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[–] holycrap@lemm.ee 124 points 4 days ago (12 children)

I was in college during the years leading up to y2k and supported myself at the time getting IT infrastructure ready. Some friends and I decided to write a "virus" that, on bootup, checks to see if the current date is in the first week of January 2000 and if it is and a backup of the fonts is not found (so it'll only run once) then it'll back up your fonts and alter the originals to replace the y character with the k. This affected everything system wide.

That created more chaos than anticipated.

[–] bravesirrbn@lemmy.world 41 points 4 days ago (5 children)

y2k

replace the y character with the k

I see what you did there

[–] Welt@lazysoci.al 4 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I'm dumb and/or stoned. Can you explain please? Shk gkpsk, slklk, sprklk, trkst bk mk crkpt?

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 12 points 4 days ago
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