Y2K Virus

Y2K Computer Virus: Disaster Waiting to Happen Back in the 1950's and 1960's, when computers were just begging to emerge, data storage space was expensive and in short supply. By today's standards even the largest of the mainframe computers had insignificant hard memory storage abilities. Computer programmers adopted a habit of using two digits (55, 56, 57, ….) in their programming codes to indicate the year, this is called COBOL. Programmers knew this practice might cause problems with …

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