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Tuesday, 22 February 2022 06:57
It Feels Like 99 Again as Two Digit Bug May Impact Multiple Browsers May be Impacted by Version Change
In mid-1999 software and hardware developers uncovered a bug of sorts that, at first glance, seemed like it would end the computer world as we know it. It was called the Y2K bug and centered around the issue that somehow developers and built their code to with the first two digits of the year input field as hard coded to 19. This mean that when everything rolled over to year 2000, computers and software would see it as 1900. Not exactly where you want to be.
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