TEOTWAWKI

TEOTWAWKI, Tā-õt-wä-k ē is an abbreviation for “The End Of The World As We Know It. The term came into being at the turn of the millennium (Y2k) when a world-wide computer disaster that was expected to bring the high tech world… as we have come to know it, to a screeching halt.

At that time, 1999, a vast majority of the world’s computers were using two digits instead of four in representing dates in their files. The so-called Y2K computer “bug” not only existed in computer software but also in the computer hardware and it posed a threat to major industries that relied on their computers, particularly utilities, banking, manufacturing, telecommunications and airlines because at the century changed, the files would get confused. fortunately the problem was detected early, and though it was a race against time, all the programmers and computer specialist in the world could spend their days combing through their entire application source code to look for the Y2K bug and make the necessary changes in order to fix it.

They did. The world is still a happy place, and despite all the fears and read that people postulated about the Y2 K disaster that never happened the earth is still in orbit, falling, spinning through space and time at incredible speeds. Meanwhile computers are still working too, keeping planes and trains on course and on time, all over the planet.