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Time Bomb Y2K

Well, imagine someone told youyou had to find and replace every bolt in theBrooklyn Bridge

Well, imagine someone told you
you had to find and replace every bolt in the
Brooklyn Bridge

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Well, imagine someone told you you had to find and replace
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every bolt in the Brooklyn Bridge.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
34
Timestamp in Movie
00:12:41
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.
- Now imagine you have to find... - (HELICOPTER THRUMS) - Time Bomb Y2K 00:09
- Now imagine you have to find... - (HELICOPTER THRUMS)
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ - Time Bomb Y2K 00:14
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL SYNTH MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪ - Time Bomb Y2K 00:14
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL SYNTH MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
What Y2K is about really is the pervasiveness - Time Bomb Y2K 00:10
What Y2K is about really is the pervasiveness
It's the big fragile systems, the brittle systems - Time Bomb Y2K 00:07
It's the big fragile systems, the brittle systems
Things like power, electric communications, - Time Bomb Y2K 00:08
Things like power, electric communications,
MARK KINGWELL: These are the things - Time Bomb Y2K 00:06
MARK KINGWELL: These are the things
It's the economies of the countries - Time Bomb Y2K 00:06
It's the economies of the countries
You can have a company like General Motors - Time Bomb Y2K 00:09
You can have a company like General Motors
And if you can't get the widget that goes into the seat - Time Bomb Y2K 00:08
And if you can't get the widget that goes into the seat
Computers which control public transportation systems - Time Bomb Y2K 00:07
Computers which control public transportation systems
- (MONITOR BEEPING) - ♪ (SUSPENSEFUL SYNTH MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪ - Time Bomb Y2K 00:13
- (MONITOR BEEPING) - ♪ (SUSPENSEFUL SYNTH MUSIC CONTINUES) ...
Imagine how many things are now run with computer chips - Time Bomb Y2K 00:09
Imagine how many things are now run with computer chips
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL SYNTH MUSIC BUILDS) ♪ - Time Bomb Y2K 00:06
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL SYNTH MUSIC BUILDS) ♪
- ♪ (MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY) ♪ - (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) - Time Bomb Y2K 00:05
- ♪ (MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY) ♪ - (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
It seems unbelievable, but it's only 535 days from now. - Time Bomb Y2K 00:06
It seems unbelievable, but it's only 535 days from now.
At the stroke of midnight, - Time Bomb Y2K 00:09
At the stroke of midnight,
It is a complex test that requires us all - Time Bomb Y2K 00:07
It is a complex test that requires us all
Every government agency, every university, - Time Bomb Y2K 00:17
Every government agency, every university,
This is clearly one of the most - Time Bomb Y2K 00:07
This is clearly one of the most