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i love how microcomputers were only invented in the late twentieth century - the 1970s at the earliest - and only really saw widespread adoption in the eighties and nineties
and yet somehow nobody foresaw that the first two digits of the year might potentially change very soon 
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@00dani it was probably some holdover from the mainframe days
@00dani unix was hardly standard, especially among companies like ibm
@DarkWitchClaire huh. really? wtf else was worth using back then
@00dani dos and similar operating systems, since not everyone had the resources of bell labs
@DarkWitchClaire dos wasn't suitable for mainframes at all tho 
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@DarkWitchClaire possibly? but mainframes of the time would've been running unix, which infamously uses a completely different means of representing dates that's immune to the y2k problem
granted, it is vulnerable to the y2038 problem, so there's that
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