Personal Narrative: The Y2K Privacy
I could not hear anything except for people screaming “gun!” My face went numb and it felt like my throat was being choked from my inability to speak. My vision suddenly became spotty and I was not able to see straight. All the sounds around me went mute as I scoured every angle around me to look for this gun being screamed about from the dozens of voices in the crowd.
“Oh my god Lauren! What do we do? What is happening?” My co-worker asked me in a panic.
I finally had the ability to process my thoughts and answer, “get down right now, you’re fine, don’t worry.”
I lied. I had no clue if she would be fine. I was not fine myself. I woke up that Saturday morning and thought I was just going to my next work shift at work. I ended up huddled …show more content…
The Millennium Bug, or more commonly known as the Y2K scare was just like this event due to the fact that both were heavily exaggerated and scared innocent people for nothing. The Y2K scare was the fear that all data would be lost because years were put into computer systems as two digits instead of four digits. People thought that all data would be erased and everything would restart at the year “00”. If this happened, then all computers would be using an incorrect date and therefore, fail to operate. However, this anticipated disaster never occurred. When all the clocks struck midnight on December 31st, 1999, computers had little to no problems. People did not know that computers were actually more intelligent then they thought, and would be able to automatically know that the year goes up by one number. To this day, people argue that the whole thing was dramatically exaggerated and blown way out of proportion. The scare estimated to cost about $300-$600 billon dollars, so I would consider their argument completely valid (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). This event ties into my essay because this is exactly how people were acting during the robbery of Twelve Oaks mall. Most people still think that the jewelry heist that happened late October of 2016 was a traumatic
“Oh my god Lauren! What do we do? What is happening?” My co-worker asked me in a panic.
I finally had the ability to process my thoughts and answer, “get down right now, you’re fine, don’t worry.”
I lied. I had no clue if she would be fine. I was not fine myself. I woke up that Saturday morning and thought I was just going to my next work shift at work. I ended up huddled …show more content…
The Millennium Bug, or more commonly known as the Y2K scare was just like this event due to the fact that both were heavily exaggerated and scared innocent people for nothing. The Y2K scare was the fear that all data would be lost because years were put into computer systems as two digits instead of four digits. People thought that all data would be erased and everything would restart at the year “00”. If this happened, then all computers would be using an incorrect date and therefore, fail to operate. However, this anticipated disaster never occurred. When all the clocks struck midnight on December 31st, 1999, computers had little to no problems. People did not know that computers were actually more intelligent then they thought, and would be able to automatically know that the year goes up by one number. To this day, people argue that the whole thing was dramatically exaggerated and blown way out of proportion. The scare estimated to cost about $300-$600 billon dollars, so I would consider their argument completely valid (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). This event ties into my essay because this is exactly how people were acting during the robbery of Twelve Oaks mall. Most people still think that the jewelry heist that happened late October of 2016 was a traumatic