Were scientists the one that said that Y2K was suppose to have happened in year 2000?

Question

I just wanted to know were scientist the one's saying that Y2K was suppose to have happened in the year 2000 or did someone else come up with that prediction?

Answer 1

Yes. Computer scientists identified the problem and rendered solutions for it.

Answer 2

It wasn't a scientist, it was a programmer. The first recorded mention of the Year 2000 Problem on a Usenet newsgroup occurred Saturday, January 19, 1985 by Usenet poster Spencer Bolles. The acronym Y2K has been attributed to David Eddy, a Massachusetts programmer, in an e-mail sent on June 12, 1995. It was speculated that computer programs could stop working or produce erroneous results because they stored years with only two digits and that the year 2000 would be represented by 00 and would be interpreted by software as the year 1900. This would cause date comparisons to produce incorrect results. It was also thought that embedded systems, making use of similar date logic, might fail and cause utilities and other crucial infrastructure to fail.

Answer 3

y2k was a glitch in the computer systems that was expected. they thought that computer would revert to 1900 instead of going to 2000 and crash. they managed to fix this with updates before any problems could occur.