Was the year 2000 really supposed to be the end of the world? i remeber at the time i was 10 ya im 15, and all my friends were talking about planes falling out of the sky and stuff like that and my dad filling up the bath tub with water and stuff in case of emergencies, and obviosly were still here, do u think this can happen in 2012? The mayas were very accurate (them being my ancestors is cool, my parents are fom guatemala ) i also heard thier were many suicides in 2000.......So my 2 questions are: 1.) was 2000 really supposed to be the end of the world 2.) Do u think this could happen in 2012 (nothing happening at all)

no it wasnt the end of the world every one was saying that all electronics wont ever work again but it was a lie like your life haha jk i'm 15 too

Who knows lets just live eachday like its the last though. i was 12 during the 2000 "scare"

you were 12 during 200 lmao how old are you now

typo fixed lol

What the big deal was with 2000 was computers. They weren't set up to have a 2000 date and would reset to 1900. People were afraid that they would shut down. Our modern world is very dependent on computers. If they go down we lose electric, water, hospital equipment, etc... The computer techs around the world fixed the problems and when 1999 came the world had a big party and the morning of 2000, after everyone recovered from the hang over, all was right with the world.

2012 is when the Mayan calendar ends. More than likely it means it is time to make a new calendar, but they were good astronomers so you never know. Keep an eye on the sky.

These dooms day dates come and go and guess what, we are still here. I don't put much stock in dooms day predictions.

No it was only a warning.



Okay, there are just to many topics about this !!! And for the hundred time it isn`t the end it`s the start of the begining of the new world which will be the end !!!

Nothin' but hype and scare tactics.

i was 14 then, and i was still able to tell nothing would happen....just a bunch of hype.

Yes. So was the year 1000, among others. Every generation of human being has always believed that theirs will be the final one before doomsday. So far, every single one has been wrong.



What was supposed to happen (and what did, in fact, happen) was the Millenuim bug or Y2K bug. You see, back in the late 70's and early 80's, when a hard drive was a novelty and you could measure the killobytes of RAM in your computer with double-digits, programmers were always concerned about space. They wanted their code to be as efficient as possible. One way to save space was to store years with two digits instead of four (83 as opposed to 1983, etc). Obviously, this is a problem when the year 2000 rolls around, but no one seriously thought their code would still be in use at that time. Unfortunately, it was.

So what would have happened? No one knows. A best-case scenario was that the clock on your computer would be wrong. A worst-case scenario would be that the computers running the various utility companies (power, water, etc) would crash, financial exchange rates would revert to 1900 values, and, yes, supposedly, planes would fall out of the sky when their computers failed.

All this was MUCH hyped by the sorts of people that I like to call "greedy SOBs". In reality, the serious commentators - the folks who were in the know - were rather confident that there would be no major glitches come 2000 because all or at least the vast majority of affected computers would have been patched. Most home computers were safe because they were running Windows 95 or higher. But that wasn't what was reported in the media. What folks HEARD was that the world would come to an end and their computer would be fried unless they bought a $20 software package to check for compatability. In short, some very greedy people made a lot of money hyping up a disaster that wasn't really going to happen in the first place. And, lo and behold, there was no disaster. If I remember correctly, a handful of ATM machines in Australia went on the fritz, but that's about the extent of the damage.




The Maya were very accurate - for an ancient culture which had neither telescopes nor an understanding of orbital geometry (unless you believe they were given these by alien visitors, which is an entirely different claim and I won't go into that here). Compared to modern astronomy, the Maya really didn't know anything special. Don't get me wrong, their culture was amazing and their astronomical achievements are justly admired. However, our understanding of the heavens is light years beyond what they could have ever imagined. If there was some form of impending disaster, modern science would catch it long before theirs would.

So, to answer your question, I wouldn't be moving into the bomb shelter just yet.

-Pilgrim