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The Y2K Scare

Michael Kloss. The Y2K Scare. What it is Scams Preperations Outcome “Scary World”. What’s ahead. Computers used a “two digit” date system (xx/xx/xx). With the year 2000 coming, computers would use the date xx/xx/00; worried people that the computer would think this meant 1900.

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The Y2K Scare

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  1. Michael Kloss The Y2K Scare

  2. What it is Scams Preperations Outcome “Scary World” What’s ahead

  3. Computers used a “two digit” date system (xx/xx/xx). With the year 2000 coming, computers would use the date xx/xx/00; worried people that the computer would think this meant 1900 What’s so scary?

  4. This would create chaos with banking, hospitals, airlines, security, broadcasting and everything else. Thought we would go back to the “caveman era” with no technology Many went into panic and fell for Scams and prepared for what you would think a natural disaster

  5. Bank Account and Credit Card Fraud Y2K insurance, credit card cons, and computer-sellers who trick people into replacing their PCs because their supposedly "non-compliant" systems might explode Scams

  6. Preparations List haha. Preparations

  7. Small technical difficulties occurred in place across the world, but nothing serious resulted from the year change. Computers handled the Millennium change just fine Result

  8. 9 September 1999- Date 9/9/99 could be mistaken with the number 9999 used for unknown Dates Year 2010 problem- “Y2K+10” Year 2038 problem Other “Scares”

  9. Questions/Comments?

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