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Time Bomb Y2K

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�� (INTRIGUING SYNTH
MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ The kind of computer power
you can now get on a laptop used to require a system that
was so large it literally had to be housed in
its own building

Full Transcript

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The kind of computer power you can now get on a laptop
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used to require a system that was so large it literally
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had to be housed in its own building.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
41
Timestamp in Movie
00:21:42
Uploaded
Apr 21, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
HBO Documentary Films,Spinning Nancy

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Movie Summary

An immersive, all-archival retelling of the "Y2K" millennium bug and the mass hysteria that changed the fabric of modern society.
So, the sheer expense of computing - Time Bomb Y2K 00:07
So, the sheer expense of computing
That's when major businesses and government institutions - Time Bomb Y2K 00:06
That's when major businesses and government institution...
And one of the most fateful cost-cutting measures - Time Bomb Y2K 00:09
And one of the most fateful cost-cutting measures
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♪ (INTRIGUING SYNTH MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
(BEEPING, ECHOING BUZZING) - Time Bomb Y2K 00:10
(BEEPING, ECHOING BUZZING)
BOB CRINGELY: If we dig still deeper, - Time Bomb Y2K 00:11
BOB CRINGELY: If we dig still deeper,
GRACE HOPPER: I was very fortunate - Time Bomb Y2K 00:07
GRACE HOPPER: I was very fortunate
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING) - Time Bomb Y2K 00:14
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING)
It was a hot summer in Cambridge and Mark Two stopped. - Time Bomb Y2K 00:06
It was a hot summer in Cambridge and Mark Two stopped.
And inside the relay, - Time Bomb Y2K 00:07
And inside the relay,
So the operator got a pair of tweezers - Time Bomb Y2K 00:06
So the operator got a pair of tweezers
Put it in the logbook, - Time Bomb Y2K 00:05
Put it in the logbook,
And below it he wrote, "First actual bug found." - Time Bomb Y2K 00:09
And below it he wrote, "First actual bug found."
If those computers stopped, this whole country - Time Bomb Y2K 00:06
If those computers stopped, this whole country
There were people who thought gas light was safe, - Time Bomb Y2K 00:07
There were people who thought gas light was safe,
♪ (MYSTERIOUS SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ - Time Bomb Y2K 00:05
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Fulfilling absolute decree in casual simplicity. - Time Bomb Y2K 00:07
Fulfilling absolute decree in casual simplicity.
MAN: All of this is designed to free men and women - Time Bomb Y2K 00:08
MAN: All of this is designed to free men and women
Uh, it's just gonna be very gradual - Time Bomb Y2K 00:07
Uh, it's just gonna be very gradual
NARRATOR 1: In just two decades, the speed of computers - Time Bomb Y2K 00:07
NARRATOR 1: In just two decades, the speed of computers