In the first years of computer programming, there was code. A programmer could write some code, and the computer would do whatever the code told it to do. The programmers at the time never expected their programs to be used for any more than a few decades. Little did they know, as the years went on and computers got smaller and more efficient, the newer programs were based off of the original codes, tweaking and fixing the original code's inefficiencies.
There was one problem that escaped the minds of most programmers until approximately fifteen years ago. The coding for dates was in two digit increments, meaning that the year 57 would be automatically interpreted as "1957," and 98 would be "1998," etc. That system works fine in this century, but problems will arise in the year 2000, when the double zeroes of the year 2000 are interpreted by computers around the globe as "1900."
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God, this is scary as hell.
