https://www.the-sun.com/tech/4727926/warning-for-chrome-firefox-edge-users/
Are we about to have another Y2K? I hope not. I was only five years old at the time that happened, so I don’t remember anything of what went on, but I’ve heard the stories. I’ve heard how everyone thought that all the computers were going to crash because they wouldn’t know how to respond when the numbers they were looking at went from ’99 to ’00.
So, now here we have that same situation going to happen again? Aren’t the engineers who invent, or at least update, the browsers supposed to think of these things LONG before they happen, and not just days?
I’m no computer programmer by any means, but if people can develope some of the most complex programs that we use today, is it really that hard to tell the computers to look at three numbers instead of two?
Am I worried at all? No. Somewhere, somehow, somebody is going to figure out how to manage it and will save the world from an internet implosion, just as I heard that nothing really happened on January 1, 2000. Articles like this, I think, just get people riled up for something that’s going to be a nothing in the end.
I think the article also serves as a way to let the general public know that all of these super genius computer programmers don’t always think in the long term. I mean, does anyone really think that a successful program wouldn’t need at least 100 updates to stay competitive?
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