Millennium Bug!

Wow has it really been 10 years since the Millennium Bug “hit” the world (or Y2K or Year2000 or armageddon!).  I remember all the news reports about airplanes were going to fall from the skys and Hospital equipment were going to blow up and attack the people they were suppose to be looking after.  I was at University doing my Computer Science degree at the time and it was really interesting to see how computers had taken over our lifes even then.  Could you image the problems if something like that hit now?  Our iPhones turn into Transformers and kill all there users!! Ok maybe abit out landish but some of the news reports at the time almost made you believe that would happen.

Alot of money was thrown at the problem to fix problems that did exist and the computer scientists must have done a good job review code to make sure that nothing would go wrong / fixing any problems that were spotted.  Something interesting to think about is when is the next problem like this and will we still remember the Millennium Bug then and just ignore it…. could that be a disaster waiting to happen.

If you were too young to remember the Millennium Bug have a good interesting read of it over at wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem

On that happy note Happy New Year to one and all (New Zealand is already in 2010!)