The Y2K bug that threatened to plunge the world into chaos as 1999 rolled into the year 2000 didn’t quite bring on the end times, as evidenced by the fact that you’re reading this on a functioning computer in a mostly intact world. But that era’s atmosphere of techno-fear and paranoia is alive and well, sometimes in modern life and certainly in the trailer for A24’s new disaster comedy, Y2K.
In case you’re not familiar with the whole Y2K thing, it was theorized that computers of the late 90s wouldn’t know what to do when the year changed from 1999 to 2000. It was thought that maybe computers would not be able to interpret the “00”—and that rather than just chill and ride the vibes, they would have a complete meltdown, plunging humanity back into the stone age. None of that happened of course. The Y2K bug did not cause machines to meltdown, nor did…
