Mr. Dork

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Term Paper Title	Mr. Dork
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Mr. dork
English 10
20 November 1998
Effects of the
Year 2000 Problem
     Almost everything in the world is recorded or run by computer. Electricity, communications, medicine, weapons, money, food, factories and just about anything else you can think of will be effected by the year 2000 problem. The year 2000 problem could be the biggest technological problem the world may ever face. Some people are preparing for world wide crisis. Others believe some lucky person will invent a small disc that will eliminate the problem in less time that it takes a person to pop the disk in their computer. Either way the world is spending billions of dollars trying to prepare and solve the problem, and so far nobody’s been able to come across an exact solution.
What is the Year 2000 Problem?
     The Year 2000 problem is more commonly referred to as the Y2K problem or the Millennium bug. The Y2K problem has to deal with how computers keep track of the date. In almost every system before 1995 the date that the computer kept was abbreviated. An example would be that 1951 would be abbreviated as 51. So, as a result, computers will read 00 and think it’s 1900 and not 2000. This seemingly small problem will result in a loss of most records and information kept in computers causing a major headache for government agencies and major businesses, not to mention all
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home owners and other people. Gina Smith writes in a August 1998 issue of Popular Science about the fixing of the problem
"You are probably wondering why the problem is so hart to fix. It isn’t It’s just that there’s so much to be fixed. Updating software to handle the new century is sometimes a matter of culling through millions of lines of code, and the finding and fixing every two-digit date reference. One mistake and the entire operation may be unsuccessful" (Smith 26).
What can the Y2K prblem effect?
     On the home front people could be waking up to chaos. In June 1998, PC Computing featured an article where John C. Dvorak shares his thoughts of what might happen on 1 January 1998. He writes:
"The situation will not be easily corrected and many believe it will collapse the economy. This will be worsened by municipal systems that will cut off people’s gas, light, and water since they haven’t paid their bill for 100 years. . .all the new car computer that monitor engines with real-time computer system have date stamping that will fail at midnight, making it impossible to start the car" (Dvorak 49).
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