The language of silicon dreams and stack overflows.
The seemingly endless series of small, distracting tasks you must complete before you can accomplish your actual goal. You started wanting to fix a button, now you're rewriting the entire authentication system.
A looming computer apocalypse where Unix-based systems storing time in 32-bit integers will catastrophically fail on January 19, 2038, when they can't represent dates beyond that moment. It's basically Y2K's forgotten sibling that nobody prepared for because everyone thought we'd have fixed it by now.
A section of the phone book or a separate directory printed on yellow paper that listed businesses organized by type of service or product. It was the primary way people found local plumbers, restaurants, electricians, and other service providers before online search engines.
Short for "Year 2000," referring to the widespread concern in the 1990s that computer systems would malfunction on January 1, 2000, due to dates being stored as two-digit years. The bug would cause systems to misinterpret "00" as 1900 rather than 2000, potentially causing massive failures in banking, utilities, and government systems.