The Year 2000 Bug         As the millennium approaches we come surrounding(prenominal) and closer to what some say could mean the end of elaboration as we know it. What is this great event that would have such(prenominal) an impact on the knowledge base that it could end civilization? The difficulty is a simple computer tapdance refereed to as the Y2K glitch hardly its ramifications could be immense. This computer hem in has been predicted to impact the world anywhere from a minor problem to the end of a civilization. Whichever view you take on the subject it is clear that this bug will have a definite impact on the economy. The depth of this impact is yet to be determined but by go throughing for at what can realistically give as a result of this bug and by looking at situations that have upset the economy in the prehistorical it will give us a better look at what may happen.
        In order to understand the Y2K bug we must first understand what it is. For many years electronic storage was very expensive. In the early days of reckon a Megabyte or a million bytes of entropy could have cost up to $100,000 to store electronically. This same quantity of information storage can now cost slightly ten cents.
Because of this expensive storage limitation code indite for these older computers was concentrateed in any way possible. unity way to cut down the size of code was to compress dates to a format only six characters long. So kinda of April 14 1999 the date would be compressed to 4/14/99. At the time of this programming this seemed to be the best dissolving agent to the space saving dilemma. As we come closer to the millennium we see that this style of programming was a great pass by of...
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