Running out of Internet

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Ninten78 said:

Mr Khan said:

We really never stop to think how infinitely complex holding all of this together is.

Exactly and another issue what happens when we reach the year 10 000? PC's cant hold 5 digit years? will it reset to 1000? Or crash? (I know this is thousand of years away)

You should be more worried about what's going to happen in 2038. Y2K affects Windows computers; the 2038 bug affects Unix computers, which make up a lot of key embedded hardware that doesn't usually get replaced.

Unix time is stored as the number of second since January 1, 1970. This is usually a 32-bit integer so will wrap around to 1970 again in 2038. The solution is to upgrade every single computer using it to 64-bit hardware and software before that date. Easy for desktop computers, but some critical embedded hardware could be ignored for that long just like for Y2K.