#y2k38 — Public Fediverse posts

@gabor
I learned about the #y2k38 problem in the early 2000s after reading a couple of posts by John Titor.
#JohnTitor claimed to be a time traveler from 2036 who travelled back in time to look for a certain computer to deal with the integer overflow issue.
@zatnosk

@clacke heh, I must've missed this post when you actually posted it, and only saw it while going through API results.
It might've been me you saw talking about #TimeTravel_0 aka #JohnTitor:
https://mastodon.social/@FiXato/101387762714255495
https://mastodon.social/@FiXato/103393353814619305

His posts are a fascinating part of history, and probably my first introduction to the #y2k38 problem. :)

(Or perhaps, actually more likely, I encountered his posts while looking into the issue when I first encountered it while I was still doing PHP4...)

@craigmaloney
and the #Y2k38 bug will always remind me of #JohnTitor aka #TimeTravel_0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor 😄

@climagic
the y2k38 bug always reminds me of #TimeTravel_0 aka #JohnTitor, someone who claimed to be an American soldier from #Tampa, #Florida, who claimed to have travelled from 2036 to the year 2000 to retrieve an #IBM5100 to debug various legacy programmes to prevent a catastrophe likely related to the #y2k38 problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor