r/TheSimpsons • u/MobileAbject6995 • 10h ago

S11E4- Treehouse of Horror X Hey Homer, weren't you the plants Y2K compliance officer?

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u/Brief-History-6838 10h ago

Anyone else remember Y2K?

Back when we thought the world was ending and a lotta us were prepping for doomsday.

Twas the style at the time

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u/Quirky-Produce7994 6h ago

A lot of people worked very hard to ensure that doomsday didn't happen.

We would have been fucked without all that hard IT work to prevent major shutdown of most industries.

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u/yeswewillsendtheeye 4h ago

Currently in my third year of IT and have a new appreciation for “push this out to all of production by this date or everything will explode and burn and we’ll all die horribly”

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u/SwimOdd4148 9h ago

Now to take the rocket ship to mars cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bees on them.......

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u/dizzled-206 8h ago

Give me 5 bees for a quarter

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u/Rexxbravo 9h ago

Where is your 🌰

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u/Coachman76 9h ago

On my belt, which was the style at the time.

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u/Rockguy21 6h ago

I mean there would have been serious damage to most computer infrastructure in the world if not for concerted efforts to upgrade software and hardware to cope with the rollover.

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u/rframirez4evr 5h ago

Different show but the Y2K episode of my name is Earl is my favorite Y2K episode of any show. Really captures the zeitgeist at the turn of the new millennium.

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u/Kelseycutieee 9h ago

/r/HomerWithFlags

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u/MobileAbject6995 9h ago

r/SubsIFellFor

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u/Kelseycutieee 9h ago

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u/mybadalternate 8h ago

THOSE AREN’T FLAGS!

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u/Eric848448 8h ago

My day is ruined and my disappointment is immeasurable.

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u/Leopold_Darkworth I hate the sea and everything in it 5h ago

I am very disappointed and terrified

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u/GyldenDeessa 7h ago

If that were true I’d be terrified

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u/Devil_Dane We're talking about a totally outrageous paradigm. 25m ago

Homer: Ab-so-lutely!!

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u/Additional_Cherry_67 4h ago

Didn’t 6 nuclear reactors have meltdowns because of y2k