Y2K joke

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Why did programmer's abbreviate Year 2000 to Y2K? Isn't that how they got in trouble in the first place?

-- Paul Powell (PaulPowell@Hotmail.com), June 25, 1999

Answers

yeah,well,y'see,Paul,the real all powerful force in the universe is Irony.

-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), June 25, 1999.

Paul,

Programmers abbreviate EVERYTHING! Some abbreviations are due to system or software limitations, some are just habit. But abbreviations are why debugging a program is so difficult.

DJ

-- DJ (reality@check.com), June 25, 1999.


Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist:

> Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields.

British engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new high speed trains. Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to the British engineers. When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurtled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the engineer's backrest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin, like an arrow shot from a bow. The horrified Britons sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield, and begged the US scientists for suggestions.

> NASA responded with a one-line memo: > > "Thaw the chicken."

-- mb (mdbutler@coastalnet.com), June 25, 1999.


"God is an Iron." --- Spider Robinson

-- Hallyx (Hallyx@aol.com), June 26, 1999.

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