{"id":14418,"date":"2017-12-31T23:16:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T23:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/y2k-looms\/"},"modified":"2017-12-31T23:16:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T23:16:58","slug":"y2k-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/y2k-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Y2K Looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/y2ktenyearslater_thumb.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[4133]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4134\" alt=\"y2ktenyearslater_thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/c49ac__y2ktenyearslater_thumb-300x126.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/c49ac__y2ktenyearslater_thumb-300x126.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/y2ktenyearslater_thumb.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>December 31, 1999<\/p>\n<p>The world waits in anticipation of the year 2000 and the potential disasters that might be brought about by the <a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/01\/y2k-comes-and-goes\/\">Y2K bug<\/a>. Personally, having worked years in a corporate environment getting ready for Y2K, I was pretty confident that nothing major would happen. So just for fun, I set up my home with a remote control to turn off all the lights in my house and the TV our friends would be watching at our New Years&#8217; Eve party. Seconds after midnight, I pushed the remote control in my pocket and everything went out. There were definitely a few people at my house that night who thought the apocalypse had come. Technology practical jokes are so much fun!<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/12\/31\/y2k-looms\/\">Y2K Looms<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/12\/31\/y2k-looms\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 31, 1999 The world waits in anticipation of the year 2000 and the potential disasters that might be brought about by the Y2K bug. Personally, having worked years in a corporate environment getting ready for Y2K, I was pretty confident that nothing major would happen. So just for fun, I set up my home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[4279],"class_list":["post-14418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-looms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}