cycle at the very least.

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    @alternity28 4 года назад +2

    I feel weird watching this during Covid19 2020