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Time Bomb Y2K

Programmers have beentelling management right from the start, this will not workin the...

Programmers have been
telling management right from the start, this will not work
in the year 2000

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Programmers have been telling management
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right from the start,
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this will not work in the year 2000.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
00:21:27
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.
And management said that is outside - Time Bomb Y2K 00:12
And management said that is outside
♪ (INTRIGUING SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ - Time Bomb Y2K 00:13
♪ (INTRIGUING SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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
♪ (INTRIGUING SYNTH MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪ - Time Bomb Y2K 00:06
♪ (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
♪ (MYSTERIOUS SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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