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I could do with less of these "once in a lifetime events", please. (ani.social)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

It had to do with memory and storage limitations on computers back then. It didn't make sense to store two extra digits for the date when that space could be used for other data. It affected pretty much every system made before a certain date. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem