Kyle Mooney’s new Y2K movie, which opens in theaters this weekend, asks the question: What would have happened if Y2K was, in fact, a technological disaster?
Anyone over the age of 30 no doubt remembers all the hubbub around Y2K, aka the “Year 2000 Problem.” Basically, in the lead-up to the new millennium, a bunch of engineers had to quickly reprogram a bunch of computer software that referred to dates using only the last two digits of the year, meaning that the year 2000 would be indistinguishable from the year 1900. This obviously would have been very inconvenient and expensive for companies who relied on certain computer programs. It probably would not have ushered in a new apocalypse—as the people who started stocking up on groceries seemed to think—but it would have been annoying!
In the Y2K movie—which was directed by Saturday Night Live alum Kyle Mooney, who also co-wrote
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