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1985 Usenet About Y2k

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the back-in-the-day dept.

Anonymouse Cow writes "Here's a trip down memory lane (for some of you "oldsters"). Google's newsgroups has the first usenet mention of the Y2K bug... in 1985! Quote: "I have a friend that raised an interesting question that I immediately tried to prove wrong. He is a programmer and has this notion that when we reach the year 2000, computers will not accept the new date." Check out the replies!"

7 of 401 comments (clear)

  1. I win by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yea yea... That's what I thought.

  2. 1st post ?? by ct_zero_interupt · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1st post

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  3. frist spot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    frost spit

  4. holy hotness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    BK's new black stack back porch griller

    1. Re:holy hotness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      I smell lawsuit!

      Jesse Jackson

  5. Re:Other Interesting Moments in Usenet History by JUSTONEMORELATTE · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Or how about http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=37290&cid=4001 678 ?

  6. Ah the good old days. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Reading through the various posts from the USENET log, something occured to me. No trolls. A minimal use of emoticons. Relatively good spelling. Cable bandwidth and flash presentations be damned! Get me a time machine. I'm going back to when people on the internet were limited mostly to civil and intelligent academics and enthusiasts.