It's a 21 year old Token from Sunoco. It was done as a year 2000 thing. If you recall, the world as we know it was going to end due to computers.
I worked at NYU Hospital during that time. We had to stay until midnight and into the New Year just in case Y2K occured.. Nothing happened and my coworkers and I missed our family celebrations Neat token!
Yes you are correct but then you are old enough to remember the crisis that came with computers and a new century. Glad I only lived through it once. Lol
The whole Y2K thing was a scam. Do you realize how many "solutions" to the Y2K "problem" were sold? Further proof that Fear Sells.
And I remember that fear. I didn't suffer from it but so many people I knew or came into contact with did.
Government(s) spent billions in relation to that fear. They bought solutions from companies that were the same people stoking the fear in the first place. Computers are basically counting machines. Were we to believe that a counting machine was going to stop counting when it reached 1999 ? and didn't know what to count next? Why it would count 2000 , of course. And if it didn't have a 2 at the beginning would we all have become lost and not know what year it was? Fear.
I just noticed that spell check did me in again. It's the Wright Brothers, not Weight Brothers. I just gotta laugh.
I remember that New Years Eve too. I was working for General Telephone(GTE) which later merged and became Verizon. We came in and was ready for the big crash and all the circuits that might of went down that did not happen.
The reason nothing bad happened is the billions of dollars spent on remediation. In the general commercial world, would it have been the end? No. I've been in the industry since the late 70s and I wrote some of that code that would have given weird results. You might have gotten a bill for 97 bajillion dollars. Or negative amounts due. But the world wouldn't have ended. For the embedded systems that run critical infrastructure, the issues could have been a lot worse. Luckily the world was less computerized back then, and turning off the machines for a couple hours over midnight was enough. A lot of critical infrastructure was run by hand for those hours. But if you have a machine with a six hour memory, by hour seven, nobody cares.
It did take down our inventory/billing system here at the shop. On Jan 1, 2000 the program reverted to 1980. Fortunately I have taken the precaution of printing out a copy of the billing and tax records before the end of the year because after 1999 ended the program wouldn't accept request to print the records because the date ranges entered were in the future, and it would store records dated 2000 or later but could only retrieve them if you printed out everything because it did store the date by the last two digits and it didn't recognize dates before 80. Whether or not you had problems with the Y2k all depended on how old your software was.
The heavy WEIGHT brothers of aviation. LOL Like many New Years, I slept like a baby through it, not being a partier. Shut off my Macintosh Plus and went to bed. LOL
